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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

4 Well Planned Eiopement.-Re-
turning from flying trip to Front
Royal, Va, quite recently, the JOUR
NAL met young man between that
town and the S. V. Il station. After
passing he turned and asked
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

a National DiSeaSe.-AmeriCanS, as q
rule, suffer more than any other Nation with
Dyspepsia, BiliousneSs and Indigestion. Our
readers are assured that nothing equals Red
Cloud Liver Berries for these ailments. Trial
package free at Colborn's drug store.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22
COUNTY NEWS.

Bell Detticated.-T new bell of
the Cresaptown Catholic church was
dedicated last Sunday by Rev. Frther
Felix, of IS. Peter ard Paul's Church,
Cumhe, land,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

The Weather. TUESDAY was warm
and pleasant, but during the night
snow fell to depth of several inches.
AS we go to press this afternoon fears
OF high water are entertained.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

Speciai.-The editor hereof reached
hone this morning after weeks alb
sence. Which accounts for his inabil
ity to supply several apparent omis-
SONS and to comply with Two requests
for editorial articles on rs many sub
jeots.
The paper is the product of the
JOURNALS staff of girls, and it must
be admitted that they have done well,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22
WHOLE NUMBER. 9G2

cohilhue your subscription 10 news
paper, ask the publisher to send you
statement of your account, on the re-
ceipt of which remit the amount due
aud say "DiScontinue my paper from
date There is right and wrong way
to do everything aud the right way to
discontinue a newspaper subscription
is as stated.
Governor jackson has issued his
proclamation designating Wednesday,
April 9, as Arbor Day, in accordance
with Joint resolution passed by the
General Assembly of 1884. The gen
eral public, and especially the teach
ers and school pupils, are invited up
on that day to plant trees, shrubbery
and vines.
Don't refuse to give the census emu
mcrator the information asked for.
The law provides that the head of a
family who refuses all proper inform
alton may be fined $50. In the alb
sence of the head of the family or any
adult member of it, any agent of the
family shall supply the required in.
formation.
We would rather see some boys at
school that each day loaf on the streets
than to see the small pox in town far
rather. Il seems that the number of
loafers grows larger. We would also
like to see a compulsory law exercised
on those who toll not neither do thcy
go to school, There is now no need of
loating in thus town. If a boy won't
go to school put him to IL trade. If he
Is large enough to learn good deal of
street wickedness he is large enough to
learn trade.
The bill to lease the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal to the Cumberland and
Washington railroad company, passed
the Senate Friday night of last week,
by a vote of 10 to IL.
Reii9io"s-The Baltimore Con er-
ence of the M. E. Church. South, in ses-
sion in Baltimore, adjourned Wednes-
day evening. The following are the
appointments for this (Moorefield) dis
trict, Rev. G. I. Tyler, presiding elder:
Noomfeld-J. p. Stump
Ieter$b"y 4Mssion-Thomas Cooper, S. S.
Troy.
ff,,IIR Rnff II n
heySer-H. P. Hamil.
North Branch .HisSion-F C. Rollman.
Piednont-C, H. Bush.
Frostb"iy-H. A. Brown,
FH"tsto"e-To be supplied by S. d. Ben
nIngton
South B,anch-D. l.. Reid
Sp'inaie'd-L NJ. Lyle, w. f. Locke.
Ha'dy-T J. Lambert.
Gai"sboyO' MjsSion--L. r. Markwood,
norgan Hission-To be supplied by A. C.
Hamill.
Horde"S"iHc NSsion-Q. A. Wheat
Capo" Bridge-G. 0. Homan,
Listonb"y -Wssioa-S. A. Parker.
The appointments of ministers we'll
known in Frostburg are as follows:
Lau,rl-L. w. Haslup.
North Baltimore-J. R. Andrew.
West Ha'Jord Nission--C, E. Simmons.
Caipert-L. q. Martin.
Hiddleb"y-W. G. Hammond.
Piedmont, Jo.-T. G. Nevitt
Chri@ia"sbny-W X. Marshall.
Ftmcostie-W. B. Dorsey,
Lexington "A. NJ. Cackley.
Rev. Rumsey Smithson is presiding
elder of Winchester district Rev. S.
g. Ferguson of Lewisburg district,
and p. H. Whisner of Roanoke dis
trict.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

Died.-At his home in this place,
Tuesday, March Is, 1890, Mr.. WILL
IAN N0E4, aged 50 years. Deceased
was born in Wilmington, Del, but
has lived in and around Ftosthurg for
40 years. He seryed in the Town
Council in lS7+-3and was again elect
ed to that body in 1889, holding the
position when he died. Several grown
children survive. The funeral took
place Wednesday at St. Johns Episco-
pal Church, of which deceased was IA
member, Rev. A. c. Haverstick Of,
hciatine,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22

Accident.-Andrew Jackson, of this
place, a driver in Hoff man had his leg
broken Wednesday evening by falling
between the cars
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-22
New AdverLs LsemenfS.
Public Local law,

AN ACT to provide for the purchase or con-
struction of Water Works for the Town of
Frostburg, in Allegany county, and to au-
thorize the Mayor and Councllmen of said
Town to issue bonds to naY the costs thereof
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
A Fine Piece Of Writing.

1t is a favorite amusement Of expert
pcnmen to write a great number of words
on postal-card or small piece of pa.
per, and some wonderful feats are rec
corded in this line.
Other penmen have exhibited their
skill by making curious designs in ink,
and one of the most curious is now shown
in New York. 1t was the work of q
one-eyed man named David Davidson,
who died twenty years ago.
On piece of parchment-like paper,
five feet wide and six feet five inches
high, are written all the books of the Old
Testament, forming the design of WIN
dow in King Solomons temple. No lines
are used. Written words form the whole
design. The writing is very minute, but
legible to the naked eye. Ink of three
colors was used, but principally black
ink. 1t is very intricate piece of work,
marvellous in its way, and must have
taken considerable time and patience.
Each chapter and verse is numbered.
The writing is not running script, but
each letter is separate; nor are the letters
much, il any larger than thirty-second
of an inch high. Yor, Dispatch.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18

museums further up town necessltated
more and newer attractions.
The living curiosities began to multi g..
DIV because the country was secured for
them, and ten pting salaries impelled tho
monstrosities who were formerly anxious
TO hide their deformities in the seclusion
of their homeslto put themselves on 'ex-
hibition before thousands'of sightseers.
The old time museum man, who used
to take a Chatham street store and put
in five attractions at Il gross cost OF five
dollars day, now turned his attention
to making inanimate freaks to be exhib-
tied as mumluifed or dried specimens of
the human race. This man and Others
made large collection of dried mum
mics, sea scrpents and monstrosities OF all
conceivable Kinds for man named Bern
stein, and he carried them over to the
other side Of the ocean and exhibited
them in Germany, England, Ireland and
Spain, and finally returned with them to
this country, with net profit, it is
claimed, OF $50, 900 for years work
among the larger foreign cities.
A recent visit to the freak makers
little shop on the east side of town has
enabled the writer to explain the manu-
facture of this kind of exhibition goods.
In small third story front room aportly
man was found at work on two headed
mummy, which was to be exhibited as
having been found in the Pyramids of
Egypt. The furniture of the room sug-
gested extreme poverty, although the
stout man is able to make $40 week at
his queer trade. He lives all alone, and
il is fair to presume that he is saving his
money against the time when he can open
a new museum of the new style for his
own profit.
The real appearance OF one of this mans
freaks, even when it is in an unfinished
state, explains Why so many people are
willing to accept them at the voluble
museum lecturers valuation, and when
YOU see the wor. rectly under the me-
chanc's hand, the kcellent modelling of
the face gives the object an uncanny look.
Unlike the wax figures these things are
not modelled from life, nor does the
maker ever employ an artist to assist in
perfecting the anatomical intricacies of
/ his subject. He is not an artist himself,
in feeling or training, but simply work
man, who, from constant practice, has
been enabled to make figure of nearly
correct proportions with the crudest kinds
| Of tools.
Pasteboard and paper are his chief
stock in trade. With an outer wall of
soft cardboard aud numerous layers of
paper back of it the head form when we'll
soaked in water can be pressed into aper-
| feet semblance Of the human face.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18

Little bits of card or paper may have
to be added to accentuate the features,
but when the work it ready for the pasty
varnish which is to cover the first shap-
ing and cffectually adhese all its parts
these added pieces look as though they
we1e part of the rougher first model.
On stove near by are the gaunt rep
reservations of arms and legs, the fingers
nnd toes male of bits of card Tapped
over ono another until the desired length
is reached. The joinings show very
plainly at this stage of the work, but
when the coat of varnish covers them
later, and the edges of The cardboard are
pressed down fiat, it requires very close
inspection to determine where the figures
are picccd.
The anatomy of these limbs, when you
lake into consideration the patchwork
quality of the operation, is rather Won
Gerful. When the curious looking lot
of objects are put together and the
whole thing vanished brown, the re-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
BESIEGED BY APES.

We sailed out from the port of Borneo,
in the island Of that name, in schooner
of ninety tons burden. to visit the islands
to the north in search of monkeys and
parrots for the great animal dealer at
Hamburg. The craft and crew were un-
der charter for four months. The Captain
was Singapore half-breed, and his
three sailors and a cook were Borneo
born. l had my man Thomas with me,
and the only cargo we carried consisted
of cages and articles for traffic.
We had been knocking about for sew
eral weeks, landing on various islands in
the Borneo Sea to make captives, and
were at anchor beside small island
called Kui, when trader from the Min
daDao peninsula came along and gave us
some interesting news. His craft carried
only three men, but had run short Of
water and been obliged to put in at an
island thirty miles to the east for water.
The island was about three miles square
and thickly wooded, and entirely with
out settlement. While at anchor in a
sheltered bay, and just as they had
hoisted in their cask of water, they were
set upon by several hundred apes of large
size and terribly frightened. The craft
was only twice her length from shore,
and the apes bombardcd her with clubs
and stones. A score of these missiles
had been preserved as proofs. The
trader gave us warning to look out for
ourselves if we went that way, and we
made him a present of tobacco and at
once set sail The apes he described
were Just the species l was looking for,
being what is called 10 the East "goril-
las children" They are found only in
Sumatra and Bcrneo and on few o. the
islands in the Borneo Sea. 1t is an es-
tablished fact that every seven years these
apes are subject to an epidemic which
sweeps them off in large numbers. and
for this reason they have been scarce foE
many years past. In the year iSo4 4
trader who Iauded on the island oi
Kriem, about 200 miles from Manila,
discovered over 500 dead apes along the
beach.
We reached the bay the trader had told
us of about O'Clock next morning. The
shore pitched of into deep water, and
we anchored with just room enough fol
her to swing to the tides. This brought
the stem of the craft within forty feet oi
the trees when the tide came in. but o
course we had to use the yawl to S'
sshore. We neither saw nor heard any
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
--LATEST Man OH Record.

William Holmes, of Charlotte, VT,
says: "Tnere died at Charlotte, not
long since, an old man, who was, l
think, the LATEST man on record. His
name was Nicholas Wing, and he lived
with his wife and old maid daughter on
the edge of Lake Champlain. The whole
wear round Nicholas did not stroke of
work. His wife and daughter plowed,
sowed and harvested the crops, and, in
fact, did everything that was to be
done on the farm. Wing was known
far and wide for his trousers. On the
outside of each leg a row of four dozen
buttons WAS sewed, in order that Mrs.
Wing could put them on for him. You
see, all the exertion he was put to was
lie stretching out of his limbs. He lived
be oTe" ninety years OF aSe.--GIe6'
- mocrut,
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
FREAK FRAUDS.
HOW CURIOSITIES ARE MADE
FOR DIME MUSEUMS.
Sea Serpcnts, Alligator Boys, Freaks,
Mummied or Fresh, Produced
at Prices Within the Reach
Of Any Snowman.

Museums in former days were few and
as a rule were confined to Chatham street.
Performers and freaks, who now get S35
for a weeks work were glad to get 81 a
day, and sharp proprietor could some
times secure them for a lower figure than
that. With the advent of the ~" road,
the surface travel became so small COM
paratively, that the dime museum bust
mess, ca Chatham street and the lower
Bowery became Improbable. The old
style of showmen that used to organize
museums in stores which were temper
arily vacated looked about them for some
better means of livlihood. ...
As one of. them puts it, 1.-THE days
when you could rent q vacant store at
ten o'clock in the morning and have a
museum ready for visitors at twelve are
past" The advent of more imposing
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
Telephones for Church Use.

The Rev. Canon Wilcox, of Christ
Church, Birmingham, has consented to
allow the telephone to beintroduced into
his church. The transmitters will be so
regulated that sound will be gathered in
without requiring the voice to be directed
in close contiguity upon the plate OF the
transrnitter. This will not be the first
occasion upon which the telephone has
been set in a place of worship. At
Bradford (Yorkshire) it is in use at an
Established, Unitarian and Wesleyan
Church. 1t has also been introduced at
the Parish Church of Chesterfield, and at
all these places subscribers have more or
less extensively availed themselves of its
use, and it has been found possible for
forty or fifty persons to hear sermon
simultaneously. In Greenock it is used
in the Congregational chapel.-Londo"
Tit.Bits.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
THE INDIAN MUMMY.

To complete the outfit the maker fur,
nishcs the lecture to 60 with the freak. !
This insur,s the same story being told in
all parts of the country. The lecture is
very pretty story, and we reproduce
the opening OF it: "In 1883 party of
alligator hunters came from England to
Florida to secure some alligators. After
successful hunting, returning to jack
sonvllle, they saw this monstrosity lying
in swamp about six miles from the
city. At first they thought it was a
negro, but by going nearer to 1t tney
soon realized that it was half boy and
half alligator" etc.
One of the best of the freak makers
works is q double bodied baby made to
represent nature. Is is not generally
made as if mummifed, but instead is in
vested with the delicate tints OF lie.
The first one of these attracted great
deal Of attention, and it was represented
as the embalmed body OF real infant.
There has been a great demand for this
freak, and there are now number OF
them in existence. Every lady who
wishes may have one for $40, in fac
simile of life or mummified.
OF course the tabled sea serpent, so
often seen but never caught on our coast,
has furnished the text for a museum
freak. The "Africanus horidus" is the
name for this monstrosity. He is made
somewhat after the manner described
above, though his numerous protu5er.
ances aloug the spine have to be made OF
chunks of wood. When his chamols
covering is on these Jumps look very
natural behind glass case. A good pair
of bright glass eyes and some tusk like
teeth help to convince people that when
alive-and to quote the lecturer again
"shall have been captured by party of
fishermen near the coast of Maine and
preserved in spirits for exhibition to the
Intelligent audiences" etc.--he was
very formidable creature.
Sea serpents are $50 each and fifteen
feet long in New York. The Maine
fishermen cannot furnish them at this
low price.
It is not hard to convince people that
mummifed Indians have been dug up in
Dakota. The variety that are made in
this city are dug up by cowboys when
the lecturer gets them in hand. The
Indian freak comes in two sizes-"grown
up and children" to quote again-aud
the child been the cheapest, it is generally
supposed thst mummi6cation is more
common among the young dead Indians
than their elders.
At present the market is calling for
something new. "Mermaids," }" "demon
children" and the "elephant fish" about
close the List Of artificial freaks OF the
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
A Ratskin Vest.

An industrious young Chicago Eng
lishman is not to be outdone by the ladies
in the present fur craze. Being en-
ployed by firm at the stock yards, where
rodents are gigantic and plentiful, this
young man engaged in the capture of the
pests, and after securing some choice
speclments he had the skins tanned and
dexterously picced together, after which
they were converted into vest. A
beautiful vest it is, too, and the wearer
being English its perfect propriety is
never questioned.
~ say, Dobbins, old fel, where did
you get the vest9" asked one of his
cronies the other night.
saw, from 'ome, ye know; latest
thing in waistcoats in London, ME
boy Chicago Times.
Maintain Rptreat.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
AN OLD BSwEETHEART OF MINE.

AS one cons at evening DER an album ali
=! alone,
And muses. on the faces of the friends that
- he has known,
So turn the leaves of fancy, till in shaiowy
design
Ifnd the smiling features of an old sweet
heart Of nine
The lamp-light seemsto glimmer with a
flicker of surprise, Y
AS turn it lew, to rest me OF the dazzle in
my eyes,
And light my pipe in silence, save sigh
that seems to yoke
Its ia 70 with my tobacco, and to vanish with
the smoke.
Tis fragrant rstrospection, for the loving
thougnrs mat start t~.------------~
Into being are like perfumes from the BIOS
som of the heart;
And to dream the old dreams over is luxury
divine
When my truant fancies wander with that
old sweetheart of mine.
Though hear, beneath my study, like a
futtering of wings,
The voices of nv children and the mother
as she sings,
! feel no t. inge of conscience to deny me any
theme
When Care has cast her anchor in the har-
tor of dream
In fac, to spenk il earnest, believe it ads
charm
To spice the good trfe witt little dust
of harm
For find an extra flavor in Memory's mel
low wine .....
That makes me drink the deeper to tnat old
sweetheart OF mine.
A face OF lily-b.auty, with form of airy
grace,
Floats out o: my tobacco as ths genii from
the vase;
And thrill beleath the giances OF a pair of
azure eyes
AS glowing as thesunme- and as tender as
the skies.
lean see the pink sun bonnet and the little
checkered dress
She wore when first kissed her. and she an
swered the caress
With the written defamation that, 'tas sure
Iy as the vine
Grew round the stump" she loved me-that
Md sweetheart of mine!
And again feel the pressure of her slender
little hand,
As we used to talk together Of the future we
aad planned;
When should be poet, and with nothing
else to do
But write teraar verses that sae set the mu-
When we should live together in cozy lit
tie cot,
Hid in nest Of roses, with fairy garden
spot,
Where the vines were ever fruitei, and the
weather ever fin,,
And the birds ware ever singing for that old
SWeetnearC OF mine!
and II should be he- lover forever and day,
And she my faithful sweetheart till the
the golden hair was gray,
And we should bs so happy that when
eithers lips were dumb
They would not smile in heaven till the 9th
er's kiss had come.
But-ah my dream is broken by step upon
the stair,
Ard the door is softly opensd, and my wife
is standing there.
Yet with eagerness and rapture all my Wis
ions resign
To greet the living presence Of that old
sweetheart of mine.
-James Whitcomb Riley.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18

spectacle. looking mummy seems to be
ready for its purchaser, but 1t really IS
not, for in the estimationn of the honest
workman nature has not been fully re-
produced.
He considers that the head and hands
Of human beings, on account OF their
constant exposure to the atmosphere,
have harder cuticle than the covered
portions of the body. Although it
seems unnecessary that he should carry
out this idea in his mechanical freaks,
his next operation accomplishes just that
purpose. A covering for all the body
but the head and hands is made Of soft,
thin chamois leather. This is put on
with thick paste, in pieces which will &C.
commodate themselves to the various
rurves of the work. When the chamols
skin is we'll dried on, and the whole
structure is carefully vanished, the body
parts are not only soft looking, but give
1tomething al the touchhaa as yell
Hanging On the side wall of~she work
lhop is carefully executed painting CT
Jerusalem, which at one time was part
of a panorama. The freak maker said
that this painting, which is about three
feet high and seven feet long, cost S20O
in the old country. TO explain the cost
of this work in his own words: "Pano-
ramas in the old country are very care
fully made. You will notice in this
piece how carefully everything is made
how the stones in the wall and the
little ornaments on the temples are drawn
30 fine and clear. That is because in the
old country the panorama makes plenty
of money; and it must be fine, for the
people 90 in great crowds aud look very
carefully at pictures of the Holy Land
and the Pope's palace, and fine churches,
and all such things. They look very
close at the picture, and examine it all
over and talk about every little thing in
it for perhaps half an hour for each one.
In this country people 60 up to a picture
and say, "Och, picture. We don't
want to see that. Come" So you see
on the other side the painter must be
very careful and have everything coed or
the people will say that it is q bad work
and complain to the Snowman"
During the telling of the story OF
panoramic excellence in the old country
the visitor has had time to observe the
various freaks in all sorts of repair hung
about the room. An awful-looking OBJ
ject which represents an alligator boy
was placed in one corner of the room, all
ready for the man who ordered it. This
monstrosity is one of many of this pat
tern which have been turned out by the
freak man. They are all made the same
size, four and half feet long, and cos'
only $50 each, so that an alligator boy
may be said to be within the reach OIL
any dime museum. A repulsive looking
black body with the head turned side
ways is attached to what seems to be the
back half an alligator. Real wool covers
the head and real teeth arc introduced in
the mouth opening. The boy is repres
ented as grinuing in the conventional
negro style.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-12-18
A Monkey Nurse.

A pet monkey, in Atlanta, was care
fully trained to watch baby and rock
its cradle when it cried. He was con.
sidered very trustworthy and useful
brute, but one day, being left alone with
the infant, and finding himself unable to
stop its crying, he jumped into the cradle,
scratched the child's face, bit its cars
and nose, tore off its clothes, and when
discovered was stuffing the bits OF cloth
into its mouth. He is no longer en-
ployed as nurse.