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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
A Railroad on Tree Tops.

1t may not be known out-ide of the
neighborhood in which it is situated,
but it is nevertheless a fac that in
Sonoma COUNTY, CAL, t'ere cri Is an
original and succes%fu! pie" of railroad
engineering and building liza is not to
be found in the hooks. IN tie Up, er
part of the county named, nc,r t3c"o 4,
may lie seen an ac,u'l ra;iroal I'D on
tree tops. Between the tlinHnr Mills
AID Stuart Point, where lhrr al crosses
a deep ravine, the trees are So cd OFF
on level with the surrounding hills, an |
the timl ers and ties lai,l o. @ STRAPS,
In the center of the ravile me- tionel l
two huge redwood trees, stan,..as side
bv side, form substantial support.
These giants have been loppsd Off 7j
feet above the bed of the creek. This
natural tree bridge is considered one of
the wonders of the Golden State, and
for safety and security far exceeds a
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

DE L.NE OF MoDENN FICTION.
The Modern Newspaper II More Serious
Influence and Power

Influence and Power.
Nearly twenty years ago, speaking to
the editors of Indiana, | undertook to
demonstrate that the age OF imaginative
literature was gone by, and that the
drama and novel, as vehicles Of thought
and mirrors of nature, would be sue
ceeded by the newspaper, which, as a
serious Influence and power would
henceforth monopolize the higher
functions of both. The suggestion en-
countered a good deal of journalistic
joking. In proof of its correctness,
however, behold the plenitude of the
press, the poverty of the stage, the
sterility of romance and poetry, ever
since, and now, within the last two dec
AIDES, what have we had outside of the
theatric psychologists of Zola, and the
studies in realism of Tourgenetf and
Tolstoi, except, what l call "the aero
batic" in this peculiar line; such as the
ingenious tales of Jules Verne and Ryder
Haggard; and Balzac, condensed and
warmed over by Daudet, and all the
methods of all the novelists adapted by
the James and Howells tribe of photog-
raphers in England and America?
If Tennyson should die, who is there,
deserving the name of poet, to take his
place as laureate? What stage pro-
duction has lasted more than a season
OF two, though the theater has had Irv-
ing Terry, Booth, Anderson, Jeffer-
son, Modjeska, Bernhardt, Wyndham,
Coquelin Barrett, and Toole, and host
of scene painters and upholsterers to
sustain it? In truth, the world of fancy
has nothing more to give us. Bret
Harte was, and Rudyard Kipling is, in
sense, striking, if not original; but the
one soon used up California, as the other
will soon use up British India, and both
are the merest SKI tchers, dealing in
charcoal and water colors.
The newspaper, imperfect as it is,
more and more absorbs the public
interest. People more and more require
and demand the realistic, and even Zola
and Tolstoi can not compete with the
actual romance of modern life set forth
by the Dickens, Dumas, and Macaulays
of journalism. In the mad effort to do
so, they are driven to eXcesses like this
"Kreutzer Sonata which the postal
authorities of the United States outlaw,
which, for all its flabby coarseness, has
not a particle of spirit or flavor, and is
as poor a bit of trash as might be found
in the goody goody library of milk and
water Itself : Henr Watterson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
Old Exception.

In Atlanta, Ga, said reporter of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette on his
return from a trip through the South,
there is an old business man, with snow
white beard and hair, whom everybody
calls "Old Exception. When Sherman's
army invested Atlanta Sherman issued
an order that all non-combative Confed-
crates should leave the city within "a
hours. This man, who was a founder,
called at Sherman's headquarters. II
want, he said, "to remain in Atlanta.
] am business man, and had no hand
in the hostilities "Didn't you cast guns
for the rebels in your rfoundry?" General
Sherman inquired. "Yes," was the re-
ply, 81 did, but had to do it. I have
large interests here, general, and wish
you would make me an exception; I'd
like to stay to look after my property. )"
"Yes, said Sherman grimly, "Ill make
an exception in your case" The At
lanta mans face frightened, and he
started to tell story. Orderly" Gen
eral Sherman called. "Pye concluded to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
NOTHING TO BE AFRAID o..
Virgins Says the World Can Not End
for Billions of Years.

for Billions of Years.
Prof. Wiggins, the weather prophet,
who is now at u small Canadian village
near Ottawa, was interviewed the other
day by Globe Democrat correspondent.
will this world ever have an end ?" was
asked. No, said the astronomer; this
world will never have an end. The uni
verse, or immensity, SO far as revealed to
us in the telescope. is made up of star
punches, or nebula, placed at immense
distances from each other. Our sun be-
longs to the nebula which we call the
milky way. Who would think of ono
nebula blotted from existence without
all the others meeting a similar fate?
But if our earth ever does have an end
it can not be for many billions of years
yet
The first planet of the solar system
that will be snutfed out is Neptune, for
it is the farthest from the sun and the
Oldest Uranus will then follow, then
Saturn, then great Jupiter, then Mars
Twenty millions of years after we see
Mars fall out of the sky we may prepare
for oblivion, but not till then. You see.
as the planets grow they recede from the
sun and shift their axes. And as they
recede from the sun, OF the center of
gravity, they swell or enlarge Life
on Mars is much preferable to that on
the earth, for the people there have
smaller bones because the attraction is
less, and they need less muscular exer-
ton for locomotion. They have more
mental energy, therefore, for study, and
hence are much wiser and longer lived
than we are. We may infer, also, that
they are not subject to disease, and their
mental energy may be so great that they
renew their bodies by sinking into sort
of chrysalis state, and without the agency
of death, so that their lives may be
eternal.
"You think, then, that Mars is inhab-
ited?"
Il know it is, for all the land surface
is carved up by canals, evidently for the
purpose of travel and irrigation. Along
the banks of these canals forests are
planted, for the trees supply moisture to
the air, and this probably becomes dew,
which then promotes vegetation. When
the earth's orbit becomes as great as that
of Mars our planet will probably be
hundredth part larger than now, our
oceans will become more shallow, all
mountains will be worn down, and we
will have nothing to condense the moist
ure in the air, if, indeed we have any
moisture to condense. Canals will then
everywhere be prime necessity"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
A Remarkable Canal.

The most remarkable canal in the
world is the one between Worsley and
st. Helen's, in the north of England. 1t
is 16 miles long and under ground from
end to end. In Lancashire the coal
mines are very extensive, half the coun-
try being undermined, and many years
ago the Duke of Bridgewater's managers
thought they could save money by trans
porting the coal under ground instead OF
on the surface. So the canal was con-
structed and the mines connected and
drained at the same time. Ordinary
canal boats are used, but the power is
furnished by men. On the roof of the
tunnel are cross pieces, and the men who
do the work of propulsion lie on their
backs on the coal and push with their
feet against the cross bars on the roof.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

The Idaho Way of Keeping Warm on
Gold NirhtS.

"We can give point to New York
people about getting their moneys worth
out of these little movable electric bulb
lights" said visiting Idahoan the
other day. "Out our way we take them
to bed with us. For keeping one COM
Portable on cold night they are as good
rs roaring fire in a room. Rubber
bags, tin boil RS, and other devices for
holding hot water sc, cold.
with the Thermometer 40 degrees be-
low zero, as we often have it in Idaho
for long stretches at time, these old
fashioned arrangements would freeze
before morning. but the electric bulbs
keep one snug and warm all the time.
When begin to get ready for bed l put
the light between the sheets. By shift
ing it about every little while it takes
the chill from the bed by the time am
undressed. AS slide in push the light
down with my feet, and usually fall
asleep with it there.
1T is proof against any blast of cold
in the night never knew its warmth
to fail 1t doesn't cost me any more to
burn it all night than if turned it off at
bedtime, and if burned cord of wood
every month in my bedroom and could
keep the fire blazing all night l could
not be made as comfortable as by this
little bulb y New York Times
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
CLEVER WRENS.


a Pair of Them Euclirr Two Bluebirds
Out of Nesting Place.
On Farmer Harvey NJ. Van Sickle's
place, in Silver Lake township, Pa, a
two-story stone milk house has been
standing for more than 80 years. When
the masons built it they knocked the
mouth from an old earthen jug and
cemented the jug into the solid wall to-
ward the peak, leaving the open end on
the outside of the wall. The kind hearted
workmen put the jug there for purpose,
and every summers since then wrens have
nested in it.
This season pair of bluebirds got there
a few hours before the wrens did, took
possession of the jug without any cere-
mony, and began to carry bits of straw
and dried grass into it at intervals of 10
or 20 minutes. Toward noon pair of
wrens fitted into the yard and sailed
around the milk house two or three times.
Then they made dive for the opening
in the old jug, darted into it, and soon
flew out, squalling spitefully. The rea-
son why they did this was because they
had found one of the bluebirds fixing
things up inside.
The surprised bluebird sailed out in
the wren's wake, and then feathered
warfare was begun that lasted for two
hours. Finding a stranger in a home
that had been occupied by wrens for half
a century made the little wrens mad all
over. They pitched into the bluebird
and tried to drive it away, giving vent
to angry pipes and squalls as they fought.
For time the buebird gave battle to
the wrens, but the two We're more than
a match for it, and it retired to a tree.
While it was perched there the wrens
flew into the jug and started to drag out
the straw and stuff the bluebirds had car
ried in.
The wrens were busy cleaning out the
jug when the bluebTd on the tree was
joined by it's mate All at once they
took bee line for the jug They darted
into it like flash, and in a second the
wrens came out as though they had been
fired. They hadn't been cowed down by
the larger birds by long sight, for they
Immediately turned, darted into the jug,
and drove the bluebirds out. Then the
four feathered combatants had it back
and forth among the trees for half an
hour, neither party entering the jug
while the battle lasted.
Finally they stopped fighting, and each
side began to carry things into the jug.
The wrens made two trips while the blue
birds made one, and late in the after
noon the wrens had filed the hole so full
of twigs that the bluebirds couldn't get
50 fn,. t,
in and out, and they held the fort against
their bigger foes, who made several at
tempts to tear the barrier of twigs away,
but without success. Toward sundown
the bluebirds sailed away and never
came back, and the wrens have had pos
session of the old jug ever since.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

Henry E. Abbey, the boldest of all
men in theatrical business, began his ca
reer as cornet player in the orchestra
of the theater in Akron, Ohio, his ma
tive place; Dan Frohman, the manager
of the Lyceum Theater, started as an
errand boy in the counting room of the
New York Tribune; Augustin DAILY, the
leading stock manager in America, was
originally a newspaper reporter; John
Stetson, the Boston magnate, was pro-
fessional athlete, and had few equals as
a sprinter; A. NJ. Palmer, of the Madi-
son Square and Palmer's theaters, was
employed in public library and after
ward dabbled in local politics. 1t was
from the latter occupation that Sheridan
Shook took him to give him a place in
the Union Square Theater. John B.
Schoeffel, Henry Abbeys partner, was a
jeweler in Rochester; Tony Pastor was
clown in circus; J. NJ. Hill got his start
from Chicago oyster house; r. NJ.
Hooley, of Chicago, was a negro min
strel Theodore Moss laid the foundation
of his fortune as ticket seller in Wal
lacks old theater; E. G. Gilmore, one of
the richest of managers, was a bartender;
Rudolph Aronson was connected with
music publishing concern; Frank w.
Sanger, of the Broadway Theater, was
an actor; j. Wesley Rosenquest got his
start from his brother in law, Samuel
Colville; Proctor, of the Twenty-third
Street Theater, was an acrobat; Harry
Miner was a policeman; Hammerstein,
of Harlem, was cigar maker; 7, Henry
French, as boy, tended his fathers lit
tie book store in Nassau street; Hyde
and Behman were variety team, and
Colonel Sim, another Brooklyn mana
ger, originally ran variety theater in
Baltimore; Edwin Price, of Price & Ber-
ger, was prize fighter, but is now
lawyer as well as manager. There are
few men in the profession, by the way,
who are more polished or more genteel
this same Mr.. Price.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
Success In Celestial Photograph.

Professor w. II. Pickering reports that
the South American party now engaged
in celestial photography in connection
with the Draper Memorial" work have
succeeded in getting number of photo
graphs of the planet Mars. They were
taken on two evenings, April 9 and 10,
seven negatives on each occasion, and at
times so chosen that the planet presented
the same face in corresponding pictures
on the two evenings. The pictures show
the spots and markings on the surface of
the planet very clearly. The most in
teresting thing, however, is that the
negatives of April 10 show the southern
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04


Every body must have noticed that
there were no English Christian names,
as we would call them nowadays, any
where in English history before the bat
tie of Hastings. John, Robert, Henry,
Thomas, Richard, Roger, Guy, and Peter
in fact, the common assemblage of
English society general y-all came over,
as might naturally have been expected,
from gentlemen of such high respecta-
bility, with William the Conqueror. Be-
fore the conquest the true born English
men bore, without exception, those un-
couth and unpronounceable crack jaw
names which we now condescendingly
describe as Anglo-Saxon. To be sure
these are the only true English names in
existence-the only ones formed directly
from English roots and smacking of the
soil, where those roots that grow as nat
urally as dandelioIs or daisies, while all
the rest that we bear nowadays are in
the lump High German, or else Hebrew
by origin, as much aliens in the land as
the Carolines and Augustuses, the Alex
anders and Dagmars, that have come
over in later times with Teutonic or Seam
dinavian princes and princesses. Most of
these true old English names were ugly
enough in all conscience. Take Elf-
thryth, for example, as charming title
for the heroine of novel, or Godgifu as
the original of our modern Lady Godiva.
But, pretty or ugly, they all went down
together as soon as the Normans came.
The native Englishman, with genuine
British snobbery, no sooner felt the heel
of the Williams and the Henrys pressed
firm upon his neck than he took his re-
venge-how? Why, by christening his
own ignoble Saxon brats William and
Henry, just like their Norman overlords.
Even so the despiser of our bloated aris-
tocracy in the East End at the present
day sends Percy and BERTHE to the board
school around the corner, while Gwen
doline takes out Leopold in the broken
go cart, and Gladys stops at home in the
general living room to mind Algernon
and peel the potatoes. The Cornhill
MapaZine
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN.
. Liberal Monarchy, With an Upper and
Lower House.

a Liberal Monarchy, With an Upper and
Lower House.
The present government of Japan is
one of the most ancient in the world,
hlring existed since nearly 1000 years
before the Christian era. But in late
years it has passed through number
of crucial changes in quick succession.
America first opened the island empire
to the outer world. In 1868 the Tycoons
were overthrown and the Mikado made
supreme. In 1871 feudalism was alto
gether swept away and the era of reform
was begun. For the first time politics
became matter of popular interest, and
definite parties were formed. In 1881
the constitution was promised. and in
1889 it was actually granted. Now the
first election has taken place, and in No
vember the first parliament will meet.
Japan will then be limited and liberal
constitutional monarchy. Concerning
parliament it may be stated that the up
per house consists of members of the
imperial family, who hold office for life;
noblemen of high rank, chosen by their
peers, who hold Office for seven years;
men specially recommended by the EN-
peror on account of their great learning
or services to the state, who are also
elected for life by popular vote and men
chosen one from each municipality by
the Is highest tax payers therein, who
hold office for five years. All members
of the lower house are chosen for four
years by popular vote, and are appor-
toned to cities and provinces according
to population.
The form of procedure in parliament
will be simple and practical. Parlia-
year, and both houses must be in session
together. Each house shall have pres
ident, with salary of 1900 a year, and
vice president with salary of 81, 100
One third of house is quorum, but a
vote can only be carried by an absolute
majority. The meetings will generally
be public, but may be made private
whenever house so votes. Most of the
details of business are like those in the
British parliament. But there are some
original features. If member does not
attend the session within a week of its
opening, he is to be expelled; but then if
he be re e-elected by his constituents the
house can not again expel him. No
member may absent himself from the
sttings without the presidents leave, and
that leave can not be for more than q
week. The house may vote to extend
the leave, but not for an indefinite pc
riod. Any violation of this rule will
render the member liable to expulsion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
TWENTIETH YEAR-NO. 3.
GUILIELMUS REX.

The folk who lived in Shakspere's day
And saw that gentle figure pass
BY London Bridge,-his frequent way.
They little knew what man he was!
The pointed beard, the courteous mien,
The equal port to high and low,
All this they saw or might have seen
But not the light behind the brow!
The doublet's modest gray or brown.
The slender sword -hilt's plain device,
What sign had these for prince or clown?
Few turned, or none, to scan him twice.
Yet twas the king of England's kings!
The rest with all their pomps and trains
Are moldered, half-rememberedt things
'Tis he alone that lives and reigns!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
He Prayad With Fervor.

Sister Lizzie was to be married in
few months and she was putting in the
interval of leisure from preparing for
the ceremony in the way of dress by ex-
perimenting on her family in the cook
ing line.
Little John was going to bed, and went
through his usual prayers up to the point
of saying: "Give us this day our daily
bread, when some depressing memory
struck him, and he added:
"But don't let our Lizzie bake it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
FROsTBURG Md. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1890.

long that l dare to be frank with you.
You have been very insolent in the class.
"'Insolent, monsieur?
ayes, mademoiselle. You have mis-
taken this for mark of aristocracy. You
would much better copy your mother,
your gentle lady mother.
And made her my best bow, and left
her to think about it. And she was a
good girl afterwards; very good girl"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
WHOLE NUMBER, 900.

make an exception in this mans case.
The orders are that all citizens shall leave
here within "a hours. This man must
leave here within an hour. If he doesn't,
shoot him." Ever since the war this old
man has been called "Old Exception,
and the reporter said that it was peril
Gus thing to ask him what he thought of
General Sherman.
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snow cap distinctly larger than those
taken the evening before. There can
hardly be possibility of mistake in the
case, because all the seven pictures of
each evening tell the same story. There
must have been a heavy snow storm on
that part of the planet between the two
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
Hint to the Susceptible Young Man.

1t is perfectly proper for a young man
to marry for love; but where young
man falls in love with every young wom-
an he meets-and it is out of the ques-
ton that he should marry them all
perhaps the easiest way out of the diff
Guilty is to take the one handicapped by
a fortune Boston Transcript.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
THE GRAPE FRUIT.
The New Fruit PomelO Is Rapidly Max
ing Itself Known.

Ing Itself Known.
The cultivation of the pomelo, or grape
fruit, is extending rapidly in the South,
and it is becoming a first class marketa-
BILE fruit, very valuable in the spring
and early summer, after oranges are about
gone, and by many people esteemed
equal to the orange. When it becomes
better known it will be popular fruit
during the spring months.
1t is prepared for the table by remov-
ing the bitter white membranes and
sprinkling the pulp with sugar. In
warm weather, after it has been iced,
the melting pulp and juice from between
the membranes are deliciously refresh
ing. The pomelo can be grown moro
easily than the orange, and it yields
more to the tree than any other member
of the citrus family.
The fruit grows in clusters, two, three,
or four hanging together from one stem,
from which popularity the name of grape
fruit was given to it. The trees are
beautiful objects, covered with rank
glossy dark green foliage, and loaded
with thousands of bright pendent, yell
low globes. A twig no larger than the
little finger will have five or six pomelos
hanging from it. A comparatively
small tree will often bear as many as
1000 at time.
California also produces these fruits,
but most of them come from Florida.
They are sold on fruit stands according
to size at from five cents apiece to fifteen
cents apiece for very large ones. They
vary in quality as much as oranges do,
while the good ones are very good, the
bad ones, if green, are very bad. Those
with smooth white skins are the best,
and little rust on them will not hurt
their flavor or juciness.
The fruit is always cut from the tree,
as the orange, is wrapped in tissue paper
and packed carefully in barrels rather
than boxes. They are not sized as
oranges are, but are sent North with the
number of pomelos in each barrel
marked on the outside.
1t has been said by more than one
Southern fruit grower that fortune
was waiting the man who had the cour-
age to plant a grove of grape fruit trees,
and depend on them for a living. If
properly treated their yield would be
much larger than it is to-day, and good
profit could be made from them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

Dr. Norvin Green, the president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
looks about 60, is tall and ungainly, with
grizzled whiskers, a face like parchment,
and a general gnarled and knotty air.
He is difficult of approach and goes
around seldom speaking to or noticing
any one, --.-...