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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

TLe,e is one Democratic postmaster in
Tennsy lvania who contemplates posi-,
be removal with complete satisfaction.
rhc receipts of his office have been
"a GS, while the expenses have 'ggre,
gated s. ~, leaving him 81 04 ovt OF
pocket.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

The Mothers Friend, used a few
weeks before confinement, lessons the pain
and makes labor quick and comparatively
easy. Sold hy all Druggists.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11
Beware of Ointmcuts for Catnrrh That
COnintn McrcMrY.

Three things should never be cut--an oys-
ter, lettuce or a considerable ere iitor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

Jay Gould has an orchid in his conscrva-
tory at lrylngton that is valued at 5000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11
PATIENCE

Teacher-"WclI, Willie Genes. hero
You are late again. When have a
few moments 10 spare | shall chastise
you severely"
Willie Jonos-"Plea,c, sir. You need
MT hurry yourself. | can wait
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

Don't hawk, hawk. and blow, blow disgust
IN everybody, but Use DIR. Sage's Catarih
Remedy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eyc-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and comp,t ly derangc the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never he used ex-
cept on prcscrip ions fro reputable phys :
clans, as the damage they will do is ten fold to
thu good You can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by +. J.
Cheney & Co, Toledo, o., contain. no MGR
curry, and is taken internally, and acts direct
ly VI on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. In buying Hail., Catnrrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t is taken internally.
and ma 10 in Told Ohio, by +. J. Cheney &
Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11

A Sioux Indian has entered Yale's law
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-11
sS Sold nv Dru ggists prira 75c per b tito.

Two Egyptian princes, sons of the Khe-
dive, are being educated in Vienna.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Absence of Italian Farm Homes.

The absence of homes, and especially
of farm houses, in all Apulia, intensifies
the sadness of the landscape. There is
not a farmhouse, as we know it, in
Italy. There are, miles apart, huge, low,
prson-like stone structures called
'masscric," where the landowners
superintendent, an ignorant, lily paid,
bcstial fellow himself, cares for n num-
Der of the animals needed in the fields
and where the "massara" literally, field
house womcn) cooks the little needed for
the laborcrs. These ''masserie" are the
ugliest oue-story stone buildings i'm
aginublc. They are invariably set on an
elevation to escape us much as possible
the universal malaria. Quadrilatcral
stone walls perhaps thirty feet square
rise seven or eight feet high. A portion
of the front will be covered with an
almost fiat metal or slate roof. Then
from the rear wall vaulted arches extend
toward the front. These usually contain
three compartments. One, the best of
all, is provided with stone managers ex-
tending all around it for oxen, horses or
donkeys; in another, the "massara"
warns the slop given the laborers; and in
the last are stone benches on which the
laborers take their midday siesta and
sleep ut night. These swarm with vermin !:
nrc filthier and more desolate than any
prison known to man; and stand un-
relieved by vine, shrub or tree, repulsive
and forbidding silhouettes of stone
against 4 blue Italian sky.
Five other characteristic features of
oan+1,ort, T+aI;n,,
rs with the "massaric." human activities
aud contiguity to human habitations,
only to emphasize the saddening loncli-
ness of Italian country scenes. These are
the "aia," OF raised earthcrn or stone
threshing floor, shaped like hollow
truncatcd cone, where the grain is trod
out by blindfolded oxen; the cisterna, OF
cistcrn, for collecting rain water for the
fiocks for use in time of summer drought
huge structures sunkcn fully ten feet
beneath the surface, with exposed walls
rs high as ones head, averaging fifty feet
in width and 200 in length, with an an
Gent windlass in the peak of one end of
the low roof; the rough, white stone
walls which divide fields like endless bar
ricadcs; the 'casscllc, mortarless ciicu-
lar huts OF stone, surmounted by rude
crosses, in which the field guards and
watchers find shelter, recalling the ghost
ly sentry-houses among the bleach greens
In the north of Ireland; and the "tra-
turo," a broad grass-grown highway,
which for 1000 years has served in differ
ent localities, like the vast stocktrails
leading "from grass to grass" when west
ern herds are driven northward, for the
yearly exodus of Apulian herds to mount
ain summer pastures. - Commercial Id
rertiSer
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Restoring tile canary's Voice.

Canaries lose their voices rs we'll MS
Italian divas. Increase of salary does
not, however. bring back their voices.
Regular treatment must be carried out.
This is one of the best: Leave off seeds
entirely. Make paste of sweet milk
and bread crumbs, throwing tine crumbs
into the milk while boiling, and stir until
quite smooth; add pinch of cayenne
pepper, varied occasionally by some finely
mixed Glove of garlic; dissolve in the
drinking water little black currant
jelly, or bit of fig or balf potash loz-
cnge. 1t may take long time to cure
the bird, and if the trouble arises from
hardness of the tongue it must be painted
daily with strong borax water. If lie
sneezes. little olive oil must be put
gently up the nostrils. Paste must be
fresh daily.-Ne,o YORK journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
The Princes Oak Replautcd.

Sir Julian Pauuccfotc, the British
Minister, at the request of the Prince of
Wales, has planted II young oak sappling
in front of the tomb of Washington, Mt
Mount Vernon, to replace the one which
the Prince planted in 1852 and which
died afterwari. This tree grew from an
English acorn which the British minister
brought from home with him when he
returned with his family. On the occa-
sion of the planting Sir Julian made u
most happy speech, in which he thanked
the ladies of the Mount Vernon Associa-
ton for their aid. He concluded as fol-
lows:
al hope that this English oak tree will
be more fortunate than its predecessor
aud will endure for many generations as an
emblem of the sturdy qualities which dis.
tinguishcd Washington and the race from
which he sprang. l hope, also, that it
will endure rs token of the feeling of
attachment aud admiration entertained
by the royal family of England and the
people of England for this great and
kindred nation, which owes so much to
the genius and virtues of Washington. {"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
ENLARGEMENT OF AN INcupAron.

The chief points in the working of an
incubator are the temperature and the
occasional variations Of it, the moisture
needed and the turning OF the eggs.
the temperature should not go above
lo4 degrees nor below so degrees. An
occasional reduction of temperature to
90 degrees, or even 20 degrees, for
short time will not injurc the eggs and
IS undoubtedly beneficial, rs it causes n
circulation of air in the egg. Except
during an hour or two each day, wien
the temperature may be permitted to fall
as mentioned, it should he kept steady at
from 102 degrees to 10I degrees. This
steady heat is important to be observed.
The needed moisture may be supplied by
spraying tho eggs once n day, when they
are turned, with water warmed to 100
degrees. The eggs may be turned all at
once by having the floor of the nest
movable and sliding it toward and back
ward, by which the eggs are partly
turned. This should be done once every
day when the incubator is opened for
York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Tanning by Electricity.

Engineering reports an interesting trial
of electricity for the conversion of hides
into leather, which took place in Ber-
mondsey, England, recently. The tan
ming was accomplished in a revolving
drum twelve feet in diameter and eight
feet long, rotating at eight revolutions
minute. Turpentine and tannic acid
were used to saturate the hides, and a
strong current of electricity was caused
to flow from metal band which runs
around the interior of one end of the
drum to corresponding band on the
other end. The drum, after revolving
five days, was opened, and the leather
appeared to be of excellent quality. This
system shortens the process of tanning
from months to days, and seems to be q
successful revival of an experiment made
OF Buda.Pesth teo years ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
no cA1.n1 rxcIrEp HonsEs.

The best and only thing to do when
your horse Is excited is to calm him. In
high state of excitement the horse does
not comprehend what is wanted of him.
Every one has seen n team where one
horse would go backward and the other
one forward, or, in other wordr, "saw. !"
All the whipping and "hollcring" that a
dozen men can do will not start such II
team once i'll q hundred times. The team
is excited, and it shows that by every
action, and flashing and loud talk only
make matters worse. Try to calm the
horse by gentle words and actions. Time
will be saved if half hour is taken TO
soothe the refractory horse. An excited
horse is just like an excited child. We
have seen child scolded and jaw ed at
until it could not comprehend what was
wanted of it to save its life. Stop scold-
ing and calm the child. and the work
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Enginem ems superstitions.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will be compelled to abandon Engine No.
1913, now in use on that road 1t is re-
garded by the road men as unlucky.
There is not an engineer or fireman on
the road that has not supcrstltious
dread of the huge monster that during
the past year has figured in more disas-
ters than any other. In the first place it
plunged over the bridge at Latrobc last
summer, wrecking the whole train and
killing the engineer, Fireman and ten
others, and seriously injuring about a
dozen persons. About u month after
ward it collided with IL train near Manor,
seriously injuring the fireman and wreck
ing number of cars. Again, in q fea
weeks, while ascending the mountains,
its boiler burst, and the fireman was
blown through the cab window and badly
hurt. 1t WINS repaired and once more put
on the road, and all went we'll until
about six weeks ago, when it again ran
into freight at Manor station, smashing
ten or twelve cars and slightly injuring
the fireman. Lastly, while running near
Sang Hollow it got into another scrapc.
This time its oil can exploded and Sc
Verely burned both engineer and fireman.
It is said that the employees of the road
intend to ask the company to discontinue
ts use.--Fhiladelphia Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
HOW no MAKE A scnun COW.

Jlow TO make scrub COW. Here is
the process: Half feed your COW through
the winter; provide no shelter, and ex-
pose her 10 storms and the exhaustinr
cold. When the calf comes be very
penurious about the cows feed. Let
her pick her living on bare pasture and
the c'use fodder in the barnyard gath
cred from the manure heaps. 1t does
not pay, You think, to give the wrctched
beast few pounds of meal, and perhaps
it will not at the first, for there is much
flesh to put on the bare bones before any
fat can be put into the milk. Wean the
calf when five days old, and give it only
sour milk and the rancid huttcrmilk, and
when it is half dead with diarrhea give
it some alum to dry it up Turn it out
into half-barren lot to gather the weeds
and the coarse grass, and when it has
worried through the summer, let it run
for the winter in the yards and get the
leavings of all the other stock, while its
back is bumped up with cold and it
bawls for food through the nights while
its owner warns himself under the
blankets. When three years old, under
such treatment, it will bring calf more
wretchcd than itself, and the bull which
was raised lowered might he more truc)
i'll the same way. Proceed III this way
and you get scrub brecd.-NetO Io,l
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
BLACKBERRY JAM.

A lady writes that her black.
berry jam will candy on top.
and asks for remedy and good
rule for making it. Probably the trou-.
BILE Isl, responds the New York Herald,
"that you use too much sugar. l never
had the slightest trouble, but 1 always
put mine up in pint self sealing jars. Tho.
following is reliable formula:
"Pick over the berries carefully to see
that there are no uusound ones; weigh.
them, put them in a granite or porcelain
Kettle and simmer gently for thirty min
utes. This will allow the watery juice to.
evaporatc; then add half pound of sugar
to each pound of fruit, and boil twenty
minutes. Pour into heated tumblers or
jars and let them stand twcnty-four hours
before putting on the lids or tops. If you
use crockery bowls or jars cut two
thicknesscs OF tissue paper enough larger
than the top Of the jnr to paste down
half an inch all around the edge. Use,
mucilage instead of paste, and the mice
will not nibblc the covers. Before set
thug them away moisten the tops of the
papers with little sponge dipped in cold
water. This will stretch the paper, anti1
when it dries and shrinks it will form a
covering as tight and smooth DIS the,
parchment or skin used ON the Dundee
jams. 1t is essential to have cool, dark.
and dry closet for storing preserves,
jams and jellies."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Drilling Into the Brain.

Professor Souchon, OF Tulane Uniyer-
sity, New Orleans, Ia, proposes the ex-
ploration of the brain through capillary
holes, Instead of resorting to the trephine.
According to this, after the hair has been
nippe6 from the selected spot Ivy sharp
scissors, and the scalp has been rendered
aseptic,, a hole is to be made through the
soft parts of the scalp with n sharp
pointed aseptic bistoury; through this
the bit OF watchmaker's drill is to be
introduced, and hole drilled through
the skull, the bit being guarded TO pre-
vent it penetrating into the brain sub
stance. This bit being Withdrawn, the
needle of n hypodermic syringe, twice rs
large as the ordinary needle, is to be in
troduced into the brain; if tumor is
present, the needle will convey feeling
of resistance; if, however, no solid tumor
is present, the needle must be gradually
forced more and more deeply into the
brain, the piston being retracted at in
tcrvals, in order that any liquid at the
point OF the needle may be withdrawn
and examined. Professor Souchon has
convinced himself that such Il procedure
is quite safe, and points out the advan-
tage that several parts Of the brain may
thus be explored at the same sitting; he
also thinks the day will come when the
skull will be drilled in the case of
cerebral hcmorrhage, and the blood
aspirated here us i'll other situations
Chicu0o Times
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Second thoughts are the adopted chill
dren of experience.
The error of moment may become
the sorrow of whole life.
Flattery is sort of bad money, to
which vanity gives currency.
Life is like flower, which is no soon
or blown than'it begins to wither.
Good will, like good name, is got by
many good actions, and lost by none.
II you promise ct all, take care that it
be so that nobody may suffer by trusting
you.
The only thing which every one can
do, and the only thing which any one
need do, is his duty.
II is sign of wisdom to be willing to
receive instruction; the most intelligent
sometimes stand in need of it,
Fidelity, good humor and complacency
Of temper outlivc all the charms of fine
face, and make the decays of it invisible.
He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass him
self; for every man has need TO be for
given.
Talking politics is like the man who
followed an old circus ring in the dark
thinking he was on the path toward
home.
II one wishes to take things easy when
one is old, it will be necessary to take
many things that are not easy when one
is young.
There is no more virtue in ballot
which is cast by Il man instructed how to
vote, than there is in repeating the words
of another.
Kind words are the brightest flowers
of carth's existence; they make very
paradise of the humblest home that the
world can show.
Persons who fear their cucmies by low
ing them, will become SO entangled in
obligations that condition of servitude
will be their reward.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
I Uses Ills Fingers as Forcens.

A bright mulatto, with long hair AND
broad brimmed, wild West looking hat,
applied to City Clerk Bridges Smith the
other day for license to pull teeth.
His manner of plying his trade is some.
thing ont of the usual order.
He uses no instruments except his fin.
gers in extracting teeth. BY means Of
long practice his fingers have become as
strong as forceps, and he claims he can
pull teeth faster and with less pam than
any dentist with Instruments.
The Japanese dentists have long been
noted for their ability to extract even
the most refractory teeth by means of n
gentle but firm manipulation with their
thumb and fingers, but this negro, who
calls himself "Willie Yellowstone, :" is.
SO far rs known, the first colored man to
attempt such thing. -4Macon (Ga.) Tel.
egrdph.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
you desire of it will soon be done. It

yen desire of it will soon be done. It ia
idle to expect an animal to do your bid
ding, so long as it cannot understand
what you want done. Two-thirds Of the
horses that arc termed balky are made SO
by their drivers. A man must understand
the disposition of his horse and be
governed accordingly. Another prolific
source of, excitement to nervous horse
is the oyerchecS, in all its varied forms.
Some have q small. extra bit on the over
check, aud that and the bride bit are
forced into the horses mouth at the same
tiue. This quite often frets the animal,
and when he starts of he is sometimes in
clined to act bad. and the whip is used
on him to make him act better, which
too often makes matters good deal
worse. Then the horse becomes excited
and often balks, and often gains the re-
pntatIon OF being q chronic "stayer. +"
l do not believe tina. any horse is natur-
ally balky, bat is in every case made so
by excitablc owners or drivers.
Excitement in the horse takes various
forms. Some are sullea and morosc,
while others are nervous and icrky. 1t
is seldom that cool, quiet man, one
that can govern his own temper, ever has
fractions or nervous horse to contend
with. Horses have instructive reasoning
faculties, which are in !, great measure
controlled by their own drivers Vest
era Plonman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
FRUIT sYRurs.

Fruit syrups may be used in many.
ways, when fruit is out of the season that
will be found convenient to the house.
keeper. Cool and refreshing drinks, and
water ices may be made from them, and
puddings, custards, ice creams, jellies
and Bavarian creams favored with them
These syrups if carefully made will re-.
tain the flavor of the fresh fruit. The
following recipes may be used in pre-.
pairing them:
Currant Syrup-Pick ripe currants,.
mash and set aside for two or three days.
Then strain and moisten; to every pint Of
juice allow two pounds of sugar, mix
and put in a saucepan which set in boil
ing water and stir until dissolved, and
nearly boiling; take from the fire, and
let COOL When cold, put in small bot.
ties, seal and keep in n dark place.
Lemon and Orange Syrups-Pick large.
perfect lemons OF oranges, cut in halves,
and squeeze out the juice. To every quar-,
of juice allow six pounds of sugar Put,
in preserve kettle. Beat the whites "a
two eggs, mix with a quart of wat&
and add the sugar, stir over the fire
until it is dissolved, let boil and skim.
Strain the fruit juice, add to the boiling,
syrup, and let boil fifteen minutes. Set
aside to cool. When cold put in bottlei
and SEAL
Strawberry Syrup - Dissolve two.
pounds of sugar in pint of water, stir
over the fire until it boils; stand aside to-
cool. Mash ripe Strawberries, and strain
of the juice. Let the syrup boil, until
very thick; to quart of it add half a.
pint of the strawberry juice. Let boil,
skim aud set aside to cool. When cold,
bottle and seal.
Rose Syrup-Put quart of water in O.
porcelain kettle, bring to boil, add two
pounds of rose leaves, take from the fire,
and let stand twenty-four hours Strain,
put in saucepan, add four pounds of
sugar, stir, and set in kettle of boiling
water until the sugar is dissolved. Set
aside to cool, bottle and seal.
Pineapple Syrup-Put three pounds OF
sugar in porcelain kettle. Beat the
white of an egg to froth, add it to o.
pint of water, which pour on the sugar,
and set over the FIRE to dissolve. When
it boils, skim, set off to cool. Crate suf-
ficient pineapple to make quart of juice,
strain. Let the syrup boil again, add the
juice skim, and let cool. Bottle and
ZEAL Courier Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
GOATS roK ROCKY LAND.

There IS popular prejudice agains.
goats on account Of vicious or offensive
pcculiarities, bal, without doubt, more
could be made of them in many places
IMAM from sheep, or even from cattle.
They arc even more easily kept than
sheep, provided they are tethered to n
stake and changed once day. In
Europe the goat is the poor mans COW,
furnishing more milk than its small size
would lead any one to suppose possible.
Perha~s if more care were taken in
breeding, then the milking capacities of
the goat could be materially increased.
They are especially adapted to rough and
rocky land, climbing and browsing wheye
other animals would starve.-Boston
CuitiCator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
Anecdote About a Famous Bandit.

The New York Star says: "Anothe,
Mexican story occurs to me, which was
told me by Texas dry goods merchant.
1t seems that a noted bandit, Cortina,
had been the terror of Northern Mexico
for years. Failing to subdue him, the
Mexican Government made him Major
General of the army, and put him in
charge of the Rio Grande border. lie
WAS furnished with full staff and head
quarters force and started out in full en-
ioyment of his dignity. At the end OF
the first month of his service bis military
secretary brought the payroll for his ap.
prevail. 1t was headed by the name OF
Major-General Cortina aud continued with
the names and pay Of the other members
of his military family, and ending M
with the total Tor the entire amount to be
so disbursed. Cortina examined the doc.
ument carefully and laboriously. But,
reaching the end, he burst into an ex-
preston OF wrath, drew his revolver and
held it ut the terrified secretary's head,
shrieking with rage: "Villain! What is
this? Who is this Total vino receives
more than Cortina2"