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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
MISSING LIN hS.

81 don't wonder at the girls loving flow
ers AS they do, when even horses are af-
fected by their beauty, said a man to n
Philadelphia Times reporter. "What
horse? Where? 2" Il saw young lady
while waiting for a car yesterday hold
her bouquet to the nose of poor labor
er's horse. The heat worried brute act
ually for moment SCENE, to inhale it
fragrance with as zach pleasure as it5
pretty owner. 1t was bit of poetic
sentiment that only a maiden's heart
could conceive, and while she was lOoH-
ing around to see if anybody was MOTTO
ing her artless innocence the noble steed
ate the bouquet.
Hamilton, Ohio has a mysterious Wis
itor. He is man of about 40, and dur
ing the several weeks he has spent about
the town no one has been able to get Il
single word from him. He carries a
bundle, to which he clings all the time,
using it at night as a pillow What it
contains no one knows. He sleeps in an
open wheat field. He has never entereI
a door, never asked for food or been
given mouthful of food, and puts i'll
the day walking up and down the pike.
He visits spring, where he drinks CO.
piously; but what he lives on outside of
water, where he came FROM or what his
name is no one h9. been able to ascer-
tain.
The board of education of New Haven,
Conn, is examining the case of Princi-
pal John G.. Lewis, Of the Webster School
,..l- =, ,f hi pa
Gebhard to death. Much has been said
of the principals whipping methods.
Louis Meyer, 14-year-o!d boy living at
PAT Davenport avenue, testified: "Two
years ago was strapped to desk by
Mr.. Lewis and punished, lie strapped
my legs to the legs of the desk, and then
he strapped my hands to the top of the
desk. Then he had a revolving pole
with four or five straps in it, all with
knots in the ends This few around by
pulling a string, and the Straps hit me
all over
A few days ago an interesting cata
comb was discovered at Kertch, in the
neighborhood of the Tahtar quarter. The
catacomb i'll question lies about - feet
under the surface, and is divided into
three compartments 1t is decorated
with frescoes representing Hermes sur
rounded by winged genii, and also with
scenes taken from domestic life. The
most interesting discovery of all WAS an
inscription part of which forctbly re-
minds the reader of the one over Shake
speare's ashes. 1t runs: "Sorak, who
never threw away the bone of the poor,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
The Speed of Naval ships.

The speed of English naval vessels is
generally determined by a run over a
measured mile. This is as if a sprint
runner were allowed to take a flying
start, and as if the speed he attained by
squirting 100 yards on a good track were
assume to be the speed he could make
in chasing a pickpocket in the street. 1t
is notorious that these vessels rarely, if
ever, attain in actual service the speed
with which they are credited. 1t will
therefore be understood how much more
accurate was the test imposed upon the
new cruiser Philadelphia when she was
made to run 40 miles and back along
the coast of Long Island. The record
she made was of course materially
aided by the work of the mo It skillful
engineers and stokers employed by the
Cramps and by the use of picked coal,
but there seems to be little reason for
doubling her ability to run 20 knots an
hour in actual service.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
HE KNEW THE COMMODORE.
A Glimpse Into the Character of the
Elder Vanderbilt.

Elder Vanderbilt
One day when l was boy l happened
to be on the piazza of Gabe Cases old
road house, watching the trotters, when
old Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
drove along in small road wagon, with
jaws set hard and his brows drawn to-
gether in thoughtful scowl. AS he
came along an old horseman with wisp
of whiskers on his chin wandered out of
the door of the hotel, and catching sight
of the great railroad king, suddenly
started forward and yelled:
"Hay, Cornell! come in here; l want
t see yer.
At the sight of him the commodore
half reined in his horse, and losing all
his look of worry and anxiety, cried:
"Hullo, Bill! When'd y'u come +
town? Cantstop Glad t sec" p"
Come on in here, tell you, said the
stranger.
Nearly everybody was abashed at any
man addressing the greatest citizen of
New York in that fashion, but the COM
modore seemed to think it was all right.
81 will stop minute, " he said.
Ine TWO men SHOOK ldHuS, Dul DeloIe
the commodore could speak the old back
woods horseman said with glittering
eye:
"You know the chestnut colt:"
with the white stockingS'"
"The same.
"Well?"
swell" said the rural visitor, with a
smile that spread all over his face, hes
only done 1S, that's all. An you put
him out of yer stable.
He amt trotted in 1872" said the COM
modore eXcitedly.
Hes done that same"
"Bill," said the railroad magnate
thoughtfully, but with an air of over
whelming conviction, Il must say that
when it comes to hoss, you're HI"
The stranger accepted the great COM
piment modestly, and then the two men
sat on bench and talked about crossing
different breeds for speed with the ami
nation of school boys. The richest man
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

1t is a point of the first Importance that
the eyes should not be neglected, but
that the oculist should be at once con-
suited. Headaches which come on after
sewing, reading, watching a play, or
otherwise using the visual organs in q
special direction for a period of time
are usually the direct results of ocular
defects. Neuralgia, dizziness, mental
depression, ,melancholia, St Vitus's dance,
and even epilepsy have been shown to be
directly dependent in certain cases upon
refractive errors for their causation. Out
of nine cases of epilepsy in which there
We're optical defects, recently expert
mented upon, four cases were positively
cured by correction of the defects. Two
of the cases were entirely relieved for
periods of four and six months respect
lively; in another case the fits were
greatly lyreduced in number during given
period of time after the application of
proper spectacles; while two cases were
not influenced by glasses. Recurring
stys are not infrequently due to some
optical defect, and when thus occasioned
they are to be cured, not by pulling out
the lashes, but by having the defect cor
rected. To some people glasses are a
revelation, revealing powers and beau
ties of vision never before known to exist
Glasses not only increase the power Of
vision and greatly relieve the work of
the eye, but they actually prevent the
occurrence of certain diseases of the eye
and of reflex affections in other parts of
the body and effect the preservation of
good vision throughout fe.-[Pittsburg
Dispatch
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
TRY AN BILLY AM 10.

Try an Billy an Jo!-
Try and Billy's the boys,
An JOS their dog, you know
Their pictur's took all in a row.
Bet they kin kick up a noise
Try an Billy. the boys,
An that-air little dog Jol
Iry's the one at stands
Up there a-loookin' so mild
An meek, with his hat in his hands
Like sich 'bediant child
(Sakcs alveD An Billy he sets
In the cheer an holds onto Jo an sweats
Hissef a-lookin' so good! Ho! no!
Try an Billy an 10!
Yit the way them boys, you know.
They usen to jes turn in
An fight over that dog 10
Was a burnin' '-shame-an'-a-sin!- =
Try he'd argy at, by gee-whi2z!
That-air little Jo-dog was his
Ar Billy he'd claim it wasn't So
Cause the dog was his'n = An at it they'd
go,
Nip-an-tugg, tooth-an' -toenail, you know
Try an Billy an Jo
But their Pa Che was the Marshal them
He tended like at he jerked 'em up,
An got a jury % brickyard men,
An held IA trial about the pup;
An he says he jes like to added
When the rest o. us town-boys testified
Regardn'. you know,
Try an Billy an 10!
Cause we all knowed, when the Gypsies they
Camped down here by the crick last Fall,
They brung 10 with EN- an give him away
10 Try an Billy fer nothin' at all!
SO the jury made the verdick so
Joe hain't neither o. theirn fer shore
He's both their dog, an jes no more!
An so
They've quit quarrelin' long ago,
Try an Billy an 10!
-lJames Whitcomb Riley.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

In recall = the memory of the early
days at De- iwood Colonel Patrick said:
There will never again he another Dead
wood. From every S ate and Territory
of the I'm. ON thousands hOckel to the
spot, and yet it was the best natured
crowd that ever saw. At one season.
it was during the campaign for county
sheriff. was customary every day from
] to 3 o'clock to see from 5000 to 7 600
men collected at one of the street corners,
the main gathering place of the town. A
platform made of cord wood was a per-
manent fixture of the spot, and behind it
was a blackboard. Every day before
noon somebody ascended the platform and
wrote the names of 10 to 20 persons who
would be expected to deliver addresses
from the roStrum for the edification of
the people. 1t mattered not whether a
man could speak; no excuse was received,
and if any victim attempted to escape he
was seized and carried to tie spot by
main force. Once there he could adj
vance any sentiments he liked, and was
always accorded a respectful hearing
until somebody began to think he had
talked long enough. The first intima-
tion he received of the fact was blow
from behind which sent him hcadlong
from his perch. lie was knocked down
with an emlty tea chest which was at
tached to a rope and drawn back into the
store to be used on the next speaker
The crowd scr AIMED with laughter at
the odd appearance of the speaker as he
fell forward and another victim was pro-
duced. know whereof l speak, con-
tinued the coo.c, for felt the weight
of the tea ciest mvs If.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
A Glance at the Dictionaries of 1926.

Many of the definitions in the English
dictionary of 1926 are amusing, and some
of them ludicrously absurd. The "pole J"
is described as "the end of the aXletree
whereon the heavens do move, very
primitive explanation. The "Hebridean
wave" seems rather poetical substitute
for the Irish Sea; and badger" is
still more extraordinary equivalent for
corn merchant-"on that buys corne or
other victual in one place to sell 1t IN
another" Still funnier are some OF the
natural history definitions. A "baboon" !"
is said to be "a beast like an ape, but
farre bigger" "lynx" is "a spotted
beast-it hath most perfect sight, inso-
much as it is said that it can see thorow
a wall" The account of the "salaman-
der" reads like an elaborate joke-"a
small venomous beast with foure feet
and short taile; it lives in the fire, and
at length, by his extreme cold, puts out
the fire." Turning to more general top
les, we have the alphabet" defined as
the "cross rowe of letters, and "abece-
darian" is lone who teaches the cross
rowe" According to Cockeram, "an
idiote" is IAN unlearned asse;" Ia
bourer, "swinker," and "a heretick" !"
is sketched more roundaboutly, but with
q clear assertion of the right of private
opinion, as "he which maketh choice of
himselfe what poynts of religion he will
believe and what he will not" Then
from classic times the "Olympic games
are "solemn games of activity" " and the
"Amphitrite" is not.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
KOssuth in His Decline,

Some Italian journalists have inter-
viewed Kossuth at Superga. He is af-
flicted with slowly progressing cataract,
but he himself believes that death will
arrive sooner than blindness. He lives
in retirement He declines to see visit
ors, saying that having retired from the
world the world ought to forget him.
But he still writes, working regularly
till Midnight. He walks on the hills in
the morning and dimes alone at noon.
He Intends, if possible, to live in future
at Naples, where he expects to be next
autumn,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
Where They Smoke Cigars,

The Burmese girls are very bright. and
good beggars, too, and when one steps
up to you with six inch cigar in her
mouth and her comely person swathed
in garments, the colors of which would
rival Joseph's coat, and offers you her
wares, the only thing for man to do is
to buy and buy at once. The girls are
noted for their independence, and they
walk about the streets and through the
bazaars and around the pagodas with
big cigars in their mouths with as much
freedom as do the men in most coun.
tries
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

In the hands Of some people an UNI
brella is a deadly weapon. One day just
before nightfaIl when suburban folk
rush home from the city in crowds, an
Intelligent locking young woman joined
the throng headed for the station. Her
umbrella was open in her hand, and the
way she handled itstraightway attrcated
notice on all sides. Somehow she man.
aged to knock nearly every umbrella she
met from its owners hand, until having
reached the entrance seps, she suddenly
closed her own, much to the detriment
of the bonnet of another lady who hap
paned to be at her side. She then began
fumbling for her purse, holding the UNI
brella in the meanwhile in the hand she
was moving, so that the ferrule described
an arc of about 40 degrees. Having
found dime, she marched to the ticket
office, and then, While slowly gathering
up her change, stood with the umbrella
tucked under her arm and protruding
across the passage, thus obstructing all
movements for others. Al last the ticket
was safe in her purse, and she passed ON.
With that umbrella still tucked under
her arm she walked leisurely along,
while man behind her lodged the UNI
brela's ferrule as well as lie could. Sud-
denly she stepped on her dress and
stopped. OF course the umbrella jabbed
the man in the face. With a sweet Il
beg your pardon, she shifted it so that
it stuck out sidewise and tripped up a
man who was hurrying past her. FL
nally, with no other mshap than catching
the handle of the umbrella in little
girls hair, the lady seated herself in the
car, the umbrella protruding just enough
to trip up every unwary man who passed
her.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

in New York was absolutely oblivious to
time and his surroundings, for it was 7
o'clock when he suddenly bounced up
and started for home on the discovery
that he was already an hour late for din
Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
Won Moltke's Idea.

Old Field Marshal Won Moltke denies
that he ever said beer was Germany'a
greatest enemy. 81 am myself an ab-
stainer," he says, "but I regard COM
plete abstinence as neither desirable nor
practical. But it is sinful to give stimu.
lants to children or uncivilized races"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
WHOLE NUMBER, 9S6.

carbon are apt to break in cold weather.
I'm fact, the result of his investigations
points to the use of rails having less
carbon in countries as cold in winter as
Norway and Sweden.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

Experiments made in Sweden by NJ.
Saneberg on the strength of iron rails
during winter have shown that steel
rails containing over four per cent of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.


Stations. Westward.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-10-16
ACCIDENTAL.

At Portland, Ore, Eli Gherhatt and four
children, Morris Erickson, Lilly Chapman
and Others drank lemonade in which tartar
emetic had been used by mistake instead OF
tartGric acid. Three of the victims will die.
Near Guthrie Center, Iowa, a carriage con-
tanning Mr.. and Mrs. James Reed was struck
by train. Mrs. Reed was instantly killed,
being dragged a quarter of mile before the
train could be stopped Mr.. Reed was prob
ably fatally injured.
At Washington, Pa, Mrs. Ladshow poured
nitro glycerine, which she thought was car
bon oil, onto the fire The result was an ex-
plosiOn, the house was wrecked, and Mrs.
Ladshaw, her hu sband and their child were
seriously if not fatally injured.
A bluff near the village of st. Pierre, thirty
miles from Quebec, suddenly tumbled into
the Riviere du Sud, carrying with it the
house, barn and sheds OF Matheis Gaynon, a
strip of land half mile long and $50 yards
wide and eleven INN ates of Mr.. Gaynon's
house three of whom we're killed and the re-
naming eight badly injured.
At Chewan, McNairy county, Tenn, five
men were instantly killed by the explosion
of a steam boiler belonging to Mr.. Gurley.
Gurley's body was torn into shreds.
William Johnson had his head torn from his
body and it was thrown fifty yards from the
mill. Walter Pitman and his brother and
son of Gurley's were killed. A negro was in
iured, and it is thought he will die.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-10-16
EOREIGN GRIST.

Another revolution is apprehended in Hay
ii. The financial condition of the republic is
unsatisfactory.
Through the bursting of a reservoir at La
Londe, France, five persons were killed and
thirty injured.
The British ministry is bringing all the in
fiuence possible to bear upon the. poRtiff
against the bestowal of a cardinals hat up
on Arch bishop Walsh of Ireland.
A meeting of the Holland cabinet will
shortly be summoned for the purpose OF pro-
claiming O regency in consequence of the seri-
Gus illness of the king.
A treaty has been signed by Germany and
Zanzibar relative to the coasting trade along
the east coast of Africa The German gov
ernment pays the sultan of Zanzibar 81, ,0OO,-
900 for the concession:
Thirty arrests have been made in connec-
tion with a workmen's political movement in
st. Petersburg. The prisoners have been
secretly examined by the police department.
In the interior others have been arrested
charged with the manufacture of bombs.
When the Austrian and German emperors
were leaving Muerzsteg for Neuberg the
horses to their carriage SHE'D and dashed
the vehicle against fence, breaking the pole
The emperors alighted unhurt, and walked
until they were overtaken by the king Of
Saxony's carriage.
Dom Pedro, the ex-emperor of Brazil, has
arrived in Cologne. He is described as look
ing very unhappy and broken down, and is
continually accompanied by an attendant,
owing to his enfeebled condition. At inter-
walls in conversation he is heard to mutter
Brazil Oh dear Brazil" 1t is feared that
his mind is weakening.
Inquiry was made at the war Office in Lon
don regarding the story from Halifax, that
the Grenadier Guards, who were recently sent
to Bermuda, from London, because of the in
suborination which was showing itself in the
regiment, were suffering to an alarming ex-
tent from enteric fever, and that many deaths
had occurred. 1t was learned that the war
Office had heard nothing of the matter. save
through the Halifax story.
Horrible accounts come from the Red sea of
the condition of the cholera victims. The
Arabs and strangers in that region are dying
by scores Persons are seized with the chol-
era and die within an hour, with clenched
teeth and bodies terribly drawn up. Birds
and dogs feed on the corpses, which the peo-
pie are afraid to touch, and vast focks of
vultures dispute for the prey with the four
footed scavengers. From the interior of
Arabia the accounts are tully as heartrending
and the victims are said to be numbered by
thousands. The cholera is said to have
made it's appearance in Granada, Spain.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-10-16
A NEW PANACEA.
Water GIuttony Said to Be a Sure Cure
for Consumption.

Water Gluttony Said to Be Sure Cure
for Consumption.
DR.. w. H. Burt, of Chicago, has ad-
vanced a new theory in the cure of con-
sumption. Eight months ago, when
reading of the wonderful change brought
about in the obesity of Prince Bismarck
through refraining from the use of water
and carbo-hy ydrates, it occurred to him
that an opposite treatment ought to re-
suit in the cure of all wasting diseases.
His experiments since have justified him
in the statement that excessive eating
and the excessive use of water will cure
so per cent of all consumptive cases in
their first and second stages. He ex-
planned at length the tonic influences and
power in building up tissue possessed by
water, which forms three -fourths of the
human body, and stated that even in
health six pints day were necessary to
meet the water waste and in disease
twelve pints charged with carbonic acid.
The doctor claimed it would give the
very life to the system and tissues de-
manded in consumption. He pronounced
the bacteria theory, so popular of late, as
pure nonsense. In detail his treatment
consisted of the free use of water every
hour in the day, nine hours sleep regu-
larly, and if possible the sea or mountain
air. Above all the patient must look
upon the drinking of water for all time
as his life. Heredity was the great
danger, and DR.. Burt advocated the pass
ing by Congress of law forbidding the
marriage of consumptives. With this in
force 100 years from now consumption
could not exist in the United States.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-10-16
Senate 1s years ago wholly unknown, he

Senate 13 years ago wholly unknown, he
has made national reputation. He is
young yet, too, for he will not be So
until October. But great newspaper
man was spoiled when Plumb went off
after the prizes of law and of politics.
He has the newspaper instinct-the
nose for news which in it's higher
development becomes subtle apprehen-
sion of the course of public opinion.
Trust Plumb to find out what the people
are thinking and to know before any one
else what they will be thinking to-mor-
row. This is what gives significance to
his revolt against high tariff legislation.
He shows what the people want. This
enables him, of course, to maintain his
popularity, since he is quick to avail
himself of it and head the way the wind
is going to blow. 1t accounts largely
for his three terms in the Senate. But
his hard work has done great deal for
him. He is a tremendous worker. Be-
sides his severe service on the appro-
priations committee and as chairman of
the public lands committee (he is men,
Der of three other committees) he looks
dIbCf lib IOnS6lbAChbo cAAN LA1Cl1 " LollCS dS
though he was. the only representative
the State had in Congress.
He is ubiquitous in the departments,
and at the same time ubiquitous at the
Capitol. His wife has been i'll a good
deal, and so they have not had to go out
or to entertain, and Plumb has given his
whole time to work. One of his daily
tasks is to skim the hundreds of news
papers which he takes for the things
which interest him. This helps out his
wonderful pr science. He does not have
to wait till his attention is called" to
something that he ought to see in a news
paper, but las he frankly admits, unlike
most of his affected colleagues he reads
the newspapers.
Personally he is a bluff hearty man.
who treats everybody, from President
down, as an equal with the same amount
of rough courtesy. He is good to his
friends and bad to his enemies-and best
in his family. He is younger looking
than he is, with his thick dark hair and
his brown chin tuft, both apparently I'M
touched by frost, and his cheeks ruddy
with health. But, like everybody else,
he shows the strain of this strenuous
struggle. II. B. F. MCFARLAND.