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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

The shah became father at the ago
of 16 Years, wherefore his eldest children
are now we'll advanced in life. His eld-
est daughter is nearly A. years old, and
is called the Glory of Kings. She mar
red the son of the master of the mint,
one of the richest men in Persia. When
the master died, however, the shah took
possession of the bulk of his fortune.
Naturally the s.n in law felt himself ill
treated, and ng to obtain any re-
dress, he left Persia and went to
Paris. There he distinguished HIM
self by the utter recklessncss of his
career, until his imperial father in
law for very shame recalled him
and gave him what was left of his
inheritance. He had previously been
married to the adopted daughter e
Nine. Hadji Ahb0s, a clever French
woman, whom Hldii Abbas, the court
painter, married in Paris and took to
Teheran, at the request of the ladies of
the harenl, to teach them the European
fine art Of millinery. The second
daughter of the shah, called the Light
Of the Empire, is the wife of General
Husuf Khad. Numbers three and four,
the Pride of IL Empire and the Purity
of the Empire, are married. the one to
a high court official, the other to the
chief priest of Teheran. All the eight
grown up daughters of the shah indeed,
have made good matches.
They have, perhaps, made better
matches than their husbands. For it is
not altogether profitable to be a son in
law of the shah. A princess spends
much, and her carriages and runner, her
many servants, AMI the lavish entertain
ments she is obliged to give to other
princesscs generally cost much more
than the 500 per annum which the
shah gives as a Gowry. The shah, too,
is more apt to take anything from son
in law than from a stranger OF person
not related to him, and another draw
back is that the husband of the shah's
daughter loses more or less of his liberty,
can not take other wives, and must do as
his wife pleases. The only one, per-
haps, of the shah's sons in law who has
kept his liberty is the chief priest of l'e-
heran. He is alb to bring religion to
bear on the subject; can possibly justify
anything he does by the Koran and ira
ditions, and has the clergy with their
enormous influence to back him up.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

suppose that a depositor determines TO
save cents per week. He is furnished
with card corresponding in color with
the Scent labels. He purchases the label
weekly at the nearest agency and affiXes
it to the card. When the card is full it
is worth 81, and is then sent to the saw
ings bank for deposit, "hcn the amount
is entered upon the usual deposit book.
Labels will be for various convenient de
nominations, making the cards when
filled even amounts, as 81, 50, 50, and so
on. 1t is expected that the agents will
do the work as a labor of love and public
benefit, though small commissions may
be paid. This system brings the savings
bank to the people who need it most.
We have Scent savings banks now, but
comparatively few people will take the
trouble to go to the bank to deposit a few
cents 1t will be a very easy matter,
however, to go to the nearest drug store
or grocery and purchase the label, and
the method involves no risk except that
of keeping the deposit card safe till it is
filled. Springfield Union.
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Big Timber in the Northwest.

Captain E. Farnham, the pioneer lum-
herman, speaking of big timber, said:
II think the biggest stick of timber ever
cut on Puget Sound was gotten out at
the Port Gamble mill ten years ago. 1t
was 143 "eet in length and 36 by 80 inches
square. 1t was shipped to China, where
it was cut up into spans for bridges. l
was on board the vessel on which it was
shipped. The timber protruded over
both the bow and the stern
"What was the idea in shipping such
stick?"
Just simply to have the name of cut
Puget Sound"
what is the largest stick of timber
that you have ever SEEM"
THAT one was. AT the worlds fair in
London had dinner in house from the
bark of redwood tree, which was cut
in California. The house was two stories
in height, and 10 feet in circumference
in the upper story"
"How large a stick do you think could
be cut on Puget Sound?"
81 think that it might be possible to
get out one perhaps 1870 feet long and 30
by 30 inches square at the small end.
Such a stick could not be found near the
coast. however. One would have to go
into the interior for it. A great deal of
care would have to be exercised in cut
ting it, to prevent its breaking when it
fell If such stick We're cut | have no
doubt it would be the largest stick of
l,o, in,
THE largest tree in the world is in
Mariposa, Cal 1t is called the Father of
the Forest, and is 450 feet in height. 1t
is a fallen monarch, however, and it
would be impossible to cut stick of
timber $50 feet in length from it, as it is
partially decayed. y Seattle Press
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Josh billings PhiIasOpiiY.

1t is dreadful eazy tew mistake what
IKE think for what we know; this IL the
way that most ov the lies git born that
are travelling around loose
Ambishun il like tread wheel; it
knows no limits; yu no sooner git tew
the end ov it then you begin again.
We are never in more danger of being
1aft at than when we are latfing at others.
Free living leads tew free thinking,
free thinking leads tew free loving, and
free loving leads tew the devil.
1t il az hard work to make weak
man upright az it liz an empty bag.
Good breeding seems tew be the art ov
being superior tew most people, and
equal tew all, without letting them know
it.
Children are like vines; tu>. will
klimb the pole yu set up for them be it
krooked or trate.-lNew York Weekly.
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IN THE COUNTRY.

He sat within his Office in the city's busy mart
And thought this very happy thought: To
morrow II depart
For quiet country places where the scenes that
greet me here
And all the city noises shall be lost to eye
and ear.
Away with all this ceaseless STIR I'm weary
of the strife.
Oh, W at pleasure it would be to lead a farm
cr's ife
I'll spend nay weeks vacation in the country
fresh and free.
Its vrrant fields and soltudes are just the
thing for me-"
He climbed up in the old barns NOV to feed
the horses hay,
And thought this very happy thought: To-
morrow I'll away
From all this dull monotony and dreary stretch
IF green.
I'm gu,n. to the city where there's something
to he seen.
Why must all my weary days plod one pro-
sale round?
Oh, would dwell where busy hands in multi
tudes hound!
I'll spend my weeks vacation in the city's
throbbing heart
OF which did fortune favor me I'd be an active
part"
strange to say,
Each one before the week was up was glad to
come away.
They found each others joys of white were
flecked with shades of black,
Though each was glad to go, yet both were
gladder to get back.
-[Chicago Evening Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
A Substitute for Linseed Oil.

A very important discovery has been
made by Adolph Sommer, of the depart
ment of chemistry in the University of
California. 1t consists of sulpho-chlo-
rinated oleine compound, which is de-
cidedly superior to linseed oil and can be
made at lower cost. In the language
of the inventor: "While for general pur-
poses of painting this oil is fully as good
as linseed oil, it has this advantage over
it, that on surfaces which are exposed
to the weather it makes the paint wear
more than twice as long as linseed OIL
Neither the heat and dryness of summer,
nor the cold and wet of winter, will
cause the paint to scale off or chalk ,
1t preserves its elasticity and gloss better
and longer than linseed oil and never
blisters in the sum-" A series of tests
have recently been concluded by board
of experts in California, who also exam
ined houses in Oakland that had been
painted respectively s, 20, and 2Smonths.
The board was unanimous in its conclu-
sions as to the superiority of the new oil
over linseed oil
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
JED ToMPKINs IN COURT.
How He Explained the Way He Came in
Possession of a Sheep.

Near Fayetteville, Tenn, shortly after
the recent cyclone which did so much
damage in that State and Kentucky, old
Jed Tompkins, colored, was hauled up
before Squire Mason for stealing one of
Colonel Ballentyne's sheep.
Before the trial the squire, the colonel,
Jed, and several others were lounging
in front of the 'squire's dingy office, all
hands, with the exception of Jed, relat-
ing incidents of the terrible storm; the
squire winding up with a tree on his
farm from which the wind had stripped
the bark, and the colonel seeing" this
with brick wall on his place through
which the tornado had driven VIII at
straw.
On the trial the evidence was all against
jed the colonel identifying the sheep
which had been found hanging up on
Jed's back porch.
"rll have to hold you, old man, unless
you can explain how that sheep came
there, said the magistrate.
"Cain't 'splain, square, Jed answered.
SVEN got up in the mawnin' dat sheep
was jes' lynn dar. -
"And you don't know who brought it
there?"
"No, suh-'lesan de cyclone blowed it
dar."
"Aha! Lessen de cyclone blowed it dar,
eh? And did you ever see a cyclone that
could skin a Sheep"
mo, sub, l CAN'T say as l has, 'lesan
'twar dat same cyclone what peeled
Square Nason's tree and driv the straw
throo Colonel Ballentyne's wall. "
The squire pulled up his specs and
took long look at Jed, and the colonel
arose and stated that he would not prose-
cute the case further, as this was the
first cyclone that had ever blown any of
his property into Jed's possession
louisville Courier-J Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
IN OLD MADRID.

Long years ago, in Old Madrid.
Where softly signs of love the light guitar,
Two sparkling eyes lattice hill
Two eyes as darkly bright Stoves own star.
There on the easement ledge when day was
DER
A tiny hand was lightly laid;
face looked out as from the river shore
There stole tender screnade.
Rang the lovers happy song,
Light and low from shore to shore
But, ah, the river fow'd along
Between them evermore!
Come; my love, the stars are shining,
Time is flying, Love is sighing;
Come, for thee a heart is pining-
Here alone wait for thee
Far, far away from old Madrid
Her lover fell, long years ago, for Spain;
convent veil those sweet eyes hid;
And all the VOWS that love had sigh we're
vain.
But STILL between the dusk and night, its
said,
Her white hand opens the lattice wide.
The faint sweet echo of that serenade
Floats weirdly DER the misty tide,
Still she lists her lovers song,
still he sings upon the shore,
Though flows a stream than all more strong
Between them evermore.
Come, my love, the stars are shining.
Time is flying, Love is signing;
Come, for thee heart is pining-
Here alone wait for thee;
Alone wait, wait for thee,
My love, l wait for thee.
o come, my love, wait for thee;
lwait for thee, my love, for thee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
The Express Train of the Future.

Dr. Louis Bell says the electric express
train of the near future will in all prob
ability contain one or more powerful
motors on the axis of its drivers, and
aggregating perhaps 1000 horse power
as a normal output 1t will be lighted
and heated by electricity. The track
over which it will run will be straight
and smooth, like the great English
trunk lines of to-day. The train will
start smoothly into motion, fly along the
track at the rate of 100 miles an hour or
more, and stop quickly and easily by
applying its electric brakes. An auto
matte block system will be used thatwill
secure perfect control of the trains and
almost absolute immunity from COLI
sions.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
A Bird Hospital.

There is birds home and hospital in
Oxford street, London, where people can
take their pets to be nursed and cared
for. The proprietor says birds suffer
chiefly from consumption and asthma,
disea. es brought on by the birds being
placed in draughty windows. Consump'
ton is helped on by the birds being in
discriminatory fed on all sorts of things
that are unsuitable as food. Birds are
very fond of luxuries, and the more you
give them the more they will eat. When
bird is going off into a consumption it
is always eating He pointed to one and
said: "IIe is in consumption, and he
will be like ball of down tomorrow
oil pulled out. Phyoic will sometimes
arrest the disease"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
Take Care of the Pennies.

The Detroit Savings Bank has adopted
a plan which is novel in this country,
but is in use in the postal savings system
in Europe, for gathering little savings
and bringing the advantages of the bank
within easy reach of everybody. Agen-
cies are selected in various parts of the
city, such as drug stores, groceries, and
other reputable places, where adhesive
labels of different denominations and
colors, resembling postage stamps, will
be sold. Cards corresponding in color
with the labels will be furnished, upon
which the depositor will affix the labels
as they are purchased until the 20 spaces
on the cards are filled. For instance,
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Literary Collaboration,

John L. Sullivan and Ella Wheeler
Wilcox are to collaborate on novel;
Exchange.
Chapter 1.-The dainty ormolu clock
on the mantel had just chimed in sill
very tones when Algernon Percy de Viii
leford came to time looking fresh as
daisy. The match was to be to a finish,
for Ethel Vane had told him it was to be
their last meeting. Ethels father acted
rs timekeeper She did not make a
move. 1t was evidently her tactics to
wait for Algernon to force the fighting
while she played for his wind. Algernon
was foxy from the first
"Algernon, she said, after consider
able feinting, II love you. My soul
throbs with the subtle magnetism of your
presence. Oh, love, love, is it not hor-
rible thing? See how it transforms
angels into monsters and monsters into
angels. When am with you there is no
time, no eternity-nothing but you. The
sun shines that it may beam upon your
face. The stars glitter only that their
light may kiss the path that you are
treading. Do not turn your head away.
lbO you NOT uodI SdA yOu Aot ACCA
the blood that rushes through my hands,
tingling to the refrain i love you! I
love your"
Algernon came up groggy.
He spoke in monosyllables, undertake
ing a series of short arm blows. She
made gallant lead, but he countered.
"Ah-I-am -so-poor, he said.
"Were rich-but think of your family"
"What is wealth or position to me ?"
she cried.
He reached for her with both hands
for q mad embrace. He was playing for
her neck, but she caught him with
sumner over the heart
His breath came heavily; he was evil
IDENTIFY pretty well winded.
"Will you consent to brave the future
and be mine in spite of my poverty and
humble position?"
"Oh, Algernon, she murmered
She had knocked him clean over the
ropes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

The uses of sawdust are daily becom.
ing more varied. 1t has recently been
utilized for the manufacture of paper
pulp and sheathing paper. 1t has also
been discovered that fine sawdust is I'M
equaled for the dressing of wounds, and
as a vehicle for medicaments or antisep-
tics The sawdust, when freed from
splinters and sharp bits of wood and
used alone and dry, is clean and pleas
ant dressing; it readily takes up and
holds the discharges without packing or
adhering, and is readily rendered anti
septic by any of the methods used in the
preparation of antiseptic wool or cotton.
1t is suggested that the yellow pine saw
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
dust, being rich in turpentine, would
prove valuable antiseptic application.



We were married 81 years. In all that
time my wife never gave me a cross
word l shall never forget the first time
l chided her. 1t was on aSunday morn
ing, when we had been married about
two years. Ifound button off my shirt,
and threw it across the room.
"Sew button on, / said, in brutal
voice. She was Christian. She got a
button and sewed it on.
sand what did she say?" asked lit
tie bristling woman, with swapping eyes.
"She said: Forgive me; l had a great
deal to do yesterday, and forgot it, Her
gentle words almost broke my heart. 1
could have gone down on my knees to
ask her forgiveness. She made differ
emit man of me-"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

A writer in the Cor1lhW Magazine
tells characteristic story of the famous
Mrs. Fletcher, of Tancrigg, whose beau
tiful face the readers of her autobiogra-
ply will remember as immortalzed at
the age of so by the elder Richmond.
She had been very ill, but was recov-
sr,ng, when she heard that Mazzini, the
Italian patriot was in London, and
against the counsel of her friends, who
feared the journey and the excitement
for her, she determined, notwithstand-
ing her age, to go up to London and be
present at a public breakfast to be given
in his honor
"But you have no bonnet; you can not
appear in that hood, they urged.
twill have bonnet for the occasion,
was her reply; and straightway word
was dispatched to milliner in London
to have bonnet, Suitable for an old
lady of So" made and forwarded to Eus-
It's Station to meet her on her arrival by
the night train. The bonnet was made
and dispatched, and the brave old lady,
whose heart never grew old, travelled up
to town to find her bonnet in waiting.
And, said Mrs. Fletcher, "what do
you think, my dear, l found when l
opened the bonnet box? A bright yellow
satin bonnet, with a yellow lancer's
plume in It'll | was determined not to
miss Mazzini, so put it on, never looked
in the glass, went to the breakfast, and
forgot all about my bonnet for the time
being; but after breakfast I drove
straight to the milliner's, and said, l dare
say little angrily:
How could you send me such a
thing as this? asked for a bonnet for
an old lady of S0r
"'Madam,' replied the milliner, we
have no old ladies of so in London"
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AS 1t Should BE,

An Alabama correspondent sends to
the Youths Companion a school Incl
dent:
A class of boys had this sentence given
to them for corrections:
1--WE saw marble bust of Sir Walter
Scott entering the vestibule.
One of the boys handed in the follow
ing version, which bears internal evil
dence of having been made in spring
time:
Entering the vestibule, we saw Sir
Walter Scott bust a marble"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04
THE GROWTH OF CITIES.
Three Millions of Increase in Thirty -one
Cities.

Cities.
The present census will show a ire
mendous increase of population in the
United States, but the greatest aggregate
increase will be found to have been in
the large centerS of population. In the
farming districts the general tendency
has been gravitation toward the large
cities, and the complaint has been that
the Young men who are reared as agri-
cuturists no sooner secure their lndl-
vidual rights than they crowd into the
towns and leave the old folks" alone on
the farms. The vast immigration of the
past few years, while largely from agri-
cultural districts, has found the cities
more congenial as rule. The morals
of the large cities are very much lower
than those of the country, and the igno-
rant and poor and vicious that have lit
orally swarmed to the shores Of free
America have stuck to the cities like
flies about the bung hole of a sirup bar
rel.
The following table has been carefully
prepared from estimates formulated by
many different newspapers, and may be
accepted as correct. The figures show
an unprecedented growth-an aggregate
increase almost be I'D belief; and show
ing a gain of 1867, $40 in 81 towns and
cities for the 10 years just closed:
Domination
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THE BETROTHED.

"You must choose between me and your cigar"
Open the old cigar-box. get me Cuba stout
For things are running crossways, and Maggie
and are out.
We quarreled about Havanas-we fought DER
good cheroot-
And know she is exacting, and she says am
a brute.
Open the old cigar-box - let me consider
space,
In the soft blue veil of the vapor musing on
Maggie's face.
Maggie is pretty to look at-Maggie's loving
lass,
But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the
truest of loves must pass
There's peace in a Laranaga, there's calm in
Henry Clay.
But the best cigar in an hour is finished and
thrown away
Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe
and brown
But never could throw away Maggie for fear
O. the talk o the town.
Maggie, my wife at ffty-gray and dour and
old
With never another Maggie to purchase for
love or gold.
And the light Of days that have been, the dark
Of the days that are,
And Loves torch sinking ard stale. like the
butt of dead cigar.
The butt Of dead cigar you are bound to keep
in your pocket
With never a new one to light tho it's charred
and black to the socket.
Open the old cigar-box - let me consider
awhile;
Here is mild Manila there is wifely smile.
Which is the better portion-bondage bought
with ring.
Or harem of dusky beauties fifty tied in
string?
Counselors cunning and silent-comforters
true and tried,
And never one of the fifty to sneer at rival
bride.
Thought in the early morning, silence in time
of woes
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere
my eyelids close.
This will tho fifty give me. asking naugl. On
return,
With only suttee's passionate do their duty
and burn.
This will the fifty give me. When they are
spent and dead.
Five times other f1fties shall be my servants
instead.
The burrows of far-off Java, the isles of the
Spanish Main,
When they hear my harem Is empty will send
me my brides again.
/ will take no heed to their raiment, nor food
for their mouths wtthal,
So long as the gulls are nesting, SO long as the
shadows fall,
will scent 'em with best vanilla, with tea
will temper their hides,
And the Moor and the Mormon shall envy
who read of the tale of my brides.
For Maggie has written letter to give my
choice between
The wee little whimpering Love and the great
god Nick O'Teen.
And have been servant Of Love for barely
twelve month clear,
But have been Priest Of Partaga, matter Of
seven year;
And the gloom of my bachelor days is fecked
with the CHEEKY light
OF stumps that burned to Friendship and
Pleasure and Work and Fight.
And turn my eyes to the future that Maggie
and must prove,
But the only light on the marshes is the Will
ho-Wisp of Love.
Will it see me safe through my journey, or
leave me begged in the mire7
Since puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall
follow the ftful fire?
Open the old cigar box-let me consider anew
Old friends, and who is Maggie, that should
abandon your
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear
the yoke;
And woman is only woman, but a good
cigar is smoke
Light me another Cuba-I hold to my first
sworn VOWS,
If Maggie will have no rival, III have no Mag
gle for spouse!
-[Rudyard Kipling.
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"Palace In the wildsrneas.o

The name Of the present site Of the
District of Columbia or Capital of the
Nation was formerly long and heavy
Indian NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tor
Roaring Brook. When our forefathers
in Congress moved from Philadelphia
In 1900 the Capitol, then building, was de-
risively styled by those who preferred
New York or Philadelphia as the seat OF
government as the palace in the Will
derness
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-04

A German named Lilienthal, after ex-
perimenting for % years with artificial
wings, has succeeded in raising himself,
weighing 100 pounds with the aid of a
counter weight, lifting 80 pounds. How
to raise the other so pounds is still be-
yond him.