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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-05
The Railroad Commission.

The same road has been allowed a
rate on lumber from Crockett to Hous-
ton and intermediate station; 8 3-4
cents per 100 except where mileage
makes a less rate.
Authority to adopt the western
classification committees rulings
dated Chicago, October %, 1891, has
been granted to the following roads:
International and Great Northern,
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio;
Houston and Texas Central Houston;
East and West Texas; Fort Worth
and Denver City; Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe; East Line and Red River;
st. Louis and Southwestern.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

the facilities are such that iron can be
made there cheaper than anywhere
else. From the number of new fur
naces which have been put up within
a few years in Virginia and in Alabama
it is not without reason that many
thoughtful men believe that the future
seat of the iron industry is at the
South, or that capitalists are buying
coal and iron lands in that section in
anticipation of the time when they
will become immensely valuable TAX
ing into consideration the very short
time during which the South has been
actively producing iron-for even Vir-
ginia, while she was hampered for
railroads, only produced iron in a
languid sort of way-and considering
that last year the Southern output was
one million seven hundred and eighty
one thousand tons, it must be evident
that the time is not far distant when
the South will be running race with
Pennsylvania for supremacy in the
production of iron, with fair and
almost certain prospect of ultimately
curpeSSinp hnp
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Can Women Keep a Secret D.?

Every woman is not trusty any more
than is every man; but quite as many
women as men are So In truth it may
be doubted if there are not more trusty
women than there are men. Secrets are
seldom impaired to persons who do not
inspire confidence; they who tell what
they call secrets to dozens of persons,
without knowing much about the per-
sons, without forming any positive opin-
ion of their discrimination or reticence,
are not apt to have any secrets from the
entire circle of their acquaintances.
They are mere babblers, gossips, tattlers,
who try to bestow some Importance on
their communications by declaring them
to be secrets Such communications are
usually commonplace, or of so little
consequence as to make no distinct inn
preston on the mind; needing to be
labelled private, lest they be thought to
belong to the public. Besides, the COM
municators are prone to the habit of re-
peating their stories to every one they
can persuade to listen to them, and then
pronouncing them confidential To
many to whom they are thus disclosed
the stories are already familiar, and
politeness alone prevents the recipient
from Immediately saying as much.
Candor and delicacy compel these, when
informed of their confidential character,
to acknowledge that they are by no
means new. But the babblers-men for
the most part-take no notice of this.
They go their babbling round, and when
they hear their current tale, they like to
assume an injured air and to assert that
some confounded woman has betrayed
their confidence; that woman never can
keep a secret. That woman should owe
in any measure their false reputation to
such a Ounce is the best evidence of its
falsity.- Ladies' Home Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
WHOLE NUMBER, 1904.
PERSONAL NOTES.

Brete Harte has forsworn social pleas.
ures for the present, while finishing his
literary engagements
Stephen H. Tying, the once popular
New York pastor, is doing life insur-
ance business in Parif.
Richard w. Thompson, ex-Secretary
of the Navy, has been in politics since
1884 He is 50 years old.
Duchess Dues is still a millionaire,
despite the fact that she has spent mill
ions in the French royalist cause.
General Boulanger is working hard on
his book, entitled LES Vraies Coulisses.
1t is defence of the generals political
methods.
The Duke of Clarence, eldest son OF
the Prince of Wales, will shortly leave
his regiment and devote himself entirely
to public functions.
Dr. Grace Davenport, one of the five
women physicians of Texas, has been
appointed first assistant of the insane
asylum at Terrell, in that State.
Professor Metschinkow, an eminent
zoologist of Odessa, has gone to Paris to
take charge of the Pasteur Institute
there, under the direction of its founder.
Sir Robert Herbert, perm anent under
secretary at the British colonial office,
is about to resign from a position that
pays him S12 500 year, and which he
has held for twenty years.
James Pease, vino acted as General
Fremont's guide in 1946, was drowned
recently near Redwood City, Cal He
was 9S years of age and the Oldest resi-
dent of San Mateo county.
Miss Emma S. Trapper made an inves-
tigation, and found that out of SO
New York hotels visited, in 1S of them
female servants were required to sleep
in rooms under the ground.
Dom Pedro has arrived at Cologne
He is a pathetic figure, feeble, unhappy,
continually accompanied by an attend
ant, and muttering at intervals in con-
versation: Brazil, oh, dear BRAZIL"
Mrs. John A. Logan is very fond of
her duties as an editor. She told a Pitts
burg reporter the other day that her pa
per had made hit and that she was de-
lighted with her success in the Journal
istic world.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
What MuSfaclea Tell

There is great deal of character in
the mustache. AS the form of the up
per lip and the regions about it has
largely to do with the feelings, pride,
self reliance, manliness, vanity, and
other qualities that give self control, the
mustache is connected with the ex-
preston of those qualities or the re-
verse.
When the mustache is ragged and,
Us it were, flying hither and thither,
there is lack of proper self control.
When it is straight and orderly the re-
verse is the case, other things, of course,
taken into account.
If there is tendency to curl at the
outer ends of the moustache, there is a
tendency to ambition, vanity, and dis
play. When the curl turns upward
there is geniality combined with love
Of appreciation; when the inclination is
downward there is more sedate turn
Of mind, not accompanied with gloom.
1t is worthy of remark that good
natured men will, in playing with the
mustache invariably give it an upward
inclination. whereas cross grained or
morose men will pull it obliquely down.
ward. Il Northwest Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Sleep for School Children.

We all know how much greater is the
need of children for sleep than of grown
persons, and how necessary for their
good it is to be able fully to satisfy this
need; but how great it is generally at
any particular age of the child is very
hard to define exactly. The amount
varies under different climatic condi-
tions. In Sweden we consider sleep of
II or 12 hours necessary for the younger
school children, and of at least eight
or nine hours for the older ones
Yet the investigations have shown that
this requirement lacks much of being
met in all the classes through the whole
school. Boys in the higher classes get
but little more than seven hours in bed;
and as that is the average, it is easy to
perceive that many of them must con-
tent themselves with still less sleep 1t
is also evident from the investigations
that the sleeping time is diminished
with the increase of the working hours
from class to class, so that pupils of the
same age enjoy less according as they
are higher in their classes. In short the
prolongation of the working hours takes
place for the most part at the cost of the
time for sleep. Popular Science
Monthly
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

A curious fact, says the London Court
Journal is that if the hypnotized sub
ject, in state of lethargy, grasps the
north pole of a magnet he is filled with
intense joy, and sees beautiful flames
issuing from the end of the magnet; if,
however, he is connected with the south
pole he is profoundly miserable, and
usually filings the magnet away in
horror. If the north pole is placed in
his right hand and the south in his left,
he becomes entirely passive, the two cur
rents predicting entire indifference to
anything. The overexcitability of the
nervous system is such in the hypnotized
person that you can bring about all the
symptoms of poisoning by strychnine if
small quantity Of the poison in sealed
glass tube is placed on the skin in front
Of the neck. A tube containing brandy
will produce all the signs of drunken-
ness, and a tube of opium will bring
about all the symptoms of man under
the influence of that potent drug.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
A New Building Material.

A combination of sawdust and some
stuffs subjected to a pressure of about a
ton to the square inch, is thereby
squeezed into cake or plate which pos
sesses some remarkable properties. 1t is
not fire conductor, and only chars in
the immediate vicinity of the flame of
Bunsen burner. 1t can not be bored
into with gimlet nor penetrated by a
nail, but can be worked with some other
tools. The method of producing the
material was discovered several years
ago, but it is only within the last 10
months that an attempt has been made
to manufacture it on a large scale. 1t is
now being made in Germany at rate
sufficient to meet an extensive demand,
and its use is expected to become pop
ular, especially as it has great resist
i've capacity against weather action.
This new process may soon be adopted
for using up to advantage the immense
piles of sawdust made each day in our
lumber districts, though that is not now
the waste product it was thought to be
up to a few years ago, as the lumber
men now use it for fuel.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

According to the eleventh census tables
there are 35 cities in the United States,
headed by New York and failing down
to Memphis, containing over $4,000 in
habitants each. The aggregate popula-
ton of these 35 cities is 10, 316, SIS or 16t
per cent of that of the whole country.
The same cities contained 7,113, 623 in
1880, so their increase has been AZ per
cent against only 26 per cent for the
whole country during the same period.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10


Lord s"ieridle "m uni.c prn& -"g.
session OF IN, Ln.,..@,, T., Cidl,, in
the G.. 30, Lo9don, WAS opr"r. "ith an
ad,ir' from Lord toicridE'.
II slnt ch a dignii"l AMI scholarly
lar. .uare on Il n" ays have $ effect
up IN the u aases of manNind. h" ,ould
address few remaik Ks to them on public
sreaking He would first, however,
point out t at fin anguage was worth
lie unless it was founded Oh thought,
and thought had little value unless it
WIS supported by knowledge and fact.
1t is said that eloquence had left the
bar. only fingered in parliament, and
was almost leaving the pulpit But he
had listened at the bar to Sir Alexander
Cock burn, to Bethel, to Lord Cairns,
and to the greatest of all the advocates
who in his time had adorned the pro-
fession and was supreme in the art of
forensic speaking Sir William Erie,
and he had no doubt that all these great
men would agree with him in dissent
ing from that proposition so far as the
bar was concerned. Then it could
hardly be said of parliament which
still numbered Mr.. Gladstone among it's
members, and which but lately had,
either in rapt silence, or amid tempestu-
ous applause, listened to Disraeli and
Bright, that eloquence had departed
from its portals. He was fully con-
vinced that eloquence had lost none of
its power in the parliament of Great
Britain. AS to the pulpit, ne had in
past years, Sunday after Sunday, hung
upon the almost inspired lips of the
great cardinal whom all England the
other day followed to his tomb. AL
though he had himself never heard the
late Canon Liddon or the Bishop of
Peterborough, their names alone proved
that eloquence had not deserted our
churches.
No doubt it was generally true that
orators became great at the expense of
their audiences, and that no general
rules could be laid down for acquiring
the art of public speaking. But much
could be learned from the recorded ex-
perience and practice of the great orators
of the past 1t was well known that
Demosthenes and Aschines learned
every word of their speeches by heart.
Cicero did SO also, and said that the
habit of SO learning his set speeches, SO
far from incal lacitating him from speak
ing without such previous toll, enabled
him to join it'll greater efficiency in
eXtenporaneoris debates in which such
preparation was impossible Sheridan,
Ersline, Bright, and Disraeli, all pre-
pared t!eir speeches ad unguem. So
did the late Lori Derby, Lord Lynd-
hurst, Brougham, and George Canning.
But when the whole speech was not SO
learned, various degrees and kinds of
preparation We're resorted to. Some
orators prepared their exordium; others
their peroration. One orator-the
Irish Lord P!unket-followed singular
method He prepared eight or nine
great passages for his speech, which he
finished to the utmost, and then he
trusted to the rush and fervor which
they inspired to carry him over the level
ground which was intermediate between
them, A good friend of his own had
told him that he never attempted to be
eloquent, but simply put the most sal
lent points of his case. He had fou'
his friends precept more instruc'iv
than his example Il London Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Iron Industry of Pennsylvania and tho
South.

South.
One of the most noteworthy facts of
the present census is the growth of
the iron industry within the past ten
years. In 1880 the total output of
pig-iron was less than four million
tons. In 18 90 it had increased to oven
nine and half million tons. Penn
sylvania is credited with 4.712 ,511
tons of this product, or fony-nine and
nineteen-huudredths per cent. of the
whole. Ohio follows next on the list,
and after her Alabama. which in ten
years. as the Phila 'elphia Times points
out, has jumped from the tenth to
the third place." while Missouri, which
at one time was believed to be the
coming rival of Pennsylvania, and
whose iron mountain was thought to
offer an incNhauStible supply of ore,
has declined to the twelfth place.
That Pennsylvania still produces
nearly One-half of the total supply is
owing to fortunate concurrence of
circumst ances. Without the discov
cry of natural gas, which has enabled
her materially to cheaper production,
she could not al this day compete with
the forgcS of the State of Alabama by
reason of the fact that she is compelled
to draw her ores for mixing from long
distances, while the Southern furnaces
have all the ma erials for making iron
clustering closely about them. Their
only drawback is the longer haul to q
market. Even as it is, they have be-
gun to make such inroads into the
Eastern markets, where Pennsylvania
had a monopoly, that the latter has
been compelled to call upon The rail-
roads to lower the rates of tranSpOrta-
ton, and to preserve this important
traffic it is reported that the railroads
have either agreed or are about 10
agree to make that important ceS$iOn.
The mere act Of calling for cheaper
transport alton shows that the Pcnnsyl-
Vania iron masters are beginning to
feel the inc easing c0rlpe itjon. and
that although this competition is vet
in its infancy, the South is destined
within zen yeas to receive large o.d'rS
from the East which are now fit. d
from Pennsylvania forgcs. 1t is,
moreover, a serious question as to hcw
long the supply Of natural PaS VIII
hold ont, Already the P"nrs l"aniI
Natural Gas Company. which cont $
the larger part of the natural gas field
in that Safe. have incICa""d the ?. leo
to private consumers, and the best en-
rerts dnclac thai ii is only ma; ter Of
time as t. when the sunu'y will be en-
a Sted | is tue I tier AZ other
natua Il! gaS ( eds in Ohio and Iu'iana,
but if tho Penn. .ylvania supply were
exhausted il would ci hcr force the
iron ma astcis to fall back on coal, or to
remove thcir plant to Il Ohio or Indi-
ana ca. iicldS or to tho South, where
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Music by Electricity.

Electricity has not been practically
applied in the art of music heretofore,
except, perhaps, in the operating mech
anism of church organs. George Breed,
of the United States navy has devised a
method by which the passage of a
broken current over conductor in a
magnetic field produces musical tones Of
varying pitch and volume.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1891.

is a tradition in England that the origi-
nal song was directed at Oliver Crom-
Doodle. While no one, of course, will
claim high standard Of excellence for
either the tune or the words of Yankee
Doodle, all this is forgotten when we
recall that it was the march that inspired
the heroes of Bunker Hill, and that
humbled Lord Cornwallis. : Mary L. d.
Ferris, in The New England Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
A RAINBOW FoUNDATION.

Once a spider built II cobweb on rainbow
bright and gay,
Tor ste thought its brilliant colors would en-
tice her lawful prey.
u. alas! The sun descended and the bright
how was no more,
And ne weeping webless spider was left
omeless as before.
" after this" heard her mutter to herself
"l'ii be content
With foundations not so snowy, but more firm
and Hcrmanent!"
--lAmos r. Wells.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

The Barking sands" of the
Hawaiian group, as described by o
recent scientific investigator, are found
in luncS and are apparently fragments
of shell and coral, which, when dis
turbed slide down the slopes of the
dunes, emitting deep bass note not
unlike the buzz of saw in planning
mill
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

One of the pensioners of the war of
1912, in Maine, was not born until nearly
a year after her late husband had served
in that war.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

Flour has lately taken a rise, but
the probability is that housewives
will have to use as much yeast as ever.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
FOR SALE.

+ OFFER at PRIVATE SALE my HOUSE
L on Main street, adjoining Christ. Fishers.
For terms inquire of
June7 Mrs. MARY HARTMAN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Yankee Doodle came to town
Upon Kentish ponyi
He stuck a feather in his hat,

In other versions the second line runs,
"Rding on pony, and Upon little
pony" The small plume worn by the
militia in the front of their caps was
called in derision "macaroni. There
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

There is a young man who sails q
steamer from Lordon to Alexandria,
whose nam" is VIII Clay. and he is
married. The name of his wife is
Mabel; for Arthur Nane, having
" found a man" knew how to make
him all his own.
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-19
THE MARKETS

CHICAGO, Sept n
rrors-oufss Spring Wheat Patents.
e.bSbn75. bakers, ts0lat -; Winter Wheat
bipns Patents. ssoo1s Is. stfaishis ~ tbs 90
wHssT-Rslss active and prices higher.
No . cash sna septsmpsr. sssQTAo: psoem-
Der. ssAcsssIOot.. and Msy. ei.osk3iV.
Cosx~was fairly active and lower, No.
ard Nc. yellow. sssesse. No. 3. s3Sas<,sc;
No. yellow. Ssas5lso; September. ssH0
Esc. ocsober. sib1s5ae. Year. ssHGst<o;
bay. sss No iass
oars Firmer. No. scash. svAas7Ys; Sep
tsmtcs. nun &C; October. TtsSe7 No. May. 3k
sasf1 Samples easier No 4 971sshc; No. .
White. ~ jsl1ss,se, No. q 2sAc, No. White.
ejssc.
Hvn-was FIRM and trade fair No Q cash.
es&c. September. ssl1s5sc; October. y,tfssc.
usnLkv- steady Tor good bariey and easy FOE
common. Choiee 70 fne. tstssc. fair 10 good.
4s9sds. sommon. ssetsc. and low grade nm
so,ssf efssse.
Arss roHK-~Trsdinx caiy moderate and
prices hiKhsf. Prices ranged at sio.ydsssio. 10
for cash go No 81 ~ Tor September; ef0 no
ios Zoe October. Oh ssl 70 - fof December.
shi 81 Dbfs s9's Tor JsHnary.
LsHt- hsrset moderately active and prices
higher. Quotations ranged a, eTssts % foe
cash. - SUI sa ~. for september. ~ s,S1sD
fof octshsr and s.0ol5.0sY for January.
portauv Live Csiekens ii1ii1s per 10. .
Live Turkey. s1iee PEE IA live Ducks s0ioe
per u. 1--we Geese. samoa ~ per dossn.
fsHTvss Creamery. itssas; pairy. isoos;
pss<ins Stock. tfsJtse.
ou,- Wisconsin, Prime White. 80. Water
whss. So. Mlehisan rrlms White. esc
Wnsss white io<s. fssisos Prime white.
20. Water White. loo. Headlight us test
$50. Gasoline. ~ dss'r ise. n drx's. size.
i.fQroaa f,issillsf spirit. f-mAia nrs 90
~ sa2s ef p ~ per ssi fog anishsd xooda
Telegram-herald., 1891-09-19
RAGING PRAIRIE FIRES
Acres Swept By Planes in North
Dakota AID Minnesota
4 caEn DESTRUCTION OF GRlly
Tksasssd's ~ Acres Harmed oys<-Dis-
astxssS Ts<~s IA wts~sssis Ssrssss
ssd CFsas~F<y MsfsAes-in-
nsAss Damage 8essitA

ST. Pxrr, MINI. Sept fa-nspateh-
- from . nambeF Of points IN the
Dor1A vest rsport serious prairie fires
raging near Lissoa. ~ D. The wheat
from nearly thousaad acres Of land
belonging 20 adjoining farmers has
b~sn destroyed and the flames are
spreading Ia noFshszsteriy direction
All the thrsshtng crews are fighti az
namea Near wilmer. Nina. nres have
been raging for several days and in
drief-oat marshes have burned 10 .
depth Of aud feet The heat Of the
last toar days has caused the extreme
6rynsss. and makes IL difficult 70 cope
with the flames when once started Or
dlnsry dye breaks are Of little use
CussssLAsp. Wis, sept is-Foress
fires are raginR Ia she country tmnsai-
atsly south and In plain sight Of the
city, and . strong south wind prevails
Several fsrmhousss and barns, two
woodyarsls near the Omaha track and
. large amcuns Of other property have
been burned Men are now fighting
IA. flames. and there IL much a7pre-
tension In this city. The village Of
Psrisy was almost wiped out Of exist
sBss By nrs Thursdsy.
ToNAa. Via, Sept IA most dis
n.trous hrs h raging In sbe cranberry
marshes between Valley Junction and
Norway Ridge. The Gre originated on
The MilIs marsh from an old forest Gre
that had been smoidcring the last three
~esxA Famed by brisk gale from
a 81 -
sOnd control al the buildings on Tay-
4or's marsh. including warehouses filed
with harvested berries, were quickly re-
tueei. The flames eousinuiag Ia q
southsssteriy direction. swseping
evsrythlng In their path Berry
picksrs ran. leaving their tents and
requirements W the pursuing names.
The railroad track was soon crossed.
and still onward swept the fire at .
fearful rate Between twenty five
and thirty square miles of marsh
have been consumed. and the fire
shows no signs Of sbatemsnt-
What the loss will reach IL impossi-
Die TO estimsts. Thousands Of dollars
worth have already been sacrificed.
hen from miles about are On the
grounds TO fight the fire. but their eff
forts are unavsiling. Rain IL the only
salvation. but as present there arc no
indications Thousands of acres are
still before the IRE. and unless some
Unforeseen event occurs they will fur
nish food for the hungry flames
AREASsAs CRY. Kan. sept is
Thursday the Chiliocco Indian schools
narrowly escaped being burned by a
prairie Gre. Wednesday tho pass south
was set on nrs by campers. The wind
drove the flames toward the school res
crvstinns A. soon ~ the fire reached
th. school lands about 200 Indian pu-
pills and more than that number Of hay
makers turned out 70 fight the fire.
They worked all night and all day
Thursday. The flames wero got under
control aud finally put out.