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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
TOO MUCH KINDNESS.
How Honest ScOtchman Learned
American Customs.

American Customs.
A canny Scotchman who keeps a little
shop for the sale of his national products,
wet and dry, not thousand miles from
Ann street, New York, tells a good one
on himself.
His place is a sort of headquarters for
the officers of the State and National
line steamships when they are in port,
and they often bring their fellow country
men here for an hours chat in the little
basement Office, with the dumb waiter
running handily up to the place where
they brew hot water and lemon peel.
One day a raw specimen was one of
the guests. He had just come over, and
groceries could be got in foreign place.
He was not used to the American style
of treating, and when the proprietor
passed box of cigars to him he thanked
him politely and declined.
"Go on, said the proprietor, enooufag-
ingly, "help yourself. 1t won't cost you
a penny"
Won't cost me penny?" said the
stranger, wonderingly.
"Not at all, mon. It's the custom of
the country"
"Weel, weel, who'd a thocht it? This
is too much kindness.
And the big hand of the stranger closed
around half the cigars in the box. AS the
bunch went into his pocket a laugh went
up from the steamship officers. The pro-
prietor acknowledged that the drinks
were on him, and the innocent stranger
went away with very high regard for
country so filled with kindness.-[New
York Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
A Very Good Definition.

A little New York boy, Tommy Knick-
erbocker, whose father is prominent
club man, was studying his lesson not
long since. The little boy was very much
puzzled over his lessons and finally he
asked his pa:
"Pa, what does the word 'pretext'
mean?"
Don't bother me, said his father, who
was reading newspaper; but his mother
spoke up and said sweetly:
"When your father says he has to go to
the club on important business, that is
pretext to get away from his family"
Tommy jotted down the definition and
read it out in school, thereby causing a
sensation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
"Is It Catching7"

Why should intelligent persons, az II
they were parrots, adopt and utter Ger.
tain phrases and exclamations? I sat
by Mrs. Blank (her husband is a clergy
MANI in the street car few days ago,
and after we had exchanged greetings
said: "My cousin Angeline sails from
Liverpool to-day" "Is that sol" said
Mrs Blank. "Yes," said, rallying as
we'll as could, for this reply takes all
the spirit from me, "and she is always
very ill on the ocean" "Is that sol"
said Mrs. Blank again. A pause fol.
lowed. How can ono continue to pay
out the coin of conversation If not even
the interest comes back7
was glad to get out of the car and
meet pretty Amy Dexter. had a bit
Of news for her. Amy Is in the high
school, and ! told her at once that Miss
Cummins, who taught her botany last
year, is to be married soon. us that
sol" returned Amy. I love Amy, but
do not like "Is that sol" and hastened
on to get out of its way; but as went
along Frank Sullivan overlook me, and
will you believe that when I asked
Frank il Mr. Stockton had really prom
ised to answer the question "The Lady
or the Tiger1" he exclaimed, "Is that
sol"
Later in the day I told Mr.. Emory
that his playing Of the organ last Sum
day had been much complimented, and
he smiled and murmured, as that aOl"
-lBest Things
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
Steamship Schedules.
a +. L "A N IL N f.
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.

THE most direct and cheapest route for
South and West wishing to visit their native
country.
The most convenient line for parties wish
the old country.
Steamship Nova ScOtian. Capt. r. HUGHES
Peruvian. Capt. J. q. STDPHEN
" Siberian. Capt. r. p. MOORE
Caspian. Capt. A. MCDoUGALL
Baltimore to Liverpool ana
QMeettstO,cn. calling at
HatifttE EACH sDay.
These tirst-class screw Steamships will run
regularly between the above pointsas follows:
From Baltimore and Liverpool
EVERY OTHER TUESDAY,.
Steerage aSSage
To or from Liverpool, Queenstown Belfast
Londonderry, Bristol, Cardiff, or Glasgow
Scandinavian and Continental points, at low
est rates
Very Best Accommodations for Steerageand
intermediate Passengers.
An experienced Surgeon is attached to each
vessel
Intermediate and Steerage Stewardesses car
ried by each Steamer for the purpose of at
tending to the wants of females and children.
For further particulars or Passage Tickets
apply to A. SCH UMACHER & CO.,
No. 5South Gay street, Baltimore,
Or in Frostburg to w C. WRIGHT,
at the office of the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vBnia railroad company, Frostbnrg, Md.
Nov
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
A Trif1e SuspIcious.

arrived in a small town in Kentucky
late at night with three other men and
when we reached the hotel two of us
were assigned to room. The one l got
had two beds in it, however, and was
not disposed to find fault My room
mate seemed to be suspicious sort of a
chap and when I tumbled into bed, with
a good night to him, he scarcely deigned
reply. l was asleep in 10 minutes,
but two hours later awoke to find him
still sitting in his chair and wide awake.
"Hellol What ails you?" 1 asked.
Nothing"
Troubled with insomnia2"
"No."
"sleep all day'"
HNo."
Afraid of me?"
ITO be honest with you, stranger, I
am, he admitted.
"That seems funny. Do look like a
theft"
mo, you don't: but have done some
figuring in this You gave the landlord
your wallet and watch, didn't your"
"Yes.
well, there's more value than he has
probably ever seen before. He'll skip
with your stuff before daylight"
"Welll"
sand then you'll have to rob me to
get on. Stranger. I'm man as don't
never take no chances. I've got re-
volver here. and the first move you make
to get out Of bed I'll plug youl"
II can turn over, can't II"
"Yes, but be powerful careful about
it, for I'm up to snuff.
turned over and went to sleep again,
and when morning came his moving
around awoke me. I tried to joke him,
but he was sour and morose and wouldn't
take it When we went down stairs 1t
was to find the colored help sitting in
the early sun, with no move toward
breakfast
"Whats the matter3" asked.
MARS - has dun gone an loft de
place in de night, and dar's nobody to
boss!" was the reply.
My room mate had figured "right
smart
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
p.lmy Days OF counterfsitine.

Counterfeiters now have at their dis
posal every facility which the Govern
ment has. Their engravers are as skillful
as the Government engravers. The only
defense has been in the use of special pa
per, containing hair lines, but now this
defense has gone, for the special paper
used by the counterfeiters in the bills just
brought to light is as good as that turned
out by the two mills in Massachusetts, un-
der Government control. The counter
felt has the same delicate thread running
lengthwise, which is discernible only by
the aid of the microscope.-[Chicago
News,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30

However, your looks will assist you
pcnniless? can hardly believe that"
"Well-a small annuity-yes, l have
something, but it will not last forever,
and in the meantime must try my luck
i'll profession.
Mr. Arnold turned over his papers aud
c lis with his left hand, while keeping
tne handkerchief to his face with his
right
"Ah-what can you do? Sing?"
Miss Lamont shook her head.
"There's very nice part waiting to be
filled up, but it requires two songs. That
wouldn't do. Here is an ingenue part at
Islington-old theater, but good pay.
Will you read me something? l must
know what you can do, you know"
Miss Lamont's courage did not desert
her A ragged Shakespeare lay on the
table. Blushing, she took it up and de-
claimed Portia' speech. Mr. Willoughby
Arnold thoroughly interested and pleased,
let his handkerchief fall in the middle.
Miss Lamont almost screamed. Through
her brain rushed this sentence:
Remember, he can be identified any
markable-directly under the nose.
Il beg your pardon, she exclaimed,
letting the book fall, II am a little nerv-
GUS, l suppose. Do you think I shall
do?"
Willoughby, who was now attacked
by very intense coughing. signified his
pleased surprise at her reading.
You might do very well. lean make
an appointment here with Arden, the
old mankind, and all that-any time
you like"
Miss Lamont was of course very CRATE
full
Fee. please, said Mr. Willoughby as
she turned to go.
"Oh. | didn't know How much 2"
"A guinea" replied Mr.. Digby. whoap-
pcared at the door to escort her out to
office number two, and thence to office
loughby?"
"Premum:" said Miss Lamont, look
ing from the one to the other.
"Of course. We ask a premium of 10
guinras on every appointment made
You see we have to do this. SO many I'M
conscientious people going round"
Then. if l pay the premium you arc
sure to get the manager here to meet me
Mr.. Ar,len?"
ooh, certain" replied the suffering
Willoughby.
We'll, if you don't mind, said Miss
Helen Lamont, smilinGly opening her
purse, I'll just pay the fee this morn
ing. and see you again about the prem
ium. | can easily come in again.
With that she departed and she took Il
strange direction for SO pretty IA young
lady, for she went straight to Scotland
Yard
Il have found him. said she. Il tried
eleven theatrical agents, and he was the
eleventh. There can be no mistake He
has cough and cash under his nose. "
Next day about o'clock Nh Willough-
by Arnold, of Garrick street, alias a good
many other people, and notorious for
ger and embezzler, was quietly waited
upon by an arm of the law. The cough
was partly natural and partly assumed.
and the fiat in Garrick street was soon
shorn of two of its occupants.
ITO think, reflected Austin, the smil-
ing clerk, "that that pretty girl was only
detective, after all"
And capital business Miss Lamont
has found it, although occasionally try
ing. She has been uniformly successful,
however, and is shortly to issue a volume
containing her experience.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
The Historic Nile.

The Nile is remarkably different
stream now from what it was in the days
of the ancient Pharaohs. Its waters are
still wanted for making the land of Egypt
fertile each year, but they can no longer
be depended upon, at least not to the ex-
tent desired. During three months of the
twelve the river does not flow into the
Mediterranean at all, and the department
of public works is engaged on the ques-
ton of storage reservoirs which will hold
back some of the surplus water at flood
time and let it out more leisurely as
needed by the agriculturist. But sur
vey shows it to be impracticable to store
water north of the first cataract, and the
government design for building dam at
Philoe at cost of $3,640,000 would only
give one third of the water wanted, while
it would involve the submergence of the
ruins at that point.-[Chicago Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
TWENTIETH YEAR-NO. 36.


Twas but a moment. Long enough to recl
The grateful presence of her quiet grace
And at her bcauty's shrine moment kneel
TO mark the sweetness of her gentle face.
70 catch a glance from ont her downcast eyes
A fleetng light of violet, more rare
Than all the Colors of the summer skies.
That but moment fingered futtering there.
A moment. Then she vanished; yet to stay
Within my memory as some distant strain
Of music. rising slowly, dies away,
But fingers yet when all is still again;
Or as a dream that fits across the mind
When care is bound by all-forgetting sleep
FOO soon will vanish, but yet leave behind
gentle sweetness that the senses keep.
II fate had been but kinder. Who can tell
Our paths had been the same, and hand in
hand
Together we had wandered DER the fell
And crossed the border of the unknown land?
We met to meet no more. Upon the sea
OF life we pass like ships. A moment seen,
A signal shown, a shout thrown cheerily-
Then darkness, waves and distance stretch
between.
Il Bonneville Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
WHOLE NUMBER, 1924.

ways repeated at the same spot. Plan
chette will perform such feats, however,
only after it has become thoroughly do
mesticated, so to say; and Of course one
of the persons handling the instrument
must be medium Whatever that may
mean. About one person in five, accord
ing to my observation, has more or less
of this faculty, and one out Of twenty
will have it in marked degree.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30

Creasy's is decisive battles are: Mara
thon, B. c. 400; Syracuse, B. c. 413;
Arbela, B. c. 331; Metaurus, B. C. 2O7;
Teutoberg, A. D. 9; Chalons, 451; Tours,
1882; Hastings, 1866; Orleans, 1929; the
defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1888;
Blenheim, 1704; Pultowa, 1909; Sara
toga, 1777; Valmy, 1892; Waterloo, 1915.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30
A Misunderstanding.

Yabsley-What was the nature of the
misunderstanding between you and
Vickars?
Mudge-The Misunderstanding was all
on my side. l understood that Vickars
was man who could be kicked with im-
punity.-[ indianapolis journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30

A Cinnamon who died rec .nlly IA.
Portland, Ore, left property valued
5000, 900
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-30

son theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of performance.
All trains stop mt Hays street station, Cum
berand.
Nos. |, :, 3 and 4dally except Sunday. Nos. .
and Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
l.. NJ. HAMILTON,
Feb 2S Superintendent.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
British Grain Trads.

LONDON, Nov. 9-The Mark Lane Ex-
press in its weekly review of the British
grain trade says best English is Is I'd
dearer and inferior new crop is Is better in
price. Foreign wheats are Is higher for
Russian and Is higher for other sorts.
Private advices from ST. Petersburg. under
date of November s. say it is likely that an
export duty will be imposed on wheat from
January to July l, 1892.
A large business has been done in Ameri-
can corn at about 2s advance to-day. There
was strong upward tendency. The market
was well attended despite the lord mayors
show. English wheat maintained the re-
cent rise Advances in foreign wheats in
clude Russian and Australian Is cd; Cali
fornian and Indian Is higher, and winter
and Chillan Cd. English and Russian -four
advanced Is, and American was I'd higher.
All sorts Of barley was Is dearer. Price OF
oats was maintained at 22s per quarter.
Corn was I'd dearer; many holders demand
2s advance. Peas were firm. Rye beans
were I'D higher,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
JOY CAME FROM SORROW.
TRAGEDY AND ROMANCE OF THE
CARS WEDDING.
He Slew His Elder Brother by Accident
and Then Married the Dead Mans
Promised BrIde-The Union
Has Proved Happy.

The preparations now being made
throughout Russia for the celebration of
the silver wedding of the car and czarina
recall to mind the singularly sad circum
stances under which it was contracted
No wonder that the massive and striking
features OF Alexander Ill are often dark
ened by gloomy and unhappy expression.
For his marriage followed one tragedy
and his accession to the throne another
Of the latter II is unnecessary for me to
speak here. for the circumstances of the
terrible assassination of Alexander IL, the
Liberator Of the Serfs just ten years ago,
are still SO fresh in peoples minds that it
would be superfluous to reiterate the ia,
nliliar details of the catastrophe OF the
cad events which led to the present EN-
peror's marriage. however far less is
known.
The czarlna was the Observation-Disclosures
the widow of Alexander HIPS elder
brother, Nicolas. The latter died on the
eve of the date appointed for his marriage
from the effects of blow struck during
the course of some rough horseplay by the
present emperor. Husband and wife met
for the first time at the deathbed OF the
Czarowitz Nicolas. who was brother of
the one and the fiance of the other A little
more tRaR a year afterward their wedding
s1a0PStace at st. PETERSBURG
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
THEY KEEP IT UP,
The Bears Continue to Depress
the Stock Market.
MONEY CLOSES AT 8 PER CENT.
Stocks Decline from Is to Per Cent,
and the Bulls are Unable to Bring
About a Reaction - Silver is
Higher-Berlin Influences.
Commercial Resume.

Special to the Gazette
NEW YORK. Nov. 9-Money closed
at 3 per cent. the lowest rate; the highest
was Z.
Exchange-Steady. Posted rate 81 Sig
S415
Silver-9514
Wheat-Options fairly active and firm,
closing 34@1sc higher. Spot lots closed
firm.
Wool-Dull but steady Spring Texas,
10000.
Cotton-Spot lots quiet; middling SIC.
Futures closed steady.
Cofee-Spot lots quiet. Fair Rio car
goes, 151ac. Futures closed firm.
Hides-Steady. Buenos Ayres dry, 1900
1896. Dry Texas, l0C9l2c.
Stocks moderately active and weak this
morning. There were frequent rallies but
they did not hold, owing 10 the bear rallies,
and at noon figures were at or near the
lowest point. Northern Pacific preferred
and Jersey Central were specially sold out
by the bears and hammered without stint.
Under their lead figures were down Is to
pa per cent. The market continued weak
during the afternoon on heavy selling and
the unfavorable outlook in Berlin. A
financial cable was the chief cause of
selling. Prices closed at the lowest point
The decline ranged from Is to per cent
Sales 81, $50 shares.
Atchison. 4016.
The dry goods market to-day active, with
prices about steady.
Bonds-Dull.
Fort Worth and Denver Is. 100
Atchison general mortgage As, S22I.
Atchison incomes, 6l15.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 2'S, 43.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rs. IS.
ST. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Is, 70
Texas and Pacific Is, 50.
Texas and Pacific Us, %.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
The Stock Market.

New YORK, Nov. 9.-The stock market
to-day was more active than usual of late,
and at the same time remained weak from
opening to the closing, no rally of impor-
lance resulting even when the selling
pressure was removed temporarily. The
active list therefore is materially lower
than at the close of Saturday. The efforts
of the bears were confined to a few stocks
and important losses are all among those
shares. The market in general was in
tiuenced by the foreign situation to-day,
more than domestic at1airs and the bears
made the greatest use of disturbances in
Berlin to press prices. and the street was
alive with alarming rumors. none of which
had any real foundation.
Selling by foreigners was not so marked
to-day, and the bulk of offerings were for
the short account. Important losses in
clude Northern Pacific preferred 2, New
York Central q, Northern Pacific ~,
Northwestern, Lake Shore, Louisville and
Nashville and Wabash preferred 81, and
Western Union and Erie, each per cent.
Railroad bonds, steady.
Government bonds, dull and steady.
State bonds, dull and steady.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10

It is impossible to conceive a greater CON
trast than that which existed between the
two brothers. who were exceedingly fond of
each other Nicolas the elder bore a
striking resemblance to his beautiful
mother. He possessed the same delicate.
clear cut and refined features and the
same slender, elegant and graceful figure.
His physical graces were on a par with
those of his mind Witty, clever and
sparkling, his kindly eplgrams and his
charming verses remain to this day as an
illustration of his brilliancy of intellect
He was an ideal lover and under the cir
cumstances it was not astonishing that his
betrothed, Princess Dagmar of Denmark,
the younger sister of the Princess of
Wales, should have been passionately
devoted to him
While the education of Nicolas was al
most entirely foreign. that of Alexander
was left to Russians, his principal tutor
having been the fanatical and bigoted
PobiedonostZew, who. today, as procurator
general of the holy synod, is the moving
spirit Of all the Jewish and Catholic perse
cutions Cncomely and uncouth rs a lad
surly tempered and dull witted, Alexander
experienced the treatment of the ugly
,duckling, and was perpetually being
Sighted not alone by his own family, but
even<Ay the court dignitarIes and officials.
yin favor n his elder and far more popular
NEother, and< can well remem Der the dis
assseahle surpFtss and widespread appre
hensSn which was<yeated both IN Russia
and ah<oad when it Nas realized that he
had bec5As heir apparel, to the crown of
Betrothal n. the Greehchurch is not
mere engagement>i in the hanner that An
glo-Saxons UNDERESTIMATE, but a solemn
ceremony performed in church and almost
as binding and important as that Of mar
rage itself 1t was not, therefore, as mere
iancee but almost as wife that Princess
Dagnar was summoned in all haste from
Copenhagen to Nice late i'll the spring Of
1865 to attend the deathbed of her i'm
perial lover Her grief was intense. and
she only parted from the medallion con
tanning her dead lovers hair and portrait
which she wore around her throat when
she donned her wedding dress on the day
of her marriage to Alexander Ill The
latter, too. appeared during the whole
period preceding the wedding to see his
dead brothers specter arising perpetually
between himself and the fair lady whom
the exigencies Of national politics-but not
love-required that he should lead to the
altar as his bride. For during the entire
courtship-if courtship. indeed. it can be
called-he avoided ever being en- tete-a
tete with the princess or even meeting her
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
FIRE AT GIDDlNGS.
The Explosion of a Gasoline Stove Results
in the Destruction of Six Bush
ness Houses.
Special to the Gazette.


G1DDINGs, LEE COUNTY, TEX, Nov. O.
Late last night six business houses were
destroyed. The fire was caused by gaso-
line stove exploding in Jones' restaurant.
Five two-story brick houses and one frame
house were destroyed. The total loss is
SIS, $50; assurances, $40, 400.
w. II. Jackets saddle shop, loss not
il own. Insurance on stock. $1,000; none on
house.
William Rise, undertaken, loss, SIC, 600;
no insurance.
]. A. Fields & Co., drug store, loss, 5000:
insurance, 5000.
Paul Mirschner. furniture, loss about
5000, insurance $2700
H. Bluman, merchant, loss on stock IN
known. insurance 5000.
H. Harris, merchandise. loss on stock,
5000, insurance $4,000.
]. A Fields, household goods and three
brick houses, loss about $40, GEO.
II. Kimpner, one brick house, insurance
$1,000.
A. Owstrocki, one brick house, insurance
s27OO.
The county treasurer's safe was in the
Harris house, and it cannot be ascertained
whether the money and papers were de-
stroyed or not, as the walls fell in on it.
There is about 5000 in the safe.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10

were derailed. Six panels of the track
were torn up The culvert was badly dam
aged. Thel tender box was badly
broken. The brake beams were knocked
of. The bed of the tank was badly
smashed. The coaches were unhurt. No
one was injured. The train was running
about eighteen miles an hour against
norther and rain; George Thorne, conduc-
tor, Joe Hampton, engineer. Monday
morning the passengers were transferred
around the wreck. The track Is now re-
paired, and trains are running all right.