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Evening journal., 1891-01-10
BALTIMORE & OHIg
RAILROAD.

Schedule in effect Noyesnber is 1890.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE E AY. DEPOT
EAST BOUND.
Express trains.
NEW YORK. week da7s. 2is, glo, s75
40 II N, Vi 10 = IS, % So. y 3sp "a.
BOSTON, IS &. pm daily, with Puilr an buffet
sleeping cars running through TO Boston y tn
passenger In y; q NJ. station, Boston
PHiL-AsdDELlPHIA, u Al y I. y 4, week days, 13 800,
10 s. III 10 a. m; si2 IL. 100. y Is, sO5 sYS %
5 g . 52, as, z 36, 8 l5. q IL, 10 y m
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CHESTER Z q wssk dsyS 4 = .sl $50 &c :5lO
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8 80, 20 II. 10 COP IN.
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= 40 m. Sundays ) z 70 a m Y q p m,
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. "A 50
20 9 .: 40 IS g. m; IL 10 2 10 2 IS % O6.
BALrfMoRE and Way Stations. 20 m.
Baltimore and principal stations on hila-
delphta Division. 10 IS a. M. both daily.
NEW ARK, DEL, a SO. Z 20, IS As. *l0 35 a m,
AZ IL, 50. Is o. 40 * 81 IS OT. Il 10 m daily
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S1NGERLY Accom- 7 0a m.
90 40and II 10 p. M. daily.
LANDkNBERG ACCOMMODATION, week
Gays, . ~, 10 -, q, ~. 2f5 and O6 p N. n
DAYS ~ a. m. and O6 p. m.
TRAINS LEAVE MARKET ST. STATIC N.
For Philadelphia week days, 5 Is, 90, y 81
~ 20, Fpa6, III IS, m. ~ ~, rs. S65. W D. m.
Sundays. 8 20 m; II 43 3 IS. 5 00p. m.
For Baltimore, week days, 90, so IS 90
10 30, III 80 a. m. 4F, IS 90 .. N. Sundays,
800 p m.
Baltimore and principal stations on Phils-
delphia Division, 10 30 a. m, daily, exc, pit
Sunday.
For Landenberg and way stations, wee
days, 8 90, 10 30, .. m; As, 20 m. SUM-
days. 25 m: 3 90 pm.
Chicago. $50 m. daily. except Sunday;
- 90 D IN. lily.
Pittsburg, +5 90 N daily.
Cincinnati and st, Louis, +lI.35, a. M, daily
except Sunday
Lv. PHILADELPHIA FOR wIL9TTr GTON
Weekdays. f424, 'aO5. SIS. 7si. 1915 8 40 40 90
l0r5, III 35 q. m, u 90 noon Fl 40 .I51 IS 200
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III 35a m, l2 o. noon. %. 400 "A 81 435, tbO5,
$50, :. S2, 10, l0l0 and II 30 p. n.
Telephone, k1 1888
Rates 10 Western Points lower than via any
other line. g. O. SCULL Gen.l Pass Agent
J. T. ODEl l.. General Manager
Evening journal., 1891-01-10

A newspaper without a head never did
amount to much What the Philadelphia
Press seems to want above everything
else is an editor Philadelphia Inquirer
And Charles Emory smith is several
Thousand Miles away
Evening journal., 1891-01-10

Nebraska is in strange dilemma
Three men claim TO be governor Of the
state. Under ordinary circumstances
one governor is sufficient for any state
and Nebraska. has the sympathy of the
people of the United States
Evening journal., 1891-01-10

0f priests we can offer charming variety.
Far renowned for learning. and piet,:
sun, ID advance ye, without fmproprietv
our rather Flynn Is the flower Of theui rare
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
California In 40.

In November or December of 1910,
SAYS General John Bidwell, in the Nov
ember Century, while still teaching
school in Platte county, | came across
Frenchman named RoubideauX, who
said he had cen to California. His de-
scription was in the superlative degree
favorable, so much so that l resolved If
possible to see that wonderful land, and
with others helped to get up a meeting
at Weston, and invited him to make Il
statement before it in regard to the
country.
At that time when a man moved out
West, as soon as he was fairly settled he
wanted to move again, and naturally
every question imaginable was asked
in regard to this wonderful country.
Roubideaux described it as one of per-
ennial spring and boundless fertility,
and laid stress on the countless thou
sands of wild horses and cattle. He
told about oranges. and hence must
have been at Los Angeles, or the mis-
sion of San Gal ricl, q few miles from it,
Every conceivable question that we
could ask him was answered favorably.
Generally the first question which
Mssourian asked about country was
whether there was any fever and ague.
] remember his answer distinctly. He
said there was hut one man in California
that had ever had a chill there and it
was a mater of 50 much wonderment
to the people of Monterey that they
went IS miles into the country to see
him shake. Nothing could have been
more satisfactory on the score Of health.
lie said that the Spanish authorities
We're most friendly, ard that the people
were the most hospitable on the globe;
that you could travel all over California
and it would cost you nothing for horses
or food Even the Indians were
friendly. His description of the country
made it seem like Paradise
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Suwanee Fitted the Line.

The following story is published by a
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press.
Did you ever hear how 'Suwanee
River was written?"
"Dont think l ever did.
"Well, Steph. Foster - Stephen G
Foster, was his full name-was in the
zenith of his popularity when he wrote
the Words" said my friend to me. "He
had written the song in the frame house
on Sandusky street, in Allegheny, but
he couldn't find the name of river that
suited him. Finally, he went over to
the office of his brother, Morrison Foster,
sat down on his desk, and said:
Morrison, I've got new darby song
here, and it's complete except the
name of the river l want Southern
river with only two or three syllables.
Give me one, won't you?"
"Morrison suggested several, but they
didn't suit. Then he took down an
atlas, ran his eye over a map of the
Southern States for few minutes, and
finally said: Here's river in Florida
by the name of Suwanee, how will that
do?'
"'That's it, that's it, exclaimed the
song writer, jumping from the desk. It's
just what want and picking up pen
he inserted the name of the river that
has since become the title of one of the
sweetest and most pathetic of melodies.
l believe that Stephen C. Foster never
thought very much of the piece himself
until after it had taken its place among
the popular songs of the century,"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

There is in the northern part of Texas,
near the Bots d Arc, or East Fork of
the Trinity, freak of nature that has
been the subject of much speculation
ever since its discovery, over 40 years
ago. Extending in a northwest and
southeasterly direction for several miles
is perpendicular seam or wall of coarse
limestone, composed of fragments, ir-
regular in size, yet very similar in shape
The seam Tor wall as it is called is about
two feet in width everywhere it is seen,
and the stones of which it is composed
are distributed on top of one another,
almost with the regularity of masonry
at least, as well as many ancient builders
constructed their walls 1t is for the
most part under the earth but appears
in hillsides and ravines where the ex-
ternal forces of nature have worn away
the soil, leaving the natural wall ex-
posed.
Old settlers say that some sections,
several hundred feet in length, appeared
as much as three feet in height when
they first went there, and hence they
named their first town Rockwell, which
name is also borne by the county in
which the wall is found. From the
fact that no other stone was found in
the immediate vicinity, these pioneers
unanimously agreed that the wall was
the work of some prehistoric people who
inhabited the country; but as lis mere
resemblance to the work of man is all
that supports this theory, it has long
since been entirely given up for the
scientific explanation of its origin. The
presence of quartz, lava, and other con-
glomerate rocks of igneaus origin be-
trays the action of volcanic forces in its
formation.
Some mighty internal CONFUSION rent
the earth's surface and left a long
straight assure, which was filled by the
same agency with fragments OF the
underlying strata of limestone. In some
portions, where the wall was sufficiently
compact, it has stood alone, while air
and waiter have worn away the sur
rounding earth. Thus it is found at
intervals, keeping one direction, straight
as a surveyors line for about six miles,
uniform in width, and always composed
of stones resembling all elongated brick,
some larger and others smaller.
Years ago an inquiring well digger
sunk his spade beside the wall He fol-
lowed it down thirty feet, and found
abundant water, but not the base OF the
WALL So we may concede the work to
be freak of the fire gods, who, in some
past age, remote and dim, pushed upthe
wall from beneath to serve as a model
for future man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

Mr.. j. A. Bartlett WHO discourses of
"The Fighting Instinct" in the pages of
Longmdn's Ndgdzine, knows a New
foundland dog who can drink the de-
light of battle with his peers, and yet
can show himself on occasion 3. gener-
Gus foe.
One day this noble creature had what
the vulgar call a row, though Mr.. Bart
lett prefers to refer to it as smart al
tercation, with predatory mastitf. 1t
was about that proverbial source of con-
tention, bone, of which the predatory
masttf had sought to possess himself at
the expense of his neighbor, and it hap
pened that in the course of the struggle
that the combatants fell over a bridge
into the stream deep down below.
OF course, the Newfoundland swan
at once to the shore, but not so the mas
tiff. The Newfoundland after a good
shake, was preparing to depart, when he
caught sight of his late antagonist wildly
beating the water and drowning as fast
as he could.
"One look" says Mr.. Bartlett, "was
enough. In went he of the shaggy coat,
and, Selling the other by the collar,
brought his late enemy safe to land
The two dogs then eyed each other
with perfectly Undesirable express
sion for some seconds, then silently and
solemnly wagged their caudal append
ages and with dignity departed. : Lon
don Daily News.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10


Silent and al...,s-I molionle 5. quit"
hidden in The carknps,, stool the huge
foim Of an cd bull Il, phaHt. oHe f
whose tusks had lcen damaged in his
youth, and had become totally decavel
Hi, head was bent forward, in order to
rrsG his one monster tusk upon the
gro;;nl; his trunk, loosely coilrd be wcon
his f,releg rs was also resting on the
ground, and his great ragged ears tlaupnd
s. Il mOdjcali Y i'll vain endeayors to -hahe
Off the myriads of mosquitoes that per-
sistamtly lowered around his head. Sud-
denly the forest was lit up by most
vivid fash of lightning followed an in
slant afterward by a crashing peal of
thunder. The elephant raised his head
with startled jerk, his huge limbs
shaking with fear.
Almost before the rumlling echoes of
the thunder had died away, the rain,
that had been threatening for SO many
hours fell in torrents. Flashes of light
ming succeeded each other so RAJ id
that the attendant peals of thunder were
converted into one continuous roar. and
the violence of the wind soon increased
to u vcritable tornado-a tropical hurrl-
cane.
Trees were blown down and uprooted
on all DIES The terrified elephant re-
manned for some time motionlesS with
fear, but as the tempest continued the
monster became suddenly panic stricken,
and charged madlv through the dense
forest, stumbln and falling over the
trunks of uprooted trees in his endeavors
to gain some open patch where there
would be no danger of being crushed by
the falling timber
Suddenly, in the midst of a mad rush,
the elephant sank to the ground with
sharp squeal of pain. The poor brute
had severed the vines that supported one
of the traps that had been arranged the
previous day, and a heavily weighted
spear as plunged between his shoulders.
For some moments he remained motion
less, then the great body rolled slowly
from side to side in vain endeavor to free
himself from the spear, but the weapon
was barbed, and the points had pene-
trated too deeply to be shaken off. Here
lie remained exhausted until daybreak,
his hide covered with patches of mud
and deep red smears Of blood. Il Serb
ner's.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
IACTS BOUT WEDDING RINGS.
They ar" OF Ancient Origin and Signify
Good Faith and Fidelity.

Good Faith and Fidelity.
Yot want to know why the ring is
u-el Il, Il matrimonial pledge?" said a
Learned Smithsonian curator. The
reason i; very well known. 1t is en-
p.0yel as Il token of good faith because
the rim W; $ originally and primarily a
seal, In ancient Babylon, 1000 years
ago, all dc cuments We're attested by
seals, as they are now, and the merchants
very usually wore their seals on their
finger rings of gold and other metals.
With these signets they impressed their
own private and particular devices upon
the agreements and contracts of all sorts,
thus making them good and binding.
Documents in those days We're not writ
ten upon paper, but with a wooden
stylus upon moist clay, which was snb-
sequently hardened by baking.
From this source the seal has como
doNn through the more modern civiliza-
ton of Greece and Rome to the present
day as a sign of good faith. 1t is with
that significance that it is placed upon
the third finger of the brides left hand
to seal the contract between herself and
her newly made husband. Also it is
surmised that the ring is intended to re-
mind the wife of the fidelity she owes
Furthermore, the circle is the emblem
of eternity. But why. you ask, does the
bride choose the third finger of the left
hand to wear her ring on? Simply be-
cause the ancients supposed that a nerve
ran directly from that finger to the
heart. l need hardly say that the re-
searches of modern anatomists have
shown this to be an error; but the GUS
tom survives.
Hebrews regard the ring in the cere
mony of marriage as of extraordinary
Importance. 1t must be of a certain
value, certified to by the officiating
rabbi, and it must be absolutely the
groom's own prOperty-not obtained by
gift or purchased on credit There are
number of curious superstitions about
wedding rings. If one is broken it sig
nfieS to the wife that she is going to lose
her husband. | really think that ma
jority of women never take off their
wedding rings, believing that to do so
would occasion misfortune.
1.-The most extraordinary custom re-
lating to wedlock that | know of pre-
vailed in England about the year 1900
and before, particularly in Lincolnshire,
and was called marriage en- chinese. A
woman with some means of her own,
marrying man who was embarrassed
financially, would go to the altar with
nothing on but her smocll, having been
previously undressed to that primitive
garment by her bridesmaids. This was
considered to signify that the wife
brought the husband nothing, and that
therefore his creditors could have no
hold upon her property for his debs
Sometimes Il sheet was worn merely for
the same purpose. Hence comes the
expression, sometimes employed by I'M
compromising papas in the old days: IF
you want my daughter, sir, you must
take her in her smock.' This implied
that she would have no fortune,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Plots in EVERYDAY Life.

A New York novelist has been telling
how he finds his plots. Il have found
nearly all of them in real life by inter-
course with people in all sorts of society.
There are no plots to be drawn from the
imagination that are equal in interest to
those that can be learned by knowing
the actual experiences of many of our
men and women. In New York you can
hear of plenty of love lorn damsels and
bold SWANS; you can find heroes and
heroines plenty; you can hear Of mar
velous adventures; you can find people
whose career has been romantic; you
can hear of intrigues and their denoue-
ment; you can meet characters who
would shine on the printed page; you
can easily find in the actual experiences
of your acquaintance all the material
needed for tragical tales or humorous
yarns. Why, the best plot ever wrote
up was one not of my invention, but
was in the story of her own life given
me by my own cock. "
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

Travel III northern China Is accom-
iii in a cart, II mule litter, OF tine
sadie. Tie first meth d is the most
uncomfortabie, hut the most RAPID, The
sec nd the most comfortable II; tie
s.uwest, the ,IlIrd the most i"de. end mt,
but .ltp o t uncertain.
The car. IL ed in northern Chiaa has
tvo heavy wheels, with wooden axle,
H. spriDgs, and body about four feet
10 and three broad, over which is
Light f amcwork top oNered with blue
co ton TWeInules driven tandem by II
carter seated on the left shaft take it
hour. and one can make in it an average
of b miles Il day, even over the rou2h-
est country. 1t will carry about 300
puuGdS OF goods, and one or even two
asSeugors; and the tighter one is
squeezed i'll the more con, Portable it " ill
Prove, for that, and that alone, will lie a
protection from the terrible iolting over
the rough country roads.
1t is told in some old book of travel in
tie narrative of the mission of Lord
Amherst to the court of Picking, if |
remember rightly, that one of his at
PENDANTS died from the effects of the
joting he received during a short jour
ney in one of these carts. But this
mode of travel being the most rapid, l
adopted it. Several years Of experience
of cart travel in China had made me
bold, so that l did not fear the fate
which had overtaken the Amherst mis-
sion man. Comfortably wrapped in my
wadded Chinese clothes l squeezed my
self into my cart, feeling like delicate
piece of chnaware packed in cotton,
and after a hearty farewell to the friends
with whom was staying at Picking, the
carriers cracked their whips, and with
shout to the mules we were off.-TAn
American in Tibet, in the Century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

There are few men or things that are
called urOn to roll into more close
corners or queer 81 uations than is a
billiard bill. That is, of course, after it
has become a full tiedged billiard ball.
Its career prior to this is of course rather
monotonous. An elephant, either in
Africa or Asia, carries it with him in
his wanderings very near to his trunk.
1t is then known as a tusk, and has been
the cause of some tall lying in the way
Of elephant stories told by various per-
sons, of whom Rider Haggard is the
foremost representative.
The transition from being an elephants
tusk to Icing a billiard ball in good
standing is not sudden. 1t takes time to
effect it. In the first place it is not
every tusk that is suitable to make
billiard ball from. There are several
factories in New York city, and they say
that it takes good while to turn out a
perfect ball. The firms there, however,
have to do but a Part Of the work, for
they get the tusks that are of proper
quality sent to them cut into sections,
each section being large enough to allow
of the turning of a single ball out of it.
Most of this material comes form Ham,
burg. The ivory is so marked that the
turner's here know what part of the tusk
each piece comes from, and in this way
can calculate as to the grain and quality
of the article.
1t requires skilled labor to turn out
billiard ball. One half of tits first turned,
an instrument of the finest steel being
used for the work Then the half turned
ball is hung up in net and is allowed
to hang there for year to dry. Then
the second half is turned and then comes
the polishing. Whitening and water
and good deal of rubbing are necessary
for this. 1t is necessary i'll the end that
the ball shall to the veriest fraction of
grain be of certain weight.
1t is after being placed on the billiard
table that the real life of a billiard ball
commences. There are pores in ivory
just as there are in epidermis. They
may close, and then, if in a hot room,
the ball is likely to crack by reason of
conclusion with other balls. During the
first stage the billiard ball may mix in
almost any society. 1t may gyrate UNI
der the magic cue of Slosson, a Schaefer,
aVignaux, OF some other champion, or it
may be toyed with by fair DANES in pri-
vate billiard rooms in swell houses on
Murray hill.
When it cracks it drops a step lower.
1t is sent to factory and small frac-
ton of an inch is shaved off from it.
You next see it in some second rate
billiard room on Sixth avenue. Finally
it rolls even lower and into some second
hand shop and thence into a Bowery
saloon, where Crooks" manipulate it to
the dismay and discontinue of visitors
from the rural districts. The rest is soon
told. Tie balls become cracked, de-
crept and practically useless for the
purpose for which they were made,
Then they are bought up by dealers, are
cut up and made into smaller articles.
If the worst comes to worst, they can he
burned and used in the making of ivory
black.
A checkered life enough is that of a
billiard ball.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
A New Theory of Temperament.

DR.. Paul Gibier of New York, has adj
vanced new theory about tempera-
ment, which he bases upon the chemical
composition of the animal organism.
Instead of the old divisions into the san
guine, the nervous, the sympathetic, and
the bilious temperaments, he argues
from observations and experiments that
there are three temperaments OF consti-
tutions of the animal body--the aka
line, the acid, and the neutral-and he
holds that a study of these tempera-
ments would enable medical men to
gain a better idea of the unequal distri-
button of maladies, or, in other words,
the differences of susceptibility to in
lection.
According to his theory people with
an alkaline temperament are not sub
ject to either rheumatism OF cancer; but
they show a peculiar aptitude for con.
tracing chest troubles, and should,
therefore, use animal food and moderate
quantities of spirituous liquors. Those,
on the other hand, in whom acidism pre-
walls are not in danger of tuberculosis,
and are less subject than the other class
to cholera or yellow fever; but they may
have rheumatism, neuralgia, and heart
troubles.
Persons having the neutral tempera-
ment are really in normal condition,
and are more easily cured when they are
attacked by acidic or alkaline affections.
The old definitions, according to DIR.
Gibier, describe the moral character
rather than the internal constitution;
and so when we refer to a man as hav-
ing an acid temperament it is not in
tended to mean that he is sour tempered
or of vinegarish disposition, but simply
to describe his animal organism,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
Shall We Have Warming Pans Again

Shall We Have Warming Pans Again :?
There is an old time institution that
ought to be revived, and that is the
warming pan. One authority says that
according to medical protests against
damp or cold beds, warming pans should
come into fashion again. One medical
writer says: Not only the guest but the
family often suffer the penaltyof sleepi G
in cold rooms and chilling their bodies
at time when they need all their bod
lily heat by getting between cold sheets.
Even in warm summer weather a cold
damp bed will get in its deadly work.
1t is needless peril, and the neglect to
provide dry rooms and beds has in it the
elements of murder and suicide. Peo-
pie crawl into the chilly sheets and spend
half an hour in getting the bed warm, 1"
when the warming pan would put them
into a coy bed that would give them
warmth instead of taking it from them.
We look to see the warming pan become
q fad. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10
The EiifeI Tower.

The stockholders III the Eiffel tower
enterprise are feeling blue just now in
consequence of the steady diminution of
their receipts. In the season now closing
G65, 900 francs We're taken in The cost
of keeping the tower open was $50, 900
francs, and 300, 900 more were spent for
repairs. Next season the small profit of
this year will be wiped out, it is ex-
pected, and a considerable deficit will
appear in the place Of it. In view OF
this probability 1853, 900 francs were re-
served for future use f AN the profits of
the exhibition year.