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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
Possible Increase of Cold,

No one who has poked about the rocky
ribs of New England can have failed to
see some of those grooves and scratches
on the bare lodges of the hills and on the
sides of huge boulders, which geologists
assure us have been caused by the grind
ing of the rocks under the great sheet of
ice, thousands of feet thick, which once
covered North America as far south as
the latitude of New York. The ice, being
piled higher toward the north, kept press
ing slowly southwark, and the fragments
of rock that it broke off from peaks and
ridges, being carried along beneath it,
did the grinding.
These things occurred many thousands Of
years ago-just how many thousand no
one is able to say with certainty-and
the time when the great ice sheet existed
is called the glacial epoch, or the ice age.
Even to-day glacial epoch, on COM
paratively small scale, reigns in Green
land; for that strange continent is COM
pletely buried under an enormous blanket
of ice, which is continually pushing its
way down into the sea all around the
borders of the land, where the vast frag-
ii
the form of icebergs.
Now there is reason TO believe that tho
earth has experienced more than one
glacial epoch, and that others may vet
he in store for it, owing to certain periodi
cal changes in the earth's orbit, or path
around the sun.
For instance, winter now occurs in the
Northern Hemisphere when the earth i.
nearest to the sun; but in about 10000
years it will occur when the earth is
farthest from the sun. The winters in
this hemisphere will then be longer and
colder than they are now, and the result
may be the accumulation of great guam
titles of ice and snow.
Observations recently collected in Paris
show that the temperature of Europe has
been below the average ever since 1885,
and it has been suggested that this fact
may indicate that a period of cold, posi-.
bly, real glacial epoch, has begun to set
in
Such conclusion would be somewhat
startling if the falling off in temperature
were very great; but in fact it has been
only fraction of degree, and it has not
yet been shown that a similar change
has taken place in America and Asia.
Possibly this may yet be shown. -.
But as to a new glacial epoch, even if
we should admit that one is approaching,
thousands of years would probably elapse
before the invasion of the ice became O.
very serious matter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
A Clever Counterfeiter.

Becker, at the end of the last century,
was the clever engraver of number of
a number of counterfeit Greek and Ro-
man coins. To give the requisite surface
of worn age to his productions, it was
his ingenius method to inclose his speci,
mems in box containing a number of
iron filings, and then to take the box
out for drive or two on the jolting
roads of his day! After Becker had sup
piled so large number of his counter
feits as almost to glut the market, he
coolly turned round and confessed, and
turned an honest penny by producing sets
of his dies, so that now there are few of
our large collections that do not possess
specimens of Becker's dies The Ath
en@um.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
How to Tie a ShOestring.

Does your daintily fashioned summer
shoe bother you with trailing shoestring
threatening to trip you up? Then tie it
as follows: Proceed exactly as if you
were about to tie an ordinary bowknot.
but before you draw it up pass the right
hand loop through the knot; give a
steady and simultaneous pull on both
loops and you may tread the sands of
time or the ocean beach all day, and
waltz into the wee sma' hours of the
morning, and that shoestring will never
trip you up. In untying be sure to pull
the right hand line and the string will
readily loosen, but if you pull the other
you will find it as hard to unfasten as
some hastily tied matrimonial knots.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
OUr T.rnuun &c,

When Shakespeare and Milton wrote,
only 100000 or 100000 spoke their
language. One hundred years ago 40,-
900, 900 of people spoke German, 30,0O0,-
200 French, and 5000, 900 English. Pro-
lessor F. A. Marsh says that mors thsa
one half of the letters of the worlds
postal service are now written and read
oy English speaking people. Jacob
Grimm, one of the ablest historians of
language, says: "The English speech may
with full right be called a world lam
sHage."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
Riches of the Deep.

Fish ought to be very plentiful and
cheap, as most of them grow and increase
without any care from man. 1t is said
that each founder. for instance, produces
many millions of eggs. The sole pro-
duces 100000 eggs, a plaice not less
than 100000 while large turbot has
been credited with the deposition of
11,000 900 or Il, ,000, 900 eggs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
Steamship Scheea/es.
ALA TX M E
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS. .

TINHE most direct and cheapest route for
l. STEERAGE PASSENGERS from the
South and West wishing to visit their native
country.
The most convenient line for parties wish
ng to send for relatives and friends left behind
the old country.
Steamship Nova Scotian Capt. R. HUGHES
Caspian. Capt. r. CARRUTHERs.
Carthaginian. Capt. J. FRANCE.
Baltimore to liverpool and
0meenstosUn. calling at
HaLifar each aCay.
These tirst-class screw Steamships will run
regularly between the above points as follows:
From Baltimore and Liverpool
EVERY OTHER WEEK.
Steerage Passage
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 Stewardessesc car
red 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. SCHUMACHER q CO.,
No. South Gay street. Baltimore,
Or in Frostburg to w C. WRIGHT,
at the office of the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vana railroad company, Frostbnrg, Md.
Oct 3
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
A POSER FOR BOYS.

How many fishes are there in the seas?
HnN many sands on the shore?
tI", many leaves have there been on the trees? I?
49," many grasses have waved on the leas?
iiow many stars have shone DER.
When YOU have answered these questions of
mine,
Then will earnestly search
And faithfully strive in some way to divine
In how many angles boy will incline
AS he lists to sermon at church.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17

Christine Nilsson entertained at dinner
not long ago the two divas, Patti and Al
bani, and the three queens of song We're
attired in the sumptuous simplicity of
the Valois or Tudor period. They humme1
a few snatches of song together, as they
did long ago before titles troubled them.
and were charmingly sweet to each
other but they did not appear togesaes
in public.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
RE MI OV Al.
DIR. J. G. PFEIFFER.
nLNNTTNIC
DENTIST.

HAS removed his office to the well-known
Il dental parlors over Mrs E. Gross
store, opposite Central Hotel Frostburg,
where he can be found hereafter fully pre-
style from a. m, until u m. from l until
s. and from until 9p M.
All work promptly attended to and salts
faction guaranteed. [Oct 3
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17

Many oi the first settlers OF illinois
We're rude in speech and rough in mauirr.
Money was scarce with them, and srrv-
ice was paid for in produce. General
b. used to illustrate these incidents OF
frontier life by the following anecdote:
One day when he was a justice of the
peace there came to his office a Young
man, accompanied by young woman.
BE you the squire" asked the manly
youth.
"Yes, sir.
"Can you tie the knot for us right
away?"
"Yes, sir.
"How much do you charge?"
"One dollar is the legal fee, sir. :"
"Will you take your fee in beeswax?"
"Yes, if you can't pay cash.
well, go ahead and tie the knot, and
I'll fetch in the wax.
No" said the squire, thinking there
was good chance for a little fun; bring
in the beeswax first and then I'll marry
you"
Reluctantly the youth went out to
where was hitched the horse upon which.
Darby and Joan fashion, the pair had
ridden, and brought the wax in a sack.
On being weighed its value was found to
be only about half dollar.
wall, said the anxious groom, "tie
the knot, and I'll fetch more wax next
week.
mo, sir! don't trust; that's against
Che rules of this office"
Slowly the disappointed youth turned
to go out, saying:
"Come, Sal; let's 60.
II say, mister" answered Sal, with q
woman's wit, cant you marry us as far
as the wax will go?"
"Yes, | can and will" replied tho
squire, laughing, and he did.
The Chinese Russian COmaict.
The famous Russ n traveller Elisieye1
gives some interesting information in re.
gard to the exists 6 struggle between
Russia and China for supremacy in Asia.
In 1888 the Chinese government began
an aggressive policy, locating strong mil
itary forces along the Russian frontier
and colonizing in Mantchooria and Turk
estan many thousands of Chinese settlers,
and even the ancient law prohibiting
Chinese women from settling beyond the
great wall was repealed by imperial de-
cree. In order to facilitate its colonial
ton purposes the Chinese government
projected railroad from Pekin to Gircn,
the capital of Mantchooria. At the
same time the cars government is
encouraging the voluntary colonization
of the Amoor province; but while she
can bring only 600 colonists from Odessa
to Vladivostock "a distance of 10000
versts) by water, China can settle atou.
"a, 900 She has already succeeded in To-
eating half million people in her colo
ries. The Chinese invader is regarded
with apprehension wherever he appears,
for he refuses to adopt the customs OF
civilized communities. He is essentially
a fatalist, having no regard for life OF
death. 1t is with such people that the
Russians in Asia have to struggle for ex-
istence. The present military strength
of Russia on the Chinese frontier is only
$4,000 men and squadron of warships
in the Pacific. The Siberian Railroad,
now building, will be of great advantage
to Russia in the event of war with China
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
What We Say and What They Say.

AMERICAN. ENGLISH.
Telegram. Wire.
Ticket office. Booking office.
Buying ticket. Booking.
Railroad Railway.
Railroad track. Permanent way.
Rails. Metals.
depot. Station.
Switch. Points.
Street car. Tramcar.
Freight train. Goods train.
Cars. Carriages.
Conductor. Guard.
Engineer. Driver.
Fireman. Stoker.
Locomotive. Engine.
Baggage. Luggage.
All aboard. Seats. please.
Matches. Lights.
Beer. Ale.
Switching cars. Drilling cars.
Trains meeting. Trains crossing.
Freight car. Goods van.
Parquet. Pit.
Frank Leslie's Newspaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17

An Arizona Epitaph.
HE was fly, he was fresh, he was just from
the States.
But he opened a jackpot with two litla
eights." Indianapolis Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
FROSTBlRC MD. SATURDAY, OCTOBER H. 1891

"Oh, give me a cot in the valley love,
A tent in the greenwood,a a home in the grove;
l caEas.ot how humble, for happy twill be,
If one faithful heart will but share it with
me"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17
Railroad Scheduias, etc.
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE

*On theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland.
Nos. |, >, 3 and daily except sunday. Nos
and Tuesdays, Thursdays and SATURDAYS only.
l.. NJ. HAMI LTON,
NAV 30 Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17

EASrBOUND.
No. l0-Baltimore Express arrives. 800 a III
{" 12-Mail 1:3O p ID
64-Cumberland Exp. g dai-
ly except Sunday. 40 p III
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-17

WESFBOUND.
No. 9-Batimore Express leaves ...l;25 a IN
60 63-Cumberand - '' dali
" except Sunday -. $50 IN
" 11-Mail leaves. ...2:15 p III
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoyia.
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

Great Britain imported SIS, 375 worth
of green fruits in 1880.
q. Donald, of Households, N. Y, told the
Rural New Yorker he had sold $979. 80
worth of celery from an acre of land. II
sounds like big story, but Mr.. Donald is
on hand early and late with his celery, put
ting the former in market June 23d last
year. He raises first class goods and finds
quick market.
Don't forget to order seed of peoples this
spring. They are such gay, bright flowers,
and bloom so freely that they make the
whole garden gorgeous.
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blemshes
from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splnts,
Sweeney, ring-b0ne, stiles, sprains, all
swollen thr0ats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by
use of one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold
byJohnson & Henderson, druggists, Owosso
Once or twice month treat your pansies
to supply of manure water. You have no
idea how it will make them grow and bios
son.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
The Servant Question.

1t is curious fact that there is moth
ing which is SO wholly unanimous as
the desire that other peoples daughters
should be cooks and chambermaids.
We never think of it as thing desir-
able or perhaps supposable for our
own, and this fact seems to damage
most of our arguments for others.
Artemus Ward was willing to send
his wife's relatives to the war, but we
are not inclined to contribute even
these to the kitchen, for we should
hold, rightfully, that it was ''menial
service" Now if we draw the line at
mental service for ourselves and our
relatives, why should we speak severely
of those who dray the line at just that
point for themselves and their own
relatives2 The whole difficulty of this
much vexed question seems to lie pre-
cisely there.-T. w. Higginson in
Harpers' Bazaar.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
A Months Vacation.

Once upon time some years ago ]
made great walk. 1 had a month on
my hands, and I was young and eager,
and l determined to go afoot from
Devonshire into Scotland Since then
have been here, there and everywhere
about the surface of our old earth-by
steamer, sailing ship, express train and
slow train, on horseback, muleback and
donkeyback; but remember nothing
with so much pleasure as I remember
my daily courses through the different
counties of England during this 500 OF
600 mile walk.
Every morning woke in a new vii
lage or a new market town. There
was different chambermaid, with her
sweet eff you please, sir, the hot water
is at the door," and a different kind of
boniface. I did not rush over the
ground. Twenty or five-and-twenty
miles day contented me. Thus ]
could dine after a ten mile spin, and
arrive each evening fresh and fit at the
next RED Lion" or white Cow" inn,
upon which relied for bed.-All the
Year Round.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
FRUITS OF THE NEW TARIFF.
Foreign Industries Coming to America
by the Dozen.


Foreign Industries Coming to America
by the Dozen.
We present below sample lot of the
kind of news items with which the trade
papers abound since the tariff went into
effect; M
Robert Dawson, a representative of an En-
glish syndicate, accompanied by +. DranN~, of
New York, who recently purchased the wfll-
lam Shafer farm at Wellington, visited that
town last week. The agent prospected for
site on the Willimantic river. near the New
London Northern railroad track, between the
Wellington and South Wellington stations.
The land borders fine water privilege Tho
plant will have a capital of $1,000, employing
400 hands for the manufacture of thread and
lace.
The English syndicate which proposes to To-
cate a mill at Willimantic, Conn.,. will manu-.
facture Nottingham lace goods. The mill will
run night and day, and VIII employ three sets
OF hands, thirty men each.
A big shiDment of machinery is expected In
Bridgeport, Conn.,, in few days, for the Sir
Titus Salts company, limited, of England
which, as already mentioned in these columns
expects to open a factory in Bridgeport for tho
manufacture of pushes. The new shop will,
employ from 400 to 900 men.
A New York and Philadelphia plate glass
manufacturing syndicate, which will make
nothing but high grade Of plate glass and
will employ 600 men, has decided on a site at
Christy Park, near McKeesport, Pa for a
plant that will cost 81, 100000.
A new industry to be established in Woon-
socket, X. l., is the Novelty Fabrics company
which, with a capital of 100000 will start a
knit goods factory.
A seal plush manufacturer from Bradford,
England, will erect large factory at UAica,
N. Y.
Gotthold Koerner. the prominent manufact-
urer of hosiery of Chemnitz, is in New York
He says that manufacturers in Germany are
arranging their makes and prices so as to hold
their American trade.
Negotiations were closed recently by which
large lnoleum factory comes to Muskegon,
Mich, from Manchester, England. There are
but three other linoleum factories in the Unit
ed States. Under the Mckinley bill it is
thought cheaper to manufacture the material
in this country than to import it.
We also occasionally meet paragraph
like this:
Mitchell & Sheppard, of Bradford, England,
have made an assignment. Liabilities placed
at fS3OOO. The firm was engaged in the man.
ufacture of alpaca, mohair, wooden and worst
ed goods, and its failure is attributed to the
operation of the Mckinley bill.
This last does not bring us SO much
qualification as the others. But our JUS
LITIGATION for the hardships imposed upon
foreign manufacturers by our new tariff
is the ever growing list of new indus
tries in our own country. These foreign
establishments were built up and sup
ported by appropriating to themselves
the trade of our people, and if to reclaim
our own bears hard upon them we ex-
tend to them our sympathy and offer
them the privilege of moving over here.
but we can go no further.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01

If there Is anything which has been
taught to us by the most advanced
stage Of science as applied to the anat-
omy, the physiology and the pathology
of the brain it is the fact that the ut
most degree of mental alteration may
exist without there being the slightest
change perceptible to our senses in the
normal structure of the central organ
OF the mind. OF course there is some
alteration, such, for instance, as a per
nicious education may effect, such as
may be induced by indulgence in ig-
noble emotions, degrading trains of
thought or vicious practices; but it is
so slight and perhaps so evanescent
as to be entirely beyond the reach not
only of our unaided senses, but of all
the instruments of precision or of ana
lytical processes that are at the present
day at our disposal.
The brain, therefore, of the most
pronounced lunatic may not differ, so
far as we can perceive, from that OF
one who during life had stood at the
very summit of human mental develop
ment. At birth the two brains might
have been identical, not only in all the
elements that entered into their compo-
sition, but also in their tendencies and
proclivities. One, however, started in
the course of life under disadvantageous
circumstances; the other had every
thing in its favor. One was left to its
own guidance and to the influence of
circumstances detrimental to its well
being; the other, among beneficial sur
roundings, was carefully trained and
developed. Would it be a matter of
surprise if the possessor of the one
should be an enemy of society and a
perpetrator of acts of fraud and vio-
lence and the other a leader in all hon
orable and virtuous purposes?-Dr. W.
A. Hammond in North American Re
view.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
Through the Weary Hours

or many night, made dOubly long by its
protracted agony, the rheumatic sufferer
losses to and fro on his sleepless couch.
vainly praying for that rest which only
comes by fits and starts. His malady is one
which ordinary medicines too often fail to
relieve, but there is ample evidence to prove
that the efficient blood depurent, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, affords the rheumatic re-
liable means Of relief. Check the malady
in its incipient stages, when the first pre-
monitOry twinges come on, with this agree
able medicine, and avoid years of torture.
Whatever be the rationale of the active in
fuence of the Bitters upon this Inalady, GER
tain 1t Is that no evidence relating to its
effect is more direct and positive than that
which relates to its action i'm cases of rheu-
matism. Like all sterling remedies, how
ever, it deserves protracted, systematic
trial. and should not be abandoned because
not at once remedial. 1t is equally effica-
ciOus in dyspepsia, indigestion and kindred
diseases.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
PoIiteness the Key to His Success.

There is a suave and popular gentle
man in this town who owns two drug
shops He is a member of several so
cial organizations, and is personally &C.
quainted with every prominent politi-
clan and man about town in New York.
Up to within few years ago he was
night clerk in down town pharma.
ceutical dispensary. How did he get
his feet on the upper rounds of the lad
der of prosperitya Simply by being po-
lite. During his long term of service
as clerk he never let a customer depart
without pleasant inquiry as to the
customers health and the inexpensive
courtesy of won't you have drop of
perfumery on your handkerchiefr-
New York Times.