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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-11
VIM. B. SHARP
& CO.
Fourth and Market Sis.

We have always held an adj
vanced position in the qualities,
assortment and styles of our
Dress Fabrics.
Our display Of all kinds of
dress materials is large and
nothing but standard and we'll
tried goods are sold. If you
buy Of us a black silk for ST.
per yard you can rely on its
being the best value for the
money to be had. If you only
pay IS cents for a lower grade
material the conditions are the
same. Our aim is to give you
the very best for the money
that is purchasable anywhere
Our very large output of Dress
Fabrics is the best possible
proof that our efforts are ap
preciated.
Our Silk Warp and all-woo
Henriettas, Cashmeres anC
Serges in the popular shade,
of Tans and Greys are in SUI
perb assortment from so cents
TO SI.5o.
Look at our Silk War;
Black Henrietta at 81 pc
yard.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-11

rolled binding sand satin faced; were s. 50
to SIC, are reduced to S2.75.
Two Black Stockinette Jackets "a length.
nice for elderly ladies'; were $40; are reduced
to 81 80.
Ten Diagonal Cloth Jackets, were 81 80, IS
and Sl0 are reduced to s250.
Our new line of Spring Jack
cts, Blazers and Refers COM
prises some very pretty novel
ties in Blacks and Colors from
So rs TO $I2.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-11

Embroidered Shawlets in
splendid assortment and the
only house in our city that
carries a direct importation of
these very popular goods. Our
present line contains the finest
qualities we ever carried.
$500 80 90 $40 90 $40 90 $40 o.
3U 675 1900 .O01 9ee
400 80 400 80 90
90 $50 10 90 70 90
These goods are all done by
hand in the French Nuneries
and are IN exquisite designs.
We have about one dozen
Jet Wraps which we sold for
81 and SIS; we shall close these
out for So each.
| WIN. B. SHARP & co.
Fourth and Market streets.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-11
Charles NJ. Curtis.
Candldntas for conncll

First and Tenth wards no candidates
Second ward Thomas w. McYey nomi-
mated at ward meeting.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-11

We have received a new and
comprehensive line of Not
tingham Lace Curtains with
designs like Brussels Point.
They are the finest effects inn
ported with tapped and real lace
edges all ready to hang.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
A HOME OF MIILIONAIRE ES.
People Not In fhc Swim Find 1t Yer.
IncnncnI; !,Ia. af NexxnnrI.

People Not In thc Swim Find 1t Very
UncOmfor: Bile ut Newport.
Speaking of Newport. nothing inn
presses visitor 50 strongly as the stu.
pidity of ordinary eXcurSionists trying
to enjoy themselves in that summer city
of the rich. 1t is surely no place for
quiet folk seeking health and amuse-
ment at modest figures. The whole
town is so dominated by the majesty of
millions that no remotest corner is left
for the well to do, even when fatteIed
out and all gone to eyes and mouths to
cape and stare while plutocracy grows
jovial in gilded sunshine. Unless they
go very early or late, before or after the
butterfly toys through the season, medi-
ocre prosperity had best stay at home
and not attempt even the humblest
rivalry. Newport is the focus for this
country's EXTREMIST wealth and smart.
ness. The millionaires made it famous,
and they deeply resent any poaching on
their preserves A very tremendous belle
and heiress put up her glass the other
day while driving and inquired plain
lively why some one did not arrest those
shabby SlghtSeers tor spolllng the view.
She was simply expressing the senti-
ments of her kind, who completely possess
the place for time, keep succession of
irreproachable equipages rolling over its
smooth drives, support summer palaces
on the right and the left of the green
shaded avenues, and for three months
flood the picturesque old city with beauty,
the glamor of riches and ceaseless excite
ment All over this broad land ares spots
almost equally lovely, and instead of
hanging by their eyelids, foraging for
fun at insurmountable disadvantages, or
peering at society through sternly
guarded peep holes, it would certainly
be better sport to try the first in Brun-
disium plan for while. 1t is the dull
est place on earth for transient guests
out of the swim when gayety is on
Illustrated American.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
What Is n Horse Power

When men first begin to become IA
miliar with the methods of measuring
mechanical power, says the Rider and
Drirer, they often speculate on where the
breed of horses is to be found that can
keep at work raising $4,000 pounds one
foot per minute, or the equivalent, which
is more familiar to some mechanics, Of
raising $50 pounds 100 feet per minute.
Since 33, 00) pounds raised one foot per
minute is called one horse power. it is
natural that people should think the en-
Gineers who established that unit of
measurement based it on what horses
could really do.
But the horse that can 40 this work
does not exist. The horse power unit
was established by James Watt about u
century ago, and the figures We're fixed
in curious way. Watt found that the
average horse of his district could raise
90 600 pounds one foot per minute.
At that time Watt was employed in
the manufacture of engines, and custom.
ers We're so hard to find that all kinds OF
artificial inducements were necessary t.
induce power users to buy steam engines.
AS method of encouraging them Watt
offered to sell engines reckoning 33. 900
foot pounds to a horse power. Aud thm
he was the means of giving a false unit
to one of the most important measure,
ments in the world.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
An Aluminium Steamboat.

Some novel and interesting expert
ments have recently been made on the
lake of Zurich with a steamboat built
entirely of aluminium, which claims to
be the first of its kind. The boat weighs
only about half a ton-viZ., about hall
the weight of an ordinary boat of the
same size 1t was built at the works OF
Escher, ,Wyss & Co., of Zurich, the metal
having been furnished by the aluminium
works of Shaffhausen. where it is OBJ.
tanned by an electrical process, the dyna-
mos being driven, not by steam engines,
but by turbines, which utilities the water
power of the celebrated falls of the
Rhine, so that the boat claims to be ex-
clusively the product of Swiss labor and
power. 1t carries eight persons, and,
with a petroleum engine of only two
horse power, easily makes six miles an
hour. Aluminium not being subject to
rust, the permanent color of the boat is
beautiful dull white, while the chin
ney, being of polished aluminium, shines
likes silver. The trial trips of the boat
were eminently successful, and it is an
ticipated that the construction of alum
mum steamers. having the same capac-
ity and only half the weight of the iron
ones now used on the Swiss lakes, has a
great future before it-London Stand
ard
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05

She had look on her face that said 40
plainly as look could say that she was o
shopper from Shopperville, and the clerk
had not yet been found who could get
ahead Of her on a bargain.
How much is that mosquito netting a
yard ?" she asked.
I'VE don't sell it by the yard, replied
the clerk; we sell it by the piece"
well, that is not full piece, is itl
How much will you sell me that for?"
she asked, picking up a remnant that was
lying on the counter.
"Iwill find out madam, :" said the clerk, +,
and he went away. In moment he
came back and said she could have it for
Is cents.
"How many yards are there in it 2" she
asked.
Fifteen cents, said," replied the
clerk.
"Will you be SO good as to tell ME how
many yards?" she asked in her most
freezing tone.
And then the clerk measured the net.
ting and found that after all it was full
piece, and the woman who could have
had it for IS cents had she not been sus-
picious, took it for 80. But the extra Is
cents did not by any leans represent the
damage to her pride % shopper.
York Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
SAFETY In EXPLOSINE ES.
Terrific Energy i'm Forms That Can
BE Handled without Danger.

Terrific Energy i'm Forms That Can
BE Handled without Danger.
Nitrogly ycerine has served as the basis
of most of the modern explosives of high
power. but the transition from the I'M
stable liquid that exploded on the slight
est provocation to the present solid com
pounds, that can be subjected to tho
toughest usage without fear of explosion
has been no less remarkable than advan.
tageous. For example, here is a new
English explosive called ammonite
which has recently been subjected to
some surprising tests.
Tested in a mortar a charge of 76.5
grains sent a 80 pound projectile a dis
tance of 800 feet, as compared with 2S0
feet for dynamite and 1876 feet for gun
powder. A weight of SO pounds dropped
from height of five feet upon a cart
ridge of ammonite failed to cause an ex-
plosion, and the same result followed the
ignition of a canister of gunpowder in
the midst of a lot of ammonite cartridges.
When a cartridge of the new explosive
was thrown in blazing fire it merely
burned slowly with black smoke.
Apparently the only means by which
ammonite could be exploded was the use
of small detonators of illuminate of mer
curry.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
Uses of the TOadstOO

Toadstools, in spite of their unattract
i've appearance, are among the most Use
full things that grow. Not long ago the
writer was in city drug store. Heaped
high in case on one of the counters
were hundreds of odd shaped things that
looked like pieces Of chamois skin. 1t
was odorless, and soft as velvet to the
touch. "They are dried toadstools, " the
druggist informed questioner. No
oody should be without them. They
make excellent dressing for certain kinds
of wounds, are highly valued by sur
geons, and are in big demand in hospit-
ais. Germans use toadstools extensively
as pipe lighters also, The dried fungus
makes perfect tinder. 1t is cut in long
strips, and these in turn are clipped a,
the edge in sort of fringe and tipped
with PHOSPHORUS and sulphur, just like
match heads. By rubbing the fringe
against any rough surface it ignites lik,
a match and burns like punk. If yort
thrust bit into the bowl of your pipe
you can light the tobacco with ease III
the highest wind, in the biggest storm.
In fact, the harder it blows the better
your pipe will light. Hunters and fish
ermen find this sort of match much pref
cradle to any other. A dried toadstool
makes a curiosity, too; it is astonish-
ing how few people know what is when
Chey see it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
Ancient Dentistry.

There was a great deal of interest felt
among dentists some years ago when one
of the royal mummies taken from the
Egyptian catacombs was found to be
fitted out with an upper set of artificial
teeth. The plate was of wood, carved to
fit the roof of the mouth, and the teeth
were of brass, the natural shape of the
tooth being quite closely initiated. 1t
shows that some one of the Pharaohs felt
the loss of his incisors and grinders and
had the court tooth doctor do the best
that could be done for him. Before this
discovery it was commonly supposed that
artificial teeth were a modern contriv-
ance, but false teeth in ancient Egypt
furnish convincing proof that there is
nothing new under the sun.-lnterview
with ST. Louis Dentist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
A New ExnlOsiye,

Ecrasite. new explosive, is the inven-
ton of two Austrian engineers named
Siersch and Kubin. Its power is stated
to be in relation to dynamite as 100 to 20,
and the new explosive is said to be capa-
BILE of being carried from place to place
with perfect safety. 1t emits thick,
black smoke, and the decorating noise is
louder than that of gunpowder, but
shorter, sharper, and clearer. A bombshell
loaded with it explodes with such terrible
results that experiments agah~ palisades
representing 100, $50, and 800 men, at
ranges of 300, $50. and 200 meters, are
said to have recorded marks on every di,
vision of the palisade standing for a
soldier. No details of the composition of
this new explosive are known, as the
secret of The invention is being closely
guarded by the Austro Hungarian war
office.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
House in France,

Under the title of "The French Cook
in Her Native Land, " Fannie G.. w. Bar
bour, in the ChdutdHqHdn, gives an in
teresting paper on housekeeping in
France, from an actual experience of foul
years.
Two-thirds of the inhabitants of French
towns live in furni he'd apartments.
You can enter such an apartment at a
days notice. The rooms are usually fur
nished with all neCessaries, such as bed
and table linen, silver, cutlery down to
the regulation six white and six blue
aprons for the cook.
In selecting cook you simply go to a
first class agent, explain precisely what
sort of servant yea desire, and in few
hours you are talking over the coming
dinner with her.
This blue aproned, white capped, tidy
person expects no day out, nor does she
use her kitchen as meeting place for
friends
The wages of cook vary from So to
sl2 month. The latter price commands
person who can cook an elaborate din
ner without outside assistance. A man
cook receives from $12 to $50 month in
private family.
There are few privileges which the
cook considers hers by right: Three and
one-haf quarts of wine week must be
provided. This costs from rs cents to
S1.50 per dozen bottles, and is most
likely weakened by water, but not alco-
holic.
A second privilege is her five per cent
commission, granted ungrudgingly by
all the tradesmen with whom her mis-
tress deals.
The morning meal of the French do
mestic consists simply of black coffee
with sugar, and bread without butter,
but she insists upon having soup and
salad of some kind for her dinner.
The salad she will make out of any
thing that is left over, such as a few
slices of beef, the outside leaves of let
tuce, cold boiled potatoes, or even few
dandelion leaves.
The French cook never wastes any
thing, and seasoning is her forte.
The washing and bread and cakemak-
ing are done outside, but this is not SO
expensive as it seems, for the prices
charged are extremely low, and vary
according to the size of the article.
When Monday comes, and there are
no cold dinners, no cross cooks or untidy
mattresses, but all things running
smoothly as on other days, one feels that
the French could teach us something
about housekeeping made easy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
Am Old Miners Story.

"The good old days are gone" sighed
the Forty-niner, land they'll never come
again. Who isgrateful for roast beef and
potatoes when he has an appetite for ter
rapin and champagne? And yet once ,
had more money than could have spent
during my whole life"
"How was that2"
"In 1851 l was prospecting in Califor-
MIA and struck it rich. My partner and
located claim that had millions in it,
apparently. We didn't have capital
enough to work it, and so we went up to
Frisco to find a purchaser. We found
him, too. His name was Moore, and he
was well known character on the coast.
He had made a couple of million working
mine he had bought for $500 Well.
we convinced him we had good thing
and he gave us 5000, 200 in gold coin 70,
it, l was afraid to deposit my share
anywhere, so l loaded it in flour bags on
cart and drove down to San Jose. In
the hill back of the town was a cave /
had discovered year before. 1t was SO
situated that it couldn't be discovered
except by accident.
II buried the money in corner of the
cave and went gleefully back to San Jose.
AS soon as got into town a party Of
Mexican bandits captured me, and in
formed me that if didn't conduct them
to my buried treasure l was a dead man
Life was sweet to me at that time and }
didn't hesitate. They dug up my $780,,
900, gave me 5000 to keep ME from want.
and rode off to the southwark 1 never
saw any of them again for 0years, when
| met one of the band in Los Angeles
We had friendly conversation, in the
course of which asked him how he and
his companions knew that possessed
that treasure they took from me.
"'You couldn't have seen ME carry it
to the cave said, for if you had there
would have been no need of taking me
prisoner
"'No,' he replied, it was your hands,
"'My handsF
ayes. 1 was in a saloon where you
were taking drink, and saw that you,
hands were all tarnished.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
Out of His Latitude.

An Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, famous
as story teller is reported by the Chi
cago Tribune as having related an anec
dote of his own experience with a man
of dull, sour, and serious mien. The
Governor was at a clambake in New Jer
sey, and after dinner was called npon for
a speech.
started off by saying that had eaten
co many of their low neck CLANS that
wasn't in the least sort of condition for
speechmaking. At that moment long
faced old man directly across the table
scowled at me and said in a stage whis-
per:
Little neck CLANS, little necks-not
low necks."
paid no attention to him and went on
with my remarks. After dinner he fol-
lowed me out of the hall.
you are from Wisconsin, amt you 2"
he asked.
Yes, | answered.
"You don't have many CLAIMS out there,
reckon"
We'll, said l, "we ..,ave some, but it's
good ways to water, and ill driving
them across the country their feet get
sore and they don't thrive very we'll"
He gave me look that was worth a
dollar and half.
why, man alive!" said he, "clams
oint got no feet.
He turned away, and shortly afterward
approached one of my friends.
is that fellow Governor of Wiscon-
SIM" he inquired.
yes"
WALL, said he, "he may be smart
man in Wisconsin, but he's a good deal
Of fool at the seashore."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05

a moneyed man who was looking yes
trrday at the process of laying an
artificial stone pavement in front of one
Of his many properties startled the
friends who were standing about him by
remarking: Il believe that the Egyp-
tian pyramids were built in just that
way" Pressed for an explanation, he
said that while he had never been in
Egypt he had read the works of all
Egyptologists, including Brugsch and Pi-
azzi Smyth, and had never found in any
of them theory which would satisfac-
torily account for the manner in which
the pyramids were constructed. Now, )"
ne said you must remember that the
pyramids are built of stone which bears
no resemblance to anything found within
500 miles of their location. 1t is incred-
lble that the Egyptians of 1000 or 5000
years ago should have possessed the me-
chanical ingenuity to move these enor-
nous blocks of stone from the granite
quarries of Abyssinia or Syria to the
pyramids. Is it not much more natural
to suppose that the ancient Egyptians
possessed the secret oS making artificial
stone and that the pyramids We're con-
structed by layer upon layer of Milo
River mud, hardened by just such proc
esses as we employ to make artificial
stone? 1t is much more plausible eX-
planation of their construction than the
laborious and unintelligent suppositions
that the stones We're carried across the
desert to form the foundation and base
of the pyramids. firmly believe that
the Egyptians of the ante Christian era
understood the manufacture of artificial
stone and that they built the pyramids
out of it, "-Fhladephia Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05

Why the Poor Dock Man Went Limp
ety-G0-Pat.

ty-Go-Pat.
Quaint and curious, says the Strand
are the devices smugglers employ tc
oatfle the queens officers, and, as otter
as not, extremely ingenious. Such sm lg.
Cling as now goes on is almost entilely
confined, as might be guessed, to tobacco,
although spirits of eau de Cologne in
small quantities sometimes successfully
tempt.
The ingenious and horny handed dockel
comes limping out at the gateway.
What is the matter?" asks the con.
stable; take off your boot" The dock
man ruefully takes it off. The constable
smells it. Ho! the thick sole is a huge
plug of smuggled tobacco!
Dive down into the lowermost inter
mails of some sailing vessel in the Londor
dock. Here are coils of rope, not by
ones, or tens, but by hundreds, all tarry
all smelly, all in confusion alike. But
are they all rope? Not much. Jack
knows how much is rope and how much
is 'baccy.
Are those innocent looking Tenders
stuffed with oakum as they should bel
| ShSh oaShs Lie w III give 1Ou w lin llltt'
means something.
| Logs and billets of wood lie about pro
miscuously on deck and below Cut
open this one. What do we find? Only
300 and odd cigars and two pounds OF
cake tobacco.
The story of the Caais-Dover baby is
pretty well known. 1t was always SO
unwell, poor little dear! and its face had
to be kept heavily yelled from the cold
wind. Notwithstanding this it was al.
ways being carried back and forth be,
tween England and France by the inter,
esting young mother; never cried, and
never, somehow, grew out of long
clothes. The custom house officers fin,
ally tumbled to this baby. The sweet
was found to be "chiehy tobacco, but
largely lace.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05

NJ. Zola writes to Paris paper: War
must come. War is life itself. Nothing
exists in nature, nothing is born or rgrows
or multiplies save by combat The
world can live only by eating and being
eaten. And it is only the warlilie nations
that have prospered; a nation dies when
it disarms. War is the school of disci-
pline, sacrifice, and courage. We must
wait for it gravely. Henceforwarl we
nave nothing more to fear. Germany,
so proud for the last 20 years, is at the
apogee of her power; but do we not
already seem to hear the threateninGs of
disruption2
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
A HISTORIC KETTLE.
The Vicissitudes Copper Utensil
Went Through Years Ago.

Went Through Years Ago.
A lady residing at Tribes Hill, N. Y,
is in possession of a massive copper tea,
kettle which dates back to the days of
the Revolution and has an interesting
history, says Good Housekeeping. 1t
then belonged to Adam Fonda, whose
father was tomahawked during Johnson's
raid, in 1880, his house being burned at
the same time.
Adam Fonda lives on the banks of the
Cayadutta, and his house was also
burned. One of the Tories who was en-
gagged in this vandalism saw in this
house teakettle which was too good to
be destroyed, and he took it and filled it
with butter which had just been churned.
He then hid it under the Cayadutta
Bridge, expecting to return that way,
but he never came back for it, and not
long afterward some children playing
under the bridge discovered it. This
kettle was the only article saved from
the house.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
ILL OMENED JANE.
All Royal Bearers OF the Name Have
Come to Grief.

All Royal Bearers OF the Name Have
Come to Grief.
Jane, as borne by the royal families of
Europe, has always been a name of i'll
omen, says american Notes and Queries
Lady Jane Gray was beheaded for trea-
son; Jane Seymour was one of the VIC
tins of King Hal; Jane Beaufort, wife
of James l, of Scotland, was savagely
murdered; Jeanne de Valois, wife of
Louis XII, was repudiated for her want
Of personal beauty; Jeanne d'Albret,
mother of Henry w, was poisoned by
Catherine de Medici; Jane of Castle lost
her reason through the neglect of her
husband, Philip the Handsome, arch
duke of Austria; Jane l, of Naples,
caused her husband to be murdered and
married his assassin, and Jane IL, of
Naples, was one of the most wanton of
women.