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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
A Horses Expression of Grief.

A horse not only shed tears under the
emotion of grief, but in moments of
sudden or intolerable anguish utters a
most melancholy cry. In one of Coop.
er's Indian novels dramatic use is made
of the scream of wounded horse; and
Lord Erskine, in speech made in the
House of Lords upon the bill for en-
forcing humanity towards animals,
noticed this remarkable fact. An eye
witness relates the following: ION the
advance to the heights of Alma a
battery of artillery became exposed to
the fire of a concealed Russian battery,
and in the course of few minutes it
was nearly destroyed, men and horses
killed and wounded, guns dismounted,
and limbers broken. On passing this
wreck shortly afterward, observed a
single horse still attached and unhurt.
By its side on the ground lay its late
master. quite dead. The poor brute
had turned around as far as possible
toward him, with its head to the ground
smelling the body, and there were
copious tears flowing from its eyes. 1t
looked so like a human being In dire
distress that ! could not forget the sad
expression for several days"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Do Dogs Understand Words :?

While dogs generally do not really
know the meaning of one-half the
words that their masters think they
know, they certainly do learn to dis
criminate between certain words with
the sound of which they have been
made familiar They are, however,
much better mind-readers than word
readers, says Youths Companion.
1t is common thing to hear people
say of Il dog, He understands every
thing that Is said" | do not believe
that this was ever true of any dog, nor
anywhere near true. Intelligent dogs
know their names and generally rec
ogniZe the meaning of some half dozen
other words. But they are so wonder
fully quick in the use of their instinc-
tive perceptions-so much quicker than
civilized human beings ever are-that
people who see them exercise these
perceptions often unreasoningly assume
that they understand the words upon
which, rather than upon instructive
perceptions, human beings base their
actions. l will illustrate what | mean.
| once had a Newfoundland that was
regarded as a marvel of intelligence.
In the evening, when | made to him
some cush Wordy speech as this, ''In
my opinion, the hour has arrived when
every wcll-regulated canine citizen
should retire for the night" he would,
to the great wonder of strangers, pick
himself up from the rug reluctantly,
stretch, look furtively at me, and then
90 away to his sleeping-place in the
shed.
But if, at the right time and in the
accustomed way, l repeated a phrase
from the Scriptures or quoted a line
of poetry in a foreign language, the
dog would retire in precisely the same
way. 1t was the understood wish, not
the speech, that he obeyed.
Often the beSt-trained dog seems to
fail to understand an accustomed com
mand. Every one who is familiar with
dogs knows that these cases often
happen, and that when they do the
command must be repeated until the
animal somehow catches it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02

In India domesticated elephants are
usually given drink from large wooden
troughs filled with wellwater by means
of a pump, and it is commonly an ele
plant that fills the trough. Every
morning he goes regularly to his task.
While visi ting friend at his fine resi-
dence in India, correspondent of II
paper saw large elephant engaged in
pumping such trough full OF water.
In passing" the writer says. Il
noticed that one of the two tree trunks
which supported the trough at either
end had rolled from its place, so that
the trough, still elevated at one ex
tremity, would begin to empty itself
as soon as the water reached the level
of the top at the other end, which lay
on the ground.
Il stopped to see if the elephant
would discover anything wrong. Soon
the water begun to run off at the end
which had lost its support. The AMI
NAL showed signs of perplexity when
he saw this, but as the end nearest him
lacked much of being full, he continued
to pump.
FINALLY, seeing that the water con-
tinued to pass off, he left the pump
handle and began to consider the pho
nomenon. He seemed to find it diff.
cult to explain. Three times he re-
turned to his pumping, and three times
he examined the trough. 1 was an alb
sorbed locker. on, impatient to see what
would be done.
Soon lively Tapping of his ears
indicated the dawning of light. He
went and smelled of the tree trunk
which had rolled from under the
trough. I thought for moment that
he was going to put it in its place
again. But it was not, as soon un.
derstood, the end which ran over that
disturbed his mind, but the end which
he found impossible to fill.
Raising the trough, which he then
allowed to rest for an instant on one of
his huge feet. he rolled away the
second supporting log with his trunk,
and then set the trough down, so that
it rested at both ends on the ground.
He then returned to the pump and
completed the task"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
De Cosmos, the Legislator of British
Columbia, Spoke 20 Hours.


Columbia, Spoke 26 Hours.
The longest speech on record is be.
lieved to have been made by Mr. De
Cosmos, in the Legislature of British
Columbia when u measure was pend
ing the passage of which would take
from great many settlers their lands.
De Cosmos was in a hopeless minority,
says the Pail Mall Budget The job
had been held back till the eve of the
close of the session; unless legislation
was taken before noon of given day,
the act of confiscation would fail.
The day before the expiration of the
limitation De Cosmos got the floor
about 10 A. NJ, and began speech
against the bill Its friends cared lit
tie, for they supposed that by one or
two o'clock he would be through, and
the bill could be put on its passage
One o'clock came, and De Cosmos was
speaking still-had not more than en-
tered upon his subject. Two o'clock
he was saying "in the second place"
Three o'clock-he produced fearful
bundle of evidence and insisted on
reading it. The majority began to
have suspicion of the truth-he was
going to speak till next noon and kill
the bill
For awhile they made merry over it,
but as it came on to dusk, they began
to get alarmed. They tried Interrupt
tions, but soon abandoned them, be-
cause each one afforded him chance
to digress and gain time. They tried
to shout him down, but that gave him
a breathing space, and, finally, they
settled down to watch the combat be-
tween strength of will and weakness of
body. They gave him no mercy, no ad-
journment for dinner, no chance to do
more than wet his lips with water, no
wandering from his subject, no sitting
down.
Twilight darkened; the gas was lit;
members slipped out to dinner in re-
lays and returned to sleep in squads,
but De Cosmos went on. The Speaker
to whom he was addressing himself,
was alternately doing, snoring and
trying to look wide-awake. Day dawn
ed, and the majority slipped out in
squads to wash and breakfast, and the
speaker still held on. 1t cannot be
said that it was very logical, eloquent
or sustained speech. There were di-
gressions in it, repetitions also. But
still the speaker kept on, and at last
noon came to a batfled majority, livid
with rage and impotence, and single
man who was triumphant, though his
voice had sunk to husky whisper,
his eyes were almost shut and were
bleared and bloodshot; his legs tottered
under him, his blacked lips were crack
ed and smeared with blood. De Cos
mos had spoken twenty-six hours, and
saved the settlers their lands!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Something About the Ammunition Used
on Big Ships.

All men-of-War are provided with
magazines and shell-rooms. They are
situated under the water-linc, and can
be quickly filled with water by open
ing the flood valves Each charge of
powder is kept in a separate bag, and
each bag in Il separate can, which is
composed of copper and Theoretically
sealed. Well kept magazines can be
flooded scores of times without injur-
ing the powder. Powder that had been
submerged for months in the sunllen
American men-Of-war at Samoa was
found, upon its recovery, to be as per
rect in every respect as on the day ii
was put aboard those ships.
All implements used in the handling
of powder on Warships are composed
of copper. Persons entering Il maga-
zine are compelled to don suit of
clothes and slippers especially made
for the purpose. All fires are hauled
under the gallery stoves, and no Smok-
ing is allowed about the decks when
the powder is being put aboard. Gun
powder is composed of three ingredi-
ents-charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
The proportions Of the ingredients vary
considerably, according to the use for
which the composition is intended
The charge of powder for a cannon
varies from one-fourth to one-third the
weight of the projectile. With the Old
fashioned smooth-bore guns, firing the
round shot, it is sometimes as high us
one-third, but in modern guns it has
been demonstrated that the velocity is
not much increased when the charge is
greater than one-fourth.
The intensity of the force of gun
powder is highly variable at different
portions of the path along the bore,
being very great near the seat of tho
shot and rapidly declining towards the
muzzle. Equal velocities will be i'm
parted only when at different points
in the path along the bore the respec-
tive intensities are proportional to the
columns of metal.
The size of grain In gunpowdcr is
one of the most important points to be
considered as modifying the explosive
ness of powder. Although charge
of powder appears to explode instan-
taneously, yet both ignition and COM
bustion are comparatively gradual; the
flame is communicated from one grain
to another, and each burns in conccn-
trio layers until it is consumed, so that
the combustion of the grains is not
simultaneous.
For each gun, or charge of gunpOW-
der, there is a size of grain which pro-
duces maximum velocity with mini
mum initial strain. But as each kind
of powder has to be employed in more
than one piece Of ordnance, 1t is ncceS-
Shry to select that size which will best
suit all of them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
NOah'S Tomb.

On.the great plain of Ararat stands
the areient city of Nakhtchevan, scarce
ly more than village when compared
with some of the modern cities of either
Asia, Europe or America, but celebrated
the world over on account of wonder.
full relic which is within its limits
nothing less than the tomb of Noah, the
builder of the ark The burial place
of the old patriarch Is situated at the
side of the broken walls of an aban-
doned fortress in the midst of vast
plain which is literally covered with
the remains of bygone glories, which
now lie half buried in the drifting sands.
The tomb itself is small, round cell,
the interior forming an octagon 10 or
II feet in diameter, which, until quite
lately, was half filled with old lamps,
broken pots and vases, residuary grease
and other mementoes of tho piety of
the faithful visitors at the shrine. For
merly the tomb was visited by the pill
grims Of all faiths-Russians, Ameri-
cans, Persians, Jews, Turk omans, Mo-
hammedans, Budhists, fire worshippers,
etc.-all of whom seemed bent on doing
reverence to our common post deluvian
father. The view on both sides of this
ancient structure is very fine, com
manding an extensive prospect of the
plains of Armenia and the two peaks of
Ararat, tho only two peaks In the world
for which it can be claimed that they
were once inhabited by all the living
human beings on the globe.-St. Louis
Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
HypnOtics Frauds Exposed.

In the Popular Science Monthly Dr.
Hart discusses a subject which, what
ever one may think OF its merits. is
certainly attracting wide attention. or
his exposure of certain frauds he says:
''Skeptic as | was, but willing to be
convinced. l had purchased two rather
pretty little sailor dolls, twin brothers
of the navy, at neighboring toy-shop
One of these she MADAME ViX) held
her sensitiveness' by contract | then
rapidly substituted the twin doll from
my pocket, and put away the sensi-
tiviZed doll for future service To
make the performance quite regular
l cut off minute lock Of her hair and
pretended to affix it to the doll To
this proceeding, which had seen Col
de Rochas gravely go through, she
rather objected In her profound sleep,
much to our quiet amusemnt. 'C'est
trop, c'est trop,' she murmured, appar-
emily thinking that l was taking too
much hair for the money. l need not
say that l did not aftix it to the head
of the doll, although 1 went through
the motions Of doing so. l have now,
and shall preserve, the two little doll
witnesses and the valuable tress of
hair as momentos of this interesting
performance. IL may take It's place
by the side Of the famous tress cut
from the locks Of the spirit form Of
Katie King. We then produced, with
the aid of the untouched doll, just un-
rolled from the tissue paper Of the toy
shop, all the phenomena Of the en-
voutement of the sorcerers, of which
so much has been heard lately and
which have figured 80 largely in the
pages of the great newspapers of Eng
land and France. She felt acutely
when its imaginary lock was touched
and pulled, whether by myself or by
DIR. Sajous, by NJ. Cremiere, or by any
one else In the room. She greatly re-
sented Its being pricked; she felt all
sorts of indescribable and generalized
heats and pains when the doll was
touched in places of which she could
not well make out the locality, owing
to our backs being turned to her, and
she was duly suffocated when we pre-
tended to sit down on the doll l am
ashamed to say that the real doll was
lying there all the time, cruelty stabbed
by me to the heart with stout PIN
of which she was unconscious. Its
maltreatment, which ought theoreti-
cally to have been fatal to her, pro-
duced no visible effect. These per-
formances she went through three
times"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
FROsTBURG Md, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1893

every other person old enough and
strong enough was engaged in saving
and securing the cargo.
ITO his dying day that young coast
guard who watched by the dead will
never forget that night. AS the clothes
of the victims dried they began to stir
in the breeze. Scores of times he
thought he saw leg, or an arm, or a
head raised. Scores of times he
thought he heard a cry. By midnight
the young man was half dead with
terror.
After midnight the moon began to
blink through the torn sky, and the
young man thought he must have
company or go mad. 1t was near low
water, and the people working at the
salvage were a good way off. He was
at the fire furthest from the workers.
He stopped and picked up few pieces
of wood and mended the fire so that
it might be all right while he was gone
to fetch company. When finished
with the fire and before rising from
his crouching posture, he glanced over
his shoulder down the long Ghastly
line of the dead. A change had taken
place in that line. He turned his head
further round and saw standing over
him human figpre-the figure of a
woman-the figure Of one Of the dead
the figure which had q minute ago
lain nearest to the fire!
With a yell he rose and jumped back
Il am so cOld,' said the figure oh,
am as cold as death.
'The young man fled screaming to
the crowd down by the water. As
soon as he could speak he told what
had happened. A dozen men ran back
with him. They found the young girl
dazed and shivering, kneeling ON the
ground with her white, wan face turn
ed towards the fire
'She was the only one Of the fifty
seven who recovered. She had lost
her father and mother in the Unicorn,
and was alone in the world. Her
father, a wheelwright, was on his way
to America. The sixteen others saved
went away from Mynhin in a few
days. This young girl remained in the
village, and three months after the
young coastguard married her. Per
nit me to introduce myself to you as
that coastguard, and, as the young
girl who that night stood up over me
by the fire, my wife"
l rose and bowed to the buxom land
lady who sat knitting in the bar.
Il don't recollect anything from the
time l was washed off the vessel"
said the landlady, until all the people
were round me by the fire. l don't
recollect seeing Tom at the fire"
WELL said the landlord. knocking
the ashes from his pipe, you can see
Tom at the fire now, my dear, and
Toms glass is pty.'-Richard Dow
ling.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
The English Language,

Professor Vambery has been lecturing
on the Fashion of Languages" before
the Buda- Pest English Club. English,
he said, may now be called the most
fashionable language in all the five parts
of the world. 1t began to spread in
the first decades of the century through
English literature, and in Asia by
means of accelerated communication.
Steamers were the wings of the English
language.in..the far East, and its spread
ing from India and the Straits Settle
ments to China and Japan is simply
miraculous.
There is no exaggeration in saying
that the number of English-speaking
Asiatics amounts today to 10000 900;
that of Europeans to more than 1,000,-
600. and these, added to 126, 900, 900
Anglo o-Saxons, give total of English
speaking men and women of 130, 000,-
600. Should the increase continue in
the same proportion, the middle OF
next century will have 200, 900, 900 Eng
lish-speaking persons and the English
will have no rival in the world beside
the Chinese.
Phonetically English is unsuitable
for the foreigner, and the lecturer de-
clares he always suffer pain in the jaws
when speaking publicly in England and
trying to initiate genuine English. The
phonetic difficulties are, however,
amply rewarded through the express
siveness, the rare precision, vigor and
exactness in which English surpasses
all other European tongues. London
News.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02

The first book of any kind published
IN Philadelphia was Atkins Alma
mack" for the year 1856. 1t was an
unpaged pamphlet of ten leaves, only
two copies of which are now known
to be in existence. The first copy of
the "Almanack' printed was sent to
Col. Markham, Penn's deputy, who re-
ported to the council that the book
had enormously declared Pennsylvania
TO have been founded by Lord Penn"
The council disproved any such high
sounding titles and directed the author
md printer (William Bradford to
forthwith and effectually blot out ye
words Lord Penn. " This had the
effect of recalling the whole edition
and the abolition of the obnoxious
words.-Phila6elphia Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Or why Maiden Remained Maiden
All Her Days.

A maiden of four-and-forty was tell
ing IL young thing about her first and
only true love affair. She said: 1T was
when | was twenty-seven. l was
never Il beautiful girl, and, as there
We're none too many young men in our
town, / had not met any one whom 1
could truly love Not that / didn't
have attention, for l did. But one day
an artist came to the village and got
lodgings at the hotel. He was n hand
some fellow. tall, 1.-THE and with blue
eyes and red cheeks. l met him in
the fields and we became friends.
Time passed on and we became more
than friends. In two months he had
told me that he loved me, and | had
promised TO be his wife. We We're
foolish and romantic We planned to
clope. The night came. My lover
whiStlcd beneath my window. l was
waiting for him, and stole out on the
veranda and down the ladder. In an
upper room my mother slumbered on,
unconscious of the fact that she was
losing her daughter, Then terrible
thing happened and the elderly per-
son began TO sob. what was it,
asked the young thing, feverishly. MY
father threw out my trunk from the
second story, 1t struck my lover on
the arm, and he refused to have anv-
thing more to do with me-"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

son theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station Cum
berland.
Nos. |, =, and daily except Sunday. Nos 5
and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only
No baggage car will be hauled en- trains Nos
and i. l.. NJ HAMILTON
May =, Superintendent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
a I&l
Satisfactory.

Billy-Say, Chimmie, it's de hess
play
Chimmie-Whyf
Blly-Dey's tree coppers in it, and
dey gets it in de neck every act.-pucl.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02

Mrs. Clacker-Is that gentleman
standing by the door friend of yourss
Mrs. Whacker-Oh, no, indeei. That's
my husband.-Life.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-12

The guaranteed cure for all headaches
Is .Seltzer-trial bottle lOcts.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-12

Those Who Sell Consigned Pianos.
When consignment piano and
organ agents, who may still have
some credit with the manufacturers,
can not fod any more unfortunate
men to travel on commission, they
may try to make local agents in differ.
ent towns of any parties who will pay
freights on few sample instruments.
The consignment class of instruments
can BIO detected by the agent demand.
ing notes with interest and ironclad
contracts on installment sales.
People who sign notes and buy such
instruments deserve no sympathy. We
are cash buyers We have six houses
in Texas; we employ salaried sales
men; we do not ask for notes on time
sales. THos. GoGdAN & Bro.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-12
A Sound Liver Makes Well Man

Are you Bilious, Constipated or
troubled with Jaundice, Sick Head.
ache, Bad Taste in Mouth, Foul
Breath, Coated Tongue, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Hot Dry Skin, Pain in
Back and between the Shoulders
Chills and Fever, etc. If you have
any of these symptoms, your Liver is
out of order, and your blood is slowly
being poisoned, because your Liver
does not act properly. HERBINE will
cure any disorder of the Liver, Stom.
ach or Bowels. 1t has no equal as a
Liver Medicine. Price, rs cents.
Free trial bottle at H. c. FISHER 8
Drug Store, Waco, and J. B. Cornish's
Drug Store, East Waco, Texas.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-12

BEING located near the Government Depart
men,s am able 70 give your claims better at
tention than attorneys located elsewhere. Spe-
cial att, ntion given to difficult and rejected
claims. Ifyour present attorney does not suit
you and IL slow write me. Soldiers who have
lost their discharges can Obtain new ones.
Charges OF d. seition removed No fee unless
Iget you pension. Advice tree. Sol
diers pensioned ut less than tweIve(ei2) dollars
per month snd suffering from disability H. i'd
dluon to tina AIMED in their pension G. rtifcate
may obtain increase under the new law. II l.
not necessary for you to have gotten any all
ment- in war 10 get pen-ioned under the new
law. Pensions f,r widows and children with
out regard to cause Of soldiers death; for moth
era and fathers no are now dependent. wheth.
er they were dependent on soldier when he
died or not, PensiOns obtained for service rem
dered In M can and Indian wsrs All Mex
lean pensions can now be increased 80 el2 q
month.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-12

Caveats, Trade Marks, Desigus. Copyrights
Al al Patent business conducted for Nodcr-
ate Fees. Information and advice given TO
lnyentors without charge Address. IL. n
MClNTIRE Pension and Patent Attorney, Box
q, Washington, ID. G.