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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03
Cable Sparks.

The early overthrow of the Provis-
ional Government of San Salvador is
expected.
Nine. de Sartorius has been elected
Mother General of the Nuns of the
Sacred Heart.
Hundreds of Mahd' sta living nea
kassala are surrendering to the con
uering Italians. 3
Thirty-eight more Nihilists have been
arrested at st. Petersburg.
Argentina's budget estlmstes fer 1895
indicate an excess of S33, 800, 900 of
revenue over expenses.
Because Professor Pettenkofer, of the
University of Munich, objected to some
of the anti.cholera measures recon-,
mended by Professor Koch, he has
been forced to resign. A
Fierce hurricanes, with heavy rains,
did much damage in the province of
Guadalajsra, Spain.
Polish Catholic Bishops are rebellious
against the Pope for trying to secure
diplomatic relations with Russia.
Balmacedists and other Chilean ex-
lies will be allowed to return to the
country.
United States Ambassador Runyon is
expected to return to his Berlin post on
August 10.
Because of his acquittal of completely
in the Banca Romano scand-
ais, Signor Tanlongo will retire to a
monastery and leave an offering of
thanks. l
Cardinal Ledochowski, Prefect of the
Propaganda Eide, personally tele-
graphed from Luzerne, denying the
report of his death.
The Pope is about to convoke an as
sembly of Cardinals and Eastern patri-
archs for the purpose of discussing the
question of reunion of the Eastern
churches.
The German ship Kalliope, which
was supposed to have been sunk in the
| collision with the Hagenmeyer, was
seen near Fayal, apparently not dam
) aged. 2
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PENNSYLVANIA items

Stage Driver Jacob s. Frederick
hanged himself at Boyertown.
James Brown fatally stabbed John
Rujanish in a fight with knives at
Pittsburg.
Thieves entered the house of William
Meyer, at ~Schuylkill Haven, and Sc
cured a large sum of money,
An unknown Hungarian was found
dead on the Reading Railroad tracks
ear N ahanoy City.
Mrs. LavInla Fleckenstein's body
a found in a mill race at New
rripoli, Berks County, where she had
drowned herself.
An axle broke and wrecked IS empty
box cars on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road at Wellington. Three boys, steal
ing a ride, were hurt.
S~ix.year-old David Wilson accident
ally shot with a gun and killed Nettie
| Lee, colored, of the same age, at Red
town, Allegheny County.
In a fight over a stolen key of beer
/ at Reading on Sunday, two amateur
! base ball clubs almost wrecked the resi-
dence of Frank B. Steigerwald and in
iured several persons.
Euoch Barnhart, of Catasauqua, was
run over and killed by a Reading train
at Hummelstown.
In a fight with a big blacksnake
Andrew Winner, Of Pleasant Valley,
Bucks County, was severely bitten
three times before he succeeded in
killing the reptile,
An injunction wss granted at Harris
burg restraining the Middletown Rail
way Company from occupying the
county bridge over the Swartara Creek
between Middletown and Royalton. 8
twenty-five of the many applicants
from three districts for mine forsmen's
certificates passed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03

IT is perfectly safe to offer 81, 900
reward for 3 wig that will not make
the wearer look as If he were Wearing
the wrong mans hair.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03

WHEN she Is under twenty, ~
hair on her face is poeticaliy referred
to as peach down"
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03
Southern and West.
ern States.

Mrs. seely has beeI errested at An
COLA. O., for beating TO insensibility
Nellie Ray, the 14-y&.r-old daughter
of a neighbor who used water from her
spring without authority. .
On raised drafts, F. NJ. Cellar cheat
ed banks of Delaware all Lorain, o.,
out of $3.50. u
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Heavy Cost of the congo Railway.

Heavy Cost of the Congo Railway.
The statement conce ming the
| Congo railway which was submitted
to the Belgian Chamber the other
day by NJ. De Smet de Mayer, as an
argument 10 favoc OF a subsidy of
R400, 600, has excited a vast mount
of criticism on the part Of the Radi-
calls The Official figures show that
instead of the million Sterling at
| which the cost of construction was
estimated at the outset the railway
will absorb e., $50, 900, and that Its
maintenance will require an annual
outlay of s73, $50 without putting
aside anything towards the liqulda-
| tion of the debt. The annual ex-
| penditure will thus exceed by El2,-
900 the receipts expected in the es-
Inmates Of the company, ever at the
almost prohibitive rates Of 940 per ton
and ego per passenger for Assistance OF
24S miles (400 kilometres) The COM
| pany maintains, however, that when
| the line for a distance OF IFS kilo,
metres Is In working order the rail-
way can be profitably opened. Thus
far, however, 1t has cost G8, 900 per
kilometre to construct and e100, 900
for preliminary surveys, which are
still unfinished, so that it is natural
enough the Minister OF Finance
should hesitate to adopt in their en-
tirety the optimist views of the CON-.
pany. While affirming his belief that
their calculations will prove CORE t,
he is careful to enumerate the p D.
digious and almost insurmountable
difficulties that the enterprise has
encountered. The main obstacles
have been the climate, the soil, the
conformation of the country, and the
impOssibility of finding capable work.
men. Begun In 1890, it was almost
at the end of three years of almost
superhuman effort that the work OF
laying the line from Matadi to kenge,
representing the first section of forty
kIlometreG was accomplished.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03

LIVE men do not fight ovcr dead
tssuea
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03
CRUSHED BY A TROLLEY CAR
A YOUNG MAN FALLS ON THE TRACK ANr
MEETS DEATH.

Philadelphia. - A smooth-shaven
young man, about 90 years old, wa,
crushed to death by trolley car No,
1928, of the Ridge avenue line, on
Arch street, above Fourth. He had
walked from Arch street wharf. He
ran across the street to board a west
bound car and fell on the other track
IN front of a car coming eastward,
which the motorman tried in vain tc
stop in time to save the youth. He
was wedged between the motor box and
the ground, and it was necessary te
raise the car with jacks to extricate
him, The body was taken to the
Morgue 4
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03

Little Dot-Mamma, I've read both
the hoods all through. Mamma
Hoodsl What hoods? Little Lot
Little Red Riding Hood aud RobiD
Hood. Good News.
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Cause and Eject.

Mr. Glibleigh-What is the cause of
20 many divorces? Miss sourleigh-
So many marriages. New YorF
World
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NUMBER 2.
eARY HAD THREE TEETH.
SUIT In Proving This Its Father Nearly
Caused q Domestic Sensation,

~ - ASN AhAH &s a chk
Caused 3 Domestic Sensation.
He Is very prominent in business
tircles and a very busy man, says the
St Louis Republic, but he finds time
occasionally to get acquainted with
bis clerks and even C ats with them
Tome time. One of his bright young
men finding himself favored with a
few words from the boss the other
lay sought to make the most OF the
opportunity by introducing domestic
Affairs Now the mo t important
factor in the bright young mans do
nestle affairs Just now is Il new baby,
and this baby was luggcd into the
chat with the boss. and the import
ant information impaired by the
fond father that the little one had
three new teeth.
How old did you say it was?:"
asked the employer, assuming great
interest in the case.
'Five months, sir" was the reply.
"Oh, come, now, Ed; that won't
10. Five-months-old babies dou't
have teeth. You must he mista Gu
lbout the age"
mo I'm not sir. Iguess l ought
10 know"
Then followed an animated CON
1ersation in which the employer eu-
ieayored to impress upon the EN-
ploye that 1t was an utter imposSi-
bility for a 5-months old ch:d o
have three teeth, while the fond
young father insisted that it was his
child and he ought TO know. The
controversy concluded by the GIN
| ployer Diminishing the subject tn
the remark: "You may be rigrt
about the child's age, but you must
be wrong about the teeth"
Having thus INDUCED In a little SO.
liability the employer thought no
more Of the matter. Not 50 the lgnd
father. He didn't feel good over wnat
had passed, especially as II number OF
his fellow employees had heard the
debate. On going home at The lose
Df his days work he told his wife OF
the discussion and she. like the fret
full porcuplne, had all gu. lis set in
stantly. 'I'll prove 1t to him." SIZE
muttered that night just before going
to sleep Next day the big business
mans wife called on BIN with a lady
friend. and the two ladies were sitting
In the private Office chdtinng With the
big business man when the dice toy
announced:
"a lady with a baby to see you,
SIR"
Before anything could be said she
walked right in. and, without mott =
Ing the ladies. she said:
"Here's my baby, Mr.. Blank. lam
Its mother, and l know it is Just )
months and 3 days old"
Then she grabbed the astoniShed
mans hand, and thrust ng one finger
into theSiufant's mouth, she con
tinued: 'Fcel the teeth? There are
three Of 'em. So there now"
He felt, and then it dawned on him
who she was, and why she mad brought
her baby to his private o,fice. But it
was different with his aristocratic
wife and her female friend. The
former Just gave a little scream and
then started to faint The latter
said, In a cold, hard voice:
''Be calm, Jane. Control your
self"
Then began an explanation, it be.
ing necessary to call 10 the baby's
father to prove himself and testify to
the controversy Of the previous day.
When the tangle was all u%ntlngled
the baby was made mulh Of; but tie
big business man shivercd all the rest
of the day oyer his narrow escape
from being the central figure in a
praak oapcatinn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22
A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Do Some Act to Make 1t Happy One fol
Your Neighbour.

Do Some Act to Make 1t Happy One for
Your Neighbor.
Scarcely less wonderful than the
mystery of the first Christmas night is
the mystery of the perpetuation of the
festival. 1t is far cry enough from
the shepherds who tended their tloclzs
on the hillside of Judea, and the be-
lieving kings who followed the star
from the east, to, let us say, the aver
age American citizen, and the modern
rulers of kingdoms Reverence and
simple faith are not exactly the pre-
vailing characteristics of the former,
nor do the latter betray sufficient keen
ness of interest in things supernal to
warrant the superstition that they
would leave their kingdoms and go
forth laden with treasure, to follow a
mysterious sign in the heavens Yet
withal Christmas brings its message to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

mas board and round the cheerful
hearth. The rich and powerful still
open their Golfers and, with large
handed liberality, scatter their goods
among the poor, thereby initiating the
Magi of old; for is it not written:
Whatsoever we shall do unto the least
of My brethren, We shall do unto Me?"
Thus, in spite of the evil forces with
which modern materialism and inf
deity are seeking to subvert the influ-
ences of Christianity, the Star of Beth
lehem is still in the ascendant, and
Christmas is the greatest and most joy
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22
ODD NEW YEAR CUSTOMS.
Queer Ways of Giving Presents in tn
OIden Times.

Queer Ways of Giving Presents in the
Olden Times.
There used to be custom in vogue
many years ago in placing all the New
Years gifts on the floor in dark room
where the recipients scrambled for
them on their knees, and if they
brought out other than their own they
We're fined a certain sum which was to
be expended in addition to the good
cheer. Bags of bran and baskets of
shavings were used to conceal the gifts
in, and the whole process was made as
difficult and amusing as possible. The
custom of giving New Years presents
dates back to the Saxons, who kept the
festival with great ceremony and feast
ing. In the fifteenth century gloves
were the most appreciated of any pres
ents, being of the finest quality and
handsomely decorated with gold and
silver embroidery. A neat surprise was
a sum of money inclosed in the gloves
A lord chancellor of England, Sir
Thomas Moore, had won a difficult suit
for a lady client, and she remembered
him on New Years day with pair of
gloves which had forty gold pieces
sewed into them. Sir Thomas kept
the gloves, but returned the money,
saying that such lining made him I'M
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

sters-anything, everything, So that
the Gay De merry, ana an hearts rejoice
because Christ the Loro was born.
rorget lor ti,ne tne cares OF BUSINESS,
the pressure of hard times, the threat
enlng future. LOCK up the 1ahily skel-
eton and, with it, all frowns and harsh
words ana the petty tyrannies and jeal-
ousles Oh common DAYS II you can lose
the Key OF the closet' SO much the bet
Ter. II not' even the Drle1 respite from
ugly cares VIII leave us Hediction in
your heart' ana quicken ySur longing
LOT the return OF the IestiVtal of peace.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

W WAS Christmas Eve, and DER the world
IN A mantle white was falling
When Santa Claus set out to do
His yearly round of calling;
The dear old saint rejoiced to see
Apromise of good seghing.
For lots of snow was just what he
A long time had been praying.
So greatly pleased was he to see
Such charming Christmas weather.
That gayly to his task he flew
OF getting things together.
His ample sleigh was put to rights
And loaded full to trimming.
And soon along the country roads
Old Santa Claus was skimming.
Now here, now there. his sprightly deer
With airy lightness darted.
AS fresh when miles and miles away
As when they just had started.
The fleecy flakes kept coming down.
The rambling roaiways hiding;
Yet on and on they flew along
Like shadows swiftly gliding.
But ere his journey was quite DER
St. Nick met trouble dire;
The roads kept filling up apace.
The snow kept png higher.
And from his sight the earth was hid
By flakes so thickly flying.
He could not find the road at ALL
But still he kept on trying.
Here was indeed for Santa Claus
An awkward situation.
And one that for the moment filled
His mind with conservation;
The kindly soul was sad with fear
That on the morrow morning
Some disappointed little friends
His absence would be mourning.
Sill. trusting that kind Providence
Would help him in his trouble,
St. Nick his faithful reindeer steeds
Their efforts urged to double;
And often with a cheering word
The jaded beasts he aided.
While on ahead through snowdrifts deep
To find the road he waded.
At length, amid the flying flakes.
By chance old Santa sighted
Not far away signpost tall.
Whereat he was delighted.
The sign upon the post contained
The welcome information
That close at hand the road ran straight
Unto his destination.
With hope renewed the good old saint
Along the roadway struggled;
And soon he reached sleeping town
Which in valley Struggled.
Here ended Santa's Christmas calls
And here his sleigh he ightened.
Then homeward quickly off he sped
Ere Sol the landscape frightened.
FRANK B. WEIGH.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN2

A Happy New Year! What does it
mean? Are not these words often
thrown out as a greeting without
thought or depth of meaning? Is it
year in which to ourselves come wealth
and health, prosperity and friendship?
One spent in the pursuit of tieeting
pleasure and filled with self-centered
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

these as well as to their widely differ
ent prototypes of nearly two thousand
years ago. The echo of the angelic
voices that sang of peace on earth,
good will to men, still resounds in the
heavens on Christmas night; and broth
err is reconciled to brother, old enmi-
ties are laid away, past sins forgiven,
and the bonds of friendship and family
affection drawn tighter over the Christ
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

Gus festival known to the civilized
world.
A Merry Christmas, then, let it be to
all! A divine religion is not a sad one.
1t brings peace to the heart, and joy is
an exuberance of peace. Therefore let
the bells ring out, and hang out the
mistletoe, and bring on the smoking
turkey, and gather round the fireside,
and join in the frolics of the young
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

If you have no tireside ofyour own to
enliven, seek out the desolate hearth of
some unfortunate brother. There are
many forlorn little ones to whom an
orange and a picturebook would be
foretaste of Heaven. Play Santa Claus
to such, and you will find your Merry
Christmas in the reflection of their in
nocent delight; or carry your greeting
and your gift to some aged and lonely
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

VIZ THIN the quiet house of God
This winter morning fair,
The organ music softly thrills
Upon the listening air;
Then, minglflg with the organ notes,
The choir's sweet voices sound:
"While shepherds watched their fiocks by
night
All seated on the ground"
And straightway, from that blessed place
My wandering fancies roam,
Once more little child am I,
Within my childhood's home;
Ihear again my mothers voice.
Her dear arms clasp me round,
She sings how angel hosts 'came down
And glory shone around"
The moonlight falls across the floor
In bars of silver light.
And many a merry sleighbell breaks
The silence of the night,
My head upon her loving heart
In childish trust is laid
The while she sings of that blest Babe,
IN -llGisssalnesss sGfs ,arrayed"
The pealing organ notes are still. >.
The Christmas hymn is sung,
sit in my accustomed place,
The rev'rent throng among;
But sweet and low within my heart,
There echoes all day long
The memory of my mothers voice
And of the angels song.
e. NJ Griffith, in N. Y. Observer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

interest? No! Rather let the wish be
to each and all, as the New Year dawns
with all its opportunities, that the days
of 1895 may be well spent-filled with
thought and sympathy for those
around, and that in self-forgetting and
kindly deeds the happiness of others
may be ever sought, and then most
truly will each act rebound again in joy
and blessing to the heart from which it
springs at Work.
SANTA CLAUS will be just as well
pleased if you distribute few stockings
instead of filling quite SO many this year.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

creature whose last Christmas it will be
on earth, and earn blessing that will
repay your efforts hundredfold
There is, happily, no monopoly of the
joys of Christmas. If they do not come
to us, we can go to them. We have
but to open our hearts and stretch out
our hands, and the messengers of peace
will come gladly trooping toward us.
1t will be our own fault if we have not
each and all Merry Christmas.-Once
Week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

One of the most melancholy sights in
nature is man trying to buy a Christ
mas present for woman. He knows
in a vague way that the present must
not be a pair of suspenders or a shaw
ing set, but when he comes to particu-
larize the poor man lapses into perfect
imbecility, and gives his sister the
money and tells her to buy the present.
Boston Globe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-22

A TAX on incomes: Christmas. Phil
adelphia Record.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
ROyally Entertained.

4 delegation of Waco citizens,
oousi sting of Messrs. II H Kings.
hurry, Thomas and McClintock, ali
members of the Grand Orient, went
do so Cameron, where, assisted
10y a delegation from Calvert, they
organined q lodge of the Grand
Orient, aud guided number of
pilgrims through the persuasive
mysteries of the initiation degrees.
They were royalty entertained by
NJ essrs J d. Womack, J. f.
Rantsr snd Messrs. Crawford q
Crawford, bankers, who rendered a
most elegant banquet.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
PERSONAL.

w. II Breeding, of San Antonio,
ia mt the Pacific.
Oliver III. Johnson Of Spencer,
Ind, is Stopping at the Royal.
The Two Orphans Company are
comfortably located at the Hotel
Royal.
h. Lindsey and j. w. McAlester,
of st. j oe, M, are guest at the
Hotel Royal.
T. w. Gregory, a prominent
attorney of Austin, was in the city
this morning.
f. Q. Hill aud son and G. p. ST.
C.air, Of Comanche, are stopping al
the Hotel Royal.
ii b. Burr, a prominent and
el'-kncwn Dallasite, is auto
graphed at the Poetic.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals addressed to the
mayor and street committee will be
received at the office of city
St cretary, TO be opened at 3 o'clock
p M. March Sth, 1894, at the city
hall, Waco, Texas by the mayor
and street committee, for furnish.
ing all labor, material, grading and
paving Webster street, from east
line of Sixteenth street, southwest
to the city limits, according to plan
and Specifications on file in city
engineers Office; a certified check
for two hundred and fifty (s25o)
dollars, payable to the mayor OF
Waco, Texas, must accompany each
proposal, before it will be con-
sidered; approximate quantities
seventeen Thousand 10000 square
yards; the right to reject any and sll
proposals is hereby reserved by the
CITY council of the city of Waco,
Texas.
G. c. McCULLocH,
Mayor.
Attest:
w. G. COOPER,
City Secretary.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
Notice to Contractors

Sealed proposals addressed to the
mayor and street committee viii be
received at the offi,e of city secretary
to be opened at 3 O'Clock, p. NJ.
March Slh, 1894, at the City Hall,
Waco, Texas, by the mayor and street
committee, for furnishing all labor,
material, grading and paving Thir.
teenth Q3) street from Jefferson
street to Morrow street, according to
the plan and specifications on file in
city engineers Office, approximate
Quantities fifty five hundred (55O0)
square yards; certified check for
two hundred and fifty $3.50 dollars
payable to the mayor OF Wa o, Texas,
must accompany each proposal, be
tore it will be considered; the right
to reject any and all proposals is
hereby reserved by the City Council,
of the city of Waco, Texas,
q. e. MoCULLocH, Mayor.
Attest:
W. c. Cooper, City Secretary.
Telephone Egan for Coal.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
ANNOUNCEMENTS
rnIlNrN NEFICEKS.

The News is authorized t, announce Nor
II Ssandeter, asa candidate for County ireas
urer, al the next ELECTION.
". are sut orzsd TO aunouce JOSEPH 80 %
Clifton a. a candidate for nonluhtion a. Aresh
n,sro o. McLenn L county, subject TO the "esiei
Of the Denocrac' Of the county
The Ssws 10 au.hnriz ID to ANNOUNCE w, u
Holou, as a caudi's.e tor County Iress.uiIe'
At the ensuing ele' on suplec' 70 'ne "''''
of the Democrat Arty
John NJ Copnor f. a candi ate for County
Trensu er subject to the acton of the demo
cratic party.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-01
PHYSICIANS.
DIR, BALDWIN,.

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