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 Publishers and J
 From Mondays Dafly.l
 Mir. j. L. Curl, of Grace, is in tse city.
 MT. |. J. Terry. of Camden, spent Sunday in Pine Bluff.
 Mr. Orlando Halliburton. of Little Rock, is in the city today.
 Mr. A. ". Nunn came mp from Riycs yesterday afternoon.
 Mir. Joe Walker came up from Cornerstone this morning.
 Only q short time remains until the tax books will be closed.
 Mr. Ed. Harper. of Camden, is registered at the Arlington.
 Mr. John NJ Oracle came down from Little Rock this morning. Dr. A. G. Thompson, of Lee Springs, is in the city on a business visit.
 R. D. McGaughy, Esq., of Althei- mer, arrived in the city this morn- ing.
 Seats for Keene will be placed on sale al Altschul's tomorrow morn ing at o'clock
 Judge Frank SiIvermau, wife and daughter, Miss Edith, arrived in Pine Bluff yesterday.
 Mir. Lev. Fowler left for the City of Mexico Saturday night, in company with Mir. June Ingram.
 The churches of the city had small congregations yesterday on account of the heavy rain. which fell all day and night.
 WANTED:-Several trustworthy gentlemen or ladies to travel ill Arkansas for established, reliable house Salary $7S0 and expenses. Steady position Enclose reference and self addressed stamped en- velope. The Dominion Company third floor, Omaha Building, Chicago, Ill. , Il w6m  Miss Mary Meyer left this morning for Monroe, La, and Port Gibson. Miss, to visit her sister, Mrs. Maurice Calm.
 Mrs. Becker, nee Miss Nora Blu thenthaI, arrived from Chicago his morning on a visit to Pine Blnff relatives and friends.
 The Choral Club will be entertained by Misses Minnie and Grace York at the home of their parents on West Fifth avenue, this evening.
 Rev4Dr Browning. State Eyange- list for the Christian Church, spent Sunday in this city. He returned to tsle Rock yesterday afternoon. Mir. and Mrs. Isaac Dreyfus re- turned home from the Eastern markets this morning, where Mr Dreyfus purchased a large' stock oi goods.
 
 Rev. Dr. Godbey, editor of the Ar kansas Methodist, will preach to night in Riverside Methodist Church South. The public cordially invited to attend.
 q. E. Hixson, Instituting Chief D the Improved Order of Red Men is Ill the city to assist Jos. stark Il the organization of a tribe in th hunting grounds of Pine Bluff
 The Epworth League prayer meet ing will be held at the Main Stree Methodist Church at 8 o'clock te night. "The First Temptation wi be the subject of discussion and Nil Amos Wilson and Misses Mary Me Gehee and Nettie Grace Mir. Gate Van Valkenburg will act as leaders Everybody is invited.
 
 WANTDE:-Several trustworth gentlemen or ladies to travel Arkansas for established, reliab i.ouse. Salary $7S0 and expense steady position Enclose referent anu self addressed stamped q veiope. The Dominion Compan, taaH. sa1ss's floor, Omaha Buildin; 'nicago' III , II w6m
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
The Only yenomous BIRD.

Among all the thousands of feathered
creatures classified by the trained Or
nithologists, but one, the rpir n'doob,
or "bird of death, " is known to be ven
omous. This queer and deadly species
of the winged and feathered tribe is a
native of the island of Papua, Or New
Guinea. The bird is described as being
abont the size Of common tame pigeon,
of gray plumage, and tail of extraor-
dinary length, ending in a tip of bril-
liant scarlet red. 1t is marsh bird and
is found to inhabit only the immense
stagnant pools adjoining the lakes of
the interior of the island. The rpir has
hooked beak, as sharp as cocks spur
and hollow. The venom with which he
inoculates is distilled in set of organs
which nature has provided for that pur-
pose and which lie in the upper mandi-
BILE, just below the openings of the nos
trils. Under this poison secreting labora-
tory i'll the roof of the mouth is a small,
f1eshy knob. When the bird sets its beak
III the flesh of a victim, this knob re-
ceives a pressure which iberates the
venom and inOculates the wound. No
man, native or otherwise, was ever
known to recover from bite inflicted
by rpir 'doob. The suffering in such
cases is said to be much more agonizing
than i'll cases of rattlesnake and Gila
monster bites. st. Louis Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
Great Men and the Presidency.

There is-nothing more pathetic in our
history than the successive disappoint-
ments of great men in the matter of the
presidency. They have dedicated their
lives to the service of the country with
the belief that their labors would surely
bring them what they earned, but after
all their endeavors, they have been dis
appointed and the prize has gone to
men Of inferior merits, as if in contempt
of the rules of justice and propriety.
There is no way to explain this curious
irony of destiny. We only know that it
is a part of the established order of
things, and no man is great enough to
be exempt from it.
In sense, men of superior ability are
always at "a disadvantage, by reason of
the envy that they provoke and the hos
tility that they excite, but this should
not be sufficient to deprive them of what
rightfully belongs to them, as the presi-
dency certainly has rightfully belonged
to number of men who have not been
able to obtain it.
The tendency of such form of gov
ernment as ours should be to reward
public men according to their true de-
serts and to keep the highest Office fill
ed with the best examples of current
greatness, but tho truth is that it does
not thus justify itself. st. Louis G lobe
Democrat
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
NEWS OF LINCOLN'S DEATH,
An Illustration of the Improvement In
the Means of Communication.

the Means of Communication.
Writing upon the subject of 'The Ro-
nance of Our News Supply" Mr.. W.
@. Fitzgerald tells story about the
death of President Lincoln which strik-
ingly illustrates the improvement effect
ed i'll our means of communication dur
ing the last 80 years. In those days
there were no Atlantic cables working,
and news of the shooting of the presi-
dent and his subsequent death had to
come by steamer. All night after Wilkes
Booths fatal shot had been fired Reu-
ter's agent at Washington waited for
the announcement of Lincoln's death,
which was known to be imminent.
The president passed away at 80 the
next morning at the very moment a
great steamer was leaving for England.
The energetic agent hired fast tug and
pursued the departing steamer until no
was near enough to cast on her deck a
tin canister containing the mournful
tidings. This was the only intimation
of Lincoln's death received in England
by the mail. 1t was the custom in those
days for swift yachts to meet the in
coming Atlantic liners off the coast of
Ireland. Tin cans of special construction
were thrown overheard by the officers Of
the steamer and picked up by the yachts,
after which the messages were conveyed
with all possible expedition to the near
est telegraph fice.-London News.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
ENGINEERING BY A MOUSE,
The SkiI1ful Plan by Which He Got Him.
self Out of a Deem Hole.


"While digging holes for telegraph
poles at Byron, Me-" said Western
Union man, II became interested in
watching the ingenuity and persever-
ance of Il mouse. He fell into one of the
holes, which was AZ feet deep and
20 inches across. The first day he ran
around the bottom of the hole, trying to
find some means Of escape, but could
not climb out. The second day he set
tied down to business He began stead
lily and systematically to dig q spiral
groove round and round the inner sur
face of the hole with uniformly as
cending grade. He worked night and
day, and as he got farther from the bot
tom he dug little pockets where he
could either lie or sit and rest. Interest
ed witnesses threw in food
cat the end of two weeks the mouse
struck rock. This puzzled him. For
nearly a day he tried to get under,
around OF over the obstruction, but
without success. With unfinching pa
tience he reversed his spiral and went
on tunneling his way in the opposite
direction. At the end of four weeks he
reached the top and probably sped away
to enjoy his we'll earned freedom. His
escape was not seen. When his food was
put i'll in the morning, he was near the
surface, but at night the work was seen
to be complete, and the little engineer,
whose pluck and skill had saved his
life, had left. New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
HIS 100000 BANK ACCOUNT.
What Happened When a Capitalist Sud-
denly Met His Banks Paying Teller.

What Happened When a Capitalist Sud-
denly Met His Banks Paying Teller.
A paying teller Of a down town bank
tells an interesting story of Cuban ex
perience Of his. 81 shall never forget,
he said, chow I nearly sent man into
fits one day last winter, all because
met him unexpectedly.
81 had been planning little jaunt
down to Cuba for some time. As it was
doubtful when 1 should be able to get
away from the bank said nothing about
it to my friends or the banks customers.
/ had been instrumental in getting q
good sized account for the bank-one of
those 100000 ones that are hard to
pick up nowadays and worth quite a
good deal of money to us. knew the
head of this concern, and, in fact, had
got the account through him. He told
us when he gave it to us that he was in
a hurry to get it fixed satisfactorily be-
cause he was about to go to Cuba.
Gas soon as was able to get away I
sailed for Havana. I staid in the island
nearly a month, having most delight
full time and keeping one eye open for
my friend of our new account. was
just about ready to start for home when
I met him, quite by chance, in one of
the Havana shops. When he saw me he
jumped back about five feet, as if he
had been shot from out of gun.
"'God bless my soul-you here?' he
said. why, wha-t?' He seemed struck
all in heap. You here? Good heav-
ens!' had to laugh, and laugh hard at
that, for l knew what was troubling
him. He was thinking of that 800,
balance, and worrying about it-a little.
You see, as was the paying teller of
the bank, the thought naturally flashed
through his mind that had skipped
with the banks funds and large slice
of his hundred thousand.
"Cf course, as soon as he saw me
laugh and his excitement had cooled
down little he began to see the fun of
the thing and that he and the bank were
safe, after all. We found out we were
going home on the same steamer and
ten minutes later we walked over to the
American consul's office together and
got our passports vised. And we had a
jolly time of it back on the boat. -
New York World
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
THE FASTNET LIGHT.
It 10 t.,e First Glimpse the American Gets
of Foreign Shores.

1t 10 ts,s First Glimpse the American Gets
of Foreign Shores.
The first glimpse of Great Britain
that the American tourist gets ON his
European tour is that of the Fastnet
lighthouse.
1t stands On rugged and solitary
rock, situated nine miles south of Crook
haven, at the extreme southwest corner
of Ireland, and is perhaps more storm
beaten than any other around our coast.
The rock is so feet in height, and the
lighthouse towers another 70 feet above,
yet, in winter gales, the Atlantic bill
lows literally lombard the massive
structure and have even smashed in q
portion Of the lantern at the summit of
the erection, the seas frequently sweep
ing over the rock with tremendous
force Some two or three years ago the
stormy weather then prevailing prevent
ed all communication with the rock for
many weeks, so that the store of food
was consumed, with the exception of
some flour. At last schooner managed
to approach sufficiently near to enable
small quantity of food to be dragged
through the sea by the hungry men, and
fortunately the next day the sea mod
Grated, and the stores were once more
fully replenished.
Except in very calm weather the
Fastnet is surrounded by fringe of
foam, and the only means of landing is
by the aid of Glib" 5S feet in length,
so placed on the rock that, in moderate
weather, its end reaches outside the
surf. When visitor wishes to land Gan
unusual occurrence), he is rowed in
small boat as near as the waves permit,
and the lightkeepers throw out small
buoy, attached to a rope, which is Sc
cured by the man in the boat. The jib
is then swung out, and the visitor,
placing one foot IN the loop and catch
ing tight hold of the rope, is hoisted
about 40 feet vertically, and then the
jib, being pivoted at its foot, swings
him horizontally about 100 feet on to
safe landing. Sketch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
THE BORE WAS SHOCKED,
A Blunt Letter That Reached Him From
the Interior Department..

A Blunt Letter That Reached Him From
the Interior Department.
The following anecdote is related of
Judge Cox, who was once secretary Of
the interior: There is class of people,
and a large one, who find pleasure in
corresponding with the departments on
trivial subjects and prolong the cor
respondence indefinitely. A Agentleman,
let us call him Mr.. Jones, was one Of
these persistent specimens who wrote to
the interior department. Although re-
plies were made to his inquiries, he al
ways returned to the front with another
unimportant question. His case became
a subject of conversation among the
clerks, and at lunchtime one day some
one referred to Mr.. Jones' ability as a
letter writer.
"If had my way" said clerk, "I'd
soon put an end to his nonsense.
How would you do it?"
"Why, I'd write him letter like
this" and he wrote as follows:
DEAR Mr.. JoNEs-Yours Of the 9th inst
received. In reply would say that your in
tellectual capacities are rather inferior to
those Of a boneless Goldfish. l am tired of you.
Hoping you will not write again, remain,
yours respectfully, -.
The letter was passed around and read
and finally carelessly thrown aside on a
desk. 1t remained there until evening,
when it was collected, with others, by
the messenger whose duty it was to car
ry letters from the several divisions to
the secretary for his signature. It
CHANGED to be among some letters relat-
Ing to routine matters, and Secretary
Cox affixed his signature without read
ing it. Then it went through the mail
to Mr.. Jones. The following day the
secretary received communication
from Mr.. Jones. He was shocked and
grieved; he was fearful that the govern
ment was tottering to its fall. When a
cabinet officer descended to penning
such sentences, he said, he feared for
the welfare Of the country. Mr.. Jones'
wounded feelings were soothed by per-
sonal letter from the secretary, and to
show that there was no hard feeling on
his part Mr.. Jones at once renewed his
correspondence with the Department.
Washington Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
TIE AGE OF PERFECTION.

o worshi-srs OF W womanhood,
No more old shibboleths repeati
youthful hyperboles and crude.)
Their fulsome praise is now effete,
But with measured rapture greet
Nor unfortunately strive
To prove all women young and sweet
The perfect age is thirtyfve.
Time was you praised the maitlens snood,
The timid eye, the lingering feet,
In modest bashfulness that stood
Where rivulct and river meet.
Now childish grace is obsolete.
Our modern appetite would thrive
On ripper grain, matured wheat
Tho perfect age is thirty five.
Tall Helen wandering in the wood,
And gentle Hernia small and neat,
Young Rosalind in costume rude
Girl Juliet in your winding sheet
You all. alas, are incomplete.
Then pray = 1t time may means contrive
Your ch"nscless youthfulness to cheat
Tho perfect age is thirty-fve.
Then woman sober and discreet
$50 men may choose you when they wive),
The moment seiZe-for time is fleet
Tho perfect age is thirty-ivel
st. James Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

ininc pcrvcrsity, she felt called upon to
struggle against fate as much as possi-
Bile
''But you ought to be very thankful
to me fer one thing" she added. "It
was | wEC-but never mind. -
"NCnscn.c!i | said. go on. We are
too cid fashioned to be romantic any
longer"
"Well " she said, "it was ] who sug-
gcsted CT $,,ould he invited to dinner" +"
Wh!1h just shows what contradictory
creatures women arc. - Household
Words
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

Just think Of it, she said proudly,
as the voice Of her son 1850 above all the
others in the college yell.
'Just think of what?" asked her hus-
band.
"Hiram and all those other boys con-
versing ill Greek just as natural and
easy as if it was their natural tongue. "
Washington Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
HcIIreu Grinders.

A whole village of we'll to do Italians
speaking English with an accent is one
OF the most astonishing things that Italy
offers to the tourist. They are retired
organ grinders who have acquired COM
Portable fortunes in various countries
and have gone back to their beloved
native land to live in affluence with
their families in this strange little col.
ony, which they have founded among
these sweet Italian mountains.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
ChicagOcSe,

Frequently resent tho rich roasts
given Chicago society by the terrible
Town TGHics, but now and then
an forced to admit that some of its
wild and weird whorcers arc not alto
gether unprovokod. At tho recent Eel
lowship Ciuh ladies' layout / overheard
one of the officers inIportUno "a brilliant
boulevard beau Hot to he in a hurry to
leave, as Mrs Alice j. Shaw was about
to appear and whistle. rs that sop
calculated the swagcC r swell. Then I'll
stay bit io!f:>r, | moved her over in
London Chicago Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

Life is made up not Of great sacrifices
Or duties, but of little things, in which
smiles and kindness and small obliga-
tions given habitually are what preserve
the heart and secure comfort. Sir H.
Davy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
And She Believed Him.

she-I don't see why you will keep
on paying 10 cents for cigars when you
can get ones just as pretty for 5.
He-I know they are just as pretty,
but those . cent ones are cigars that
have soured. You wouldn't buy soured
fruit just because it was cheaper, would
you?-Indianapolis Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
a Careful Bridegroom.

Bridegroom (about to marry the
youngest of three sistors)-My dear
friend, want you to stand right behind
me during the ceremony and keep your
eyes open / am very nearsighted, and
| am afraid they might substitute the
oldest sister at the critical moment.-
Fliegendo Batter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

In addition to above Train No. leaves
P1edmont at S:f5 a. IN. arrives ut FroStburg at
1913 a. M, and Train No. s. leaving Frostburg
at l45 p M, reaches Piedmont at 2:3S p. ul
both trains stopping at all intermediate
stations.
*On theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents to performance at theatre
leave Cumberland at close of performance
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland.
Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, and Sdaiy except Sunday
Nos. ) and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days only.
Baggage car will be hauled on trains Nos
and q. L. NJ HAMILTON
july - Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
A CYNICAL SUMMARY.

This world is but feeting show,
And little JOY he CLEANS
Who curiously undertakes
To look behind the scenes.
1t is not what the player does
That in the long run tells
In rounding out his baseball fame,
But what the umpire yells.
The fleetest racer sometimes fails
The victory to claim;
'Tis not the horse that gets in first,
But the one the judges name.
And so it is with all success
That human life may see;
'Tis not the man that counts, but what
The man is thought to be.
Washington Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

While Wild geese are on the wing,
lhey are talkative and noisy, but when
they alight to feed, as they do generally
at night, they are SO quiet that one may
pass within a few yards of 100 of them
and never notice their presence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

''Tho Blue Bells Of Scotland was
the work of Annie McVicar, aftorward
Mrs, Grant, the daughter of Scottish
officer i'll the British army. The melody
was long believed to be Scottish, but is
now known to be of English origin, be-
ing an old English folk song
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

The Chinese have Il singularly compli.
Gated calendar. Their cycles have 60
years, each year, month and day hav !
ing its own name, and by combining
these the day, month and year are des-
ignated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

The dried leaf has little of the aroma
of the manufactured tobacco. This is de-
velonrd by II kind of fermentation to
which il is subjected III the warehouses
ii ;.io manufacturers. Spokane Chron-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

No married subject in Austria can
procure a passport to go beyond the
frontier unless he can produce written
consent from his wife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

Dams Rock excursionists take the 7l5 a.
m. train at Cumberland, and return by the
Sis p. m. train at Vale Summit
JAMES A. MILLH0LLAND,
Jan 6 General Manager,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07

46 and A still carry passengers.
No. II is a local train from Cumberland to
Pittsburg and No. IA from Pittsburg to Cum
berland: Nos. and6 make 3stops each way.
Through tickets, east and west, for sale at
Cumberland NJ. C. CLARKE,
July 25 Ticket Agent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-07
Pittsburg Division.

WESTBOUND
No. 9-Pittsburg Express leaves ..1:2O NJ
63-Cumberland g &C dali
lv except Sunday 7:50 m
ll-Mall leaves. 2:35 p m
5-Chicago Limited. g m 2:25 IN
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No. 1O-Baltimore Express arrives. 2:O5 m
g 6-Limited ..l2:2S pm
14--Mail ..l2:2O ON |
64-Cumberand EXP. " dai-
ly except Sunday. 6:45 D IN |