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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
WHOLE NUMBER, 1864.
FlShIERMEN'S NETS,
Eost CT THAN Made by Machine Nova
days-Their Many Uses.

Nost CT Than Made by Machine Nowa-
days-Their EIany Uses.
Most fishcrmcn's nets nowadays are
mado by machinery, excepting the small
round crab nets and dip nets, and bait
nets that sportsmen use These are made
by hand, fer tho machines cannot make
anything but a straight fat web. Many
larger circular nets, however, are con-
structed from machine made netting,
cut up.
Machines have been used generally in
netmaking for about 80 years. Before
that nets were knitted in the families of
the fishermen Somc fishermen on the
Atlantic coast still make their own nets,
and On one part of the Pacific coast
there is q close union Of fishermen using
nets made by hand, but factory made
nets have displaced most nets of do
mestic make.
There are six netting factories in the
United States, all on the Atlantic coast.
Carload lots of nets ale not uncommon
shipments from this coast to the Pacific,
and the same is true of netting twine.
Nets are made of various sizes of
thread Or twinc, in any size mesh de-
sired, and they can be made of any
length, but nets of certain kinds are
made commonly i'll certain lengths, and
then joined together if greater length be
desired In this way nets have been set
in the great lakes in enc straight string
of II miles. Nets three or four miles
long are not unusual there. Such nets
are fished with steamboats,.
A pound net, 100 feet in depth, has
been set in Lake Superior. 1t was neces-
sary to splice the poles for it. The aver
age deph of ponnd nets on the lakes is
40 feet. On the Atlantic coast the aver
age depth of pound nets is 35 feet. Lead
ers are made 10 to 70 reds in length.
In the sounds of North Carolina very
long hauling seines are used, somo of
them about a mile long. They are oper-
ated by Steamboats,. Formerly, hauling
seines were used generally. Within the
last Is yeals the use of pound nets has
increased rapidly. Purse seines are made
200 to $50 fathoms long and perhaps 100
feet deep.
~ poGIi Itt, Coil pictt, Gusts 5SUU TO
$1,000; Il purse net, $400 to $500; q
lake gill net outfit, $4,000 to So, 900,
although it might not all be used at one
time; sho"e seine, from $40 to $4OO.
There are other kinds Of nets and seines.
The life of Il net depends ON the water
it is used in md circumstances. A heavy
pound net might get thrashed out in a
season. Some nets and seines last three
or four years OF longer.
Nets are made for various uses other
than for fishing, They are made for use
on horses, ill laundries to hold collars
and cuffs, for decorative purposes, for
lawn tennis, and all sorts of backstops,
for banners and for hammocks, for poul-
try yards and for fruit trees and straw
berry beds. Some bird traps are made
with nets. There are steamboat nets,
which, however, are not knotted, but
sized.-New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
The Roman LegiOnary.

The Roman legionary is parsonage
Of remarkable interest. He is indeed the
first soldier whom we seem to recognize
as such-a disciplined man of the high
est training, with pride i'll himself, con-
fdence in his leaders and considerable
esprit de corps; i'll fact, a warrior whom
the modern soldier can take to his heart.
There were leSions and legions, of
course, as in modern armies there are
regiments and regiments. Some indeed,
like the famous Tenth, enjoyed even
nickname, 1.-The Larks' (Alauda) The
men, if we are to believe Vegetius, suf-
foring from the same weaknesses, could
be raised by he same means to the same
excellence as the veterans of the penin-
sula war. AS to the lighter moods of
the Roman legionary, are they not i'm
mortaliZed III the name of Roman
emperor?
Tacitus tell us how Germanicus, al
ways Il popular general, having had u
son born to him i'll the camp, dressed
the lad like little soldier, complete
even to his boots (caliga), i'll the hope
Of pleasing his men. The men of course
made Il pet of him and called him Cali
gula, or Little Boots, and it is by his
camp nickname of Little Boots that
Claudius, son of Germanicus, lives in
history to this day. 1t is curious ex-
ample of the persistence in the nature Of
fighting men. Cochrane's rough Chill
can sailors dressed up his 5-year- r-old son
as tiny midshipman and made pet
Of him III the same way.-Macmillan s
MapaZine
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11

Cheese, tie supposcd to be edible
milk curd OF commerce, is the best soil
i'll the world for microbes and bacteria,
and OH its surface flourish millions up
on millions Of infnitCsimal parasitic
plant growth. A microscopic examina-
tion of a single gram of fresh cheese,
such as is usually sold at the grocer's,
proved that it contained not less than
10000 separate and distinct specimens
OF bacteria. After seven days this same
section of cheese was examined and
found to contain so, separate and
individual bacteria. Professor de Kahn
says that Il cheese, properly sliced and
exposed, will within week be implant-
ed with Il bacterial growth containing
more separate specimens than there are
trees upon tie whole of the earth's sur
face.-St. Louis Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
6i.5O per annum-IN ADVANCE.
THE PASEO.

The wavering heat is broken by long rows
OF slim acacils, palms and alamos.
In brave attire there walk, between,
Jose, Andres and Agustin.
Andres, Jose and Agustin
Stroll down the alameda slow
Meath spreading boughs with plats between
Where rose and bclled granada grow.
Tall gray sombreros silver trimmed,
Bedcckcd with spangles ample brimmed,
Shade from bright rays by clouds undimned
The eyes of all.
They loiter on with airy grace,
A turn of head this way and that,
While sparkling smiles light mp the face
Accounting gay, thcatric chat.
Their iaunty jackets reach the waist,
With rows of buttons closely placed,
And braided trousers, tightly laced,
Costumes complete.
greater charm is found by far
Than shade, bright flowers and tropic
weather
In Juana, IncZ and Leonor,
All pretty maids who drive together,
Clear olive faces, lips of red
But back of them the wardcr's head,
The ducna, accredited
For watchful eyes.
The wavoring heat is broken by long rows
OF slim acacias, palms and alamos.
In brave attire there walk between,
Jose, Andres and Agustin
L. ". Green in Land of Sunshine"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Mime. Faure.

One of the ambitious of Nine. Felix
Faure, wife of the president of France.
is to become the leader of fashions for
the republic, as the Empress Eugene
was for the empire, according to popular
report. Consequently she not only
dresses exquisitely, but keeps the names
of her modiste and millincr il secret. At
the Grand Prix races she wore cos
tune so beautiful that the fashion pa
pers not only described it at length, but
illustrated it III colors TWAS Il creation
of brown satin, chiffon AMI cream lace.
Paris Letter
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
THE OLD TIME FRIENDS.

"1 like to meet the old time friends" the
speaker said "for, ohl
The best part Of our lives is in the days Of
long ago!
And memory's sun upon the past in mellowed
Eight dcscendS.
old time friends!
"Sweet memory wears them in her CROWN
her brightest diadem,
stretch my arms and fain would share my
heart-my all with them!
And their love that trusting heart with
tcnderest love depends
The dearest friends earth holds for me
still the old time frends!'
Then one walked weeping from the crowd
and no one sought to check,
He grasped the speaker by the hand and fell
upon his neck,
And said: "i'm Jones, the grocery man
though changed and broken so.
wish you d add twenty to that bill of long
agol''
Then the speaker changed the subject, and he
seized a hickory stick
And shouted to the audience, "Hcre's a ravng
lunatic!'
And they trounced him, and they bounced
him, and they hustled him, and, OH!
They sent him up for thirty days-that friend
of long ago!
Atlanta Constitution.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Tu Prevent Cnapping.

AS cold ,,ea'hor approaches women
try to devise means for preventing
hands and lips from chapping. An ex-
collent remedy to prevent chapping is
cold cream The manicurist told me
that it also whitcns the skin more than
amy preparation. 1t has taken the place
Of the old tir.e remcdy--muttcn suet
1t should he Well rubbed into the skin,
and gloveS-prefcrably whitc-slipped
on. The palms of the gloves should be
slit i'll several places to allow the air
and prevent cramp of the muscle. and
the finger t?s clipped off
VasoliLo should never touch the
hands, 1t turns The SIX IL yellow and
leaves stain on tho nails that is hard
t. clear away -NrW York World.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Obso ryance of the Sabbath.

There was the minister of Tweeds-
muir, who Oh II certain Sabbath found
a salmon stranded i'll shallow water,
and who, being unable conscientiously
to take it out on such day, built a
hedge Of stones around it, and, return
ing on the morrow, claimed his prize.
There WAS the old farmer, who could
not go To the kirk because he had neg
locted to shave On the Saturday night,
and he would not profane the day by
the use Of auy edged tool. l.-Macmillan's s
Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
The Lowell Family,

The Lowolls hold an honTcd place in
tho local history of New England. Ono
member OF the family introduced cotton
spinning into the United States, and for
INN the town of Lowell is named. An
. her left money to found i'll Boston tho
comso Of lectures known as the Lowell
institute. The most famous Of them all
was James Russell Lowell, born in
1919 at Cambridge, Mass, ON Feb. 22,
also the birthday Of the most distin-
guiShcd of all Americans. -" James
Russell LoWoIl," hy Btanlcr Matthews,
III st. Nicholas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
THE CIRCUS RING.
1t Is Always Exactly Forty-two Feet Nine
Inches In Diameter.

1t Is Always Exactly Fortytwo Feet Nine
Inches In Diameter.
In various ways the circus of the pres
ent day differs from that Of the past,
but the ring remains unchanged. 1t is
always ~ feet 9 inches i'll diameter. Go
where you WILL search the world from
China to Peru, with diverging trips to
the f1Osty Caucasus and the desert of
Sahara, and never circus will you find
without ring AZ feet 8 inches in di-
ameter.
There is reason for this remarkable
uniformity. Circus riders and circus
horses are nomadic. Wherever their
wanderings bring them they must find
the ring always the same, else they
will be disturbed in their performance,
if not really rendered incapable. Trained
to the ~ feet 8 inch ring, the horse and
his rider have grown used-worn, one
might say--to the exact angle of de-
clipity toward the center of the ring
which the radius of 81 feet and given
speed produce.
The mound Gu the circumference of
the ring always has on the inside lev
ell, so TO speak, of earth, at the same
angle as that into which radius and
speed throw the driver. AS for speed,
that, after the horse has gone round two
or three times and is warmed to his
work, is the same through the act In
fact, strap generally holds his head
SO that he cannot get beyond a certain
pace.
The ringmaster snaps his whip, the
clown shouts, the band plays louder and
louder, but the horse knows just how
much this empty show means and jogs
on at the same old pace until, with the
last jump through tissue balloon, the
act is ended. .-Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
He Finds II Hard to AccuStom Himself to
Ordinary Hours of Living.

Ordinary Hours of Living.
"My chief trouble now," said the re-
tired burglar, ''is about my hours.
have been so long accustomed to work
ing nights and sleeping days that I find
it difficult to change back to the hours of
other folks, Instead of having my break
fast at O'Clock in the morning l have
it at Z O'Clock i'll the evening. Some
folks make their dinner the last meal
i'll the day, but never could get used
to that. | can sleep better on light
meal, so have my dinner in the mid
die of the day-I mean the middle of
the night-and my supper about 5
O'Clock i'll the morning.
''Ihis schedule works all right for
the first half of the night. There S plen-
ty of life then, and can go to the thea
ter and one place and another, but after
dinner, | must say, 1 find it pretty
tedious When l was at work and my
mind was occupied, I never thought
anything about it, but now it is differ
ent. This is bigger town than it used
to be, and it's open all night. There's
plenty of occupations nowadays that
people work at all night, but the people
that work at 'em are working at 'em.
You dent see 'em around the streets,
and the general fact remains that most
people work days and sleep nights, and
the cold fact is that from dinner time
to supper timo l feel sort o lost.
'But I'm not discouraged don't sup
pose could change the habits of a life
time in a minute, and shall just keep
on trying till | get NY hours shifted
around again like other people's'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
ON ECHOlNG SHORES.

On cchoing shores tho nice dccrees
OF garb ana guiSc 10 longer tease;
No etiquette the soul cnslavcs;
The bore in vain an answer Graves,
And duns may cl.ulJr as th,y please.
Oblivious here of those and these,
On windy ellis we Grc;t!n at case
Here, where the free Atl ntic raves
On cchoing shores.
Mid purple heather hum The bees,
And sea birds wheel alloWn the breeze,
And deep below the inriding waves
Boom through the gall ries of their caves
With lap and plash of secthins seas
On cchoing shores.
Cecil Harley in Temple Bar
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Removes the Odors.

A paste Of ground mustard and water
is first r,,to agc'.t for removing traces
Of liaagro, obi, silellnE substances from
the hands, such as salts of valerianic
aci,., cod liver oil, etc. Huver claims
that any oily seeds when powdered will
answer thl5 purpose. The smell of car
bolic acid "!ay be removed by rubbing
with G9mI ned Haxseed meal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Roses In u Tomb Five Thousand Years Old.

Flinders Petrie, the arch9ologist,
while cXcavating among some ancient
Egyptian tombs, found wreath of roses
which had been bound into garland
and buried with the dead thousands of
years ago. II. Crepin, the botanist and
microscopist made careful examina-
ticn of this queer find and prepared Il
paper on it, which he read before the
Royal society of Belgium. From this
paper it appears that i'll places where
the flowers were matted together they
still retained their color as well as
very faint odor The species to which
they belong is now extinct, but rose
resembling them i'll several particulars
is still grown in Egypt and Abyssinia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

In addition to above Train No. : leaves
Piedmont at Sf5 a. m. arrives at Frostburg at
1O35 a. m and Train No. s. leaving FroStburg
at las p. m, reaches Piedmont at IBIS p. M,
both trains stopping at all intermediate
stations.
son 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 sdaily except Sunday.
Nos. 5 and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days only.
Baggage car will be hauled ON trains Nos
5 and g.. l.. M. HAMILTON,
May Is Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11

A great lie is like a great fish on dry
land; 1T m@y fret and fling and make a
fnShital bother, but it cannot hurt you
fon h,v" Clly to keep still, and it will
die Of Itself. - Crabbe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11

The experience Of failure is one that
comes in greater or l's' deere" to cv-
cry one AT times. trying ,ln motli and
probing the ch,.rac,,r as ~ prosperity
can do.-Victor Hugo
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11

1t is only after one man tries to get
something that the crowd who wouldn't
have it as Il gift strive for it.-Los
Angeles Express.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
Emoluments of an Executioner.

The subjoined record extracted from
the archives of old Paris possesses suffi-
cient interest to warrant its publication
Our readers will see from it what Il ter
rible thing the capital penalty was in
former days, and at the same time learn
that the gentlemen who acted as eXecu-
tioners, with their assistants and tor
turers, did not labor for glory alone:
AN EXECUTONER'S PRICE LIST.
Livres
To boiling nlalefactor in oil. Observation-Disclosures 43
To quartcring him while alive 80
To affordinga criminal passage from life to
death by the sword. ........................2 20
To breaking tie body on the whccl..... 10
To fixing his head upon Il pole. 10
To cutting nan into four pieces ........ SO
To hanging Culprit. rit...................,..2 20
To en#hroudn% the corpse. se................ 2
To impaling living man. "a
To burning IL SorcereSS alive. ............... %
To haying living man. Observation-Disclosures. 2S
To drowning Il child murdcrcss in q sack. "a
To burying suicide at crossroads . 20
To applying the torture. Observation-Disclosures.
To applying the thumbscrew rew........... 2
To applying the buSkins. Observation-Disclosures.
To administering the Gchcnna torture.. u
To putting person in the pilory..
To branding with Il hot iron. on............... 10
London Lancet
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11
First Come, First Served
w y NT7g z, u

livery SMOKER to send IA one-cent
IL stamps to help pay postage, packing,
etc, and we will mall sample box Of our Non
Nicotine Midget Cigars. Only one box
to one address Write to lands IL CO.,
March 16 Shippensburg, Pa.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-11

of light touched the front wheel. This
wasn't SO bad, as it showed me plainly
the stones in the road, but hardly in
time for me to avoid them, although
did dodge some by performing acrobatic
feats that usually led to the ditch In
NY ev"lut;ons ard anxiety about the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-06
F4IR HAVEN NEVIS.


 The New Haven Water company put on a large force of men yesterday morning to lay a new water main in Quinnipiac street from East Grand avenu and connecting with the big main that has been laid across Quin- nipiac river. The new pipe is 16 inches in diameter and will replace the 6-inch pipe. The work of putting down the big main on the bottom of the river is practically completed. These improve ments will cost the company in the reighborhood of $25,000.
 M. T. Clark, the Grand avenue baker, has put a new wagon on his route.
 The funeral of Walter Paterson of Quinnipiac street was conducted Sun day afternoon, Rev. N. G. Cheny off, ciating. The burial was in the soldiers plot, Evergreen cemetery. The deceas- ed leaves a widow and three daugh- ters.
 Miss Kate Kirwin of Blatchley ave nue has returned from a vacation visit to New York.
 Miss Jennie Sheehan of Blatchley avenue and Thomas Rice of Mount Car mel are to be married in St. Francis church this noon.
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POLITICAL,
Young Men, Attention!

Young Meny Attent1On! At preliminary meeting of first vot- CTS the following resolutions were unanimously adopted
 Resolved, That every young man in the city and town of New Haven who is to cast his first vote on November 8, 1896, is cordially invited to be present at the republican headquarters, room IA, Hoadley building, No. 49 Church street, for the purpose of perfectlng an organization for marching club and also for the purpose of electing perma- nent officers Resolved, That we adopt the name of "The Mckinley Minute Men of '96." The meeting will take place on Fri day evening at 8 o'clock sharp. Every man is cordially invited to be present and assist in the organization of this club. Per order
 M L. LOEB, Chairman. R. A. WARNER, Secretary.
 JAMES A. HOWARTTI, JR.,
 A. c, BERNSTEIN,
 Committee or Resolutions.
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MASONIC PROTECTIVE SOCIETY.

Annual Meeting Held Last Evening
 Prosperous Condition of the Society,"
 Pres sant Membership Over BOO
 The annual meeting of the Masonic Protective society was held last even ing at Beers Photo parlors. The mem bership was well represented. The re- port os the business of the year was read by the secretary. The society was found to be in a prosperous condition There have been but two assessments laid for deaths during the year. There has been paid to beneficiaries since its organization in 1897, s20, 692. Its present membership is between three and four hundred. The officers of the society are: U. D. Sperry, president; Julius Twiss, vice president; T. Parsons Dickerman, treasurer, w. A. Beers, secretary; pr. Frank H. Whittemore, medical direc- tor; with an efficient board of directors, who meet the third Monday in each month for the reception of new mem bers. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-06

Those who are eligible for member ship in the society are any master Ma son in good standing in his lodge; his wife, mother, sister or daughter, and the widow of a master Mason. Males can join from q to 50 years and fe- males from II to 60 years of age At a death each surviving member is assess ed S1.10, and the beneficiary receives as many dollars as there are members in the society.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-06

William w. Hyde, who is to remove to New York for the winter, has sold his residence, 21S Orchard street, to Frank B. stoddard, agent of the Mer- chants Dispatch Transportation Co. MT. Hyde was treasurer for years of the New Haven Organ Co.,, New Ha- ven manufacturing corcern of years ago For several years MT. Hyde has been retired from business. He will remove with his family soon. Before his return to New Haven he will make a stay at Hot Springs, Ark. He and his wife recently returned from a months drive in western Connecticut MT Stoddard has also sold his house on George street, near Orchard street, pre- paratory to occupying his new pur- chase.
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Republican Senatorial Convention.

Notice is hereby given to the dele gates to the senatorial convention to assemble at 97 Crown street (Odd Eel lows building) on the evening of Oc- tober G. 1896, at o'clock sharp, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for senator.
 JAMES H. MACDONALD.
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lItsceIlamenrts.
.CLAIRvoYANT.

MARY J. WRIGHT, M. D.,
 "AS returned to Tontine Hotel, Church H and Court Streets. Consultation Siud. Class readings every Monday rom 70 ?, m' Admission to class 50 cents. aug ly
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AUCTION SALE

I4t ORANGE street, Tuesday, 10 8. mi HI Piano. rolltop and table desks. fne bookcases, chamber suits, folding bed, ta- bIes, shelving. baby carriage, stoves, range, lot inc carpets, chairs, etc.
 o5st R. B. MALLORY. Auctioneef.
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WANTEE

~ IRL for waitress; references required. N Apply 8S9 WHITNEY AVENUE,
 o5 Ftp Cor. Cottage street.
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WANTED
WANTED
WANTED.

A SITUATION by q competent girl in -EA second work or light housework; best references. Inquire
 o5 2tp s3 FILLMORE STREET.
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dMamts.

One Cent Word each insertion, five cents Word for null Week, seven times.
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WANTED,
WANTED.
WANTED

A SITUATION by a competent girl to do A general houseworlS in a private family; IS good laundress reference if required. Inquire for two days at K
 o6 ltp l5 SUMMER ST.