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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
The Orator.

The Rev. DR.. A. d. Mayo, in a re-.
cent interesting address, quoted James
Walker, former president of Harvard,
as saying, "The oratlon will die with
Mr.. Robert G Winthrop" But the ora
tion i'll no sense died with Mr.. Win
throp. What is more, the oration, we
may be sure, will never die until hu-
man nature Is fundamentally different
from what it is at present. 1t is the
fashion nowadays to sneer at eloquence.
One might rs well sneer at music or
poetry, Walkers reference to Winthrop
was fine, considered as compliment.
Taken literally, it will not hold water.
1t recalls an assertion made by Mr..
Howells few years ago that the stories
had all been told. In fact, hasty gen-
eralizers are always with u.s. People are
more critical than they used to be, they
arc more easily bored, they have less
time for anything than they ever had
before. Nevertheless the man with a
genius for oratory, the man who has
something to say and who knows how
TO say it--who can Eay it with Il silver
tongue-is n perennial. He will always
command al audience. Boston Com
monwealth
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
OFFICIAL WHIPPING.
Tow Boy Criminals Are Punished by
Thrashing In England.

Boys who are found guilty of minor
offenses i'll England are sentenced by the
judges to a sound thrashing at the hands
OF the policeman Here is description
OF it taken from an English paper:
The birch is Il very different instru-
ment of torture from the cat The for
mer is made up of number of long
birch twigs, while tho latter is really
whip with nine knotted small cord
lashes When the cat is administered,
tho prison doctor must be present, but
when the birch is put on it is only nee
essary for the inspector Or superintend-
ent OF police to witness it, although the
parents or near relatives of boy SEN
fenced to be flO9ged may be present at
the castigation. When dose of the cat
is dealt out, none bnt those connected
with the prison are allowed to be there.
Like the cat the birch may be made
very severe punishment Or compara-
lively trivial affair, not merely accord
ing to the number of strokes, but from
the instructions given the constable who
is told off to do the fogging. 1 have
seen a boy after six strokes resemble
nothing so much as piece of raw beef
and bleeding fearfully, while 1 have
also seen a boy after six strokes merely
trifie red.
Some policemen dread the duty of
flogging, and after the first two strokes
get sharp order to chit the boy and
not play with him." Other constables
delight in the work and boast of their
ability to draw blood at the first stroke.
Various modes Of administering the
punishment obtain in different parts of
the country. In some places boys are
placed face downward on a FORM One
constable holds his arms aud head firm
ly, while another does him the same
service with his legs, and the third ad-
ministers TIE punishment.
In other prisons the culprit is placed
on a constablc's back, and as he sits
there with his arms around the officers
neck, awaiting "tho event." his attitude
strikes 81 spectator more as one of affec-
ton than discomfort. Another way is to
compel boy to lean over chair as if
he were praying, then run Il strap right
around his legs and the legs of the chair,
Il constable holding his head and arms
fron TIE other side. Brooklyn Eagle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

Don Simplicio, to dispel the clouds of
melancholy that cast IL gloom over his
spirits, has taken to theater going.
"Ernani" was produced, and every body
spoke highly of the performance, our
hero among the rest.
'But there is one fault about it, " he
said on coming out of the house one
evening.
"What is it?'
"I'll tell you. In the third act, where
the conspiracy takes place, they draw
lots to ascertain which of them is to kill
Charles V. Now, what was drawn the
first night? Ernani. And the second?
Ernani. And the third? Ernani again.
Always Eruani. Six nights running!
Now, that's unlikely on the face Of it.
For the same name TO be drawn once or
twice may Pass, but six times running
that is too much. -
His remarks were received with q
regular ovation. .-Giornalo dcl!o Donnc.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

4 colonel in tho French army, who
had a great eye for neatncss, but not
much Of al ear for music, took occasion
ono day to compliment his bandmaster
Oh the appearance of his men. "Their
uniforms are neat" said the colonel.
"and their instruments are nicely pol
ished and kept in order, hut there is one
improvement that | must insist upon.
"What is it, cOlonel:"
"You must train your men, when
they perform, to lift their fingers all at
exactly the same time and at regular in
tervals on their instruments, so-one,
twol One, twop'-London Answers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
WHOLE NUMBER. 1 1,263.
THE ORIGINAL ARYAN.

am the ancient Aryan,
And you have done me wrong.
did not come from Hindustan-
I've been here all along.
Tnever Travelled from the east
In huge successive waves.
You'll find your ancestors deceased
Inside your own old caves.
There my remains may now be sought,
Mixed up with mastodons,
Which very long with flints fought
Before fought with bronze.
In simple skins wrapped me round
Ere mats l learned to make.
dug my dwellings, in the ground
Or reared them on a lake.
I had no pen, I'm sure of this,
Although you say penncd
All manner of thcologics
In Sanskrit and in 2end.
My nature you've misunderstood.
When tirsG sojourned here.
worshipcd chunks of stone or wood;
My rites were rather queer.
The more my little ways you scan
The less you'll care to praise
And bless the dear old Aryan
OF neolithic days.
They've mixed mo up till, declare,
l hardly can report
Whether | first was tall and fair,
Or l was dark and short.
But on two things take my stand
Through all their noise and strife
! didn't come from Asia, and
had no higher life. Punch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

Napoleon had Z wonderful memory.
When emperor. ho once surprised his
council with his intimate knowledge of
Roman law and was asked how he had
obtained it. he stated that when lieu
tenant he had once been placed under
arrest and WAS i'll prison for two weeks
During that timo tho only book at his
command was treatise on Roman law
He sat down and i'll two weeks mastered
tho volume SO completely that 90 years
later he could repeat long passages from
its pages. He mover forgot face or a
name and would often greet private SOL
diers by their names, sometimes allud-
ing to tho march or the battle where he
had seen them before. lie kept in his
head all the details Of his military
movements, and it was said of him that
during the march to Italy and Marengo
ne knew where every pound Of the sup
plies for the use of the army was located
1t is said that he remembered the name
Of every officer to whom he ever issued
a commission.
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4 Tric! of tho IIuntsman.

During visit to Montana promi-
n"nt Chicago gentleman went with a
party just starting for IL grand "hunt
for hig game i'll the Yellowstone re-
gion. " He remarked to the leader,
"You cannot hunt in Yellowstone
park. " "Oh, no, said the leader. "We
90 outside the limits Of the park, and if
the game won't come to use we know
how TO manage to mako it come" Such
excursions are not uncommon, and it
Will not ho strange if hungry Indians
should occasionally initiate their white
brethren. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

Scott believed that Waverloy" was
his best novel aHd the Lady Of tho
Lake" his bost o>m. H. and tho BAL
lantyuas bad m0ro than one lively dis
oussion on tho subject, but h. would
never admit q change Of opinion He
knew the Lady OF the Lake by heart
and once repeated the whole to prove
tho fact.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
i Fitting Title.

MY dear, said Mr. Nubbs to Mrs
Nubbs, what name did | understand
you to call the new hired girl!"
Japan, replied Mrs Nubbs sweetly.
And, pray, why such an odd name,
my dcar?'
Because she is so hard on China,
love And the domestic entente COR
diale remained serene Detroit Free
Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
PRAYER.

O thou. at whose commend divine
The raging storms of ocean cease,
This wild, unruly heart of mine
Lead to thine everlasting peace,
This heart, that only feels the glow
That every changing passion lends,
And, through its erring love, brings woe
Alike upon itself and friends.
Deliver it, good Lord, pray
From passions storm. Oh, quench the fire
Of sinful lust and break the sway
Of every passing vain desire,
Give it, o Lord, u changeless aim,
That, in the contemplation blest,
Forgetting doubt and fear and shame,
It may at last find endless rest.
C. N. A. in Academy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

"Is it trrc ;ha5 Maud Makefaco was
arrested for intiuidatin@ yutcrs?'
Yes. Shc threatened To kiss every
man who would vote for johnson. -.
ludiauapQi.- JoCi u..l.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

Who'll Be King but Charlio?" came
from tho pen of Carolina Oliphant The
air is from collection Of old Scottish
ballads
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04
First Come, First Served
wANpED

LIVERY SMOKER to send II one cent
IL stamps to help pay postage, packing,
etc, and we will mail sample box of our Non
Nicotine Midget Cigars. Only one box
TO one address Write to LANDS X CO,
March l6 Shippenshurg, Pa.
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Cumberland anl Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

In addition to above Train No. : leaves
Piedmont at S:l5 il. IN. arrives at Frosthurg at
l0:}j II. H., and Train No. s. leaving Frostburg
at las p m reaches Piedmont at 23S p. m.,
both trains stopping at all intermediate
stations
son theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents 60 performance ut theatre,
leave Cumberland at close of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland.
Nos. !, =, 3, 4, and daily except Sunday.
Nos. and = Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days only.
Baggage car will be hauled on trains Nos
5 and 8. l.. NJ. HAMILTON,
May Is superintendent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-01-04

The glove Is first mentioned ;ls IL com
nlHn article II dress in l0lG-
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by this country is situated in Korea,
the East Indias, Siam and japan. In the
Orient it is imperative to own the lega-
ton, as our Ministers on going there
find it impossible to live four years in
the houses provided by the natives.
One Of the prettiest houses in the
Orient is the American Legation OF
China, where Minister DENLY and his
family live. It is a typical Chinese
house, set we'll back from the street,
and surrounded by trees and foliage.
A high wall shuts out the street sights
OF Pekin and keeps away the objec-
tionable side of Chinese life.
Mr.. DENLY speaks highly of China
and his legation home. He hes held
his position through several Admins
trations, and in the legation, which
is on one of the prettiest streets OF
Pekin, all American affairs are trans
acted. Here lives the Charge d'Afairs,
the Consul and the secretaries and all
connected with the legation. In time
of war the Minister to China suffers.
The Chinese think he should bring
troops to their aid, and so closely was
Minister DENLY watched that O practi.
cal quarantine was maintained around
his house.
The United States pays rental OF
$500 a year for Minister Denby's
home, which is large sum to pay for
rent in China. But the United States
does nothing small. 1t is willing to
spend the money for legation, but
it is q matter partly of policy and
partly of patriotic sentiment not to
own land outside America.
The home of Bartlett Tripp in Aus
tria is upon the Schwindgasse, in q
long row of legation houses. The
house has been occupied many years
by successive Ministers from America,
and it Is pointed out to American
tourists as "home" in strange land.
In this house Minister Trip lives with
his wife and stepdaughter, Miss Ethel
Washburn, one of the prettiest girls
of the West and the belle OF Vienna.
The house is o modest one, renting
low, and the $4,000 year allowed
the Minister to Austria would be suffi'
cient if little entertaining we're done.
As it is, Mr.. Minister Trip spends
twice that sum. So did Colonel Fred
Grant, who was there before him.
The late Theodore Runyon, Ambas.
eador to Germany, protested several
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"Sizes'' of Various Things.

Pearl buttons are not numbereA
actually, they are described as having
80 many lines in their diameters. A
line is 1-4Oth of an inch' l2-line but
ton has a diameter of l2-40ths of an
inch, etc.
In making thread, half the number
of "hanks" leach containing $40 yards
OF yarn) that will make q pound is the
basis of numbering. Thus 80 thread
is made from yarn of which 90 hanks
are required to weigh pound; 6O
thread is made from l2O yarn, etc.
The numbering of shot is arbitrary,
and has nothing to do with the size OF
the shot. So is the numbering OF gun
caps. At first there were three sizes
of gun caps numbered 9, 10 and II, q
fourth size was made larger than ~,
smaller than II and it was called II.
The number of the bore of gun de.
pends on the number of balls fitting
its barrel that will weigh a pound.
Thus 12.bore gun carries ball that
weighs 1.12th of pound. The mum.
bering of gun wads is purely arbitrary
and indicates nothing really. A cart.
ridge is not numbered actually, but ID
spoken of as a 44-cal1bre cartridge, a
22-calibre, etc. The calibre is ez-
pressed in hundredths of an inch.
Lamp burners are numbered arbl'
trarily; A, B, D burners take dat
wicks; 8, 2, l, 5 burners (3 being the
largest) take round wicka.
The numbering of shoes is arbitrary.
The dimensions are: The ball, the
waist, the instep, the heel; each size
in length increases by 1S inch in each
of these dimensions and in width by
2.8 inch.
Hats in their numbering represent
roughly the diameter of circles equal
to the circumference of the heads OF
the wearers. Thus o No. 7 hat fits q
person whose head measures 224
inches.
Nails are not numbered direct
ly; 10.penny nail is one of such q
size that 1000 nails like it weigh ten
pounds; 1000 8.penny nails weigh
eight pounds. etc. So, too, were tacks
numbered originally. 1000 No. 8
tacks weigh eight ounces. But now
the size indicates the length. Every
size varies from the next by l-16 inch.
Wire is numbered arbitrarily, its
numbering indicates nothing really.
The number OF screw indicates its
gauge arbitrarily. There are two
lengths to No. 0 screw, four lengths
to No. l screw, etc., but here again
the number has no actual relation to
the size of the screw..-Trenton Ameri,
can
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Ambassador must live abroad, for he
would hardly dare for the sake OF his
country's name, to travel about the
city with fewer than two horses, better
with four. The four Ambassadors get
SIT, 500 year, with the exception of
Ambassador MacVeagh, who gets $12,-
900. But this is SO inadequate, espe-
cially in time of trouble, when money
must be spent, that representatives
tremble lest they have that honor
thrust upon them.
Mr.. Alexander, Minister to Greece,
says he can live more comfortably
upon his $4,000 year, with the rank
of Minister, than he could upon ST.
900 as an Ambassador with the eti-
uuette of the Ambassador to maintain.
The Alexander House is large
structure IN Athens. On holidays it
floats the American flag, and has the
appearance of city mansion IN his
country. It's servants are natives, and
its gardens are filled with the flowers
of Greece, while around its doors hang
the "types" OF Greece, the peasants
who sell triaes, the flower girls and
the beggars. 1t is a very comfortable
legation, and Minister Alexander, with
his wife and daughter, have been sim
gularIy successful in making it home
for Americans travelling in Greece.
Lewis Baker, Minister to Nicaragua,
lives in native house, with two sto-
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CHATTER II.-Continued.

That very same day remember
mean that day on which the quarrel at
the table happened-Mr. Wilson came
on deck while Capt. Parf1tt was pacing
the weatherside, keeping lookout, and
with an air of aggression stared into
the compass, then looked aloof, also
very aggreseively, and then sent his
ewes around the sea line, making q mo-
tion with his head that was offensive
with it's suggestion Of criticism. Pres
entity, taking his stand abreast the miz-
Eenmast to leeward, he asked the man
at the wheel how the ships head was.
The fellow replied.
Let her come to three-quarters Of q
point" called out Mr.. Wilson. And,
Capt. Parftt, you will be 30 good as to
trim sail"
Keep her as she Goes!" roared
Parfitt.
you are making too much westing, "
exclaimed Mr.. Wilson.
Leave the deck, sir!" bawled Paritt.
by what chart are you sailing, I
should like to know" sneered Mr.. Will
son. Why, damme, man, We aren't t
bound to Madras"
An angry quarrel followed, mere
affray Of words, indeed, but 1t was hard
to guess at what instant the blow would
come, with a long and shameful
scuf1e on top Of 1t. The sailors forward
stood staring aft, thoroughly enjoying
the spectacle OF the two men gesticu-
lating and bawling at each other. Pres
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now grew sensible OF somebody just in
front of me painting heavily, and from
time to time groaning. 1t was Capt.
Punch, in whom the agony and helpless
ness of the sout had been temporarily
conquered by wrath and terror He
reached the deck unaid ID and fell a-roar-
ing. There was little to be seen. Here
and there man held lantern. but the
light was feeble and the illumination
revealed nero y confused the sight. The
ship lay over, with her broadside TO tho
sea; the dark heave OF swell burst
against the bilge and reCoilcd in milk
that flung dim sheen upon the atmos-
phere of the night, making the quietly
Tapping saiIs glance out. 1t was very
thick, there was nothing Of the land to
be seen. The carpenter was sounding
over the side and heard him bawl out
the depth; but there was no depth. The
Biddy McDougal was hard and fast upon
the African strand, with Parfitt and
Wilson yelling out contradictory orders
and Punch bawling to his men to obey
him and nobody else.
Just before daylight the weather
cleared. Dawn disclosed the high coast
along our starboard beam and 1gathered
from the tempestuous discourse OF the
three captains that we had gone ashore
somewhere near Cape Hanglio and San
down Bay. proving that though Capt.
Parfitt's calculations had come nearest
the truth, all three men had been heav-
lily out in their reckoning.
Scarcely had the sun risen when
gun-boat hove in sight, bound from the
eastward to Simon's Town. She sighted
our ship ashore and sent boats. was
heartily glad to get aboard OF her.
Capt. Parltt and five OF the crew
also went aboard; but old Punch de-
clined to leave the neighborhood OF the
vessel. He said that there was no I'M
mediate danger, that he would 60 ashore
and make shift under canvas until as
sistance should be sent from Capetown.
Wilson remained with him.
The ship was ultimately got of, and
navgated to England by Wilson and
Capt. Punch in the cabin; but by that
time I received my luggage from the
hold Of the Biddy MeDougal, had trans
ferred it to another vessel, and was
abreast Of Ascension on my way to
England. =,
find something. heroic in the fancy OF
Punch's gout-ridden shape camping it
out abreast of the stranded vessel, whose
situation he wholly though improperly
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ries, deep veranda and all native
servants. He has made himself 80
much one of the Nicsraguans that his
friends in Minnesota, his native State,
who are con the inside" claim that
but for his Office the trouble over the
Nicaraguan Canal would have become
as serious as the Venezuela dispute.
He has way of making the natives
respect him, and, through all the trou'
BILE, his home has been as peaceful as
summer sky.
On the first day Of Minister Bakers
arrival in Nicaragua-the mission in.
cluded Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Salvador-he went out for walk. A
crowd soon gathered around him, fol.
lowing the "Ministro Americana. =
This, Mr.. Baker. being modest man,
did not relish, so he stepped into a
barber shop. .
In the barber's chair sat a man with
lathered face, partly shaved. As soon
as the barber saw his illustrious visitor
he unceremoniously ordered the
customer under the razor to step aside
until the Ministro Americana had been
served. Against this proceeding Mr..
Baker protested and insisted that the
barber finish his present job, allowing
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attributed to Parfitt's ignorance as q

attributed to Parftt's ignorance as q
mariner. So far as passengers are con-
cerned, perhaps there is no great matter
of O moral to be gathered from this brief
narrative; yet, even in these advanced
seafarlng times ships may be found at
sea with more than one commander,
though one only has any claim to the
title. Will any shipmaster tell me that
among his passengers he does not oc-
caslonally meet with q nautical man
sometimes yachtsman and sometimes
a naval of1cer-who has the highest
possible opinion of his own judgment
and who willlose no opportunity Of Civ
ing his opinion and vexing the soul Of
the legitimate skipper by impertinent
criticism, by offers Of help and by down.
right counsel. Intending passengers
will do well sometimes, perhaps, to in
quire before embarking how many cap
tains are going In charge of the ship.
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