Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-31

The eclipse Thursday morning was
variously received, as the following
notes from dispatches to the JOURNAL
attest
Cumberland. observed here with consider
able interest, though much disappointment
was expressed. 1t was not generally under
stood that the moon would strike the sun on
the West Virginia side.
Vale Snmmit.-Would not have been no.
ticed here but for boy having discovered
that somebody had cut a piece out of the
sun" "Well, that's nothing" answered the
mother; Frank Mcmahon is always at
that" NO no, maw-look up theren' 20,
you mean that sun! Well, Frank didn't do
that. But it looks mighty like some of that
there Allen BARRIERS high kickin'v'
Eckhart.-Was feared here as token of
providental displeasure Only candidates
for the House of Delegates in this town.
none open and honest enough to avow his
willingness to run on the prohibition ticket
MI. Sa"age.-A fight took place here to day
One man said it was the MOON The other
declared it was the sun. The lie passed The
fur flew. Both are laid up for repairs. Before
leaving the field, however, Harry kenah ar
bitrated the dispute, umpired the fractures
and refereed the bruises He reported that
'severally each debater was partially wrong
Jointly both are entirely correct, and that the
injures-all non-fatal, like the honors are
about even" The report gives universal sat
isfaction In fact, it is generally believed
r l.
heard.
Burton.-There was more smoked glass used
here to-day than usual and the astronomers
were kept quite busy explaining the relations
of the sun and MOON Some of the statements
were not at all satisfactory. Much dissent
was manifest, one man going so tar as to say
that 'eclipses didn't take place in the daytim
anyway" Another consoled himself with
the remark that lust so it is not case of
annexation, derned if | keer." 1t is thought
that the astronomers will not be molested
Ishim.-A riot was narrowly averted here
this morning. A scientist, explaining the
cause and nature of the eclipse then pending,
employed some unfortunate language. He
said that 1.-The moon. in spheroiding the polar
equatorial Of the spherical paralax, over
reached the mundane sidereal of the celestial
nucleus, and thus the equinox of the unzoned
orb was struck on the solar plexus by lunar
uppercut-' He got no farther. Half the
crowd mistook the lecture as a statement
showing how free coinage will raise the
prices of the things we have to sell and lower
the prices of those we have to buy, while the
rest Indignantly resented it as slur upon
Bob's title to the belt. The Mayor rang for
the Homecoming police, but finding that body
had troubles of its own, he had the scientist
promise sweeping retraction soon as the
latter is able to write his name.
onaconing.-Inense excitement. When it
became known a week ago that there would
be no starlight for fortnight a shudder,
starting on Hogwash alley, ratified the town
from the water station to Never Seen. The
people were lily prepared, therefore, for the
hardly less disheartening phenomenon which
crawed partially across the sun this morning.
Various surmses were INDUCED, but nothing
so far has alayed the universal connection
Later-The horror of the situation has deep
ened as well as darkened. man ran down
jackson street just now hollering-"L Look
out! Frostburg has knocked the kiver off the
sun this time ~ 1t is feared now that your
metropolis is doomed.