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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
Heat Photographs.

The invisible radiations from a heated
body possess the power of effecting GER
tain chemical decompositions much after
the manner of lights, as, for instance,
in photography. Among the substances
sensitive to weak radiations of heat may
be mentioned paper saturated with Gu
prlc bromide, or a mixture of sulphate
OF copper and potassium bromide, which
has faint greenish tint that becomes
olive brown in radiant heat, and, if
green is used, q brown image can be OBJ
tanned in minute by exposing to the
radiations from a gas stove, and on
treatment with silver nitrate this image
becomes black by reason of the reduction
of the silver. Bichromated paper is af-
fected by radiant heat, as by light, and
paper impregnated simply with sulphate
OF copper yields feeble image, which
becomes nearly black when treated with
silver nitrate A mixture of sulphate of
copper and oxalic acid gives paper
which becomes brown on exposure.
Chlorate of copper is also very sensitive,
the faint blue color becoming deep
green. Similarly used bromide of tin
behaves as if exposed to light, but unex-
posed parts become very black when
treated with silver nitrate. Nitrate of
silver, which is markedly acted upon by
light, is slightly Drowned when exposed
to heat radiation, and the tint is deep
ened by hydroquinone or gallic acid
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
SANDBOX TREES.
The Gigantic Touch Me Nots of the Tropics
Have Explosive Fruits.


Everybody is familiar with the
"touch me not" the pretty jewel weed
that grows along the side of water
courses. When its seed pods are ripe, at
the slightest touch they will explode,
blowing the seeds in your face. The
giant among them is the sandbox tree
(Hura crepltans), native of tropical
America. Its furrowed fruits are as
large as an orange. Cosmos of Paris
thus describes this Krupp gun of the
vegetable world:
1T is often cultivated as an orna-
mental tree, both in it's native country
and i'll other parts of the globe, notably
III certain gardens in the Indies Its
fruit looks on the outside something like
a melon; it is formed exactly like that
OF our native euphorbias, of sections,
which at maturity separate violently
with so intense report that it has been
compared to the sound of pistol,
throwing its seed to considerable dis
tance.
with the fruit very pretty sand
box can be made by cutting a circular
opening i'll the upper part, extracting
the seeds and then covering the open
ing. The opposite side is perforated
with little holes A sandbox thus made
is very difficult to keep, for the time al
ways comes when, aided by the drying
process, the sections suddenly split, with
characteristic sound.
"The violent splitting of the fruit of
the sablier is explained very simply by
process analogous to that which causes
the two halves of split stick to curl
apart and depends upon the unequal
extensibility of the elements of the
valves, which produces the mechanical
effect due to it at the precise moment
when the sutures, the lines of least re-
sistance, are opened by the progress Of
deSiccatiOn -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
Her Old Slave Aided Her.

Two members from Mississippi were
swapping stories during the intervals
between refreshments, when in an acci-
dental way the name of ex-senator
Blanche K. Bruce was mentioned
"That reminds me- said one, "of a
story told me long time ago by bar
keeper at the Ebbitt. I was in there one
day when Bruce came in, went into one
of the side rooms, and, having been
served, walked out without saying any
thing to any one.
"'You don't draw the color line here,
John, remarked to the barkeeper.
Not OH that man, sir, DON'T was
the reply. 4 have had pretty good
opinion of him since little thing that
happened soon after he first came here
Bruce was in his seat at the capitol
one day, when a card was brought to
him. He read it and at once went out
to the waiting room. There he met the
woman who owned him when he was a
slave. With her was her daughter. Both
were in tears. She had lost all of her
property during the war and was abso-
lutely penniless. The negro once her
slave was the only man she knew in
Washington. She appealed to him.
Bruce listened to her story. He got his
hat and went outside with her His car
riage, drawn by handsome pair of
bays, was waiting there. He called the
carriage, assisted the mother and daugh-
ter to enter it with as much Difference
as he could possibly have shown them
In the old plantation days, closed the
door and told the coachman to drive to
the treasury. Then he called public
cab and followed. The three entered the
treasury together, and before Bruce
came out he had placed in the hands of
the woman he had once called "missus"
an appointment to good clerkship in
the treasury department.
That" added the Mississippi men,
ber, was the reason why the barkeeper
didn't draw the color line at Blanche
K. Bruce. and it seems to me the reason
was mighty good one too. Wash
ington Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
A Dog as a Witness.

The dog refused to be sworn. 1t had
sort of Quakerlike simplicity and only
affirmed, but its testimony was suffi-
cient to decide a case in Justice Mar
tins courtroom.
The animal was large, stately and
intelligent Irish setter. After the hu-
man litigants had each told his tale, the
dog took the witness stand.
Nov, who is your master?" said E.
D. 10y, who had replevined the dog
from Fred Enderlin, South Side saloon
keeper, on June 26.
The brute barked, sprang out of the
witness chair and paved at the feet of
10y. The animal then went through
various performances at the bidding of
10y, including running across the street
and back at his command. The dog
would not act for the other litigant, and
the court decided that he belonged to
10y. The animal was then released
from the custody of Constable Roebuck.
He wagged his tail at the judge and left
the courtroom with his master. Chi
cago News.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, April. II. 1897

wuz Milly's age. l us't to like to watch
Milly working around, fer it seemed I
wuz young ag'in, fer she wuz just like
mother gentle an patient, an when
mother come in 1 could see what Milly
would be in years to come.
"Poor mother! By my bein sich q
fool she's seen lots an lots of trouble.
She amt what she us't to be, but is the
patientest woman in the world today.
doh't know if Dick turned out bad. He
never was sich bad chap-not like some
city raised boys I'vttseed 1 don't even
know if he's livin or dead; jist know
that Milly's a-comin, an that she don t
say nothin about Dick
II often wonder if she's got any chill
dren. don't desarve ter know. blamed
ole idiot that wuz! 1t would sarve me
right never to know or even see our lit
tie Milly ag'in!
II often wonder if thar wuz boy if
'twould be named fer it's granddad?
''No, never go to York. It's all I
kin do to get to Roseville. Ihev been so
crippled up with the rheumatism i'll this
leg since it was hurt three years ago by
that ole black hoss, that I can't git
about, and I do say that if it wan It fer
Andy don't know what would become
of this yer farm. Yes, Andy goes to
York some times, but he says he's never
located Dick Plummer, though 'twould
be like huntin fer needle in hay
stack fer him to try to find him in sich
place as New York
Il can tell you all about Dick Plum
mer, uncle" said. "Dick Plummer
has one of the dearest, best little wives
In the world, and three of the sweetest
children that ever learned to lisp the
name Of grandpa. u"
Uncle Ben rose as quickly as his stiff
ened old legs would allow and gazed at
me as if I were one of the seven Won
ders.
"What, stranger, you know Milly-
my Milly?'
"Not stranger, father, but Dick Plum
mer''
"Waal, waal-I'd never a.
eyes, and I'm not so bad husband.
Just ask Milly. There she comes. You
need not mind that old harness. See?
Milly, Bennie, Richard and Dot!'
Dear Milly! My little wife came
from the summer house by the gate, the
little ones by her side, and. with glad
cry, fell in her fathers arms. The old
man held her and was silent Tears
came in his eyes, and turned away,
while Bennie said:
'Is that grandpa? Then what they
cry'n for? Mamma cried while we was
waitin. I thought we'd be happy when
we got here
The kitchen door then opened, and
the chickens that picked about it flew
in all directions, and bent, white cap
ped figure hurried painfully down the
path in our direction. n.-Ella Edmondson
Church in st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
FIRE ALARM BOXES.
The Mechanism That Summons Help II
Case of Fire.

The Mechanism That Summons Help In
Case of Fire.
Charles T. Hill contributes an article
entitled "An Alarm of Fire by Tele-
graph" to st. Nicholas, describing the
fire alarm system of New York. Con-
cerning the fire alarm boxes Mr.. Hill
writes: This box forms part Of lamp
post, the post being so constructed that
the box is inserted in the middle The
box is painted a bright red, and the
lamp at night shows red light, thus
: making it easily discernible either by
day or night. The wires from the box
are conveyed down through the center
OF the post to conduits buried in the
street and thence on to fire headquarters
White letters on red pane of glass,
in the lamp over the box, give directions
how to send an alarm. The same direc-
tlons in raised letters are found on the
face of the box. If we turn the large
brass handle on the outside as far as it
will go, loud gong will ring inside
This is not the alarm, but simply
warning bell to notify the policeman on
the beat that the box is being opened
and to prevent the sending in of mali
cious or false alarms of fire, an offense
that is punishable in New York state
by fine of 500 and one years impris-
onment. Turning this handle as far as
it will go opens the outer door, and we
find inside another door, with slot at
the left hand side, and at the top of this
slot hook projecting. By pulling down
this hook once and releasing it we set
at work certain clockwork mechanism
inside, and this sends in the alarm.
When the first officer arriving at a
fire discovers that it is of enough i'm
portance to warrant his sending for re-
endorsements, he opens this inner door
and with the Morse key sends in a sec
ond third, fourth, fifth or sixth alarm,
as the case may be, Or call for any
special apparatus that he may need
The inspectors of boxes can also carry
on conversation in the Morse alphabet
with the operator at headquarters OH
this key and sounder.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
ROBBED BEN FRANKLIN,
His Description of the Stolen Garments
and the Man Who Took Them.

The following advertisement is taken
from the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 5}2,
wherein the reader of Feb. 22, 1888,
was informed that The Gazette contain
ed the ''FreshCst advices, Foreign and
Domestick. Printed by B. Franklin,
Post Master, at the news printing Of
fees near the Market. Price, los. a year.
Where advertisements are taken in, and
Book Binding is done reasonably, in the
best manner:''
STOLEN on the 18th Instant by one Will. IN
Lloyd, out of the house of Benz. Franklin, an
half worn Sagathee coat lind with silk, four
fine homespun shirts, a fine Holland shirt ruff
fled at the Hands and Bosom, a pair of black
broadcloth Breeches, new seated and lined with
leather, two pair of good worsted stockings,
one of a dark color, cambrick Handkerchief,
marked with an Z in red silk, new pair of
Calf skin shoes, Boys new Castor Hat, and
sundry other things.
N. B. The said Lloyd pretends to under
stand Latin and Greek, and has been school
master; He is an lrishman, about 20 years Of
age, tall and SLIM Had on lightish colour'd
Great Coat, red jacket, pair of black silk
breeches, an Old felt Hat too little for him, and
sewed on the side of the crown with white
Thread, and an old dark colour'd wig; but
may perhaps wear some of the stolen cloathes
above mentioned. Whoever secures the said
Thief that he may be brought to Justice,
shall have Thirty Shillings reward and reason
able charges paid by B. FRANKLI!.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
LIFE IN THE DESERT.
The Arabs Are Abstemious and Enjoy the
Luxury of Silence.

Luxury of Silence.
"In tho Desert With the Bedouin' is
the title of an article in The Century,
written and illustrated by the English
artist, R. Talbot Kelly Mr.. Kelly says
i'll his article: Desert life induces habits
of abstcmiousness. Rising with the sun,
dish of cumis, or mares milk, and a
small cup of black coffee are the only
refreshments generally partaken Of The
day is spent following ones pursuits,
and, with the exception of an occasional
cup of coffee and some very light
smack, y one has no meal of any kind
till after sundown. One quickly becomes
accustomed to long fasting and absti-
nence from any form of drink, and the
simple dinner at night is more keenly
enjoyed i'll consequence. Though plain,
the food is excellently cooked, and usu-
ally consists of Il huge tray of rice, over
which is poured dish of ssmna, or liq-
uid butter. Round the tray are pigeons
stuffed with nuts and spices, and the
pyramid OF rice is surmounted by lamb
Or kid, frequently cooked whole Boiled
beans, and perhaps few fresh herbs,
appear occasionally, which, with the
usual fiat loaves and large dish of riz-
bil-laban, Or boiled rice pudding, COM
plete the meal. Salt is seldom seen-a
distinct privation-except on the first
day OF your visit, and drinking water is
often scarce. After dinner a huge fire of
corncObs, Or sticks and camel dung, is
lighted i'll the tent, about which we
gather and enjoy the after dinner cup of
coffee and a smoke, and, should we be
in the mood, talk.
The Arabs have one excellent point of
etiquette Talk for talks sake is not ex-
pected. Ever ready for a yarn, they
eagerly respond should you wish to con-
verse, but the luxury of silence is not
denied if ones mood be thoughtful.
The idea of Il fire in ones tent may
strike some of my readers as superfiu-
ity, but the nights are often intensely
cold, and after bathing in the sun all
day, with the thermometer at 50 to 100
degrees i'll the shade, the sudden fall of
temperature to little above freezing
point is very trying, and, i'll spite of fire,
blankets and thick ulster, | have fire.
quently been obliged to go outside and
run about in order to restore circulation
to my halt frozen eXtremities.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
Pennsylvania Fox Hunting.

While there is general impression
that Americans do not go in for fox
hunting as do the Englishmen, it is by
all odds the most popular winter sport
in Pennsylvania. There are, in the
southeastern counties, as fine packs of
hounds as can be shown in England,
though fewer i'll number, and some
horses that hold their own against the
best of English importations over as
"stitf" a country as that hunted by the
famous Quorn pack of which the Earl
OF Lonsdale is master. AT recent run
$50 couples of hounds We're out and
about 200 riders Just now there is con-
sternation among owners of the Penn
sylvania hounds because of an outbreak
of rabies in the Strafford Hunt kennels,
which has necessitated the killing of
the entire pack of 20, many of them
dogs imported from noted English
packs. A rabid cur bit one of the
hounds few weeks ago, and this dog,
after recent run, attacked other occu-
pants of the kennels. So all We're killed
as a matter of safety. There is fear that
other HOUNDS i'll other packs have been
bitten, and that an outbreak of hydro
phobia throughout the hunting district
may follow. All possible precautions
to prevent this disaster have been taken,
and hounds which have been exposed
are to be isolated for a time New
York Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
Making Marbles.

Marbles are manufactured from the
material which gives them their name
At the marble quarries the refuse stone
is broken by hand into small cubes A
bushel or more of these is poured into
great revolving cylinder, which is sup
piled with water from a faucet. The
cylinder is revolved at high rate of
speed, and the cubes, by attrition, are
ground down to the tiny spheres which
give such delight to the hearts of the
boys. From one to two hours are usu-
ally required to finish lot of marbles,
and they are afterward sorted according
to size and painted by hand. The crock
cry marbles, or potteries, are nodded of
the same material as ordinary earthen-
ware, and are then glazed and baken.
The glass marbles containing images
and flowers are nodded.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
She Had Two.

A young contralto at a Handel con-
cert which Sir Joseph Barnby was con-
Quoting at the end of a solo put in a
high note instead of the less effective
note usually sung. This innovation
shocked the conductor, and he immedi-
ately asked whether Miss Singer thought
she was right in trying to improve up
Oh Handel. "Well, Sir Joseph" said
she, 'I've got an E, and I don't see
why shouldn't show it off," "Miss
Singer" rcjoined Barnby, II believe
you have two knees, but I hope you
won't show them off here. San Fran.
cisco Argonaut.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
RICHARD IN.
He Never 1nj red the Masses and Was
Not Unpopular With Them.

He Never 1nj red the Masses and Was
Not Unpopular With Them.
If Richard be tried by the only proper
standard, that of his own time, he will
be found to be not more but less cruel
and bloody than either his predecessors
or those who came after him. The act
which has especially blackened his
memory is the mysterious removal or
tnurder of the princes. Yet Clifford,
backed by Margaret of Anjou, had kill
ed i'll cold blood Richards brother, the
Earl of Ruthland, a boy of 16, while
Henry VII imprisoned and executed the
feeble minded Earl of Warwick, the son
of Clarence. In mere numbers of exc
cutions, excluding, Of course, on both
sides those who We're taken in open re-
bellion, Richard has much less to an
swer for than Queen Marga ct Or Henry
VII and far less than Henry VIII, who
put to death anybody who happened to
be distasteful to him on political, per-
sonal or religious grounds. There was
no public opinion in that day against
putting to death any one who had played
and lost in the great struggle of politics.
Executions were recognized part of
the business. When the game went
against statesman in those days, as
Mr.. Speaker Reed once said, he did not
cross the aisle and take his place as the
leader of his majesty's opposition; he
was sent to the tower and had his head
cut off. Autres temps, autres m9urs.
AT every turn of the wheel in the long
struggle between the Lancastrians and
the Yorkists the victorious party al
ways executed every leader of the other
side upon whom they could lay hands.
Such were the rules of the society and
such the politics in which Richard was
brought up, and he played according to
those rules and without excess, paying
the final forfeit himself with undaunted
courage.
Nothing is farther from the truth
than the notion that Richard was un-
popular with the masses OF the people.
He had never injured them, and they
did not care how many mobiles or princes
he put to death.-Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge in Scribner's
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
NEW COLLEGE GARDENS, OXFORD.

On this old lawn, where lost hours pass
Across the shadows dark with dew,
Where autumn on the thick sweet grass
Has laid a weary leaf or two,
When the young morning, keenly sweet,
Breathes secrets to the silent air,
Happy is he whose lingering feet
May wander lonely there.
The enchantment of the dreaming lines.
The magic of the quiet hours,
Breathe unheard tales of other times
And other destinies than ours
The feet that long ago walked here
Still, noiseless, walk beside our feet,
Poor ghosts, who found this garden dear
And found the morning sweet.
Age weeps that it no more may hold
The heartache that youth clasps so close,
Pain finely shaped in pleasure s mold,
A thorn deep hidden in a rose.
Here is the immortal thorny rose
That may in no new garden grow
Its root is i'll the hearts of those
Who walked here long ago! e. Nesbit.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17

Once more it is announced that the
playing of music is being successfully
employed by physicians to soothe disor-
dered minds and relieve those suffering
from disease. The earliest recorded at
tempt of this character is that in which
David played the harp before Saul. The
result may probably be remembered.
Saul threw his javelin at him. .-Phila.
delphia Inquirer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17

n gentleman said that some time be-
fore he md broken the guy of large
spiders web The spider came out of
his den, made carefnl examination of
the accidcut-for accident he evidently
took 1t to be--and then what? Resecured
his web by two guys instead of with
one, both Of them differently attached
from the one that WAS broken. am
dead sure" that the spider reasoned. -
Dog Fancier.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17

The value of the horse depends ON the
character of the road
No intelligent farmer should waste
his time in hauling half loads to market.
Texas is now actively and intelligent
ly advocating good roads, and change
for the better will be apparent soon, no
doubt.
The man who never blankets his horse
in the winter is the one who insists the
roads are good enough.
poor road offsets the advantages of
q good market.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
"FELICE NOTTE!"

God send the little golden bees of sleep
To murmur in the blossom of your ear
Their gentle summer music, hushed and deep,
Their softest slumber songs to you. my dear.
And may the gypsy, fortune telli'- reams
Draw you beneath their painted m !! Ike
Your palm and oil you fortunes, rleams
Too sweet to be remembered when you wake.
Once may your hyacnthine lids unfold
Calm in the pleasant glory of the moon.
The happest stars i'll heaven may you behold
And pray and sigh for JOY and slumber soon.
Irene Putnam i'll New York Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
A Practical Prima Donna.

"Do you think" asked the young
man who was preparing some interviews
with grea6 people on trivial topics,
"that light opera singer should marry
if she is really and truly ambitious to
succeed in her art?''
The queen of burle que stopped read
ing what her press agent had written
long enough to respond:
"Surely, sir, you cannot be serious
If we didn't marry, how could the pa
pers say any thing about our divorcesp'
Washington Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
All Styles Supplied.

Il want u poster got out" said the
commercial gentleman.
Certainly" said the artist. 81 get
them up on three systems-the opium,
the lobster and ice cream supper and
the Welsh rabbit. Which will you
haver'-Indianapolis Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

IN addition No. leaves Piedmont Si5 IL. m
arrives Frostburg l0:35 d. M, and No. g. leaving
Frostburg l:i5 p. D., reaches Piedmont 2:3S u.
m stopping at all intermediate stations.
FOn 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. /, 2, B. 4, 7 and Sdaily except Sunday.
Nos ) and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days only.
Baggage car will be hauled on trains Nos
and d. j.. NJ. HAMILTON,
July % Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-04-17

In modern Greece the language Of
flowers is developed with such detail
and is so generally understood that a
lover and his sweetheart sometimes car
ry on an ideal correspondence by means
of clusters of loose blossoms,