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Year: 1877

FRosTBURG, Jan. 10, 1877.


Editor Mining Journal :-Judging
by the tone Of your Eckhart corres-
pondent he thinks the future of work
lngmen, miners especially, rather
cloudy. |, too, have given the sub
Ject some consideration, and, I must
say, concur with him in the opinion
that the tins has not yet come ~hen
we can get our rights peaceably
through organized effort. This is
because the masses do aot understand
the necessity or use of union, and be-
cause, as individuals, we cannot assert
our rights and dare to maintain them
because we are dependent on other
elements OF society for leave to labor.
Then, what is the remedy? Go any
where and you will find overcrowded
mines and shops the same sad COM
plant OF reduced wages being threat
sned, or some Of the many other evils
that are very common about all public
works.


The remedy seems to be that many
OF US must become our own employers.
This We cannot do on largo scale on
account Of our want of unity. Then
We must find if we cannot do it on
small scale, which, ! think, is quite
practicable by becoming cultivators of
the soil, thereby constituting ourselves
to great extent our own producers and
consumers, But how to get possession
of this soil-this land, and obtain the
necessary stock, and farming imple-
ments-that is the problem. If
kansas can give US the information,
| have no doubt he will hear of plenty
who are willing to give their share of
coal mining to some one else. x.
Year: 1877

A strict Turk is obliged not only
to wash his head, face, neck, ears
and feet, but also his teeth at each
Of the five daily calls to prayer, so
he very soon wears out his tooth
brush, and those articles are gene
rally sold in packets Of a dozen.
They are made of olive sticks about
ten inches long and half an inch in
diameter. At one end for about
half an inch they are split in all
directions, so as to form a brush
closely resembling a stenciling
brush. 1t is easy to see that they
are not calculated to endure hard
wear. The less particular Turks
use ordinary European tooth
brushes, but as even the most lax
among them look on the pig and
all belonging to him as vile and
unclean, they would as soon think
Of defling their mouths with Rus
sian bristle toothbrush as of eating
a pork chop or a rasher of bacon,
The shopkeeper, therefore, swears
by the heads and souls Of his father
and mother that the hair of which
his toothbrushes are made grew on
the back of the camel, the COW OF
the horse Marks.
Year: 1877

Disease Peculiar Co Russian


Grand Dukes.


London World


There is a peculiar form of i'll
ness in the imperial family Of Rus
sia, known among the outer public
rs 'Imperial disease" which is
confined solely to the members Of
the imperial house. 1t has no symp.
toms that can be recognized by the
medical profession, but it always
arises from the same predisposing
cause.-the displeasure of the czar.
When Grand Duke incurs the
emperor's displeasure he is removed,
if it be possible, to some distant
post, where, nominally holding a
high and important command, he
is really in banishment from the
court. One Grand Duke is mixed
up in a brawl at a place of public
entertainment, and is beaten by the
clown of an English circus; the
Khivan expedition is on hand, and
he is sent to take command in it.
Another Grand Duke is made gov
ernor. general of the Caucasus, and
it is known that he is in disgrace,
though the cause has never vet
transpired. But there are occasions
when no such opportunity presents
itself, and when no cause but illness
can justify the removal of the offen-
der. If, for example, there be a
Grand Duke in command of an
army in the field, and it be thought
desirable to remove him, any trans
fer to another post would be so pal
pably a disgrace, which under no
imaginable conditions will the en-
peror openly inhict upon Roman
off, that he is ordered to report
himself sick it is duly certified
that he is suffering from this COM
plant, or that, necessitating change
of air, and only a few know that
he has no illness but imperial dis
ease. 1t is rumored in st. Peters
burg that the Grand Duke Nicholas
is already beginning to sicken. The
Times military correspondent inno-
Gently confirms the report. "He
is said" he writes, "to be suffering
from liver complaint, but when |
saw him some days back he was
very WELL"


The fact is that a spirit of doubt
and diStrust of the imperial house
is rising in Russia, which must
cause deep anxiety to the Gar.
Year: 1877

Edward klng's Letter to Boston Journal.


"Don't write about politics.
said a leading American journalist
to me once, when instrueting me as
to what he wanted from Paris. But
politics happens to be the rage here
just now. Nevertheless, there are
other topics; the autumn races
which | never attended-have been
exceptionally brilliant, it is said.
A young nobleman, he would be a
baronet in England, l suppose, has
been caught cheating on the turf,
and been dlsgraced. The circum-
stance reminds one Of that dreadful
remark of the witty Duke Of Devon
shire, who said that he "could
never make up his mind whether
baronets should be treated as noble
men or gentlemen" There is a
curious sting in that remark.
Racing in Paris is popular simply
because it affords thousands of peo-
pie a chance to make an easy and
luxurious living. l don't think
that among Frenchmen there is
really any deeply rooted passion for
horse flesh. But they like to gam
bic, and racing is convenient way
of doing it. Large numbers Of
young Englishmen live elegantly
here SIMPLY by betting from time to
time on q cure horse. Then there
are the knaves, fat old spiders, who
watch cunningly for green hands
and pounce on them with fierce
alacrity. They are like the tribe of
gamblers who haunt the Grand
Cafe, a cosmopolite mob of broken
people, who do all that they can to
break others. The sharp fraternity
is easily known and pointed out,
but the yerdant and the stupid in
sist on being plucked,
Year: 1877




Il pounds Of salt, pound Of sugar, onnce
OF saltpetre, ounce OF potash. In this
ratio the pickle can be increased to any
quantity desired Let these be boiled to-
gether until all the dirt from the sugar rises
to the top and is skinned off. Then throw
it into tub to cool, and when cool ponr'f It
over your beef or pork. The meat must be
well covered with pickle, and sitonld not be
put down for at least two days after killing.
during which time it shpnld DO slightly
sprinkled with powdered saltpetrc, which
removes all the surface blood. &C.. leaving
the meat fresh and clean. Some omit boil-
ing the pickle, and find it to answer well.
though THE operation Of boiling purides the
pickle BY throwing of tire dirt always to
be found Ill salt and sugar. - Ge,nsa,stosdn
Telegraph.


Bread Nth Potatoes. Potatoes assist fer
mentation, and render the dough lighter and
more tender when we wish to make bread
i'll haste. Peel and boil. or steam, i quart or
potatoes, mash them very fine, or, what Is
better, press them through colander while
they are hot, add halt a pint Of water and a
salt-spoon-flll of salt, stir them into batter
then put in yeast cake previously softened
or teacupfll Of lively yeast, and make into
dough with two quarts Of siftea -four
Knead half an hour, put plenty OF -four on
your board, and llnead it until it cleave from
the board with a light tearing sound. Be
careful not to let your dough grow very
N
and set to rise in q warm place. Watch the
process, and when the loaves are quite light
have your oven in good heatand bake three
quarters OF an hour. This bread is nice if
well made. !. G.. the potatoes made very fine
and kept hot, and perhaps the flour warmed
also; but it is not so good when stale as that
made with a scaled sponge.


Rose Cake.-One pound Of sugar, ii ORR.
flour, 6 ozs. hutter, whites of II eggs, steav
spoonful soda, | teaspoonfuls cream tartar.
cup sweet or sour milk, sift the cream tar
tar into the flour, dissolve the soda in tile
milk. For coloring, take drachm cocht
neal, same of soda. cream tartafs and alum
pulyerize and dissolve in water; Strain and
color half the batter; pour the white batter
in the pan. then pour In the pink in u stripes
stir deep once or twice. DO not stir itmncb
or it will al be colored.


Telrct Cakc.--One pound sugar, of flour,
pound of huttcr, five eggs, teacupful Of
cold wafer, one teaspoonful Of cream tartar
teaspoont,,l se1a; flavor with lemon; beat
the sugar and butter to white cream dis
solve the soda in the water, and sift the
cream tartar into the flour, mixing thor
onghly; add to The butter and sugar the
pound of flour and the water, and beat II
well beat the yolks and whites OF tile cggS
separately; beat together Tor minute and
stir into the cake; beat the cake well for
about three minutes; bake ah hour J'hit
will make two loaves.
Year: 1877

New forests are said to be growing up In
the western part of Massachusetts faster
than the old ones are cut off. Especially IN
the hill towns is this the case. Many Il To-
cality that was impoverished as farm land
twenty and thirty years ago, is now covered
with vigorous growth Of young forests,
tile rapid increase in the population Of the
outlying agricultural districts having rem
dered such a change inevitable.
Year: 1877

Those who live near blacksmith, and ma
chine shops, and can ret iron filings and
rusty chips OF iron, and win work them into
their flower beds, will add greatly to the
rich and bright coloring of their flowers.
Year: 1877

The long winter evenings afford our farm
ars an admirable opportunity for planning
their work for The coming season. Much
Of your success will depend upon the amount
of brain work you hestow upon your acres
before the muscular labor is demanded. We
are firmly convinced that the bodily is sub
ordinate and inferior to the mental labor
necessary for farming operations. We know
many old fossils, who know nothing and
never will know anything. will laugh at this
assertion and regard it rs the offspring of a
theory which has never been tested by ac-
tual experience. They are mistaken.


In our schoolboy days. and that was many
years ago. one OF our neighbors. man well
to do in the world, was habitually late
riser, contrary to the statute in such cases
made and provided" Sometimes Ills habits
were source Of annoyance to his ncighbors,
and once we Heard him expostuated with
for wasting precious hours in bed. His only
response was. /" can make more by one
hour Of thought in the morning than you
can earn all day by severe labor.' This re-
ply produced great impression upon our
boyish mind and we began to consider If,
ny such an argument, we could persuade
patcr to allow us an hour or two of thought
full ease in bed. instead of being engaged in
the menal labor Of milking COWS, feeding
pigs and currying oxen. A few stern les
sons convinced us that, SO far, as we We're
concerned, brain work, in bed. was failure.


Farming, as science. is in its earliest in
fancy. We are only on the threshold of ag-
nculttral knowledge. There is very much
Tor every one to learn. The earth is. in IL
great measure, a sealed book. and only ear
nest study and constant thought can open
OUT the heretofore unknown treasures of the
soil. Agricultural books ard papers should
pe IN every farmers home. and their con-
tents should be carefully studied and supple
mented with thoughtful experiment


The old way of cunivating the soil me-
ehanically, as it We're, will no longer entitle
q man to rank as farmer. The brain must
dlrect and control tie muscle, and the main
strength and awkwar.ness of the servant
must obey the intelligence and skill of the
master. Farming is honorable as a vocation
anu profitable just in proportion as we be-
SLOW upon it the thought that other success
iul industries require. A non-reading. nom
thlnking farmer is only a slaye--a servant of
servants, and his most cruel task-master is
--hlmself.-,Son Of the Soil.
Year: 1877

Among the rude and unciyilizcd tribes
Of the Northwest coast the idea of divinity
was very diverse and in some cases OBJ
scure. The Tinneh, great people, oc-
cupying a vast expanse Of territory, reach
ing from the Arctic Ocean southwark TO
the fiity-iifth parallel of latitude, worship
the "man in the moon, who, as they sup
pose, formerly lived among them as a poor
and ragged boy This boy once made 50
large a pair of snow shoes that he attracted
the attention and ridicule of the entire
community where he resided, and became
the object of much heartess sport on the
part of the villagers. But soon there
came time of great scarcity; the hunter
traversed the forests in vain; the earth
bore no fruitage; still, to their surprise,
when every hope of success was exhausted,
they were often led to freshly-killed game
by some mysterious influence. Their
benetactor soon proved to be none other
than the poor boy with the great snow
shoes-the object of their ridicule. Though
grateful to him at first, they soon forgot
his benelactions when the time of plenty
returned, SO much SO as on one occasion to
refuse him morsel of fat meat. The d.
vine parsonage who had externally mani
Tested himself to them in the guise of u
ragged boy, now offended, took his depar-
ture to his residence in the moon. How
ever, in month, he returned, appearing
as full-grown man, forgave their ingrati-
tude, told them that his home was ia the
moon, and that he would always assist
them in the chase. One punishment,
however, they must suffer, namely, that
henceforward animals should be lean the
entire winter, and only fat in the summer


The Nootkas of Columbia have a tradi.
tion of benefactor and teacher who ap.
peared to them long ago. He came to
them up the sound in canoe of copper.
The paddle in his hand was copper; even
his clothing was of the same metal. This
mysterious, copperclad old man sojourned
for while among them, taught them the
use Of the metal which n.ade him so con-
spicuous--told them that he came from
the sky, and that some time in the future
when their land should be destroyed, they
would all die, but, after death, rise and
live with him above. Enraged at this
prophecy Of their destruction they arose
aud killed him, and, in possessing them
selves of the canoe, fell heirs to the bene-
fits which arise from the knowledge of
copper. They, however, repented of their
crime when they realized, at too late an
hour, that the copper-man was the incar-
nation of the deity, The Great Spirit,
The Man d6ore


In both of these legends We observe
the tendency, alluded to a moment ago, of
hrst personifying the introduction of civil
lizing influences and then of deifying that
personifcation. In the boy with the
great snow.shoes, suddenly elevated to the
position of divine patron of the chase, we
see clearly some inventive genius, who,
ridiculed at first by his fellows, at last is
acknowledged benefactor, on account of
his discovery Of improved appliances for
hunting. The copper man is nothing
more than the introducer of copper among
the Nootkas.-APpletoa's Journal.
Year: 1877

The color of the sky is said to be due
to the transmission of rays of light through
a cloud of dust which collects above the
earth.


Professor Nordenkiold examined the
snow which covered the icebergs as far
North as eighty degrees, and found it
strewn with black particles, spread over
the surface, or situated at the bottom of
little pits, great number of which were
seen on the outer layer of snow. Many
of such particles were also lodged in the
interior strata.


This dust, which became gray on dying,
contained large proportion of metallic
particles, attracted by the magnet, and
capable Of composing sulphate of copper
An observation made a little later upon
other icebergs proved the presence Of sim
liar dust in layer of granular crystalline
snow, situated beneath stratum Of light
fresh, another of hardened snow. Upon
analysis, this matter was found to be com
posed of metallic iron, PHOSPHORUS, cobalt,
and fragments ditomaeea, 1t bears the
greatest analogy to the dust previously col
lected by the Professor on the SHOWS Of
Greenland, and described by him under
the name Of "kryokonite."
Year: 1877

ADVICE TO PARENTs.-There is said
to be young man in the Missouri peni-
tentiary whose parents, at their death, left
him fortune Of $4,000. There's where
his parents made fatal mistake. If they
had taken the precaution to invest that
$4,000 in small dog, and shot him, and
then had simply left the young man jack
plane or wood saw, with printed instrue-
tions how to use It, the chances are that,
instead of being in the penitentiary, he
would to day have been gradually but
surely working his way to handsome
competency and an honorable old age.
But ever since the days Of Adam and Eve,
parents have made it a point to toll and
struggle all their lives in order to realize
a sufficient sum Of money to purchase,
when they are dead and gone, their sons
each first-elass through ticket to the
devil, and it is not much to be wondered
at that so many Of their sons, reared in
vice and idleness, as too many Of them
often are, have no higher ambition than
to invest their inheritance in just that SORT
Of transportation.
Year: 1877

Some very practical persons have been
investigating the length of time it takes to
transmit message over the Atlantic cable.
The first signal is felt in four-tenths of a
second but the following one goes through
more rapidly. As many as seventeen
words have been sent over the Atlantic
cable in one minute. Fifteen can easily
be sent under pressure and twelve words
minute is a good working rate. A fact
not yet explained by the scientists is that
the electricity does not move so rapidly
from New York to London as in the op.
posite direction.
Year: 1877

The Worcester Press puts it in this
shape He took sudden seat, he did,
in all his gorgeous foppery; such mourn
full spectacles we see, when sidewalks are
SO sloppery. And she, poor girl, went
down with him, in all her pull-back "trip
perry; such tragic incidents take place
when sidewalks are so slippery.
Year: 1877

When you see young fellow standing
on corner with a far-away look in his
eyes, and bit Of yarn on each of the last
two fingers of his hand, you may be toler-
ably sure that he has just begun keeping
house, and that he is mutteripg TO him
self "chopping bowl, eggs, clothes line,
that's the thumb and first two fingers,
now what did she want on the other
fingers ?n
Year: 1877

A witty writer has observed with much
truth, that every man is, in a sense, three
different men. In the first place he is
the man he thinks himself to be; in the
second place, he is the man other persons
think him to be, and, finally, he is the
man that he really is.
Year: 1877

PUT IT IN WRITINa.-How many
misunderstanding arise from the loose
manner in which business matters are
talked up, and then when each party puts
his own construction on the conversation,
the matter is dismissed by each with aali
right" Frequently it turns out all wrong,
aud becomes question for lawyers and
courts. More than half of the expensive
aud useless litigation of the country could
be saved if the people were in the habit Of
putting their agreements in writing. Each
word in our own language has its own Pc
culiar meaning aud memory. May be
the change Of its position in sentence,
conveys an entirely different idea from
that intended. When once reduced to
writing, ideas are fixed and inelastic.
Year: 1877

Workmcn have commenced laying brick Al
leus new building, next to his publishing house,
ON Water street, and the rear window frames of
The basement story are already in their places.
The front Of the building is to be of pressed brick,
and its entire architectural appearance will be
very fine. 1t will be surmounted by sloping
roof. The contractors intend to push the work
the work right along without any unnecessary de-
tay. The building is in such good location that
there ought not to be any trouble about obtaining
i,nAnta.
Year: 1877

The Penobscot Monthly is the title of month
ly publication just started at Dexter, by Mr.. r. o.
uObbins, the enterprising publisher and editor
of the Gazette of that place, one fthe most wide
awake local weeklies in the State. Its contents
are mainly original. The first number is sent to
four thousand homes, and it is sold at the low
price Of IS cents per year.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, August 81. The $50 train on the
Southern Railroad of Long Island from Rock
away, last evening, ran over COW, and the en-
CINE and baggage car were thrown from the track.
The passenger cars did not go off. No one was
injured.
Year: 1877

Speaking of two of the republican nominees in
somerset county, the Somerset Reporter says mir.
bartlett represented the county in the Senate last
winter, and through his sterling character and
: ood sense, was a man of Influence in that body.
l.. H. Webb has he Id the Office of clerk OF courts
for one term and it was never better filled"
Year: 1877

financial policy. Itis needless to diIcuIs
them. / may not like them all. They
are not fixed, nor can they wisely be
fixed, in cast.iron fOrmE The object Ia
fixed. The methods must vary as the
needs and conditions vary. The President
and Secretary are fighting our fsht for
honest money and the keeping Of the ma.
tions plighted word. It Is your duty and
mine 10 uphold their arms, and By the
surest encouragement bid them to be
brave and enduring TO the end. Wheth-
er We help or hinder, their pledge
is given. The law coniers sufficient
power and the end Is certain. Why
should any mOurn2 Why should not all
rather rejoice? Have not initiation frst,
and then following doubts long continued
and only now, but slowly dying, done
their worst7 Prices have found their
bottom; enforced economy has wrought
its patient work and taught us the sad.
dest and wisest lesson. Labor waits; cap
ital waits; golden harvesu wait, and un.
opened mines are WaitiDg-all Is ready
for revival; but, one thing is needed, and
that one thing is command 10 20 forward.
The government speaks that word in its
brave purpose and in its steady work 10
make that purpose sure in its fulfill.
ment. Safety for you, profit for you,
safety for the people, profit for
the people, work for the idle and
bread for the hungry lie alike in the one
path OF keeping the unbroken pledge Of
the nation. Success waits ever upon
courage and honesty. When we shall
have kept the promise OF the Republic
business will have revived, labor will
again be in demand, capital be employed,
wages and interest will alike be earned
and paid. Nothing but cowardice and
dishonesty can keep from this land the
future that already dAwns. Here are
most fruitful fields; here the mines whose
untold treasures rival olden fables; here
are willing hands; here are good brains;
only we shall be true 10 old ideas Of sim.
pie honesty, OF patient industry, OF frugal
economy, there is no possibility OF just
prosperity and commercial power to
which we may not with confidence aspire.
Only let US not forget the inevitable con.
ditions: honesty, industry and economy,
these three abide, and thegreatest Of these
is honesty.


The following resolution was offered by
Mr.. Camp, Of Wisconsin:


Resolred, That the Executive Commit
tee be requested to prepare and lay be.
fore the Convention and submit 10 the
bankers OF the United States, as early as
practicable, a plan by which the entire
banking system Of the country can be
united to aid the Treasury Department
in its efforts to resume specie payments.
Adjourned.
Year: 1877

We were exposed last week to pitiless
storm that wet our feet and stockings, and
indeed our person all over. In fact we took
a cracking cold, which brought sore throat
and severe symptoms of fever Ths good
wife asserted her authority, and plunged our
feet in hot water, wrapped US in hot blankets
and sent our faithful son for bottle of Ayers
CHERRY PEoToRAL. It is a splendid medicine
pleasant to take and did the job. We slept
soundly through the night and awoke well
the next morning. We know we owe our
quick recovery to the Peetoral, and shall not
hesitated to recommend it to all who need
such medecine.-TshudeanO Teras) Prssby-
terian tmar1