Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
Philosophical and PiOuS Reform seso.
lutiOus of Josh Billings.

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That wont smoke emmy more cigars
only at somebody else's expense.
That i wont borrow nor lend-es
peshily lend.
That will live within my inkum, if
hev to get trusted tew do it.
That will be polite tew every boldly,
except maskeeters and bed bugs.
That wont advise emmy boldly, until
/ kno the kind ov advice they are anx-
ious tew follow.
That wont wear emmy more tite
boots if hav tew go barefoot tew do it..
That i wont eat emmy more chicken
soup with a one-tined fork.
That won't swop dogs with no man
unless kan swop two for one.
That wont objekt tew emmy man on
ackount ov hiz color unless he happens
to be blue.
That wont sware emmy, unless am
put under oath.
| That wont beleave in total de-
pravity, only in gin at 4 shillings a
gallon.
That the world owes me living.
vided earn it.
That wont swop emmy hosses with a
deakon.
That wont hav emmy religious kreed
miself, but will respekt everybody
else's.
That if lovely woman smacks me
on one cheek, will turn her the other
also.
That if a man kalls me q phool,
wont ask him to prove it.
That will lead a moral IL ven if
loo, L. Al 80 L
That if man tells me IL mule wont
xix will beleave what he says without
trieing it,
That if emmy boldly loozes even a
goose will weep with him, for it IL Il
tutf bisness to looze goose.
That if i ever do get a hen that kan
lay = eggs a day, shall insist upon her
keeping one NV the eggs on hand for d
sinking phund.
That it is no disgrace to be bit bi a
dog unless he duz it the second time.
That it IL just as natral to be born
ritch as poor, but is seldum so conven-
lent.
That one ov the riskyest things to
straddle IL the bak ov 60 day note.
That the best tine tew repent ov a
blunder IL just before the blundcr is
made.
That will try hard to be honest, but
it will be just my darn LUX tew miss it.
Th:t won't grow emmy kats. Spon-
taneou iats have killed the bissness.
That will love my mother in-law if
it takes all the money kan ern tew
do it.
That when here man Dragging on
hiz ancestors won't envy HIM, but
will pity the ancestors.
That will brag on my wife all the
time, but will do it silently.
That won't banker for happiness,
but if see emmy that think is a bargin
will shut up one eye and 20 for it.
That won't kovet emmy mans wife,
nor his oxen, nor his kornstalks, nor
the color ov his mustash.
That will latf every good chance i
kan git, whether it makes me gro phatt
or not.
Finally, will search for things that
are little, for things that are lonesum,
avoiding all torch lite proseshuns, bands
ov brass music, wimmins' rights con-
venshuns, and grass widders generally.
The African Diamond Fields.
Three Chicago men are now working
in the South African diamond fields,
and letters have been received by their
friends here containing considerable
new information in regard to operations
in that region. The gentlemen are
Messrs. Edward Flint, formerly of the
commission house of Flint a. Thompson,
Frank N. Sieber and Nimrod Lawrence.
Mr.. Sieber writes to his father in this
nj M, FE,it'., nin,,D,l
Fields, South Africa that he regards
The prospect as most encouraging. The
party had just arrived at the fields after
an overland journey of eight hundred
miles from the Cape Of Good Hope. The
cost of going there from this country,
Mr.. Sieher says, is 5000 to 500, and
capital is then required to buy and work
territory. One man rarely owns more
than thirty feet square. There are only
about fifteen acres at Du TOits which
are considered diamond land. The
digging is dry, like that in an ordinary
railway excavation. 1t extends usually
from the surface to IL depth OF fifty to
seventy-tive feet. Natives, English, Hol-
landers, and other nationalities there
are, all told, $4,000 to 10000 at Du
Toits. The expense of living is not
more than two English shillings day.
The miners are mostly IN tents. OF the
prospect of making "strike,' Mr..
Sieber, of course, can say nothing. He
wrtec that green diamond was found
by an Englishman, few weeks ago, for
which he refused Ell 900, or in round
figures, S5O,O00.- Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Sir William Harvey.
1t is at length proposed in England to