Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-30
Comanche Crossing, Texas.
GENERAL ITEMS.

Washerwoman's motto-'While there's
life there smp.'
The measles prevail in Connecticut. On
town is not II bit alarmed Its lladdem.
Spell murder hack ward. and you have its
cause. Spell its cause in the same manner,
and you have its effect.
4 lady hearing that tunnel cost Sl5.CO0
a yard, importuucd her husband to buy her
Il dress of that material.
A western man snorcs so vchcmently that
his landlady Gets her house moved back by
turning his bed around,
The longest word in the English language
is smiles because there is Il male between the
first and last letters.
Eggs are $40 dozen in Vermont That's
what a young man paid for csging Il minis
ter to that extent.
Pittsbarg is trying to find man who
does not belon" 10 Il lodge, grange, club,
post, temple, orcaM.' Hcnt or order.
An Italian Musical education, together
with the advantage of Il ch0pcroHe, costs Il
young lady IS 600 il year on an average.
Hotel walters complain of the strict man
ner in which lent is observed ut table, and
the trouble they are put to i'll sending warm
meats up to the rooms.
There arc over ten million women in
America, and yet Tom Hutton, Of Georgia,
hung himself on account Of a girl fifteen
years old.
Married men all over the country will
turn sympathetic eyes toward PlanGcld, N.
j. There is Il youth in that town in Jail for
hnottp,f hiS b.r l,,v
"Thc one thing says jean Paul,
(which maiden most easily IorgetS, is how
she looks-hcncc mirrors were invented"
A Maine lady has head Of hair seven
feet five inches long, which, when loose,
trails for quite distance on the floor. She
is constantly refusing large offers for it.
In an Ohio church this notice i, posted :,
"No tobacco chewers permitted in this
church,
In Rome, at the present moment, there
are more American visitors than those Vt
any other two natlonalltic- combined,
A Chicago clergyman preached sermon
in a billiard saloon last Sunday. lie made
nineteen points.
A Wisconsin paper says Of Sumner:
"llc was Il great Statesman. and if he bor-
rowcd il dollar he didn forget to return it,"
Six saloon keepers of Milwaukee have
agreed not to set ont any more lunches, and
local reign OF terror has been inaugurated.
Tie Wyoming JomrnaTs fees for marriage
notices are IA. high as the ecstacy and
liberality Of the bridegroom may prompt"
That was n sensible old chap in Delaware,
who, dying the other day. said, "Dnn't
write any poetry about me. and don't fool
around about a monument"
Ont in Indiana, last week. a man named
Gale married a woman named Breeze. Look
out for little squalls.
The song of the ladies' temperance band:
"Going thro' the rye"
A fashion critic tells us that tho new
bonncts are the old ones sat down on for
halt an hour or so. The critic needs sitting
on,
\ Boston man rather snnpplshly remarked
to his wife one Sunday, that man can't
always be thinking of his immortal soul
he must have time to eat his meals.
An Indiana paper having recently changed
hands, the editors vaedctory was simply,
1--WE quit ~ and the salutatory of the new
WIS, hc NC CU!nlllclICCu,
A slip of paper on the door-post Of
New York boarding house, announcing
lodgings to let, warns intending Applicants
that mo performers on brass instruments
need apply"
A new style of boys trousers has been in
vented in Boston, with copper seat, sheet
iron knees. riveted down the seams, and
waterproof pockets to hold broken eggs.
At the laying Of tho cornerstone of the
new capitol Of Iowa, no speeches were made
except few remarks by Il workman who
got his fingers pinched, and they were brief
and to the point
Honorable mention is made of Maine
servant girl who is now serving her eighty
second winter under the same roof She
has washed dishes 50, ,190 times, and come.
yet galy to her task. Blessed old girl
A correspondent, writing upon the sub
oct of the womens' crusade, asks. "lf the
dead could speak to us from their graves.
what would they say?" We rather guess
they would say, Let us out
4 non-church-goer told his hearers that
his church was 'the broad canopy of heaven,
the stars the chandelier, the angels of glory
the choir. the deep-toned thunder the organ.