Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-08-15
GENERAL, ITEMS.

No other living thing can go so slow as .
boy on an errand.
The greatest truths are the simplest; and
SO are the greatest men.
Recipe for hot braakfast-admire your
landady's new bonnet.
Say less than you think, rather than think
only half what you say.
1t IL not possible to hasten the ripsnIng
of fruit by holding lamp underneath.
1t is impossible to have the last word with
chemist, because he always has . rstort.
A small arms factory Is to be established
by an American firm in the city Of Mexico.
To cure a bacheor's ache, carry the pa
ticnt eleven yards of silk with woman ia
it.
You can buy aligators 1--WE feet long, at
Perry, Ga, for dollar apiece. Now's your
time.
Laws, like sausages, would fail to inspire
respect if all people knew how they were
made.
Young girls who want to remember any.
thing write it down and paste it on tho
looking glass.
What requires more philosophy than tax
ing things as they come? Parting with
things as they go.
Better try to kindle fire with powder
can, we'll filled, than with the contents Of
your kerosene can.
A Yankee editor hns recently got up
remedy for hard times. 1t consists Of ten
hours labor, well worked in.
Newspaper readers do not like to read in
different poetry by little girls-unless the
little girls are their own.
Never use soda or lime in washing clothes,
as they are certain to rot them in time.
Boax is the only safe article
Green Bay has decided that widower
ought to mourn at least three weeks before
shyiny around for second wife.
To clean paint rub well with whiting
moi+tcned with water, applying it with
woolen cloth, and wash with clean water
Two German fire companies in Elyria, o.,
recently dlSbanded because the Counci!
passed prolibitory beer ordinance.
1t is painful to hear an ungodly mon re-
mark during the heated term that "it's ~
hot as ginger, when every one knows that
he means something else.
The hot blast is now used in dentistry
| Nothing will dry the cavity of the gum w
| quickly. 1t is blown in by means of
| syringe.
People arc great deal more lavish when
they pay out OF Il common treasury, than
when tney pay out Of their own pockets.
A St. Louis man on his death bed, con-
ftsSed to have murdered seven men, and
Chicago is nearly ready to explode with
Jealousy.
| No resident of Kasson, Mnn., has ever
lost II dollar by fire. Ergo, KaSson has
never had fire, or no resident has ever had
a dollar to lose.
There was an advertisement the other day
in the Chron'cle, offering twenty dollars re-
ward for the return Of 'white and black
King Charles female dog"
There is long haired youth at Buffalo,
who has written seven hundred verses, the
refrain to which s,.T am diving. mother.
dying and wtEal he isn't dead.
| A young lady of Montezuma while stand
mg mt the waSh-tnb, engaged in washing,
fell backward and instantly expired. Young
ladies hereab"utS are careful not to die while
al lHC WiSil-tuD.
The smallest dew drop that rests on lily
| leaf at night holds in itself the image of u
shining star, and in the most humble, insig-
nitcant person something good and true can
always be found.
| An Albany man who was excitedly d.
monStmtns to a crowd that there is no
such thing as hydrophobia was the first TO-
| shin up a barber's pole when small yellow
dog came rushing down the street.
The experiment of bringing the salt
marshes of Sciiuate and Marsl,iicld, Mass.
under cultivation, by building dikes, Is
very successful, herds, grass and vegetables
being already well adyauccd
Jefferson County, Arkansas, is response
bic for a snake killed there recently which
had $50 rattlcs. We believe that the high
est number ever before claimed for snake
was forty and that was nearly century
ago.
'What can ! do for you, Auntie 2" said
Richmond shopkecper to venerable COLOR
ed dame. "Auntie who? isn't yer sisters
MOTHER was the indignant rejoinder, ~
she sailed out of the shop under full press
of canvass.
The best time to pick out wife is in
hou>e-clcaning time. Select one with her
! sleeves and skirts pinned up and mop pail
in her hand. The kind that you don t want
60 visiting, and leave their mothers and the
hired women to do the work
A man cannot afford to lose his soul. He's
got but one and he can't get another. II a
man loses his horse he can get another; If
he loses his wife he can get another; il no
loses his child he can get another; but il he
loses his soul-good bye, John.
Stove lustrc, when mixed with turpen-
tine. and applied in the usual manner, is
blacker, more glossy and enduring than.
when mixed with any other liquid. The
turpcntine prevents rust, and when applied
to an old, rusty stove will make it look liha;
new.
| A twelve pound conical cannon shot which
was fired through the body of Samuel Line,
of the Massachusetts Twenty-iourth Rcgi-
ment. at the battle of Newbcrn. March IA,
1862, and lodged in a tree from which it was
cat by a comrade, has just been presented to,
to the Boston Museum.
Where's that twelfth juror ~ cxclaim-
ed an Idaho JLdge On the conrt's rcsuming
business after a recess, scowlng as he spoke
! at the eleven jurors in the box, one of whom
rose and said: "Ileas., Judge, it's Ike
| Simmons as is gone. He hnd To go ON pri-
vdte business, but he ; left his yurdick with
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