Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-06-27
GENERAL ITEMS.

s.Nen | marries poetcSs.' asks Unclo
Dcidrrh, "does 1 takes her for peter for
utrSt?"
A Pari>ian definition Of beautiful woman
The paradise OF the cyc and the purgatory
Of the purse.
Those who nre treated hardly fair gene
rally fare hardly.
The subject Of cremation naturally In
cludcs many grave considerations.
Why Is selfish friend like the letter p?
Because though he Is the first in pity he Is
the last in help.
William, who is nm undcr-Sizcd clerk in
drygoods store, objects to being referred to
as THAT little drygoods Bill
"Whrt comes after T?" asked teacher.
of u little abcccdarinn. 'Iou do-to see
Cousin Liza was the embarrassing reply.
They now call certain kind of beef cattle
in Indian, "hat racks because they are 80
poor that you could hang Your hat On their
bones.
Are blncksmths who make their living
by forging. Or carpenters who do II littc
counter-ttting. any worse than men who sell
iron and steel for Il living?
4 citizen of Mystic, Conn, killed himself
the other night by taking nm overdose OF
cough medicine.
The mayor of a little city in Mississippi
has sued IN editor of the place for libel, Tor
commenting on the size Of his llonor's feet.
They began to have strawberry festivals
in New Orleans more than II week ago. and
NH. rr ynt unilnr the fear ni
biting cold winds and sudden iroSts.
The only hotel in London kept on the
American plan is Il great success. The own
ers have just been pnid yearly dividend Of
seventeen and II halt per cent,
The demon Of dullnesS which is often
allowed to reign at home, has more to do
with driving young men intovicious company
than the attraction of vice itself.
William Lawrence. n brakeman on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, fell between
two cars one day last week, and was so
badly crushed that he died in few hours.
\ little girl of Walling(ord, Conn, took
Il drink OF boiling water from the spout OF
u teapot Il few days ago, and was So badly
scalded internally that She died in Il short
time.
On Thursday of last week, in a Connec-
tcut village, Il married woman who was
jealous other younger sister. aged eighteen,
murdered her BY splitting her head open
with an axe.
An insane German in Tcrrc Ilautc. Ind,
hung himself recently with >kcin of thread.
Four persons before him had committed sui.
eide in the same room in which ne destroyed
himself
4 lady living in I.cominstcr, Mass, being
. alarmed one night lately by burglar
, jumped from her chamber window with her
babe in her arms, and fractured her spine.
/ The babe was not hurt.
\ cynical old bachelor says the billing
and cooling is just about equally divided be-
tween lovers and married folk, all the COO
ing coming before marriage and all the LiH-
ing afterwards.
landlady, frrccly-"You mustn't occupy
that bed with your boots on BUarder-
"Ncycr mind, they re an old pair. guess
| the bedbugs can't hurt en-. Ill risk it,
anyhow.
An Arkansas paper announces the coming
| of Il star actor ''irom the classic East. who
will show our apprerintvc citizens how the
immortal conceptions Of the div inc Shake
When Wisconsin editor remarked re-
Gently that "the lilac bushes are bnddins,'
G,nr,onn J$Sr.cs nh,ve yrrn i, hi. .,,m,.,uu,
rnnlIv rrnI;'.J ..ym line satan:
man who had brought an action for di-
! vorce being informed that his wife had be-
/ gun n "croSS-action, aS the lawyers call 1t,
| l;tr hcr She never LJ , onnI ,c.,no,,J
! ,liny in hcr l;i,. "
!
y lew days ago a blacksmith in brooklyn,
while, drunk, stabbed hi: wife 10 death while
! she also was under the influence OF liquor.
whiskcy. drank it, and sta r@cred away
sccminylv ohl;y;uis ,r ,be cr;m ha hoI nnr'
nrtr,tcd ,s he came horl in the r,rn;nr ~
rrsm,I when IN, wn. orrc-teI
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mnrn;ng of l,st wcck nv a l,,yvcr ,yhnn, H..
h,d n,,n;.hnl r,. ,.,ntomnt ,r n,,r, NV.
;nJu. died in n few honrr and H.. l., v,,.r
gave himself up.
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