Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-04-23

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accounts from the writings OF astron-
omers and scientific men, and, putting
them with the past severe winter and
Mothers Symptoms prophecy, beeom es
somewhat Hurried and has a few
minutes conversation with his wife
Maria:
lyon didn't read it, Ell? Well you
are be fitted, Maria. You don't
want to read works Of such q chalac,
ter; all you think Of is dressing the
young'uns Tor school and the rest Of
the day teaching Nance, the hired gal,
how to thump on that gol-custed
piano and sing "Its all on account of
Eliza, and Bob up, serenely;" I tell
you what, if you don't look sharp I'll
travel off out Wes- and then it'll DO
my time to sing ats all OF account OF
Maria" What's that? "Pshaw, Mr..
Fltzendeel ?" Now look 'er here,
madam, don't you say "pshaw," or
slaw either, for that matter, to me, |
won't stand it. I'm second William
Malone when l git mad, and Eli re.
adjust the whole deluded family.
When l git my dander up you'll find
I'm live Senate sergeant-at-arms
without an election. can stand any
thing but saying "pshaw" to me. |
was fetched up decently, and if my
father was never beat on boss trade
he always paid the printer. You
hear me murmur, don't ye?
"You Wish it would stop showing
eh Well I don't l want it to snow
and snow until you cant see CHM
ney top ten miles around-that kind
of snow would bring that frog-eating
par1ey vouS French Canadian walking
thermometer to terms. So you think
Vennor is brilliant man, eh We
differ very materially, you long-legged
adjective. I think Vennor's fraud;
he's captured the weather-bureau
and poured more love-sick nonsense
into the clerks ears than those weak
Drained, hair-splitting representations
can handle. Yes, madam, Vennor is
an idiot, so il Mother Shipton and
all the rest Of EN-.
Now I've just been reading where
the world is coming to an end tween
now and 1887. What dye think Of
that, Maria {? "Let it come" you say?
Maria Sophronia Fitzendeel you are
the dumdest dunn woman l ever seed.
You had better work up your spirit
ual nature quite lively so as to be
able to meet this dreadful ending. |
am going to order nice coffin to be
waited up in. You think you will
live all the same, eh2 That's what
you are itching for. | suppose you
would pit married again and talk
gaur next husband 10 death as you
will me. do all the talking' Lis
ten to me, when I cit mad | spit Vas
seine ana Spaldin2'o glue, and II you
ever repeat that to mo you'll imagine
I'm the Speaker of the United States
Senate in secret session over Riddle
berger's case.
But this 1887 article worries me
some. | will hate to lie down and
kick the bucket just as I'm beginning
to gee that everything is work.
come here, this minute, you double
breasted proposition, and let your
daddy gently breathe in your ear
some sense. I'll learn you, Clar-
ence Augustus, how to chaw to-
bacco, cuss your sallow-complexioned
hide if don't may I be-
The old deacon was exhausted, and
the last we saw Of him was on his
knees saying his evening prayers,
while Clarence Augustus was steal
ing the preserves off the supper table.
STIRRING TIMES CoMING.--The con-
junction Of the two superior planets,
Jupiter and Saturn, in the sign Tau
rus, and the rapid approach Of Mars,
Neptune and Uranus, to their perihe-
liza, are having, it is said by astrono-
mers, an exceedingly powerful effect
upon the sun and o greater or less
influence upon the earth. AS touch
ing this and other countries, the APP
pended extract is given as the con-
cusion of the most noted astrologers ::
The effect in the United States will be
contained in period embraced between
the present date and the year 1887. 1t
will be general unsatisfactory condition
of things existing, which will occasion
eventually civil war, the triumph of the
people and the downfall of the upper ten