Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-30
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

If there is anything better than to be
loved, it is loving.
Anger causes us often to condemn in
one what we approve of in another.
Fence-posts with iron points arc
among the later agricultural novelties.
Plant lice are said to be self-breeders,
which accounts for their rapid increase
The kind wife who has a smile for
her husband when he comes into the
house will not drive him to saloon to
get one.
Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory; and yet the shortest way
to glory is to be guided by conscience.
The preiudices of men and their fail
ure to understand each other are the
principal causes of their bitterness and
ill-temper.
Many of our cares are but morbid
way of looking at our privileges. We
let our blessings get moldy, and then
call them curses.
Though avarice will preserve man
from being necessitously poor it gen
orally makes him too timorous to be
wealthy.
There are braying men in the world
as well as braying asses; for what is
loud and senseless talking, any other
than way 6 laying?
Almost any good singer can get up
IN high note, but it is the loan notes
hat trouble the average citizen.
Proverbial Philosophy-One hair in
he hash will cause more hard feelings
han seven illuminated notices on the
wall can overcome.
"Did you call your brother a liar?"
lsked the stern parent, and the culprit
ieplied; "Well, / said he was a sewing
machine agent"
An Indiana man lost fifteen steers by
lightning the other day. What this
country needs is a new breed of cattle
BORN with lightning rods instead of
horns.
A Connecticut man has invented a
pipe that will light itself. This is an
J underhanded way to attempt to force
house painters to fiud some new way to
| ,
kill time. e.-B0Ston Post
George article on "The Cat
is purr-posely omitted. No doubt it
would afford much a-mews-ment to the
reader; but we must paws somewhere
on making up this weeks issue, and we
do so at the cats tail YonherS Gazette.
"Gente maid, why so detected,
Pray tell me why this great distress:
Pray do!' sighed he.
"Why, Tom proposed so unexpected
That | said no when meant yes;
Boo hoo p cried she.
"What is the meaning of the word
tantalizing?" asked the teacher. "Please,
marm," spoke up little Johnny Hol-
comb, cit means circus procession
passing the school-housc, and the schol-
ars not allowed to look out"
A little girl once took letter from
her mother to an old lady friend
"Many thanks, my child" she said,
"you may tell your mother that you are
a faithful little messenger" "Thank
you, ma'am and | shall tell her, too,
that djaH't ask you for ten cents, be.
cause A,amma told me not to-"
IN EXPLANATION.
Her lips were so near
That-what else could do2
You'll be angry, | fear,
| But her lips were so near
Well, can't make it clear,
Or explain it to You,
But-hcr lips were so near
| That--what else could do2
| - Waiter Learned, IN ScTibnr.
They stood at the door preparatory to
saying goodnight. "When shall l call
again ?" he asked with an emotion that
made his eyes and his voice soft.
when papa returns" she answered
calmly. "And when will that be 7" he
eagerly asked. "Well, he starts on q
voyage around the world tomorrow,
and I'll let you know when he gets
back"
When the small boy came to the
owner of the trout Matching establish
ment at certain country summer re.
sort and wanted to buy about one hun.
dred fair-sized trout, the owner was
surprised and wanted to know what the
lad proposed to do with 'em. And the
boy explained 81 want to get money
| for base ball suit, and if take the
trout and contrive to meet ON the edge
of the town those city chaps that / saw
starting out with poles this morning, ]
reckon the profit will be enough to do
it." And the man said; "Sonny, you'll
get along in the world and grow up to
be d nabob. You know what's that.
M. Milne Edwards, in commenting
on the results of the deep sea dredgings
in the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of
Mexico, concludes that comparison OF
the abysmal and the littoral animals
seems to lay before us two distinct