Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-09-02


careful engineers fully believe the top
will be completely finished before the
foundations begin to crumble.
TIE Cape Ann ArJor says that the
American idea Of teaching every girl
to thump a piano and every boy to
be z book-keeper, will make potatoes
worth $5 a bushel in tw enty years.
CANADA people want free United
States peaches. They cay the duty
oompels them to pay two prices,
Whist, neighbors We have to pay
three prices this side the line, where
there IS no duty.
A CONVICT says he was sent to pris-
on for being dishonest, yet he is COM
PEELED every day to cut out pieces of
pasteboard, which are pnt between
the aolcs of the cheap shoes made
there and palmed off on the public as
leather.
A PHILADELPHIA man has fer
warded to Washington an application
for a pension. He woen't in the
army, but be slept with brother
who was, and caught the itch. The
number Of scratches he can show is
tremendous.
A SCIENTIFIC Journal tells us that
little bird, The ledtail, he's beeu seen
to catch nine hundred flies in an hour
Science is great thing. 1t gets
round to giving us this information
just as Ay-time is past and it's no use
to buy redtail.
AT every station on the Russian
railroads is grievance book, in which
travellers can write their wrongs and
have their wrongs righted. In thii
country there would be a constant
free fight about such book by people
anxious to get at it.
NoM1NATED.-W. Frank Mitchell
of Towsontown, has been nominated
for Congress by the greenbackers o.
that congressional district. The
greenbacE ers Of the fifth district have
nominated Eugene S. Calvert, O.
Prince Georges county.
To REST WHERE SHE LIVED AMI
WORKED Hon. Charles Stewart Par
nell has sent the following letters To
inquiries relating 10 the disposition o.
Hiss Fanny Parnell's remains
My brother, sister and desire my sis
ter's remains should rest in Ame,ica, tic
country where she was best known, where
she had friends, and where she lived and
worked so many years.
THE sixth item in the will Of the
late Senator Hill, Of Georgia, reads
I give and hequeath to my wife ard
children that which some of them now
possess and which assure them, in fin
view Of death, is far richer than gold aad
more to be desired than all human honors.
God is living God and Christ came into
the world to save sinners. beg them TO
have faith in esus, for by this faith alone
can they be saved"
HINTS Of, PEEsERvING,--All fruiia
contain water, which must be evapo-
rated TO make the perfect preserve.
Preserves ahouId never be made, II
possible, when the wind blows from
the east, northeast or southeast.
These winds bring an atmosphere
charged with moisture, and the water
OF the preserves is net driven off.
Always, if possible, select a day OF
north, northwest or west wind they
are dry and the preserves will keep.
All this applies to soap-making also.
SUNDAY SCHOOL DIALoeUEs-No.
l.-First Pap,l-"I bet you don't
know what's the strongest thing in the
world -
Second Fupiy-"I do; it's water"
r. P-"Taint It's Samson"
s. P.-"P shaw Samson's dead
long time ago"
2. Pile aint, is he, ma ?"
Nother-"Why of course he is."
r. P.-"Well, he didn't die much
fore you was born, anyhow"
s. P.-"Much you knowl Why
Samson died fore Adam and Eve was
born"
No. 2.-TtacAer-"Now, listen,
children, Tn going to tell you who
st. John was. st. John was On apos-
tie. Now, who was st. John ?"
Dead silence.
T.--"Don't any Of you know who
ST. John WASP"
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