Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-09-12
MISCELLANY.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

rs tndC SetS out OF ueDC grows rlcn.
Where might is master. justice is
servant.
A howell we'll kept is palace to the
inmates.
Death keeps no almanac.
A pleasant tone and sweet smile cost
nothing.
The poor man wants much, the mis-.
er everything.
tons for children.
He bears misery best that hides it
most.
Virtue and trade are the best por-
Much learning shows how little NOR
tai knows.
He is young who has health, and he
is rich enough who has no debts.
God made us, and we admire our
selves.
The envious will die, but envy new
er.
What is bought is cheaper than a
gift.
If thou wouldst bear your neighbors'
faults, cast your eyes upon your own.
Folly is the most incurable of mala-
dies.
The most difficult province in friend
ship is letting a man see his faults
and errors.
Do not lose courage by considering
your imperfections, but instantly set
about remedying them.
If 20 ulisten patiently to calumny
you are only a trife less guilty than
the actual calumniator.
Science IS but mere heap Of facts
not a golden chain of truths, if we re-
fuse to link it to the throne of God.
All human discoveries seem to be
made only for the purpose of confirm
ing more and more strongly, the truths
confirmed in the sacred Scriptures.
We should not despair for the good
ness of the world if we do not happen
to see it Immediately around US. The
atmosphere is still blue, though so
much Of it enclosed in our apartments
is colorless.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our
stormy passions, conscience, though
in her softest whispers, gives to the
supremacy of rectitude the voice of an
.undyinp testimony.
WHAT SHE GoT.-Mrs. Blue had sent
her cook ont to do the marketing, and
when she returned she went down to
see what she had got, and if she had
done her work properly.
"Well, Mary, she inquired: "did
you get the vegetables
"Yesum."
"And the fish 7"
"Yesum."
"And the melon 7"
"Yesum."
"And the groceriesg"
''Yesum."
"There wasn't anything else for you
TO get, was there ~
"Yesum."
81 guess you must be mistaken /;
that's all I told you to get, wasn't it 2"
''Yesum."
"Well, hope to goodness you have
not been buying things you had no
business to buy. What else did you
get ?" and the lady's voice had an
angry quaver in it.
81 got back, mum, that's ALL"
The lady looked at the load of stuff
the girl had brought with her, and
wondered if sarcasm were intended,
but she only smiled sweetly.
"FATHER," he said, as he let go of
the cross-cut saw to straighten his
aching back, "they say the fish have
began to bite"
eyes"
"The Burns boys boys caught big
string yesterday, and are going again
this afternoon"
eyes"
"And thought-being as"
"Hcnry," said the old man, as he
spit on his hands and reached for the
saw, "you just let the Burns boys go,
and you stay here and help me saw.
Put the date down on the barn door,
and fifty years hence see who is worth
the most clean cash. Pull away on
your end of the saw
BREAK IT GENTLY.-A laborer
fell from the top of building
and was instantly killed. A fellow
laborer was deputed to break the news
to his wife.
"Break the news to her gently,
Pat" said the foreman. LEAD up to
it gently, in order that the shock may
not be too great"
"Indade Oh wull," replied Pat,
with tears in his eyes. ''Yez can lave
that wild me. Poor soul Oil tell her
that her mon is jist dead wild slow con-
sumption"
SAID an exasperated Texas father at
the dinner table: "You children turn up
Al Al.