Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-01-31

| as follows: Nv hen q man is always
in hurry, jumps off the train before
it stops, runs from the train and to it,
don't have any time to buy ticket, it
is a dead-sure sign that that man has
as little real estimate of the value OF
time, or the efficacy of systematized
way of working, as he shows by his
shiftless, hop-skip getting on to or of
the train, and you never hear much of
that kind of a man in the real battle
| of life; he spends too much time ON
trlties." The same man likely gets up
and sits up late, eats hurriedly, reads
newspapers in business hours and
writes letters of recommendation on
sight for any and everybody who calls
upon him. He is constantly magnan-
imous failure.
| The Meyersdale Commercial has made
a sort Of Gretna Green Of its double
parlor sanetum.
Did you ever stop to think what a
tireless letter writer good local paper
isP Week after week reaching into
year after year, it goes on telling of
the marriages, births, deaths, and
comings of the people of the town, of
business success or failure, accidents,
crops, improvements, meetings, revi-
walls in fact, events of all kinds. All
is grist that comes to the hopper of a
good local paper. Why, if you were
to undertake to write letter each
week to your absent friend and tell
half the news that your local paper
gives, you would soon give up in de-
spair. The supposed pleasure becomes
tire some, the letters grow shorter,
farther apart, and finally stop.
The Times finds fault with that por-
ton of the public which sustains the
Three States.
A Homecoming gentleman, whose
party got separated from him has fur
nished frightful example to an ex-
member Of a Frostburg church. The
latter contends that when the church
changed tactics it got several miles
start, and he is not sure he will ever
catch up.
The ice harvest this week has been
plentiful and fine crop was housed.
Times are too dull and the weather
too cold for newspapers. All the
hepdomadals last week were barren of
news and exhibited evidences of
''forms'' linked with frozen rollers.
The sky-parlor of the JOURNAL. how
ever, was kept in its usually salubrious
temperature, and, of course, the pro-
duct "took the sugarloaf."
Days getting longer, but colder.
The Commercial says "a letter has
just passed through the Meyersdale
postotfice bearing the following in
scription -
''ro Meyersdale want to CO.
To Somerset county, Pa, you ought to know,
And in the office want to lay,
Till Emma NJ. Berkly takes me away
The grounding will take an air bath
Monday. If he ''holds the mirror up to
nature" and sees himself, it is pretty
sure sign there is weather ahead.
1t is supposed that Fahrenheit con-
sidered his zero-tl.irty-two degrees
below freezing-the point of absolute
cold or absence of all heat.
Gas sat at the house | said to myself
They may talk as they please about what
they call pelf
They may sheer as they like about eating and
drinking,
But help it cannot, cannot help thinking
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh no. !.
How pleasant it is to have money
The same individual was doubtless
guilty of the following remarks:
There's the girl with the smiling face,
The girl with the witching eye,
There's the girl with stately grace
And the girl that is modest and shy;
| There's the girl with the winning air,
The girl that's reserved and cold;
There's the girl with the curly hair
And the girl that is rather old
There's the girl that is grand and tall,
The girl with the dimpled chin,
But the girl that beats them all
Is the girl that has got the tin.
This thing has changed clean around
again. 1.-The Three States" echoes the
complimentee, "said last week the
Queen City Courier is the best edited
paper in Allegany county" Certainly
the issue for this week is very good.
Sometimes the mood for making a
readable number is unfavorable, and
too often it is the product Of uphill
work which the unappreciative. UNI
knowing mass accepts as the standard
of value for this and that paper.
A gentleman residing in this place
received yesterday his commission as
ID. d. G. w. c. T. of D. G. L., |. o. &. T.
of NJ. for A. c., etc.
VIII Smoke Burn ANDREW Roy,
formerly State mine inspector of Ohio,
in letter to the Shenandoah (Pa)
Mining Herald contends that "any