Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-02-06

only reau Il paper, OUT MS own, NOT his
neighbors paper. In the latter event
read good paper, like the JOURNAL
for instance. To real business men,
not mossbacks and gabs, on the same
road he might have said "advertise'
when you reach the signboard at the
junction, ",4s57 to success"
The Salvation Army corps in Frost
burg, we understand, have changed
the collection manual. For several
weeks the revered custom of "passing
the hat' was observed, but the pro-
ceeds have fallen below religious
figures. The sum of $lS43 will not
pay for a $25 hall and provide for the
rations of a division of officers.
| Hence, the hat. in the hands of a SEN
try, meets each visitor to the camp
right at the gate under stress of a
financial necessity which implies that
1t does not pay to convert sinners
unless the public coughs up more bull
lion.
Frank Spates, fireman, had the
fingers of his hands badly frozen
Thursday holding the nozzle.
Reading of pilgrimages to Washing
ton, so numerous and persistent that
certain Senators and Representatives
keep in hiding, suggests an original
inquiry for the study of debating So
cieties. viz: Which is the more deadly
the craze for cflice or the thirst for
liquoro
Th, doctors are moving in the di-
rection of a law against quackery and
are at work on a bill which provides
for Il board of examination, composed
of physicians, who shall examine the
diplomas of all practitioners locating
in the county. If these be from
reputable institutions the holders will
be qualified and will be so certified to
the circuit court clerk. If an ap
plicant holds no diploma he may he
examined by the board, and if found
capable may be certified as before. 1t
Is proposed to make it a general law,
failing in which, to have 1t passed as
local law for Alleganv and such
other counties as may desire to enjoy
its provisions.
Thursday afternoon a young man
stopped in Il sheltered place to bathe
his frozen ears in snow. A middle
aged citizen stepped up and began
talking of remedies for frozen things,
and then he said-"By. the way,
Harry, as am going out again, sup
pose you tie this handkerchief over
my ears" Harry started to comply
when 10! the middle-agcd ears were
already studded with hundreds of tiny
stalagmites of frost; iron-pale i'll COM
plexion and brittle enough to break
off
The fire company effected wonders
Thursday with every circumstance
against them. 1t was intensely cold
and a stiff, icy breeze famed them.
The trees were in the way ; the fame
was inside the plug wouldn't work,
and so on. But when the flow began
the nozzle was turned to the right spot
and one after another of the fires
lurking places was drenched. A row
OF dwellings was thus saved-at a
great discOmfort-bu saved. The
boys deserve more honor and consider
alton than they are getting.
School institute in Cumberland next
Friday.
AT Il delegate convention of the mi
ners of Western Pennsylvania at
Pittsburg Tuesday the scale presented
to the operators at the recent national
conference was unanimously adopted
Also IL resolution suggesting that the
miners of Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania hold a
convention at Cumberland soon as
practicable to arrange scale of rela-
tive prices. In accordance Herewith
call has been issued and the delegates
will convene in Cumberland, Thurs
day, Feb. Is.
We were going to say sometl ing
about the grounding, but our esteem
ed contemporaries have not left even
the tail of remark to make.
George C. Wade, postofice en-
ployee, ran splinter an eighth of an
inch wide and an inch long its full
length under one of his finger-nails
Thursday.
--latest advices state that no soft
coal pool has yet been formed.
Fourteen degrees below zero yester-
day morning.
The Ne,rbany ErplosiOn.-In all
thirty-nine men We're killed in the
Newburg Orrel mine by the explosion
last week. All the bodies have been