Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

II isn't much of dog that cant make
u man go mad by biting him.
As was predicted, the winter has been
very open and lots Of cold weather got
in. -Ifc0yHHe.
Advertising is good deal like making
love to a widow. 1t can't he oyerdone.
- Chiugo Le'i9er.
It's the little things that tell especial
ly the little brothers and sisters. Bur
HHgtoa FIRE. Press.
The only leading lady that society re-
with string.-J"dq'.
The next worst thing to going to Il
a dentist is going to photographers
Nor1rirh (CoHo) Bulletin.
Most men like to see themselves
in print, but women don't. They pre-
fer silk or satin. Teras Fig0ro.
Whenever my wife scolds me" said
a hen-pccked topper. Il go right straight
and liquor. "-LdidsapOIiS Herdh.
Suns may set, aud tides may flow.
Stat Is may sink from want of sticking,
Men may come, and men may go,
But mule is always alive aud kicking.
Judge.
Some It ltcsmen are continually putting
their ears to the ground to hear what
poStcrity will say of them.-Ho"stoH
(7srus Past.
The bangs having gone out Of style
among young ladies the rolling pin and
waShboard Begin to look more hopeful. -
Merchant T'rdrc'er.
An awfully homely man at a sociable
where kissing games are played looks as
lonesome as a straw hat in a snowstorm.
-Ne,c York JoUrR1l.
Cert linly, there is such thing rs the
! poetry of motion. That is the reason
The kangaroo IS popularity regarded as a
spring pocm.-Puck.
A Michigan boy had his left hand taken
off by a buZZ-saw, which he thought was
not moving He now calls his right hand
his left hand. Puck.
The wind blew OF his stovepipe hat
1t landed in the mud
No sadder sound was heard than that
Kcr-wish, ker-whop, ker-thud
--Gooddirs SIN.
"A student of human nature says any
thing can he sharpencl." Some things,
however, don't need sharpening we
have heard experienced married men re-
mark. Graphic.
Newark, New Jersey, has an anti
tobacco society composed of young
ladies. That is a good thing. We hope
all the young ladies in that town will
give up smoking Boston Post.
One of the most melancholy pictures
that we see on our travels through this
vale of sorrows is fat dog trying to run
home against the wind across pond of
slippery, unscratched ice.--PHck.
She looked like funeral hearse, SO sad,
OF all joy bereft and forsaken;
oh, why was this change in feature once
glad!
She was having her photograph taken.
-GOfhdDt MOuHtdiHPer.
In German army circles Il soldier is
obliged to write home to his wife once
every month. An old bachelor says this
explains why so many Germans come to
this country to escape military duty
No,rixtora Uei"H.
Wifc-''What IA very polite young man
Mr.. Dumlcy isl Husband Yes! /
never discovered it," Wifc-''IIc was
very polite to me last evening. Among
other compliments he spoke of my sing
ing" Husband did he. That was
polite.--Hoprr's B'>ar.
SPRING POEM.
Oh, where is the thing
We call ''Gentlc Spring
The season of thaw AMI of 2cphyr:
She singing n psalm
In the land of the palm.
Where she kicks up her heels like a hrifer.
-New York Journal
California papers are SAYING some cut.
ting things about yoLth who swallowed
an open pcnknife three AMI half inches
!, long 1t may afford III, boys parents
some consolation to know that he will
not cut his fingers with TIE knife two OF
three times a day now, ror carve his mi
tials on every ice of furniture in the
house. A pcnknifc is less injurious in.
side of some boys than out .-Norrjs'o,cR
UciuN.