Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-06-26
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and you get reliable experience at less
than club rates.
Always appear to agree with the
world, and you will get on smoothly
without soaping the track.
! In itself lying is base passion, but
its tendency to injure others renders it
also dangerous ore.
1t isn't always the man who knows
the most that wins, but the man who can
apply what he does know.
So long as women is on friendly terms
with modesty just so long is women
vim Heated and no longer.
Decorum itself IS simply good sense
/ andegood will, but society often ruins it
by empty ceremonies.
! Do away with Christianity and its in
Huences, and mankind would run itself
into the ground in a brief century.
Most any man is willing to tell of the
good things he has done, but few tell of
the good things they might have done.
OF 10 young men can be found who
are vain OF their fine exterior, while the
tenth one is proud CT a well-stcred
mind.
A bear, over 400 pounds in weig ht,
has beon caught at Roxburg, VT, where
it had long terrorized farmers and their
focks.
The aquarium at Scarborough, an Eng
fish seaside resort, which cost over $500,
: 900 only few years ago, has just been
sold for $22, 500.
The heirs of an estate $500, O0O) in
Mount Holly, N. j., will be paid this
week on a settlement that has been
reached after chancery suit of thirty
years.
No faith cure, or anything of that
sort, is connected with the remarkable
case of Utica man, O. b. Matseson.
For four years he had been totally blind
Now he has suddenly and unexpectedly
regained his sight, his vision being as
good as ever.
The Bonnie Doom, made famous by
the immortal Burns, is the subject of lit
igation in the English courts. Lord
Ailsa, Scotch nobleman, has prohibi
ted people from fishing in portion of
the stream that has always before been
free to the public. A suit has heen
F! brought to restrain him from doing
this.
A Waterman was employed by resi-
dent of Pain Edge, N. j., to guard his
premises. To see what kind of duty
the man performed the owner tried him
the other night and found him painfully
vigi!ant The Waterman, not recog-
nizing his employer and receiving no
reply to his challenge, fired and put
several buckshot in the latter's legs
The Virginia Enterprise says: A gen.
tleman engaged in the pugilistic profess
sion, and who is getting up smuggling
match in this city, paralyzed one of our
local preachers, knocking him out at
the first round. He wanted lot of
chairs from the church vestry to seat his
audience at the entertainment, and Of
fered the preacher free ticket of ad-
mission for the use of the chairs.
The schooner Grampus, built at Noauk,
Conn.,, for the United States Fish Com
mission, is So tons burthen, commanded
by Captain Edward Collins, and is fitted
with we'll, that live fish may be brought
home. She will 60 on IA cruise, to the
Grand Bank, after halibut. An effort
will be made to propagate them by ar
tifcial Matching, the first of the kind
ever attempted. A staff of scientists
will 60 on the voyage, and other scien-
tifc researches wi he carried on under
direction of Prof. Baird.
Ephraim Webster was the first white
settler of Onondaga county, N. Y, in
1886. He was brave soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and in the War of
1912, and it is said his career is said to
have much resemAled that of Daniel
Boone. He spent much of his life
among the Indians, with whom he
traded and negotiated imports ant treaties.
| He died in 1926, and was buried near
Tuscarara, in Livingston county, Sep>
TENDER 7, of the same year. Onondaga
county will celebrate her centennial, an
with pomp and ceremony will bring
home the dust of Ephraim Webster to
rest within her borders.
A base ball club of Manchester, N.
H., returned home last week after hav
ing won victory, and local paper re-
ports that the members "were received
With demonstration that surpassed
lpything of the kind ever witne scd
lere. More than ten thousand people
marched in process on and lined the
lidewalks. The Manchestcrs were pro-
! 1ided with barouches, With were trim
ned with flags, and preceded by two
lrum corps, and the procession, carry,
ng brooms, marched through Elm street,
Which was ablaze with fireworks, while
Tags and handkerchiefs were waved
from every building. The affair wound
up with a reception at the Manchester
/ House."