Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

Sdpientia.-Wo rds of great men:
The men with the greatest sorrow are the
men who say the least. j. Robinson.
Building will go on well this year, and
Frostburg will add considerably to its size
Joshua johnson.
l think it would be a good idea to place
both our new depots under glass case-D.
]. Bctz.
And our present water works. too.--Georye
H. Witty.
Whose duty is it to clean the lamps? Those
on Bowery are awful dirty and Judge that's
the case all over town.-Arthur Baker.
Yes, l would like somebody to draw him
out want to read him a chapter from my
forthcoming History of the Democratic
Party in Frostburg. "-joha Chambers.
The New York Democrat has the portraits
of Hill and Titus A. Brick at the head of its
Temperance column.-E. N. Hichdel.
When we seek to divert the law from its
course we tread on dangerous ground.-H B.
!ShGter.
The report that Cleveland colored club
will be formed at Westernport is not true
at least not at this time. If were it would
be the kind of an item that would confer
upon Barton republican the widest kind of
an old-fashioned fit.-C. II, HamW,
l am pirate king.-A. p. Go,man.
Look at my advertisement on your fourth
page 1t is razzle-dagzler Frank G. BcaH.
If know hawk from handsaw, and |
think do there will be no falling off in the
republican vote at Barton this year.-James
CdnpbeU.
If the enviOus goddess who imposed the
dozen labors upon the suffering Hercules had
really wanted to test his powers she would
have ordered him to walk several squares on
Bowery without breaking his neck. Itwould
have been cold and desolate day for Prof.
Hercules, or Herallles, as his relatives called
him, had he received imperative instructions
of that kind. - ". II. EVdns.
The report that | would decline the col
ieetorship is erroneous. In fact, just now
there is hardly anything going I would de-
cline, unless it be the mumps.-4N. G. U,mc,'
Nothing is more unfortunate than for an
old humorist to become convinced that he is
statesman.-Ge cotton.
1t is not a proof of politeness to call
ringster a sardine, but it is frequently an evil
dence of tlattery EdacaTd Stake.
Sic Se'nper montani McGinty.-H. g. Darts
This cold snap loses for us our fruit, but
brings the Ice, believe it would have been
better to do without the ice and cool our water
next summer with whisky.-John l.. Hcintz
Some of the parties who said q bank would
not pay in Frostburg are opposed to new,
better and bigger water works,-Joe Bear,
Awful hard work-this furious effort to see
which paper can get out latest.--H. Hdlmon.
Try H'-The new game called ed
itor's Delight" is played in this wise:
Take sheet of ordinary writing paper,
Iold it up carefully, and inclose bank note
sufficiently large to pay for year in advance.
What adds immensely to the pleasure of the
game is 10 send along the name of new
subscriber or two, accompanied by thecash
Keep your eye on the editor, and ifa smile
adorns his face, the trick works like charm,
Journal isiic.--Th first number of
neat little paper, the Centenary Meth
odist Worker, has just been issued at
Bonnie Terre, Me-, by Rex James Nj.
Rollins, editor, formerly of Frostburg.
1t is au SPACE illustrated monthly.
and well filed with religious mattes>