Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-18

If money could be borrowed as easily
as trouble, the world would be full OF
round shouldercd people.
1t is often impossible to distinguish
silence from wisdom, because they are
frequently the same thing. - dallas
News.
She-What a wonderful thing is Nat
ure! How grand! How comprehensive!
He-Yaas; even the smallest plant or the
smallest insect has got Latin name. -
[Tcxas Siftings.
Congressman Peters has returned to
Kansas to stay. He may not be able to
make $1,000 year practicIng law at
Newton, but it doesn't take that much to
live there. : Kansas City Star.
An agreeable surprise was in waiting
for General Sherman on his arrival i'll
Boston to attend the Grand Army of the
Republic reunion. One of the bands
played Marching Through Georgia. -
[St Paul Pioneer Press.
Country Hostess - Have you nice
neighbors where you live now? City
Guest-Oh, we have no neighbors now,
none at all. Country Hostess-You amt
any neighbors? City Guest-No. We
live in flat New York Weekly.
Have you boarded long at this
house?" inquired the new boarder of
the detected man sitting next to him.
about 10 years. Il don't see how you
can stand it. Why haven't you leftlong
ago." No other place to co." said the
other dislnally. "The landlady's my
wife. y Chicago Tribune.
st. Louis is becoming very fastidious
in its taste. a woman in that city last
week whipped her little girl half to death
because the child asked for second por-
ton of soup at dinner. OF course we
all recognize that this is not good FORM
but is seems that the zeal of the mother
for good manners outran her discretion.
= Detroit Free Press.
One of the most significant signs of
the educational times is the disappear
ance of the elderly college president.
Young men are pressing forward, and
the older gentlemen are very content to
step aside for some more easy going
place. The truth is, the presidency of q
college is largely a place for the exercise
of business shrewdness. The young men
may be less venerable, but they make
things ush.-[Chicago News.
When a person. in criticising the char
acter or disposition Of others, applies
with certain blind presidency one or
two common faults to them all, now
he. ,n,.l. and H,-
ing far wide of it, we may be sure that
these very faults are possessed by the
critic in marked degree, though they
are often in a measure concealed by the
complications of his own character. One
who desires to rid himself of faults will
do we'll to scrltmize himself in this re-
spect and if he finds Il tendency to harp
on some particular weakness of human
nature, he may feel assured that there
he can apply the pruning knife. Il New
York Ledger.
The citizens of the fine old Common
wealth of Kentucky, Wien they travel,
are proud of their State, and they take
pains to per- etuate that pride by care
fully retaining fro leaving the name
of the city from which they hail on the
registry books of the hotels. In nine
instances out Of ten, it has been the OBJ
servation of hotel clerks, kentuckian
registers from "kentucky," leaving to
the people who refer to the register of
the hotel the pleasure OF guessing"
whether the proprietor of the autograph
is from the county of feuds perry or
from the civilized wildS of the CONNER
cial capital of the State Uouisville) 1t
seems to be a matter of pride with the
people of Kentucky to register from
KY, as they usually write it, and few
of them go to the trouble of giving details
as to the city or town from which they
come. cincinnati Commercial Gazette.