Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.
Words of great man :.

dpiehtia.-Words 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 good idea to place
both our new depots under glass case-D.
J. Betz.
And our present water works. too.--George
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.-AYthur Baker.
Yes, | would like somebody to draw him
out. want to read him chapter from my
forthcoming "History Of the Democratic
Party in Frostburg. ."-.ioha Chambers.
The New York Democrat has the portraits
of Hill and Titus A Brick at the head of its
Temperance column.-E. n. Nichae
When we seek to divert the law from its
course we tread on dangerous ground.-H B.
Shater.
The report that a Cleveland colored club
will be formed at Westernport is not true
at least not at this time. If it were it would
be the kind of an item that would confer
upon Barton republican the widest kind of
an old-fashioned tit.-C. II. HamW
l am a pirate king.-A. p. Go,man.
Look at my advertisement on your fourth
page. 1t is razzle-dazzler.-Frd G. BeaH.
If know q hawk from a handsaw, and |
think do, there will be no falling off in the
republican vote at Barton this year.-yames
CdmpbeU.
If the enyious goddess who imposed the
doaen iabors 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. 1t would
have been cold and desolate day for Prof.
Hercules, or Herakles, as his relatives called
him, had he received imperative instructions
of that kind ". II. EganS.
The report that | would decline the col
leetorship is erroneous. In fact, just now
there is hardly anything going l would de-
cline, unless it be the mumps-4M G. U,ney.
Nothing is more unfortunate than for an
old humorist to become convinced that he is
statesman.-Georye Cotton.
1t is not proof of politeness to call
rngster a sardine, but tits frequently an evil
dence of tlattery Edpa,d Stake.
Sic Senaper naontan McGinty q. DayiS.
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 Il. Heintz.
Some Of the parties who said bank would
not pay in Frostburg are opposed to new,
better and bigger water-works, Bear
Awful hard work-this furious effort to see
which paper can get out latest.--H l. Haiman.
Try H'-The new game called ed
itor's Delight" is played in this wise:
Take a sheet of ordinary writing paper.
rold 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 20 send along the name of new
subscriber or two, accompanied by thecash.
Keep your eye on the editor, and ifa smile
atlorns his face, the trick works like a charm
.Journal stic.--The first number of a
neat little paper, the Centenary Meth.
odst Worker, has just heen issued at
Roune Terre, Mo-. by Rev James nj.
Rollins, editor, formerly of Ftostburg.
1t is an S-page illustrated monthly.
and well filed with religious mattes>