Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-06
FLYING LEAVES.


postmaster
\ woman in New York furnishes love
letters at 81 apiece.
The Japanese revere woman and be-
lieve that she originally grew on a tree.
An offer to bet may be FOOLS argu-
ment, but it makes the wise man shut
up Il Elmira Gazette.
He must b dull fellow whom neither
love, malice, nor necessity can inspire
with wit La Bruyere.
Blinks-Been travelling in Europe, Ell?
How did you find the hotels? Jinks-
Hired a cab Good News
Children are Gods apostles, day by day
Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and
peace.
II. r. Lowell.
The New York Tribune says: 1T is
estimated that one rainy day costs the
retail storekenpers of this city 800, 600.
The projected elevat ID road in Boston
will almost Craze Old South and the old
Safe House. and will cross over the
ground of the Boston massacre.
new shoe for women is cut low like
q slipper in 'front.' but ru rs up behind to
the usual height where it is fastened by
strap and buckle around the ankle.
If license holders in Bolton, England,
refuse to supply bread and butter AMI
a cup of tea when asked renewal of
their license will in future be denied.
Through the influence of the Women's
Franchise League Il bill is to be intro
duced into Parlia nent next session 10
check the public exhibitions of hypnot-
ism which have become so common in
Great Britain.
1t is said there has been discovered on
the west coast of Africa bush, the
seeds of which yield a yellowish fat of
very agreeable nutty flavor which might
be used as butter 1t contains no acids
| to become rancid.
A smart young man in Savannah
tried to pay his street car fare with 500
bill. The conductor, stopping the cal,
went into store and got the bill changed,
giving the young man shot bag full of
silver, amounting to 500 %.
A New Yorker who recently spent
some time near Hawarden, in England,
says that Mr. Gladstone even at this time
of his life, while Fastening toward non
ogpnarianism, takes the deepest pleasure
in all kinds of work in which he is con-
stantIy engaged
Il see, said a man, entering q cater
er's establishment, that you advertise
weddings furnished?' Yes, SIR" re-
Piled the caterer briskly. Il wish you'd
send coupl. to my house right away
I've two daughters I'd like to get off my
hands. u Ilarper's Baznr.
A Portland family had co npany one
day, and little Mable was helping her
mother in preparing supper Her mother
told her privately to spread the cloth on
the table and be sure and have the neat
est part at the lady visitors side. After
endeavoring to do as near as she was
requested, she went to the lady visitor,
chiIdlille and exclaimed: "Only think,
mamma wanted me to give you the
ceanest part of the tablec!oth, and l
can't find any clean part to it. u Lewis
ton Journal.
Blondes are said to be disappearing.
both in England and in America. Per-
sons who can look back half a century
unite in declaring that there is marked
change in this respect For every red
haired person seen now ten could have
been met with twenty years back, and
if the change continues at the same rate
in another half century light haired
| people will have become so uncommon
that red headed lady will be an attract
i've addendum to the dime museum and
the country show. In New England we
are told that the blonde has well nigh
disappeared.
Several years ago the residence of
Cora Pearl in- Paris was entered by
thieves and robbed of 1920, 000 One;af
the robbers was captured and condemned
to five years imprisonment, but the
property was not then recovered. 7On
his liberation from prison lately he en-
deavoredSto raise a sum from 4 banker,
with which he might go to Germany.
The bankers suspicious We're excited
and the man was arrested, and has re-
vealed the name of his accomplice. The
great SUM may be recovered, but too late
to be of any value to Cora Pearl, who
died in destitution, after having vainly
endeavored to make little money by
publishing her memoirs.
Ten thousand dollars is now the high
est recorded price for a violin. The
Alard Stradivarius has passed from
France to England for that sum, to go
into the collection of Scotchman. 1t
is dated 1716 1t is described in the
catalogue of the South Kensington ex-
hibition of 1872 as one in a conditioner
perfect preservation. 1t was bought in
1860 by an Italian amateur, Count Cosio
di Salabue, after whose death it was
purchased in 1924 by famous collector,
Luigi Tariso. Tarisio hid away, refus-
ing to let any one see it till his death in
1854. A year later it was purchased by
Nuliauma. Its condition of preserva-
ton led to the belief that it had scarcely
been played upon during the whole $50
years of its existence Vuiliauma left
it on his death to his son in law, Alard,
who has just sold it
Rules for Long Life.
A Canadian clergyman, who is hale
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