Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-21

Brcvities.
Talk about poems on spring-they
are tasteless compared with those
luscious expressions that can he found
in the outcrop of the fall lyric. a
Pompey Smash rhapsodist with a tooth
for the good, the true and the beauti-
full, busted out this week into an epic
about cold fashioned, golden, spicy
punkin pie" in way that made
the average mouth water. For that Is
the kind of poetry that goes, rs well rs
one can locate the destination, straight
to the neighborhood of the gizzard.
Mt. Savage will build an electric
light plant Barton is discussing the
matter, and Pompey Smash wishes
somebody would come there and build
the one Barton is talking about.
The local editor of the Cumberland
Neaos seems to have shoudered several
per cent. of the tariff alarm department
of that paper.
Although several nominees say they
are going to pay their own campaign
expenses, it will be well for the know
ing ones to keep winkless eye on the
collateral in the party's contingent
fund.
Some excitement prevails in Iona
coming over the debate whether or
not j. Joker Robinson is the champion
authority of that town on baseball
ethics.
1t is given out unotficialy that funny
things are going on between the friends
OF two lawyers-oEe a nominee, the
other an aspiring nominee. If the
current nominee is elected, it is
thought the fact might initiate here
after against the success of the as
pirant. And although the entente
cordiale between the two distinguish
ed gentlemen is visibly affectionate,
yet tho actual relations may be freight
ed with the same sincerity that signal
lied the concern of Cain for Abel, of the
lion for the lamb, of Juno for Venus and
Cromwell for Charles |. Both sides
seem to be singing the low, soft re-
frain that one hears from grindstone
when politicians are sharpening their
knives for practice in the event that
fifth ribs are to be understuck.
A cooperative saloon is the latest
on dit in Homecoming. 1t will be a
"go' if every stakeholder does not
insist on his right to vote for himself
for president.
Titus A. Brick calls the cigarette
"the undertaker's joy"
A distinct shock was felt in Iona
coming one day this week when three
men walked into printing Office and
paid dollar each for year before lasts
newspaper.
There are boys in Pompey Smash
yet who dry their walnuts on the roof,
but the women who colored carpet
rags with the hulls have joined the
only majority that is silent and does
not rule.
The idea of some of Henry Rehs'
friends gathering all the Sloan pic
lures and printing Henry's phiz and a
specimen of his writing on the OPP
posite side is something in the nature
of violating a copyright. Besides it
is not likely that the superiority of the
Teutonic over Gaelic Americanism can
be illustrated properly in that way.
Frostburg, it is believed, sent more
people to the Worlds Fair than any
other town ill the county. AT Cum
berland the grass was so. short and
Cumberland coal so scarce that the
folks couldn't afford it, and at Iona
coming Joe Robinson was too busy even
to entertain his annual spell of hay
fever.
The JOURNAL acknowledges receipt
of a card impressed by an engraving
of Hon. James NJ. Sloan, prospective
State Senator. Besides the comely
face of our distinguished friend there
is an autograph indicating his we'll
known strength and evenness of char
acter and some whlskers that any wind
might be proud to blow through.