Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-07-08

nearly 0OO million mummIeS were en-
tombed, and that hundreds of thous-
ands of buried cities and temples vet
remain to be discovered" You are
probably right, Amelia. The JOUR
NAL knows of about three who have
just breath enough leftto walk around
Frostburg and imagine they are in the
newspaper business.
Those horrible buttons on the backs
of ladies dresses, disappearing in
Frostburg, are in full tilt in Lonacon-
ing. Usually it takes nearly three
weeks for a fashion to travel from
Paris to Frostburg, and about three
months from Frostburg to Lonaconlng.
O, no, Cronin is not wrong all the
time. AS George Eliot said, 1.-THE
clock that does not go at all is right
twice in every n hours" There is
such Il thing as being wrong by habit,
right by accident.
a marriage license was issued in
Baltimore to Watson W. Jones, of
Frostburg, Md, and Miss Julia j.
Baker, Of that city.
A look over the field indicates that
there will be more powerful local
leaders than the ,Spinette. Eventually
it will be seen that the latter is fol-
lower, and the follower never fails to
get to the trough too late.
The merchants occupying the Wittlg
and Meats Opera House stores swept
up the dust in front of their places
Wednesday and the town carted it
away. An excellent example for all
one that would save lot of useless,
wasteful sprinkling.
1t is not "a only a public
hydrant. If the S~inette, with an
illiteracy impregnably its own, had
not mis-called it, the JOURNAL would
have been the last to object. Still it
is mostly a plaything for children and
the colored contingent.
The streets were too dusty ON the
18th for the lubber-tired set. Had the
streets been paved with vitrifed brick
the wheels would have spun over them
multltudiuously as mixed metaphors
in the SWinette'S head.
The JOURNAL would like to see that
passage, credited to DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, fully and accurately
quoted. Until then it shall give itself
the benefit of all doubts.
1t is evident the Suinette is interest
ed in some teacher getting a position
without preparation for the work, or
that, as usual, it does not know what
it is squealing about.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany painted "Post No Bills on its
poles. The JOURNAL, which is always
ahead IL every good word and work,
obtained permission to stencil below
"Advertise in the MINING JOURNAL.n
SO that it reads
Post No Bills.
Advertise in the MINING JOURNAL.
SO far the Soinette has been unable
to see the point unless gruntlng is
equivalent to sight.
The JOURNAL will give some figures
next week showing that the miners as
mass are not anywhere near as bad
as the Sr1Hette alleges they are.
a couple of hunters passed through
town Thursday, accompanied by their
dogs III number.
Problem-how can Homecoming be
as big as Frostburg when, under the
Williams dynasty, it costs $50 per- cent.
more to light the metropolis?
Welsh Johnnie confesoes the whole
business. He says, IN substance, sit
was good to be there" AS the guest
of 'that prince of good fellows, the
leather tinisher," he, too, ate until eat
ing wouldn't work. But as the dis
penser of "mixed drinks" why did he
treat himself only to the sponge
The dOuble-column display on first
page, a last moment thought" was
too hurriedly put up to be a tasteful
piece of work.
The JOURNAL knew that besides be-
ing IL marble polisher the Forum has
been an electrician, five-year con-
tractor, real estate dealer, and is now
an amateur printer, tombstone archi-
tect, terra-cotta bidder, newspaper
botch, iron-fence retailer, political
bungler and grave-seller, but it never
understood until recently that it was
dispensary of "miXed drinks
Where's your license, Jack at all
trades p
Rev. S. j. Clarke has permitted the
location of a commodious music plat
form in front of the parochial school
building, to be used for evening con-
certs by the bands. a very large
crowd enjoyed the initial performance
by the Arion last Saturday.
The printing matter is in the hands
of two good miners who, no doubt, be-
lieve in their hearts, as the JOURNAL
sincerely hopes they do, that to all
miners % cents per ton is better than
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