Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-10-06
The weather is getting cool.
Pigeons are becoming plentiful.
Chestnuts are getting ripe.
We have had a rainy week.
High winds are prevailing.
Squirrels begin to jump high.
SunbeaIns.

number and pay of their employees
If all the people in Maine would
90 to work and dig the lime, granite
and slate of the State they could make
paying wages.
One hundred and twenty-five trees,
on about an acre of ground in Calhoun
county, Florida, yielded last year
10000 oranges.
Reagan, late Postmaster General Of
the Confederate STAGES, is a candidate
for Congress in Texas.
The Trojans are slowly drifting
back to kerosene. Gas is too high.
Middle Tennessee had rain on the
2Sth Of August for the first time since
the 18th Of May.
The Springfield Republican says
that great quantities of snuff for Dip
ping are sold in New York.
Mohammedanism has been defined
As that blessed religion which makes
people wash themselves.
Mayor Havemeyer is a graduate OF
Columbia College, of the same class
with the Hon. John Mckeon.
A pretty German sayingis "Would st
thou clearly learn what the becoming
is inquire Of undetermined women.
Louis Riel has again been elected
to the Canadian Parliament by the
almost unanimous vote Of the people
of Provencher.
1t was not the tenor Joseph Mario,
but a Jealous republican, Alberto
Mario, who was recently arrested III
Italy for writing a letter strongly de-
nouncing monarchy.
Attic election trial in London, Can
ada, DR.. Haggerty testified that he
had paid about $l25 to wives in
sums ranging from 50 to $25, to IN
fuence the votes of their husbands.
They have a fiteen-year-o!d boy
at Bennington, VT, who measures
PA inches around the head. A No. s.
hat, the largest in a store to which he
recently went to purchase, was too
small for him.
The Pope las made the See Of Mil
waukee an Archdiocese. Baltimore
is the Oldest Archdiocese in the United
States, St. Louis the second, New
York the third. There are now eight
and will soon be ten ArcAbishopics on
this continent. Those of Santa lie
and Philadelphia are soou to be adj,
,ded.
At a Nevada theatre recently the
gas went out during the early part OF
the performance, and for a breI
period there was considerable excite
ment aud profanity. Tho voice OF
the stage manager was heard from
the direction of the stage, As follows
"Sit down. will yer, while | send for
some members Of Congress to come
round and crate. Then, | guess, we II
have gas enough to go on with the
show"
Within the past five years 700,00oI
persons have left Germany for the
United States, being principally from
Prussia. Most of the immigrants
were able-bcdled young men Of the
poorer classes, the very kind desired
for the German army, and 1t is not
strange that Bismarck has spared 20
effort to keep them az home.
JOHN COTTON, Of Ohio, stole wool,
acknowledged the corn, and judge
Rye sent him to all.
lie that hath knowledge sparcth
his wods; but woman kespeth still
only when she can't help it.
"EvERYrH1NG cold but the water
and everything sour but the pickles, y
was the report Of a guest from one Of
the summer hotels.
When one is in the act of tipping
his hat to lady, whom he supposes
to be an acquaintance, it requires
some tact to make believe he is only
scratching his head, as he discovers
the lady to be stranger.
AN inquiring man thrust his fingers
into horse mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the
1Aan had. The curiosity Of each was
fnlly satisfied.
AN old lady with large family,
aiviny near river, was asked if she
rlid't live in constant dread that some
.f her children would be drowned.
"Oh, no, she replied, 1--WE have only
loet three or four in that way"
A LECTURER, wishing to explain to
a little girl the manner in which a
obster casts his she'll when he has
outgrown it, said: "what do you do
when you have outgrown your
clothes? You throw them aside, don t
you?" "Oh, nc" replied the little one
.we let out the tucks." The lecturer
confessed she had the advantage Of
him there.
In Providence. the charge for water