Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-06-11
Infal AMaus.

THE bark harvest is gathered.
How DOES this weather suit you?
RYE and wheat fields arc now in blossom.
WHITE vests may now be said: to be
ripe. .....
PLANT vines and trees whenever there
is chance.
CAN our street cleaners 10 called ,"Iyhis-
pcrs of spring.
BROTHER Tom Thumb has 80 degrees
in Free Masonry.
OLD Mr.. Fire Fiend ought soon have
his appetite satisfied. ...
Last Friday was the one hundrcdth day
of the Bcccher trial
ScuooL boys arc now wishing for sub
stitutcs--it's SO warm.
TIE fashionable dance in Kansas is the
"srasshopper cotillion."
CuuRcm audiences are becoming very
thin this warm weather.
GREEN peas are selling at 20 cents
peck in Baltimore market.
You've tobacco plants in this naighbor:
hood are puf,ectly splendid.
Custom is everything" Advertising
makes custom Philosophy.
Mr. Darwin still insists that his ances-
tor danced on u hand-organ.
AN acre of currents may bc made to
Weld over $400 profit year.
The number Of colors used in house
PAINTING rarely exceeds eight.
OSE of the coolest and most delicious
SIMMER drink9 is iced buttermlk.
EVERYBODY is preparing to attend the
commencement at Mt. St. Marys College,
On says the patriotic srasShopper
"in onion there is strength, and we believe
IT,
Docs have been destroying large mum
Der, OF sheep throughout Washington coun-
".
THE growing grain has wonderfully i'm
proved in appearance within the last few
days.
lN some respects men are like soda foun-
tsins-You can judge of them by their
'phiA,
Tur lightning rod men are driving n
brisk ira lie throughout this and adjoining
counties.
liza body meet body going through
the R,e," gu, West ten to ono that body
is revenue officer.
SOMEBODY has said "Thr larger the in
come the harder it is to live within ii,
but We don; believe it.
4 STURGEON measuring seven feet Jour
inches was caught in y haul seine IN Chcs'
ter river on Friday last.
Ir isn't much economy to get your wife
to cut your hair-it costs too much Tor
court plaster afterward! -.
CuA.rISk rA.Iu-TA, or Red Bud, is the
only woman who accompanied the Sioux
delegation to Washington
MOSQUITOES are busily engaged in grind
ing their lance,s preparatory to the first
grand charge Of the campaign
THE bathing season is at hand but ac-
cording to written notice by The cenlm's'
sioners, BOYS must steer clear Of the dam
SNUFF is said to he good remedy for
cabbage bugs. 1t sets them TO sneczng
and they never stop until their little heads
fly off.
PEACHES. .avs the Baltimorcan, shipped
from near Savannah, Ga, are in market
and command. tho modest sum of 80 per
dozen.
New PosrM >srER. Edward ID. Bar
nard is appointed Postmaster ut Barry
Frederick county, Md. vice l.. Botelcr, re-
signed
THESE arc nice cool evenings and morn
inas since tho recent rains, and It don
take much of MI effort to sleep till Z
o'clock.
A writer in the Baltiaoredn recommends
Frederick J. Nelson, Esq. Of Frederick,
for the position Of Attorney General OF
Maryland
Nix. J. L. McComas, Of Uagcrstown, has
gathered the first ripe tomatoes, of out
door culture, this season in this section OF
the State
TIE Liberty Banner informs us that
Mr.. !. W. Young, ofKeysvillc, has n calf
which, when only fey hours old, weighed
lib pounds.
FARMERS wi o whitewaBh their build
ings and fences, &c. enhance the appear
aucc of their property thousand dollars
worth at least.
COMMON wheat -four made into paste,
with cold water, or applied dry, is said to
take out grease spots without iniurlng the
st delicate fabric.
THERE is no fonder period in wo-
mans life than when she has new bon
net on one week ahead of her ncighbor.