Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-09-17
How is this for new version o
our National LYNN?
Ny country It's of thee.
Sweet land of knavery,


Ny country It's Of thee.
Sweet land of knavery,
OF America I sing.
If You don't bride your tongue
saddle be your fate.
Pigeon, pheasants and peac ocks are
to be worn on the winter bonnets.
Sunday school teacher--Annie what
must one do in order to be forgiven =?
Annic-he must sin.
1t dosea't take much to break up a
croquet party. A little w'rt-backed
hop-toad can do it in minute.
Important notice Putty your trust
in Providence and your advertiser
ments in the CLARION.
Msrtinsburg, W. Va, is full of "hard
none" silver dimes and half dimes
being the prinoipel change offered,
A young lady being asked by arich
old bachelor, I'll not yourself, who
would you rather be-" replied sweet
ly and modestly, "Youra truly"
Naturalists hvae decided that no
hen can lay more than GOO eggs.
Therefore when you have checked off
to that figure you can sell her for a
spring chicken.
One of the saddcst thing, about
human nature is, that a man may
guide others in the path Of life with
out walking in it himself; that lie
may be pilot and yet cast-away.
Why is the letter II very untortn-
nate? Because it is always in trou,
bic, Indebtedness and misery, is the
beginning of riot and ruin, and is
ncvor found in peace, innocence, or
love.
Ouicklime and wood ashes made in
to whitowash will destroy moss on old
hidcbound trees Do not use it with
much potash on smooth barked or
young trees as there is danger Of IN
juring them.
1t is an old saying that ut is never
too late to mend )" and the man who
makes his wife sit up on hot night to
fix his old clothes, while he SHORES
under the musquito bar, is the sort Of
person to say it.
A village redogoSue, in despair
with a stupid boy, pointed to the lot
ter A and asked him if he knew it,
Yes, sir. Well what is it? | know
him very we'll by sight cir, but-rat
me if I can remember his name.
Numbers is what does the business,
shouted a man who lives on Sixth
street. When my wife is alone can
reason with her, and run things to
auit myself; but when her mother IS
around | an not even stakeholder
in the concern.
A Presbyterian minister, while
marrying . couple Of his rustic par
ishoners, felt exceedingly disconnected
On his asking the bridegroom if ae
was willing to take the woman for his
wife, BY his scratching his head and
saying, Ay, I'm wlllin' but Id
rather have her sister.
A young man at Wilmington, NC,
having q short leave Of absence from
his employer, remained away so long
at Il fashionable summer resort that
his employer tolegraphed for him to
return or he would lose his place
Don't want tho place. have $780,
900 girl in love with me, was the
answer. But he came back in week
and TOOK a place at $50 a month.
CsooD-IIEAnTED. a day or two
since a red headed rat Of a bootblack
called at the post Office to get a two
cent piece changed, and he was so
impatient Of delay that the clerk
inquired
Is any one dying for the want Of
that changer
"No, sir, promptly replied the lad,
"but Tom English wants to 90 on the
excursion to Put-in-Bay, and I'm So
ing to lend him money to 90 IN good
style?'
James Dunn, Catholic, and Robert
Coulter, Protestant, had a religious
discussion Sunday in Columbus, Ohio,
resulting in Coulter shooting Dunn
in the side and then escaping. The
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