Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-01-25
God help the poor.
Lent is app oaching.
Snnrin o ia sheet music.

The first of April comes on Sunday.
Axe the ice to walk off your povements.
ANOTHER invoice of the beautiful on
Monday.
If you pity the poor, how much do you
pity thcms
Movable heels are the latest invention
for the ladies.
A man that needs exercise should try to
collect printers bills.
CREsc1TE Poudrette contains more bone
than any Of the $35 phosphatcs
MuMps neuralgia and chicken pox are
the prevailing diseases just now.
CAssELL's "Crescte' Poudrette, at $2S
Der ton, is the greatest bargain out now.
It is the business of supervisors to open,
and keep in travelling condition all public
roads.
EDITING a newspaper is easy work when
man has a surplus of ideas, words, time
and money.
A hot tlat.iron at your feet these nights
is much plcasanter than cold one tossed
at your head.
DESPITE the rigorous winter, the know
ing ones think there will be an abundance
of fruit next summer.
CATocTlN Furnace has been the scene
of many social gatherings lately. Our town
boys patronize them largely.
WHEN a woman slips and falls OH the
hard pavement she says, "Oh. my" When
man slips he says "Oh!-!!'
WHEN rich man dies his pastor speaks
of his virtues and his relatives quarrel
shout the division of his property.
THE winter is but half orcr and we
have had far more ice and snow than du-
ring the whole Of the winter of Is.
II you want to purchase an excellent
farm, why attend the public sale on Satnr-
dny of DR.. Hcnshaw's. See adv in anoth
er column.
SPONGE your windows with alcohol and
no ice will form on them. \ fellow whose
breath was strong with alcohol made the
discovery.
when you enter or leave n place of
business be sure and leave the door open
there's nothing like plenty Of ventilation
and coal is cheap.
THE tongue of mean, inSinuating COW
Vrdly sneak, makes deeper wounds than
the teeth Of q sheep thief dog No refer
cncc to Mechanicstown.
SnooTING MATCH.-A rifle shooting
match will take place in this town at an
early day next month, for mammoth steer
weighing over 700 pounds.
A NEW patent bedsicad is out that can
be wound up so that it will spring up at
any hour of the morning and throw the
sleeper clear owe. the footboard.
Our "dcvil is so fond of his sweetheart
that he has rubbed the skin of his nose
in kissing her shadow on the wall A pho
tograph will not last ten minutes.
TnANKs.-Mr. IL Baxter Ncodcmus, of
Fremont, Neb.. will please accept our
thanks for a pamphlet copy Of the Rocky
Mountain locust or Grasshopper."
WE heard young father say the other
day that one baby with a cracker will
make the couch Of wearicd industry more
uncomfortable than dozen biz mosquitoes
MR. Newton G. Croft, we are sorry to
say is still suffering from that carbuncle.-
This is hard lot as Mr.. G. is wholly un-
accustomed to being shut up in the house.
THE Independent boys of Frederick are
determined not to be behind their Junior
friends; they intend purchasing Steam
Fire Engine, Tor which they are to pay
$4,000
Auction. John Lohr will sell ut auc.
ton on Saturday night, at the residence OF
Simon Lohr, hats, caps, boots, shoes, no
tions SC He has determined to close out
business by April LIST, II.
Dividend D. The First National Bank
Of Frederick, has declared a dividend Of
six per cent. for the six months ending on
the 10th instant, payable to stockholders
ON and after Monday, the 22d instant.
: SCHOOL FUNDs-In the January dis.
tribution of the public school tax. just
made by Comptroller Woolford, Frcler.
lex county is awarded $G,557 70 for white
schools, and $90423 Tor coored schools.
TIE editor of one of the Eastern Shore
papers has taken to poetry since Christ.
mas. This is his first couplet:
"Tis sweet to wait. but oh hoy bitter
To wait for a girl and then Lot git her. v
Across THE BRIDGE.-We have stepped
into the New year, and take advice in the
outset. Don't carry that Cough or Cold
with you into this youn5 year. Cure it
now with Dr.. Schlcy's Family Cough
Syrup. 1t will certainly do SO, and is the
Champion for Group, Asthma, Phthisic
and like affections.
BIG HoG.-Mr. Josiah Eyler, of Double
Pipe Creek slaughtered a porkcr last week
which weighed 900 pounds even up. This
has certainly been good season for big