Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-09-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

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WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.
Autumn is approaching.
The short days have come.
Bankruptcy has played out.
Bass fishing is now in order.
The buckwheat crop is excellent.
Culture of mind is cure for gossip.
1t sugurs no good to be called bore.
False delicacy IS affection, not polite
ness.
The weary farmer will soon rest for the
season
The forerunners of plague-a mosqui-
tos legs.
York, Pa, has given $1,000 towards the
Southern relief fund.
Pretty near time for women TO COM
mence pouting for fall hats.
Nature is like baby. There is always
. squall when its face is washed
The nights will soon have the longest
end of the twenty-iour hour rope.
Altoona has contributed $2071,S3 for
the relief of the yellw fever sufferers.
1.-THE Christian life" says Robertson, sis
not knowing or hearing, but doing"
Al the night air is SO unwholesome, do
not sit on the front stoop without putting
something around your girl.
1000 bushels of wheat were shipped
from Hagcrstown to Baltimore in one day
recently.
Our townsman, Enos Cover, has had a
fancy top built over his sulky, which is a
complete protector from the rain.
Every morning the tramp lays out his
work for the day without much difficulty.
But, says the New Orleans "Picayune," it
is laying out nights that hurts him."
A woman was offered a thousand dol
lars if she would remain silent two hours.
At the end of fifteen minutes, she asked,
"isn't the time nearly up!" and thus lost.
A North Carolina editor declares that
"the man who will read newspaper three
or four years without paying for it will
pasture goat on the grave OF his grand
father"
A man may be brave enough to face
dire danger, even at the lannon's mouth,
but let him pop the question" TO merry
maiden, and he'll wilt like paper picadil-
~ on no, summer day
A woman who has tried the experiment
says: When man finds a place that is
pleasauter to him than his own home, his
wife should put two Jumps of sugar IN his
coffee and double the quantity Of sunshine
in the front ROOM"
Many young man has caught cold at
night and been carried of by consumption
because he stood out in the air, without
enough around his peck. Girls will please
cut this out and paste it in their hats.
Praise mean man, and he will blush
tickle him, and he will laugh; hurt him
and he will cry; but when you shove a
contribution box under his nose, he will
double up with watermeloncolic anguish.
1t is stated that the bride and groom of
a wedding party at Niagara Falls last
week, had twenty trunks between them
You might keep twenty trunks between
them few years hence hardly now.
VrcKs FLORAL GUIDE.-The Autumn
number of this popular publication is on
our desk, and contains its usual attractions
for the gardener and floriculturist. Vick's
flower and garden seed are excelled by
none and his flora, guide is always well
come visitor in the home circle.
DIED.-Mrs. Weddle, an aged and re-
spected lady residing at Catoctin Furnace,
died on Sunday last, in the 18th year of
her age She was seated at the table eat
ing, and in a tone that surprised those
around her said that she was blind, and re-
quested them to carry her to her bed, where
she died in about fifteen minutes.
For some purposes road dust is more
valuable than gold dust, and barrel
should be secured now by every farmer, for
An absorbent for his hen manure and for
vaults. Thin, alternating layers with the
swecpings of the hen house make rich
fertilizer, easily applied; and mixed with
sifted coal ashes, road dust makes perfect
and purifying absorbent for vaults.
If one or two certain old maids in our
town would attend more to their own bus.
mess, and less to their neighbors', espec-
tally to those who 60 out to have their
teeth extracted, times would be better
The young ladies on Carroll street should
hereafter consult one of the above men,
toned persons before attempting stroll
up town when there is ork at home.
RoUcEs.
RoBBERY.-Last Friday night week
the warehouse of Mr.. s. w. Beard, at
Chewsville, was entered by burglars and
robbed of couple of revolvers, two silver