Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-12-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

LIN yOu SiNc 1hthNo!
Who stole the buttery
Get out your gum boots.
A tight fit-delrium tremens.
Trouble and twins never come singly.
Motto for the married despair.
Sunday brought out the promenaners.
A heavy rain all night Sunday night.
You better shoot that house again Geo
A man of low extraction-a cheap dent
list.
Every style of job work done at this Of
fee.
A hotel bill may well be called inn debt
edncss.
The early chestnut buyers catches the
worms.
The beautiful snow will not long delay
its coming.
Steamed oysters arc all the rage at J..
Edwards.
Every man is hero to tho woman who
loves him.
A doctors fces-Can you call them ill,
gotten gains,
Almshouscs arc filling up as cold wealth
cr approaches.
The death song of We big and little pork
er is now heard in the land.
The nights for the past week have been
besutifulto stay in the house.
Freight cars running into Harrisburg
from ihe west arc covered with snow
Advertising is the life of trade, especial
ly on the approach of the holidays
For the first time since January 13,1SG2
gold wasAuoted at par last Wednesday.
A young Franklin county mao recently
carried Il sack Q. salt weighing 200 pounds
one mile.
The town council of Wavncsboro' are
taking steps for the extension of all streets
and alleys.
Farmers mechanics AMI everybody else
should bear in mind that ]. Sprow's is the
place to buy the cheapest liquors in town
Gold is down to 100, and pretty soon
the miserable little gold dollar will hide in
the far away corner OF Your pocket.
va" Moroccos, Calf Skins and Lin.
lngs. AT Roots.
1t
An Irishman recently expressed his ed.
miratlon for lady by the following re.
mark: ~ wsht WAS in prison for Inc
stating ov ye.'
The difference between ladies and ducks
if tl'ert is any difference, is that ladies "rc
offer dressed to kill, while ducks are kilIcl
to dress
She was plump and beautiful and he was
wildly fond of nrr; but She hated him, hu,
womanlike, she slroyc to catch him. He
was a flea.
One reason why more people did not g,
into the Ark is that Noah neglected to al
vertise. There is ~ great moral lesson
contained in tins fact.
aU- Syrup, Syrup. 10 cents pei
gal. Bright as any made. At
1T Roots.
A Pennsylvania paper boasts that the
State raises one fifth OF all the rye produc-
ed in the country In It's liquid form and
as high as its mouth.
There will be plenty of tramps this win
ter and the New York Herald says, every
man should teach his wife, daughter and
sister how to handle q revolver"
When g bridegroom finds all the clothes
he owns in the world hung one over the
other on hook behind the pantry, he re-
alizcs tor the first time that Me honeymoon
is over.
She sat down at the piano and hogan
"Ill strike again my tunctul lyre.' Al
that moment her husband lodged quickly
out OF the door remarking, not if | know
it, you won't"
The death Of john A. Kuhn, brought to
our loWH Qulte numOer Oh former towns
men, among whom were Rev. d. A. Kuhn
DIR. Tom Landcrs and Il. III. Kuhn. Tk,y
were warmly greeted by their many friends
Every time man inserts an advertise
ment Of his business in good paper he
puts his business sign into hundreds of
households, and secures attention that he
could not in any other way.
Whether to treat to an oyster stew and
enjoy blissful hour with his Ducna, or
invest the capital in winter un'ershirts, is
the problem now agitating the brain of a
young man of small resources,
4 simple remedy for neuralgia is horse.
Tadish. Crate it and mix it in vinegar,tbc
2 same as for table purpose, and apply to the
temple when the face or head is affected
The man who hasn't money enough to
buy an overcoat this winter, can console
himself with the reflection that he had lots
of fun at his last picnic the past summer.
The common opinion is that we should
take good care of children at all seasons of