Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-05-15
FACTS AND FL NCIES.

blue.
In 1910 not railroad was laid
west of the Alleghanies.
If the good all die early, why are
the bad like the pupil Of an eye? Be-
cause they dilate.
The carpenters trade must be un-
healthy. We never saw one who
wasn't an mailing man.
If man really wants to know Of
how little Importance he is, let him
90 with his wife to dressmaker.
When man puts an innocent hen
to work over porcelain egg, is he
setting the hen a sool cgg-salnple.
The Baldwin locomotive works Of
Philadel phia have an order to build
five locomotives for road in the
Sandwich Islands.
a girl in an Iowa Seminary cut all
the hair from the head Of fer Sleep
ing room mate in revenge for slight,
and has been expelled by the faculty.
The largest tree in the South is
supposed to be tulip tree near Au-
gusta, Georgia, which is l55 !eet high
and nine feet in diameter, its lowest
branches being 55 feet from the
ground.
A lady told her little son, who was
teasing for something to eat to wait
until breakfast. With tear in his
eye, he burst out: I Jest honestly
ometmes think YOU re stepnother.
Only in Maryland, Delaware, Vir-
ginia, Louisiana do the male teach.
ers outaumber the female. In New
HAMPSHIRE the female teachers out
number the male five to one, and in
Massachusetts eight to one.
They tried to kill a book agent at
Omaha He was robbed, thrown into
the river, knocked off the cars, tossed
from high bridge into the river
again. and in two hours he was around
with an Illustrated Bible, trying to get
subscription from the head Of tho
attacking party.
MARK TWAIN's LATEsT-At a re-
cent dinner in Paris Mark Twain rela-
ted sad story, which is retold by
Paris correspondent Roger Mac
pherson, said Mark, twas man
met on a voyage from the Bermudas,
who had been permanently saddened
by an experience which befel him in
Wisconsin. He had been asked to
convey the remains of valued friend
to his home IN that State from dis
tant town where he died. He had
the body put in rough case, which,
am sorry to say, was exchanged at
the depot during his momentary alb.
sence for case Of rifles which very
much resembed it in outward 70. m.
The rifles were put in the car, and
Roger took his place beside them in
awe struck silence, thinking he was
still guarding the remains of his
friend. Another traveller, sir, had
meantim, deposited Limberger
cheese in the car, waich, somehow or
other, | can hardly tell why, tended
to keep up the rnourner's Illusion
Macpherson knew nothing Of his hav.
ing this delicacy for travelling COM
panion. Yet it was in all probability
the cause of his thinking necessarily
of Lis late FREUD. 1t had the same
effect on others Did he die recently
that is this year, asked the ex-
pressman in a tone of conm;seration,
looking at the rifle box Hes per-
manent, I'll 90 bail for him. I've
carried good many of EN-, too, gasps
the expressman presently, but for
genuine power and be looked At the
box again They smoke iucsssantly,
they burn feathers, and at last the
expressman says: am no use,your
friend wants to travel alone, and they
60 outside and pass the rest of very
bitter night on the platform Of the
ear.
The correspondent adds: I cannot
follow Mark Twain through the har-
rowing account Of the cold and fever
that ensuei, The solemn burial of the
box aad the discovery of its re,l con-
tents, which came too late to save
either the health of MACPHERSON or
his peace o. mind,