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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-09-23
Notice 70 Erc>l,;is>ers.

! Tnving sustained considerable damage
l l by persons lrcspassl@ upon my
farms by hunting and fishing hereby give
notice to all persons thus treSpasslng upon
said premise, that will put the Law in
force against all t!espassers without regard
to persons.
Sept. 30 81. JOHN A. RODDG.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-09-23
MIRACULOUS POWER.

The Forest and Stream has it: "To pre-
serve health use Warmers Safe Remedies
These are almost of miraculous power in
removing diseases for which rccommen.
dcd. The wonderful curative qualities
they are possessed Of is vouchcd for by
tens of thousands. July 90 3m
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-09-23
NOTICE..

T hereby forcwarn all persons not TO pur-
J. chase 4 note given by me to Nicholas
Baker dated Aug - 1879, for ONE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS, rs | am determined
not to pay said note having received nc
value for The same.
Sept. 20 3t. Lawson A. Duhcl.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-09-23
Notice to Trespassers.

The undersigned hereby forcwarns ev-
eryhody from trcspassing upon his land,
for the purpose Of hunting birds, rabbits
or other game or for any other purpose,
Any one so trespassing will be dealt with
according to law.
HENRY c. FOREMAN.
Sent. 9-3m.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1880-09-23
Executors Notice.

NJ office is hereby given that the suhscri-
IN bers have obtained from the Orphans
Court of Frederick County, letters Tesla
mcntary upon the estate Of
Isaac Weller
late Of Frederick county deceased. All
persons having claims against said de
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same with vouchers thereof, legally authen
ticated to the subscribers, on or before
March 10Th, 1881, or they may Otherwise
by law, be excluded from all benefits Of said
estate.
WIN. E. GREEN rx,,,o
WIN. o. WELLER Executors
Sept, CAT
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18
Intelligence Items.

Mount Holyoke Seminary has 2l1
pupils thi, year.
The old Catholic Synod, which met
at Bonn last June, by vote of 10 to %,
decided to abolish celibacy.
Paris has contributed 10000 francs
for the yellow fever sufferers. of which
sum Marshal MacMahon gave one
fourth
About 500 English, Irish and Ameri-
can Protestants have joined the Catho-
lie Church in Paris during the past
twelve years.
Two colored missionaries named
Richardson and Johnson. who were
formerly slaves in the Southern States.
have Just left London for work III Cen
trail Africa.
With the exception of few towns on
the coast Of China there are in all that
Empire scarcely dozen Hebrew fami-
lies. The Jews are hardly known in
China, and only the learned are aware
OF their existence.
Seven Protestant denominations now
have an organization in Rome; The
Waldensian. the Methodist, the Episco-
P"i, 'He IeSbN teTldIl, tUe L n Outn
Brethren. the American Biptists. and
the Apostolic Baptists. They number
i'll all about 700 Italian adherents
At the Paris Exhibition, among the
pathological curiosities is the tamed
Papal Ball of the immaculate Concep-
ton, translated into ITO languages.
Originally it was intended for gift to
Plus TX, as Il testimonial from France,
and when the Exhibition closes il will
be presented to the present Pope. and
deposited in the Library of the Nati-
can.
Teachers salaries ought to he the
very last expenses to be cut down. saws
superintendent Eliot, of Boston. We
can get on" he adds, without vast
buildings or materials: we can wait for
better times to fill our libraries OF our
collections: we can part forever with
drills. exhibitions, and festivals. or
with all that is expensive about them;
but We must have men and women
whom nature as we'll as training mas
made teachers; we must have the heads
and the hearts that are not found where
ever We seek Them, we must have the
personal force which Is beyond all other
forces, i'll earth as we'll as in heaven.
III everything else were sold that we
might have these treasures, they would
not cost too dear. Economy beginning
with them Is not economy, but waste
fulneSs"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

vince her of the impossibility of her
assertion. She persists to this moment
that she saw you and was with you on
the 18th of October-or rather on the
morning of the 18th. Where and how
she cannot tell, but we think it must
have been some dream. She is better
now, and l wish you could see how fast
she is improving
This is my plain, unvarnished tale. l
do not pretend to explain or account
for its mysteries. simply relate facts.
Let psychologists unravel the labyrinth
ical skein. [ am not superstltious,
neither do | believe in ghosts, wraiths
or apparitions: but this thing l do
know--that, although my wife was in
England in body on the morning of the
18th of October, her spirit surely stood
before me in New York in the moment
of the deadly peril that menaced me.
1t may be that to the subtle instinct and
strength of Il wife's holy love all things
are possible; but Alice surely saved my
life
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

WATCHING DEATH APPROACHING -
None of us know how we would act in
supreme moment of revealed fate.
Edgar Poe or Victor Hugo could not
have imagined form of death more
completely calculated to test the vic
tins fortitude than the terrible scene
which terminated the life of one John
Conlon, at Norwich, last Friday night.
Conlon, who was pistol maker in that
city, was walking on the railway track
at Norwich Falls, at point where
there is double switch, and accident
ly had one foot caught in frog" in
such way that he was unable to ex-
tricate it. A northern bound train was
coming at full speed, aid Conlon, FIND
ing himself unable to escape his doom,
half turned, in his chained position,
and faced the engine LITERALLY an en-
CINE of DEATH in a defiant way, and
almost smiled as it struck him. His
body was frightfully mangled-almost
literally torn to pieces under the re-
morseless wheels and when picked up
it presented horrible sight. A part
of his clothing. in which was his revol-
yer, was torn from him by the engine
and carried to Williamantic before it
was discovered Hartford (Ct.) Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

WATCHING ONE s-sELF.- When l
was a boy" said an old man, Eve had
a schoolmaster who had an odd way of
catching idle boys. One day he called
out to us:
boys, must have closer attention
to your books. The first one that sees
another idle, want him to inform me,
and | will attend to the case
All" thought I to myself, there is
Joe Simmons that | don't like. I'll
watch him, and if see him look off
his book, I'll tell" 1t was not long
before l saw Joe look off his book, and
Immediately l informed the master.
Indeed" said he; chow do you
know he was idle?'
Il saw him." l said.
You did? and we're your eyes on
your book when you saw him."
was caught, and never watched for
idle boys again.
If we are sufficiently watchful over
our own conduct, we shall have no
time TO find fault with the conduct of
others.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18
Wit and HunOr.
Parts Of speech-The lips.

dIiS 81 speech i ne lips.
Best time on record-Lunch time.
He had brought her the very things
She wanted from the supper table to
her safe retreat IN the stairs. AMI She
was moved TO say, half laugLingly,
~ on are Il man after my own heart. Mr..
d Just what am after, - lie an
swered, quick as Hash. covering her
with confusion.
Sound, said the schoolmastcr, lis
what you hear. For instance, YOU can
not feel a sound. "Oh. yes. YOU cam"
said smart boy. John Wilson, re-
torted the peiaPoGue. chow do YOU
make that out? What sound can YOU
feel Z" a sound thrashing." quickly
replied the smart boy.-Nec FORK 1ri-
Juhe.
The unhappiest visitor in the White
Mountains is New Jersey man. who
has come up 10 look ut some laud-3J0
acres, for which lie traded last spring
very fine colt. The trade was made on
the Jersey flats. and the Jerseynan had
never been TO the mountains. He tells
the story pathetictlly. and ends with,
stranger, that 35oacres is little more
than perpendicular" - Boston True
script
Just before the public schools in
New Haven closed for the vacation, a
lady teacher in one of the depart ments
gave out the word fob" for her class
to spell. After it was spelled, rs was
her custom, she asked the meaning of
it. No one knew. The teacher then
told the class she had one. and was the
only person in the room that did. AZ
ter little while hanI went hest
tatingly up. Teacher--"Well. what is
it?. Please, ma am, it's beau. --Du.-
bury Ners.
A HARD CAsE.--Enter young hus-
band, who throws himself into II chair,
and exclaims: What! toOthache again.
Maria do call that hard upon fell
ler Why, you had toothache when l
LEFT tins morning! And here have l
been at Epson all day, with the lolliest
lot o fellers ever get together III one
drag and won pot o money. and had
no end Of n jolly time, and | did think
| should find something cheerful and
jolly to greet Teller when l got home!
And there You are ,-toothache againi
| do call it hard upon afeller-precious
hard !'--Pu,ch.
HYGIENE ExcEssEs. Smith. $50
you've given up wine and bacca,
Brown" Brown: Yes, horses and
dogs do very well without stimulants;
and why shouldn't we?' Jones fat
mani: "Ah!-I go farther. I've given
up everything but rice. Look at the
hippopotamus How healthy he is, in
spite of its sizel' Robinson: Matter
of taste. Lions and tigers are more IN
my Incl I've given up everything but
raw meat once every twenty-four hours,
and kill it myself I'm going to give
up clothes next month-so's my wife !"
Smith: "Tell you what it is, Brown!
I've good mind to go in for that kind
OF thing myself, and give up every
thing but ttlesv-Punch.
The number Of seeds in one pound
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

The plough tears up the tawny land,
And burrows follow where it goes;
The sewer at the seed-time strows
The grain therein with lavish hand.
Thick springs the golden wheat, and like
Stand i'll tie field each haum and spike,
A. dismal days that know no change.
Yet in the midst strange, fair flower is
blooming.
An alien seed was in the grain
The sower sowcd. and thrive amain
Leaf. thorn, and lower.cup fair and
strange.
Of life, Time burrows up the land;
We follow-ea lis own path goes:
Scarce one finds in the grain he strows
One seed Of love from Gods own hand.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

as the doctor in 2" asked an anxious
looking young man, as he paused half
way up the stairway leading to DR..
Stones office, yesterday. mo, guess
not replied the person addressed,
"but you can leave an order on the
slate" The young man hesitated mo
ment. well, l guess l would hardly
have time to wait" he said. as it a
very urgent case?" well, yes the
young man said, "rather urgent,
think. Just as l started away from
home my youngest brother WAS falling
out of second story window"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

ARrEMUs WARD DYING DAYS The
paragraph relating to Charles F..
Browne (Artemus Ward) printed from
Srbuer'S .Nayaeine in yesterdays Tri-
j,te, has elected a note from cores
pondent, who says that during recent
visit to London lie occupied III Craven
street t.e same rooms which We're
Brownies during his stay in that city.
Artemus was spoken OF kindly by every
body in the house, and the landlady
was never weary of descanting upon
his atfability ana humorous talk She
said, speaking from personal observa-
ton. that his popularity in the best
social circles of London was something
uncommon, and that she had never
had so many carriages with coronets
on the panels at her door before or
since. Yet this success came slowly
the first nights of the lectures were
failures; but soon there was such a
rush to Egyptian Hall that it was next
to impossible to get in if one was at all
late. Poor Browne Was even then dy-
ing of consumption, and was only kept
alive by stimulants constantly admin
istered to him during the night by his
servant--N. Y. Iribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church last year gave s29 26O for home
missions, or $500 more than was given
by all the Presbyterians in Ohio, Indi.
ana, Illinois and Iowa.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

VEAL BRoTH.-Stew a small knuckle
in about three quarts Of water, two
ounces Of rice. . little salt and blade
of mace till the liquor is half wasted
away.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18
WOman'S Inconsistency.

We do not assert that woman is abso-
lutely fixed in her love loyalty; but she
is such compared to men. Were she Il
hundred times less stable than she is,
he might we'll honor her in that AS his
infinite superior. Love to her means
loyalty, dedication. She is liable to
deceive herself--she is far more liable to
be deceived. But when she gives with
ont reserve or stint the wealth of Ter
affection, she plays the prodigal to the
last. unless his conduct stlrs her to
count the cost. The law of her being
is not to swerve where her heart J. ads
the way. nor will she, save eXcepl."n-
ally. Too often, however, her fat tuI
heart is driven back 10y him who sum
moned it from the tirst-driven back by
neglect and Indifference, rejection
and to shield himself, he calls his
GOODNESS or his cruelty her i'll
consistency. He is industrious in
finding faults in her that will exc Use
his own. He says she is tickle-iucon
slant. She cannot comprehend no" or
why she is so, though she has not she
boldness to dissent from what she hears
on every hand. She discovers in him
extraordinary lapses from loyalty, VIC
lated pledges, sundered ties. These are
not natural to her; but as she, her teach
ers say, was born inconstant, he cannot
be so, surely. Her divergence from
him helps her in her uprighteous self
condemnation. Her looking at herself
through his eyes draws his defects
and exaggerates her own. He is
her CONSIDER and casuist. He always
pits her in the wrong. and graciously
pardops her for the sin he has himself
committed. No marvel her logic is
perplexed, and her ethics are Devil
dered. For such is mans power over
woman.-Lady's Joyual.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-18

The number Of seeds in one pound
Of barley is IL, 400
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
The Cunning of the Fox.

Many curious anecdotes are told of the
craft of the fox, some of which are, no
doubt, apocryphal, but others, doubtless,
true. Naturalists assert that it has been
frequently authenticated that the fox has
counterfeited death to escape capture.
L have been told story of this kind
within few days by person who claims
that he was eye witness of the affair.
Some fishermen on the West coast of
Ireland were in the habit of going to a
small island, a few hundred yards from
the main land, in quest of bait The
island was inhabited by large numbers
of rabbits and could be reached at low
tide by wading, the water then being
only a few inches deep. One morning
they went in their boat quite early, it be-
ing high tide, and on landing saw dead
fox lying on the beach. The fur of the
animal was all bedraggled and he seemed
remarking that his skin was worth some
thing pitched him into the boat
Procuring their bait they returned to
the main land, ard the man who had
possessed himself of the fox seized him
by the tail and flung him on shore. As
soon as the animal struck the beach he
picked himself up with considerable
agility for dead fox, and shot off like q
flash up among the cliffs, while the men
stood staring at,each other in mute as
tonishment. The men concluded that
he had crossed over to the island during
the night when the tide was low, in
search of rabbits, and finding in the
morning that he was cut off from the
mainland. counterfeited death with the
expectation of thereby procuring pass,
age to the shore in the boat, an expecta,
ton which was fully realized. Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Decorative Art.

The one unfortunate thing in house
decoration nowadays, in the opinion of
Mr.. r. W. Eds, is the everlasting seek
ing after some novelty in papers, cur
tains, or other hangings. Everybody
wants to have a room different from their
neighbor. Decoration is being done as
a fashion, not from any real love for it.
OF course, we should not like to see room
after room repeating itself in decoration,
but why few really good papers should
not be the groundwork of true artistic
decoration = when the narrowness of
worldly circumstances prevents the more
elaborate and more extensive hand deco
ration in paint or distemper-and let the
rest follow from the design, there is no
good reason. If that suggestion should
be adopted there might be hope for real
art decoration instead of the cold formal
ity and everlasting interchange of two or
three colors. As critical writer on art
decoration has said: eff the papers on
our walls and the curtains we hang in our
rooms were, even at secondhand, but
the record of the fresh impressions and
the graceful fancies of artists of our own
day instead of being, encountered with
mechanical pattern work struggling to
be artistic, it would be better than all
the present miserable striving after nov
city," Not to have what your neighbor
possesses is the bane of decorative art
NetU York Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
A VERY SAD AFFAIR.
The Young Man who Was Ambushed by
syringe.

A Rockland young man was courtinga a
fat girl at the North End and had pro-
gressed very favorably with his suit.
One evening he dressed up in his best
clothes, carefully combed his hair, and
started out tomake his tri-weekly visit to
his fair one, who is waiting in her parlor
with fond expectation in her heart, and a
cold in her head, superinduced by the
fuctuating weather. This was, as you
might say, the prologue to the tragedy.
1t appears, moreover, that the fat girls
father-who is worth many thousands of
dollars in good, sensible bonds, and as a
consequence is an object of the young
mans tender regard-had for several
nights previous been the victim of some
unknown miscreant who had raided on
his hen pen with disastrous effect. Sick
of such foolishness, he had prepared
ghastly retribution for the fowl villains,
and to this end he filled big garden
syringe with about gallon of ancient
beef brine, seasoned with garlic and
favored with asafetida, and was lying
in ambush behind box, where he could
sweep every approach to the hennery.
The young man who is pretty well ac-
.quainted with the whole family, thought
he would surprise his girl by entering the
house Unexpectedly by the back way.
This is the situation:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
A Good Chance for Solitude.

Far out in the Atlantic, 1S4 miles very
nearly due west of st. Kilda, and 290
miles from the nearest part of the main
land of Scotland, there is granite stack,
which rises to height of seventy feet
above the sea, and at distance has been
mistaken for q vessel under sail. The
upper part is inhabited by vast numbers
of sea fowl. The name of the stack is
Rockall. The great sand bank from
which it rises abounds with cod. For
nearly two years q man, through the
columns of the London Spectator, has
been calling the attention. of various
scientific societies and individuals to the
suitability of Rockall for a meteorologi-
cal station, and has been offering, under
certain conditions, to reside there alone
for twelve month, and take a series of
observations. With foundation of sew
enty feet above the sea, or even less, he
SAYS, there would beno difficulty i'll fixing
q house upon Rockall that would laugh
at the wind and spray. One chamber
would do, and it could be made of stout
timber locked to ringbolts, or to be built
of concrete. If connected by telegraph
to the main land, Rockall would, this
person thinks, be an agreeable residence;
and even in its isolated state it would be
endurable enough if the occupant were
cheered by the reflection that he was a
pioneer in noble cause. A little money
would be well spent in trying to make
storm warnings more reliable than they
have been of late. Besides meteorologi-
cal observations, an observer posted on
Rockall might, if properly instructed, be
able to throw a little light on oceanic
circulation, temperature, &c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Learning to Read.

A young man of Trinity College, Dub
lin, was by an apoplectic attack deprived
of the power of speaking intelllgently.
He was treated as a foreigner at the ho-
tel where he stopped, and when he went
to call ON friend he could not make his
Wishes known. He comprehended every
word that was said to him; could read
intelligently and express his thoughts
fluently in writing. He wrote correct
answers to historical questions and trans
lated Latin accurately; but could not re-
peat words after another person. The
following sentence having been placed
before him, he was asked to read it
aloud: cit shall be in the power of the
college to examine or not examine any
icentiate previous to his admission to a
fellowship, as they shall think fiji" He
read as follows: "And the be what in
the temother of the trorhotodoo to ma
jorum or that emibrate eni enikastrai
mestreit to ketra totombreidei to RI
pomtreido as that kekritest." The same
passage was presented to him few days
afterwards and he read it as follows:
"Be mother, be in the handreit of the
compestret to samtreiss amtreit emtreido
and temtreido mestreiterso to his eftreido
tum bried renderiso of deid dat dit des
trest." He generally knew that he spoke
incorrectly although he was quite unable
to remedy the defect. After the expira-
tion of eight months he was SO far i'm
proved that he was able to repeat the
same bylaw after the doctor as follows:
cit may be in the prier of the college to
erharine or not ariatin any icentiate Sc
riously to his admission to q spolowship
as they shall see fit" He subsequently
learned to pronounce it correctly, with
the exception of the word power, which
he always pronounced prier.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Is +" Damno an Oath?

"Damn," as q noun subStantlative, Is
an old regular word, used frequently in
English writer's down to the first part of
the seventeenth century. We do not see
why so ponderous a word has been
dropped by photographers. In some
places, as, if we speak of how original
sin lies heavy on us, it seems most ap-
propriate word. eve inherit, with
Adams nature, the damn cleaving to it !"
This use of the word came down to our
American grandfathers, and lasted even
till the.time when the Continental cur
rency" was "dead loss" So came the
expression: "Not worth a Continental
damn" or "dead loss." And for short:
"Not worth a damn or bit of paper
that was dead loss ! 1t is not to the
credit of our American photographers
that they have not recognized this origin
of a phrase peculiarly American, and
that, if "slang" at first, having basis
in fact, like countless number of other
words, has been enrolled as factor in
our accepted language-as gerryman-
der" has been. The people did better
than their writer's of primers, grammars
and dictionaries. They kept the old
words. Damn means loss-Gn Ameri-
can parlance, as above, worthless
scrip. Damnable, for its general mean
ing, signifies "worthy of severe cen
sure" Only when used in q theological
connection does it imply what Puritans
suppose. 1t most certainly is not
swearing" And, except by the impo-
sition of Puritan Specification, it is not
cursing! And yet we remember hearing
people, using phrase whose history
they knew not, say 81 do not care a
cuss meaning a curse Freenaan's
Journal (CdthoLic.) Neo0 York.