Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-01-01

The first family difficulty on record was
caused by an apple core: the last we heard
of was the negligence ola father to keep up
the supply of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup when
all hands had cold
TIE WEEK OF PRAYER will be observed
beginning on Sunday with exercises each
evening during the week at the Lutheran
church here. The topics as NAMED by the
Evangelical Alliance will be discussed.
During the past ten days our sidewalks
have been in the worst condition ever
known. They were caught by the slush
and sudden frost and have been icy or slushy
ever since and never in condition to he
easily cleared.
According to the Baltimore American A.
n,anac, man ls about four-tifths water: if St.
John had been elected every mothers son of
us would have been an icce during the late
cold snap. No wonder some men cvaporate
80 we know some people who certainly
manage to keep the proportion down, at
least One-half
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SocrABLE.-On Wednesday evening last
Miss Beth Firor entertained a bevy of her
friends at her fathers residence on Il. Main
street, and on the same evening Master
Henry johnson had social party of the
younger folks enjoy themselves with him
at his fathers residence on w. Main street
Both wero very pleasant meetings.
CALENDAR AND ALMANAC.-We received
last week the Baltimore 1merican Calendar
which is well up to it's usual point Of excel
lcnce 1t is beautiful and for reference,
hardy. 1t simply keeps pace with the Amer
ican, the nonpareii of Maryland newspapers.
The Almanac is, as we understand it, the
first issued from that Office. 1t is as rich in
information as is an egg in nutriment and
both in that respect and in artistic get-up
and finish rivals the best of those publica-
tons.
"Cincinati Pork Cincinnati Pork =" Why
Cincinnati Pork :? Because Ohio sork-rais
ers give there hogs Days Horse and Cattle
Powder every day in there swill, and they
are known to be healthy. Price 20 cents
per pound-package:
FRANKLINvILLE STORE ROBBED.-On
Tuesday night the store of Collitlowcr & Son
at Franklinvillc was robbed of goods to the
amount of 1926 or $50. The robbers eff.
fected an entrance by boring a hole through
one of the shutters on the front porch and
slipped bolt which held the shutters. The
goods stolen consisted Of boots, shoes, silk
handkerchieis, gum boots, and other yalua-
be goods. The robbery is supposed to have
been done between the hours of II and 2
o'clock, as they passed through the tolgatc
about the latter hour. They had two horses
which are said to have been stolen from a
Mr.. Valentine,
A COMMON ERRoR-The almanacs for
1888 having now been out a sufficient
length of time for ali to have secured the
valuable astronomical, meteorological and
other data, we find many newspapers i'll
forming their readers that during the year,
there will occur an Annual" eclipse Of the
sun Now it may readily thus be read and I'M
derstool BY such as are not sufficiently well
informed in such matters, the correct word
being so near that in form and used not
at all, scarcely, except in this one conncc-
ton 1t is not however an -1nnnM but an
Annular eclipse and although so like in form
they differ widely in meaning. In the first
place, there is properly speaking no such
thing as an Annual eclipse of the sun, al
though no year passes by without solar
eclipse. The word annular signifies ring
and an annuar eclipse is one in which the
entire surface of the sun is not hidden by the
moon, yet when the centre Of the moon
passes the centre Of the sun thus leaving a
ring or circle Of light. 1t may be of interest
to our readers to explain that the positions
of the sun and moon in Annular eclipses are
the same as when Total eclipscs of the sun
occur, bu, owing to the fact that the moon
is further from us, or the sun nearer TO us,
either or both, at the time OF annuIar eclpses,
the relative diameter Of the moon is not
equal to that of the sun and when these con-
tlitions are reversed, that is, the sun further
off or the moon nearer to us, either or both
then we have total eclipse Of the SUM-
While the eclipse of March 1G, 1880 will be
Al annular or ring eclipse as seen from some
4,l.~ ,,l
an appearance here but will appear only as
a partial eclipse, but portion of the moon
getting between us and the sun Whenyo
read hereafter ofan annual eclipse, you Will
remember that the writer intended or should
have written it annuar and that the phcn'
omenon is as above described and does not
occur yearly.
oM1rrf aHeS,