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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

A true story is told of a skeptical
Massachusetts captain who, way back
i'll the early years Of the republic, de-
termined to exhibit the fallacy of tho
Friday superstition. He contracted
on certain Friday for the building
Of ship, and 1t was arranged that
the keel Of this vessel was laid on
Friday, that she was launched on a
Friday, named Friday, commenced
loading on q Friday and hauled into
the stream on The same day OF tho
week. To add to the possibilities Of
disaster. negro cook named Friday
was engaged and thus fully freighted
with the sinister maine. tLe Friday
sailed on Il Friday, bound to q port
in the West Indies. from that day
to this no tiliH - Of theill conditioned
craft have been received. -Harper's
Young People,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
I1 CURED HER HEADACHE.
An Occurrence That Made Everybody
Happy Except the Proprietor.

An Occurrence That Made Everybody
Happy Except the Proprietor.
The:pretty, plump, demure young
woman who occupies the cashiers
desk at a Nassau street luncheon
room sat ON her elevated perch and
rested her cheek in her hand. Her
forehead was network of fine lines.
and she had no appreciative smile for
the clerks and Office boys who had
come to believe lunch incomplete
without one, and they felt that they
had not had their dimes worth. She
raked in the small change as 1t was
rendered with a perfunctory air, and
one could see she took no pleasure IN
her duties. 1t was plain that she had
a severe headache and wanted moth
ing but quiet seclusion, a scent bottle
and an easy sofa. Men who had had
experience with women looked at her
and felt sorry for her.
One such was waiter, who, custom
being light at that hour, was sweep
ing among the chairs and leaving no
visible trace of his passage. He saw
the pretty cashier sitting there with
her face puckered up. He went over
to her and tried to cheer her with a
few words suitable to the occasion.
She merely nodded reply.
Lets see what I've got in my
pocket for YOU" said the waiter
adopting the tone one uses toward
child. He felt in the depths OF his
jacket pocket, and brought forth
small object. There! You can have
that to play with, said he. He laid
it down and went about his business.
She picked it up without the least
interest in the world and looked at 1t.
TWAS only common red firecracker,
and she had no use for it. She did
not even smile at the humor of the
gift. She finally thrust it on one of
the wooden toothpicks that stood III
a huge bunch before her. They were
tied about with a bright hued ribbon,
and the frecracker among them had
a certain decorative effect that held
her for moment. Then she turned
away again and nursed her headache.
A man with a twinkle in his eyes
came up and paid his reckoning. He
had a good light on his cigar, and he
touched the fuse of the firecracker
with it. The cashier did not even
look up at him as he passed by. He
went to corner and jinglel the
change in his pocket while he await
ed developments.
They were not long in coming.
With spiteful little bang the fire
cracker exploded, The toothpicks
flew in all directions. The cashier
and fourteen other girls screamed,
The proprietor rushed forth and ex-
claimed, I'D give fifty dollars to
know who did that" The waiter
heard him and got out Of sight. Then
things quoted down, ard the appren-
tice girl in the place was set to gath
ering up the toothpicks.
But the pretty cashier smoothed
down her hair, looked up with All I'M
cloudcd face and said, with a little
laugh:
We'll, it cured NY headache any
way New York Times.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
ManuscrIpts in the kairouin Library.

Manuscripts in the kairouin Library.
There can be no two opinions as to
the presence of very large number
of ancient manuscripts in the kai-
rouin library, and these volumes-a
creditable thing for the lazy and in
dolent Moors-are certainly the OBJ
jects of very great care. The trustees
of the Kairouln have a regular staff
of custodians chosen from the uni
versity professors and teachers, who
are charged with the safe keeping of
the books, and the cellars are annu-
ally inspected and the books repaired
when the necessity arises. l should
say that, bar accidents of fire in the
future, when the library is thrown
open the manuscripts will be found
in very fair state of preservation.
Upon another point my informants
all agreed. They said that in the
library there are quite a number of
books written in strange, unknown
tongues. Generally, my genial Thol-
ba friends asserted, they were writ
ten in Greek, but on my showing
them book in German they were
unanimously of opinion that this was
the language i'll which the volumes
were written. SO am forced to the
conclusion that any writing which is
not Arabic is Greek to the Fukies and
Tholba of ez.-Fortnightly Review
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
Timorousness of Notable Men.

The late Lord Derby earned the
title of the Rupert of Debate from
his dashing alacrity, but he declared,
"Whcn l am going TO speak my
throat and lips are as dry as those OF
a man who is going to be hanged. >
He never rose to speak without eX-
periencing Il peculiar and very I'M
pleasant nervous tremOr The same
is said of Lord Lyndhurst. That
eminent jurist and statesman was
totally unable to free himself, from
beginning to end Of his career, of
trepidation and nervous emotion
when he got upon his legs to address
either a court or parliament. Can
ming, too, told his friends that he
knew beforehand by disagrceable
set of symptoms, when he should
win and hold the ear of the house
ard eytort the admiration even Of
his adversalies. Hewas Away con-
scious of an oninOus chill OF fear.
1t meant not failure, as was his
dread, but Il fine Grafton. -Cassells
Journal
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
Newsy Gleanings.

Russia's peasants are again starving
The cold all over Europe has been
intense.
A Blk weeks drought IN Texas has
been broken.
Petroleum has been discovered at
Belleville, ILL.,
Chicago has at last established a milk
inspection bureau.
Nearly 100000 is owing to Texas
for lauds sold on credit.
New anthracite coal fields have been
discovered in Pennsylvania.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
News eslrHniTagS.

Cabinet crises are thicker in Europe
than even war rumors Just now.
Thousands of head of cattle are dying
from the drought in the Southwest.
The Mediterranean flour moth is
causing great damage among Pacific
Coast mills.
1t Is claimed that diamonds have
been found on Snake River near Boise
Idaho.
Bradstreet's trade summary reports
unexampled prosperity over almost the
entire country.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
why the Neighbors Changed.

Before the boy came we always
liked our neighbors very much in
deed, but that only shows how you
can be fooled, for if ever any people
threw off the sleeps covering from
their wolfish forms those people did
You never in your life saw the
amount of persecution they subjected
our boy to. They not only allowed
their children to fight him and throw
sand in his eyes all for nothing for
he told us SOY, but they told the most
malicious falsehoods on him up and
down the street.
They said that he fou4 hl every boy
in the neighborhood, chunaed their
chickens and sauced their reverend
selves. Made him out real bad
boy. The idea! And his own grand
mother says that he is the best boy
in the world, and she knows good
children, for she raised us.
There is nothing like keeping out
of bad company, so we moved OH
that street. We got from the frying
pan into the fire. The people we
went among were worse than the
ones we left, and we hadn't been
there six days before they fell upon
that poor little boy of ours like SO
many harpies.
And so it has continued and right
now we wouldn't be speaking to that
little sandy haired women, who lives
visa Wis to us if it were not that we
are trying to cultivate spirit of
Christian forbearance.- Philadelphia
Times
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
A Girl with Presence of Mind.

An exchange speaks of a twelve
year-old girl, being struck by pas
senger train and knocked off the
right of way over wire fence, and
that she picked herself up in time to
flirt with the passengers in the last
coach. Some girls never lose their
presence of mind under the most try
ing circumstances
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
A Dilemma.

Wife-It's raining, and Mrs. Good
soul wants to so home. l have no
umbrella to lend her except my new
ten dollar one. Can't you lend her
yours
Husband-Great Scott. The only
one have has her husbands name
on the handle. -Harper's Bazaar.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
Feminine Superstition In Germany.

Young ladies Of Germany have
superstition that if they bury drop
of their blood under a rosebush it
will ever after insure the expert
menter a pair of rosy cheeks
Sprin pfield Union
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
UNDERGROUND Streams.

It is we'll known that vast guam
tity Of water exists beneath the sur
face of the ground, and that even
considerable streams are flowing
there. Mr.. Baldwin Latham has
called attention in England to a
very interesting method Of tracing
the courses of these underground
streams.
At certain seasons, especially In
September and October, peculiar
lines of fog may be observed close to
the ground, and he says these indi-
cate where streams of water are
flowing at a considerable depth be-
meath the surface. During the
greater part of the year some of the
strata between the surface OF the
earth and the underground water
are sufficiently cold to condense the
vapor arising from the water and
thus prevent it's appearance at the
surface. But in the autumn the SOIL
is frequently warmed so deeply that
no condensing stratum OF cold exists,
and then the vapor reaching the sur
face forms lines of fog following the
course of the concealed streams OF
water underneath.
It is suggested that here is an,
other of those curious provisions OF
nature which benefit the living
forms inhabiting the earth, for the
vapor which proceeds from streams
deep underground, being ordinarily
condensed not far under the surface,
NAV serve to sustain the life OF
plants during seasons of drought.
Mr.. Latham thinks that this Is the
case on the great chalk downs or
England. Companion.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. 3j.-G7 acres Of land 5 miles Yves,
of Emmittshurg and miles from NahllIas-
vile. improvements good. 1000 poa' h, 100
appla and 80 K cfrr and Bartlett pear trees
and vineyard. Also 4G acres Of timber land
well set ID oak, poplar and locust Conven-
lent to r. T. Station. Price farms 500.
timber tract $40 per acre
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. 31.-A farm of no acres, It miles
from Emmtsburg; IS acres arabic, balance
in timber, excellent walnu, and poplar 200
aprle trees in full hearing: Improvements
rood Price, $4,000.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05
WV ~
$4,000.

No. 33.-A drsiTaNIc mil NFOptIIv IN
Carroll county. ) miles south o: New Wind
so-, story mill, saw mil, excellent water
power, 4S acres Jf land 5acres timber young
orchard, 9 story brick dwelling with back
building, bank barn, never failing spring of
water, all necessary outbuidings, This
property is IN a thriving nciehborhooa ard
has nm excellent local trade, no mills for sew.
eral mics to She east, south, or west. This
property is worthy the attention OF buyers,
and will he sold at one Of the greatest bar
gains in Md real estate to day.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. E6,-A house and lot IN Mrchan-
icstuwn IN excellent location for business; u
store room and residence III same building,
Price 5000.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

NO2@. The entire plant Of q country
new -papcr and printing office, with c>lah-
lishcd business. Large patronage. WIZ BE-
sold al !; great narG4n.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. ETA stock Of general mcrchan
disc, consisting Of dry goods. notions, grocer,
ira, &c, in Il prosperous town, n gonu
store room centrally located and at fair
rent Stock specially cared for ana well Sc
lec,td. WIZ sell entire stock at cost, Spec
lal ptices ON remnants and shop worn goods.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. ga brick dwelling, stortro"m
and acrrol hand in n Frederick County
town. The build,ng contains II rooms there
is a good bank barn and other outbulliings
1t is located in fine farming community
and should readily attract buyers. Price
SR TnN
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. 3S.-A house end 10, on Watrr.st
Techanic>town. Large frame dwelling and
necessary outuuidlngs. Price, 1880.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-05

No. 37.-A house and lot on Main 81
Mcchanicstown double lot and new frame
dwelling. Price, $1,000.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24
The Trotting Or.

Next to the elephant in general useful
ness we should be inclined to place the
"trotting OK of India. CAN Indian oxen
can be trained to trot,' says Mr.. Lock
wood Kipling. "The sloping quarter and
straight hook may possibly account for
something in their more horselike gait
One of the first things to strike a stranger
is the hurrying OK" The rekla, light,
two wheeled cart drawn by pair of OK
en-, cheap, speedy aud convenient, is the
hanson cab of the natives of Bombay.
All through the Mahratta country the
OK is the common draft animal, differing
in speed and size according to the work
for which he is required. Cattle of the Ma
gore breed, used by rich men to draw
their state carriages, used to be kept near
Delhi for carrying dispatches. Mr.. You
att was informed that they would travel
with soldier on their back Is OF 10 miles
in the day at the rate of miles an hour.
The Nagore cattle have none Of the
awkward swinging motion of the legs Of
the English COW. They bring their hind
legs under them in as straight a line as
the horse. "They are very active" con-
tinues Mr. Youatt, land can clear five
barred gate with the greatest ease" One
owner possessed calf which would jump
an iron railing higher than II gate, and Il
bull which would leap the same railing to
go to water and having drunk leap back
again-IlOndon Spectator.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24

A club in Russian town is composed
of 125 families that employs, at n cost of
so cents IA month to each family, a physi-
clan, who visits the households at stated
intervals to look after the health Of their
members If his advice and watchfulness
do not keep them well, he attends them
without further charge, through any i'll
ness.
In this time of increasing tendency to
ward specialties in the profession of medi-
cine and surgery it is difficult to think
that such system will ever prevail here
in America to any great extent, yet New
York physician was heard to remark not
long ago that he considered this the only
rational way to practice the healing art
and thought that future generations would
see it universally established. Undoubted-
~ more illnesses can be prevented than
cured, and to have an authority inquiring
regularly into the food, bathing and rest
ing habits of the family would be vslu-
able stopcock to much costly imprudence.
New York Times.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24

The origin of the best strain of Arabian
blood has been related by some romancer.
While Mehammed was fighting his way
to greatness he was once compelled to lead
his corps of 200 cavalry for three days
without drop of water. AT last from a
hill top they deserted the silver streak of n
distant river. Mohammed ordered his
trumpeter to blow the call to dis1nount
and loose the horses. The poor brutes,
starving for water, at once sprang into a
mad gallop toward the longed for goal.
No sooner loosened than came the alarm
false, as it happened-of a sudden am
BUSH ITO horse was blown and re-
peatea by a hundred bugles. But the
demand was too great. The parshed
threats were not to be refused. The STAN
pede grew wilder and wilder as &c, 00s
steeds pushed desperately for the liver
banks.
0f.aH the frantic crowd but five mares
responded to the eaH. To these duty was
higher than suffering. They turned in
their tracks, came brave1y back, pleading
in their eyes and anguish in their sunken
tanks, and stood before the prophet. Love
for their master and - sense of obedience
had conquered their distress, but their
bloodshot eyes told Of fearful torment
the more pathetic for their dumbness.
The danger was over. The faithful mares
were at once released, bat Mohammed Sc
lected these five for his own use, and they
were the dams Of one of the great races of
the desert. From them have sprung the
best of Arabian steeds. 1t can, however,
scarcely be claimed that the average horse
of the orient comes up to this ideal. He
must have been bred from the 10, 995.-
Harper's Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24

The newspaper for which intelligent
men are crying out will not be illustrated,
except for few cuts Of diagrams, sketch
maps and other necessary adjuncts to the
text. The experiment Of making daily
picture papers has been fairly tried, and
it has proved a failure. The illustrations
do not illustrate, and they are unsightly
in the extreme. 1t is not proba BILE that any
satisfactory process of illustration will
ever be adapted to the rapid methods of
newspaper printing. The sensational head
lines of the current newspapers, defiant
of both taste and grammar, will depart
with the pictures to the limbo wherein are
to BIO gathered all the unhallowed devices
of the barbarous age Of journalism.
The offensive type of interviewer will
have to go, and he who violates the pri-
vacies of life in less frank and nblushing
ways, and with them will go the jargon
called "reportorial'' English-thus fifty
styled in its own base dialect. The report
Ell, indeed, who writes for the reformed
newspa per will be scholar-which now
he is not often-and a gentleman-which
now he is frequently not permitted to be.
w. NJ. Payne in Forum.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24

would say to those abont to visit Wa
terloo don't, but if you will, then go by
rail and omnibus, take field glass and a
plan Of the battle, climb the mound and
study the country from tho top of it. En-
ploy no guide and resist all temptations to
purchase Waterloo relics made last year,
or photographs, which can be obtained
both better and cheaper in Brussels.
The constant flow of English visitors to
the field gives to foreigners, especially the
Belgians, an idea that Waterloo was the
only really big battle In which British
troops ever fought and beat the French,
and in histories used by Belgian school
children they are taught to believe that
the victory was mainly owing to the prod
igies of valor shown by the Belgian troops.
In Germany the victory is claimed for
the Prussians, and no two accounts of the
fight agree even as to the hour when the
first shot was fired. The Germans speak
Of the fight as the battle of ST. Lambert,
the French call it Mont st. Jean, and why
we call it the battle of Waterloo is one OF
those problems which, fear, will never
be solved.-Sotes and Queries.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24

The oantonment at an Indian town
means the place where the English live.
The native town is usually inclosed by
high walls and accessible only by a few
gates. 1t is brimful of people, who crowd
it's bazaars or shop streets. Quite out
side the town and mile or two away is
the cantonment, an unwalled district,
where each house stands in its own in
closure, or compound, and where the reg
iments, British or native, are quartered
in "lines" or rows of huts.
The cantonment usually has wide, well
kept roads, with grassy margin and av-
enues Of fine trees, giving it the appear
ance of a great park. The English visit
or, If he stays with friends, might be a
week without seeing the native town at
ALL unless his curiosity prompted an ex-
cursion in search of it. There is always
in the cantonment a club, with ladies'
wing-unless the ladies have a gymkhana
or club of their own--and besides the va
rious parade grounds, polo ground or
tennis court, so that visitor bent only
on amusement has plenty of resources
Nineteenth Century.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24
Leadville Has No Cats.

During a recent visit to Leadville /
learned that cats, with a wonderful sagae-
ity, will not even make the attempt to be
come acclinated there. The altitude Is
too great ter feline lungs TO cope with.
Instinct warns them of this fact, and when
strangers bring their pet eats to the rni2-
ing metropolis the animals quietly take
matters in their own hands by walking
down the mountain until the same ia
stinct which warned them to flee tells them
they have reached an altitude in which
they can breathe.-kate Fields Washing
ton
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24
Carried the Ball Twenty-nfne Years

Andy Costen, citizen of Wise county,
Tex, was showing a mimic ball at Deca-
tur recently that he had taken out of his
head. Mr.. Costen was wounded in 1864
on retreat from Dalton to Atlanta, Ca,
under the command Of Joseph E. John
ston, Frank Cheatham's division, in the
Fifteenth Tennessee regiment. The ball
entered just above the right eye and lodged
in his right jaw and since the wound heal
ed has never panied him until recently,
when a physician examined it, which re-
suited in the physicians extracting it from
the place where 1t had been 90 years. The
ball weighs 497 grains and has Its original
shape.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.