Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1899-01-05

Are your New Year resolutions still un-
broken!
Chicken thieves relieved Mr.. George w .
Freezes coop Of seventeen birds on Christ.
mas Eve.
Measles are prevailing here, the families Of
Nelson Wilhlde and Morris Rouzer being
specially afflicted.
Monday last witnessed the departure Of hol-
iday visitors to Thurmont;it looked as though
a full carload boarded the Fast Mali east in
the evening. -
Mr.. William Fraley, q former resident,
now living in Clearfeld, Pa, visited friends
here last week. 1t was his first return in
twelve years.
Read this you can; it can be read and it
makes rhyme: neutrality-suspicious..
Here is another stanza of four lines:
UOa 0 and 0 U, . no but o me;
o let not my 0 60. But give 90 10 Usc.
Mrs. John Landers leaves today on very
pleasant trip: she will visit her sons Lieut..
Landers at West Point, and Charles at Yale
College and her daughter Fannie at the New
England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
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1t was abnormally warm here on Friday
afternoon last, the thermometer rising to So
degrees. Between that and 10 degrees be-
low on Monday morning was difference of
GO degrees within almsst exactly that many
hours.
The latest swiadle going the rounds is
fellow with supply of Lima beans saturated
with oil of cinnamon, which he sells at 10
cents each, with the story that his brother
brought quantity from Manila, and that
they are sure protection against moth.
How 1T WoRKs..-Recently very full &C.
count of an interesting event that took place
here, was sent away from home for pubica-
ton. 1t fell under our eye and having fin.
ished it's perusal, it occurred to US that we
bad noticed an unusual number of errors in
1t and to satisfy our curiosity we went care
fully over the item q second time. noting the
errors. They numbered twenty-five: that
will be invaluable to send to friends, or TO
file away as relic.
THE HOLIDAY WEEK DANCE in our Town
Hall on last Thursday night was most pro-
nounced success. The dance was attended
by parties from Baltimore City, Towson,
Frederick, Westminster, Emmitsburg and
Littlestswn. The music rendered by the
Frederick City Select Orchestra was praised
by all present The committee in charge
are to be congratulated as the dance has been
spoken of as the best ever held here and that
is high praise.
HERE Too.-From another item you will
learn that the insurance rates have been re-
adjusted in Carroll County, We respectfully
call lhe attention Of the local board ofunder.
writers, the Underwriters Association of
Frederick, that such readjustment Is not
only needed but demanded in this county.
Being ourselves member of that Association
We necessarily will be careful as regards
publicity, but in our capacity AS editor OF
this journal, we shall reserve to ourselves
the right to call attention to this matter
again and again. until certain defects in
rating aud classification have been remedied
ONCE AGAIN-Ons Of our leading citizens
said to us during tho past week that he
longed to see Thuimont in possession Of
Library and Reading Room.
This very desirable thing is being secured
by many towns at present; it seems to have
become during the past few years, one of the
most popular of the many desirable public
betterments and we refer to it hoping that it
may be lin the air" and that the time Is ripe
to Try it here In Thurmont
There are many here who have interested
themselves in this matter in the past; who
have given it some consideration. Among
them, are there not some who will send us Il
proposition for publication; if once it be
opened for public discussion, we may hope
that sufficient interest will be developed and
q working plan proposed that will end its
accomplishment. We ask, then, that in our
next issue we may have one or more COM
munications on this subject
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Every individual who lives to grow up
has in all probability asked, at some time In
his life, what becomes of the pins that ale
manufactured and lost An old gentleman
in London has prepared himself to answer
the question. BY series of experiments
conducted IN his back garden he has discov'
cred that they go the way of all flesh and are
resolved into dust. Hair pins, which he
watched for 1874 days, disappeared at the
end of that time, having been resolved into
a ferrous oxide, brownlsh rust, which was
blown away by the wind as it formed; bright
pins took nearly eighteen months to disap-
pear; polished steel needles nearly two years
and a half brass pins had but little endurance
and steel pins at the end of fifteen mouths
hod nearly gone, while their wooden holders
were still intact. Pencils. with which he
also experimental, suffered little by expos
ure; the lead was unframed and the cedar
almost as good as new, but, then, nobody
has ever asked the question about pencils,
and he might have spared himself his pains.
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