The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-04-08

A FAMILY SCENE.-A gentleman deeply
engaged in study-and lady pretending to
knit, is pcrplexing him whith her questions.
Lady-in the drawing affectionate style
Ma deah! correctly speaking, what is dentist? !?
Gentleman-short, sharp and rather cross
Dentist is derived from "dent," French for
tooth. Dentist is man who pulls teeth out.
Lady-after knitting once round, in order to
give the gentleman time to become immersed
in his book again--Ma deah you said this
morning that Professor Musty was a good
inguist. Is not insuist derived from the
Latin "lingua" tongue?-Gen,eman (tartIy)
Yes. Lady--Wel, then, is lingust mau
who pulls tongues out! Gentleman (very
decidedly)--No madam, but wish to heaven
he did! Exit lady in huff.
THE Two LIvEs.-Beautiful is old age
beautiful is the slow-dropping mellow autumn
Of rich and glorious summer. In the old
man, nature has fulfilled her work; she loads
him with her blessings, she fills him with the
fruits of a wel:spent life, and surrounded by
his children and his children's children. she
rocks him softly away to grave to which he is
followed with blessings. God forbid that we
should not call it beautiful, but not the most
beautiful. There is another life, hard, rough,
and thorny; trodden with bleeding feet and
aching brow; the life Of which the cross is
the symbol; battle which no peace follows
this side of the grave, which the grave gapes
to finish before the victory is won, and
strange that it should be so--that is the high
est life of man. Look along the great names
of history; there is none whose life has been
other than this. .f..
New ORLEANS, Monday March, %, 1852
| A terrible steamboat disaster occurred in G al
weston Bay on the night of the 23d inst The
steamers Neptune and Farmer were racing
from Houston to Galveston, when the latter
exploded, killing the Captain, Clerk and sec
ond Engineer. Thirteen of the crew, anc
about twenty passengers, were also either
killed or missing, & twenty passengers mostly
ladies', were saved.
! 0yThe shipments of specie from New
York during the week ending last Saturday
amounted to $57,25O-making an aggr egat,
since the lst of January, of $2,262,S70
some EGGs.-The Xenia Torchlight tell
of hen owned at that place by Mr. Swee
! ney, which, in laying eggs, beats the famous
bird Of Old Grimes all hollow. "She is con
fined in common slat coop alone, and fed up
On the ofial of the table. From Sunday morn
ing till Friday evening, she laid the incredib!,
number Of sixteen eggs-laying some days TIVE
others three, and others again four. She IL
sualiy lays two in the morning without leuv
ing the nest, and hen either one or two il
the afternoon.
| RAILROAD AccIDENT.--An old man name,
Rodebaugh was killed on Sunday morning, al
Rodebsugh's Station, two miles on this sid
of Greensburgh, by passenger train on th
Central Road. MIR. Rodebaugh WIS standing
close to the track when the train came up,
the locomotive struck him on the head, crush
ing it horribly, and throwing him with sucl
force on the ground as to break his back il
two placees.-Pitts. Gas.
Belgium has recognized the independence,
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