The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-03-18

DIr. Deaver, in the North end OF Buncombe
has recently found a substance strongly re.
sembling, and believed by many to be the
pure diamond. At all events it will cut boti
glass and steele. He will no doubt have the
matter properly tested.
Papers, &C., from San Francisco, have ar.
rived in New York in eighteen DAYS. These
came by the new route from Acapulco to Ver0
Cruz. That will do till we get something
better, for which we shall not be required to
wait long. ... -
Miss Gould, the poetess, gives ludicrous
incident Of the "mistake of the press" in refer.
ence to poem she had sent to a country ed:
tor. She says:
"For the dew-drop that falls upon the fresh
y blown roses"
The nasty beast made it, from '.yrest,y Llopa
noses"
There is an editor-a confirmed old bach
who declines accepting wedding cake when
ne publishes marriage. He says it looks
IKE countenancIng ma;rimony.
"Oh my friend" said doctor TO an Irish pa
tient, "be composed-we must all die once. -
"An it's that what vexes me-" replied Pat, "if
could die half dozen times, I'd not care a
ha' penny about this time"
"There's our Gershom," said Mr. Shelton:
"he must go off to the city to make living
by his leits''
"Wel, how did he nuke out!" asked a
friend.
"Ah!"said the old man, with sigh, tapping
his forehead significantly, she failed for irant
Of capital'"
AN EDIroR's VAlADrcToRY.-The follow
ing is the valadictory Of political editor out
West:
"The undersigned retires from the editorial
chair with complete conviction that all is
vanity. From the hour he started his paper.
to the present time, he has been solicited 20
lie upon every given subject, and can't remem-
Der ever having told wholesome truth with
out diminishing his subscription list, or making
an enemy. Under these circumstances Of tri-
al, and having thorough contempt for him
self, he retires in order to recruit his moral
constitution"
In OLD VERMONT, time past, lived a queer
old man named Fuller. He had lost part of
his palate and was rare specimen. lie own
ed mill, the water to which was brought for
some distance through wooden tiume. One
morning an apprentice informed him that the
fiume was full of suckers. Fuller posted him
self at its mouth, placing against it large
basket to catch the suckers in, while the boy
went to the other end to hoist the gate. There
came "rush of many waters" carrying Full
ler and basket over the overshot wheel and
thirty feet below. All dripping he scrambled
out, sputtering, "you may think I'm an old idi-
OF, but ] aint quite such darned fool that |
| can't see through that joke!" Almost anybody
could.
Stow SKATEs.-Some of the No.wegians
who reside here use the Laplanl snow skates,
which are described in the school Biographies
These skates are strips of fsmooth wood, about
six feet long and three inches wide, and turn
ing up like sleigh runners before. The wear
er partly shutties along by moving alternately
his feet, and shOves himself behind at the
same time with u long staff. One of these
show skaters arrived in town last week from
Lake Superior, having Travelled at the rate of
eighty miles day.-M. Paul's (Minn.) Pio-
nesr, Feb. 3.