Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

aim TO be odd. Uo no'
Happiness is not promised to the
learned, but to the good.
lie who pretends to be the nart;cp1.-
iriehd oil everybody, is nobody's.
why is life the greatest conumdruno
Because all must give it I'D.
Dying for love-CoIorinc vour mona
sache TO Please woman.
Drowning men will catch at strawsu
80 VIII drinking men.
:, a class opposed to legislation unon
abstract pr;neiples''-Pickpoekets.
Poetry is the flower of thought. ironv
the thorn; sarcasm, the nettIe: wit tbs
money; and punning, the small beer.
a man in Portland wanted to ps;,
admission TO panorama at half nr;oa
On tue ground that he had but one eve
An experienced old gentleman sav.
lna1 @ an Ihat IS necessary in the epiov-
ihei' oi love or sausage, is condolences.
SileAce IS the best remedy for anper
II you Say nothing, you will not have
anything TO unsay. -'''
Perhaps perseverance has bean tba
rauleai principle of every truly great
character. e'eA'
Noiage, who is single man ia ganer-
any considered honest, but he saws thers
iaEe peeh times when his fingers itched
a little fellow of q theological turn
was puzzled to see "how the devil
catle TO turn out so when there was no
o'her devil to put him up to it.n
"A shoemaker writes that he ia not
onl y willing to give woman her rights
out Her rights and lefts". That is njs
Aftera wedding it was formerly the
custonn 10 arlnk honey dissolved in wat
the origin of the honeymoon.
In St. Joseph, No., the other day. two
twin sisters played a game of 'seven up,'
Iof the hand of young farmer. and the
winner married the man within aweek.
a short-hand reporterofthe Washing
toh Gto6e can write with both hands st
tne same time-the left taking notes and
the right transcribing-andi is said tn he
me only man in the world who can do
this. '''A uo
A maiden lady died in Portland. last
Weeh, at tne age Of ninety-five years, on
he spot where she was born, and had
Hl"ayS IlVed throughout her long life.
Columbus Delano, the successor of
Secretary Cox. lssixty-One years old and
a native Of Vermont. but has resided at
nt. vernon, o., since he was eight years
On the accommodation train" Con.
your boy, mum? He is too
big Tor half ticket. Mother-Oh. i, hsP
perhaps he is now, mister; but he wasn't
when we started.
Josh Billing says" Mapv peonls
spend their tine trying to find the hole
where sin got in to the world, 1.-two
men break through the ice into a mill
ponu, they bad better hunt good hole
10 get out, rather tlan to get into a long
the hole they fell in"
Mothers used to provide switches for
their daughters from the nearest bush;
now the daughters get their own switch
es from the millincr.
Carrie" in the Boston Traveller, says
that, il women were as particular in the
choosing ola virtuous husband as men
are in the choosing of a virtuous wife, a
moral reformation would be soon begun.
a Tilted swain spitefully says: "Eve
did not know as much as her daughters
of the present age. had they been in
her place, instead of being deceived, they
would have deceived the Devil.
The Methodist Episcopal Church will
have but two great national camp meet
Ings next year. The first to commences
it Round Lake about ten miles from
Saratoga, New York, on the 4th day of
July, and the other on.the End. day of
Aaa ust, at Urbana, Ohio.
y late number of the Ohio Patriot
says: y young woman in Fairfield
.Ownsiilp, this county, equally ignorant,
and cruel, recently tied
'at fast TO a bed post, and cut out its
leart, which she stuck full of pins, as
charm to secure the affection of some
nan 20 whom she was attached.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, ,and forty-nine
,thers, publish card in Boston, appro-
ring the plan for 4 worlds congress of
women, TO be held in furtherance of the
,Tsat object of universal peace, and call
ng for Ia preliminary meeting in Boston
n initiation OF the proposed congress.
A ministerin Linn Go. who received
several sacks containg proyisiors during
he famine year, made himself pair Of
pants out of the sacks, as there wss fam
ne in clothes as well as in eatables. AS
le walked into the pulpit on the next
Sunday, the congregation read on the
seat" of his homemade pantaloons
shipped by 5. c. Pomeroy.".- [Ldlr-
'eace KS Journal.
Over $4,000 for conscience sake.
Treasurer Spinner reports this year the
ollOwing as the amount Of the cOnscien
und: Amount received from various
lerssns, from December, 1868, up to and
June 80, 1869, S1l3, ,901 81; and
Turing the fiscal year ending June 80,
SO, 5. .4O6 0S: total amount received af-
er Nov. 81, 1868, Sill, ,397. 81.
The French settlement of Adele'scat,
0akotah Territory, has curious origin.
\ party OF French emigrants were jour
leying up the Missouri river, when q
yet cat escaped from its mistress, Adele.
\ halt was made to catch the runaway
md the emisrants, struck with the adj
'antages of the situation, stopped and
ormed the new sediment.
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