Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A man in Oxford, Indiana, was Bit
tan hy a rattlesnake seventeen years ago,
and is still taking whisky to cure the
bite.
A Miss Lucy Lee advertises in Mis-
sissinpi paper that she is of good birth
and education, and is willing to marry
an editor. believing herself able to sup
port one. go at-
Gsrritt Smith has purchased the only
tavern in Peterboro, New YORK, ana,
with the laudable design OF promoting
Temperance in the village, he mas turned
the bar-room into reading room.
Cvrus Dearborn.has held the Office of
nost-master in East Salisbury, Mass,
for forty wears. He celebrated his
eighty-fifth birthday by resigning It.
mammoth hog weighing 1,3ll
nounds reared in Holmes county, Will
he on exhibition at the Orrville Fair.
A perfect petrified seal was exhumed
lately from mine near Wadsworth, We
yada at point five thousand feet above
the level of the Pacific.
Anew Bedford (Mass.) lady is about
to leave for Oregon, to marry man VINO
advertised in the papers for wlie, ana
whom she has never seen, the couple
having been betrothed by mail.
A marriage ceremony was brought to
an abrupt termination at Kingston, ne"
York, last week, by sudden AWAKEN
ing of conscience on the part of the
bride, who declared that she had hus-
band still alive.
Arnold lady in Connecticut, who lost
her purse q shcrt time since at NeW
Haven, declared ON its being restored 10
her that she would not attempt to In
terfere with the reward which was
stored nm in Heaven for the finder, by
offering him money. A considerate
person that.
An Indian constable was sent to ar
rest a woman the other day. She SEEM
ed perfectly willing to go to jail, but de-
sired the officer to hold the baby while
e she went into an adjoining room to dress.
The soft hearted official has been wart-
ing for the return of his prisoner ever
since. - l.Ew'
A Boys CONVERSATIONAL youngster
required to write composition upon
some portion of the human body, select
ed that which unites the head to the
shoulders, and expanded as follows: "A
throat is convenient to bave, especially
to roosters and ministers. The former
eats corn, and crows with 1t; the latter
breaches through his'n, and then ties it
up. This is pretty much all which can
think-of about necks."
After much training of a yOungster to
keep him still at the table long enough
for 1.-THE blessing" be sat very quiet one
day, till, near the close of the service,
his mother beginning inwardly to con-
gratulate herself that for once he had
kept still, when he suddenly called out:
Oath do, Papa; pass plates now."
ssThere now,n said a little girl who
was rummaging in drawer, ''gran'pa
has gone to Heaven without his spec
tacles, am you must take 'em with you,
gran ma, when you 60"
An Ohio youth, who desired to wed
the object of his affection, had an in
terview with her paternal ancestor, in
which he stated that, although he had
no wealth worth speaking Of, vet he
was ''chuck full of days works" He
got the girl. s--.,ss-
WHAR's THE SKULEMARM?-The fol-
lowing notice. posted on the door of a
school house in a neighboring county,
indicates the necessity Of a skulemarm
in that locality:
"Loste or straid from the scryber, a
heffer, read all Overcome legge blak,
Haf his body white-all pursons to get
fore dollers for fetching him hoam. He
was she heffer.
County, febbury II, 1870"
Grant is paying the public debt at the
Il .l..V . 1,
Democrats repudiationists to this? Do
you still think tnever can be paid?
To Gieany Cafpets.-A few drops of
carbonate of ammonia in q small guam
tity of warm rain water. will prove a
safe and easy anti-acid, and will change
ifcarefully applied, discolored spots
upon carpets.
Better try it.-An excbage says: Any
lady who cultivates a rose in her APP
artments will fine, by planting an onion
in the spot, the fragrance of the rose
will beincreased a hundred per cent.
Why this is so is more than we can say,
but it is certainly fact.
An English wife abusing her husband
on account ofhis mercenary disposition,
told him that if she was..dead, he swould
marry TIE ueNll elu6St OduSuL6E lie
could get anything by it. "That's true,
replied the husband, "but in England
one can't marry two sisters"
A young girl of Schenectady has been
committed to the Troy Jail in default of
SO fine, for having promenaded through
the streets with a colored man.
Rev. S. J. Whitcomb advertises in a
L.
cottagen as the "place to have the mar
riage knot promptly and strongly tied."
parting is sweet pain," as the curly
headed fop said when he tried to part
his hair in the middle.
A Kentuckian wants $4,000 damages
from a newspaper which published a
first rate obituary notice Of him before he
was dead.
A paper in Wisconsin says that the
Board of Education in that State has re-
solved to erect building large enough
to accommodate five hundred Students,
three stories high.
Landlord" said traveller at the
table of country tavern, "this soup is
little weaker than J. am used to; /
WISH you'd just let that chicken of
yonrs wade through it once more if you
please .sasy
Free Blow.
Such advertising as this no one with
a bowel of mercy could think of charg-
ing for.
OFFICIAL BIZZNESS
Oni's ov Josh BILLINGS FARMERS(
ALMANAX for 1871. {
Nc Dear Editor: =
Sum men are born CRATE, sum git CRATE