Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-08-25
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Boston disposes of dogs by hanging.
Great Britain takes her census next
year.
The hangman's .vegetable-art o.
choke.
Women work the telegraphs in Rus
sia.
How long does widow mourn? For
a second.
Why can't a girl swallow her apron?-
Because it goes against her stomach.
A Louisville thief has trained coon
which goes into houses and steals for
him.
Rosa Bonheur is painting a portrait
OF the favorite dog of the Emperor of
Russia.
Those who are most opposed to Chi
nese in this country have no objection
to yellow boys' in bank or in pocket.
The salary of two of the lady princi-
pals in the the st. Louis schools has
been raised to s., 900 the same as paid to
men.
The Gaulois says that Is per cent.
OF the French sick and wounded in the
Crimea died from the want of sufficient
succor. 500 81 l.---7'1 ;
Distilled water and sulphur will turn
gray hair back to its origional color. be
it black or brown, in the course of two
or three days ......
All the conductors on the Erie Rril-
road are married men. No single man
Is employed in that capacity.
Horace Maynard is to be renominated
lor Congress by the Republicans of the
Second tennessee District.
1t is estimated that the European war
Will cost each nation engaged from
thirty to fifty million dollars month.
The Dark Ages have come again in
Virginia. The Superintendent of the
State Penitentiary has restored the
whipping postin that institution.
A Hartford paper an nnounces that there
ls porter in one of the hotels in that
city who can read Holmes Iliad in the
Greek"
Some people who cannot get away to
oathe In the surf at Long Branch. COM
pensate themselves with mild drinks
enough to-make their heads swim.
,Ollivier's young and pretty wife COM
plains to the Empress that her husband
IS very mean in the matter of pin money
Ior nne clothes hence her plain ward
robe, and she demands redress.
An Irishman recently soliloquized:-
what waste of money to be buying
mate when you know the half of il is
oone, while you can spind it for whisky
that hasn't a bone in it.n
Robinson met Smith as he was going
ON board steamer on the Mississippi.
and asked: FF'
Which way, Smith-up or down?u
Ihat depends upon circumstances,u
remarked the latter, ''if I get q berth
over the boiler, I shall probably go up;
if in the cabin, down.
The late James T. Brady once re-
marked that his experience among eli
ents convinced him that mans wife is
his best lawyer.
Happiness grows at your own fire.
sides, and is not to be picked in stran-
gers gardens.
There is class of men ever ready to
pump you to any extent, if YOU oply
give them handle.
There is no one else who has the DOW
er 10 ne SO much your friend or so much
your enemy as yourself
A hypocrite may spin 80 fair thread
as to deceive his own eyes. He NAV ad-
mlre the cob-web, and not know himself
to be the spider.
The curious mon 1o.s about g.. ..e
his curiosity, but he will probably new
er travel far enough to find ANYTHING
more curious than himself.
He who would admonish Others. sho,d
ABOVE all things be careful of their repu-
-atlon and sense of shame. They who
nave cast of biushing are beyond amend
nent.
10 be happy, the passionsj must be
ana gay, not gloomy and mel
A propensity to hope and joy
8 real riches;i one to fear and sorrow.
zeal poverty.
Never seek to be intrustsd with your
rlend's secret, for, no matter how faith
ully you may keep it, you will be liable
n thousand contingencies to the sus-
'lclon of having betrayed it.
What is called ill-nature and want of
is very often nothing more
nan quick eye for the injustice and un-
CT others, and a G cetermi-
lation not to crafty it; not the desire to
ave ones own money or trouble.
DIR. Johnson, when in the fulness of
'ears and knowledge said: ''I never
axe up a newspaper without finding
omething would have deemed it a loss
lot tn haVa
ing from 1t instruction and amusement.
Since the death of Dickens a great
many people have come to the conclu-
ION that the best known and the least
cad of his novels-"The Tale of Two
his best, ..-.s--I
The man who was found dead in the
treets In Cincinnati the other day, and
Gho was supposed to have been sun
truck, was afterward found to have
cen struck by another man.
Americans are said to be the greatest
7earers of gloves of any nation in the
yorld.
They were 10000 people who commit.
ed suicide in France within five wears
fter the establishment of the present
imperial Government byi Louis Ma
oleon.
To complain that. there are no joys
'hile there is a single creature whom
'e can relieve by our bounty, assist by
ur councils, or enliven by our presence,
to lament loss of that which we DOS
ess, and is just as rational as to die of
lirst, with the cup in our hands.
A great man commonly dIsappoints
hose who visit him. They are on the
,ok out for his laundering and light
ing, and he speaks about common
lings much like other people; nav,
lmetimeS be may even ha saan iannh