Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-12-22
DRINKS.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

What is joy? A sunbeam between
two clouds.
Woman lost US one paradise, but
makes US another.
Have the courage to obey your Ma
ker, at the risk of being ridiculed by
man.
When we rise above our fellows, our
head is mark for missiles.
Woe to him who smiles not over a
cradle, and weeps not over a tomb.
OF all monarchs, Nature makes the
best laws, and is surest to punish their
violation.
God gives every bird its food, but
does not th.o ow it into the nest.
Murmur rot. Are ills reparable, It's
ungratelul; if remediless, tits vain.
josh Billings says Goldfish is as good
as an umbrella to keep one dry.
The bathing bellies at the watering
places are called dive-in-ities.
Mrs. Partington saws the starving
French may need plebiscuit-em be
fore long.
w - u lOluUSlOuC llhO .
dip? When it is set up for late hus-
band.
Strong passions are a tremendous
power when curbed and governed by
stronger reason.
An exchange says the latest style of
misses hats looks like a sardine box with
q brim around it.
could pay postage on home letter. His
salary was $50. half payable in provi-
siOns.
The discovery of q new species of hu-
man parasite, worse than trichina, is
cheerfulIy heralded from Illinois as
millions of headless, hexagonal devils
creeping through the flesh and crawling
among the bones"
Mr.. and Mrs. Samson, of Chicago,
filed erossbills for divorce. He testified
that she poured painful of boiling wat
er over his head, and then scraped the
hair off with sthe pan, he submitting
Ito see how far she would go.n
\ lifelong Democrat is said to have
left the meeting house on a recent Sab
bath, in the town where he resided,
because the minister made too frequent
use of the phrase, "Grsnt, we beseeeh
thee" He wouldn't stand it.
A sensible man found the biggest dia-
mond yet in South Africa. Refusing
an offer of $4,000 FIR it, he quit work
and started for England, satisfied with
what he has.
A pleasant incident occurred at .
wedding in the Universalist Church at
New Haven last week. AS the doors
ooo,,a,l 70 admit the bridal marty a
dove flew i'm and alie hted near the happy
couple. and remained as spectator of
the ceremony.
The GAINESVILLE Courier "comes out
strong" for Garfield as our best candi-
date for Governor next term. The Cir
cleville Herald wants Stanley Matthews.
Matthews probably wouldn't have IL IT
il was rendered TO him already packed
up and labeled complete.
a southern census-taker says: AS Tor
the ages of the negroes, that is almost
entirely a matter of conjecture. so lar
"a nv experience goes, ninetsen ont of
twenty can not tell within ten years
how old they are, nor are their parents
more accurate even with regard to their
yer young children. John was born
in cotton pickin' time, de year before
freedom struck de earth;' Jenny was
wo months old when Msssa Charlie
got wounded in de war; Sal was born
'bont de time massa built him new gin
honse.' Jim was horn in de Christmas
week of de year when de frost killed all
ie taturs Such are the data from
yhicb 10 collect the ages of children,
while the wears OF older persons are
matter of more uncertain conjecture.