Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10

examination of me, and find oaC VIA
ails me; for, really, L have het Vo suci
long discussion on the subject til al an
dying to know what my disease il my
self.n 1t was an Hibernian gentle. Hlai
who told friend who was studying "i
the ministry: 81 hope may live TO he a
you preach my funeral sermon" IL Wa
an Emerald Islander who, being askeu
to go on the deck Of vessel when she
was in danger of laundering, said, he
has no wish to see himself drowned. Ii
| was Michael OMulligan who remarked,
with much good sense, that "a man gets
a poor show who waits till he is kilt be-
| fore he acts Oh the defensive;;n and the
| following is found on an Irish tomb
stone: Here lies John Higley and his
wife -wAe-were drowned i'll their passage
from America. Had they both lived they
would have been buried here"
Samuel Ireland tells US OF the miraclt
of st. Dennis walking from Paris after
his decOllection with his head under his
arm, but makes the miracle still greater
10y his mode OF relating the story. He
says: During his perez rination he car
ried his head under his arm with much
GOODNESS and deliberation. and often
kissed it by the way"
| 1t was an Irishman who asked for the
| entrance out of the Boston Music Hall !;
who said, in reference to pair of boots ::
! BE jabers! l believe that L shall never
! get thin n till | wear them a day OF
twO;" who said that his son was so clever
! that he had just made two chairs and "a
| table out of his own head, and had
| plenty of wood left for another; WHO
| told his sweetheart that he thought so
much of her that he could not sleep for
| DRAINING nj xyhn hauinfr
married at nineteen, said he would
never marry again so young, if he liven
to the age of Methuselah; and who ex
claimed, on seeinga very small coffin: {:
by st. Dennis o. Sligo! is it po.sibl,
that that collin can be intended for am
| living cratherW
| 1t has been related that the Emerald
Isle has produced a physician who
being called to examine a man who hat
| been killed by neighbor, said, Oracu
larly, This persC was so ill that, if he
had not been murdered, he would have
died half an hour before;" an orator who
! becoming very angry at an Englishman,
replied: II will punch my fist through
your impenatrable head, and let the
brains out of your empty skull;' an edl-
tor, who wrote of the wrongs of his
| native isle, ''Her cup of misery has beel
| for ages overflowing, and is not yet FULL"
and discriminating historian, wht
stated that, in the first place
Ireland was divided into fOul
kingdoms then it was divided into three
Kingdoms, next into two kingdoms, and
finally, it was divided into one.
A Canadian paper, somewhat excited
on the Fenian question, some time ago.
stated that Fenian hook was found at
FHxrr in sol, Ia,
was sthe following toast: Here's to-.
Long may he live; may he live to see
chapels built ten miles long and seven
miles sbroad-built with Protestant bones,
thatched with minister's skulls, aQhite-
aOGsted aOitb their blood! and their back
bones for scrapers at the door,
But all the bulls are not Irish. Sir
Richard Steele is reported as having
suggested that the Irish habit of making
bulls was owing to the climate; and he
continued; 81 dare say, If an English
man sOds born in ireland, he would do
the same" DR.. w. H. Russell, the
/. famous Times correspondent, claims to
be an Englishman, though born in Ire
land: and / have seen it stated, but cali
not vouch for the fact, that, in one o
his letters from Egypt, describing the
tour of the Prince of Wales, the follow
ing sentence occurred: LAS there Were
no other asses to be found, the Duke o.
Sutherland, Coloucl Truesdale, Colonel
Marshal, and I, were obliged to trudge
on foot" 1t was an English lady who
desired to have her portrait painted with
a book in her hand, reading aloud, anu
her servant in a corner where he cOulo
not be seen, but would be within easy
call.
A Scottish professor in the University
of Edinburg was experimenting beforj
his pupils with some combustible sub
stances, and, as he was mixing them
they exploded, shattering the phial
which he held into fragments. He helu
up piece ofglass, and said very gravely,
Gentlemen, have made the expert
mentoften with this very same phial, and
never knew it to break in my hands be-
FORE" The following somewhat ambig- |
uous parapraph appeared in an Edinburg
paper: 1--WE regret to find that the an
nouncement of the death of Mr.. W
is maliciaus fabrication" 1t was the |
Mayor of a Portuguese city who one, |
enumerated, among the marks by which |
the body of drowned man might bt |
identified "a marked impediment in his
speech"
General Taylor was made ridiculous |
for time by the sentence which occur |
red near the beginning of his message |
to the 3lst Congress, December, 1919, a.
follows: I'VE are at peace with all tht |
world, and seek to maintain our cherish |
ed relations of amnity aUith the rest o. |
mankind" But Mr.. Buchanan aImosi
matched it in sspeech which he mad
in the South. in which he said: Il dc
believe, gentlemen. that mankind, as
aOeU as the people Of the United States, are
interested in the preservation OF the
Union;" and John G. Calhoun, in Com
menting upon the cause of the Declara-
tion of Independence, to the effect that
NIL men are created ennal remark inn |