Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-16
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promises better things she soaks them
in warm water and restores his vision.
Texas celebrated her t.silver wed.
ding, u" February 16. She had then
been twenty-five years admitted to the
Union. - s11iS-o1 ..l--sS-.J -l-ll8
IA young CHAD ofFerfe Hante II about
to swriteia book on r"What IqEhow
ABOUT Soarting.3 -,z.-45.lE ei-l 81
A beautiful little. paaiden in NASH
vile discouraged her lover until he lost
both legs by. an accident, when she
married him without a m1rmur.
Z DIR. Mary Walker is lecturine on
National Salvation" )" SO far as fndi-
vidual salvation Is concerned, she
doesn't seem to care continental
dash. - $50. .tgsI l..
Its said that Sin Allentown, Iowa,
there is a Miss Amy Richardson who Is
six feet high and weighs three hundred
and fifty-two pounds" This is almost
as singular case of big Amy as that in
which c. c. Bowen is involved:
1t don't pay to have babies killed by
the cars at Syracuse New YORK, when
a four-year-old child was thus killed
there the jury awarded $500 damages,
but few days after gave $50 each as
the value of two bear cubs similarly
disposed of. e--l ~ d.
Near the ruins Of Thebes, in Egypt,
is a lake called the Purple Lake, from
the fact that its waters do at a certain
period annually turn q purple tint. The
cause of this phenomenon isunexplain-
ed.
In u North Missouri, town lives
gentleman who regOices in the name of
Gander. A short time ago he proposed
marriage to young lady, who refused
on the ground that ifshe accepted him
she might be considered agoose
\ country clergynlanI s.iys he has
married but one couple in a year, and
they paid him nothing, staid to din
ner, as it was a rainy day, and then
borrowed his umbrella when they left,
which he has never seen since.
A prominent dry good merchant
worked half an hour on the following
AMI filled to give the ans
wer. s'If fJarteea men build a stone
wall in nine days, how long will it take
five men to build like wall in six days.
Hayti has $4,000 Snider guns, and is
preparing to capture and annex the
sists in trying to annex San Domingo.
We may all be Haytien subjects yet, for
has not the little island of Great Brit
lag subdued and misgoverned the con-
tinent Of India?
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They have smart children at Martha's
Vineyard. 4 little six-year-Old girl,
daughter of a Methodist minister, COM
mitted a fault and denied 1t. Her
mother.slearning she was guilty, asked
her why she told. an untrnth. when
she replied with great sang froid, ST
should not if / believed as you and
father do, but l am Universalist."
Mark Twain once attended a funeral
in Nevada where every one was trying,
with Indifferent success, TO say some
thing pleasant about the late unlament-
ed. The only statement that met with
universal assent WAS one yentured by a
conscientious and observant mourner,
that the departed 'made nice, quiet
corpse"
The following words actually formed
the peroration of the counsel's plea for
his client in an assault and battery case
in Athens, Alabama: "Let the humble
ass crop the thistle of the valley! Let
the sagacious goat browse upon the
mountains brow, but, gentlemen of the
jury, / say that John Gundle is not
guilty" ----
That thief in Mississippi who stole
heavy carpet-sack at the railroad depot
and carried it five miles before opening
it was sold. He found the contents to
be about half bushel of bibles.
Endeavor if possible to keep clear
conscience, and clean shirt. Rise up
with the lark, but avoid larks in the
evening. Be above ground in all dwell
lings, and above board in all your deal
ings. Love your neighbors as yourself,
but don't have too many of them in the
same house with you.
AT \ trial at Court, the other day ,one
of the jurors, misunderstanding orders
went home when the case closed. The
remaining eleven agreed ON . verdict
and presented it. On the following NOR
ming the twelfth juror returned and Ill
ed his sealed verdict, which agreed
with the other eleven. Who would
have thought it p Ho0toR Register.
Francis Greeley, aged so, often said
he would be willing to die when he had
seen his youngest granddaughter mar
ried. He attended her wedding the
other evening, near st. Louis, and tax
ing part in the dance, fell dead without
a groan, at her feet.
The widow of President Lincoln, who
has been living in London for the past
few months, left for the continent the
middle of February. During the wint-
er her son Tad has been at an English
school in one of the small towns near
London.
Quilp and his wife had a bit of con-
tention the other day. 81 own that
YOU have more brilliancy than l." said
the woman, "but / have better judg-
ment." YES" said Quilp, "your
choice in marrying shows thatv' Quilp
was informed that he was brute.
A wife in San Francisco lately put
petition for divorce in the court on the
ground that her husband was "con-
founded fool" The judge, who was
an old bachelor, would not admit the
plea, because, he said, every man who
gets married would be liable TO the
same imputation.
in the Massachusetts Senate an or
der has been passed to have the senti-
ment, uttered by Governor Andrew,
engraved on the pedestal of his statue:
81 know not what record ofsin awaits
me i'm the other world, but this do
know; That / never was so mean as
to despise any man because he was
poor, because he was ignorant, or be-
cause he was black"
A San Francisco undertaken claims
to have discovered new method OF
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