Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
W7TAND WIsDOM.
When to advertise-now.

VI tC"oios
Folly is the beginning of pride, and
shame will be the end of it.
"Oh, mother" said a little boy, as
ne stood looking at q lake by moon
light, see how the moon sprinkles
down on the water."
A Hibernian orator, speaking of sui
eide, said, "The only way to stop it is
to make it capital offense, punishable
with death" :"
Chicago has funeral pick-pockst, !"
and is threatened with ayearly aspiring
grand-opening of coffins."
Mrs. Phelps says there is no use quar-
road company, or the telegraph.
If the young would remember that
they may be old, and the old remember
that they have been young, the world
would be happier.
The strongest propensity in woman's
nature, says careful student the sex,
is to want to know what is going on.
and the next strongest is to boss the
job. ---- -,-~t ---=l-
Every period of life has its peculiar
prejudices. Who ever saw old age
that did not applaud the past, and con-
denim the present times?-Montaigne.
1t is curious fact thai the essay
which Provost Paradol, the late minis
ter of France to the United States, re-
cited, when graduating at college, was
ION Suicide"
He who has struck his colors to the
power of an evil habit has surrendered
himself to the power of an enemy,
bound by no articles offaith, and from
whom he can expect only the vilest
treatment.
will govern my life and my
thoughts as if all the world were to see
the one and to read the other; for what
does it signify to make anything a
secret to my neighbor, when to God all
our privacies are open?-Seneca.
"Boy," said an ill-tempered old fell
low to noisy lad, "what are you hol-
lerin' for when / am going by?"
"Humph," returned the boy, "what
are you going by for when 1 am hol-
lerin'?"
General Sherman, as we expected,
distincly repudiates the New Orleans
speech which has given the Democracy
such comfort. He says the report is
part Misrepresentation and the balance
fabrication.
Bret Harte will never get over that
little escapade in Chicago. They have
it in New York now that he declined
dejeuner the other morn
ing because his lap-dog was not includ-
ed in the invitation.
Rich maiden lady:-Well, May, why
are you looking at me so hard? May
rs looking for your other face. Lady
What other face, child? May-Why
ma is always saying you have two
faces! CONSERVATION of MAJ
There have been many definitions of
q gentleman, but the prettiest and
most pathetic is that given bya young
lady, She says: ga gentleman is a hu-
man being combining womans ten
derness with mans courage.
A woman on trial last week in Read
ing, Pa, on charge Of numbering her
son, a boy Of ten years Of age, was ac-
quilted, it being Unexpectedly proven
that the boy is alive and well. Circum-
stantial evidenced was strongly against
her.
Lowell thus exquisitely draws a les
son from the Footprints and rain spots
of the sandstone: Perhaps it was only
because the ripple and the raindrop
nd hn fr1 hfv,l of
themselves that they had such luck
The chances immortality depend very
much on that.
If human affairs are controlled by al
mighty rectitude and impartial good
ness. then to hope for happiness from
wrong doing is rs insane as to seek for
health and prosperity by rebelling
against the law of nature, by sowing
orr seed on the ocean, or making pois-
on our common Chdnning.
TRUrH.-He that opposes his own
Judgment against the times ought to be
backed with unanswerable truths; and
he that has truth on his side Is fool,
rs wellas a coward, If he Is afraid to
it because of the currency or multitude
Of other mems opinions.-De Foe.
SNEERERs.-The most Insignificant
people are the most apt to sneer at 9TH
ers. They are safe from reprisals, and
have no hope of rising in their own es-
teem but by lowering their neighbors.
The severest critics are always those
who have either. never attempted, or
who have failed:in original composition.
i Hazlat.
Leaving Constantinople, writes
Dio Lewis. in an essay on dress, 'let us
visit an old time fashionable social gath
sring in Vienna. Women enter the
ballroom. They are dressed so thin
hat you can see their skins all over
heir persons" DR., this is too thin.
An eccentric minister in a large par
sh had II couples to marry at once in
. grand common service at church.
In the course of the wedding he asked
,ne ofthe men to pledge himself to the
wrong woman. The man naturally
protested and was told, hold your
ongue! / will marry you now and
here; and you can sort yourselves going
home. -
A Chicago minister in repeating the
tory of Joseph and Potiphar's wife,
las hazarled the opinion that not
many boys of 20 would have taken the
,old stand he took. This would de-
,end good deal upon the looks of the
wife and the shooting pro-
of her brothers or husband.
A woman committed suicide by
herself to an apple tree. At
he funeral, neighbor, noticing the
ad appearance ofthe husband, consoled
linn by saying that he had me with q
erribie loss. "Yes," says the husband,
sigh, "she must have kicked
ike thunder to shake off six bushels Of
,reen apples that would have been
worth dollar q bushel when they got
ipe"
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