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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
The Food of the Ancienfs

Not one of us but has felt curiosity
about the food of the ancients. Diodorus
SlculuS says that the first men ranged
over the fields and woods in search of
food, like the beasts, eating every wild
herb they could find and such fruit as
the trees produced. An ancient writer
atfirms that the diet of the primeval
race differed according to the produc-
tons OF their respective countries-the
Arcadlans having lived on acOrns, &c.
Plutarch relates that the Argives, led
by lnaehus, searched the woods for
wild pears to support them. Pliny
laments the savage condition of the
flrst ages, (which subsisted on acorns.n
Galen not only thinks these accounts
are true, but he tells US that 'tacorns
afford as good Il0uriShment as many
sorts of grain; that in ancient times
men lived on acOrns alone, and that the
Arcadians continued to eat them long
after the rest of Greece had made use
of read-corn.n
H9rodo lotus relates that upon the death
of Lychrgns, the Laced@monians,
meditating the conquest Of Arcadia,
were told by the oracle there were
among them the best acorn eaters, who
would repel them, in case they attemp-
ted to carry their arms thither, as after
wards happened. Is it not strange
with what perverse hallucination phil
osophers and poets have ever spoken
of those periods in the history of the
race as the sgOlden ages?" At length,
by what steps we can not know, agri-
culture, doubtless in simplest, rudest
forms began. Hesiodus ascribes this
Invention to Ceres, and admonishes the
husbandman to pray to Jupiter and to
her before he enters upon his labors.-
Pliny attributes still further the inven-
tion of the plow, grinding corn and
making bread, to Ceres, and adds that
tlcay Italy and Sicily, on this account"
AT length, as the wonderful story goes,
the Creator gave man permission to
eat the bodies of animals. This is said
to have been given first to Noah, in
the following words:
Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you; evenas the green
herb have / given you all things."-
WAS made to mans stomach indul-
gences. "Noah began to be a husband
man, and he planted vineyard, and
hC OAo1A VI Vic WAACJ S1ilu was uEulh-
en-" OF course he did not permit his
family to indulge in wine, until he had
first fully tested itupon himself. Might
it not be poison? Might it not kill?-
With that self-sacrificing spirit so char
acteristic of man, Noah first tried it
fully upon himself. Beer was discOv-
cred not long after. Lerodotus informs
us that in the corn province of Egypt,
where no wines grew, the people drank
a sort of wine made Of barley. This,
it is thought, is the strong drink men,
toned, together with wine, in many
places in the Old Testament. 1t is
thought, by those who have given
most attention to the food of the origin
al race, that different foods were in
troduced, much in the following order,
viz: Fruits. seeds, seeds, herbs, bread,
milk, fish, flesh, wine and ale; to which
may be added butter, honey, eggs, olive
oil and cheese. ."-C Dio Les0ts, Talks
A6OIt Peoples iStonachs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
Social Life in Brazil.

The Brazilian ladies, in their out
door life, usually attire themselves in
the latest Paris fashions, and on the
DAYS of cermony and celebration, don
their finest dresses and most brilliant
jewelry. AT home, however, they in
general are seen in very plain apparel,
employed ifdustriously in some small
domestic economy. Many of the ladies
are very attractive in their appearance
and in their manners, but, as in all
warm climates, ,stheir bloom Is usually
very evanescent and after twenty-five
they are apt to become very stout, q
charm, however, which is not without
the appreciation of their compatrlots.
Among them you can not find the blue
stocking or strong-minded lady, for in
literary pursuits the Brazilian ladies
take little interest, but they are in gen.
eral skillful and devoted musicians of
the italian school.
tThe gentlemen are remarkable for
temperance and frugality, and for nat
ural talent may compete with any 9TH
er nation. but so much can be said for
their industry. Some yield them
selves up to the-eharfns OF literature
and science, but most of the upper class
are content with mOnotonous daily
round of existence, made of many maps
during the day, gapes over the Daleon-
les in the afternoon, and reunion ln
evening. In truth, the warm and
mild climate predisposes to Incidence,
and the youth, after having passing
through the ordinary course ofa col
Iege education, or having lOitered into
public offices, or singing into domestic
insignificance fritter5 away his life in
Ignorance, or in the endless frivolities
of street perambulation. In fact, a
great want in Brazil is the outdoor
games. the debating clubs, the cheap
concerts, the lectures, the, periodicals,
and all the various applieances which
the European at home has at his COM
mand to strengthen and improve both
mind and body, and which would be
of incaIcuble service to the youth Of
both sexes in this delicious but some
what enervating climate; and thus it
is that the 81 tuatiOn of the young Eng
lishman sent out as clerks to the many
English mereantilet houses in Brazil
becomes most deplorable. Placed by
their employers in house, with one or
two negroes to attend them, and rigid
ly shut out from the society of their
by that snobbishness of
English intercourse abroad (n0where
greater than in Brazil) which makes
the tinker of kettles dread contamina-
ting association with the tinker ofsauce-
pans-these, in many eases, gentle
manly young men too often take refuge
from the dreary m0notony OF their exis-
uence, and from their feelings OF isola-
tion in foreign land in all the excite
ments of fimmorality and dissipation.
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Railway Travel.

Do not travel st night IL you can
avoid 1t. la.s 81
Take your breakfast always before
starting on journey. st 81
Obtain . seat near the aisle and near
the center ofthe car and near the center
ofthertraip. 20 ~ b..
platform,
Purchase nothing whatever 10 ear on
q rail-train unless it be simple sand-
wich which may be eaten at noon,
Avoid conversation while the ears are
In motion, because the strain Of the
voice to make one heard above the noise
OF the wheels has teen such that in
many cases there has been such ten
sion OF the vocal chords as to impair the
voice for many months. es.A u
All reading Ia raH.cars while In mo-
tlon is injurious; but the injury will b
greatly mitigatsd by reading Only quaF-
ter of an hour at time and forthe nexf
five minutes let the eyes be directed 70
very distant objects. This alienation
from things near to those remote Is
very great relief and rest.
Make no new acquaintances on rail-
way train, especially Of those who afe
disposed to push their attentions upon
you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
Greeley ON Woman sufferagists.

Greeley ON Woman Sufferagisfs.
Horace Greeley has addressed the
Golden Age, defining his views of the
women question, saying, while he does
not deny that persistent, fragrant a,lul-
terry of husband or wife affords good
ground for divorce, transient infidelity
to the marriage vows, under the infiu-
ences of passions, Influenced by wine
or other material excitement. should
not, If repented, be an adequate reason
for divorce. The doctrine of remarri-
age OF those widowed by death should
be governed by circumstances in tJsS
main. When couples are happily
mated it will be better in higher life if
neither married second time, in this
planet. The handspring of his hostili-
ty TO woman suffrage is due to this con-
nection proper. The indissolubility of
marriage ties has conversion of the
movement OF woman suffrage morally
impossible on that account. He has
written little of what has appeared in
the Tribune editorially, on this subject
the last ten years, and concludes bv
saying, l believe our countrymen are
indebted to you for having discovered.
perhaps should say invented. me as a
possible though most improbable can
didate for the Presidency. Allow me
then TO thank You for your early and
1rank demonstration. I can in no con-
tlngency be counted on your side, for
as woman suffrage candidate, as YOU
forcibly and justly say, there is not
even a remote possibility of my ulti-
mately adapting myself to this end
My difference with your crowd is too
vital, too radical, to permit the most
sanguine dreamer of hope for CONVEX
sion. am growing old, but my opin-
ions are tolerably firm and advanced,
The female Laura Fair type, who kills
her paramour, with whom she claims
to be OF rightfu affinity, and gives the
lie in open court to the wife She has
doubly widowed, is my pet aversion.
But why should any man be candi-
date for President for the woman suff.
ragists, logically and consistently? I
feel the candidate should be a woman.
She ought, moreover, to become thor
Oughly emancipated from absurdity,
folly, narrowness and baleful conser-
vatism, for which am too old to out
grow. Could you not find one who il
lustrates In her own personal history
what you felicitously term liberal
thought, Of this enlightened age? Let
her be one who has two husbands after
a sort, and live in the same house with
them both, sharing the couch of one,
but bearing the name of the other, to
indicate her impartiality perhaps and
cause, and the candidate will be so fitly
rated, there will be no occasion, even
under the most liberal, progressive and
enlightened regime to suefor a divorce.
Gould not one of this class be persuad-
ed to overbear her shrinking modesty
and nominate herself?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
Bells in the Old Connt-v

1ne num0erless bells of Moscow ara
KEPT constantly ringing during the
mnoie E@Aseer week, tinkling and TOLL
ing without regularity. The ler-s haiI
near the cathedral is onIy used On IN IN
PoL s-alC occasions, and when it sounds
ueep' hollow murmur yibrates ali
tnrough Moscow, like the fullest t,ro. -.
Ola vast organ. This bell il srSnaTde13 49,
IN tower called the belfry of ST Tvsn
ana % beneath it are others less in siza
ouS enormous. 1t is forty feet nine
lhenes In circumference. sixteen and
one nall inches thick, and weighs more
tLan hfty-seven tons. The GREAT hall
Oh moscow, known to be t6e Iaroost
ever founded, laid for many wears in a
ueep IN the midst of the Kremlin and
Huly q mountain of metal. THE
IaLlveS regard it with religions ven
eraI3n, and would not allow grain of
~ 70 pc nled oil; but the Car Nicholas
causeu IL TO be removed and pIaeed
Upon granite pedestal. 1t has been
consecrated as chamber. The size Of
the room IS twenty-eieht feet in diam
hei ght. ~ -ee' one Ahcn Ia
Inc bells In China rank next in size
70 those OF Russia. In Pekin II ;s
stated by Father LIE Compile, there are e
seven bells, each weighing I2O.0OO
pounds. Exceptingithe bells cast for
the new houses Of parliament. the
largest OF which weighs fourteen tuns.
tnere Is only one bell in England
which weighs 1900 pounds. It was
cast In Yorkminister, and is only feet
z inches in diameter. The great Tom
OF oxford weighs Il, 900 and the great
ION OF Lincoln Il, 600 pounds. The bell
Oh 81 Pauls, In London, is 9 feet in d.
ameter, ana weighs IL 800 pounds. One
placed in the cathedral of Paris. in 1888
weighs 81 600 pounds. Another in vi
emma, cast in I'LL, weighs 4O, 900 pounds
The famous bell called Susanna, of
Erfurt, is considered to be of the finest
bell metal, containing the largest pro-
poruon OF silver; its weight Is $1,000
pounds, and it was cast liz I847.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
Kisses,

Kisses-what nice things thew arc
to be sure How sweet thew taste.
how juicy! Even the learned and dio.
nified Noah Webster, in his big diction.
ary, does not blush to speak of kisses
He SAYS a kiss is "a salute given with
the lips, common token of affection. y
Queer old DR.. johnson says a kiss is
a salute given by joining lips.1 Very
good, DIR. JohnsOn; did you ever try it:
No doubt you did frequently when a
boy, upon the lips of some of the BRIGHT
eyed English bellies of one hundred
years ago.
Neither history nor tradition saws
any thing with regard to the first kiss,
but we infer, from information we have
been able to gather, that the first kiss
that the world ever saw or heard of,
came off between Adam and Eve about
six thousand years ago. The first baby
kiss undoubtedly was given by Eve to
Cain, soon after that time. Truly.
Cain poorly merited it, If he was one
half as wicked when a baby as he was
after he became man.
Somebody says, sit takes miss to
to make kiss" Perhaps it does, to
make first rate one, but pretty wild
ows, with sparkling eyes, make very
nice ones indeed. Girls kiss each other
often, probably to keep their lips in
practice. But we presume there's not
much fun in this; not enough variety to
give them zest. In this case like
touches like-it is roses to roses-peach-
es to plums-honey TO sugar-cream to
butter.
There are different kinds of kisses.
There's the baby's kiss-very sweet
and wholesome, but too little of it.
Then there's the widows kiss-very
good and palatable. with a great deal
of substance 10 it. Then the old maids
kiss-rather stale and sour-too much
vinegar in it-unpalatable.-Then the
young misses kiss; they are impulsive,
and it varies according as they happen
to feel, good or i'll natured, jolly or fret
full. 1t Also depends somewhat on the
plentitude of ice cream in summer,
sleigh rides ii, winter, and new dresses
at ali times. Their kisses are frequent
ly too sweet or too sour-too full of
honey or too full of acid; one day as
sweet as honey-suckles in paradise, the
next sour as ten thousand old maids or
an ocean of vinegar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24
HOW to he Nnl,nlfu

Inere are many young men who de-
sire 10 Oe someb0dy in-ths world. To
them We can say but little that has not
been said. Homilies upon homilies and
every possible advantage l. offered them.
we leave them on the upper road In life.
and turn TO those who have cboseu the
downward path-to the young men
whose ambition is to be nobodies, -
1t not so easy to be nobody as some
people imagine. To be nIitIed nobody
requires special capacity rs well as train
ing Perseverance, however, produces
nobodies OF some sort, as well as sotue-
bodies-ensures obloquy as well as hon.
or. Adopt our rules and your chances
for 6eeoming thorough nobody is .
million { one. - = s :.
Spend your ieasuEe time on whisky
barrel. Drink as much rs you can pay
for, get others TO pay or get on credit;
smoke clkar on the ratio. Master the
intricaeies OF dominoes, biiIiards and
checkers; and. above all thines make
yourselves adept at card playing. Chess.
the game OF intelligent young men who
foolishly desire to be somebody, We
should eschew. Don't read anything
but dime novels of the day, Cultivate
an impression that all women like To be
insulted, and that all men are thieves,
IF you should ever beconle coneious of =
decent emotion-tO which weakness.
alas! the most OF are Liable at odd mo-
ments--crush it out with little inn
promtu blackguardisrn, or drown Il in q
horn OF forty-rOd whisky Make fun of
your mother behind her back, and never
think, because thinking Is dsngerous-
of how much she has done for Won.
Cheat your father, and borrow your sis
ter's little savings.
Do these things and whatever else IL
vile aud worthless that shall suggest it.
self to you.. A Nobody is embryo, and
your ambition will be sealed. You shall
stagger and swagger through life. too in=
significant to be despised, aud tumble
into your gFays, too ioathsome to be pit
ied.- Young Folks Journal.
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Not Appreciated.

A young gentleman, anxious to learn
to sing, went up into the garret one
Sunday night, about bed time, and res
olutely commenced his exercises with
his PsalmIbOok. He had been singing but
short time, when his father, tideg-
city old gentleman, stole out of his bed
room with Lis night-cap Oh, and on
reaching the foot of the stairs, mildly
inquired:
"James?"
No answer came. James was very
busy with his exercises.
SJames?n
Still no answer.
"JamesI'
"Sir!D
''Have you heard a very peculiar
noise, James?"
"No, sir; nothing"
"-ah-I thought-butnever mind;"
and the old gentleman walked back to
his room, muttering indestinctly.
Presently James resumed his exer-
cises, and was getting on famously as he
thought, when his parent, like, the
Ghost of Hamlet's Father, again came
forth, exclaiming: t4-Jf
'sJames?'
"Sirp
"Are you sure that Bose is chained
up?p
"Yes, sir, attended to it myself"
every well, very well; no matter"
And he once more returned to his
room.
Wondering what his father meant
by inquiring after the house dog, Bose,
James was silent for a minute, but
soon returned to his exercises more
vigorously than ever. Again, how
ever, he was interrupted by the voice
of his parent, shouting
"James?"
"Sir!'
"I am sure Bose is loose"
sit can't be possible, SIR"
''He is, 1 tell you."
"What makes you think so, sir?"
"Why, for the last half hour 1 have
heared Something, that sounded very
much as if that the dog was again
worrying the poor old cat!"
James never resumed his exercises
after that overwhelming compliment.
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2oftry,
GIVE Us BACK THE TAILS.

- If we, as Mr.. Darwin says,
From monkeys are descended,
- Old Time. in changing things, hath not
As yet the matter mended.
Descendants of our ancestors
Have no such time as they,
= Who had no rent Of house or tax
OF government to pay.
No tailor bills came in-Dame Nature
Sufficient clothing gave
And freaks of fashion did not make
- or monkey girl a slave.
So the olden ways the happiest way;
The new condition fails;
And. Darwin, IL you can, my boy,
Just give US back the tails.
No hurrying out of he'd had they,
No boiling breakfast down,
No ohasty walk to shop in fear
OF some old boss's fr own.
The iady-monkey sat not up
: Till day the night did rout,
In waiting for the lodge to close
- And let her husbs nd out.
They had no votes, it's true, but they'd
No officers 10 keep,
Aud DER defanlter's cash account
They never had to weep.
So the olden ways the happiest way;
The new condition fails; -
And. Darwin, II you can, my boy,
lust give us back the tails.
Tn ey had DO fashions promenade,
Where beauty's feet could stray;
But then the old boss monkey had
No milllner to pay,
They had no wine, the monkeys young,
Through night to keep a storming;
They saved thereby tvou know yourself
A headache in the morning.
A peaceful racs We're they, VINO ne'er
To wars appeal did fly;
They saved thereby occasion for
A Joint Commission High.
A smarter rae were they than that
Which from them hath descended,
And Time, by changing things. hath not
As yet the matter mended.
For the olden ways the happiest way,
The new condition fails;
So Darwin. If you can. my boy,
I Pleaso give rs hack tlz<s -titifs.- n
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

Mr.. Spurgeon's thonsandth printed
sermon has appeared. Sixty-two are
printed annually; so that this repre-
sents the work of more than sixteen
years. The Freeman says that not
more than one-third or one-fourth of
Mr.. Spurgeon's sermons are printed,
and that many of his best utteranees
are not reported. The regular publica-
Hion of-Mr. Beecher's sermons was be-
gun in the independently 1859, twelve
years ago, and one form or another
they have been published weekly since
that Hime.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

When HawthOrre, lost hisoftice In the
So lem custom house, be told his wiIe
tn at he did not see where their dinners
W, ere coming from. She told him ina.
sh had saved enough for few weeks
su pply, and then employed Ter @stne-
tic taste and skill in maki.ug lamp
sh AIDES Of lovely forms, decorated WIN
figures from Fiaxman, in her bea. utiiui
penciling. She employed herself con-
st.Sntiy with this work until Ha W,
thorn's first peeuniarily sueeessfLI
worss was published.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

TIA cat doth meet Q .eat, upon the
garden wall; and III cat doth greet q
eat, oh! need they both to squali2
Every Tommy has his Tabby, waiting
, On the wall; and yet he welcomes her
. approach by an unwelc0me yawl. And
+ 8 kitten wish to court upon the gar
{ len wall, xhy don't ne sit and sweetly
s mile. and not stand up and bawl; and
Ii IT his precious back up high and show
h is teeth and moan, as If 'twere colo
n tore than love. that made the feller
gl ,Oan!
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ANTIDoTE FOR PorsoN.-A pls

ANTIDoTE FOR POIsoN.-A plain
farmer sends US the following:
1t is now over twenty years since /
learned that sweet Oil would cure the
bite of a rattlesnake, not knowing it
would cure other kinds of poisons.
Practice, observation and experience
have tanght me that 1t will cure poison
on man and beast. The patient must
take a spoonful of it internally and
bathe the wound for cure. To cure a
horse it requires eight times as much
as for man. One of the most extreme
cases of snake bites occurred eleven
years ago. It had been thirty days
standing and the patient had been
given up by his physician. gave him
spoonful of the oil, which effected a
cure. 1t will.cure bloat in cattle caused
by eating fresh clover. 1t will cure
the sting Of bees, spiders and other in
sects, and people who have been pois-
oned by low trailing vine called
ivy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

At 1 Ieidelhnrg, in Germany, there
It not q language. aAcient or modern,
without its competent professor to
teach 1t to al comers. A Japanese stu
dent, n ,abie d sS. e speak a % word Of Ger :
man 70! '1a e =. scere On MS, nls arrival sd ala
him lesson through the medium Of his
own angw Nge. ~ W
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

The only amusement of the citizens
of Calhoun, Georgia, is that of tying
tinware to the tails Of the village dogs.
The dogs are so well trained that when
one of them sees an oyster can In the
street, he backs up and waits for
one to tie it on.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-24

Western paper state that it Is the
fashionable and friendly thing in Chica-
90 to tell blushing bride who has
been married by DR.. Cheney, that you
havethe bestlegal authority. to say that
9 marriage by him Is illegal, and that
you thing 1t Is just q put up job OF her
husbands.
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3 eeinan,rf o.n. gnsinfss aIreftarn.
COUNTY OFFICERS.


1,zot.,,se .J,tdoe-A- W. ANDERSON. Once
an-stsirs in public buildings, first door 70 rignL
SleTi6-WIILIAMH b. HAYS. once IN popAc
bufIdifirs 1rst door.
CIerkof CbIrts-J- B. CAMPBELL 9Ineetn pup
lsc fn;idfnes adjoining the Court House
A.Editor-R- M CLARK. once up-ssalrs1n pun
puildinr entrance at left door.
TnensITeT-JAMES 1RWINs Omce On MHAA
street. first door West Of the Bank-
ReoordeT-Wn. II. BARNES. once N puDhe
Nbuildine first floor, second door on leLt- %.
P-osecafino Anornest-J. w. SHANNoS. olnee
Un-stairs over Pattersonis Drug Store q
: Observation-Disclosures Kinney. laMtra; Hen-
nv Frasher. Hendrysburghi William Arm
strong, Armstrong; Nils.
Coro1ser-E B. KENNEDY, Wegee.
Commissioners meet at st. ClairsFlne on me
first Mondays OF March. June, september ana
Decem ber-end as Board OF Equalization
the third wednesday of May. in each yea
The Probate Court meets on the nrss Iues-
days Of January. March. May. July. semplslm-
always open ION business hours, for the trans
action Of other business. .g-t
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BARGAIN at PriVatR SalR.

WE viii offer at private sale, the STORE
W ROOM, WAREHOUSE, LOT and our en-
TIRE stock SIC * Of Dry Goods. Groceries. Hardware,
sno al tne articles usually kept in a country
Belmont County. Ohio. The assortment 81
goods Is excellent and being Fboasht at low
central. being at the terminus of the Uniontowu
ana klusning Pike and directly on the Belrnont
and Toledo Railroad II built.
jei-2ms ]. MORRIS d co.