Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
j He is a freeman whom the truth
makes free. -'--
Islowly. " "'e
10 feign virtue is to have its oppo-
Kind feelings are as much a benefit
as kind deeds. = - - : >>'-'--'
The man that possesses good health
Keep clear Of man who does not
regard his own character.
Prayers should be the KEY Of the
day and the lock of the night.
He who reforms himself has done
much toward reforming others.
In any business never wade into wa
ter where you'cannot see the bottom.
''Be Of good eheer,D is a wise pre-
Iscription for the health of the body as
of the soul.
Air is dish which one feeds ON
every minute; therefore it ought al
ways 10 be fresh.
He Is idlewho might be better en-
pioyed- ,9mod isGll1ss
/ Force is the queen ofthe world. and
not opinion, but opinion is that which
1 uses force. Il, ~ c-l
| Be not sorry that men do not know
you, but be sorry that you are ignorant
4 see the sack open before you buy
what IS in it; for he who trades in the
dark asks to be cheated.
The poorest education that teaches
self-controI is better than the best that
neglects it.
1t is easier to increase our wants ev-
er SO much than to reduce them ever
so little. a
Manya man breads throwing away
his life at once, who shrinks not from
throwing it away piecemeal.
1t is difficult for revenge to act with
out exciting suspicion; for a rattlesnake
to stir without making noise.
Men make themselves ridiculous,
not so much by the qualities they
have as by the affect2tion of those
which they have not.
We should remember that it is quite
as much part of friendship to be,deli-
cate in its demands as to be ample in
Its performance.
1t isa great blunder in the pursuit
nj q
got it-that is not to be content with
reasonable and possible measure of it.
Perseverance is not good thing in
ITSELF Its goodness depends on the
cause in which it is engaged.-The per-
sistent swindler and the nan who is
habitually honest both persevere, but
there is a vast difference between the
two.
An exchange tells us that "twenty
years ago, Lelan Stanford arrived in
California with only one shirt to his
back. Since then, by close attention
business, he has c0ntriyed to accumu-
late over ten Millions" What the
deuce can man do with ten million
shirts? ?
"There are two ways of doing it."
said Pat to himself, as he stood musing
an waiting for job on the street cor
Ener, 'sf save me 81 900 / must lay
up me $500 Il year for twenty years, or
l can put away $40 year for two hun
dred years. Now which way will /
do it 20 -siiis
An Arkansas man estimated that a
Little Rock paper had inflicted $50, 1000
damages on,his character, and spent sew
eral hundred dollars in getting the
opinion of twelve good men and true
on the subject. They thought he had
been injured, but thought the amou Mt
was about 81.
This is good year for dogs. Pork is
so cheap that sauSageS need notsdepend
on any other kind of meat.-EE L0tceU
Courier. --ig
we had this one San Ohio Epitaph''
on ahighly respectable authority:
Under this sod
-liit'i- - And nnder these trees
Is islHsl LIeth the bod
z.4f-t OF solomon Pease.
He's not in this hole,
~ -' But only his pod
:t He shelied out his soul
9-.e ...s Cd And went up to God.
i HsH Ha .a.
What is the difference between a coat
and baby7 The one 1 wear, the other
I was.
Spurgeon delights ia the story of the
genuine conversion Of q servant GIRL
When she was asked, on joining the
church, t'Are you conYerted?" 81 hope
SO, sir.n What makes you think you
are realIya child of God?" "Well, sir.
Al.
there used to be-" what is that
changer "I don't know, sir; but there
is one thing, 1 always sweep under the
mats, now| illt-sss1e 81
A victim of Grseley,s handwriting
says: "If Horace had written that in
scription on the wall in Babylon, Bel
shazzar would have been a good deal
more scared than he was"
A negro member Of the Texas Legis-
lature was met upon the street with =
large roll OF greenbacks in his hand,
looking at his pile, and ehuekling 80
loud that be attracted the attention Of .
byst2nder, who said to him, "What are
i'You see that money!" eyes" "Well,
boss, / lust got that for my vote. Use
been bought four or five times In my
life, but dis is de flst time eber got de
casn myself
E A MORMON Moscow George @.
Cannon, one of the Mormon apostles
and the probable successor of Brigham
Young, said two years ago, that If the
Mormons were ever interfered with on
the part of the United States, they
would lay their lands, and city, and
fertile valleys to waste; that they
would burn and destroy all their
houses, property and improvements,
and make a bonfire of all the personal