Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20
Beauty of OId PeonIe

Men and women make their own |
beauty or their own ugliness. Lord |
Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a
man "who was uglier than he had any
business to be-" and if he could but
read it, every human being carries his
life In his face, and is geod-looking or
the reverse as that life has been good or
evil. On our features the fine chisel of
thought and emotion are eternally at
work. Beauty is not the monopoly of
blooming young men and white and
pink maidens. Theirs Is a slow-gfow-
ing beauty which only comes to perfec-
lti66 ia cid age. Grace belongs to no
peEiod,of life, and goodness improves
the longer itexists. I Ihaye seen sweeter
smiles from lip Of seventy than upon
lip of,seventeen- f.as..
There is the beauty of youth and the
beauty Of holiness-a beauty much
more seldom met, and more frequently
found in the armchair by the fire with
grandchildren around its knee, than in
the ball room or promenade. Husband
and wife, who have fought the world
side by side, who have made common
stock Of joy or sorrow, and aged togeth-
er, arenot unfequently found curious
ly alike in personal appearance, and in
pitch and tone of voice-just as twin
pebbles on the beach, exposed to the
same tidal influences, are each others
second self. He has gained a feminine
something, which brings his manhood
into full relief. She has gained mas
lculine something, which acts as a foil to
her woInanhood. gE HM
Hamilton Berry is the oldest man
THAT North Carolina can scare up. He
lives at Wilmington, Eta 10S. His
mind and his teeth are still sound, and
he is just setGipg out with. a second crop
!, of eyesight and bair.
It is reported that Nh. Greeley; will
homer the Boston Jubilee by assisting"
as aspectator at some of the perform
lances. Could he be prevailed npon to
ising, "When this old hat was neWl"
with variations, some thousands might
|, be added even to the receipts at the
great celebration.
The following is an editorial "per-
tsonal" " from a alate number of the New
i York Star: If the young female in a
blue tarleton overskirt, with a violet
IcOrscge and back hair done up O la
Fritzette, who sat in box at Thomas
r last night, has as bad cold tonight as
q she had tAen, and goes to- the same
place, will kindly carry a large pocket
r handkerchief with her, and use It, she
r, will oblige an admirer. Snufles may
lido for babies and sucklings, but they're
played out in old girls. To a aiiaa
When stranger treats me with dis
!. respect, said poor philosopher. Il COM
fort myselfWith reflection that it is not
myself that he Sights, but my old and
shabby hat and cloak, which to say the
: truth, have no particular claim to re-
tion. So if my hat and coat choose to
fret about it, let them; but is nothing
to me-" as .ssl-......' .ia8 =
/, The latest novelty in divorce ejurispru-
dence comes from London, where a
woman met the petition of her lord
e with the plea that she haG been led in
to evil solely through the plots of an
agent employed by her husband to
watch her movements. Her defense
met the approval of Lord Penzance,
who decided that the husband was re-
sponsible for the acts Of his agents.
5 A fashionable mothers advice to a
newly married daughter: "Do not get
in the habit of taking your husband
with you to evening parties. Nothing
4 is so stupid as husband at party, MOI
e so everlastingly in theway. Yss
Il A toII-gate keeper in Virginia was
lIately brought before magistrate for
!. lcruelty to his daughter, occasioned by
her allowing her lover to drive through
the gate free, when she had charge of it
Like one of Shakespeare's heroines
II "She never stolled' her love. ~ l--s
At An old Baptist minister enforced the
necessity of difference of opinion by this
2 argument: snow, ;feverybody hae
a. been ofmy opinion, everybody would
have wanted my Wife," One of the
deacons who SAT just behind him re
+ Isponded, Yes, and if everybody were O
my opinion, nobody would have had
= her."
Sir Fletcher Norton VISA noted for his
=lwant of courtesy. Pleading one day
Ibefore Lord Mansfield on some ques
ton of manorial right, he ehanced tt
isay: insMy. Lord, can illustrate ths
in an instant in my own person; ]
le myself have two little manors." The
1t Judge Immediately interposed, with
II his blandest smile, 1--WE all know it
~ Sir Fletcher e.. 1907. s..,t. s.
er Ripley, Ohio, is almost in a panic
a over mad dogs. One hundred anG
= forty mad dogs are reported to have
a. been killed there within week. A
a number OF horses were bitten, two o.
Ds which have died. Forty mad dog