Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-09-05

They say that Philadelphia amateur
sp0rtsmen have been caught pegging
away at New Jersey mosquitoes, sup
posing that they were shooting at snipe.
Such is the popular feeling against
capital punishment in England that OF
the forty-eight persons sentenced to
death during the past three yearo, only
twenty were executed.
A Western editor has come to the
conclusion that the young ladies in his
village are not at all like st. Paul, be-
cause they pay SO much attention to the
"things which are behind"
A girIat Peru writes to a male &C.
Iquaintance, "come over and see me; we
have new lamp at our house that we
can turn down, down, until there is
scarcelya bit Of light in the room.."
A young man hunting turkeys al
Kalamazoo, Mich, thought he saw one
in the grass, but Cofoner's jury decid.
ed it was the head of the farmer who
owned the premises, and was taking q
nap.
The young misses of the South Sen
ior and South Junior Grammar Schools,
Lancaster, have organized Base Bal
Clubs.-The respective misses are
pitted against each other several times
q week.
When Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, fails to understand re-
mark, he closes one eye, puts his index
sinister finger on his nose, and says
(which ?"-[ Chicago Post.
Mrs. Horace Greeley's health con.
tinues to grow worse rapidly. She is
30 feeble that she can not stand, heI
lower limbs having been partly paralyz.
ed. Her physicians think she can NOT
survive another year.
A boy stood on treacherous water.
melon rind on Main street yesterday
morning. The next thing he stood on
was his head. The greatest matter Of
regret Is that it wasn't the fellow who
threw the rind down on the pavement
I-GExchange.
An Indiana man took a friend home
70 tea the other evening, without Civ.
ing his wife notice. That night She
talked herself into paralysis of the
tongue. Now all the men in the
neighborhood are sending for friends
and taking them home at all hours.
To get lid of flies nothing is more
Ieffectual than the wild chamomiIe,
known also as cotuIa or Nav weed
The odor OF this plant is not at all disa.
Igreeable, and branches of this weed,
when in flower, or even some of the
ldried flowers scattered about the room,
Twill soon rid it OF flies. Another meth.
lod, easily resorted to, is to throw some
powdered black pepper on a hot shovel,
and carry it about the room.
Mrs. Seemuller EN- mbelIishes Old and
New with some colored photographs
Hereis one Of an old grave digger, who
was asked If he did not find grave dig.
lying hard work: "Ah, massa," the old
fellow laughed, as he turned on his heel
with shrug, "anything is hard work
iifyou work hard at it." There is more
than one grain of Wisdom in that lit
tie nugget.
An erroneous impression prevails in
some parts of the country that an ordi
mary business card with q one-ceut
lstamp upon it will come within tht
provisions Of the law In relation to the
lnew postal card. Such, however, Il
mot the case. The new cards will, 1t i
understood, be sufficiently elaborate Ii
ideslgn to prevent their being counter
jfeited, and will be sold by alf postmas
tiers at one cent each. An ordinar,
Iopen card, with writing upon it, will re
Iquire, as now, three-cent stamp.