Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-11


Horace Greeley says that castor beans
may be cast or not, whichever you ike.
The foundry at which he gets his seeds
is the best. If the nest egg has been
cracked by frost, the beans are apt to
sprout and shrink, which is not the
case with oats or hay when properly
ground. Sawdust manure has been
found to contain too much heat for the
ordinary castor, dried glass from frac-
tured lanterns being the proper restor-
ative where the bean is to be fastened.
Pull offyour boots while cultivating.
No rain water should be allowed to
settle on the vines during wei weather.
There are two words Of the English
Language which are the cause Of more
annoyance toneWspePer writers than
all other words combined. These words
are strategic" and 'simpo5tor." The
ablest of compositors and proof-readers
have wrestled with them in vain.
Strategic" is sure 10 come out in print
'stragetic" and '.impostor" invariably
confronts the reader in this shape, Sim
poster" There are several other
words, as close" "boquet," and "bis-
cult" which get into print In fantastic
8 lapes, but their trantormation are not
to be compared with the ravages COM
mitted on strategic" and "impostor." {"
Ifevery typo could raise money enough
to procure 3 copy of these words in a
correct form, and then paste them in
his hat, he would be doing himself and
his country a service.
The way to argue down vice is not
to tell lies about Tito say it has mo at
fractions when everybody knows it has
but rather to let it make out its case
Just as it will in the moment of tempt
alton, and then meet it with the weap-
ons furnished by the Divine Armory.
Ithuriel did not spit The. .oid upon his
speare but touched him with IT siad the
blasted angel took the sad glofies OF
his true shape. IF he had shown fight
then the fair spirits would have shown
how to deal with him.
Lou-.NA1AL is awful mad al
me. I don't care a bit. He can JUS
I Stay mad as long as he wants to. Ii he
| thinks care anything for him he il
nightly mistaken. wish you would
try and find out what is the matter
with him-Iwant to know Just for curl
losity. Ithink he is real mean, dom
you? Has yedr speeklea- hen set yet
MoLLIE.
Isn't it rather a nice distinction tt
make? When lady (?) is detected il
appropriating articles which do not be
long to her, and for which she has no
paid, we aA 81 kIeptomiania''; y; but
a poot iisf-satved womaaisl deteetes
in the sa1na act froni aesperate neeessi
ty, we call it stealing" The forme
is commended by her friends, and tn
latter is sent to prisoni
The following is a verbatim copy c
q letter recently received by a school
master in Indiana from a hoaseholde
in his locality: HCar, as you are mai
of no legs, | wish to infur my sun il
your skuli.n The obscurlty and seem
ing offensiveness disappeaf on transls
ton. What was inten ded TO be writ
J. ten was: "Sir, as you are a man {
knowledge, wish 70 enter my son i
your school,"
i MAN MIssIEG.-Op Friday mornin
last, Mr.. Sanluel y Napghn, Of Islam
Creek TOWNSHIP, left Dds hone, and ha
not been heard from since. He ha
labout three hundred dollars on his pei
,lson, and his prolonged absence ha
eau :ed considerable uneasiness in th
4 family. Two of his sons came to thi
lefty yesterday morning in search
their father, but, so far, they have bee
unsuccessful. I.-Ste,tbssaeik 20 1veasSs, u 3
II Those scientific mersometimes reac
a very philosophical state of mind,
(which they are pleased with the queel
lest trides. See how easily satlsfie
Professor Agassiz is! He says: l al
vlsatisfed. since I have Iexamined th
Fitomocrats peifceL that strIlobites al
mot any more closely related to tn
phyllopods than to any other entron
ostranc@ or to the isopods." Thi
would hardly satisfy an ordinary mo
ital.
4 Il Josh Billings says that the different
between blunder and mistake
j this: When a man puts down ba
! umbrella and takes up good one, b
, makes q mistake; but when. he pu
! down algood one and takes upa ia
one he makes blunder.
5 A Detroit husband. enters into Il
following AGREEMENT: 9Detfoith, Feb
s121.-this liz too Agree that if mi wi
) Ipaze me 10 dolrs wont't Never bottle
,,fHer amy more as true as livdt i dC
she kan sind the plees after me.
- HENRY BoYCE."'
vi The means of accumulating noise Il
3 lthe Boston jubilee are rapidly multipl,
sling under, the Efforts Of Yankee il1genl
ity. The Shakers of Harvey az
g Sheirley, in Massachusetts, have as
!, Led for a place in the vast assembly
singers, proposing to- sing their oW
: peculiar songs But the N 0st astddn'
ing proposition of all comes from Pr
!. fessor Tourjec. 1t necessary, of cours
: Ito open the festival with prayer, and b
p Proposes that one hundred clergyme
y Ibe invited to repeat the Lords pray'
in unison
A good story is told of a st. Lou
itnobby dry goods clerk who attended
! dance in the rural district a few eve
ings since. He wprea Chevoit shir
!, and put on a great many airs. He W:
!, somewhat taken down, however, whe
!, he overheard one country lass say
another. "That st. Louis chap slim.
!, on heaps ofstyle for a fellow that wea
: a bed-tick shirt"
ACCORDING to the character or e,
tent of your business, set aside liber
. percentage for advertising. Keep you
. self increasingly before the public; an
{ it matters not what business of utilit
e you may be engaged in, for, if INTEL
gently and industriouslyS pursued
{ fortune will be the result.A4
Jacob Journals, who was probabl
: the oldest man in the world, died r
Gently at Kansas City. He was abol
I 12S years old, and remembered, di
) tinctly, the takingof Quebec by Wolf
E in 1883. In 1874, at the time of the D
\ cupation of New Orleans by Gener
]. Jackson, Journals was not allowed
! enlist because he was too old. He fo
, lowed the occupation of q hunter fC