Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-21
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A dead set-The Cor set.
PIuelzy-Geese at this season.
i Art and science have no enemies but
those who are ignorant.
The jealous man pOisous his own
banquet and then eats of it.
Ill habits are always easier conquered
to-day than tomorrow.
! Persevere in well-doing-never give
up when sure You are right.
The miser starves himself to death,
lin order that his heir may feast.
Let not tomorrow be perpetually the
I time when everything is to be done.
Hope is butterfly, and imagination
loves to chase it from flower to flower.
The daily use of ardent spirits, in any
form or in any degree, is intemper-
iance.
A punetial man is very rarely poor
man, and never man of doubtful
credit. -a..
Come where my love lies dreaming,
and see how she looks without any
paint on her face.
An old lady writing to her son out
West warns him to beware Of bilious
saloons and bowel alleys.
An experienced boy says he regards
hunger and the Christening rod az about
the same thing. They both make him
boiler. sr
The twig, however young and ten
der, may be bent and and fashioned by
the hand ofgentleness.
Early rising was once an indication
of thrift, but now it indicates that a
man is dry.
Louisiana mosquitoes only give the
people there u three months vacation
lout Ofthe twelve, and are now exceed
ingly vigorous and active.
Wholesome food, early hours, pure
air and bodily exercise, are instruments
not of health cnly, but of knowledge.
Every one looking downward be-
comes impressed with his own great
fuess, but looking upwards, feels his
own littleness.
We have but one moment at once,
let us improve it. Our moment will
soon come when This life will cease
may we so live as to meet it without
regret. ~
Every process in nature is the going
forth of the Everlasting on his message
of love, and any event in our expert
ence is a message Of love fulfilled.
1t is mark of a high and pure mind
to imagine greatness or goodness where
it is not; to deck with loveliness and
beauty actions which have no worthy
aim. uH M
A bareheaded, barefooted little boy
astonished wOrshipping congregation
in Massachusetts, town on a recent
Sunday by rus.ing into church and
exclaiming, "Where's papa the pigs
are out." l; -s..5
An Irish paper concludes biography
of RObespierre with the following SEN
tence: ''This extraordinary man left
no children except his brother, who
was killed at the same time.n
The '.Woman's Protective Associa-
ton of Marshalltown, Ills" is the name
of an organization devoted to putting
down the Teprehensible practice of
kissing good night between the sexes.
What shame!
4 Nashvillian who went to serenade
her and was driven up tree by her
pas bob tailed, brindle bull dog, has
written poem to his Julia in which
he advises her to sleep sweetly.
AYE" said he in a sudden burst OF
fury:
'And II you never wake until
My soft guitar you hear,
You'll sIumber I'LL old Gabriel's horn
Shall break your sleep. my dearE'
The Count de Grasse was once
wounded in the knee by musket ball.
The doctors cut and hacked and made
many incisions; when, getting out OF
all patience, the count asked why they
cnt him IN so much. "We are seek
ing" said the surgeon, "for the ball.''
-aWhy in the name of the d. didn't
YOU mention that before? | have the
ball in my pocket"
Oh. the snore. the beautiful snore.
Filling the bedroom from ceiling to floor.
Uader the coverlei under the sheet,
soft and low, and full and sw eet;
Now rising slon. like a bug In June
Now sunk to the wall OF cracked bsssoon-
Rising.
Falling,
Then rising again,
Is the beautiful snOre of my Liza Jane!
-LOuisvilie Ledger
Z A gentleman in Baltimore had been
appointed to a third class clerkship at
81 500 salary, hut failed to pass the ex-
animation. His wife applied for ii,
and, more successful than he, received
the appointment and performed the
duties required. That man needs more
pity than the husband Of lecturer up
on female suffrage.
"A subscriber is informed by the
N. Y. World that General Scott was
the author of the somewhat memorable
expression, "Wayward sisters, depart
in peace"
A lady correspondent of the Sas
Francisco Call, writing on earthquakes,
thinks that "the terogeneous paraliexes
prismatically eonverging are not due
to the silieioUs introductions of photo
spherical asteroids, but rather to para
bolic stratification of igneous zygema-"
We think so.
A Quaker lately popped the ques-
ton to fair Quakeress as follows:
ssHum; yea and verify, Penelope, the
spirit urgeth and moveth ne wonder
fully to beseech thee to cleave unto me,
flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone.n
0Hum, truly, Obadiah, thou hast
wisely said, In&smuch as 1t Is written
that Tt is not good for man to be alone
10! will sojourn with thee"
1t Is great thing for young man
to find out early that he is Of the mimi
mum of Importance in the world; that
while it demands Of him every thing
that he can do, it can get on admirably
without him. In all It's busy, pressing
forces no is not missed. Bless yous
he never has been recognized Don't