Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS wEMs.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The returns to the New Orleans Ex-
Tchange show that seventy per cent. of
the cotton has been picked, showing an
1 increase of twenty TO thirty per cent.
greater in the several States than at
l this time last year.
1t is reported that the Khedive OF
Egypt is about to turn the great pyra-
mid of GhiZeh intOa lighthouse for the
fbenefit of the commerce on the Nile.
Bat how will the Pharoahs and Ra-
mess, and Ptolmy5 roll over in their
graves and agitate their cerements as
they behold the Khedive making light
of their monument?
A small silk factory has been estab-
iished in San Francisco, by three prae-
tical silk manufacturers from Lyons,
France, wEich is the silk market of
the world. They have two looms at
work, one of which makes taffetaS and
the other foulard silks. They express
/ themselves as confident that California
possesses all the advantages which the
most sanguine could desire for the man.
ufacture of silk, and that it will pay
larger profits than any other invest
ment.
indianapolis needs teachers insti-
! tute badly. Out of sixteen applicants
for teachers certificates examined by
| the County Examiner, recently, only
one passed examination, and he on q
basis of seventy-three one-hundredths
| of perfection. One candidate, twice be-
fore an applicant, failed to give satis-
factory answer to single question on
the list.
From this time on to the fourth of
next March, the Washington cores
pOndents will vex the souls of the
American people with rumOrs Of
changes in the Cabinet, and will make
cast of it as ofteu rs the necessities of
| the case seem to require. when you
are at a loss for subject" said an cid
/ clergyman to a young one, 'pitch into
the Pope;" so when news Is a little
scarce, they publish Cabinet rumOr.
/ The latest feminine fashion is to lie
J in beC until three o'clock in the after
inocl, taking breakfast between sheets
and propped up by pillows. After that
the newspapers and novels until the
hour ofFising. This is regarded as the
most elegant luxury of Incidence.
Nobody, so far as we are informed
ever saw the body of mule that died
natural death. a man in Terre Haute,
Ind, has one of the hybrids which 10
now forty-one years old, and it is still
as frisky and nimble with its heels as
when young thing.
In Sweden the factory system has
been applied to butter making, with
gratifying results. Cream is carried in
wagons in high timed sheet iron cars
in winter from fifty to seventy-fye
miles. In summer it IS conveyed in
ships in r,friseTatars. r, The capitsl of
the company Is 1900. 1t sends but
ter to London, Paris and st. Peters
burgh for consumption, and is doing a
large business.
Another dodge has been invented. A
"plain man" in a car or crowd sud-
denly finds gold ring in the dirt. A
bystander looks at the ring, pronounces
the man lucky, and the ring worth ten
or fifteen dollars. of course. 'splain
man" wants TO sell it, and will take five
dollars. He finds buyer, who soon
ofnearly all his investment.
A large number of the most infiuen-
tial colored men in Louisiana have ap-
pointed astanding committee of fifteen,
with p. q. S. Pinehbsck, Lieutenant
Governor, &C., chairman, ito do all
that the eXigencies of the situation de-
mands, and, if necessary, to call q con-
ventiOn of the colored people. A belief
that they ''can no longer trust the
white representatives to do theirwork"
is the assigned reason for this move
A school teacher in Georgia disagreed
with a lady pupil as to the spelling Of
the word marriaee-one insisting upon
the other upon an equally
preposterOus orthography. The big
brother of the lady came upon the
stage, and was about to chastise the
teacher for the insult put upon the
'sspell' of his sister. Teacher drew
pistol and gave big brother lesson in
punctuation. Big brother was brought
to comma-tose state, not to q full
stop"
A citizen of Delaware has obtained
patent on very ingenious invention,
which is to be used as an ordinary uln-
ner basket, with a heating apparatus
attached, by which a person conveying
his dinner to his work may have his
warm meal the same as at home. There
are compartments for coffee or tea, and
edibles, underneath which is small,
neat furnace, which may be heated
with charcoal or q lamp, heating the
contents to any degree desired. The
patentee Is a deafand dumb man.
Th re isa strike in sll the shoe fac
tories of Utica, New York. The i'm
mediate cause of the trouble IS the at
tempt on the part of the employers to
break up the Crispin Society, it being
alleged that all the large shoe manu-
featuring firms of Utica had agreed,
under the penalty Of five thousand dol
ars, not to employ Crispin.