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

The Pittsburgh Commercial justly re-
marks that advertising as a means of
prosperity is not as well undersoOd as
It should be. -stItisa fact that no one
who has advertised literally and sys-
temat ticaliy has feit like disputing that
it was the best spent money he put
into his business. AS horse was never
made fat by single bushel of cats, so a
single advertisement is never a perfect
test OF the benefits of advertising
A WISCONSIN editor speaks ofa wind
which 'just sat down on its hind legs
and howled."
9 Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence ofthem IS
q seed from which will springa new
crop of weeds.
A very old and much soile.i resident
of Newton. having died, the sDanbury
Nems pleasantly announces, sAnother
landmark gone."s.as ~ ,YEIR04
A South Carolina engineer, Saturday,
had to throw steam and hot water on
negro man to make him get of the
track to let the train pass. - .lGK a
/ A Nantucket paper tellsa story in
tended to trump that of the western
mince pie which exploded and scalded
smalIboy! 1t says that lady who was
baking some potatoes, had one explode
with terrific force in the oven, making
"a report equal to musket, and shiver-
ing the poor murphy into fragments as
fine as -four. s - .i5as al0rrD + Z
General Sickles states that he has ne
potiateda a loan of two millions, at five
per cent. for the new Erie board, upon
securities rating as high as seventy,
and that the new loan can readily be
paid of. With the earnings in q very
short time, and is only needed to tide
the company5ever the rugged places
left by five years of Jay Gould.
The State of Iowa is q marvel q
American enterprise. In population
and general improvement, probably nc
lStatein the Union has advanced as
rapidly and as permanrntly as Iowa
In illustration we notice that the town
of Iawlew, which three years ago was
4 patch of hazel bush, with only one
house in. sight, shipped $12'000.00(
pounds of railroad freight last year.
A Surgeon went to the side of an
ague patient in a, military hospital, aMne M
inquired, how he felt, In the midsto
shivering chill the reply was No
no-not a da-damn bit be-bet-tter.' y
81 am sorry; but your case is a very
peculiar one, and hard to get hold Of u
said the surgeon SSsympathe etically
lYYe-es; that's $780," said the shivering
Esoldier. rsThe da-danln case-shakes1
So yo4you cam Igi get saholdIof u
A deacon in Connecticut town, one
day last week, discovered a big dog
lproW1ing around his yard and thought
he might do some injury to valuable
plants. $50 up went the Window ano
out went one Of the deacon's besl
SUNDAY go-out- to- meeting boots. Th<
dog grabbed the boot ana disappeared
and at last accounts neither dog neI
| boot had been heard from. i; E
Z It related of Losing that he wa:
occasioIall so absent-minded TINT he
konece knocked OF his own. door. when
the servant, notreeo eognizing her master
looked out of the window and isaiq
tsThe,o Professor iris not at heme. :
sOh, very well, u, ,us replied LesSing
composedly walking away. Il Viii cal ~
again. sii ii fssrnf svEa saii3 sszgssib :
An English gafnekeeper has recently
broke a black SOW to hunt game ia the
woods, and she11 Is said TO run in the
| hunt with wonderful success She will
track game, back and stand, a1d, point
partridges, pheasants, lsriipes, and fab-
bits as skiilfnliy as a bred pointer. .sShe
bounds in RESPONSE to q Whistle affd
wags her head aud -squeais with dellghl
on being shown 2 gp9,slI3 10 saolia4a
HE'S ONnY sSHAKB.-sonae doctors
leave no stone tinturned toieure a pa.
tieft. One gaveo A. woman fourteen
kinds on me dicifik to cure the eIiiIls
IShe has Been cold ever since; but Sine
has not shaken a shake except when
| the, hearse ran over o stump on the way
| to the grave. The doctor has moved
away from there. ,sGf1Ts ~ % hisnsa1
: !" - 80 ss'ftSeif sd 10 lsgis .fs sliis,q
{ Nebraska has designated the 10th day
of April as .Arbor Day, ,DSsto be- OBJ
served by the whole Stateas tree plant
ing day; The State Board Of Agricul-
Iure eiefers prizes to the individuals and
counties that shall accomplish the most
tree planting on that day. 1t is qpite
Ia novel method OF turning wilder
mess intoa vast Iforest.l a3YA = / .lC
An. immense anvil block, weighing
Washington Navy Yard. This Is said
to be the largest iron casting ever made
in the United States,