Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-07
FA CTS AND FANCIES.

Minnesota hasa town named "Sleep
Eye" l i1.t 81
All Chicago cholera has mor6as at
taehment.
, Wisconsin farmers are fattening DO
tatobugs on Paris green.
A one-legged Trenton, N. j., beggal
threatens to shoot those who refus,
. him aims. --t.--1 =iii-s.
The wine served at the dinner of the
Shah with the Prince of Wales was
. dated back to 1860.
A great many New Workers weal
false ears. They are of reduced size
| from the natural outfit. r-... -ts..
The Grand Army of the Republic OF
Minnesota encamped in ice huts al
Duluth on the 18th inst.
The judges at the Springfield regatta
are "cataching it'' like hot shot from
the Eastern papers. - -i1thasl i
A silver wedding has occurred in
Chicago. Probably the couple were ad-
ditions to the new directory. h-
The house in Murfreesboro, Tenn, in
which President Polk was married, is
now used as stable. ..--.
The largest glass of lager served in
New York is now called a "policeman's
pony" And the policemen like it.
The cattle in some Of the upper
counties of South Carolina are suffering
from a disease resembling .diphtheria.
A white man was badly beaten by a
Chinaman recently at Petalnma, CALI
fornia, after having courted the fight.
A county clerk in this State refused
to issue marriage license because the
man was only four feet high and the
woman six. ...-.. :. a
An Indianapolis jailer attempted to
render his apartments burglar-proof by
coat of whitewash ON the interior. 1t
was too thin. Bra +,
The plans for the centennial ami
'versary buildings, ,thirty-seven in num-
Der, have been opened at Philadelphia
and are on exhibition.
The four National Homes for Dis
abled Soldiers at Milwaukee, Dayton,
Tagus, and Augusta are in a fioorish-
ing condition, having in the aggregate
four thousand inmates. -.
Jealous lovers in Omaha, when their
abored one is being married to another
fellow, vent their passion by sneaking
in the back door and licking the in
sides out of the wedding cake.
The Louisville Council, having an
eye to their own comfort, have passed
an ordinance providing that when a
policeman finds man drunk on the
street he shall take him home, instead
Of locking him up. /
Khiva is described as tnmble-
down city, with two wrelched walls
inclosing an inner and an cutter town,
with population variously estimated
at between 4, 900 and 10000 souls, some
seventeen mosques, and about score
of schools. .s-....-..........-
The postal-card mannfactory is now
turning out work in every way salts
factory, as to quality of paper and me-
chanical execution, but the production
has as yet failed to reach 100000 cards
per diem; but two new cutters are to
be added to the force, and it is then
hoped to reach that figure. g.tH.
The sexton of church in Barns
table, Mass, took the tongue from the
church bell on the night of the Sd off
July last, that the boys might make no
noise in their celebration next day.-li
The boys hadn't thought of making a {
noise, but when they learned that, they
put dat-iron in the bell and rang the i
old fellow nearly crazy. -. ai+5..- It
A wealthy New York gentleman of
an original turn of mind is going to J.
have stables built upon his ground /,
after theimodels of the pyramids of
Egypt. He contends the pyramid is
the proper form for dwelling-h houses
also, and has the advantage of putting :
a stop to the eternal discussions about b
Mansard aud other roofs. asp IC
The Nashville Banner tells us that .
MIR. G. s. Newsom, of that city, "has a
invented most ingenious washing
," The best washing machine 4
we ever saw was invented thousands n
of years ago, and sold before the late /,
war for $500 or 5000; but one of Lin r
coins proclamations broke the main v
spring of it, and 1t has been rather a h
worthless piece of machinery ever since i,
A sense of uselessness is one Of the
ieverest trials of old age. IL is a COM =
non complaint of old people that they e
eel themselves 10 be burden and i'm
he way, and they are no longer capable ),
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