Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-04-03

OaA VI Iil0 W06h-1e61l-
ing home on Saturday night.
The childhood shows the man, as
morning shows the day.-Ailton.
ali things are systematized now-a-
days Even veery milk train has its
cow-catcher.
1t is sure sign Of early spring to
see cat intently watching a small
hole in the wall.
How do we know a house is oftsn
hungry? Because we see the chimney
Swallow flies.
81 don't remember :evsr having
seen you BEFORE" as the lawyer said to
his conscience.
California housewives describe soda
as "that ere stuff which you put in bis
cults to make 'em get up and Grecian
bend themselves"
He who tells a lie IS not sensible how
great task he unertakes, for he must
be forced to invent twenty more to
maintain one.-Pope.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
decided that the bonds issued by towns
and country as an inducement for the
location OF public buildings and insti-
tutions are void.
Love never reasons, but profusely
gives-gives, like thoughtless prodi-
gal, its all, and trembles then lest it
has done too little.-Hanpoh More.
"Dear mel" said fashionable lady
t) her maid, show tired 1 am of this
mourning! Who IS it, Fantine, that 1
am in mourning FORE"
Mistrust the man ~ho finds every
thing good, the man who finds every
thing evil, and still more the man who
is Indifferent to evsrything.-Larater
The Nebraska Indians are allowed to
ride free on all trains they can jump
on while the latter are in motion. The
tribe is being reduced very rapidly.
AS soon as true thought has entered
!. our minds it gives light which makes
us see a crowd of other objects which
we have never preceived before
Chdteau5riaiad.
An amateur journalist of Indiana
has made fortune by his pen. His
father-in-law died of modification and
grief after reading one of his leaders,
and left him sl3O,OOO.
A Southern paper speaking Of man
who was kicked BY horse, says: "His
life was extinct for short time, but re-
covered SO that he reached home on
Saturday evening"
n 1t is not allowable to make crosses Of
r mistletoe, the legend in regard to that
/ Evergreen being that it was once a tree,
, but that the cross Of our Saviour being
| made Gift, it dwindled to parasite.
Among the extraordinary animal re-
mains discovered by Prof. Marsh in the
Eocene beds of the Rocky Mountains
are those Of an animal, nearly the size
of an elephant, and furnished with
enormous hoofs..
1t is said to be mistake-frequenta
the assertion is made-that New York
ers ore overworked. Generally they
take more leisure than the residents Of
any other American city. They labor
hard while they are at it, but their
hours are short, and their pastimes
many.
A Massachusetts man has dog that
watches for the afternoon train regu-
larly every day, gets the evening pa
per which the expressman throws of,
and conveys it to his master. He
knows the time when the train Is due
rs well as his master, and if it is late he
. waits for it.
Out in Illinois headless man is
making himself obnoxions by ch asing
people over the prairies. By and by,
it will grow monotonous, and they
will "put head on him."
An illustrated japanese paper, with
a japanese proprietor and the editor, is
is about to be started in London. 1tis
designed to publish the writings of the
numerous japanese now in England
and this country. 1t is estsmated that
there are upwards OF seven hundred Of
these japanese, most of whom are
students.
The New York Mail says the law just
passed in Kansas, giving mothers con-
crol of their children, is a capital meas
ure and should be initiated in other
States. Children have had control of
their mother so long 1t is time for a
change. We believe in rotation in the
domestic offices.
The esta blishment OF intercollegiate
scholarship" enabling the scholar to
pursue his studies at any institution he
may choose, at home or abroad, is ad-
vocated. These scholarships are to be
open to the competition of all colleges.
! General Sherman's famous horse Lex
ington, which he rode from Atlanta to
the sea, died in Madison, Wisconsin, on
the 18th inst. Gen. Sherman gave him
to Col. Thomas Reynolds, of Madison,
FIVE years ago, after he had sustained
some injury. Col. Reynolds passed him
over to the Regents of Wisconsin Uni
versity, and there he has since remain
ed.