Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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aiiey Is reported TO be looking we'll
A down East shop-keeper advertises
quart bowls of all sizes for saIe.n
You don't hear of "a policeman being
run over-they are never in the way.
A little boy in school gave the fol.
lowing definition of economy: "Psrino
potatoes thin"
A young man who keeps collection
o1 locks of hair of his lady friends calls
hem his hair-breadth escapes.
Artificial oysters are the htest pro.
1ucts of the native ingenuity of New
England.
The Legislature of Rhode Island has
egalized marriages beteewn whites and
blacks.
Capt.knight, Sheriff of Adair County,
NO., is seven feet four inches high, and
Republican in politics.
"sir, it fatigues the indignation,
was Bobert Toombs' reply to one who
asked about reconstruction.
For the first time in twenty years.
the harbOr of Boston is 80 frozen as to
impede navigation.
During the pork-packing season,
now closing, Chicago has killed and
packed over 300, 900 hogs.
Took Eotiss! If you don't got some
peesniss here nebbe It was better YOU
don'l had loaf rount here, aind it, heb?
DIR. Mayer, of New Haven, thinks
that the earth is a great magnet. This
theory would seem to explain many
of the leading facts in terrestrial mag
netism.
New York lawyers are becoming so
extortionate that the public complains.
The holy crusade against the legal fra
ternity may as well begin there as
else.
There are nearly two Thousand chill
dren in New York under fifteen years
OF age employed in making paper col
lars. Many of them are also familia,
with cuffs.
A company has been organized at
San Francisco, with capital stock of
500 200, for the publication of a news
paper to be called the Wine Dealers
Gazette.
An Illinois physician says he has
learned by actual and repeated expert
ments that electricity, properly appli-
ed, will effect cure In all cases of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis or spotted fever.
The shipment of iron ore from Lake
Superior for 1872 exceeded those of 1871
by 13S, JIG tons, and the product of pig
iron was 1870 tons greater for the
same time.
The famine in Persia and its accom-
panying pestilences have completely
subsidized, the crops being abundant and
the prices of provisions uncommonly
low.
Ebony wood weighs SO pounds to the
cubic foot; lignum vitae the same,
hickory, 50 pounds; birch, As pounds;
beech, 10; yellow pine, SO; white pine;
25; cork, Is; and water, 81.
A regularly constituted form of gov
ernment, elementary as it may appear
exists among very many families Of
animals and insects. Reptiles are usu-
ally solitary, exhibiting neither affec
ton nor social feelings
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee dined the other
day at the Arlington table with Sen ator
Pinchbeck (colored). On the oecur-
renee being remarked upon postprau-
daily by Lees friends, he said: Seen
tlemen, Pinchbeck didn't disturb me,
tnd hope my presence wasn't disa-
agreeable to him. accept the situa-
tion."
The Ironton Register is not compli-
nentary to the place in which it is
1t says: "When one contem-
plates the amount of drunkenness, the
of whisky and her room fights,
it does seem that this town is goingto
the devil. Is there no remedy? Some
thing ought to be DONE"
A Massachusetts mechanic has been
engaged to go to Japan to build and
a paper pulp mill. The
of bamboo and other avail
able material furnishes first class facili-
ty for stock, and the cheapness of Ia
Dor, only about four dollars per month,
is expected to leave large margin for
profit.
A singular explanation is given OF
an apparent case of spontaneous COM
bustion in New Hampshire. The fire,
which was discovered in an unoecupied
room, was traced to microscopic glass
lying upon the table exposed TO the
sum.
st. Louis proposes to have the grand
est exposition on the continent during
the present year, and thinks that moth
ing but the most inexcusable apathy
can prevent such eonsummaticn.-
Large amounts have already been sub
scribed to the stock.
Mariners wlntering in the Lake Su-
perior region anticipate an early OPEN
ing. They claim that the large body
of snow which has fallen since Novem-
Der will, when 1t begins to disappear