Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-09
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

Threw blacksmith shop at the Rock
Island Arsenal is the largest one in the
United States, If not in the world. IL
is built of stone and iron, has a 'front.'
age of two hundred and ten feet on the
main avenue, with two wings each
three hundred and fifty feet long and
sixty feet wide.
a kalamazoo (Michigan) merchant
keeps his money in his Bible, allow ing
that it il far less liable to be disturbed
there than i'm the safe.
A hopeful proprietor of the inven-
tion of new rail in two parts, with
packing between, living in New Hamp-
shire, intimates that he declines $780,
600 for his patent right, and will not
look at anything less than half mil
lion. The precise value of the inven-
tion cannot be determined until after
practical test.
Iowa papers sound the timely warm
ing for all farmers to look out for prairie
fires. Over quarter of million dol
lars WAS lost in this way last year, be-
sides serious loss of life.
a curiosity in short hand writing is
lsh0wu at the Vienna Exposition by
Herr Schneider, Professor of Steno-
graphy at Vienna. 1t consists of the
whole Iliad of Homer, written in so
small space Us to be enclosed in a
nutshell.
1t is intended to carry out in Eng
land, in an extensive way, the French
invention of making paper from the
sheath of the hop stalk, when the outer
skin has been removed. The substance
made from the material is of great sup
pleness aad delicacy, and by its en-
ploymeDt in this manufacture a new
and considerable source of profit will
be opened for the hop grower
The bees in the vicinity of Paducah,
KY, have not paid that strict attention
to business which is Characteristic of
the apiarian tribe, and the result is
that they have not accumulated stock
of honey sufficient to last them through
the winter. Perhaps they have been
watching their human fellow creatures
and have been lied to the conclusion
that there are other ways of making
subsistence than working for it.
Says the New York Horll. $50
stable and reputable is the manage
ment that the Chicago exposition may
be confidently expected to atone for
the very contemplate swindle perpe-
trated in the name of the city by the
prompters of the June jubilee" "a
hit, very palpable hit"
The Smithsonian Institution has just
published systematic Index" of for
eign institutions of science and learn
ing, showing localities and addresses of
all the universities, museums, libraries,
and societies in foreign
countries.
Hdrpa's Bdzdr rebukes the trite
witicisms and insinuations respecting
and offers a pungent
reminder: Even rs things are in socie-
ty, how many married man is in
debted to bis mother-in-law for taking
a thousand burdens from his wife's
shoulders and his own.
a very remarkable coal vein has just
been discovered six miles south of
Golden City, Colorado. 1t is tilted
up deposit of gray clay, filed with the
trunks and limbs of trees resembling
red cedar, transformed into bright,
hard coal, resembling jet. Large guam
titles of rude flints, tools and arrow
heads have also been found.
An eastern genius, fit for treason,
stratagem and spoil, has patented
what he is pleased to call a musical
whistle, which initiated
he sounds of sixteen differen3 instru-
u ents, such as the bugle, fife, piano,
n nelodeon, &C., and gives vent to them
III at once, if desired.