Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-16

and in these families thirty-six cases
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GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.
The best farmers motto We ever
heard of was lately exhibited at Lex
ington, Illinois. 1t read: .sNone but
live stock should be wattered."
The country is now one magnificent
flower garden, in which every tree and
shrub Is flower. ur bna sesf4
Fish culture has taken its place
among the exact sciences, and is every-
where successful. Hundreds ofsprings
and alter courses, which for centuries
have been running to waste, are being
stocked with the best varieties of fish.
which bear transplanting as brayelv "a
the trees that form our orchards.
AN Indiana woman recently caused
the arrest Of her husband for starving
his horse. 1t speaks well for the better
half of mankind, in this age of selfish
ness and corruption, when women
will even go SO far as to sacrifice their
shack hair" in the cause OF right.
Corporal punishment has been aboI-
ished in the schools of Chicago with
decided benefit. 1t should be abolished
in all schools, and Vaccination intro
duced vigorously.
1t begins to be whispered about by
the knowing ones that the embarrass-
ment OF Jay Cooke was brought about
by a conspiracy of English, German
and American '.bears"ito ldepreciate
the bonds Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, with view of gobbling them up
at nominal price. i3 -t9Jm1ai
"A deficiency of 5O,Ooo acres in the
school lands of Michigan has been dis
covered and The fact recognized by the
proper authorities at Washington.
Boston educational authorities ara
discussing plan for examining school
children, by letting each child read a
parae raph from a current newspaper.
and then asking it TO explain the allu.
sions TO persons or events contained
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Let every man bethink him that he
had better strain point and trust his
Deighbor, that his neighbcr may be the
more ready to trust in return.
Ku-kluxism in California takes the
form of anonymous warnings to en-
ployers to dismiss their Chinese ser
wants, under pain of direful punish
ment. e., GA, ,- .,-..l.....
The word "non-nativev is being used
in the Virginia campaign as an elegant
substitute for "carpet-bagger."
A papyrus manuscript found in an
Egyptian tomb has lately been trans
lated by scholar of Heidelberg, who
pronounces it, to be an address of Ra-
meses III. to all the nations of the
earth, detailing minutely all the causes
which led TO the exodus of the Jews
from the land of the Pharaohs.
BostOnians are given to notions, per-
haTs, butsonne of them are very good
notions. Tn, v have had flower mis-
sion and free soup and various other
benevolent things, and now there is an
organization that hiresearriages to rako
poor invaiids out for an airing.
The, immense block of Massachusetts
granite, weight nearly one hundred
and twenty tons, for the pedestal of the
statue of Gen. Winfield Scott, has ar
rived at Washington. The statue is
ready for erection. but it will take sew
eral weeks to move, by means of rell-
Iers, the granite. block from the steam
ler's wharf at the river to the reserva-
tion in the northwesterly part of the
city where the statue is to be placed.
Old Probabilities is about to publish
a pamphlet descriptive of the great
tornado in Southern Iowa last sum-
mer, written by scientific reporter
who saw it.
Pine leaves are utilized in Europe as
a substitute for hair in upholstery, and
will make kind Of flannel very supe-
rior for hygienic purposes. An ethereal
oil, useful as solvent and a curative,
is also made from them, while from
the rofuse valuable Illuminating gas
Is made. ga. -f,,,.t
An effort is now being made in Eng
land to demolish, finally, the last REM
nants of that stronghold OF semi-bar-
barism-thed debtors Jail.
Some sharp rum sellers are running
a floating bar room up and down the
shores of Lake Champlain. They bid
defiance to the powers that be on land,
saying that they being afioat they are
not selling liquor in either the State of
New York or Vermont. Skirting the
shores of the lake are large numbers of
laborers employed in the building of
the New York and Canada Railroad,
and to these men they sell large guam
titles of l:quOr. uHUii -GA -41o
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The shrinkage in railway ocks and
bonds since the beginning Of the finan-
cial stringency is estimated at $780,
OO0, 900. ~. r..,,,..,,. .,ii .r..
Mr.. Emerson, the poet, was In Rome
last winter, and visited the studio of
Mr.. Tiiton, the American artist, whose
.,x,a Heat hita of canvas hrino ~, almost