Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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NLSCELLANEOU US ITEMS.
\ head wind-A sneeze.
A marine swell-The porpoise.
A smart thing A mustard plaster.
The tota! cost of Mt. Auburn Cemetery
to date has been $59S, ,549 SO.
Sing Sing convicts complete 1, 100,
pairs Of shoes 1000 pairs of boots day.
Hindostan contains 186, ,O37 900 people
who pay revenue to the British govern
ment.
The measles are thick in Jackson
County. In the town of Jackson there
are over 400 cases.
What is the difference between a
sailor and beer drinker? One puts
his sail up, the other puts his ale down.
San Diego, CAL, is luxuriating on
green peas and ripe tomatoes, while
Santa Barbara prides itself on its fine
strawberries.
The January thaw began in Canada
on the last day of the month, the ther-
mometor Tin few places having gone
up to zero.
"Spicer," in the Boston Commercial
Bulletin, thinks that King Richard
III. was prohibitionist, because he
stopped King Henry's bier.
The dead walls about the city are
decorated with life size portraits of
Edmund Yates labeled, "A Bad Lot"
They seem to be. Mr.. Yates ought to
change his photographer.
Every peach bud in the West is kill
ed deader than asmelt.-[Agricultural
paper. Not one peach bud in ten is
injured in the least by the FROST An
other Agricultural Paper.
There is a proposal before the French
Chamber TO the effect that NJ. Courbet
and his friends shall pay for the re-
erecting of the column of Vendome,
pulled down during the Commune.
Thursday, Jan. 80, was chill at New
Haven, CT. The records of Yale go
back nearly one hundred years, and
Prof. Loomis says that in all that time
there has been only one colder day.
Some parties who were sinking a
we'll for gas in Kansas thought they
had struck a vein of unusually fine
quality, until further Investigation
showed they had drilled into a den of
the Mephitis Americanus,
A NEGRO in Georgia has proved that
his race is incapable of citizenship by
returning one hundred dollars paid
him by mistake. He has not read the
history of Kansas or Congress, and has
no political ambition.
New Haven has Board of Alder
men, says the Danbury News, continu-
ing: "That is good, but an italian,
brought Danbury board Of angels,
and angels are better than aldermen,
if they don't dress as WE'LL"
India must be charming place to
live in. An eminent physician has re-
Gently published book in England
which shows from statistics that at
least 10000 people are killed in India
every year by poisonous snakes.
Gatling guns, that fire four hundred
shets per minute, with range of over
one thousand yards, and which weigh
only one hundred and twenty-five
pounds, are now being made at Colts
Armory, Hartford, Ct. -
A father in Michigan, whose grief at
the absence of his son was uncontrolla-
BILE, lost good deal of credit for par
entail tenderness when it was discover
ed that the boy had two hundred and
forty-eight dollars concealed in his
shoe.
A well-to-do old gentleman at Nash
vile, Tenn, has brought the science of
economy to so fine Il point that he
stops the clock when the sun shines, to-
save wear and tear, and determines
the time of day from outside observa-
tiOns.
a fat family in:Newark afford SOL
emn warning to people addicted to
obesity. They have been dying from
sheer superfluity of flesh. One of the
children, thirteen years of age, lately
returned to dust to the extent of $50
pounds.
The coolest man yet discovered is he
who stopped train on the Pennsyl-
vania road the other night by swing
ing q lantern, and handing the fireman