Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-27
MLyCELLANEOUg TTEVS

! Berlin.
A lawyer is like beggar: each is a
solicitor.
Texas farmers have commenced
ploWing for the new season.
Why is a chicken pie like a gun
smiths shop? Because it contains
fowl-in. pieces.
How many sticks go to the building
Of a crows nest? None; they are all
carried.
The income tax in the United King
dom is to be reduced to three pence on
the pound.
A wicked bachelor says that the bon
net of the period looks like the plume
hat of dancing dog.
After all obligations are paid Horace
Greeley's daughters will each have one
hundred thousand dollars.
Spectators demand $40 and $500 for
a sittiug in the Grand Opera, st. Pet
ersburg, on "Patti nights"
1t is proposed to amalgamate into
one company the entire network OF
railways belonging to West Switzer-
land.
The Hon. Arthur Henry Chichester
has been fined fifty dollars for having
assaulted two London police consta-
bles.
A league is beng formed throughout
England for the repeal of the "conta-
geous disease act" which may be term
ed st. Louis social evil law.
Lace handkerthicts are growing too
common among the wealthy to be
fashionable with the servant girls of
Chicago.
A few admirers of the brilliant tai
ents possessed by Mime Clara Sehu-
mann have purchased an annuity for
that lady of thousand thaIers.
The Shah of Persia has conferred
upon Carl Siemens the order of the
Lion and Sun for his efficient arrange
ment ofthe telegraph system of that
country.
Considerable excitement reigns in
musical circles in Prague, where Joach-
i'm Is about to make its first appear
ance at one of the concerts of the Con-
lservatorium.
A laborer employed at Watkins
iron works, MillwaIl, London, is in
custody, charged with having thrown
a shOvelful of red-hOt cinders in the
face of fellow-workman.
as the Philadelphia courts have de-
cided that steam whistles must not be
blown within the corporation limits,
some of the workshops are putting in
gongs that can be heard two miles,
thus renewing the nuisance.
The italian Opera House, at Paris,
has not been opened, and the names OF
NM. Lemaire and Verger, the direct
ors, are now down in the list of bank
rupts. In their short season last year
the loss was over 81 600 frances.
Lieutenant Lullier, the Communist,
who is now on his way TO the convict
settlement of New Caledonia used to be
a renowned duelist. Even NJ. Paul de
Cassagnac was deferred by his reputa-
ton from accepting challenge from
him.
One of the most celebrated physicians
of Philadelphia, it is said, eats two raw
apples every evening before he retires
to rest, and thinks they not only sup
ply food to his brain, but keep the
whole system in healthy condition.
Amateur theatricals have become so
frequent in New York that it has been
found expedient to publish a pro-
gramme paper for these performances
exclusively. 1t is called the Amateur
Stage, and is very neatly gotten up.
A correspondent of a.: Charleston pa
per thinks that New York mas never,
$50 faras its semi-public social events
are concerned, laid higher claim to
refinement and cosmopolitan life than
it does during the latter half Of this
winter"
The Prince of Wales will probably
shortly visit Ireland, and will be in
stalled president of the Order of Chiv-
airy, a new grade recently established
or revived in Masonry, and the event
will be celebrated by.a grand Masonic
and ball in Dublin.
Mrs. Jenkens, who is widow and
rather poor, makes no secret of her feel
ings for an old bachelor who has very
large farm and comfortable dwelling.
She says she loves the very ground he
walks on, and adores the house he lives
in. Something like true love, that.
A Paris correspondent of the PAIL
Mall Gazette says that the lady to
whom NJ. Rochefort was married un-
der such tragic circumstances a couple
of months ago, just before she received
the last sacraments of the Church, has
her health, and is now able
to walk about Versailles.
1t is said by usually well-informed
that Victor Emmanuel
has felt the first blow of that terrible
malady with which he has been so
ong threatened, apoplexy; that Prince
Humbert is menaced with still worse