Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-01


One hundred and thirty-six lives are
said to have been lost in boring the
HOosac Tunnel. 49,
Canada is to have permanent COM
mittee on woods and forests, looking to
their preservation.
Raleigh, N. c. hasn't q public school,
but it has just paid out $40, 200 on ac-
count of lew criminals.
THERE'S man who still doubts thai
the earth goes round the sum- He asks
the Scientific American for its opinion
on the subject.
The total number of pupils enrolled
in the schools of Teunesses Is 178,076.
OF this number A,325 are colored.
There are $50 colored schools in the
State now organized, and 542 colored
teachers employed.
An old statute has been revived In
New York. and now Justice Of Hud-
son County is charged under 1t, with
being a common barrafor and stirring
up strife, and setting bad example to
the citizens of the township.
The great rise in the price of coal in
France has caused q company to be
formed who propose to utilize the
ocean tides by means OF proper ma
chinery. rhe first experiment is to be
made ut st. Malo, where the tide rises
about thirty feet.
The c)asting trade in Alaska il rap
idly increasing, and complaints ara
made that there is correct chart of the
coast. As there are upward of 26, 900
miles of coast line, the work of survey
ing. if undertaken. will necessarily last
several years
Tell "a lady that you recently saw
lady acquaintance Of hers, and the first
question in reply Is, ''What did she
have on?" Tell her husband that You
have seen an acquaintance of his, and
you may re sure he will ask, What's he
doing n0w?'
The st. Louis Christian Advocate has
no ear for music, and complains that
church choir is sacrilegious when the
line ave are going home to die no
more" is rendered, "We'er going
home to Dinah More, to Dinah More,tO
Dinah More"
Item for "relic" hunters: The Gus
todiaq Of yhat had been Garibldi's
bed on Ischia was heard
to mutter on seeing lady carrying
few straws as relic: They will do il,
I've stuffed it six times already since
The General left.
Fellow trabellers," said q colored
"efI had been eatin' dried
apples for week, am den took to
for mont, / couldn't feel
more swelPd up dan / am dis mint
wild pride an vanity, at seein' such
full Tendance har dis evein'."
A drunken Irishman was found by
his friends, the other night, lying in
the snow, with his heels placed upon
the fence, warming his toes by moon
light. He was muttering: "What q
cowld FIRE you have got, Biddy darlint;
have on some carrysane or my futs will
fraza.p
A New Hampshire farmer went to q
evening prayer-meeting last
week, and was so conscience-stricken
that he returned home and knocked in
the head of six cider barrels. They
say that If be win pay some Of his old
debts standing for the last ten years
they will believe 1t to be genuine
There is nothing so well calculated to
upset mans risibilities rs to receives
poke in the stomach, at 2 A. NJ accom-.
panied by the information that THAT
front door is unlocked" Fortunate
woman is she whose husband has such
control over his mirth as to not awake
the rest of the family while attending
to the matter.
A "solid" Nashville man took q
country friend home to dinner with
him the other day. They rode out on
the Spruce-street cars, and, just before
the conductor came around, the welthy
Nashville man inquired Of the ruralist,
"Will you pay the fare, or will II"
Upon this gentle hint, the country
friend produced his wallet.
"I've known many a church to die
cause 1t didn't give enough, bot
1 never knoweda church to die cause
it gave too much. Dey don't die dat
way! Brederen, has any of you know
Ell church to die cause 1t gave too
much? II you do, just let me know,
and I'll make n pilgrimage to dat
church, and I'll climb by de soft light
of do NOM to its mOGg-cOvoreo roof.