Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-15
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"Develope your minerals" is the
Californian style of asking person to
pay his debts.
Hotel-keepers are people we have to
put up with.
When is a lawyer most like a mule !?
When he draws upa conveyance.
y great hardship-An iron steamer.
The color of the wind was discovered
by the man who went out and found it
6tea0.
The rarest railroad accidental safe
Journey.
A noisy piece of croekery-The cup
that cheers.
Baltimore will hereafter receive no
girls into the High School under II, and
Baltimore is right. No one can tell
how many children have been ruined,
mentally and bodily, by "a system Of
forcing. 80.
"Booth will have majority; but
can't say how IDuch," was the prope-
sy of Horace Greeley at a spiritual Sc
ance In San Francisco, ten days before
the election. Booth had a majority.
thereby demonstrating that Horace has
greatly improved as a prophet since his
advent into the other world.
The Citizens National Bank, of Ha-
geIstown, Md, has been bought I'D and
IS to be transferred to Washington, to
I'LL the place and occupy the building
OF the First National Bank, which col
lapsei with Jay Cooke. The stock
brought premium Of sixteen per cent.
More speeches. Cougressmen i'm
droves have been calling on the Bu-
reau of Statistics for facts and figures
relative to imports, exports, products,
manufactures, ETC., to be used i'm dis.
cusSing commercial and financial top
les after the recess.
1t is the one difficulty of present E.
nancial discussions that no two men
can agree as to- fundamental principles.
In every other department of human
knowledge there are axioms, but here
there is somebody ready 10 dispute
|anything. The statistics of the world
need to be collected and collated, in the
first place, so that there may be an ac-
knOwledged basis of fact; then master
mind must interpret them into princi-
pies. --.....lr...
Young men and women, remember
this: that the average duration of life
of the Incorporate Is, among mechan-
les, working, and lab0ring men, eigh-
teen years; professional men and gen.
tlemen, fifteen years; women fourteen
years.
In some recent experiments on the
behavior of metal under stress, it was
found that metal strained so far as to
take a permanent set, and left under
the strain producing it. gains in power
of resistance up to a certain limit.
A scientific triumph. Schultz's chro-
nOscope, used in estimating the iEitial
velocity of a cannon ball, measures an
interval of time to within one fifty
thousandth of second.
According TO a correspondent who
has been making trip of observation
through the Indian Territory, the Cher
okees are advancing in the arts, sci
ence and government, to degree that
is flat contradiction of the theory that
the red man cannot be civilized under
any conditions. 9.a7-
The American trade dollar has been
formally recognized by the Chinese
government as a medium of trade, and
will henceforth be received by them in
payment of duties at its intrinsic value,
which is 1851 of pure silver. .s6i
Two of the engineers in charge Of the
field parties of the Wheeler expedition
have arrived in Washington. They
explored highly interesting region in
the Rocky mountains Of southern Colo
RADIO, and return laden with valuable
scientific data. riaa5 a. sd
The grain fleet wintering at Milwau-
kie, has carrying capacity of 1.a99 500
bushels. When navigation opens in
the spring, these vessels will make q
market impression on the stock of
grain in store hen they take out their
lsH isIs t.ns--g
Lumbermen and farmers in the
northern pine regions are bothered
about getting along with their work of
logging and clearing this winter, for
the reason that the ground is not fri
zen, owing to the early fall of snow,
and still remaining quantity.
Poor North Carolina is in miserable
plight. Everybody feels poor except
the political thieves. Property IS de
and the taxes are grievous
burden. The State is Democratic.
Trout breeding on an extensive scale
has become an established enterprise
near New Bedford, Mass. A Matching
house has been constructed with Ca
pacity of four hundred thousand eggs.
A good brother in Deckertown, N. J.,
,dvertises i'm the local paper that he
lidn't set out his trees for hitching-posts
or those who attend the Methodist
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