Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-17
VARIETIES.

The last rows of summer will soon
come off.
How to tell the weight of fish-By
his scales.
People who must draw the line some
times-Anglers.
Wealth is not his who gets it, but
his who enjoys it.
Colorado calls for more women. 1t
has scarcely single one.
A bride OF an hour regards herself
as lawfully welded to time.
If man doesn't, take care of No. l.,
he will soon have Otto take care of.
First law of gravity-never laugh at
your own jokes.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each
of his children tin whistle.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life is caused by our
standing in our own light.
A day school for convicts has been
established in the Massachusetts, State
Prison. -2l.-lL}
There is man in Lawrence, Mass,
who can shoulder piece of water-plpe
weig hing AZ pounds. @
Sunday School Teacher-'Anna,w what
must man to, be forgiven? Anna-'He
must sIn. -FO rass Fs {
Keokuk has been tossing pennies to
a hand-organ man who owns SIS, 900
farm in ', iSconsin, andafeelS bad about
it. 4Ls.-F sE
Draw poker-A youth in Weathers-
field, Ct, burnt his hand very badly
the other day in drawing hot poker
out of the fire.
Avoid school teachers, says man OF
the world, for they are always begin
ming to learn " hat you have forgotten.
A reporters education is not now
considered complete unless he has
made a balloon ascension and been
down in a diving-beli.
About IL 900 poor children have been
York this season.
Prepared Laudanum' is the name
under which the prohibited is sold al
the drug stores in Bennington, VT.
Delaware county, Pa, has venera
BILE cat twenty-five years old, and 1
sheep over whose wool tW enty winter
have passed.
A man who respects his wife ant
family will. never tell a lie when an,
one asks him how he got that scar o,
mis- face, but will explain how "a sticl
of wood dew up, you know
A coroner in Delaware, while hold
ing an inquest on body, summoned
eighteen women and made them tel
their ages, and now his midnigh
dreamsare INTERRUPTED by folks shoot
ing through his doors.
A youth in San Francisco recent,
testified on oath that, according to tn
statement of his mother, he was borl
hlteen days alter his brother. Medic,,
records contain few such cases, 5u
they are very rare. lI
When a Massachusetts temperate
man gets drunk they carry him int
the presence of his wife and leave hin
there, without any means of defending
himself.
Upto the age Of twenty-five a Ver
mont girl must submit to have her ear
boxed by her mamma, but after tina
the parents get kind O. reckless and lie
her marry some one.
During hurricane in Kansas,
county treasurer became so terrific
that he ack aow ledged defalcation {
81 500. After the wind had sub>ide
he denied it. '---
The Detroit Tribune has just move
into bran new stone Office, and print
picture of il with man going u
stairs two steps at 2 time to whip tn
editor,i and a woman coming dow
street with piece ofpoetry for him
The Independents of Nebraska hav
nominated j. F. Gardener for Coy
ernor., --- ~ra So
A cargo of tea valued at S400, 600 hs
been seized by the collector of Ne
York on charge of attempt to defrau
the revenue.
The twenty-second annual ConveI
tion of the American Pharmacutic,
Association commenced at Louisville
Wednesday.
The latest news from General Mile
shows the late fight by him with til
Indians, to have been a greater victor
than was at first reported. The Ind
aus were completely routed and man
killed -