Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-11-05
VARIETIES.
Bad debts-owing grudges.

Bad debts-owing grudges.
To secure result, lock it up.
A fact is worth a thousand state
ments.
Fruitful in axe-idents-A chopping
sea.
A high note One of thousand dol
lars.
Moonlight mechanics is the latest for
burglars.
To Mr.. Pewer, of Virginia, all things
are pewer.
The latest Irish fashion is a home
rule hat. 1t has no crown.
A fall pippin, a coal stove and news
paper are not bad things to sit up with.
They have tailor down there who
modestly styles himself tho Poole Of
st. john
Ex-President Thiers arrived in Nice
Thursday, and was greeted with a
great demonstration.
The Judges of the United States Su-
preme Court made their annual call on
the President Thursday.
A fire in the Black Diamond Mine,
Colorado, Tuesday, caused a loss of
$50, 900.
1t is estimated that the yield of bull
lion in Colorado this year will foot up
about s6, 900, 600.
Three hundred Kickapoo Indians
now in Mexico are to be transferred to
Indian Territory.
There were eighty-five fatal cases of
diptheria in New York city last week,
against seventy-tive the week before.
A Springfield MAS firm has under
taken contract to supply 20, 900 pistols
for the Russian Government.
What is the use of talking of this
worlds brightness and sunshine to a
man that has tight boots?
'Darwin's Darlings' is the suggestive
name OF newly organized negro min
strel troupe at the West.
The most bitter critics we have are
those who have failed themselves to
write anything worth reading.
The keeper of restaurant in New
York announces 'paroxysmaI stews' as
a speciality on his bill of fare.
The English folks have grown tired
of lending Joaquin Miller money, and
he has got to come home and go to
work.
He who has nothing to do in this
world but amuse himself, has got the
hardest job on hand know of,
A Memphis policeman thought that
his orders included all cases of drunk
enness, and, therefore, arrested the
Mayor and was discharged.
They have now invented shot guns
which can be carried in the pocket, and
q fellow can slide out and 90 hunting
Sunday and no one know it.
If you wake up in the night in an
Italian hotel and shoot a burglar, the
chances are that you can't see the land
lord next morning and that his wife is
a widow.
Miss Heilbron, the prima donna, is
said to blush like a schoolgirl" Eng
lish schoolgirl is probably meant.
Blushing is one of the lost arts in this
country.
When two Georgians meet now they
don't go on about the weather, but
merely exchange the novel salutation:
DO you think that ToOmbs will ever
die?'
My dear sir said candidate, accost-
ing stray wag on the day of election,
L am very glad to see you.' You
needn't be- replied the wsg, i have
voted
Heaven, according to the idea of
Vermont clergyman, is 125, 5,00O,0OO
miles from the earth, and Blobbs stop
ped being good at eight o'clock this
morning. He says it's too far of.
A Michigan farmer complains that
he is not receiving half the campaign
speeches this year necessary to light
his fires, and he has had to make a
shaving contract with cooper shop.
When the yellow corn -s;ghs to be
husked and the golden pumpkins yearn
to be gathered, it is no time for a paper
to stop and argue whether Edna Dean
Proctor is nineteen or ninety.
An attempt was to have been made
last week to get up another woman'S
of the leaders were disappointed about
their Fall bonnets, and the affair didn't
come off.
A rich but parsiminous old gentle
man, on being taken to task for his un-
said: True, / don't
give much, but if you only knew how
It hurts when 1 give anything. you
wouldn't wOnder.'
In the Jay Cooke case, the order of
he District Court appointing a meet
ng of creditors under the twenty-sev-
,nth section of the Bankrupt act has
,een reversed.
Lewis johnson, charged by Ebert
Jackson with the murder of Samuel j.
Jones at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in
June, 1873, now admits that he was
,arty to the murder, but says Jackson
truck the first blow.
Four black bears were killed two
niles west of Waterloo, Ind, Wednes-
lay, the largest of which weighed two
hundred and fifty pounds. The citi-
ems of Waterloo and vicinity turned
ut to enjoy the sport, which they new
r had before, or are likely to have
gain. Fires in the big forests of West
rn Ohio doubtless drove them out, and
orced them into this locality.
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