Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-11-26
VARIETIES.

Where burns the freside brightest,
Cheering the social breast?
Where beats the fond heart lightest, =
Its humble hopes possessed? =
Where is the hour of sadness,
With meek-eyed patience borne,
Worth more than those of gladness,
Which mirth's gay cheek adorn?
Pleasure is markedly fieetness,
To those who ever roam,
While grief itself has sweetness ~
At home-sweet homei - : : =
A moose -paper-a marriage certif.
crte.
The nearest approach to a confidence
game is pulling mules tail. ~, .s-..--s
The spots of the sun at the present
time cover an area of nearly 7S,0GO
miles. ~. +.
"The history of the Democratic par.
ty fas been wonderful history."-
World r.
So has that of the devil. p
Never attempt to form an opinion OF
. wonlan'- weight ny, her sighs.
Butter is unlike human beings. 1t
gains strength as sit grows old.
Queen Victoria wasn't sick, and she
isn't dead, and she didn't even wish
that she were dead -
Sharon'5 prospects for the Nevada
Senatorship have greatly riser. As he
rose was he not Rose of Sharon?
Josh Billings says that in the beds
lof many hotels syusleep sum, but role
lover a good DEAL .
A patron of a poor hotel said every
thing that he obtained was cold bat
the water, and everything was sour but
the pickles.
According to Kansas decision a
husband and vile can enter a show on
a ticket reading, admit one.' Most
righteous judge.
The Louisville Courier-JournaI re-
joices at the Democratic victories. but
mourns over their. natural result-a
rise in the price of whisky.
If you want to know whether your
grandmother was crossed d-eyed. or
where your great uncle stood in his
arithmetic Class, just run for office, and
you'll know it all.
/. 1t may be ennobling 10 labor, as the
philosopher says, but it's no time to
tell a man SO after he has just fini he'd
carrying in two tons of coal with.t bas-
ket.
There Is one thing no true Southern
lady will do-ansi that is, marry n
young Northerner, no matter how
handsome, respectable or desirab be
before he asks her.--Rit hmOnd (Val
Inquirer.
A child, being asked what were the
three great feasts of the Jews. pro,upt-
ly and not unnaturally replied, Break
fast, dinner and supper
Formula of divorce used by a negro
justice in D,sha county, Arkansas: sAs
Jined you, SD ] bust YOU 'sunder. So
go, you niggers. You go.
It's easier for needle TO go through
the eye Ofa camel, than for a woman
10 say, '1t'sof no consequepce,' when
you kick hole in Ier new silk dress.
A spread-eagle orator wanted the
wings ofa bird to fly to every village
and hamlet in the broad land, but he
Wllted when naughty boy i'm the
SAO"u odtiS Oul. 1uuu De SHOt IOr a
goose before you had flied Elile.'
The tomb of Agassiz is to bear block
OF granite, which is now being extract
ed from point at the lower glacier of
the Aar, near the spot where Agassiz,
Desor and Noght pursued their scienti-
fic explorations.
An inebriated man, walking along
the street, regarded the moon with
sovereign contempt: You needn't feel
so proud he said; you are full only
once month, and l am every night.
A few days ago, Rishard A. Dana.
the poet, was eighty-seven years old.
Sixty-two years ago he WAS editor of the
North American Review, and receiv-
ed 'Thanatopsis'' from William Cullen
Bryant, who was then young man
aged eighteen years, and who recently
celebrated his eightieth birthday.