Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

They take life easy in Mississippi.
Domestic sauce is kept in family
jars.
A friend indeed is one who is not in
need.
Instead of waiting for chance, make
one.
: Better run in old clothes than run in
debt. ~
A man sticks at nothing when he
tries to stab ghost.
A Chicago man has invented bar
tenders bell-punch. -
When it comes to point lace, all wo-
men can see the point.
Speaking ofthe round world, much
can be said on both sides.
Forty Kentuckians rode two days to
kill a fox worth sixty cents.
People who dance never pay the fid-
dler. 1t is those who get up the ball.,
A Wisconsin man recently killed six
skunks in one day. After interview
ing the first one he became reckless
and so kept on.
When an old barn and pig-sty
burned at Ashtabula, Ohio, the other
day, the star-lit heavens were made to
quiver above the leaping, roaring
tiames."
An Iowa man has invented d ten
barreled shot gun, and the face of the
small boy who didn't know it was
loaded is fairly radiant with hideous
leer of satisfaction.
A Cairo man warns people not to
trust his wife, aud she retorts by saying
that he will go without clothes all sum-
mer before she will take in washing to
rig him out again.
Oats may be good to soak the damp
ness out OF wet boots, but how many
st. Louis men can afford to keep thirty
bushels CT oats for that purpose.
The Duluth woman who put the ker-
osene can on the estove-hearth while she
went out to trade with peddlef, is
now keeping house in a barn, kindly
loaned for the occasion.
Miss kellogg says that American
girls have the sweetest voices In the
world. When one of them puts her
mouth to hole in the fence and "hol-
lers" to the girl next door to fetch
back them crimping irops," it fills the
air with melody,
A Spanish woman's mantilla, under
the laws of Spain, is sacred, and cannot
be sold. When a Spanish gentleman
is embarrassed he buys hundred
thousand dollars worth of mantiilas
for his wife and then fails honorably.
IT is generally believed in some of
the counties of Michigan that men will
do more plotting and planning to rob a
hen-coop. than would be necessary to
insure successful bank burglary.
When Peoria youth goes to spark a
girl he finds the old lady in one corner
of the room, the old man in another,
and dog under the melodeon, and he
is required to speak up like an orator.
A clergyman at Kansas City said if
there was any one within hearing OF
ais voice who would try 10 put stop
to Sunday dog fighting he'd like to
have ,em rise up. A small boy and an
old woman rose up.
BENJAMIN Franklin occasionally
stumbled upon the truth. He said !:
sThe eyes of other people are the eyes
that ruin US. Ii all but myself were
blind, l should neither want fine
house nor fine furniture.
They have Introduced d wing in
the public schV Is of Jersey ity. The
teacher draws le boys ar add by the
hair.
A Sandusky man boxed his wife's
ears for picking her teeth at hotel Ia
bIe in Columbus 1t was case of
Observation-Disclosures Thought she
was in Sandusky.
An indiana woman thanks her stars
that there will be no getting up before
daylight in Heaven, and converting
two gallons OF buckwheat batter into
buckwbeat cakes.
The United States ship Pensacola,
now at San Francisco, has been detailed
10 carry King Kalakaua home,