Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30

Sucn saliva III Tue stomach WOulO un'
doubtedly, in most cases, not be attend.
ed with serious consequences. This
shows the sbsurdity of the idea that
the normal human saliva should be
poison in the mouth Of any animal,
whether possessing poison bags con-
nected with its teeth or not.
The story reminds US of one which
went round the papers some years ago,
about man who was bitten by a rattle
snake through his boot. Long after
his death every one who tried on tina {
boot died in consequence of scratch
in the foot produced by serpent's
tooth projecting inside the boot, and
the cause of the mischief was only dis
covered when many persons had been
killed. The inventor of this story did
not know that the rattlesnBke poison is
only active when freshly injected from
the poison-bag.-iScie,1tifc american.
An Editor of I775.
John F. Mines, Scribner for January.
In l775 there were four newspapers
published in New: York. Rivington's
Royal Gazetteer was the subservient
tool Of the British authorities. The
Mercury published by Hugh Gaine, was
a time-server and trimmer. Ander-
sons constitutional Gazette was born
and died in 1775, and had no influence
whatever. The New York journal,
published by John Holt, was the stur
dy and unpurchasable organ of the
Sons of Liberty. Its editor fed the
tity after the disastrous battle on Long
Island, and he was heard of afterwards
as publishing his newspaper at one
and another of the towns on the Hud-
son under circumstances that would
have appalled, less determined man.
In the month of August, 1777, while
ut Esopus, he printed an advertisement
in which he proposed to take any kind
Of country produce in the way of trade.
His prospectus reads very quaintly:
"And the printer, being unable to car
ry on his business without the neces-
saries of life, is obliged to affix the fol-
lowing prices to his work, viz: For q
quarter of neics, - pounds of beef, pork,
veal, or mutton, or four pounds of fine
-four, or half a bushel of wheat, or one
bushel of Indian corn, or half cord of
wood, or 800 VT. of hay, or other arti-
cleS OF country produce, as he shall
want them, i'll like proportions, or
as much money as will purchase them
at the time; for other articles of print
ing work, the prices to be in proper
ton to that of the newspaper. All his
customers, who have TO spare of the
above articles of country produce, he
hopes will let him know it, and afford
him the necessary supplies, without
which his business here must very
soon be discontinued" II is gratifying
to be able to state that the sturdy pa
triOt survived the Revolution, and
lived to revisit the city, of which ne
had been Postmaster in 1775. His pa
triotic lAbors and sufferings justly en-
titled him to the following epitaph.
IA due tribute to the memory of John
Holt, printer to this State, native of
Virginia, who patiently obeyed deaths
awful summons on the 3Oth of Janua-
ry, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
To say that his family lament him is
needless; tnat his friends bewail him,
is useless; that all regret him, unneces-
rary; for that he merited every esteem
is certain. The tongue of slander can
not say less, though justice might say
more" Such an epitaph, inscribed
over the dust of an editor, who had.al-
so held commission as Postmaster,
opens wide field of emulation to the
journalists and officials of these later
days.
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