Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

What is slush? It's snow matter.
The war of races-races for Office
Charity stays at home in cold weather
. Everyday cheerfulness is one of the great
virtues
Dentist ballad-'O, who can tell the jaws
we feely
The bump Of destructiveness-a railway
collision.
Chicago is called the Insurance Companies
Cemetery.
Read hot-the trade mark letters on q
warm stove
Lent is approaching. Look out for umbrel-
las and books
The Beecher- Tilton literature has injured
the sale of comic almanacs this year.
Bringham Young has sufficiently recovered
to sit up and get married occasionally.
1t will not improve your understanding to
have your shoes fixed by a sherry cobbler.
True merit, like the pearl inside an oyster,
is content to remain quiet till it finds an Open
ing.
Now is the season when people should econ
omize by buring almanacs instead of wood and
coal-Terre Haute Gazette.
William Knabe, of Iowa, died of fright
when told that his house was on fire. Moth
ing like good heavy insurance.
MIR. Spencer, of Moodus, Conn, cast des-
pairing look upon his twenty first child the
other day. No wonder they call repeating
rife Spencer.
One Of the most interesting and hotly con-
tested law suits ever known in Michigan arose
from the fact that two wemen claimed the
same waterfall
A Navada man who had seven homely
daughters, got a paper to hint that he had
seven kegs of gold in his cellar, and every girl
was married in five months
4 thought t was queer he didn't holler out
the last time hit him. said Mrs. Huse, of
Alabama, to the jury who were trying her for
the murder of her husband.
A young woman at Youngstown, Ohio, who
has an imitation seal skin cloak, is forced to
tel an average of fifteen lies per day to make
folks believe it is real seal-Detroit Free Press
Mrs Laing, and Omaha woman, glided
softly up behind King Kalakana and-stole
kiss! But the joke of the thing is that the
Omaha wags passed off a good looking negro
for the King.
THE Governor of Indiana has signed the
new liquor law, which goes into effect Aug. 1.
The return of Mr. John Young Brawn to
his home at Henderson, KY, was celebrated
by burning of Ben Butler in effigy by the
sympathetic youth of that place.
The local option repeal bill, with license
law attached, passed both houses of the Penn
sylvania Legislature Wednesday, in the House
by 122 to ,6s, and in the Senate by 81 to 20.
THE celebrtion of St. Patrick's Day at New
York was more than usually imposing. 1t is
estimated that q, 900 persons were in the pro-
cession. Services were held in all the Catho-
lie churches.
THE breaking of the ice gorgues caused i'm
mense damage on the Susquehanna and Della
ware rlVefs. oeFerai large ANU very costly
bridges on both streams were swept away
Wednesday, and the towns of Port Jervis,
New York, and damage to property has been
immense.
Originally there were go reporters in attend
ance al the Beecher trial-now they have
thinned down to 40. The Tribune employs
the larges. force of any one paper, a contiuu-
Gus force of IL mem in court, to transcribe. |
The Chicago Tribune employ the largest num-
bsr Of any psper outsids New York.