Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-11-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

Winter travel to Florida has already
begun, and promises to be unusually
large this season.
A veterinary surgeon who commit
ted suicide in New York the other
day shot himself with Colts revolver.
Colorado journalism has whitfield it.
self down to only one daily issue, that
of the Rocky Mountain News, at Dem
yer.
Another triumph for American man.
ufacturers; the London Times is now
printed on paper manufactured in
America.
A new York dentist advertises 'arti-
ficial teeth on monthly installments.' ,
Wonder if there is any option as to the
the order of the teeth?
The deliberate opinion of the Scien-
tific American is that every Spiritu al
ist is either rogue or lunatic. and we
guess it isn't far wrong.
A California horseman recently ac-
compished the feat, at Los Angeles, of
riding one hundred miles in four hours
and forty-five minutes.
The statue of Religious Liberty,
which is to be placed in the Exposition
Grounds at Philadelphia, is to stand
looking squarely at Columbus.
New Zealand has $40 miles of railway
in operation. Five million dollars will
have been spent this year on the work.
The contributions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
to the cause of missions, during the
last year, amounted to s65O,OOO.
The Baroness Adolphe Rothschild
has steam yseht ninety-One feet long
by thirteen and half feet beam which
has beaten the fastest recorded ocean
time.
Complaint is made that large num-
Der of publishers in this county have
adopted the practice of reprinting En-
glish books under new titles with in
tent to deceive the public.
The immense estate of the late Mr..
Lick, of San Francisco, bids fair to fur
nish fat pickings for the legal fraterni-
ty for years to come. They have al
ready begun to devour it.
Little Rhode Island has a right to
pride herself upon her contributions TO
the Exposition. In every department
her work is notably good; in several
she stands at the head.
A vessel of $50 tons was the other
day launched at Alexandra, Virginia.
This is the first vessel of her size
launched from ship-yard in that city,
or from any point on the Potomac, for
thlrty-four years.
Secretary Fish has submitted to the
President careful statement of his
views on the subject of new extradi.
tion treaty with Great Britain. This
document contains, among other things,
it is said, draft of new treaty with
England.
An excellent step. Many Western
critics are establishing night schools for
the winter months, for the benefit of
youths and young men and women
whose necessities have prevented them
from attaining a common school educa-
ton.
DIR. Jansen, a European scientist, is
devising an automatic Photographic
revolver which will take photogra ph
every hour from from sunrise to sun
set all the year round. 1t is to be used
for taking sun-spOts in clear weather.
and for meteorological purposes at 9th
er times.
A Connecticut company is getting up
q new thing to protect trees from
worms. The invention is a rubber
band with a single bris,ling row of
brass pins set very close to each other,
like the teeth of a comb, in the middle
OF the strip, and worms cannot crawl
over it.
The following is the coinage execu-
ted by the mints of the United States
during the month of October, 1876:
Double eagles, 81. .271, ,76O; trade dollars,
1856. 900; half dollars, 81, ,O4O, 900; quar-.
ter dollars, s765, 900; dimes, $279, 700;
one cent bronze, "a ,440. Total coinage,
$6, ,825, 200.