Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-30
IriGes for the Ladies'.

Fancy silks are displayed for spring
in advance of the arrival of the rich
gros grains.
The skin of the common house cat is
rapidly rising in favor for pur-pusses OF
dress fur.
Striped wooden stufs will bepreferred
to plaidS, when only one-tgured fabric
is used, though both are imported.
Variety is the order Of the day. Some
evening dresses are covered with nat
ural flowers, standing in relief on a
plain train.
"Shall L have your hand ?" said Au-
gustus to Matilda, as the dance was
about to commence. "With all my
heart" responded Matilda.
A writer in the Woman's Journal is
sarcastic over the announcements OF
Mrs. Nose, of Boston, giving So, 900 for
The benefit OF INDECENT old men.
Harriet Hosmer has declined her
fourth offer of marriage, and now that
it is leap year it is to be hoped that she
may go forth and capture some one
who suits her.
"Don't you think" said a husband
in mild form of rebuke to his wife,
THAT women are possessed of the
devil?" YES" was the answer, ''as
soon as they are married"
Overskirts are still worn as much as
ever, but are growing longer and long
er, thus heralding the return to dresses
without overskirts, which has so long
been propheSied.
"Eliza," said a clergyman to one of
his parishioners, whom he saw with
her hair in curling papers, ''if God had
designed your hair TO curl, He would
have curled it for you"
He did, sir, when | was a child"
was the reply; "but He thinks now l
sm old enough to do it myself"
Rough straw bonnets for early spring
have q wreath of moses and of grasses
gOne-tO-seed passing around the crown,
with scarlet peoples on the top. Loops
of creamy ribbon pass down the mid
de OF the crown, and long streamers
behind. The front is faced with scarlet.
10 va 1t c.l Utby ll'lN-d
asked Il beautiful young lady of jew
eler, as she tOyed with the diamonds
in a case before her. "NO, ma'am, !"
said the jeweler, 81 don't trust any
body with anything; in a lady's case,
| shouldn't dare to trust my feelings"
"What is the reason, my dear" said
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, "that we who have
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greatest Of the other sex so often make
choice Of the silliest fellows for COM
pauiOns and favOriteS ," Possibly (adds |
Waggles) Mrs. Fitz has got the maiorl
wrong.
There is a saying of SchopenhaueI |
that women remain all their life big
children they have an eye for one
thing which is nearest to them they
ittach themselves to the present; they
mistake the appearance for the reality;
and they set aside the most momentous
question for the Veriest trifie."
"If you defeat the Woman's Suffrage
bill, )" said Il man to an Iowa legislator
B. Anthony and Mrs. Livingston will
leap blighted scorn upon our LegisIa-
ure." We'll" was the reply, "then
[ suppose we shall have to struggle
dong under the awful blight and let
EN- scOrn."
\ new disease of the head and Jaws
ias broken out among the hogs, in the
Vest. i similar disease prevails large
y in Congress.
1t is stated that there has been
marked increase of insanity in New
/ iork since the opening OF the Moody
nd Sankey revival services.
"When," he said violently, "when
re you going to pay me that little bill?