Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

When can lamp be said to be in d
bad temper? When it is put out.
! What keeps Lent the longest and
best? Money.-Evening Telegram.
How to make a good thing last
make everything else first. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Belknap has never been an officer OF
the regular army, and he is not West
Pointer. He's sort of dispointer.
An author says that one of the uses
of adversely is to bring us out. That
is true, particularly at the knees and
elbows.
1t was Archbishop Whately who an
nounced that Noah's ark was made of
gopher wood, while Joan of Arc was
maid of Orleans.
A recent marriage notice ends with
the singular expression, probably
added by a waggish friend: "May
their future troubles be little oues.
Mother-'Charlotte, how do YOU like
your new teacher ?" Charlotte-"O
she's splendid teacher. She don't
care whether we know our lessons or
not"
John Bartlett, an old citizen and
well known banker of Columbus, Ohio,
died in that city On Monday of last
week, aged seventy years.
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale Col.
lege, believes Beecher innocent, but
says he has displayed lack of wisdom
in the whole affair.
J. G. Ochlischlager, the well known
Professor of German language and au-
thor of several German text books,
died in Philadelphia last week.
kilograms from the west state that
the Central Pacific is blocked with
snow at several sections, and trains are
considerably delayed in consequence.
1t is believed that the Attorney Gen
eral has sent a p1an to Canada after
Marsh, under promise of safety, and
that he will be Back in day or two.
S. Gross Fry, prominent Demo
cratic politician of Philadelphia, and
formerly largely interested in passen-
ger railway enterprises, died in that
city last week after brief illness.
The Tribune announces that Mrs.
SchurZ, wife of ex-senator Carl Schurz.
died Wednesday afternoon at her hus-
bands residence, in New York, of puer-
poral fever. She gave birth to boy on
Sunday.
The Democratic financial caucus was
in session until nearly ~ O'Clock We'd
nesday night and finally agreed upon
the Payne bill by vote of 90 to 46. |
The bill provides for the gradual re-
of specie payments.
Judge Pratt, in the Supreme Court of
Brooklyn, has denied an application
for a writ of error and stay of proceed
ings in the case of Pesach n. Reben-
stein, convicted of the murder of Sarah
Alexander.
George w. Tisdale, an insurance
broker of Boston, has heen arrested on
a charge of forgery, or raising two en-
dorsed notes from $3.50 to $1,000. HeiS
we'll known in business circles, and bis
arrest creates much eXcitment.
Why should the beehive be taken as
a symbol of industry? Not bee is to
oo e0eh al tHe w lnter long, Wnllo the
is up at five o'clock in the
morning and never goes to bed till mid
night.
1t is said that the old Romans also
owed office, but they never had the
ceiling which an American constable
felt that their shoulders
'arried over half the burden of govern.
Free Press.
A North Carolina negro thought he
'ould outrun locomotive the other .
lay on the Air Line road, and when he
picked himself up, after being thrown .
wenty feet and landing on his head,
le said: Eyer don't ketch dis yer
lille doin' datagin. It's right smart
Wonder didn't tear de e britches clean !
f."