Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-08
GOSSIP OFTHE DAY.

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F. GOSSIP OF THE DAY. y
'Meissonier never pa;nt'd woman.
We don't see why he should. The,
are abundantly able to paint them
selves.
| Servant to her French misteress, who
q is receiving-one visitor-"The doctor
miss, He wants to see you" '"Hs
lean't just now, I'm engaged, Tell him
Pm sick" 'tls
A Rutgers College student was dis
missed lately for having written ON the
black board, "WhO was this Georet
Washington, anyhow" ssai
Indian summer, we learn from Ken
lucky pa per, is due to the fermentation
Of the falling leaves, which warns the
atmosphere. Without rain to make
the leaves ferment we have no suct.
season.
They are complaining in Boston be-
cause committee of the city Govern
ment drank So worth of lemonade al
one sitting. Little things always did
fret the average Hubite.
A veg suggests that suitable open.
, ing for many choirs should be, "Lord
nave mercy on US miserable singers" /"
Satan was the origaal ''deadhead. y
He got into the Garden free, and then
caused trouble by his talking, "
Boston has abolished coroners. and
will take the word of reporters that sc
and so died so and so. Mother victory
for the press.
never had a man. cum to me for
advise but when he got thrn he had
more advise to offer than to ask for.
Josh Billings. =
Blonde hair is coming to the front
again as the most fashionable color.
Ladies who gave their blonde switches
to the grasshOpper sufferers will soon
regret their generosity.
Did you ever notice how sensitive
are the ears Of a woman in church to
the crying of some other woman's
baby, and how deafer than a post she
is hen her own offspring sets up its
piercing squall. ."?-Church Union.-
English lettercarriers are peculiarly
exposed TO be attacked NY savage dogs.
The last report OF the Postmaster Gen.
eral says that in one large town of the
north OF England twenty per cent, of
his men were bitten during the past
year.
The Toledo Weekly Blade has been
sold by D. Z. Locke (Nasby) to Or, A.
P. Miller and j. w. Haynie, for $40,
O00. Nasty Is still to continue his
"komik" letters upon salary.
Too much fire. water is what ails the
Alaska Indians. The latest news from
Sitka is that the natives were on big
drunk and carrying off the fences OF
that town for bonfire.
The nomination of Judge Baxter. of
Tennesse, as United States Circuit
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, has gone
10 the Senate. The Sixth Circuit in
cludes Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and
Tennessee. There has been some talk
of opposition to confirmation of
Judge Baxter.
Lieutenant FIipper, of the Tenth
United States Cavalry, the newly heg-
ed colored West Pointer, has written
letter denying that he sympathizes
with the 'Liberian exodus" move
ment, and advising the people of his
race In South arolina and Georgia 20
give 1t no countenance or support.
A lady in general conversation, by
ingeniously cooking her dates, was re-
ducing her age to an astonishing limit.
Her daughter, whose partly French
blood has brought her keen wit, in
ferpOsed with the remoBsirance, "At
least, leave nine months between cur
ages, mamma"
The rural districts are literally alive
with tramps, anu poultry do not enioy
their usual facilities tor growing Old.
A piOu5 farmer says he does not see
why Providence didn't teach chickens
10 roost under the barn.
The Fulton Times says: "New York
.ity has base ball club composed, of
nutes. This is gratifying, if for no
)ther reason than the fact that when a
nan makes strike all the rest can't
yell at him end tell him what to do.'
"What," asked a youth timidlv of an
eminent pbilologist, "what, sir, is the
meaning of this phrase: Modus oper
lDdi?" and the great linguist, whose
mind was saturated with the literature
If ancient Greece and Rome, repli9d:
is Latin for how the old thing
works" I
The case of Metcalfe vs. Frost, to I
ompel the issuance of a certific1 1te of
lection as Congressman from the a
Third District OF ST. Louis. to Matcalfp. s
vas decided by the Supreme Court last o
week in favor of Metcaife. The contest 81
n Congerss now devolves upon Mr.. :,
Frost. o
In New York Cou' t1. Were you p
we're you there??" 'Six months, SIR" K
Were you in the peniteniiary at that q
ime?" Eyes, sir; but never was in y y
he Assembly, sir" silence in Court" Ell
A society for the protection of babies d,
night well be established in one of the
)rmipg districts ei England. The DO
ce haze just stopped there the exhibit
on in a travelling circus of a baby n
Tho weighs only one pound and -four N'
unces. In the same district soma
.bors send out their five-year-old in :,
Dts 10 earn shilling a week by scar l.
Ig the crows from the fields. at
1t is Governor Bishops opinion, ex- of
ressed to st Louis reporter, that the
suit of an election in Ohio was an in at
lrsement Of The Presidents policy. He
his is the way he put il: "The Demo In In
ats having indorsed slaves civil aa da
rvice and Southern policy, it may be |
siderfd that it was an Endorsement coI u
Mr.. Hayes TO that extent. The Re-
lblicans tried to get an indorsementl ;
ID evaded 1t; the consequence wa
any Republicans stayed ut home, and u
me voted for me-" q Ma