Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-16

Take away your Spartan boy and hii
fox. The lad who puts lighted cigar
in his pocket " hen he meets his father
and tells What the Sunday school
lschool said, while the cigar is burning
burning him, Is infinitely more worthy
of admiration.
|, The latest Harvsrd student freak is
to ex, hange clothes-lines between two
lneighboring yards, over night, and
then watch the peoples surprise in the
morning at the way their linen has sud-
denly grown small or large for them.
A crazy woman walked into the Con.
gregational church at West Meriden,
last Sunday, and while the orgsnist
was playing an interlude, screamed in
shrill voice, 81 sdjure you in the
name of the Almighty to trot that
hymn slow"
Enterprising tramps dug out the cor
nor stone of the English Lutheran
Church, at Millersville, Ind, for the
coin deposit, in it several years ago.
rhis opens new and inviting field OF
profitable labor for the impoverished
"A a-Eas
"a novelcsfd of thanks is one pub
lished in the Canton Democrat, from q
late eliminate oifhe Ohio Penitentiary,
who expr, ,sses his? ?thanksfo the kind
treatment shown him by the Warden
of the Penitentiary, and his subOrdi-
.dateslwhO made his stay with them as
pheasant as circumstances would rer-
nit"
When the bridge, fell at. Bath the
other day, Somershire yokel, who
was one of the first picked out of the
water, edited everybody by shriekin ing
in accents of anguish as he pointed to
a woman who was still in the stream,
tThere's my wife! There's my wife!
I'll give sixpence to the man that saves
herI"
A man never, gets a very adequate
idea Of eternity, nor how people will
manage to kill time during the endless
cycles, until he watches boy wedding
the garden when he wants to 90 fish
ing.
He. that never changed any of his
opinions, never corrected any of his
mistakes; and he who never was wise
enough to find any mistakes in him
excuse what we reckon mistakes in
Others.
Jay Gould didn't mind the mayors
knocking him down once or twice in
a gentlemanly way, but to pick him
up and throw him down the airy like
a cat, that riled him; that was insult
ing; that was what made him mad.
A letter bearing a Confederate ten.
cent postage stamp passed the inspec-
tion of two Virginia Postmasters re-
Gently, and reached its destination un-
challenged. The post mark was writ.
ten with a pen directly under the
stamp, and the Likeness of jeff Davis
must have stared the Postmaster full
In the face. -
Said a neig hbor to.lthe alandlady OIL
Mons. X, n member of the French In. |
stitute: "YOur lodger, madam, where |
does he keep himself sll the time?'' |
''Oh, he's always at the Institute. -
:. He's learned man il would seem, % |
ut would, indeed. He never speaks
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lent in five languages"
A white swan in the Public Garden
IN Boston manifests a. strong affection
or one of the velocipede boats on the
DoDd, which are made to resemble
iwans. According to the Gazette he
attends the boat whenever it leaves the
i.oorings, and stays by it through thet
" ht, biting viciously at any one who
ttenpts to drive him away. .7s1'ii 'lne
A poor tailor, dunning for an old
ebt, the other day, wrote as follows:
Dear Jim: "This little account has
zen standing for seven years, and |
hink it Is high time, it was paid.p To
which Jim replied on tho same sheet
! paper, hile Ships 10y was wait.
ng; "Dear Sam: L don'f; and may q ,
Inference OF opinion never alter friend.
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