Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-01
'No. for an age,



Hon. HENRY w. HILLIARD, in Har.
per's Magazine for March.
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.
Virtue Is the greatest ornament, and
good sense the best equipage.
It is hard for the hungry man to wait
when he smells the roast meat.
Common sense is such Q rare commo-
riity that the world has entered iEto 9
tacit compact TO live without it.
To get up a handkerchief Irritation.
Rule first-'Get two handkerchiefs and
two FOOLS Want the other five rules?
yanderbiit, the great railroad mo.
uopolisf, bequeathed some money to 9
Granger-the widow Of Gen. Gordon
Granger.
Anthony and Mercy Littlefield, ol
Rock Island, ILL.,, now more than Sc
years of age, have been married sixty
enc years.
Foote, having been scolded by Ia
dy, sald, 81 have heard of tartar and
birthstone; you are the cream OF one
and the flower of the other"
An indorser of a note Is exempt from
liability il not served with notice Of its
dishoner within twenty-feur hours ol
its non-payment.
There is great deal OF unmapped
country within as which would have
to be taken into account in an explana.
tion of our gusts and storms.
Shipments of white oak and copper
from New York to Frsnce are 80 large
as to attract attention and create sur
mise as to their Significance.
Never be sorry for any generous
thing you ever did, even if it was be.
trayed. You cannot afford to keep on
the safe side by being mean.
A German jury has immortailzed it
self by finding wife-murderer guilty,
but recommending him to mercy be.
cause he had wooden-leg.
Great Britain paid over 500. .OOO, ,OO0
for intoxicating drinks in 1876. 1t can
not be told how much America psid in
the same time, so much of 1t was char
ged.-Danbury News.
By the way, that's good charade-
My first (syllable) is company; my
second shuns company; my third calls
and my whole entertains
Give it up? Why, co-nun-
drum, OF course.
Bressant, after brilliant career OF
years on the stage of the
Franchise, has officially retir-
ed, and will devote his time to teaching
the art of acting, at the Paris Conserva-
tory. 4
The Paris police have just been arm
ed with q small but powerful lamp,
which they conceal under the overcOat,
but by whose aid they can instantly
throw binding light on objects and
identity offenders. a c
The hippopotamus at the New York
il beginning TO feel the ef-
fects of an aggressive civilization. A
dentist has extracted nearly all his
teeth, the miserable beast being suf-
Ierer from tOofhache. pa .asg
A stray contrabaud, inspecting
I horse power in operation, broke out
thus: "Mister, / have seen heaps OF
.hings in my life; but / never saw any
hing whar horse couid do his own
work, and ride himself too."
Sunday school newspapers have be-
.ome fashionable at the antirodes.
)ne of these in China has 8, 900 subscri-
,ers, twenty-five of whom are msnda-
ins in the city of Nankin, and it Is
the paper is read by fifty of
hat class.
A friend of Grattan proposed to cut
lown a fine old tree, because IL stood
q the way of the house, You mis-
ake,' said Grattsn, 'it is the house that
tands in the way Of the tree, and IL
ither must come down, let 1t be the
louse.'
When girl nineteen years of age
ries her eyes red over the loss of ten |
ents' worth of sassafras candy, i'll
Gems as If the scheme to enfraDchiseE
Voman would float of like a castle in |
he air and dissolve into everlasting |
Othingness.
The Rev. Dr. E. G.. Taylor says that,
'hile visiting a celored school in the
outh, he asked tiny darkey what he
.udied for, and what was his object in I
school. Hesitating q mo.
,ent, the little fellow answered.: To
it offis.' t
Utah now contains some ninety mi. |.
ing districts, and some 10000 people,
1gaged in mining. The mines and
q nprovements are valued all the way
ON S15, ,000, 600 to $50, 600, 600, and the /.
lnual yield of lead. silver and gold,
as reached s5.O0o.0O0. Is
One Of the side-shows at the Creed !;
oor rifle match was the figure of q !
ger, life-size, which would run for a !,
ludred yards at the speed of q live r
,er by the operation Of Internal ma
inery. No need now of going to the 4
oods for the gentle game. r.
Mrs. Elizabeth Goose II
Iother Goose'-died in Boston in T.
57, and here is the Rev. IL. Man.Iy
ng, pastor of the rev Old South G
lurch, asking that memorial statue a
erected to the venerable lady in one G
the parks or squares at that city. q
5wedenborg was five feet ten, slim, Il
d of dark complexion, though hei e'
IS seldom without smile. His e.
'thes were usually OF black velvet, fe
d he wore rufies and sword, and ii
.ried a gold.headed cane. His style OF
writing was operOse. Kant tried in SO
in to correspond with him. "
n Germany, before a married pair !"
separate, they have to seek re-
lciliaiion through clergyman, or
ne lay authority, who does all In his
yer to persuade the Tranglers to ia
,p together. In this way hundreds Sc,