Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-25
VARIETIES.

a drawing -roOm-A dentists office
Motto for beautiful woman asleep
Handsome is as handsome doze. :
What is the only pane of which ev.
cry one makes light? a window pane.
Flattery sits in the parlor, while
plain dealing is knocked out of doors.
A woman's friendship is, as a rule,
the legacy OF love or the aims of indii-
ference.
In matters of the heart it is usually
the fear of insolvency that leads to
bankruptcy.
1t takes as much wit not 10 displease
a woman as 1t takes little to please her.
1t is surprising how near age brings
a woman to death and how little it
prepares her for it.
A young lady in Utica is SO refined
that she invariably refers to Spitz as
"a cuspadore dog
To call man an sss is q reproach,
but in Arabia in bewailing a lost friend,
they frequently exclaim, Alas, my
beloved jackass!
An Illinois grave digger, who buried
a man named Button, sent his widow
the following bill: 10 making one
button hole, 50, so
In the window of shop in an OBJ
scure part of London is this announce
ment: Goods removed, messages ta-
ken, carpets beaten, and poetry COM
posed on any subject
The innocence of Charlotte Harris,
the cOlOred woman hanged by a mob
in Virginia, on the charge of instiga-
ting the burning OF a barn has been
fully established. .a
Henrietta Nuu1 Uln.eC). who sued
a man namei Mard for kidnapping
and'selling her into slavery in 1856, ,ob >
tanned verdict in the United States
Court at Cincinnati for. 81, 800 dam
ages.
A few days ago a Norwich man
bought chest of tea in Providence,
and, on opening, found a stone inside
weighing nearly eleven pounds. He
remarked that the weighs of Provi-
dence are very mysterious.
Mnster-'Bridget, have you seen my
Ulster? Bridget usually ve-v civil
No, sure an | havn't, an what's
". DTOlUeI
had one onst, and / never want to see
another
a Houston, Texes, couple have been
married in photographers gallery,
their portraits being taken at the in
slant that the concluding words of the
ceremony were spoken. The two at
firmatives made negative, as it were.
Its human to doubt. Display a
sign with the inscription, Beware Ci
paint and nine men out of ten will
draw their forefingers across the face
to see if the sign is not merely AN in
vention of the enemy. The tenth man
never learned to read.
Where was Bishop Latimor burned
to death" asked teacher, in com
manding voice. Joshua knows said
little girl at the bottom OF the class,
WELL said the teacher, If Joshua
knows he may tell.' In the fire. re-
piled Joshua, looking very grave and
wise. .-....
a yOungster made a drawing of g
team and wagon piled with boxes. He
showed his work TO his mother, who
asked what it represented? 1T is g
man peddling apples said the boy
But where is the man?' Gone to q
house up the hill to see if they want
any apples said the boy.
A German has devised Bank Note
Album" with leaves of Asbestos paper.
Papers placed betwiyt the leaves will
it it is said, be ltgible even after expo
sure to fire which reduces them to Gin.
derS.
In the province of Nassau, Prussia,
the common nettle has been treated
like hemp, and is found to yield fibre
quite as durable and as fine as silk.
Factories have consequently been star.
ted for its manufacture.
The exploring expedition sent out
by the Geographical Society OF Rome
have reported back to headquarters
their rapid progress into the heart of
Central Africa. The expedition aims
to go over ground left untouched by
Stanley.
Edwin Booth played Hamlet in the
Pittsburgh Opera House under the
glare of two locomotive headlights.
The manager had not paid his gas bill,
and the meter had been removed. Ia
this dilemma the auditorium was
lighted with ker osene lamps, and the
tage in the way indicated.
The new blue Book shows that
there are at present in the civil service
of the United States 242 Aliens, 2I5
Bakers, 6O5 Browns, 432 Davises, 563
JOhnsons, 474 Joneses, 324 ThOmpsons,
and 1897 Smiths.
When Eugene Hale married Miss
Chandler, Papa Zach. Chandler gave
him 100000 for a wedding present,
and at the advent of every grandchild
check for $40, 600 is forthcoming to be
placed to the credit of the child as a
nucleus of its future fortune. Babies
are never unwelome in that household