Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-06-20
ODD MOMENTS.

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auisance to themselves. We are never
safe with them, never certain that we
have not un Willingly and in the purest
good faith annoyed or insulted them
beyond forgiveness. They seem to be
continually asking as to- tread upon
their toes; taking il for granted, and
generally gratuitonsly, that we give
them no credit for good intentions,
misconstrue their motives, deny them
good looks, ignore their talents and
their Claims to respect, throw cold
water on their efforts to please. They
are childishly prompt to take offence.
If, by force of unavoidable circum-
stances, Of home affection, of he pres.
sure of urgent private affairs, our calls
upon them grow less, they insiDuate
that we wish to drop their acquaint-
ance; that we are forgetting old friends,
etc. Such people habitually make
themselves unhappy ever the merest
trifies; they; are impossible to deal
with in all the affairs of life, ordinary
or extraordinary, at home or abroad.
There is no knowing when they will
not be grievously injured or insulted.
At home, indeed, they are particularly
ObnoXiOuS-a source Of constant un-
easiness and discomfort to every one
under the same roof. Bitterness and
misery Is the self-infiicted portion Of
the over-sensitive. ~ -
Few farmers fully appreciate the
value of small fruits to a family when
grown in their own gardens. You
commence with strawberries; they
continue about month. You pick
perhaps, from six 10 tAelve quarts q
day. You have th.m on your table as
dessert, if sou kplesase, at nocn. and
your tea table is 1eadeds with them at
evening and you want but little else
but your bread and butter. Your fami-
ly consume, in one way or another,
abut eight quarts day, and while
they last no medicines for bodily all
ments are required, as quart OF straw
berries daily will generally dispel all
Ordinary diseases, not settled per-
manently in the SYSTEM After straw
berries come, to continue about three
weeks; then we have blackberries,
where the climate is not too cold fer
cultivated varieties; then theseurrsnts
ripen, which remain until the early
grapes mature; and, taking the season
through ,aby family. with half an acre
Iofland in q garden lcau grow small
fruits that make country life delightful,
and al the same time hundreds of
dollars Can be saved in the supply of
the table. This is worth thinking
about.
Jack of all trades seldom succeeds in
makiRg much money. To do one
thing extra we'll is about ALA manscdn
do. l. He may aimsto be a prince inione
line of business. He cannot be very
great merchant, contractor, ymanufac-
ture, farmery builder, railroad opera
tor, speculator and catae-drover at enc
and the same time. He must take
some one of these, to his heart and
bead, and makesaT speciality of that
one. 1t is the. only way that great
trade schemes are pushed ahead and
that millionaires are made. This one-
idea theory will hold good in every
calling Of life; and no better advice Can
be given to youth than that contained
in these words. ''DO some one thing
in life, and do it we'll"
f a good old farmer found him self one
day with his hired boy atthe farther
lend OF the row, when the dinnerehorn
sounded. Anxious to make every step
count, he commenced to hoe his way
back ssying to- the boy as he did so.
Thomas, do you ever think about
dying?" "Yes," said Tom, ~ think
L shall die pretty soon, if don't have
some dinner"
A clergyman was seen by a neighbor
trudging home on Monday morning,
with a. stout cod he had Just bought,
and was accosted with: "Mr. Milton,
did you know that fish was caught on
SundaS?" The minister, in his
characteristic, blunt manner, replied:
sssW Weel,- ,-weeI, the fish is not to blame
for that, my man"
A aged man said: "If husbands
only had any sense they'd never have
any trouble with disobedient wives.
never did, an have been married
nigh onto fifty years" ''What is your
seeret?'' asked a friend. -" Why, / al
ways tell my wife TO do just as she
pieases, an she never fails 10 do it."
Dentist, 20 lold lady about purchas
ing some false teeth: 'fFor mastica-
tion, my dear madam, they can only
be surpassed by nature herself.' 'Old
Lady; "Oh, laws, doctor! l don, t
care nothing about the mastication if
can only chaw with 'em."
A news item says that an English
traveller in the Holy Land has dis
covered Jacobs Well. We are delight
ed to hear it. There has been a rumor
afioat for some time that Jacob was
oead. It3 HJDTa GsI-s I-s5-I.I .IzIW
While growing at her husband last
summer, a New York woman was
struck by lightning and instantly kill
ed. If you Wish your wife to see.this
particulars paragraph, cut It ntand
paste on the looking glass &sA =
John" and master to his ap-
prentice, "you must occupy my place
while l am absent" "Thauk you,
sir, J" replied John, but I'd rather sleep
with the boys"
"Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a
word as any in our Language; the two
first letters of it are male, tine three first
female, thefour first a brave man, and
the whole word brave woman.
..Ah, yes" said cabinet. maker to a
'croekery dealer, to whom he was in
trOduced, sab, yes; you sell tea-sets,
and sell settees." So
81 am so happy" said little French
girl on hersseventh birthday. "Why
sop "Oh, to-day / am seven. My
sins sin begin to count - II
When two girls meet, they kiss.
When twogyeung men meet, they
don't That Shows who wants kissing
the worst.