Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS

EOG0.
The canals Of Ohio cleared $40. 600
last year.
Gladstone is a good pianist and a
powerful singer.
Geneva n. Y, cuts sausage meat by
water power.
A Fort Wayne lady Is the proud
owner of e, 900 lace dress.
Boston dealers think ice won't be
over So ton next summer.
The railroads are nearly all letting
down their rstes.-Chic. Ex.
A cat at Miles, Mich, claws spirited
voiuntaries on the piano.
Pure silver, gray and garnet will be
used together in the spring.
The pale grayish tint OF green now
in style is called 'rOeeau"
The Gar has about come to the
cpiniou that iron-clads are Of no good.
Travel In northern Wisconsin is inn
perlled by numerous highwaymen.
Rochester, Minn., has a new hose
company called the "SOund Sleeper"
A Montreal paper heads an account
of a trot on ice ''the Canadian Turf"
The King OF the Zulus lie q bigger
man than old John Bull.-Beston Post.
Spring is coming, and the turtle-dove
will ere along turtle to its mate.-Ex.
Never borrow trouble. First see If
you can't borrowa quarter.-Cin. Sun.
Hindos county, Mississippi, is said
by local paper to be for sale at cost.
A Cincinnati paper has an article on
mumps, continued In our necks."
Three and a half million pure Hs-
vans cigars were made Ia Maine last
year.
The report is circulated that Miss
Gabrielle Greedy will enter convent.
Three steers at Americas, Kan, have
been fatally iabbed by boar's tusk.
Silver bars worth 81 1000, 600 have
been found in a kruin near Zactscae,
Mexico.
II. knight, Of Otter Lake, Mich,
has died Of sedative, taken for tooth
ache.
T. Gatliff, sdesperado, was shot dead
from his horse at Mclean, ILL.,, oy g
sheriff..
A Montana Legislator spoke fifteen
minutes in favor of limiting speeches
to Eve minutes.
History is seldom as interesting to
the college student as pretty woman
on the muddy sidewalk.
AdeIins Patti and the tenor Nicolini
are both in Rome. The former is in q
precarious state OF health, and walks
with some little difficulty.
Mcmillan, nominated for postmaster
at New Orleans, pleads guilty of being
an Ohio man in the third degree. His
brotherin-law lives there.
The Howard officers are now burning
all the tents used In Chattanooga, Mem
phis, New Orleans and others points
during the yellow fever epidemic.
Queen Victoria, according to the En-
glish papers, will in few days, become
a greatsgrandmother. and will be the
first queen of England who ever saw
her own great-grand child.
An Arkansas couple, on their bridal
tour, naturally attracted considerable
attention, because the bride was six |
feet tall, the bridegroom six and half,
and both exceedingly slim. |
s'The Man with the Iron Nose" ad-
vertises for an engagement in a circus.
~ am the only" he says, that does
Q balancing act OF heavy weights and
sharp pointed instruments on the bose.
Another eccentric will has been Of
fered for probate in London. Miss
Lisetta Rist leaves considerable SUM
Df money, the interest VI which is to be-
annually applied 10 the scattering OF
gravel on steep and slippery roadway
Ia the metropolis.
New York state has Its Abbey Smith
a Sarah E.. Wheeler of Greenfield. Sht
s wealthy maiden, and has been
to the county jail until SHE
bays q fine and costs of $3.50, because
he would not pay her taxes Of $65 un-
ess she could vote.
All Choney Is a Chinese murderer
waiting execution in Reno, Cal. He
planes his countrymen who were wit
lesses against him, and retaliates by
arning his back on everything Chi
,ese. He speaks only in English, has
,ecome Baptist, swears like hood
um, has cut off his cue, and wears
luge false mousteche.