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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-12-30
Coming Eclipses of the Sun.


On Friday, December 81, the sun will,
when rising west of Eastport, in Maine,
be partially eclip5ed; at Boston about a
third, Washington nearly half, ETC., but
as we proceed toward the West, less
and less of the eclipse will be visible,
and along the Mississippi the eclipse
will end at or before the sun rises; east
of Eastport the whole of the eclipse may
| lie seen also in nearly the whole of the
North Atlantic, in the west of Europe
and in the northwest of Africa; but at
no place will it be central, and where
largest latitude 65 ., longitude 1919
west), less than three-quarterS of its
surface (.70) will be obscured. At the
time of this eclipse both sun and moon
are at about their least possible dis
tance from the earth, which is remarka-
BILE; moreover, this eclipse is the second
large one of the sun in this country in
the same year, which is also very rare.
| The eclipse of January IL was total in
California, in a narrow strip of about
twenty miles wide from the ocean, in
| latitude SO northeast to Nevada, so
that the duration of totality at the sta
tion Sycamore, on the Central Pacific
railroad, where it was well observed,
was only half a minute (3OS seconds,)
but it was the last total eclipse in the
United States within twenty years. The
eclipse of December 81 will take place
at Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, as
| follows:
IN. S.
Sun rises about one-third eclipsed at I 80 90
Greatest observation (.46). II 80
ECLIPSE enus IL 81
The next eclipse of the sun at Boston
(.50 will occur early in the afternoon of
March 16, 1885, and it will be annual in
north part of California and Montana.
This is the third return of the annular
eclipse, so finely observed at lighthouse
near Nantucket, February u, 1881.
The next total eclipse of the sun in
the United States will take place in the
| AOiOhOOl VI AhoJ, 20 1OOO, hhCh IlO
the shadow of the moon will pass from
New Orleans to the ocean, near Norfolk
and cause total eclipse under the CEN
tral line of nearly minute and half,
and very large eclipse coz in Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, etc.
The next total eclipse of the sun in
any part of the earth will take place in
the forenoon of May II, 1882, when the
shadow of the moon, at about a. m.
Qocal time), will pass across the north
ern ends of the Red Sea, in latitude
about 27 Q, and longitude 81 Q east, and
quite near the Isthmus of Suez The
duration of totality there will be about
a minute and quarter, and as the
eclipse promises to be fine there it prob
ably will be observed by some astrono-
mers from Europe, and perhaps from
this country Also Boston Advertise.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-12-30

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court of
Claims. and appear before all the Departments.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In all busi
ness entrusted TO them. Correspondence So
icited. 529 7th st., op. p. o. Department.
WASHINGTON DO sep26tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-12-30

Wave, mystic bough, with all thy pearls,
Shine, little pearls, Ger bench and stall,
In poor mans cottage, rich mans hall,
Make glad our loving boys and girls.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
lust What the Mule Would Say.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times tells this anecdote OF one of the
officers of "the old army" The scene
is laid in Mexico, during the Mexican
war:
: Twiggs belonged to the army OF in
vasion"-that is, he was on Taylor's
line in the beginning of the war.
One day when long train of wagons
was toiling up steep hill at Camargo,
and the mules were straining their ut
most on the traces, he noticed teamster
who was carelessly walking beside his
animals carrying in his hand small
switch, while the rest of the drivers
were f,riousIy cracking their whips.
AS Twigqs eyed the luckless man his
ire was raised, and he launched tor
rent Of abuse upon him.
The teamster, aroused to his peril,
and hoping to atone for his supineness,
stopped down, and, picking up stone,
hurled it nc his mules, striking one OF
them.
In an instant Twiggs was off his horse
and, grasping a stone, took deliberate
aim and sent it flying through the air.
striking the teamster fairly in the back.
The man threw up his arms with an
"Ohp' as he looked behind him and
saw the general.
"Just what the mule would say my
man, il he could speak" remarked
Twiggs, coolly. as he mounted his horse
and rode away.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Cinderella,

The story of Cinderella" has con-
nected with it much curious folklore,
some of which it may he worth while to
collate from the London newspapers,
" which hunted the stories up apropos OF
the general interest aroused by the pre-
sentation there of the little cinder-lass's
simple and touching story as Christ
mas pantomime two years ago. Ac-
cordjng to the French version OF the
story, a woman had two daughters, only
one of whom she loved. The other,
named Cendreusette, she once directed
to spin some cotton. Now, Cendreu-
sette could not spin. and would GER
tainly have been beaten If a cow to
which she had been kind had not done
her task for her. Next day the other
sister tried to get the COW to spin, but
the COW, which knew its friends, played
her trick. The mother then ordered
the COW to be killed, but before its death
it bade Cendreusette to gather its bones
into its hide and to wish over them for
anything she desired. The wishes
brought TO Cendreusette three. beautiful
dresses on which shone the sun, the
moon, the sky and the sea. In these
she csptivated prince, who traced her
by means of the familiar slipper, which,
by the way, scholars say was not OF
gold, nor yet of glass, but of fur. In
the Scotch story dying queen gives her
daughter ga little red calfy," which is
killed by the cruel stepmother. From
the calfs bones Rashin- coatie, as she is
called from a coat woven of rushes, gets
"braw claes'' very much as Cendreu.
sette did. In an Italian version, also, O
COW plays the good fairy's part. In the
modern Greek story two daughters boil
their mother and make meal of her
but the youngest sister prefers to &C
hungry, and when she goes to mourn
over her mothers bones she is rewarded
by finding three .beautifulIdresses. Ont
dress is as beautiful as the sea and it
waves" another as "the spring and it
flowers" and the third as "the HEAVIER
with its stars" In Sicily and thu
Hebrides sheep takes Lthe place of thu
good and wonder-working cow. Th'
story can also be traced to the remote
East, to Germany and to Egypt, and il
| is indefinitely Old.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Boy Inventors.

Some Of the most important inven-
tions have been the work of mere boys
The invention of the valve motion to
the steam engine was made by a mere
boy. Watts left the engine in a very
incomplete condition, from the fact that
he had no way to open or close the
valves, except by means Of levers oper-
ated by the hand. He set up a large
engine at one of the mines, and boy
was hired 10 work these valve levers;
although this was not hard work, yet it
required his constant attention. AS he
was working those levers, he saw that
parts of the engine moved in the right
direction, and at the exact time that he
had to open or close the valves. He
procured strong cord and made one
end fast to the proper part Of the engine,
and the other end to the valve lever;
the boy had the satisfaction of seeing
the engine move off with perfect regu-
larity of motion. A short time after
the foreman came around and saw the
boy playing marbles at the door. Look
ing at the engine he soon SAW the in
genuity of the boy, and also the advan-
tages of SO great an invention. Mr..
Watts then carried out the boys inven-
tive genius in a practical form, and
made the steam engine perfect auto
matte working machine.
The power-loom is the invention of a
farmer boy who had never seen or heard
of such a thing. He whitfield one out
with his iack-knife, and after he had
got it all done, he, with great enthu-
siasm, showed it to his father, who at
once kicked it in pieces, saying he would
have no boy about him. that would
spend his time on such foolish things.
The boy was delighted at the idea of
earning trade, and he soon found that
his new master was kind and took a
lively interest in him. He had made a
loom of what was left of one his father
had broken up, which he showed to his
IudSLtE. luc DldChSLulbu saw hC ulu
no common boy as an apprentice, and
that the invention was very valuable
one. He Immediately had loom con-
structed under the supervision of the
boy; it worked TO their perfect satisfac-
tion, and the blacksmith furnished the
means to manufacture the looms, the
boy to receive one-half the profits. In
about year the blacksmith wrote to
the boys father that he should bring
with him wealthy gentleman who was
the inventor of the celebrated power
loom. You may be able to judge of the
astonishment at the old home when his
son was presented to him as the in
ventor, who told him that his loom
was the same as the model that he had
kicked to pieces but year before -
Western Trade.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Her Reply.


"..what shall give you, my love, my own"
Said the euraplurod youth to his lady lair;
r 'Baogies aud bnoelS IS for your white aEns,
Or Jewels TO tWine in your golden hairi
A shawl from the looms OF the iervid East,
Or satins and silks from these OF Francef
What shall give you, my love my own"
And he turned upon her his tenderes
glance.
And the maiden's eyes they brightly shone,
With the light of Joy and OF love and truth,
And her breath came quick as her ear drank
in
The honeyed words of this ardent youth.
Round her slender waist he placed an arm
As he toyed with the curls on her sunny
head.
"what shsll give you'll" repeated he,
"Not quite so much taffs," she archly said.
-.Neio York NeUs
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

Mr.. Pennypacker, /" for l see her at IL,
the pretty dear-Miss haywood. And
says she, 8 don't know whose they are,
Mrs. Pennypacker; but, says she, they
need mending-and a kind action never
comes amiss.' No more lit does, sir,
Lord bless herl"
"Humphl" said Mr.. Broderick; "she's
right-no more it does. And she is a
regular little scientist at the needle, is
Miss haywood. Just look at that
patch, Mrs. Pennypackeri Euclid's
geometry could not produce straighter
line or truer angles. See the toe of that
stocking! It's like a piece of Gobelin
tapestry. That's the way / like to have
things donem
And Mr.. Broderick never rested until
he had been formally introduced to
Honora haywood, and had thanked her
with equal1formality for the good SER
vices she had unwittingly rendered him.
1t was golden October evening that
Honora came Fdown, into the kitchen
where Mrs. Pennypacker was baking
pies for her eccentric boarder, with the
crusts made of the best Alderney butter
instead of lard.
"Oh, dearl oh, dearp said Mrs.
Pennypacker; "what a thing it is 10 be
an old bachelor"
HE won't be an old bachelor much
longer" said Honora, laughingi and
coloring, as she laid her cheek on the
good landlady's cushioning shoulder.
"What do you meanp" said Mrs.
Pennypacker.
He has asked me to marry him."
said Honora, latter only two weeks
acquaintance. He says that girl who
can mend stockings as do needs no
other test. And he says he loves me;
and-and-"
"Wellw
81 almost.think 1 love himp whis-
pered Miss haywood.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
How the Infanta of Spain was
ChriStened.

A foreign correspondent OF New
York paper writes: The wife OF a
diplomat told me how the newborn
infanta camo to receive the name OF
Mercedes. King Alfonso wished her to
be so called. He was overruled, be-
cause Queen Isabella is On bad terms
with the Montpensier family, and was
on worse terms with them during the
triumph of Dona Mercedes. The list of
names was to have opened with " Maria
Isabella Jaciuta." Queen Isabella has
repented bitterly of the uncharitable
spirit which she harbored against her
first daughter in-law, and has done
penance 10 expiate it. She felt that she
ought to make still greater sacrifice.
As godmother, she was asked to name
the infanta, which she carried in her
arms with maternal pride to the font.
Instead of saying Maria Isabel" etc.,
she said: "Maria de las Mercedes Isa-
bel Theresa" In letter to the Temps,
from its Madrid correspondent, 1t is
stated on the authority of an official
present, that the king was moved to
tears when he carried his little daughter
into the room where the great dign
taries of the state and the ambassadors
were waiting to see her. The new
born babe was in gold basket an
heirloom of the Spanish monarchy
and living on a silken cushion, quite
naked. A gauze veil was thrown over
the babe, who was perfectly tranquil
and coiled up. Each witness lifted the
gauze covering. The king was not able
to speak, and hurried back to the queens
room with his precious charge directly
the ancient-and, to an affectionate
father, trying-ceremonial was at an
end. Queen Isabella ordered the bap
tismal suit in London, at the baby linen
warehouse patronized by the royal
ladies of the English court. 1t was OF
white satin and Honiton lace, and a
Honiton lace veil, and was very costly.
The ladies at the christening were In
trains and low.bodied dresses, and
crowded on their finest jewels.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
HUMOROUS.

Love is au internal transport" ex-
claimed an enthusiastic poet. $50 is
canal boatr' said practical old for
wsrding merchant.
Recitation room at Yale. Professo
tx, do you know the meaning of
that wordP" X. hesitates. A whisper.
Professor" Your friend is right"
A New Haven boy being asked by an
elderly gentleman on the street, which
was the highest study in his school, re-
piled with stare of surprise: why,
astronomy"
An Ohio girl sued man for breach
of promise and proved him such mean
scoundrel that the jury decided that she
ought to pay him something for not
marrying her.
"The Gentle Craft" Preceptor (after
a lecture -" Now, what are the pl Incl
pal things that are obtained from the
earthP" Pupil (and disciple of "Izaak
Walton"D Worms, sir" closes fifty
marks).
A South Hill debating club is wrest-
ling with, "Can a community exist
without womenP" We think it might
exist for while, but then it wouldn't
know what was going on.-Burltngton
HGDkeye.
The Philadelphia Herald says that the
women OF that city are busily engaged
in getting up political clnbs. They are
about two feet long and only appear on
parade when the husbands of the women
come home late at night.
men often jump at CONCLUSIONS
says the proverb. So do dogs. One
recently jumped at thu conclusion of
cat, which was sticking through the
opening of partly closed door, and
caused a great disturbance.
A Galveston woman, just married,
wishing to impress her husband with
her ability as housekeeper, bawled
out to the servant as she entered the
door: Matilda, bring me the wash
board, Want TO WaSn Ille potatoes loT
dinner. ."-GGlvest0n NesOs.
".Oldest Son. Yes, energy and strict
attention to business are the true guides
to success. Thirty years ago friend
less boy came to Chicago and began life
in 8 coal-yard, working for twenty dol
lars q month. To-day he is driving n
horse-car Chicago Journal.
Never tell a girl you love her
ill you think her pa is willin';
Never tell man he's honest
When you think he is villain;
Never think you are 80 funny
That your wit will live forever;
Never use that old expression,
Weak and weary, " Hardly ever.'
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
A Curious viii Case.

A very curious illustration of the
chances of litigation is found in the
Hesdra case. A colored woman of this
name, by long life of industry and
thrift, accumulated property estimated
at S75,0 900. She left husband. who
claimed at least part of the property,
but offered to waive that claim on re-
ceipt of $4,000. This was refused by
the other heirs, but while overhauling
some papers the old man found q will
by which the deceased bequeathed to
him the entire amount. This will has
lust been approved, and the other heirs
get nothing. How much they now re-
2 gret they did not accept the old mans
nroposition. --New Yess Letter.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Scraps OF Science.

A new use for glass is found in the
manufacture Of window shutters.
Scientists have distinguished about
g., 900 different species of plants, Of
which number nearly 1000 are different
forms Of grass.
J. Ianderer has stated to the French
academy reasons for believing that the
materials of the moons surface are anal
ogous to.those of the silicate rocks so
abundant on our globe.
A peculiar disease OF the coffee plant,
caused by the very rapid development
OF fungus upon the leaves, has caused
such serious losses in the island OF Java
during the last ten years that reward
of SIOO, 900 has been offered for a cheap
and effectual remedy.
Herr Preyer, an Investigator, has
proven that the drowsinesS of fatigue is
caused by the introduction into the
blood of Tactic acid, which is produced
by the disintegration OF bodily tissues
of nerve and muscle. Many of the
sensations we daily experience seem to
be the direct result of similar chemical
change.
The pachymeter, lately patented in
Vienna, which measures the thickness
of paper to the one-thousandth part Of
an inch, is 'outdone by the micrometer
caliper, now coming into use in this
country, which determines the thickness
of paper or anything else TO the ten-thou-
sandth part of an inch.
A practical experiment in Imilitary
ballooning has been applied by COM
mittee OF the English government, the
result of which seems to show that bal
looms may be readily destroyed by mod
ern artillery when within distance Of
1900 yards. In the experiment in ques-
tion. captive balloon was brought
down, on the second trial, by shell
from an eight-inch howitzer at dis
tance of 1900 yards.
Like animals, plants differ greatly in
their habits and the food upon which
they subsist. The broad-leaved clovers,
turnips and manpels abstract from the
air a large portion of their growth,
while the narrow-leaved grains and
grasses partake more largely of min eral
food, which they draw from the soil.
In this fact lies the great advantage to
farmers of rotation Of crops.
A recently patented German process
for making rancid butter sweet is to
knead it with perfectly clear lime-water
in the proportion of five parts of butter
to one part of ime-water. After few
minutes kneading the lime-water is
poured off, and the butter thoroughly
washed with pure water. The rancid
ity is caused by the presence of certain
free acids, which are neutralized by the
lime.
The discovery of phosphorescent
bodies has been traced back to the year
1902, when q cobbler of Bologna, pur-
suing the philosophers stone, found a
very heavy mineral, which, after being
heated with charcoal, became luminous
in the dark. The mineral with which
the Bologna cobbler attained so remark
able result was barium sulphate,
which, by the operation in the crucible,
was changed to barium sulphide, one OF
the most phosphorescent substances
known.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Midnight, June 30, 1879.

isht, June oV, Ioft'
Midnight-in no midsummer tune
The breakers lash the shores;
The cuckoo OF a ioyless June
Is calling out-ol-doors.
And thou hast vanish'd from thine own
To that which looks like rest,
True brother, only to be known
By those who, love thee best.
Midnight-and ioyless June gone by,
And from the deluged PARK
The cuckoo OF a worse July
Is calling thro' the dark.
But thou art silent under ground,
And DER thee streams tho rain,
True poet, surely to be found
When truth is found again.
III.
And now to these unsummer'd skies,
The summer bird is still,
Far of phantom cuckoo cries
From out phantom hill;
And thro' this midnight breaks the sun
OF sixty years away,
The light OF days when life begun,
The days that seem to-day,
When all my griefs were shared with
thee,
And all my hopes were thine
Asall thou vert was one with me,
May all thou art be mine!
Alfred Tennyson, in Hdrper's Maoaz zine.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

Two friends from the interior put UP
at Galveston hotel and were given one
room. The man in the next room over
heari the following conversation about
daybreak next morning: 81 say, Bill,
are you awakeP" "I've been wide
awake for the last two hours" LEND
me five dollars" "I've dozed off again. :"
"I knew you were lying when you said
YOU were wide awake"
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
Miss rucv Larcom writes to the Mar

Miss Lucy Larcom writes to the Mar
blehead (Mass.) Messenger that her
poem, "Hannah Binding Shoes" had no
real foundation in fact; that she knew
MANY Hannahs! in Beverly but none in
Marblehead and that the poem was
suggested by the glimpse of woman
sitting at window binding shoes. which
she had on a drive through Swampseott,
Marblehead and Salem.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

The trouble about taking a medicine
warranted to cure all diseases is that
it may not know exactly what is wanted
of 1t, and will go fooling around in the
system trying to cure you of some dis-
ease that you have not got.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

"Now, George, you must divide the
cake honorably with your brother
Charles" "What is honorable,
motherp" at means that you n ust
give him the largest piece" "Then,
mother, I'd rather Charley would divide
It,"
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03

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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-07

and "just a. good as gold, and that she
never was 90 proud of him in her Life" !"
and fell to kissing him and to CRYING and
taking on. Fnsver saw ma act 90 foolish
IN all her liza ssed pa said, she.was max.
ing love to him over again"
Well, now, the story is about over.
Me came down TO the store to help. At
i'rst she looked kinder sheepish, especial
" when some lady came il she hsd Known
at he Lick, House; but soon she got over
all that and began to make bonnets, and
We hai 3 millinery store, and then she
insiss I upon saving the expenses Of q
separate house, and we moved into .
larger store next. door, with nice rooms
ha I'd up 10 live in, and nice show win.
dow for bonnets; and little Maudie is be-
ginning 10 hl handy about, and all of us
work s1d are j'st as happy as the day is
long, and haze lots of money. ,a u
have never seen Mr.. Flood but once,
70 ps, and tolo Mr. Flood aud Mr.. Nc
LaRe that any time hey wanted to bor-
gow s 200, 'Jonas & Co." would lend it
e them, and They latsyhed and said,
9ol'l 3o sfls~st el0 night 60 down."
An u Af tsood kai3, II all the
people be bad given and .leaned money to
wonld nay i pacx Al | hsd dcne, he didn't
think Ne weaad ges ssastsd in long
And tn sAw lac nlerk II ii laughed
at me, and suiieA At him and bowed
and since tLat time hs mas been buying
all his gloves II tho store. / told him j
thought he us.i great many pairs Of
gloves, and he said they wore out very
fast counting money. He is dreadfully
particular about his gloves, and if there
is nobody in the store but me, he is some
times half an hour picking out just the
kind he wants. II,
Pa has bought splendid gold watch
q real stem winder; and we, "Jones &
Co." have bought a nice large lot out on
Governor Sandford's new cable railroad,
and paid for it; and if the times are good
this summer. as pa thinks they will be,
we shall have house of our own again,
where we shall live in peace, die in
Greece and be buried in cake of tallow.
-Ecch0nge.