Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-04-07
Facts and Fancies.
Slate gray is revived.


The bayonet has been in use for 2O6
years.
Whitelaw Reid will make trip to
Georgia.
Mixed fancy candies nearly killed an
Indiana family.
Cinnamon brown is revived for mat
ronly toilets.
Lexington, KY, had q hog stealing
case in which there were 100 witnesses.
For the year ending March 1st, there
were packed in Chicago 5,752.19l hogs.
PATHS six months American tour be-
gins in September next.
A western minister charges 81 extra
for kissing the bride.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, is said
to be worth S7,O0O,O00-
1t is said of the Congressional lobby
that it belongs to the West.
Sardines. with lettuce and egg, make
delicate salad
New York's Washington Monument
Fund is now S15,7sO.
Arizona has $4,000 women and wants
10000 more at once.
Southern Journals demand education
for the colored voters.
George Francis Train is again -four
ishing around New York.
Suspicion breaks frail integrity, but
confirms strong one.
The newest of all the reds is laurel
red, and it is soft and dusky.
The husbands of women's right women
are generally fair plain cooks
"a new way to pay old debts" is to
take the money and pay them.
The finest duality of French Isle
thread hosiery is striped in clusters.
Nearly all the hydraulic mines of CAL
ifOrnia are worked by Cinnamon.
Many Canadian children are sent to
Buffalo to attend the free schools.
The White House is to have $4,000
worth of new furniture this spring.
What is the prime object of soldiers
drills? To make holes in the enemy.
The belted, baggy, clumsy ulster has
been entirely discarded by the elegantes.
The phyloxera is cutting the grape
vines in several counties of California.
A man who wears ten-cent piece on
his shirt front calls it his dime-and-pin.
Justice consists in doing no injury to
men; deeency, in giving them no offense.
Vulcanized rubber tires are now made
for wagons and carriages te reduce the
noise.
Bismarck has been getting snubbed.
Old Bis has seen his best days.-N. Y
Com. Adv.
Musically speaking. when Cincinnati
talks it really believes it is singing
N. Y. Herald.
Old people are generally in their anee-
dotage, and the result is history gets
mixed.
The price of eggs indicate that they
are getting On-nest again.-Pistsburgh
Telegraph.
Better be despised by too anxious ap-
prehension than ruined by too confident
security.
When one gets SO much humility that
he is proud IF it he is just too good to
live.
n Nch COH OOl q Pt1u-
ther, dressed the meat and sold it for
venison.
Philanthropy is inexpensive so long as
you content yourself with lip-phrases Of
sympathy.
The Atlanta cotton fair, in October,
will draw, it is estimated, $4,000 strang-
ers to that town.
The Chinese of Denver have large
school. in which tie English branches
are taught.
Shade hats are so cheap and unprofta-
BILE that some manufacturers are eeasing
to make them.
"Man wants but little here below"
This expression is uttered every second
in Hades.- Puck.
A Rock Island pastor has resigned
because some of the members of his
church persist in dancing.
When a Congressman goes on big
drunk in Washington it is called an at
tack of malaria.
When poet tells you that the ocean
kissed the shore he does not refer to
fishing smacks.-BOston Transcript.
1t is thought the Empress CarlOtta,
widow of Maximillian of Mexico, is rap
idly approaching her end.
''Love goes where it is sent" Nom
sensel 1t more often goes where it is
dollar than where it is sent
An Iowa paper, speaking of an old
resident, says that the froSts of seventy
summers have whitened his hair.
Appropriation bills are like those Of
enough to go into the
shallowest streams.-P. /. Man.
The Chicago Tribune says that James
Gordon Bennett wants to go to the
North Pole to look after the Jeanette.
A bank is bad place for delicate
young clerks and bald-headed cashiers;
so much exposure to drafts, you know.
He conldn't raise the mortgage on his
building lot, and so, poor man, without
blind he lost his site.
We very much fear that to poke
bonnet you will have to come, whether
It suits your style of beauty or not.
The total number of periodicals pub
ished in the United States at the Begin
ming of the present year was l0,lSl.
There are about 500 opium smokers of
both sexes in Chicago. "0ne touch of
nature makes the world All Sin"
All the theaters in Rome are iire-proof
md not one has ever burned down there
since the fall of the Roman Empire.
A little boy came to his mother recent
y and said: Mamma, should think if
| was made Of dust l would geG mud
iy inside whenever drink"
Young clergyman at clerical meet
ing: II merely throw out the idea" Old
minister: "Well. think that is the best
hing you can do with it
A Aplumber who was about to die said:
MY only regret at dying is because
where l am going water pipes l. ser
freeze up"