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Galway fare at reduced rates.

THE following are some of the great
est attitudes reached by railways. The
Alpine line rises to height Of about
1851 feet; that of the Black Forest,
1850 feet;' the Semmering, 1910 feet;
the Caucasus, 1926 feet; the st. Gothard
to the tunnel, 3,462; feet; the Brenner
4,101 feet; the Mont Gents, 4,O14 feet
the North Pacific, 4,958 feet; Central
Pacific, $3.50 feet; Union Pacific, e,93e
feet, and finally the Andes railway at.
tain height of 14,3O7 feet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07
Having Fun with a Deaf and Dumb
Man.

Man.
Quietly entering barber-shop the
stranger removed his hat and coat and
taking card from his pocket wrote on
lit:
L want to be shaved EF'
A barber stepped forward, read the
card, and, pointing to chair, said to his
brother artist: .-.t.
Deaf as a brass kettle and dumb as an
OYSTER IIler
The man Strengthened himself ont in
the chair, when his manipulation began
lathering his face. i--f5.
This deaf cuss has cheek like stone
WALL he said, when general laugh fol-
lowed.
Stick pin in him and see il he is en-
tirely dumb said another.
The victim remaining undisturbed.
the following shots were fired at him by
the delighted tonsorial artists:
He needs shampoo. his head is dirtier
thrn cesspool.'
Shave him with stoolleg, don't spoil
your razor on that stubble.'
Gracious! what a breath. 1t smells
like Dutch band of music e
He ought to rent that Hose for a loco
motive headlight etc. --- -
While all these complimentary allu-
sioDs were flying about him, the opera
tion of shaving was finished and the
man arose, put on his coat, and then
turning to the astonished barber, said:
"How much for the shave and compli-
ments|
I-I-I-I,' gasped the astonishsd
man, oh, nothing-nothing, call again,
excuse and, as the stranger left
the discounted BARRIERS swOre they
would never believe in deaf and dumb
man again, until they had first fired a
ten-pound cannon about his ears
Whitehall Times.
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Banging a Blood and Thunder Nov

The other day stout woman armed
with an umbrella and leading small
archin, called at the Office of New York
boys story paper.
"Is this the place where they fight In
dians p she inquired of the gentleman
in charge. as this the locality where
the brave boy charges up the canyon
and speeds bullet to the heart of a
dusky red skim" and she jerked the
urchin around by the ear and brought
her umbrella down on the desk.
1--WE publish stories for boys" replied
the young man evasively. .-t
IL want to know if these are the prem.
ises on which the, daring lad springs
upon his fiery mustang, and, dartine
through the circle of thunderstruck saw.
ages, cuts the captiye's cords and bears
him away before the wondering Indians
have recovered from their astonish-
ment? That's the information I'm af-
ter. want to know if that sort of
thing Is peTpetrated herer' and she
swung the umbrella around her head.
81 don't remember those specific acts .
protested the young man.
81 want to know if this is the precinct
where the adventurous boy Jumps on
the back of buffalo and with unerrinp
aim picks off one by one of the blood.
thirsty pursuers who bite the dust at
every crack of the faithful rife! I'm
looking for the place where that sort OF
thing happensw and this time she
brought the young man a tremendous
whack across the back. sig
81 think commenced the dodging
victim.
I'm in search of the shop in which
the boy road agent holds the quiyerinp
stage driver powerless with his glitter.
ing eyes, while he robs the male passen.
gers with an adroitness born of long
and tried experience, and kisses the
hands OF the lady passengers with gal
laHtry of bearing that bespeaks noble
birth and chiyalrOus naturep scream
ed the woman, driving the young man
into the corner. "I'm looking for the
apartment in which that business is
transacted" and down came the um.
brella with trip-hammer force on the
young mans head.
pom my soul. ma ann gasped the
wretched youth.
IL want to be introduced to the lars in
which you keep the boy scouts of the ST.
errasl Show me the bins full of the
boy detectives Of the prairie! Point out
to me the barrels full of boy pirates of
the Spanish mainp and with each de-
mand she dropped the umbrella on the
young mans skull until he skipped over
the desk and sought safety in a neigh
boring canyon.
"I'll teach emp she painted, grasping
the urchin by the ear and leading him
off. "I1l teach 'em to make it good or
lance. Want to fight Indians any more !?
Want to stand proudly upon the pima
Gle of the mountain and scatter the
plain beneath with the bleeding bodies
of uncounted slain ? Want to say 'histr
In a tone that brooks no contradiction
Propose to spring upon The taffrail and
with a ringing word of command send a
broAdside into the richly-laden galley,
and then mercifully spare the maiden in
he cabin, that she may become your
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OLD EUROPE.
Some of the Changes Made in Thou
sand Years.

Popular Science Monthly for August.
In the year 500 after Christ what was
the state of Europe? The GOths, the
Vandals, the Franks, the Huns, the
Normans, the Turks, and other barbar-
ian hordes, had invaded and overthrown
the Roman Empire and had established
various kingdoms upon its ruins. These
hOrdes of sayages had destroyed not on
ly all the works of civilization, but CIV
ilization itself. Ignorant as they were
of everything that distinguishes and ele-
Yates human nature, they broke up the
schools, ruined the monuments, abolish
ed arts and manufactures, prevented
commerce, and reduced the conquered
nations to their own condition, inaura-
ting in the completest manner the reign
of brute force and mental darkness. If
they afterward espoused Christianity
they nodded it to their own savage su-
perstition, till at last naught was left
of the divine dispensation but its name,
to cover the most degrading idolatry
and demonism. At the time We begin
our specific examination we find that in
the then so-called Christian nations
there existed no science worthy OF the
name, no schools whatever. Reading,
writing and ciphering were separate and
distinct trades. The masses, the nobili-
ty, the poor and the rich, were wholly
unaequainted with the mysteries of the
alphabet and the pen. A few men,
known as clerks, who generally belonged
to the priesthood, monopolized them as
a special class of artists. They taught
their business only to their seminarists,
apprentices; and beyond themselves and
their few pupils no one knew how to
read and write, nor was it expected of
the generality, any more than it would
be nowadays, that everybody should be
shoemaker or lawyer. Kings did not
even know how to sign their names, so
that when they wanted to subscribe to
a written contract, which some clerk
had drawn up for them, they would
smear their right hand with ink, and
slap it down upon the parchment, say
Ing. "Witness my hand" At later
date, some genius devised the substitute
of the seal, which was impressed instead
of the hand. Every gentleman had a
seal with peculiar device thereon
Hence the sacramental words now in
use, witness my hand and SEAL" affixed
to deeds. serve at least the purpose of
reminding us of the ignorance of the
middle ages.
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Wheat MaXfllls.

The following information about
wheat n owing has been condensed and
is now going the rounds in various
journals:
/. The best soil for wheat is rich clay
loan.
2. Wheat likes good, deep. soft bed.
8. Clover turned under makes just
such bed. ~ -
4. The best seed is oily, heavy, plump
and clean. --l,.
5. About two inches is the best depth
to SOW the seed.
. 6. The drill puts in the seed better and
cheaper than broadcasting.
Z. From the middle of September to
the last of October is the best time for
sowing. 9--A ~ 81 . -
8. Drilled, one bushel of seed per acre !;
If sown broadcast. about two bushels per
acre. ...fs.
acre.
o. Ons heavy rolling after sowing does
much good.
10. For flour. cut when the grain be-
gins to harden; for seed, BOT until it has
hardened.
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Fixing His Own Fine.

Mr.. S. Whitfield is a rather tall, digni-
fed looking man, whose gray hairs pro-
claim the fact that he has performed
two-thirds of life's journey, at least, He
is before the court at regular intervals,
always on the same charge of drunken
ness. He bowed politely to Judge Hig-
ley yesterday morning, and his Honor
returned the salute.
WELL said the latter, 'it is stated on
the docket that you were drunk
Yes ,-e
when did you get out OF the work
house, Mr.. WhittieldY
Now, Judge, that's unkind. / have
never seen the inside of a wOrkhouse to
get out replied Mr.. Whitfield with dig
nifty. Il have always paid my fine.'
And can you pay one nowr
Yes
well, how much do you think you
ought to pay?'
i don't know, Judge, just how much.
You've got as good an idea Of that as |
have said the prisoner, attempting a
calculation. so far as recollect it was
simple drunk
What did we agree upon the last
time p said his honor with kindly
smile.
Il don't just remember, Judge, be-
lieve you taxed me about five dollars
and costs
Would you consider ten dollars and
costs too much on the present occasion,
from all you knew of the circum-
stances?'
Il reckon that would be about fair,
Judge
Very well, am anxious to have you
perfectly content. Let it be ten dollars
and costs. Good morning. lH- a
Good morning, Judge returned MIR.
Whitfield, bending gracefully and wav-
ing his hat In q friendly farewell as he
descended to the lower regions in COM
pany with the officer amid the laughter
of the auditory.-[Cin. Gaz. l
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ben HIPS God "a Living God.
Atlanta Constitution.


Senator Ben Hill, it might be said, ad-
ministered on his own estate during his
lifetime. Most of his property was dis
posed of before he died by gifts to his
children and his wife. His will is short,
merely disposing of the remaining part
Of his property and giving directions
about things that he wished done and in
which the public could feel no interest.
Mr.. B. II. Hill. Jr., is executor. In item
6.is the following: Il now give and be-
queath to my wife and children that
which some of them now possess, and
which assure them, in full view Of
death, is far richer than gold and more
to be desired than all human honors.
God is living God, and Christ came in
to the world to save sinners. beg
them to have faith in Jesus, for by this
faith alone can they be saved.
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bride? Eh? Going to do it any more ?"
With each question she Hammered
the yelping urchin until his bones were
sore and he protested his permanent
abandonment of all the glories enumer-
ated.
"Then come along" said she, taking
him by the collar. Let me catch you
around with any more ramrods and
carving knives, and you'll think the
leaping, curling, resistless prairie fire
had swept across the trembling plains
and lodged in your psntaloons to stayv
Brooklyn Eagle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07

A TOBACCO HATER says: 1.-TWO cigars
a day will supply family with -four"
Fogg says he buys half a dozen cigars
some days but he doesn't find it any ca
sier to supply the family with flour, for
all that. He thinks there must be q
mistake somewhere.--Boston Transcript.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07

Dear &rs: have been using your buggies
and ph9tons in my business for over three
years. and can oheerfully recommend your
work; and buggies that can stand the work in
livery stable must be of good material, and as
long as you give me the same good material
and style as you have been doing shall use
no other work than the work of the Columbus
Buggy Company, of Columbus, Ohio.
Respy. EARNEST BURGDORF,
Washington, d. O. Livery and Sale Stable.
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AN Austin man started in livery busi-
ness, and the first thing he did was to
have y big sign painted representing
himself holding q mule by the bride.
is it good likeness of me ?" lie asked of
an sdmiring friend. "Yes, 1t is a perfect
picture Of you, but who Is the fellow
holding you by the bride ?"-(Texas
Siftings. .-.. b a.G.. .f
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07

AS A YOUNG SHAVER of five or six
years was reading at school one day, he
came upon the passage: keep thy
tongue from evil and thy lips from
guile" Master hopeful drawled out
"Keep-thy- tongue trom-evil and
-thy-lips-from-girls!'
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J,rpay Browu NJ Nsw pb;,,d.,rb;o

JUDGE Brown, of New Philadelpbia,
has threxn bumb into the Democratic
camp of the Sixteenth Ohio district, by
announcing himself as an independent
candidate for Congress. He was a can
didate before the nominating conven-
tion, and came near being its choice. He
claims to have been defeated by unfair
means, hence bis capdidature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07

Gentlemen: have used your Brewster sides
bar buggies for feur years, together with bug
giles were the first that went out. on account
of being side-bar; they have not cost me SIS for
repairs, and those have sold of your make
have given good satisfaction; think that you
make the cheapest and best road wagons that
are made In the United States for the money.
Lawrence, Kas. Resp'y, p. N. HAMLIN.
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POETRY.
The Water Mill.
Listen to the water mill!

Listen to the water MILL
Through the livelong day,
How the clanking of the wheels
Wears the hours awayi
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the greenwood leaves:
From the fields the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheaves,
And q proverb haunts my mind,
AS Q spell is cast
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving heart and true;
Golden years are fleeting by,
Youth is passing, too.
Learn to make the most of life;
Lose no happy day;
Time will never bring thee back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while life shall last;
TIE mill will never grind
With the water that has passed.
l
Work while yet the daylight shines
Man Of strength and will;
Never does strsamlet glide
Useless by the mill.
Wait not till the morrow'g sun
Beams upon thy way;
All that thou eanst call thine own
Lies in thy to-day!
Power, intellect and health
May not, cannot last;
The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed
Oh, the wasted hours of life
That have drifted by!
Oh, the good we might have done,
Lost without q sigh.
Love that once we might have saved
BY single word,
conceived, but never penned,
Perishing unheard.
Take the proverb to thine heart,
Take, oh, hold it fastl
The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed.
Miss Doudney.
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PILES, NO CUREl NO PAY!

No cutting, tying, pain or detention
from labor. At National Hotel, Aug.
29th and Sept. 10th. Persons cured
Joseph Butler, city; John Butler, Adena ;
j. r. Lane, ticket agent B. & o. R. R. A.
E. Hilles, druggist, J. G. Brown, W. c.
Seers, and many others, Barnesville, O.
17-tf DR.. THos. ]. KIsNER.
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Gentlemen: With over fifteen years experl>
ence in building buggies, wagons. etc.. do
riages are strictly first class in Workmanship,
material, and proportions. filling a long>felt
want for a reliable article that can be sold at
q price lower than any ordinary manufacturer
can produce and sell the same quality OF work
at. Yours, &C.,
Conneautville, Pa. 3. KRICK.
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Gentlemen: Having sold your buggies for
some time. / can heartily say they give en-
tire satisfaction; l have never seen any factory
buggy equal to them in finish; / know OF two
of them that have been in use for two years 1T
least by men who are very hard drivers, and
the buggies are as good as when bought:
Mansfield, Pa. Yours, ID A GAYLORD.
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Gentlemen: We have been handling your
work for two seasons, and have in every in
stance found your buggies first class; We have
never bad one of your jobs returned TO us for
repairs; neither have we had sigie complaint
on account of work not being perfectly satis>
factory Yours respectfully,
Springfield. Ill. BUCKLEY 90.
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Gentlemen: Your buggies In this section OF
the country are giving perfect satisfaction for
durability and finish; as for style they cam
not be surpassed; took first premium at two
fairs last fall with one had used four month.
and had been washed, presume twenty times,
and still the painting held It's gloss; they are
pronounced here as the finest buggy going.
Very truly, Z NJ BLOODY
Madison, Lake county, Ohio.
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& THE GREAT
BURLINGTON ROUTE,

No other line runs Three Through Pas
senger Trains Daily between Chicago, Dea
Aoines, Council Bluffs, Omaha. Lincoln, St.
Joseph, Atchison, Topeka and Kansas City.
Direct connections for all points In Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Ne
yada, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and
California.
The Shortest, Speediest and Most Comforts
BILE Route via Hannibal to Fort Scott, DenisOn.
Dallas, Houston, Austin. San Antonio, Calves
ton and all points in Texas.
The unequaled Inducements offered by this
Line to Travellers and Tourists, are as follows:
The celebrated Pullman Q6-wheeD Palace
Sleeping Cars, run enly on this Line, G.. B. 8
9. Palace Drawing-Room Cars, with Horizons
Reclining Chairs. No extra charge for Seats
In Reclining Chairs. The famous c., r. & q.
Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous Smoking Cars
fitted with Elegant High-Backed Rattan Re
volving Chairs for the exclusive use Of first
class passengers. .'...
Steel Track and Superior Equipment, COM
Dined with their Great Through Car Arrange
ment, makes this, above all others, the favorits
Route to the South, Southwest, and the Far
West. =. = :.
Try it, and you Wilt fnd travelling luxary
instead Of q discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sale at all ofices in the United States and
Canada - ~
All 1 formation about Rates of Fare, Sleep
will be cheerfully given. and will send Ffts TO
any address an elegant County Mop Of United
Ststes, in colors, by applying TO-
PEBCEvAL LOWELL,
Genn Pass'r Ag't, Chicago.
-.t T. ]. POTTER
Genr Manager. Chicago. /,
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Dear Srs: For the past two years we have
used your buggies side by side with other
makes in both our stables, and are perfectly
satisfied with the strength. durability and
work kmsnship. compared with others; AS fast
az our stock In livery Is used up we shall re-
place them with your manufacture, knowing
from experience that IL is the best We can
do. Respectfully,
Quincy, Ill. SWEET & FOLLANsBEE
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The Blind Receiving Sight.

He stood before the Sanhedrim; aa
The scowling rabbis looked at him;
He recked not of their praise or blame |;
There was no fear, there was no shame
For one upon whose dazzled eyes
The whole world poured its vast surprise.
The open heaven was far too near,
His first days light too sweet and clear,
To let him waste his new-gained ken
On the hate -clouded face OF men.
But still they questioned, Who art thou
What hast thou been? What art thou
now?
Thou art not he who yesterday
Sat here and begged beside the way,
For he was blind.
"And am he;
For I was blind, but now ] see."
He told the story DER and DER;
1t WAS his full hearts only lore;
A prophet on the Sabbath day
Had touched his sightless eyes with clay,
And made him see who had beeL blind.
Their words pass by him like the wind
Which raves and howls, but can not
shock
The hundred -fathom-rooted rock.
Their threats and fury all went wide;
They could not touch his Hebrew pride.
Their sneers at Jesus and his band,
Nameless and homeless in the land
Their boasts of Moses and his Lord
All could not change him by one word.
Il know not what this man may be,
Sinner or saint; but as for me,
One thing know, that am he
Who once was blind, and now see.'
They were all doctors of renewn,
The great men of famous town.
With deep brows, wrinkled, broad, and
wise,
Beneath their wide phylacteries;
The wisdom of the East was theirs,
And honor crowned their silver hairs.
The man they Jeered and laughed to
scorn
Was unlearned, poor, and humbly born !;
But he knew better far than they
What came to him that Sabbath day;
And what the Christ had done for him
He knew, and not the .3anhedrim.
John Hay.
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Dear Sirs. Your work has not failed in a sim
gle instance to give entire satisfaction. and
proves equal to greater emergencies than you
superior for the price to any buggy OF which
we have any knowledge. Yours truly,
Baldwin, Miss. THOMAS BRO.
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Gentlemen: have no hesitency in saying
that the buggies manufactured by the Coium-
bus Buggy Company are the best work for the
price have any knowledge of; in not q single
Instance has there been any dissatisfaction on
the part OF any one of my customers.
Greensboro, Ky. FRANK l. HALL.
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Grain and MiII.Feed For Sale.

I have on hands grain Of all kinds
corn, oats, mill.feed, ETC., which l will
sell at reasonable prices, for cash.
1881 50 Jos. w. KING.
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Gentlemen: We have used the Columbus Bug:
gy COmpany's work for the last five years and
can cOnscientiOusly recommend 1t as strictly
first class as to style, material, W ,rkmanship
and durability; your buggies have given bet>
hicies we have had in use for the last 10 years.
Red Oak, La. PALMER & WHITAKER.
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Sugar.-All sugars sold by US are
guaranteed to be free from any adulter-
alton; consisting solely of the product
of raw sugars as refined.
Is 81 2t) GEO. JEPSON.
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Dear STrs: We have been, using your buegies
the last four or five years; they have given en-
tire satisfaction; think they are the best bug
gies made for the money.
W.B. GRIMES & CO.
Whitehall, Ill. Liverymen.
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Dear .Srs: As an evidence of my appreciation
of your buggies, which have been using for
some time In my livery, l enclose orders for
more. Yours respectfully,
Danv'lle, Va. W w NEW.
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Wanted-To trade drain tile for q
good sized horse. Address
T. G. FAwCETT,
S-24 2t. st. Clairsville.
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Gentlemen: 1t gives me pleasure TO state that
have been selling your buggies and carriages
to any one in want of a buggy or carriage.
Maoomb. Ill. Yours truly. ]. L. GRIBBLE.
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Dear ,&rs: We have bugges of your make
th at have been in use three years. and no bug
gy that we have that cost twice the amount
has given better satisfaction.
Johnstown. Pa. JAS. Fl. ALEXANDER.
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The Vote On the River and HarbOr

The following is the analysis of the
vote on the River and Harbor bill, by
which it was passed over the Presi-
dents veto. Cut it out, and whenever
you hear Democratic orator blowing
about Republican extravaganza read
him the facts, and shut him up: