Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

John G. SAKE has made more money
In cattle in one year than he has made
In poetry in twenty, says his brother
Peter.
Mr. Bradlaugh says that committee
in Philadelphia has offered to pay him
$4,000 in advance fer lectures.
The fleet and spirited horses in Hun
gary are bred on wide plains, where
they scamper at liberty until they are
broken.
The Collector of Baltimore recently
drew check for l cent in favor of a
New York firm, this being the amount
of overpaid duty.
There are many rooms in M. w. H.
Vanderbilt's new Fifth Avenue houses
which have cost from $4,000 to $4,000
each for frescoing alone
The Syracuse Herald asserts that
frogs, toads. and rats are among the in
gradients which help to make the water
in that city palatable.
There is largely increased produc-
ton of opium in India this year. One
district, which ordinarily sends to mar
ket $4,000 chests, will this year send 75,-
900.
The use of bydrate of choral as a
remedy for sleeplessness is increasing
in England. The scientist who first rec
commended it for use in medicine said
that he was almost sorry that he had
ever done so.
A married couple in Maine were
known by their neighbors to lead hap
n ha Il .A4
has engaged his recent wife as house.
Keeper and has become engaged to an
other woman.
A young alligator, seventeen inches
long, was brought to the Office of
Lynchburg (Va.) paper, the other morn
ing as curiosity. He came out of the
creek, near where it enters the river lust
above the city.
A paper printed In Maiden, Mass,
modestly says: Ralph Waldo Emer-
sons fame can not be deprecated or in
creased by his ancestors. Therefore, it
Is no harm to mention that one of bis
ancestors was pastor of a Maiden |
church"
A certain Princess who has been liy-
ing of late in the Champs Elysses, Paris |
has eloped, like the young lady in Sheri- |
dams play, with her own footman. Her |
husband reached the station just in time
to see them glide out of it.
Much praise is bestowed upon the
elephant at Harrisburg that refused to
turn out for baby carriage, because it |
is the first case on record where baby |
carriage run by sour-looking nurse did |
not obtain all the rights ofway.
Speaking Of Lafayette, an old Bosto-
MAN says: 81 can recollect him perfectly |
well to-day. He was a good average
sized man, and very upright in appear
ance, but the particular thing remem-
Der noticing was the size of his ears.
They were very large"
The deaths in France in 1880 were
S57 1887, and the marriages 279,035. Com
pared with 1879 shows a decrease of
3,47l in marriages, with an increase of
1S.455 in deaths. The years augmenta-
tion of population was 6l.s40, as COM
pared with 96,647 in 1879.
Mr.. Darwin was one of the most
thoroughly systematic of men In his
work, and in preparing his books had
special set of shelves for each stand
ing near or on his writing table, shelf
being devoted to the material which was
destined to form each chapter. /
THE Chicago Drovers' Journal has !
been making close inquiries in regard to
ranch cattle all over the West, and pub.
fishes the result, from which we CLEAN
the following facts: The average losses
of cattle the past winter were per cent
against9 per cent a year before; cattle
are in 20 per cent better condition as to :
fatness than in the average season; ship
nents to market will exceed those of b
asst year by 10 per cent; range cattle are h
worth S4.25 more, on an average, than a L
rear ago. Montana and Nevada report f,
worse condition of cattle than last y
ear. Idaho and New Mexico report that OF
here has been no change, and in Kan 81
as, Texas, Wyoming. Colorado, Nebras- er
a. Dakota, and Indian Territory, the fo
ondition is much better. On the whole, st
anchmen have every reason to feel good dc
yer the situation. ia