Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-01-25
Varieties

Raising food from tine plate TO the
mouth is the best health lift.
Russia has thirty-three schools in
which to Educate men TO manage and
operate railways.
One reason Congressman hate to 60
home is that they attract so little atten-
tiOn when the get there.
An exchange wants to know Nv hat
are our young men coming to?" Com
ing to see our girls. of course.
The mother of President Garfield
spends several hours every day reading
the published works of her illustrious
son.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
built b sleeper with n buffet at The END,
where tea, coffee, and refreshments are
to be served.
Those who re I'd newspapers and those
who sleep are always in crowded street
car when the fat woman with basket
is looking for seat.
About this time," advises the Buffalo
Express. "begin to plaLt your valentine
seed. A month will be quite sufficient
to mature them"
Ex-Congressman II. o. Pratt is now a
Methodist preacher. He said in St.
Louis one day recently that the thing
most needed in Washington is prayer
A question for lawyers-If flea bites
a dog. and SO enrages the animal that the
dog bites a man. can the flea be indicted
as an accessory before the fact?
Mrs. Senator Logan has snow white
hair, and her admirers say that she,wiIh
her brilliant black eyes. was never be-
fore so interesting and beautiful as she
is now.
A patent medicine man has frighten
ed good many people by announcing
in big type that TO want to sit down af
ter walking all day is an iDfallible sign
of kidney disease.
The Empress of Austria lately saved
an old blind woman from falling over
bank into the river by jumping out of
her carriage and running to the old per-
sons rescue. The imperial lady is no.
ted horsewoman, and is as nimble as she
is generous.
There are 622 different patent farm
gates for use of farmers. and the farmer
knows it as well as any one else. The
great advantage in his profession is in
always having time enough to let down
the fence.
Simon Cameron is missed in Wash
ington now. His pithy sayings and his
amusing freedom of language in regard
to the big wigs we're very entertaining.
When he was asked, at the time of the
last census. his trade profession, call
ing, etc, the cid gentleman boldly an
nounced printer" -
Sir Tatton Sykes is another very
wealthy Englishman who has become a
convert to the Church of Rome. He
will build. at his own expense, large
cathedral at Westminter, which resem
bles in its architecture the cathedral at
Cologne. To Cardinal Manning's elo-
qusnce is attributed Sir Tatton's cosver-
sion.
A new book has appeared in England
to show that Bacon wrote Shakespearss
plays. 1t consists of reprint Of Ba-
con manuscript in the HARLEM collection
called "Promus of Formuiaries and Ele
gancies," sort of commonplace book,
containing number Of phrases not to
Uc lOulld III DdCUu OluCI "iltluko, Uut
all to be found in Shakespeares works.
In Chicago school recently the chill
dren were asked to give a sentence with
the word capillary" A little girl wrote ::
81 sailed across the ocean in a capillary"
When asked what she meant by that.
she turned to Webster's Dictionary and
trimphantly pointed out this definition ::
Capillary, fine vessel" Farther in
vestigation showed that more than
twenty scholars had made the same
blunder.
Michael Angeles picture, "The Vir
gin of the Lecturu" has been sold by
Morris Moore to Prince Lichtenstein
and is now in Vienna. There are but
four pictures by this great master in
existence, and two which are finished
compositions and of indisputable au-
thority. The Madonna of the Lectern"
is perhaps the finest of the four.
The late Lot N. Morrill, and Timothy
Howe, now Postmaster General, were
admitted to the bar together, and be-
gan the practice of law in the same
town, Readfield. Me. Morrill, was then
Democrat and Howe a Whig.and there
was. mi uch friendly political rivalry be-
tween them. After few years they
left Readtield together, Morrill, to win
honors in the capital of his native State,
and Huwe to 60 West and grow up with
the country.