Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-11
GLEANINGS.

Whalebone is now selling at the rate
OF S12, 250 per ton.
New Mexico embraces ~, $50. 600
acres of land. on which are about 5.OOO,
coo head of cattle.
The Brazilian government has Just
spent $4,000, 900 upon the new water
supply of Rio. s
A Boston correspondent calls Long
Branch "a long lie with a yawn on
each end of it"
Kentucky has law prohibiting the
sale of illustrated police literature
within its borders.
Cuba's entire sugar crop this year
will not be sufficient to pay the govern
ment taxation on population.
The new mode in Paris of disposing
of babies not needed is to take them TO
church and leave them under q seat
Judge DeYsns is the proud possessor
of Daniel Weoster's recipe for making
punch, in the statesman's own hand
writing.
A horticulturist says there are 209
varieties of cherries, sixty of apricots.
239 of peaches, 1,087 of pears and 297
of plums. --rI sdf
John L. Sullivan wants to be made
professor of athletics in Harvard. Hav-
ing attained to wealth John wants re-
spectability. >.
The sales of the great breweries of
Milwaukee for the year ending in
April amounted to the total of 1,066,-
$50 barrels of beer.
The great tunnel under the river
Mersey, England, will be three and
one-eighth miles in length Work on
it is progressing rapidly.
Dakota farmers plow their lands by
means of q broad traction engine,
which drives the plow at cost of less
than 81 per acre.
Miss Jennie Ballentine, of Rochester,
and Mrs. Palmer, of Utica, are men
toned as lady shorthand writer's at
Washington who earn s.. 900 and $S.-
600 per year respectively. .s
An English physician has been num-
bering the hairs of his own and other
heads, and comes to the conclusion
that the average man has between 127,-
600 to 150.0 600 of them.
The Duke of Rutland has taken so
heavily to heart the removal of the
Duke of Wellington's statue from Hyde
Park that he writes: eff it were possi-
BILE, L would resign my peerage. F."
S. B. Adkins, of Hawthorne, Florida,
has three trees twenty-five years old.
which yielded 80, oranges this year.
Last year one tree was sold for 800,
and the purchaser realized $160.
Not very long ago tomatoes were
known as love apples, and were re-
garded as poisonous. Last season the
canning establishments of the United
States put up 50. S22, 952 cans of TOMS
toes.
A large pond near Monticello. Fla,
suddenly emptied itself few days ago
and deep vent was found in the bot
itself regularly at intervals of six and
seven years.
A few Sundays ago black bear
swan from the mainland to the San
Francisco peninsula, distance of more
than a mile, and is now prowling
among the foot hills in sight OF the
Golden Gate. r aaas
The chief attraction of Winchester,
Va, is the double cemetery in its
suburbs. On one side of stone wall
are buried over 1900 Union dead,
while over 5000 Confederate soldiers
lie on the other.
Toronto is the best Ssbbath-keeping
city in the world. The only stores
open on the Sabbath there are those
for selling milk and medicine, and
these for only an hour or two in the
morning and evening.
The consumption of beer in Italy is
growing to enormous proportions,
while that of wine is yearly lessening.
The reason IS believed to be the heavy
adulterations to which italian wines
have been subjected. .....f...r -,....,.sr
An English naturalist asserts that
the flocks of swallows which return to
the British shores in the spring are so
large that when they reach the land
and alight to rest they cover the beach
for distance of half q mile. ....-
The London Telegraph. rejoicing in
the decision of the University of Ok
ford to admit women to degrees. says
the life of married homes will be hap
pier when equal intellect and culture
are to be found in husband and wife"
In the city of Glasgow. with its half
million of population, forty-one fam
lilies out of every hundred live in =
single room, and large number of
these families have a father, mother.
six or seven children, and several
lodgers. .-.--- -,.s....... ....
Krasczewsk, the Polish poet who
has Just been sentenced as an anarch-
ist, says he believes the truly happy
man is he who has no material desires,
who connects himself with nothing
earthly, and who loves his neighbOr
better than himself. @ -
! The reason for requiring lawyers in
to stand while examining
witnesses in court is explained by the
Judges who make the rule. 1t is to
prevent the long, weary. useless. sense
less badgering of witnesses, and expe-
lites the business of the courts won
1erfully. sa5 .s
Everybody has sheard of the giant
of Santa Barbara. Cal. but
near it there is younger vine which
threatens 10 surpass the old one. 1t is
years old. has cireumfer-
,nce of three feet eleven inches, and in
1888 bore over three tons of grapes. It
$ of the Mission variety. sI
The largest bass ever caught in the
Hudson between New York and Albany
vas taken by Richard Ward. of New
Hamburg. on Thursday. 1t weighed
'ighty-four pounds. Between Milton
md Low Point many fine bass have
'een taken this season. weighing from
wenty to twenty-six pounds.
Queen Christina of Spain has shown
o much preference for q DR.. Riepel.
Who followed her to Spain on her mar
iage, that all the court doetors recent
y resigned in q body. The Queen.
Iowever. remained steadfast and
elected new corps Of physicians with
be Austrian doctor at their head.
Ephraim Hatch, San Francisco
wearied with the tedium Of
ha iurv-rooyu -ava exnreSaion to fha