Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-12-11
Interesting Paragraphs

An Italian jeweler has made clock
entirely Of bread.
Worth. the French drsssmaker, is said
to be an Englishman.
In Gridley. Cal, the boys must either
attend school or leave town.
First class cabin passage to Europe
can now be obtained for only $50.
American oysters are now being trans
planted into German waters.
Within ten years the Union will prob
ably number As instead of SO States.
Numerous persons believe that cholera
is merely an aggravated case of ague.
There are 100000 Inhabitants in It.
ally. and only 100000 newspaper sub.
seribers.
Los Angles county. CAL. has increased
S1.619 In population during the past four
years.
The paper upon which the Rutland,
VT, Herald is printed is made entirely
out of sawdust.
Four hundred thousand paper roses
lately decorated scene on the stage of
Philadelphia theater.
The tonnage of the steamer Great
Eastern has been figured out to be great
er than that of Noah's ark.
There are more people in the city of
Cleveland who are without employment
than ever before.
The colored people will have one of
the most interesting exhibits in the New
Orleans Exposition.
There are $50 female physicians in
Russia, bat they are only allowed to treat
women and children.
A family in New Hampshire has
shown continued succession of deaf
mutes for over five hundred years.
Travellers in the Desert of Sahara re-
port meeting many Arabs clad in twelfth
century European armor.
Clinton. Mass, lately changed the name
of one of its thoroughfares from Cat
alley" to PUSSY avenue"
A man in Psrkersburg, w. Va. claims
to have discovered malleable glass watch
is as pliableas India rubber.
There are 10000, 600 school children in
the United States, and 1OOOO, 900 of them
are enrolled in the public schools.
A Young Mems Christian Association
vigorously at work is one of the institu
tions of Tarsus, the birthplace of st.
Paul.
The largest newspaper man in the |
United States is believed to be Major |
of the Fargo Argus, who
weighs $40 pounds.
Highwaymen who robbed London
merchant presented him as a memento |
of the event, with copy of the New
Testament.
The body of maH found drowned at |
New Haven, Conn.,, was lately identified |
by no less than four persons as of differ
ent men.
The people of Dominica, an island in
the West indies, want to be annexed to
the United States in order to get over
the American tariff.
The cries of kitten In q dwelling az
Mass, aroused the family /
just in time for them to discover that
the house was in flames.
California farmers are employing Ten
nessee negroes in order to rid themselves
Of the Chinese. The experiment thus
far has proven success.
London street cars have texts of Scrip
ture neatly posted up ia them at the ex-
pense of Christian association, which
pays $3.50 annually each for the privi.
Iege.
Lisbon, Ga, was fourishing town
and had over thirty stores few years
ago. A change in the tide of traffic wiped
i out, and now there is not house left
10 mark the site of the town.
Eighteen years ago Vermont passed a
aw disfranchising any one living in the
State who had fought in the Confederate
army. The law has lately been repealed
no case having been found in which it
Was operative.
A bird in Crawford, Ga, was lately
'een jumping from stump to stump with
something bright ia its bill. Upon being
frightened away he dropped the shining
article, and it was found to be an Eng
ish coin, dated 1902.
ApropoS to the colon following the ab-
of the first name of Ben: Per-
y POOre, which his younger journalistic
brethren and the Intelligent compos-
tor at large do not always treat with
)ecoming reverence. the Major success
ully defends its use by citing the cus>
ON of the early fathers of the Republic
md their stately contemporaries, whose
tipually are found in such
Orm as the following: Geo: Washing
Oh, ThOs: Jefferson, ct al. In his exten
i've collection he has hundreds of such
Blaine's plurality in California was ,
9,17S.
Five polvgamists have been convicted !
q Arizona within week.
Ira A A. Levy was commissioned Cap /
ain of Co. D.. First Regiment, Cincin> t
ati. {
Neiveille, bigamist. on trial at Toledo. q
vas sentenced to the penitentiary for !
even years.
The wife of Rev. W. A. Downs, of
L. l., has elOped with dea- r
on of the church.
Josiah s. Colgate, an aged oil broker,
ell in q New York elevator well, and
ras fatally injured.
Piece workers of the keystone Bridge ..
o.. Pittsburgh, were netitied of fifteen r
or cent. reduction.
The mills OF Zng & Co.. Pittsburgh. g
losed down on account OF dullness of Y
rade. Twelve hundred men are made y
lie. &
DR.. John Maxwell. of Springfield, o.. y
harged with fatally poisoning his fam a
y, has been held for trial in January. "a
The powder magazine at the Virginia u
iilitary Institute exploded. Houses y :,
lille distant were shaken. No lives lost. =
A bill was introduced into the House !,
Representatives to provide for the es- Il
,blishment of the Office Of Government :,
.rchieect. :,
There Is much suffering among the D
locking Valley miners, aud the Central o
elief Committee is distributing money L
nd merchandise. 81
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