Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-21
GLEANINGS.

General Babcock had $4,000 insur-
ance on his life.
New York city has 12S regularly in
corporated clubs
The net profits of the Suez Canal for
1888 reached 50, 900, 600 francs
An academy to teach the Aztec lam
guage has been started in the City OF
Mexico.
In Montana sheep are now selling at
S. head, and cattle at $50 to $40 in
the herd.
The pictures of Meissonier now be-
ing exhibited in Paris are said to be in
sured for $4,000, 900.
Charles Dudley Warner has arranged
to ride ON horseback among the North
Carolina mountains this summer.
The home industrial schools in New
York have sheltered $4,000 children
and found county homes for 5000.
Miss A. j. Wallace, of Greenville,
Ala, has Just completed a quilt con-
taining 9, 900 pieces and 1SO, 900 stitches
Nonresident foreigners. own 0,647,-
600 acres OF land in this country, al
most wholly in the West and South
west.
Counterfeiting the paper money of
other countries is made punishable by
an act which has passed both houses OF
Congress.
The ruined cliff city discovered last
summer in Arizona, which occupied
abe sides of canon, has been named
Walnut Canon.
Statistics show that there is less
crime in the United States in proper
ton to the population than in any ether
country in the world.
The New York Mail and Express says
''it,is no longer considered necessary
to turn up ones nose at homemade
bonnets and dresses
Rev. DR.. Deems tells his congrega-
ton to go to sleep if they feel sleepy in
church; that both he and Lord will
forgive them, but that they must sleep
quietly.
The byciclers of England number
hundreds of thousands, sustain dozens
of newspapers and 500 manufacturing
firms, and are to have a road from Lon
don to Brighton all to themselves.
According to the London Graphic
there is living in Klyeta, Japan, fam
lily all of whose members have reached
the age of 100 years, and there has
been no exception since the family was
founded, a. D. $50.
Senator Jones, of Florida, is credited
with having the best memory of any
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speaks from notes, but is always pre-
else as to his facts. The Senator is
just past fifty, and is over six feet tall.
A grocer in Laurens County, Mass,
owns half bushel measure that was
used before and after the revolutionary
war The Boston Globe says that of
course it is valuable to him now only
as curiosity for it holds a full half
bushel.
Six wholesale stores under the Brook
lyn bridge are in operation. The stores
are each TWO stories high, seventy-fye
feet deep, and twenty-one feet wide.
The average rent is nearly $4,000
year. Other arches will be fitted up
and ready for occupancy within year.
Man is harvester. He begins life
at the cradle; learns to handle the
fork; often has rakish ways and sows
wild oats; threshes his way through
the world, and when he arrives at the
sere and yellow leaf, time mows him
down and his remains are planted on
the hillside.
Five children went home from a cir
Gus in Dakota recently impressed by
the feat of descending an incline on a
globe. Finding smooth log lying at
the top of steep hill, they took their
places on it in a row and set it rolling.
They were all thrown off and run over,
three being killed.
Car couplers on the New England
Road have been supplied with coupling
sticks to guide the links in coupling
cars. The employees are notified that
any of them who are injured while
coupling cars without the aid of
stick will not receive any assistance
from the company.
General Nathaniel P Banks, ex-Gov-
ernor and ex-Speaker, now nearly 20
years of age. is living with his family
on his pleasant estate in Waltham,
Mass, and taking an active part in
town and social affairs. 1t is said to be
likely, as the town is about to adopt a
city charter, that he will be its first
Mayor.
As an example of the new industries
that are springing up in North Caro-
lima, there is at Newbern a manufac-
ture of plates and dishes of gum wood,
consuming each week 450 sweet-gum
logs. forty.eight inches long. The
capital invested is about $25. 600. The
capacity of the factory is about 1000
plates per day.
While Emperor William was at din
ner recently, one of the women assist
ants was seen watching him through
glass door. When the dishes were re-
moved she slipped into her pocket
piece of bread which he had been eat
ing, saying to companion: Il am 60
ing to preserve that, for l saw our dear
Emperor eat from it!''