Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-19
SPLINTERS.

| a CINCINNATI boy bought quart OF
molasses and found $500 diamond ring
in it.
At a recent English wedding the
bridesmaids carried large punches Of
grapes instead of flowers.
"The Almighty Dollar was a phrase
used by Washington Irving in his sketch
of the Creole village.
An Albuquerque judge kept jury out
sleep for thirty-six hours.
A New York man claims to have dis.
covered the Garden of Eden, and offers
to sell the information for $4,000.
A down East debating society is about
to wrestle with the question, "Wnlcn
goes the fastest after being broken, colt
or 50 bill?'
The King of Dahomey has $500 wives.
The missionaries are after him.
Gladstone denies that he was sub
scriber to the Confederate cettOn loan Of
1868.
Anthracite coal mined in PeDnsylva+
MIA sells for S25 ton in the City of
Mexico.
A new town in Russia has been named
New York, in honor of the American
metropolis.
An Iowa man has a large collection of
live snakes, which be offers to sell for
35 cents a foot.
An iron pier, 3,166 feet in length. is
being built at Boston. 1t will be the
longest in the world.
A new gold field has been discovered
in Tasmania, and adventures are flock
( ing there from all parts.
The French Government is consider
ing the practicability of allowing the
soldiers to wear boards.
A plant has been discovered in Central
America from which "reaI" ostrich feath-
| ers will soon be made.
Four great men who have moved the
world were born ttis mOnth-Mahomet,
Luther, Schiller and Goldsmith.
Smallpox has crossed the Niagara river
and broken out in Tonawands, n. Y.
This has caused a mall panic in Buffalo.
Arrangements are being made to ss
tablish a great Scotch colony in Flor ida,
to engage in agriculture and fruit-grow+
ing.
What is said to he the largest steer in
the world is on exhibition in Chicago.
1t weighs 4,250 pounds, and il Is feet in
length.
A merchant of Athens, Ala, has re-
markable memory. OF a $4,000 stock
of goods be can tell without looking at
the marks, what each article cost.
The German Government has dis
charged all the women who were ia the
postal, telegraph and railway service. on
the ground of unftness for public bust
ness.
In 1888 an American farm was estab-
lished in Corea, where0n nothing was to
be grown but American vegetables. A
recent report says the enterprise has
proved an entire success.
A Washington paper asserts that not
more than Is of the 20 Senators and less
than two-thirds of the Congressman live
within their salaries. $1,000 year. This
is the result of extravaganza.
Three of the largest locomotives in the
world are being manufactured in the city
of Mexico. They have 16 drivers, will
pass a curve of 20 to 25 degrees with
ease, and can carry a weight of 240. 200
pounds. They are intended for use on
the Tehuantepec Ship Railroad.
Carlotta Patti is teaching singing in
Paris. Some of her pupils may some
day warble to the tune of several hunt
dred dollars night.
The Mikado of Japan has caused it to
be announced that English teachers are
wanted in the Government and other
schools of his empire.
The work of tracking and returning
prisoners who escape from the Jail at
Yuma, Arizona, is entrusted to Indians
who, it is said, succeed in almost every
instance.
A family living at Glasco, twenty-four
miles from Kingston, Y. Y, sold their
only pig, their winters pork, at great
sacrifice. to obtain money to visit the
circus.
Some seeds of an unknown variety,
recently found in the ruins of Pompeii,
are to be planted in the White House
conservatory at Washington, in the hope
that they may germinate.
Ninety thousand Russian liquor shops
will be closed with the coming of the
new year, through the decision of the
IGovernment to aii1w the sale of liquors
at retail only in otelS and eating houses.
| Rowan Ward. If Ste ard county, ia,
recently found ON his place gourd four
feet six inches lOng and about as broad.
He followed it out, put rockers On 1t and
now it serves as cradle for his baby.
A circus that visited Brandon, Miss,
short time since, had with it gnu val
ued at $4,000. On leaving town the gns
was placed in the rear car of the train.
Some negroes who had fallen in love
with the curious beast took ad ysntage
of the night to uncouple the car and run
the animal off into swamp.
The candidate who goes vote hunting
in Southwest Virginia has no easy task.
There are thirteen counties where the
roar of the railway train has never yet
been heard, and tha people live their uD-
cOuth lives in ignorance of the events of
the outside world. Through this region
Wise, the Malone candidate for Cover
nor, rode on horseback 460 miles in Sep>
ember last.
IT is said that Secretary Manning is
disappointed at the replies to his tariff
circular, sent out some time ago. He is
in favor of more tinkering than the
public seems willing to stand.