Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-12
SPLINTERS.
sxas editor spells wife "yf."

A Texas editor spells wife "yf."
Women own and operate nearly 1,OOO
farms in Iowa.
Girls can marry at the age of IL years
in the State of Maine.
Gum camphor is the best thing to
carry as guard against smallpox.
The United States half dime of 1902
is valuable coin. 1t is worth S23.
The number of lunatics in France in>
cresses twice as fast as the population.
The farmers of Arkansas have secret
order called "The Agricultural Wheel"
All the cotton grown in America could
be produced in one corner Of the State of
Texas.
About 100000 pounds of rice goes
into brewers watts in this country an
nuslly.
A cargo of 1000 frozen carcasses of
sheep lately reached London from South
America.
Mules are said to be more popular
than horses for elegant equipages in Rio
de Janeiro.
Two canoe voyagers are on their way
from the mouth of the Yellowstone to
the Gulf of Mexico.
Massachusetts has more miles of rails
road to area than any other commons
wealth in the world.
Chicago has twenty-six milk dealers
awaiting trial on the charge of adulter+
ting the lacteal fluid.
A New Hampshire man has a pumps
kil vine in his garden 200 feet long, bear
ing twenty pumpkins.
The papers used in the trial of Aaron
Burr for treason are deposited in the
Government building at Cincinnati.
An economical Breoklynite with, pre-
sumably, cold in the head, spent eight
hours In vanishing his dining room with
maple syrup.
According to the estimates of the Di+
rector of the Mint, the United States
keeps the lead in the production of both
gold and silver.
Augustus" said Amelia, show do oys>
ters get any air to breathe when their
shells are closed tight?" "Bi-valves," !"
murmured Gus.
A notification recently issued by the
Japanese Government renders education
compulsory on all children between the
ages of and IA.
At the recent meeting of the synod of
the Pacific it was stated that no young
man born and reared in California has
ever yet devoted himself to the ministry.
A little girl of 215 years burusd her
finger for the first time the other day.
She placed her finger on hot potato,
and suddenly drew it back, exclaiming,
20, der's pin it!"
The old Bonaparte estate at Point
Breeze, n. j., after maintaining its int
tegrity for over seventy years, is about
to be sold. The mass has gone to waste.
It contains 231 acres.
A number of hogs on a St. Helena
(Cal.) ranch became intoxicated lately
from too free indulgence in grape POM
ace, and pitched battle followed, in
which one of the porkers was killed.
reed the shadow of the first person who
passes the site Of new house after the
foundation is dug, and they bury the reed
underneath the wall to insure its stabil+
ity.
st. Peters Cathedral, just completed
at Moscow, has flve cupolas, and 900 lbs.
of pure gold were used in overlaying
them. The doors of the temple cost
$4,000, and the marble floors SI,5OO.-
600.
A confectioner in indianapolis gives
customers the privilege of eating ali the
candy they can get away with at one
time in his store for 25 cents each, and
declares that he makes money on nine
out of ten of them.
For the privilege of using a crest on
their card. plate and note paper, 99.O73
English people pay guiea each annu
ally, and 1891 pay two guineas for the
additional privilege of displaying their
crest on carriage panels.
In jamestown, N. Y, they imposed so
heavy license Oh Barnum's circus that
the show was excluded. This was done
to satisfy the manufacturers of the town,
who weuld have had to shut down for a
day had Barnum been allowed to come.
1t Is custom Still In remote villages
of Greece for women to hide their faces
in public. 1t is custom which has sur
vived from the days when Homer rep
resents Penelope as followed by two
women. her face covered with magsifi-
cent veil.
The young women of st. Petersburg
are learning trades, in order to make
their own living. They learn book-bind.
ing, type setting, shoe making, toy max
ing, wood carving and painting The |
industrial schools devoted to woman are
overcrowded.
A physician who has studied the caus-
ss of insanity offers the suggestion that
the brain of modern men may adapt it,
self in the course of time to the greater
demands made upon it. He argues that
pyer-presspre In schools chiefly affects