Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-03-05
Interesting Paragraphs.

Little girls IN India wear gold rings In
their noses.
The horse, says writer, cannot jump
more than 27 feet.
A prize of 5000 has been offered for
every comet discovered.
Walnut groves are being planted in
many parts of the west.
A New York florist has beautiful
lilac bush in full bloom.
The Russians consider it an omen Of
evil to pass the salt at table.
1t cost So. 14s,OOO to light the American
and Canadian sea coasts last year.
The Rothschilds never employ a man
who has the reputation for i'll luck.
Nearly one-half of the American sail>
ing ships bear the names of women.
The distinguished English surgeon,
DR.. Fordyce, ate only one meal day.
The 25th child has just been born to .
man and wife in Tazewell county, Ill.
Cuban policemen stand on the street
corners with lanterns hung on long
poles.
A young lady in South Illinois has Just
died from the effects of having her ears
pierced.
In Griffin, Ca, wood is selling at ten
cents stick. The size of the stick" is
not stated.
A Philadelphia letter carrier has been
dismissed for contracting debts along
bis route.
Wood has been almost entirely SUPER
seded in English ship building yards by
iron and steel.
The number of medicine supplying
plants in the world is nearly double that
of the frait yielding.
The yearly product of American for
ests exceeds in value that of all the iron,
steel and coal combined.
In New York now it is considered the
correct style to burn lamps and candles
almost to the exclusion of gas.
The word ''FrIsco," often used by stran-
gers in speaking of San Francisco, is
never used by the residents of that city.
A determined Newport, KY, girl pawn
ed her grandmother's false teeth for
money to attend the roller skating rink,
An Indiana man has invented game
known as "parlor base ball." 1t is played
with 125 cards. representing all the va
riods features of the game.
Two married women have been elect
ed members of the City Council at La
Conner, Oregon, and local paper affec-
tionately calls them the "city mammas."
Mack Gilmer. aged 40 years, and re-
siding at Abbeville, S. c.. has his heart
On the right side instead of the usual
place on the left. He enjoys perfect
health.
A Republican colored husband of
Winnsboro, 5. c., wants a divorce from
his Democratic wife on the ground that
she has been whipping him ever since he
voted Tor Hampton IN 1876.
1t is said that the Spaniard hates trees,
and that after an indiscrimlnste slaugh-
ter of them in all the lands he has ever
occupied they decline to grow for him.
The ground mole, in proportion to its
size, excels all other animals in strength
of jaw and shoulder. A battle between
male moles generally ends with the
death of both.
A San Francisco church advertises for
a minister who can preach two sermons,
strictly original, every Sabbath-one in
the morning for saints, and the other in
the evening for SINNERS.
A con6ding Winnipeg youth was pin
ned to the back of the stage by file and
knife throwing artist while illustrating
how near he come To hitting him with>
out actually doing so.
A machine is in use at Melbourne,
Australia, for shearing sheep by steam.
1t operates in the same manner as the
ordinary shears, but cuts much quicker
and cleaner, without the least danger Of
injuring the fleece or the sheep.
An illinois philsnthropist wishes to
benefit the poor by teaching them to eat
their bread with the buttered side dewn.
The sense of taste. be asserts. is most
acute on the tongue. and that a very
small amount of butter is satisfactory,
if put in the obviously right spot.
By the recent decision of a Maine
Judge, all ponds in that State containing
more than 10 acres are public ponds, and
the right to cut ice On them free to all
In this particular the owners of the
shore have no greater rights than other
persons who can reach the ponds with>
out trespassing upon the land of others.
A German mieroseopist detected in
the incrustatiOns of silver coins in ordi-
nary use bacteria in active motion and
bacilli in great numbers. 1t is asserted
that these active agents Of contagious
diseases may probably be found on all.
coins in current use. Many years ago
the old copper coins in England were
found to convey the itch insect.
Some time ago George Storms. Of
Dobbs Ferry, n. y gave his wife mort
gage for $4,000 to insure her against
abuse on her rejoining him after a sepa-
ration. 1t has been pronounced valid.
and as the wife now complains of ill.,
treatment, a foreclosure is to be brought.