Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
Happenings.

Donkey carts are the latest craze in
Washington.
A New York firm sells boots fer dogs
with sore feet.
A bonnet made of wood is one of the
seasons novelties.
In some places in Arizona there has
been no rain for three years.
A Jersey heifer died at Milton juno
tion Wis, from chewing tobacco.
In China the rule in regard to doctors
is Enthusiastically simple-"Ne cure, no
pay"
Only 1OO,OOO.OOO people use coffee;
100000 use tea, and all known races
use tobacco.
American pork now enters Germany
through England, and thus evades the
payment of duty.
Two lads, aged and 10 years respec-
lively, have been arrested in Boston for
house robbery.
The American Bible Society printed
during the year l. ,437 ,440 Bibles and New
Testaments.
Tattooing in Japan is practiced to
such an extent that law prohibiting
the practice has just been passed.
A postmaster in Colorado is required
to file bonds in $4,000. while the whole
village is only valued at $1,000.
The President gave Rev. DR.. Sunder-
land, not 500 bill, as has been stated,
but a $500 note, as marriage fee.
The Importance of playing-card indus
try may be gathered from the fact that
last year there were 1,194,052 packs
made.
An Aurora. Texas, citizen, aged GA
years, ia said to carry around with him
curiosity dnger which he lost in ear
ly childhood.
The heirs of an estate worth 100000
in Mount Holly, n. j., was paid last
week on settlement that has reached
after chancery suit of thirty years.
The latest invention is DECENTRALIZATION,
which may be briefly summed up as a
method of reducing ones self to tempo
rary sluggishness for the purpose of rest
ing the mind.
An invention by Chicago man is
said to increase the yield of butter from
milk to 10 pounds per 100 weight of
milk. This is about three times the
present yield.
The recent mysterious assassination of
Wayne Anderson, wealthy farmer,
near Mountain Grove, Mo-, has been
solved by the concession of his sons that
murdered him.
The wife of James Albert, of Brook
lyn, n. Y, is suing him for divorce.
The couple have been married eighteen
months, but have never seen each 9TH
er, as they are both blind.
"Cosmophobia" is the new word ap-
piled to people who are extra fond of
home. Another new word, "gynephobia,
expresses the condition of males who
have constitutional horror of the fair
sex.
During the past year S35O,O00 have
been contributed to the Salvation Army
ia Great Britain alone, and 1000 girls
have been rescued from the streets and
nineteen homes from the friendlesS es-
tablished.
Neigborly people in a Maine town not
only helped to put out fire at resi-
dents house, but stayed and reshingled
the roof, which was burned, and took up
a collection to pay for the shingles. the
whole being finished before night
One of the whims of the New York
fashioRables is before the supper to have
lottery for partners at supper, two
dollars ticket. This seems like paying
for the food and wines in an indirect
way, but the ultimate result is charity.
A boy who ran away from his adopted
mother, in st. Thomas, Canada, was un
heard of byher,a Toronto paper says, until
he walk ed into her house the other day
as a guest. He was an ordained minis
ter, attending conference held in that
city.
A watchman was employed by resi-
dent of Plain Edge. N. j., to guard his
premises. To see what kind of duty the
man performed the owner tried him the
other night and found him painfully
vigilant The watchman, not recogniz>
ing his employer and receiving no reply
to his challenge, fired ano put several
buckshot in the latter's legs.
A Connecticut peddler has been sell
ing clocks like hot cakes" in Kentucky,
the terms being 81 down and the buy
er'S own time for the remaining So. ext
planned to an Eastern drummer that he
had profit of dollar apiece out of the
first payment, and the rush of business
was to be explained by the fact that the
purchasers thought they were each beat
ing him out of SO.