Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-05
Happenings.

Ii cOStS Sl4,VUO year 10 ugnC t0e
White House.
Milk is twenty cents a quart in Key
West. Florida.
The Emperor of China is reported i'll
with consumption.
India has greater acreage of wheat
than the United States.
In some places in Arizona there has
been no rain in three years.
One man in Lyon county, Iowa, has a
flock of 5000 chickens.
, An ancient law against public shaving
is being enforced in Boston.
In Philadelphia there is one licensed
drinking saloons to every 29 voters.
Among the new industries of the
South is to be the manufacture of castor
oil.
A Petalnma, Cal, chicken came into
the world with three eyes, two mouths
and one body.
a Chicago restaurant has made quite
hit by introducing churns and making
its own butter.
In France Saturday is pay day, Sun
day is drinking day, Monday repenting
day and Tuesday is suicide day.
Several trained rats attract crowds in
front of a store in Danville, Ill, by
catching flies in show window.
By a japanese process seaweed is
made into paper so transparent that it
may be substituted for window glass.
1t is estimated that the wine crop of
California will reach 100000 gallons.
an increase of 100000 over the crop
of 1885.
The long drought has left the North
western streams so low that 3500O0,OO0
feet of logs are hung up" away from
the mills.
The piles of the old London bridge, put
down in the year 900, are still SOUND, the
blue mud of the Thames having preserv-
ed them.
The arid region is one-half the area of
the United States, and less than one-third
of it is susceptible of being reclaimed for
husbandry.
A Florida merchant who began busi
ness over three years ago has not been
absent from his store single day, often
having his midday meal sent to him.
The oldest and largest tree in the
world is said to stand near the foot of
Mount Etna. 1t is 212 feet in circum>
ference, and is chestnut OF course.
A Waterbury, Conn.,, man has discon-
tinued building new house because
gypsy fortune teller told him he would
not live more than two years to enjoy it.
A stream of beer from bursting bar
rel struck Chas. Lynch with such force
that he died from the effects of his Inv
juries, recently, in Lowell, Mass, b. g.
pital.
There is mother in Richmond. Mich,
who has regular orchard of olive
branches, consisting of seventeen healthy
children, the oldest being but nineteen
years of age.
In India, between 1875 and 1880, no
less than 100000 persons died from snake
bite. In tue same period the govern
ment paid rewards for the killing of
l,o73,546 poisonous reptiles.
Company G of the Tenth Iowa Volun-
teers in the late war is said to have had
fourteen pairs of brothers, three pairs Cf
triplets and three fathers with SOD
each. 1t must have been rather monot-
onous at roll-call.
A woodchopper from Dauphin county,
Pa, who is 81 years of age, is said to cut
three cords of wood daily, DO his own
cooking, ETC.. Che lives alone), and TO
seem as bale aud cheerful as if he were
a man of 40.
One result of the enforcing of the Iowa
prohibition law is druggists circular
with list of AZ kinds of liquor, which
may be had by signing statement that
the buyer is not drunkard and will use
the fluid only for necessary medicines.
The London Caterer says, apropos of
beans, that the priests of Egypt held it a
crime even to look at beans the very
sight of them unclean. The Romans ate
beans at funerals. with awe. from the
idea that the souls of the dead were in
them. No reference is made to Bus-
tonians.
Five New York bellies having discov>
cred big patch of daisies in farmers
lot near where they were summering.
asked permission to pick a few. The
farmer gave them the run of the field
for 25 cents, and they cleaned out the
patch, not once suspectlng ttat they
were helping to keep down the most
noXious weed that posters the farmer.