Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
HUMOROUS.
IL l -NANyIAA' A.t's
Fit to kill-COrsets.

Fit to kilI-COrsets.
On his metal-A newly-shod horse.
Some acrobats are fresh and somer-
sault.
Always certain to be behindhand-
The wrist.
An exhaustive article The stomach
pump.
Deaths door is opened with a skel-
eton key!
\ credit table affair dinner that
is not paid for.
\ signal failure futile attempt to
stop Il street car.
The burning question of the hour
The price of coal.
Man is 80 per cent. water. That is
why boil makes him hot.
1t is generally ''aH up with a man
when he begins to go down hill
From the standpoint Of the ousted
partisan public Office is a public thrust.
It's no trouble to meet a bill, or the
man who brings it. The trouble is to
pay it.
The wear and tear on contribution
boxes is a very small item of church ex
penses.
Getting up with the son is common
practice where there is teething boy
baby in the family.
When may a man be said to belong to
the vegetable kingdom: When expert
ence has made him sage.
There viii be lifty-three- Sundays this
year That gives us one day more than
usual in which to go fishing.
We always admired a dentist for one
thing at least. He isn't afraid to say a
thing right to your teeth.
A little fellow, two years old, who had
never eaten frosted cake, asked at the
table for a piece of that 'eake with
plastering on it,"
a man who has been hanged can very
properly be used to point an argument
for prohibition. 1t is clear case of "a
drop too much" 90.
Journalism in Texas is looking up. a
san Angelo editor was not only saluted
as ..brother" at a meeting, bat was
trusted to pass around the hat.
"Is a double wedding unlucky?" asks
a Western exchange. Well, we should
say that it is, especially if wife No. l
finds out where wife No. , lives,
HOW THE AIR-BRAKE WORKS.
\ railroad official who believes that
not one person in hundred who
travel understand how the pressure of
air is used to apply the brakes to a train,
thus enlightens the public on the sub
iect in an interview;
"When the air-brake was first invent
ed. the air was turned into the cylinder
under each ear when the car was to be
stopped. and the pressure was eXerted to
force the brakes up against the wheels.
But at the present day the brakes are
held against the wheels by springs, and
the air is turned into the cylinders to
push the brakes away from the wheel as
long as the train is in motion. When it is
desired to stop the train the air is let
out. and the springs apply the brakes and
stop the train. This last method of
using air pressure has great advantages
over the old way on the score Of safety"
."What are they:" he was asked.
"Why. whenever an accident happens
TO a train, one Of the first effects it is apt
to have is to rupture the air-pipes lead
ING from the engine to the cylinders I'M
der the cars; and that, Of itself, stops
the train instantly. 1t is very important
for everybody to understand this matter,
because a child five Years old can stop a
train in thirty seconds, from any car in
the train, if he simply understands how
/ You will see. il YOU look for it. that
there is a sort OF rope proiectingfrom the
I toilet room of any ear. That connects
with the air-pipes under the train. If
you catch hold of ii and give il little
Jerk, it viii stop the whole train"
THERE IS one thing discouraging in
proposing to extend the liquor regula-
ton and restraint imposed by munich
palitcs under the present law to town
ships, and that is that the temperance
, furics are not in the least placated by
anything that may be done The en-
larEcment ot the areas of temperance
territory seems rather to exasperate
them Gin. Conn GazoHc,