Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08
JOTTINGS.

NEW YORK city has 427 miles OF
street sewers.
WILLIAM, King of the Netherlands,
is the richest monarch in the world.
AcUcUMBER six feet long was re-
Gently grown in Nebraska.
OIL is reported to have been found in
the salt district near Norwich, Eng.
THE baton used by conductors of con-
certs is said to have been introduced In
to England by Spohr in 1920.
THE Farmers Recie.0 thinks there is
no longer reason to doubt that the pota-
to crop of the present season is the larg-
est ever grown in the United States
PROBABLY the largest man in Iowa is
J. H. Craig, of Iowa City. He is thirty.
two years old, six feet four and half
inches tall, and has weighed as much as
833 pounds.
ACCORDING to Prof. Potter asphalt,
the article Of prominent commercial i'm
portance of the present day, was used IN
lu6 DullUlllR VI lHC OOhOl OA 1|NSS@ N>--N>
other ancient structures.
SHERIFF LOVE, at Lawrence, Kansas,
while plastering a room % years ago,
lost valuable watch chain. The other
day the store was torn down, and the
chain was found in the plaster.
Two Tennessee men went out to fight
duel, one having an ak and the other a
scythe, but a stranger came along and
suggested game of poker and all shook
hands and became good friends.
THE White House at Washington de-
rives its name from the fact that the
Virginia freestone, of which it is built,
was painted white to conceal the discol-
grafton caused by smoke and water.
A TALE of a sparrow, enmeshed in the
web of a spider, is related by the New
York Euefli11g Sun. Just as the sparrow
was about to break away, the reporter
relates, the spider darted out and stung
her in the neck. The sparrow made a
desperate effort and fell to the ground.
1t was living, but appeared to have been
badly poisoned by the sting.
A ANINE-YEAR-oLD-soN of Jerry Mar
rier, of Sevastopol, Door county, Wis,
encountered a bear in his fathers or
chard, and, supposing it to be a deg, at
tempted to scare it away. Bruin refused
to go, however, and, raising itself on its
hind legs, started toward the child. The
little fellow thereupon realized his mis-
take and ran for the barn, which he
reached in safety.
In cleaning out the lower levels of the
caves.at Dordogne, in France, there were
found great many oyster shells piled
in such a manner as to show that the
Neauderthal man used the bivalYe as a
common article of food. The oyster is
thus demonstrated to be the Oldest do
mesticated delicacy known to maH.
These relics are estimated to be over s'y-
ty thousand years old.
BERNARD MEYER, of Omaha, recent
ly felt slight pain under his left shoul-
der. The pain soon became intense and
a doctor was sought. An examination
of the spot revealed hard substance,
which on being extracted, proved to be
needle in good condition. Meyers has
no recollection of needle having en-
tered his body, but his mother says it
occurred when he was an infant, fifty
four years ago.
AMERICAN capital and enterprise have
taken such hold in the development of
Mexico that New York syndicate will
in February open bank in the City of
Mexico with capital of s3,5000,000. 1t
will be called the International and
Mortgage Bank of Mexico. This is an
important stepif directed right. What
is chiefly wanted now is live, enter
prising banker from the United States
at its head, who will keep the institution
in the line of American ideas and inf1u-
ences, and out of European influences,
which are stontly opposed to the en-
trance of their rivals into the banking
business of this southern republic.