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Strangely Forgetfu1.

A poor memory for names and faces Is
a serious disadvantage to clergyman.
DR.. John Hall was leaving his house IN
Fifth avenue not long ago, when he saw
a young man looking at the numbers on
the doors. From something in his dress
and manner DR.. Hall concluded that he
must be a recent immigrant from the
Emerald Isle, and therefore a fellow
countryman.
The stranger was evidently at loss.
and DR.. Hall asked him if he could be of
any assistance.
Il am looking for DR.. John Hall, :"
said the young man.
Il am he" modestly replied the cler-
gyman.
''Are you DR.. Hall?'
81 am"
'Did you come from Eeland?'
81 had the good fortune to be born
there"
The stranger looked at him for mo-
ment. Don't you know me. DIR. HaIlF
said he.
Il regret to say that 1 cannot place
you at this moment, though may have
seen you before"
well, think you have. Why, you
baptized me twenty-five years ago in the
old country, and yet you have forgotten
me entirelyr'
1T was not time for levity," said
DR.. Hall afterward, in relating the incl
dent; otherwise might have reminded
the young man how strange it was that
he should have forgotten the face of one
who had sustained such an important
relation to him in his infancy. New
York Tribune,
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Almost any hveryman is, in his way
a horse doctor. He practices on his OWE
stock, and will prescribe simple remedie.
for sick horse that is brought to him,
but in any case he deems serious will al
ways advise calling in regular veteri-
nary surgeon rather than to undertake
the treatment himself. All sorts Of sur
gical operations are undertaken for the
relief Of horses, and there are one or two
men in the city who are specially skilled
in the treatment of diseased teeth.
Horses have the toothache just like men
do and from the same causes, and pull,
ing tooth is now a common thing in
veterinary surgery. OF course the horse
kicks, for his teeth have long and strong
roots, but the operation frequently saves
the life of valuable animal.-Interview
in st. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Nearly Everybody Is superstitious.

"The amount of mental suffering igno-
rant people undergo from the fear of i'll
omens being fulfilled is inconceivable to
persons of well balanced minds" said a
well known physician.
This doctor spent two years at one of
the charity hospitals on Wards Island,
and while there had an excellent oppor-
tunity for observing many peculiarities
and various phases of humanity among
the outcasts of a great city. Continu-
ing after a short reverie the doctor said:
''Of course superstitions have existed
and will exist as long as there remains a
belief in the mysteries of future life. 1t
is seldom admitted by persons of intelli-
gence that they are, to greater or less
degree, at all subject to the uneasy feel
ing an uncanny event will produce. But
it is really an exceptional thing to find a
person who has no superstitions what
ever. Generally the presentiments are
so unimportant that they are but sell
dom alluded to by the one experiencing
them, and are soon forgotten. Bpt that
they do exist in nearly every mind is
undoubtedly true. Chicago News.
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Escane for the Gallery.

An old time theatrical advance agent
told me this amusing incident which oo-
CURED in London, England, at the first
production of the opera Faust in the
Drury Lane theatre: 1.-The original Faust
was taken sick in the evening and could
not appear in the title role. An under
study, whose name was not revealed,
was chosen for the part He was first
class tenor, but was a very stout man,
weighing about 24O pounds In the last
act, where Marguerite lies dead on the
floor, and Faust descends through trap
door amid lurid flames, the trap in this
instance, being very small, was not large
enough to let the under study through.
The stage hands underneath pulled their
utmost on the legs of the substitute, but
to no avail. There was breathless silence
in the audience at the awkward pause,
which was soon broken by voice in the
gallery exclaiming in ashrill tone, 'Hur-
rah, fellows! We're safe! The hot place
is full alreadyr" New York Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

Why PeopIe Bite Their Lfps

If you surprise the father of family
stretched out at full length and trying
till he is red in the face to raise his legs
without lifting his body, you may know
he is endeavoring to work off his super
abundance Of avoirdupois, which inter
feres seriously with his cutting a grace
full figure in the waltz, which his better
half insists on dancing every chance she
gets. If you consult Mr.. Russell on
what changes will make you better look
ing, you will find him very blunt. He
may tell you you do not wash your face
clean, and when you ask how he knows
he will tell you if you did your skin
would not be disfgured with those black
pimples, or he may tell you, as he told a
woman who recently appealed to him
for advice, that she did not eat enough,
which fact he had reached because he
had observed how much she chewed her
lips.
So you see you need not be on your
good behavior when you pass under his
eagle eye. But did you ever sit in the
ferry boat or car and watch the women,
who make the most hideous, wry faces
in their attempts TO get some nourish-
ment or crumb of comfort from their
lips? Not only the women but the men
also have this fieudish habit.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
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Held by EtiQuette.

When Dom Pedro, then emperor Of
Brazil, was entertained at the White
House he had been told by a confused
senator that it would be expected that
he, the emperor, should be the last of
the guests to depart.
The presidents wife, however. inform
ed her other guests that they would be
expected to follow, not prece,ie. the
royal party in leaving the house.
The result was that no one dared to go
for fear of a breach of etiquette. But at
o'clock in the morning tired woman
pretended illness and the deadlock was
broken.
Great is etiquette, but common sense
is sometime allowable. = Washington
Anthropologist.
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The Inn in Literature.

The social Importance of the inn in
days of old is proved by the conspicuous
position it holds in our fiction and poetry.
The Canterbury Tales" of Chaucer
start from an inn, along with the motley
company of pilgrims bound for st.
Thomas shrine, to whom the genius of
the poet has given an immortal life. Its
site and name, the Talbot, or 'Ta-
bard" still preserve the memory of the
famous inn thus associated with our first
great English poem. 1t was not, how
ever, until the reign of Elizabeth that
the tavern attained to a permanent place
in literature, rejecting the important
place it held in the daily life of the
people.-All the Year Round.
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Correcting the Teacher.

In one of the Springfield grammar
schools the teacher was explaining an
example in arithmetic on the blackboard,
and had finished it with the exception of
the last two figures of the answer, which
was in dollars and cents, when she was
called out of the room. On returning
one of the pupils raised her hand and
said, There are some cents to the an
swer in the book, but there isn't any on
the board" "Why, Nellie, what do you
mean by speaking to me like that?" the
teacher exclaimed in anger. After the
school had been in roar of laughter for
fully minute it dawned on the teach
er's mind that it was ''cents" instead of
''sense" that the girl was talking about.
Springfield Homestead.
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Plain LIKING.

To the ordinary housekeeping youth
plain living is usually the every day
diet to which he has always been accus-
toned, with little regard to its fitness or
wholesomeness. With royal contempt
for divergent tastes, he is apt to give a
domestic version of the old saying, ''Or-
thodoxy is my doxy, so heterodoxy must
be yours" What suits him should suit
every one. The same spirit animated
DIR. johnson when he gave his famous
definition of coats" as ''in England, food
for horses, in Scotland for men," But
the whirligig of time has so twisted af-
fairs around that the food at which the
great photographer sneered little more
than a hundred years ago is now an ar
ticle of daily diet in thousands of En-
glish homes. The plainest of plain liv
ing it Is to us nowadays, but the high
thinking of the Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth centuries was cultivated on very
different aliment. Yet who is prepared
to say that greater intellects have ever
been known in the English nation than
were produced in the days of roistering,
wine bibbing and high living, when
such minds were developed as those of
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Addi-
son, Swift, Pope and countless others
whom time fails even to mention?-
Christine Terhune Herrick.
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Substance and Form in Literary Judgment.
Al :, - ,,o4 4,-,,o +bo+ f-o,,, A.

Substance and Form in Literary Judgment.
And is it not true that from the nature
of things the contemporary judgment
lays most stress on substance, and that
the final judgment is favorable to
form? Substantially speaking, how many
historic things of immense contemporary
vogue seem insipid to US, whereas scarce
ly anything of very great formal merit
has been allowed to perish?
In other words, is there not an element
of universally about perfection of form
which significance of thought does not
possess? or, at any rate, is not perfection
more nearly attainable in form than it is
in substance? And nothing is so pre-
servative as perfection or any approach
to it.
One thing is very certain-neglect Of
form involves the sacrifice of an element
of positive attractiveness as well as Of
Tending positively by perverseness and &C.
centricity. Whether rhyme and rhythm,
cadence, purity, fawlessness, melody
are essential or not to poetry, the aban-
donment of the artistic quality which
they imply is obviously loss.-Scrib-
Dpr'S
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Reasons for a Divorce.

The Druses sometimes divorce their
wives for apparently the most trivial
causes. Thus a man named Soleiman
Attala had wife, Isbakyeh. The
woman frequently worked for US, and
on several occasions had to complain
that she talked too much and worked
too little. At length l was obliged to
tell Soleiman that, owing to his wife's
laziness, could employ her no longer.
Shortly afterward l went to England
On my return after couple of months
absence was surprised to find that
Soleiman had divorced Isbakyeh, and had
already married another woman. On
inquiring from him the cause of this he
replied, "Your honor told me that you
would not employ my wife again, so
thought l would get rid of her and
marry another woman whom you would
employ. "-Blackwood's Magazine.
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The Attorneys Dog.

A Boston lawyer who resides in the
suburbs is the owner of dog that GER
tainly possesses the instincts of an attor-
ney The other day he saw another dog
carrying off tempting looking bone.
A second dog followed at a short dis
tance. The lawyers dog quickly con-
ceived plan of action worthy of an en-
inent legal mind. He Immediately
brought action against the dog with the
bone. The third dog at once quickened
his pace, and lost no time in instituting
supplementary proceedings in his own
behalf. This assistance proved equiva-
lent to decree for the plaintiff, for the
lawyers dog left the third dog to bear
the brunt of the litigation, and seizing
the bone fed to his own kennel, where
possession was truly nine points of the
law-Boston Traveller.
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A PICTURE IN FROST TIME.

A window, with wide panes embayed
And half moon seat of old gold cloth.
Looks forth to where the trees are swayed
BY winds whose breath is chill and wroth.
And on the glass a filmy veil
Extends, as if to shield the bloom
That mods in greeting to the gale
From midst the warm and CHEEKY room.
Roses and lilies, hothouse pinks
And pansies that no garden dew
Fer wet, and ferns whose fragile links
No woodland pool with shade did strew.
And showing multi-colored tints.
Full clusters of chrysanthemums
Flash back the roseate flame that glints
Where costly the hearth log huns.
While near at hand sits one who reads
The pages of a book of art,
And naught outdoors or indoors heeds,
Lost in some spirit realms fair mart.
William Struthers in Detroit Free Press.
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Wanted IT TO Float,

Timothy Sheeler had become very rich
but he remained very ignorant. Hav-
ing travelled about the country by land
he began to think he ought to visit the
coast states and have yacht.
He consulted his friends on the subject
of the kind of boat he should buy.
while you are about it" said one of
them, you'd better get an iron boat"
The old man saw in the suggestion
only an attempt to play joke upon him.
"What dye mean? he roared. can
iron boati Have me go sailin' round
the world in cook stove, would YEP
Youths Companion.
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A Very Old Hat.

Mr.. George Allen, the Auburn second
hand dealer, has hat in his possession
which he estimates must be over one
hundred and fifty years old. 1.-The hat
my father wore," 'grandfather's hat"
and "where did you get that hat?" aren't
a circumstance compared with this an
cient tile. 1t is beaver, with genuine
bell top, and was made in New York
city. A bit of silk facing is ON the top
part of the rim. This was to allow the
raising of the hat without ruffling the
fur.-Auburn (Mass.) Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26
Origin of an Old Saving.

In the Sixteenth century it was gener-
ally stated that spiders be true signs OF
great stores of gold," saying which
arose thus: While passage to Cathay
was being sought by the northwest a
mariner brought home stone which
was announced to be gold, and caused
such ferment that several vessels were
fitted out for the express purpose of col
lecting the precious metal. Frobisher,
in 1877, found on one of the islands
where he landed similar stones and an
enormous number of spiders. Cornhill
Magazine
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They Prefer Old STYLES

One American manufacturer ships
1000 lumber wagons to South America
every year, and yet the natives come
into cities like Buenos Ayres with carts
of the same style and make as were used
1000 years ago. 1t takes one yoke of
oxen to draw even an empty cart, but
the people don't care to experiment.
Detroit Free Press
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Superstition About Spiders

Even school boys are led to forego
their usual destructiveness when spiders
are in question. l remember that when
| was lad at Winchester it was consid-
cred most unlucky thing to do any in
jury to particularly large kind of spider
which is sometimes found in the college
buildings, and which went among us
boys (or men, as we called ourselves) by
the name of a Wykehamist.-C -Cornhill
Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

There has been some dispute as to the
descent of the dog-whether it is an i'm
proved progeny of the wolf or distinct
variety. That it is not different species
is proved by the fact that the dog and
the wolf will mate and produce offspring
Nevertheless it is probable that the dog
is merely descended from the same orig
inal stock with the wolf.
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HISTORY.
T. P. HARRIS.
((lmif flnOl

l. Mention all our important acquisi-
tions of territory since the Revolution,
and state how they were gained, giving
dates.
2. BY what acts were the colonies sep
arated from England?
8. What was the cause of the Hartford
Convention?
4. What was the subject of Websters
and Haynes debate?
3. What was the doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty Who introduced it?
When?
6. Give dates of attack on Ft. Sumter
Emancipation Proclamation, Lees Sur
render, the Assassination of Lincoln.
Z. Describe the policy of President
HAYES.
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ORTHOGRAPHY.


1. What is the meaning of the follow
ing: Anat., q. ", Obs, Cyc., Syn, AS, IT,
fr., contr.. Supr.?
2.Spell correctly: Seezed, lisenshus, per
ceptable, supersede, pinnacle, beseege, crys
talise, aperatus, tyranise, colectable.
3. What are cOgnate letters? Give a
table of them.
4. Which of the following words con-
tains adiphthong, "a triphthong, "a digraph
Ounce, lien, precious, valiant, creator,
anxious, cough, occasion, buoy, coin.
3. Give the character, the value or
power, and the substitutes of broad a,
slender o, medal u, k, and sh.
6. Write sentences containing the fol
lowing homOnyms: Prizes and prize, idle,
idol and idyl, rain, rein and reign, cede
and seed, sees and seas.
Z. Give the meaning of the prefixes in
be, con, tri, re, and the suffixes ion, i've
Y, ness, and give words illustrating each
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GEOGRAPHY.
gn-sf f.r.A

l. Describe volcano, wave, water
shed, a zone, an isOtherm.
2. Locate the following: Boston, New
Orleans, Hammerfest, Buda Pesth, Som
erville, Guthrie, Seattle.
8. Name and locate the mountains of
Europe, and give their trend.
4. Name five railroads that run into
Columbus, Ohio, and tell the direction of
each.
3. Name the kinds of merchandise
transported through the Great Lakes;
tell which direction each kind is carried
and why.
6. Describe the scenery in Louisiana as
it would appear to traveller ascending
the Mississippi from the Gulf, and name
and locate the chief towns he would pass.
Z. Name three edible-rooted plants eX-
tensively cultivated in Ohio; tell how
each is grown, marketed, and cooked.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26
DO YOU COUGHP

Don't delay. Take Kemp's Balsam, the
best cough cure. 1t will cure your coughs
and colds. 1t will cure sore throat or a
tickling in the throat. 1t will cure pains
in the chest. 1t will cure influenza and
bronchitis and all diseases pertaining to
the lungs because it is pure balsam
Hold it to the light and see how clear and
thick it is. You will see the excellent
effect after taking the first dose. Large
bottles SOC. and 81. 226-4t
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Crawling Ont.

Wife Gn new costume)-What do
you think of this?
Husband On disgust)- gownl
Wife (angrily)-You brutel This is
the very latest style-the Vatican gown.
Husband (scared)-That- what
said, m dear. Vatican gown.-New
York Weekly.
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5000 AGENTS WANTED at once to sell
ttTF U7 SITTING BULL

And an ACCOUNT OF THE INDIAN WAR. A
thrilling, fascinating festOry of the greatest chief
since Tecumseh. All about Battles MassacTes,
Messiah Craze, Ghost Dances, Welred ReliefS, and
lustOmS, including late war 600 pages spirited
illustrations, price 81 so. Selling immensely.
Pays agents s25 to 800 week. Send Soc for outfit
md you can coin money now; act at once. Address
HUBBARD BROS, Publishers, 4O6 Race ST, Phila.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

1t was not until about fifty years ago
that cut ice became commodity ad-
mitting of purchase by persons of mod
crate means. In New York city alone
at the present day, the yearly consump-
ton of ice amounts to about 1,000, 900
tons
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ARITHMETIC.
JAMES DUNCAN.
=. - NJ M II i .
(Omit tpO)

l. A bought 500 gents shoes at 81 70,
and gave in payment a 60-day note at 6
per cent. The firm had the note dis
counted Immediately at 10per cent. What
per cent did they gain, if the shoes cost
50 BIZ pair?
2. If IA planks, 30 feet long, II inches
wide, inches thick, cost $40, what will
% planks, Sc feet long, "a inches wide, 4
inches thick cost, lumber worth a more
per foot?
8. A lady's bonnet cost So, which is 20
per cent of the cost of her cloak; her dress
cost 12sS per cent less than her cloak and
bonnet together. What was the cost of
each? What per cent of her cloak did
her dress cost?
4. A farmer lost 3315 per cent of his
cropof potatoes by rot. How must he sell
the remainder that he may realize 60 cts.
per bushel on all he raised?
B. Find the circumference of a wheel
which makes nine turns in travelling over
z 1-5 yards.
6. Two stars cross the meridian at
hours, minutes, 42.3 seconds, and z
hours, 2 minutes, 57.21 seconds respective
ly. What is the interval between the OBJ
servations?
Determine the depth of conical-shap-
ed wine glasses 215 inches across the top,
that so of them may hold gallon?
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ST. CLAIRSFILLE DIVISION.
Standard Time, s. Minutes slouer than Local tn

All IrdinS daily except SlInday. All tralhS ln;lke
close connection at St. Clairsville Junction with
trains running East for Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia and New York, and with trains run
ming West for Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago, and
Ill points West.
For further information call on b. S o. ticket
agents, or address o. 2. Mejarty, Asst Gen. Pass
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio: l.. l.. Allen, Asst Gen.
Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.
j. T. ODELI. c. o. SCULL.
Gen1 Manager Gcn1 Pass. Agent
EDW. DICKINSON, Gen. Sup't.
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Probablx Satisfactory.

Sharpson-Phlatz, what makes your
nose so red?
Phlatz-It glows with pride because it
never pokes itself into other peoples
business. .-ChEapo Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

The German Chancellor has removed
the embargo placed upon American cat
tie landed at Hamburg, and it is likely
Minister Phelps will be able to;obtain
the removal of the restrictions placed
upon the importation of the American
hog and its products.
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ForMalaria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWN IRON BITTERS

The demand for gold bars for shipment
to Europe has been refused by the Di-
rector of the Mint, and shipments, il
made, must be in gold coin, which
renders the transaction less profitable to
those concerned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

The small bronze bells found in the
ancient palace of Nimrod contained
ninety parts of copper and but ten of
tin. In our day the proportions are,
say. eighty parts of copper to twenty of
tin
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AT Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Station with thrOugh.trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad for Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York, on which are run Pullman Dining,
Sleeping and ParlOr Cars.
At Chicago and st. Louis connections are made
in Union Station with prominent railroads for all
points in the West, Northwest and Southwest.
For further Information call on or address near
est ticket agent. E. A. FORD,
JOS. WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Strained Relations.

Archibald-You are related to her by
marriage, are you not?
Frigiday-No; I'm her brother by re-
fusal.-Puck.
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Ar New York. 81 10 10 10
Strains run daily. tDaily except Sunday tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 4 50 m daily,
except Sunday; Newark rs p nj; arrive GAINESVILLE
| 8 80 p m, Cambridge 70 pm.
Columbus & Sandl sky Accom-. leavesCOumbuS
| "a 20 m; arrives 5 ndI'ky - 80 m.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.