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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16
10 Gents Per Pound.

The finest French mixtures, perfectly
pure, 10 cents per pound, at Max Reese's
The finest and best chocolate creams,
cheaper than elsewhere.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Parties wishing 10 select their Christmas
presents can do so now and have III m laid
aside until wanted. At Holderman's
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

"AU morn our is the expression of the
seeuless sufferer with that terrible cough.
Pan.Tina puts a stop to it, It's a remedy for
Coughs, Colds AID Consumption, D cents.
PAT t-Tina is sold at P' =. d. Kirlin's drug
store.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Buy Keystone -four, BE careful that tn
name LEssIG & Co., Ashland, Pa, il
printed on every sack 3-3-3tsw
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Large stock OF fancy goods, such q
lamps, bronzes, china ware and imported
cut glassware, nj Holderman's. ll-28 t
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Best work done at Brennans steam
laundry. Everything white and spotless
Lace curtains a specially. All work guar
anteed.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Person al Should This meet the eye of the
inOivid ual who created a disturbance in
chu ch Ia I Sunday by mis- coutiuuen COZ gh-
ing, he VIII ConteT u T or on the congregation
by procuring a bottle of DIR. Bits COu- h
Syrup, which will cure him.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Bondho hoders will find Salvation OIL a sure
cure Tor gout or rheumatism. II is sold by
all dealers Price only cents bottle.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Fancy rings of all descriptions at Hol-
dermAns. il-28-tf
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Council Me ting.
The Borough Council will hold regular
meeting to morrow evening al 7:30 'clock
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-16

Holiday goods, cheap. Read Reese's
advertisement.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12

As it is unwise to strain pattern
in rder to makea atg,f glfm ent, or
to make a garment too large for the
person, so it unwise to try TO be great
er than one has the natural ability to
be; and it is reprehensible to fail to
be as good and great as one is ma
turally qualified to be. Every man has
his own pattern by which he should
be guided.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
How to Tell Iron from Steel.

y writer in the Gl sgow Engineer, in
pointing out some of the most practica-
BILE data in testing iron and steel, lays
down simple rule to start with-name-
ly, that in any case Ehere fracture of
irol gives long, silly fibers of leaden
hui, the fibers coheri lg and twisting to-
gether before breaking, it may be con-
sid ered a tough, soft iron. Further, a
me 1ium, even grain, mixed with fibers,
is L good sign, while a short and black
ish fiber indicates badly refined iron, a
very fine grain also enoting a hard and
ste sly iron, which is ;.pt to be cold short
and hard to work W th the file. Again,
COZ rse grain with llilliant crystallized
fra ;ture and yellow or brown spots, de-
no es brittle iron, cold short, working
easily when heated AID welding well.
Nitric acid will produce black spot
on steel-the darker the spot the harder
the steel-while iron, on the contrary,
rel lains bright if too ched with that acid.
Good steel in its soft state has curved
fracture and unift I'm gray lustre, but
in It's hard state a dull, silvery, uniform
white; again, good steel will bear o
wlite heat without falling to pieces. and
viii crunble under the hammer at a
bright heat, while at a middling heat it
may be drawn out under the hammer to
a fine point.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
How to BE Healthy and Hairy.

a new prophet has arisen. His claims
to attention are imperative from the fact
that he guarantees his followers exemp-
ton from two of the greatest Affections
to which fashionable flesh is heir-dys-
pepsia and badness. The name of the
prophet is Khorf, a Russian, and he
bears his credentials writ large On his
person.
Though he has already passed the
span allotted to humanity by the
Psalmist, he is as agile as a young opos-
sum and as well thatched as Absalom.
His rules of longevity are refreshingly
simple. Eschew all drugs, never shave,
live in the open air as much as possible,
and wear as little clothes as you can
these are the cardinal doctrines of hy-
giene according TO Khorf. So shall you
become healthy, happy and hairy for
in the view of the new prophet the nat
ural condition of tine human being is to
be all hairy like Esau, or all downy like
Stanley's pygmies. Above all, you must
walk rhythmically," for DR.. Khorf
maintains that We digest with our legs
and not with our stomach. Meat, spirits,
mineral waters, and theaters are all ta-
booed in the Khorfan system. Personally,
he never wears hat, and takes his meals
in the open air. Nodoubt, if this hirsute
sage's mode of life were compulsorily
enforced on the entire population we
should all be speaking Simian in couple
of generations. If ever there is a car
or an emperor who is an ardent Darwin
ian, the temptation to try the experiment
will probably prove irresistible. London
Globe
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Raising Water in London Docks

In lieu of incurring the immense ex-
pense of excavating the London docks to
accommodate the increased size given to
modern ships, large pumping engines
have now been set up, and the water in
the docks is raised by this means. Some
idea of the demands upon these engines
can be had from the size of the docks,
one Of which has an area of nearly ten
acres, the pumps which raise the water
having capacity of 6S5 tons per minute
and raising the water level five feet in
one half hours.
Centrifugal pumps of superb work
manship are employed, driven direct by
compound tandem engines, and the power
of these pumps is evident from the fact
that the inlet oriices to the main pumps
are fifty-four inches in diameter, and,
when worked together. the three pumps
have capacity to raise 57,600,000 gal
ions of water in five hours, against an
lverage head of ten feet. The pumps
are arranged to be worked separately
and independently or together, as de-
sired, and the engines are supplied with
steam at a hundred pounds pressure by
powerful boilers.-New York Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
The Mystery of Inheritance.

The body of an individual animal or
plant is to be regarded, from the point of
view of here6ity, as consisting of two
distinct elements. These are germ cells
and body cells, the former devoted to the
important work of reproducing the race,
the latter constituting the actual bodily
material, and 6ischarging all the ordi-
nary functions through which the indi-
vidual life is maintained. Inheritance is
matter of the continuity Of the germ
plasm or germ cells, which are handed
down from one generation to another in
cumulative ratio, carrying with them in
each case not the features and qualities
of the one predecessor and parent, but OF
all preceding generations.
Assuming that the germ plasm is liable
to exhibit variations, we can see how and
why such variations can be transmitted
to new generations; but we have also to
take into account the influence on the
germ cells of the body to which they
belong. While, then, inheritance pre-
serves through the continuity of the
germ cells the stability of the race, it
gives the rein to variation, and by the
combined influences of environment act
ing on the body of the individual peoples
the world with new and ever varying
forms of life-Dr. Alexander Wilson in
Harper's
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
The Pleasure o. Matured Age.

Young people in this country are very
apt 10 think that the world and Its
pleasures belong TO Them alone, that the
outlook for older people is colorless and
uninteresting, and that, at the best, they
can only enjoy life vicariously through
their children. This is, however, by no
means the case; the sense of enjoyment
is as keen, in most instances, at fifty as
at twenty-five, and vastly more appre-
ciative. To be sure, that which would
constitute the pleasures of one age would
not be exactly the kind which would suit
another
Il do not envy you bit" said dear
old lady of seventy, as her granddaugh-
tiers presented themselves in all the
bravery of their fine attire before going
to the ball. Il have my pleasures, too,
and would not exchange my comfort
able seat before the blazing fire with my
feet on the fender and good novel for
all of your Anticipated triumphs."
Young people are really too full of
themselves to enjoy thoroughly an alb
stract idea, too brimming over with
their own personality to enter entirely
into the spirit of art, music or the mystic
beauty of nature. Only those who have
learned that flesh and blood cannot in
herit the kingdom" can feel the keen in
tellectual enjoyment that is warped by
no personal bias, no restless self seeking;
and whatever may be the glory of youth,
to it is not given the fuller and higher
appreciation that only comes with ma
turer years.-New York Tribune
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Poison of the Centineda.

The centipede is popularity supposed to
carry sting on each foot, but have
several times handled them-after their
heads were removed-without the claws
producing any result. 1t is the first pair
of claws only that are venomous, being
hollow and provided with poison bags
like snakes fang. The largest | ever
saw was eleven inches in length, a grew
some creature. a bite from one of this
size would most likely have been fatal
to man in weak health. The tarantula,
though his powers of offense are nothing
like those of the scorpion or centipede,
is, somehow, a more unpopular charac
ter than either. The horror of these
large spiders entertained by many peo-
pie is curious and unaccountable. have
seen Austrian bushmen, who in every
day life scarcely seemed to understand
danger, turn white as sheet at the
sight of small 'triantelope," as they
called it.--Chambers Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESDTTEIiIAN CHURCH-Rev. p. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every sabbath
riorning a,d evening; sabbath school 30 a. IN.
Young peoples society of Christian endeayOr, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
Ezra Hingeley, pastor. sabbath preaching, II
/. H.; p M; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday eve
nnsS; sabbath school $50 pm. strangers cor
daily invited 20 ali services.
UNITED PRESBYTERLAN CHURCH-Rev
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. IN.
public worship, II a. m. weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m: monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day OF each month, p. m; wOmanS missionary
SDciety, last Saturday Of each month, p. m. dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p m.
young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. IT,
AFRICAN Me .E.CHCRCR-Rev Albert March
pastor. Sunday service, 1889 a. m. p. m; Sab
oath school, 23O p. m.; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12

The front stoop offers facilities for
courtship, and among the young people
of Brooklyn the front stoop is a popular
summer institution. The Brooklyn bridge
is a bridge of signs. 1t is the high bridges
over the Central tracks in upper New
York, however, that are most ardently
worked for this purpose.
An evening stroll that takes the OBJ
server over one of these bridges will show
dozens of couples leaning against the
rails and apparently investigating the
myriad tracks and colored signal lights
and passing trains below. A manly arm
will be withdrawn from slender waist
as you pass, to be stealthily slipped back
again within the moment. The skirmish
of hearts is going on there while you are
asleep or at the theater. 1t is the engage
ment ground of the poor and lowly who
live in tenements and have no front gate
and no doorsteps. For them the bridge
ON these warm nights is a dish of ice
cream with two spoons in it.-New York
Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Tie Big Kimberley Mine.

No pen can adequately describe the
appearance of the Kimberley mine. 1t is
the largest hole made by man, and in the
shortest space of time, for the incentive
to work was there-the diamond. A
spectator standing on the edge looks
down and sees men at work looking like
ants in size, and during the blasting
hours he can in perfect safety witness
the explosion of thousands of pounds of
dynamite and note the rending of masses
of blue and rock, which would fall far
below him.
AS an honor to the late "Chinese Cor
don" when he visited the mines, the
writer saw the Kimberley mine illumin-
ated at night with thousands of impro-
vised lamps, assisted with cOlored fires
and displays of fireworks. The weird
effect produced was grand, for the eye
could not properly measure distance at
night, and the twinklipg lamps but
served to heighten the eeffect.-Engineer-
ing Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Unsold Books in Paris.

Parisians-if we are to judge from
some statistics published-do not take SC
kindly at present to fiction in book form.
Formerly the yellow covered novel,
which costs usually about half a crown
or little more when just issued, was to
be seen on every table and in the hands
of numerous travellers by boat, rail or
car There is now, however, crisis
threatened in the book trade, and novels
are at considerable discount.
1t is estimated that there are from fif-
teen to twenty popular authors whose
books fill the requirements of the pub
fishers. To attain this end at least
thirty thousand copies of Il work must
be sold. Zola and a few others reach
this point easily, but it has happened
lately that one of the most celebrated of
the latter-day fictionists had the misfor-
tune to find that $4,000 copies of his last
production were returned to the pub
fishers by the Maison Hachette, which
has the monopoly of railway bookstalls
OF splendidly bound book by ia
nous author, ornamented with designs
by eminent artists and advertised in the
most extensive and elaborate manner,
only one copy was got off. Of another
work of the same description, but less
expensive, only six copies were sold, the
remainder being handed over at ridic-
ulous price to the secondhand booksell-
ers on the quays. 1t is stated further
more that one publisher in Paris has
now on hand 5000, 900 volumes which he
cannot sell.-London Telegraph.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Bombay's Big Dam,

The distinction is now said to belong
to Bombay of possessing the greatest
piece of solid masonry construction that
the world has ever seen in modern times.
1t appears that for years past the water
supply of Bombay depended upon works
known to be defective, involving the
possibility of water famine in that
great eastern seaport, and in view of
this consultation of eminent engineers
was held, under the direction of the
government, with the result that large
dam was determined on, to inclose the
watershed of the valley which drains
into the sea south of Bombay.
This gigantic structure, designed and
accomplished by the superior engineer
ing skill of T. e. Glover, is two miles
long, 11S feet in height, and lob feet
wide at the base, with a roadway on
the top "a feet wide, the stonework
alone costing S2,0OO,0O0 The lake
of water which this dam imprisons is
some eight square miles in area, and
sixty miles of pipe perform the service.
Twelve thousand Hindoos were special
ly trained by Engineer Glover for en-
ployment on this dam.-New York Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
An Easy Lesson.

There were two very young women
aged five or thereabouts and exactly OF
size. One had long yellow curls tum-
bling about her round pink face and big,
wide blue eyes that looked fearlessly at
everything. The other was fair, too,
but her eyes were dark and timid and
there were little nervous whirls in her
silky black locks. The pair were trot-
ting along the wide pave of an uptown
residence street at about G o'clock in the
afternoon. After three blocks of it Miss
Blue Eyes said, in just her mammals
tone;
Now, Bessie, dear, l must kiss you
goodby. Your house is just around the
corner and nothing will hurt you There
is policeman right opposite; rnn home
now, and be sure you come again soon
have so enjoyed our talk about the
dear little doggie and the dolls. Tell
Julia my Estelle sends love to her, and
come tomorrow. am so glad always
floating off in the middle of sentence.
Bessie went around the corner all
a-tremble, and probably got safe home
Half way across the block her compan-
ion heaved deep, world weary sigh and
said refectively, "You just have to be
polite-but lny--ain't it awful tiresome
snmetimes!"-New York Recorder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12

| Many stories told of the crafty fox are
doubtless incidents CT the imagination.
But a recent writer tells an anecdote
vouched for by an eye witness of tho
affair. Some fishermen on the west coast
of Ireland were in the habit of going to
a small island, few hundred yards
from the mainland, in quest of bait.
| The island was inhabited by large
numbers of rabbits, and could be reached
at low tide by wading, the water there
teing only a few inches deep. One
morning they went in their boat quits
early, it being high tide. and on landing
saw dead fox lying on the beach. Th.
fur of the animal was all bedraggled.
| and he seemed to have been drowned.
One of the men, remarking that his skin
was worth something, pitched him into
the boat. Procuring their bait they re-
turned TO the mainland, and the man
who had possessed himself of the for
seized him by the tail and flung him or
shore.
As soon as the animal struck the beach
he picked himself up with considerable
agility for dead fox and shot off like
fash up among the cliffs, while the men
stood staring at each other in mute as
tonishment. The men concluded that
he had crossed over to the island during
the night, when the tide was low, in
search of rabbits. and finding in the
morning that he was cut off from the
mainland counterfeited death, with the
expectation of thereby procuring pass
age to the shore in boat, an expecta-
ton which was fully realized.-Boston
Courier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
The Marvellous Power of Tree Growtl

Washington and Independence squares
give illustrations of the wonderful power
of tree growth. In 1888 the commits
sioner of city property took up with the
good idea of naming the trees. 1t was
shown that the growth of the trees would
either force the labels from their staples
or else cause them to stand out in hori-
zontal line. The commissioner at once
had the staples drawn. but for all this in
some cases the labels have been torn
from their hinges, while others stand
out from the trunks as if they were in
tended as platforms for birds to rest on.
The soft cells, as soft and tender as a
mushroom when growing. have yet
power enough with ease to lift these
metallic plates by the edge and force
them into a horizontal position. ANY
one could lift one of these to such posi-
ton if the finger could be gotten for a
half inch under the plate, but imagine
the force which a sort of .yeast like sub
stance mrist possess, which, getting un-
der but perhaps the sixteenth or eighth
of an inch, can yet elevate the plate to a
perfectly horizontal hnel-Thomss Nee
han in'Philadelphia Ledger
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
The Greathead Underground system

The cars are supplied with longitudinal
seats, lighted by electricity, and luxuri-
ously cushioned, the passengers facing
one another. The locomotive is an electric
motor, picking up its electricity from a
central rail through which the electric
current is conducted by a copper wire;
and inasmuch as, for each track, there is
a separate tunnel only trifle larger than
the train (which fills almost the whole of
the annular space, except only at sta
Ions), each train acts as piston, driving
out, from station to station, the air
through which the preceding train
passed.
The stations are connected with the
open air and are not more than three
quarters of a mile apart; any foul air
which gathers in the tunnel is thus ex-
PEELED by each passing train. Indeed,
the air in the tunnel is of more equable
temperature, and is kept more constantly
moved and freshened, than the air on the
surface; and frequently on dark and
murby days it has been noticed that the
air and atmosphere, strange as it may
appear, are far more pleasant in the tun-
mel than ON the street surface.-Simon
Sterne in Forum.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
Business Men,

From close application and too little ex-
ercise, are especially liable to constipa-
ton -clogging up natures great sewers
producing headache, biliousnesS, slug
gish circulation and general derange-
ment of the vital organs. \ regular
movement of the bowels is indispensable
to perfect health; to neglect, is to i'm
PERIL If constipated, Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets will cure you. No interference
with business. Very modest expense.
Mild in action, yet powerful in cleans
ing, regulating the stomach, liver and
bowels, curing constipation, headache
and kindred ailments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
THE BIRTH OF A PRAYER.

About the church soft nusic flowed.
Fair voices borne on organ waves.
With tinted light the dim aisles glowed,
Like raves that sunlit water laves:
The twelve Apostles carved in stone
Looked grimly down upon the nave,
Where faces chilly as their own
No sign of kindling feryor gave.
The music and the sunshine kept
The secret Of their gladness well.
AS DER our heavy souls they swept
The tale Of empty praise TO tell;
Nor ruby light, nor old gray walls,
Nor vested priest. nor music fair,
Nor the sweet holy hush that falls
Within a church, move hearts to prayer
! saw gray old man bend down
His shaggy head, his furrowed face,
And, with pleased and patient frown.
Help his wee lass TO find the place;
The two heads bobbed about the page,
Roses and withered leaves at play;
One finger plump, one crooked with age,
Picked verse by verse the doubtful way.
Great glasses, jigginG to the lines,
Braced his dim eyes the words to trace,
While the small pouter watched the signs
OF hope or failure in his face;
The knotted finger stopped at last,
So did the plump one, with an air,
And up and down such looks were cast
That in my heart was born prayer
John Reid in Good Words
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12

CALL AT THE CHRONICLE JOB
~ ROOMS for every description OF printing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-12
No Deformed Cinnamon.

''Did you ever see deformed or Grip
pied Chinaman?' asked a gentleman.
There was a negative reply, and the
questioner continued: 81 don't think you
ever will. If a Chinese child is born de-
formed it is made away with as soon us
possible Just how the babe is killed |
do not know, but it is never permitted
to live. You may travel all over the
world and you will never see crippled
Chinaman. When an accident befalls
one of them he is made away with too.
This is part of their religion, and they
adhere to it closely. Washington Post.