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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
A Remarkable Phenomenon.

On Thursday, March 10, 171s, there
appeared at London, about 8 o'clock al
night, Sudden great light moving af.
ter the manner but more slowly than a
falling star. 1t started from point be-
low Orion's belt, then lying in the south
west, and went upward instead of down
ward like falling star. Its size, ac-
cording to the testimony of numerous
observers in Spain, France, Ireland, Hol-
land and some parts of Germany, as well
as those who saw it in London and all
over England, was about that of the full
moon. 1t was of whitish color, with an
eye in the center as blue as the most
azure portion of June sky after thun-
der storm. 1t went straight upward in
its course until out of sight, leaving a
track of fiery red sparks in its wake."-
st. Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
GRAINS OF GOLD.

There is no right way to do wrong
thing.
Immature exaggerates all other bad
qualities.
God never intended that any man
should be stingy.
If you are not helping anybody, God
is not helping YOU
The first step toward heaven must be
taken on the knees.
Truth makes men gentle. Theory
makes them bigoted.
Selfishness is only another name for
the spirit of murder.
If there wasn't any opposition, there
couldn't be any progress.
The great perpetual battle of life is
the warfare waged against self.
Perhaps no greater wrong can be done
to any man than to misjudge him.
The biggest coward you can find any
where is the man who is afraid to do rlght.
Every life is a seed from which God
wants to raise tree to transplant IN
heaven.
The man who will deliberately do
anything that he knows is wrong is not
a Christian.
The devil never stays awake to watch
the man who tries to be religious be-
cause it pays.
knowledge is power, but it takes
something more than head work to turn
a grindstone.
You cannot teach man anything;
you can only help him to find it out
within himself.
The measure of a mans real character
is what he would do if he knew it would
never be found out
People who never succeed at anything
themselves, are the first to criticse 9TH
ers for making failures.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
An Owl Is the Farmers rr,eno.

Of all birds, from the farmers stand
point, owls are the most useful. They
hunt silently and in the night, and are
nothing short Of lynx eyed cats with
wings. The benefit they confer upon
agriculturists is most incalculable, and
is susceptible of proof 1t is well known
that owls hunt by night; but it may be
less matter of common knowledge that,
like other birds of prey, they return by
the mouth hard indigestible parts of the
food in the form of elongated pellets.
These are found in considerable quanti-
tits about the birds haunts, and an ex-
animation of them reveals the fact that
owls prey upon number of predaceous
creatures, the destruction of which is
directly beneficial to man.
OF course the evidence gained in this
way is infallible, and to show to what
extent owls assist in preserving the bal
ance of nature it may be mentioned that
700 pellets examined yielded the remains
of 6 bats, 13 rats, 237 mice, sos voles,
1850 shrews and 90 birds. These truly
remarkable results were obtained from
the common barn owl, and the remains
of the 90 birds were those of 10 sparrows,
greenfnch and 2 swifts. The tawny
and long cared owls of our woodlands
are also mighty hunters, and an exam
ination of their pellets shows equally In
teresting evidence.-Cornhill Magazine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
AT THE ALTAR.

Judging from the behavior of som,
couples at the altar, it is hard to under
stand why certain men and women are
so anxious to rush into the holy state of
matrimOny.
An English parson who ministered in
Canada was once called upon to marry a
coarse, Unlocking man and woman
whose sullenneSs was suggestive of a
tiff on the way to church. However,
the ceremony was gone on with.
In due course came the question:
"Wilt thou take this woman to be thy
we lded wife,"
You bet," said the man; but this re-
sponse not being reverent enough, the
minister refused to TO take it, and the
bridegroom at length replied sulkily, 81
will
But when the woman was asked the
same question, she answered, decisively
enough
"No, l won't I've taken dislike to
him.
There was nothing for it but to dis
miss the Unmatched pair, and away they
went nagglng at each other.
However, they returned in week,
and the woman declared she had chang
ed her mind. When the critical ques-
ton was again put to the man, he met it
with mo, won't. I've taken dis
like to her." And off he walked, leav-
ing the woman in tears of vexation.
Back they came after the lapse of an
other week, and this time the man was
willing to take the. woman, and the
woman the man.
"Well, it seems you are both agreea-
BILE now," remarked the parson; "but
am not. l have taken dislike to both
of you, and you must get some else to
marry you" So saying he retired, leav-
ing them both quite abashed and shame
faced.
mo amount of sermons" was his
subsequent comment, would have done
as much good in vindicating the digni-
ty of the Church, and that was my ex-
cuse for playing practical joke on such
an OCCASION
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

The New York State Meter inspectors
deputy was asked this question the other
day: Gould gas company make meters
record more than was necessary to be
consumed by tenants by putting on an
increased pressure through the pipes?'
The inspector replied: ''Of course, an in
creased pressure will make more gas go
through the meters than is necessary for
the lights: The companies have to put
on a lot of pressure about 6 o'clock in
the evening when everybody is lighting
up. That is what makes the gas jump
and fare so All the gas coming through
the pipes is not burned, and that is
where the patent governors and regula-
tors step in.
But the consumer can regulate that
just as well without governor by turn
ing the gas partially off at his meter un-
til he gets a stream just about adequate
to the number of lights he uses. 1t
makes the light steady, and saves about
20 to 25 per cent. of gas to the consumer
l have done it for many years, and found
it to work just about as well as patent
ooverOor -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
Characteristic Even in Her Dreams.

A lady who is known to be an ex-
tremist in many of her views gravely
told the following dream over the coffee
the other morning to the great amuse-
ment of her husband and some friends
who declared it essentially feminine and
characteristic of her sex.
She dreamed that she had died, and
in the interval before the freed spirit
made its way heavenward she was an
unseen observer and listener to all that
took place in the room in which the
poor clay she had SO recently inhabited
lay. She was touched with the devotion
of her mother, who, like Mary of old,
was always first and last beside the body.
soon to find sepulture, also intensely in
terested in the arguments for or against
cremation (this having been her own
pet theory, which her friends held forth
in the presence of her disembodied spirit,
and longing to depart with the celestial
throng awaiting her. yet mortified and
thrilled on the threshold of heaven by
the fact that, craven on her casket plate,
her age was given as forty-nine instead
of fthirty-tWo.-UticaH Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
Do women or Fa,bions Cbanpee

In an apothecary's window in New
York is heap of the vinaigrettes that
were in use four or more years ago. They
aEe of cut glass, from twelve to fourteen
inches long, an inch thick, and of the
weight of policeman's night stick.
They are eloquent of the eccentricities of
fashion, for whereas women paid many
dollars to get one only the other day, so
to speak, no lady would carry one the
length of an avenue block today for five
times as much money. The same moral
is pointed by picture that was famous
sixteen years ago. 1t is Arthur Lumley's s
sketch of two rival schools meeting on
Fifth avenue. The beauty of the school
girls in that picture gave the picture
great eclat. Today the girls look like
dreadful guys. Their queer hats, their
waterfalls and their balloon skirts con-
denim the work as picture of something
preposterous.- Francisco Argonaut.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
Old Cities of Europe Changing.

Said a woman returned from trip
abroad, which was by no means her
first: Il have discovered that the his
toric monotony of even European life
can change. When l first saw Ghent.
ten or dozen years ago, it was pic
turesque walled city; now | find that
much of its wall has gone into its fine
quays. So with Bruges, which all guide
books used to delight to remind you mad
not had a house built within its limits
for an extraordinary length of tine-a
hundred and fifty years at least. was
there recently to discover some marked
changes some almost modern houses
and others altered in a manner which
has done away with degree of their de-
licious antiquity."-New York Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
BARGAINS IN COFFINS.
Pittsburgh StOckmal

Pittsburgh StOckman.
A friend was so situated the other
day as to be compelled to listen to the
conversation of two drummerS. One
was fellow who had for years employ
ed himself in selling various patent
c0ntraptiOns to farmers. The other was
traveller for wholesale house in diff
ferent line. The farmer drummer was
saying to his friend that after his pro-
tracted experience he could sell to farm
ers anything that he cared to introduce,
provided he would give them little
time for payment. His companion
promptly replied that he believed he
had a line of goods which would
stump" him. On being asked what he
sold replied sCOffins." Whereupon drum
mer number one offered to bet $1,000
that he could sell ten coffins within a
week to as many farmers, provided he
would give them one years time on the
purchase money.
Now, whether or not the sanguine
salesman could have done this we do not
know; but it is just in keeping with the
experience of many men who have found
farmers so ready to buy almost any
thing that could be offered, provided the
terms of purchase could be made salts
factory. 1t should not be the case, and
in many neighborhoods is not the case,
that farmers can be imposed upon by
the sale of clap-trap stuff for which they
have no use, but there are just enough
and among the nOn-newspaper-read-
ing classic give an opportunity for
shrewd scoundrels to make the boast
which the drummer in this story was so
willing to make good with his pledged
cash.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
UNDER THE H'ARTHsTANE.

Brother, you bear your sorrow
With patience that passeth praise
The loss of worldly possessions.
Just at your later daysl
How do you bear it:- the neighbor prayed
There's love meath the h'arthsraneT' the
old man said
"Oh. love is good, grant you,
When seasoned enough with gold;
But love ia cottage"-he shook his head
'.Is rhyming that will not hold
Love only can never lift your load
OF sorrow and labor on life's late road"
"Ay, ayI" the old man answered,
His white head sturdily raised;
when ye hae lived a. my lifetame
Yell cry, The Lord be praisedr
Whether O. good or i'll shall IA
II Love meath the h'arthstane surviv-
eth az
But you and your wife" urged the neigh
bor-
'.Your children under the sod
Nae under the sod" the old man cried,
Good neighbor-gane to God!
An what hae we to do wi pain
When Love still glories the auld h'arth-
stane?'
"Your faith is past my knowing"
The neighbor murmured low,
A spirit of awe and wonder
On bis face. as he rose to go.
''Ah, friend" the old man answer made,
Love meath the h'arthstane is naught
afraidi''
Jean Kate Ludlum in New York Ledger
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
unsnfammabls Dresses and Woodwork.

Untnfammable Dresses and Woodwork.
If the laundress would add to her prep
aration of starch solution of the phos-
phate OF ammonia about four ounces to
the quart of wateD before dipping cur
tains, underclothing and dresses there
in, and drying them, she will render
them unindammable. If in opera houses
or theaters the curtains, flies, and even
the woodwork are impregnated with
this phosphate of ammonia they will be
proof against catching fire; they will
only char when fame is applied to
them.-Exchange
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
B. AND o. RAILROAD.

ELKs EXCURSION TO LOUISVILLE, KY.
On account of the meeting of the Be
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa-
ny will sell excursion tickets to Louis
vile. KY, and return, at a rate of one
fare per capita for the round trip for par
ties of ten or more travelling together in
a body. Tickets of this character will be
sold on May 18th and 18th, and will be
good for return passage until May 22d.
inclusive, 1891.
In addition to the above the Baltimore
and Ohio will sell individual excursion
tickets to Louisville, May 14th to 2Oth.
inclusive, good to return until Nav 24th
inclusive, at rate of fare and third
for the round trip on the certificate
plan. 4-30 st.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
Their Point of Difference.

Kate-Such an owl as you arel Why
can't you be talkative, like Tom Rat
telonf Such difference as there is be-
tween meni
Fred-There's only this difference, my
dear girl: 1 think and say nothing; Tom
talks and says nothing Pittsburg Bull
letin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

DR.. johnson and Sydney Smith were
both inveterate tea drinkers. The for
mer said that ''he never gave his teaket-
tie time to cool, while the latter gave as
sure recipe against the prevailing cpl
demic of his time, melancholy, "a tea
kettle simmering upon the hob"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

Wooden, from whom we have the name
Wednesday, was a prince of high stand
ing among the Saxons. His image was
prayed to for victory. On the third day
after each succeeding sun worship the
old Saxons spent hours invoking the
blessings of Wooden.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

Buffalo Tidings states that Murvale
Eastman, the hero of Tourgees novel, is
modelled upon young Episcopal minis
ter of that city, the Rev. Henry A.
Adams.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

Wooi-Why are you SO sure Blifydns,,
piety will be short hved9
Van Pelt-He had a birthday yester-
day, and his wife gave him a fountain
pen.-Munsey's Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 30 m daily.
except Sunday; Newark 45 m; arrive GAINESVILLE
80 m, Cambridge 30 p m.
Columbus s. Sandusky Accom-. leaves Columbus
a 20 m; arrives Sandusky II 80 pm.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
ST. CLAIRSVILLE DIVISION.
Standard Time, SO Minutes Slo,cer than Loca, 7

All trains daily except Sunday. All trains make
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
all points West.
agents, or address o, p MeCarty, ASST Gen. Pass.
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; L. l.. Allen, Asst Gen.
Pass Agent, Chicago, III.
j. T. ODELL, C. O. SCULL,
Gen1 Manager Genn Pass. Agent.
EDW. DICKINSON, Cen. sup't.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

FRIENDS are as companions on jour
ney, who ought to aid each other to per
severe in the road to a happy life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

INseeking wisdom thou art wise; in
imagining that thou hast attained it,
thou art a fool.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
Reason for Gratitude.

81 even once read a grateful defence
of Captain Kidd, the pirate"
''But you don't know the circum-
stances under which it was written?"
No"
HE boarded a vessel where everybody
was seasick. He gave the usual order,
Your money or your life Everybody
felt so thankful at the prospect of being
put out of their misery that they one
and all refused the money. He accord
ingly hung them, and the captain, who
was spared, was SO thankful to be spared
their complaints that when he got on
shore he wrote the article. st. Paul
Globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

THERE is no surer mark of the alb
sence of the highest moral and intellect
ual qualities than cold reception of ex
cellence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

Cleveland-with last trains for East and West ;
Lorain-with the Nickel Plate" Ekiia-with the
l. s & NJ S Ry; GraftUn-with the CCC & 1 R'y:
Sterling with the y Y P& O R'y: Warwiek-with
the A sc Ry Masillon-with W & l. + Ry anil
P Ft W CR'y; Justus-with the C&C R'y; Canal
Doyer-with c 4 NJ k'y; Uhricisville- with the
Panhandle; BridgepOrt-with & + Hy; Bel
laire-with b & o Ey.
J. F. TOWNSEND Gen Trnf 4gt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

ALL night and all over the world,
bitter tears are dropping as regular as
the dew, and cruel memories are haunt
ing the pillow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

REASON cannot show itself more rea
sonable than to cease reasoning on things
that are above reasoning.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

WEIGH not so much what men are as
what they prove; remembering that truth
is simple and naked, and not an inven-
tion to apparel her comeliness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

TRUE glory consists in so living as to
make the world happier and better for
our living.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

RESOLVE to edge in little reading
every day, if it is but single sentence;
if you gain fifteen minutes a day, it
makes itself felt at the end of the year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

THE soul must sometimes sweat blood.
Nothing great is achieved without the
severest discipline of heart and mind;
nothing is well done that is done easily.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

The forest fires in New Jersey have
burned over seven miles of country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
CT. CLAIRSVILLE Il NORTHERN
- RAILROAD TIME CARD.

CoNNECTIoNs-At Barton with all passenger
trains on c., l.. & W. Ry. s9y-Direet with Sire I
Cars from Bridgeport to Wheeling. Only direct
route between st. Clairsyille and Wheeling
A. C. DARRAH, J. +. TOWNSEND,
President Gen. TTaf. Ag1.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

NATURE when she plants vegetable
poison. generally provides an antidote;
so in the moral world, she causes sympa-
thies to spring up by the side of antipa-
fhiaS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
CLEYELAND, LoRAlN & WHEELING R. F
Time Card Of Passenger Trains.
South Read Down
,Own NOrth-Read ur

In effect Nov 18th, 1890, and until further notice
Standard Times minutes slower than
Columbus Ohio time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

LIFE is too short to be wasted in petty
worries, frettings, hatreds, and vexa-
tions. Let us Danish all these, and
think on whatsoever things are pure and
lovely and gentle and of good report.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

WE all have to learn in one way or
another, that neither men nor BOYS get
second chances in this world. We all
get new chances till the end of our lives.
but not second chances in the same SET
of circumstances; and the great differ
ence between one person and another is.
how ne takes hold of and uses his first
chance, and he takes his fall if it is
scored against him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

THERE is nothing like courage in mis-
fortune. Next to faith in God and in
His overruling providence, mans faith
in himself is his salvation. 1t is the Sc
cret of all power and success. 1t makes
a man strong as the piIlared iron or
elastic as the springing steel.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

If you want knowledge, you must toll
for it; if food, you must toll for it; and
if pleasure you must toll for it. Toll is
the law. Pleasure comes through toll,
and not by self-indulgence and indo-
lence. When man gets to love work
his life is happy one
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

The man who gives his life for prin-
ciple has done more for his kind than he
who discovers new metal or names a
new gas, for the great motors of the race
are moral, not intellectual, and their
force lies ready to the use of the poorest
and weakest of US all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

MEN in great places are thrice ser
wants; servants to the sovereign or state,
servants of fame, and servants of bust
ness; so they have no freedom, neither
In their persons, nor in their actions,
nor in their time. 1t is strange desire
to seek power over others, and to lose
power over mans self.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

PEOPLE who have no occupation must
worry. The human heart is like mill
stone-if you put wheat under it, it
grinds the wheat, if you put no wheat, it
grinds on, but then it is itself it wears
aWay
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

EXERCISE, to be beneficial, must be
enjoyable. The more enjoyable it is,
the more good it will do. Even laugh
ing does one good. Thus, light cheer
full talk, with merriment and laughter,
has always been known, frUm time i'm
memorial, to be the best thing after a
hearty meal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

SOLITUDE is pleasant. 1t is an escape
from the rough and tumble of life-from
hard words and hard knocks; but its
pleasures are dangerous. They are too
fascinating for any but the best balanced
minds; and over-indulgence in them al
most invariably means melancholia and
madness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

A HOUSE built on sand is, in fair
weather, just as good as if builded on a
A cobweb is as good as the
*iest chain cable when there is no
once. it. 1t is trial that proves one
TX and another strong.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

1t is best to strive to cultivate an in
terest in simple, innocent and inexpen-
sive pleasures. We may thus aid in
diffusing that spirit of contentment
which is of itself rich and permanent
flOecacsi0D
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-02

Clearing Sale of India
Linon Dress Waists. We
mention but one item to il
lustrate the reductions.
India Linon Waist, extra
fine quality, with belt, small
tucks front and back, collar
and cuffs of embroidery.
Price, 81. 50; reduced from
50. 25.
Other styles in similar pro-
portion.
T h O m sons Genuine
Glove-Fitting Summer Cor
sets at 75c. These are the
best-ftting Corsets made in
America. Cool, comforta-
bic and durable, worth two
of the common low-priced
Corsets.
Striped Seersucker and
Bingham Skirts at 70 cents.
Prices we're 9oc to $3.50.