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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
A Story of the Paris comm,ns.

The commune was also sublime. A
prisoner, a man, had been taken with
arms in his hands, imprisoned, and con-
demned to death. His wife made heroic
efforts to save him, and succeeded in
securing the sympathy of man who
had influence in these times. Her hus-
band was saved from capital punishment
and was condemned to transportation.
Left alone and abandoned, without
resources, she had formed an intimacy
with the man who had saved her hus-
band. After living for years with this
lover, to whom she was deeply attached,
she besought him to apply for pardon
for her husband
Although he felt he was destroying
her happiness and his own, he did So.
The husband returned full of love for the
wife who had saved him from execution
and procured his liberation. On the
way home, however. he learned the
truth. He changed his name, disap-
peared, and lived in hiding for many
years. Then, when divorce became pos
sible in France, he wrote to his wife:
apply for divorce against me; l will
do all l can to secure one for you. Marry
him and be happy" Sublime. Mr.. De
Blowitz, in Harper's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Irecollect little butter which 1 once
made, as seemingly the first and last oc-
casion of my ever eating any, so good
did it seem. An officer made me min
iature churn with bottle and little
wooden dasher put through cork.
We were at the time marching every
day farther and farther into the wilder
ness, but occasionally came to a ranch
where some venturesome frontiersmar
had established himself. Of course ou1
people galloped on in advance, and soon
brought out the madame. There was g
little cream among other things, and as
sat under the tentfiy after we made
camp it was soon transferred into but.
ter in the toy churn.-Mrs. Clusters
RO0R
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Careless Rrokers.

It is amusing to watch how brokers
and bankers who put their bonds and
stocks IN their boxes in the vaults of the
New York Stock Exchange overnight
close them. Some pull away at the han
die of the lock as though they would
pull it off in their anxiety to make sure
that the box is locked, which action Is
largely the result of Nervousness; others
take it very easy, give the handle one or
two turns and go of satisfied. One gen.
tleman said to another down in the
vaults the other day: "a queer thing
happened some FIVE years ago. Ino6ced
that the door of certain box was On the
crack and its key sticking in it. inn
mediately notified Mr.. Cole, who is in
charge there, and who at once closed it.
Il then went to the gentleman who
had forgotten to lock up. oh, it's all
right he said; 1 intended to go back.
But noticed that he was all in a rem-
bic, and that be went over to the vaults
in jfy. He staid there an hour
counting over his securities. There
must have been million dollars worth
In that box, for l noticed loans of one
and two hundred thousand dollars apiece
He didn't even take the trouble to thank
me when went over and notified him
of his carelessness. Epoch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Killed by a Kiss.

The snow came down like a fine gauze.
The people fitted by the coroner's office
windows with collars turned up and
heads bowed to the storm.
''This weather reminds me" said Coro-
ner jenkins to the group about him, "of
such a day about two years ago. was
requested to investigate case of sudden
death. | had often heard of persons dy-
ing of fright, but was not prepared to
believe it. Upon being conducted into
the parlor / was informed by the owner,
a well known merchant, that his daugh-
ter had died under peculiar circum-
stances. She had arisen apparently in
good health and high spirits.
''While she was seated at the table talk
ing with her mother, her brother, who
was about to leave for business, came up
behind her stealthily and kissed her full
in the mouth before she was aware who
it was. The girl screamed, sank back in
a dead faint and when she was brought
to went into convulsions and died before
medical attendance could arrive. The
whole family were of highly nervous
temperament, very excitable and subject
to hysteria. The autopsy showed that the
girl had been perfectly healthy. Death
was undoubtedly due to a nervous shock. y
New York World
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
To Magnetizs a Knife.

Take pocket or table knife and lay
its blade fat upon the back of fire
shovel. With pair of tongs held firmly
in the hand rub the blade vigorously
and always il The s.&se dtsection from
point to base. Turn the blade over now
and then, SO that the friction may be ap-
piled to both sides. After rubbing of
from forty to fifty seconds the blade will
be magnetized, and viii be capable of
lifting a needle with which it is placed
in contact, point to point. The magnet
ization will last long time. This ex-
pertinent, which is not put down in
works on physics, is very interesting and
worthy of study.-Nature
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Power of pigeons On the wing

The power of pigeons on the wing is
proverbial. All trained birds of this spe-
cies have two qualifications in a marked
degree. The first is speed, the second
long and sustained powers of flight.
This proposition can be amply demon
strated, and the following is one of the
most remarkable records: On Oct. 6,
1880, Sir John Ross dispatched pair OF
young pigeons from Assistance Bay, a
little west of Wellington Sound, and on
Oct. Is pigeon made its appearance at
the dovecote in Ayrshire, Scotland,
whence Sir John had the pair taken out.
The distance direct between the two
places is 1000 miles.-Cornhill Maya
zine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Malleahle Glass.

One of the lost arts, provided it ever
existed, was the malleable glass of the
ancients. The Egyptians and the Phm-
nicians made glass-for many early spec
linens remain-fully 1900 years B. C.
In the reign of Tiberius a person ap-
peared in Rome who claimed that he had
invented infe1ble glass. The story
tells that he produced a glass vase,
which he cast ON the marble floor with
vehemence, so as TO bend it, but restored
its shape with few blows from a ham
mer, and that, at the solicitation of a
mob of artifcers, who feared that the
new process might supersede the use of
their vessels of metals, the emperor re-
tanned the glass vase, but ordered the in
genious artist to be put to death.
Since then two or three other persons
claimed the discovery of "a process for
making malleable glass, but nothing
came of it. The art, however, is scarce
ly ''lost," for in the glass houses Of
Murano, close to Venice, they make
, glass plates which can be bent and
thrown about without breaking, but
will not bear to be hammered. Every
one almost has seen what is called spun
glass, which you can twine round the
finger as if it were silk: but this cannot
be converted by any process into YES
sci to hold water. Malleable glass is
not lost, because it has never been a
found, art.-Thomas j. Bowditch in
Troy Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
n,nhtherla snd, ronsiItti.-

Diphtheria is constitutional disease;
it Is In the blood, but 1t many timesman-
ifests itself locally in the throat Ii
oftan causes white spots to appear on the
tonsils and even on other parts of the
throat. But these white spots are far
different in appearance from those seen
in tonsilitis. a great number of per-
IONS are frightened as soon as they see
white spots on the tonsils; but if there is
no epidemic of diphtheria in the neigh
borhood do not, as general thing, fear
that the trouble is diphtheria. In nine
cases out of ten it is tonsilitis.
A dangerous symptom in this case,
however, is bad sore throat without fe-
yer at the outset. / have seen the most
fatal cases of diphtheria start in this way.
and dread such cases most of all A
troublesome sore throat before the fever
comes on is suspicious, and needs physi-
clan promptly. A fever, accompanied
generally with coryza, but not always,
followed by sore throat, is probably ton
silitis, and can be treated at home gen.
orally. We may get white spots in both
cases. The white spots differ widely in
the two diseases. In tonsilitis the white
spots are merely dead cells that are
broken down, disintegrated and are
forced to the surface. They can be
brushed away, but they are trihing
thing as compared with the spots in diph-
liberia.
Without going deeply into the subject
of diphtheria at this time, l shall simply
say that the spots in this disease are the
appearances at the surface of the tonsils of
tenacious membrane. This membrane
dips down into the surface of the tonsils,
and if removed leaves bleeding, ugly
track behind it, which IS Later filed with
another membrane just as tenacious.-A
Physician in Boston Globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

The gate tender of the Main street
crossing left deputy in charge recently.
1t is customary to hang lighted Ian
tern ON the gate at dark, lowering the
gate for the purpose. At dark the new
man looked at the gate towering above
hun, and. thinking it would take long
ladder to reach the top, went toa neigh
boring carpenser's shop and borrowed
the longest ladder he could find and hung
the lighted lantern. The next morning
he looked at the lantern and an idea
dawned on him. He lowered the gate
and detached the lantern. The next
time he tends gate he will not borrow a
ladder.-Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
English Women,s Cana.

you have some very curious persons
in Chicago" remarked Mrs. Tennant,
Mr.. Stanley's mother-in-Aw 81 could
not help overhearing what one of them
said when entered the room at the club
reception. There comes one of 'em, said
the lady in tone loud enough for me to
hear distinctly. There comes one of
'em; she's English. know, for English
women when they get old always wear
tides on their headsF No, don't know
what the American people call tides,
but I'm sure the remark was not compli-
mentary. Still it is the custom with
US to wear caps-why, the queen wears
them; do not mean to give them up"
Chicago News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Wire Nails from Plate Steel

1t has always been considered impos-
sible to cut wire nails from any material
except wire, but it is reported that an
ingenious arrangement has been intro
duced into mill in Pittsburg which en-
ables wire nails to be made from steel
plate. This invention may be attached
to the ordinary cut nail machine, and is
said to be capable of producing perfectly
formed nails in greater quantity than is
possible by the present wire nail.-Phil-
adelnhia Record.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
eeTRosPecTloN.

esIy some withered blossoms,
Cr,lInbling to dry decay;
Only glove half torn into,
And idly thrown away.
Only a heart that's breaking
That Is, if hearts could break;
Only q man adrift for life,
An for a woman's sake.
Only few such tokens.
Priced by love sick fool
Naught but the ashes that strcx -
ground
When love's hot fame grows cooll
Not the first man by thousands
The dupe of heartless firt.
Not the first time that priceless love
Was treated ike common dirt
Only in Jest, you know it
Nov, though it's rather late
Rather too late 70 turn your life
And seek another fate.
You're not man ike thousands.
With heart that viii veer and twirl,
And feel a glow at the word and glance
OF every flirting girl
Finished forever and done,
Wrecked by treacherous smilel
Following madly a wll-o-the-wisp,
Haply if but for while!
Only heart that's broken
That is, if hearts can break;
Only a man adrift for life,
And all for a wonan's sake
ANONYMOUS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
When Americans Eat.

The custom of early meal taking has
always prevailed among the great ma
jority of people in this country, and din
ner generally constitutes the chief re-
past of the day. The workaday people
breakfast between 5 and Z o'clock, dine
from IL to 1 and sup from to Z in the
evening. Among the Weather classes
late breakfast is customary, followed
by light luncheon at or o'clock, and
at O'Clock dinner.-Louis T. Pearle in
Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Swinburne and Morris each make
81, 900 year by their works. This,
likewise, was the income of Moore, who
is said to have cleared e30, 900 altogether
by his poetry. His "La1la Rookh''
brought him in $4,000, which was prob
ably the highest price ever paid to him
for single work. Lord Byron calcu-
lated that he had made e34, 600 by po-
etry. He received more than 81 900 for
"Childe Harold" e3, 900 for don Jaun'
and sums varying from e300 to e1 900
for his shorter poems. Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
PEERS Pence.

Ofa, Saxon prince, to secure the
favor of the sovereign pontiff, engaged
to pay yearly tribute to the treasurer
of the Vatican. In order to raise the
promised sum Offa was forced to impose
a tax of one penny on each householder
whose annual income wz5 as much as
thirty pence. This imposition being after
ward levied on all England was COM
monty denominated as Peters Pence. s.
Hence the expression Louis Re
public.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

The process of eating well is science.
The food should not be bolted and hur-
ried into the stomach before it is ready
to be placed there,
If farmers knew as much about farm
ing as financiers do, or think they do,
and If fnanciers knew rs much about
finances as farmers do, or think they do,
there would be an elysium ON earth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
A souav,s Re.narkable Journeyinr.

In the last century Chinook Indian
woman, known to Father Hulk, great
traveller and missionary of that period,
while he was with the Indians on what
we now call the Pacific coast, was many
years afterwsrd met by him in Asia.
Through many vicissitudes and strange
experiences she had passed from tribe to
tribe and place to place, always moving
northward, until she reached Behring
strait, and there, having gone out in one
Of the large canoes used by the seafaring
Indians of that region, in a great storm
they were driven across the strait to
wreck and death to all save her, and she
wandered on until she met Father Hulk
in the interior of Asia She had not
sought to return, but following the spirit
of adventure bred in her by her strange
experiences she went on to see new lands
Louisville Courier-Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

N.G. Hollister, cashier of the National
Bank of Commerce of Hutchinson, en-
joys the distinction of being the young
est cashier Of national bank in the
United States. He is only 81 years
old now, and he is regarded as one of
the most level headed business men of
the city. Within two weeks after com
ing of age he was made director in two
national banks, which positions he still
holds.-Hutchinson Kan News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

The Appropriated Sleigh Bells in July.
The well filed stores and gaudy shop
windows of the Indiana and Ohio towns
seemed to stimulate in men accustomed
to impoverished and unpretentious Dixie,
as were Morgaa's raiders, the propensity
to appropriate beyond limit or restraint
have never before seen anything like
this disposition to plunder. Our perilous
situation only seemed to render the men
more reckless. At the same time, any
thing more ludicrous than the manner in
which they INDUCED their predatory
tastes can scarcely be imagined. The
weather was intensely warm-the hot
July sun burned the earth to powder,
and we were breathing superheated dust
yet one man rode for three days with
seven pairs of skates lung about his
neck; another loaded himself with sleigh
bells.
A large chafng dish, a medium sized
Dutch clock, green glass decanter, with
goblets TO match, bag of horn buttons,
a chandelier and bird cage containing
three canaries were some Of the articles
1 saw borne off and jealously fondled.
The officers usually waited reasonable
period, until the novelty had worn of.
and then had this rubbish thrown away.
Baby shoes and calico, however. were
the staple articles of appropriation A
fellow would procure bolt of calico,
carry it carefully for day or two, then
cast it aside and get another.-Basil W.
Duke in Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Use of Ammonia,

In medicine the solution of ammonia
is employed as means of rousing the
respiratory and vascular systems, and of
the alleviation Of spas1ns. 1t is also
used as local irritant and antacid. 1t
can used as wash in water for the
scalp and in the bath without danger
Herald of Health.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

While the people of TIVE centuries ago
won about a score of products from the
under earth, we make use of hundreds
derived from the pit and mine Each
year sees this relation of men to the
rocks beneath their feet become closer
and the profit greater.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake was unani-
mousiy chosen at the recent Rochester
convention Of the New York State Wo-
man Suffrage association to represent
that body on the executive committee of
the National American Woman Suffrage
association.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Look Out for the Dead Cistern,

An abandoned cistern is often dan
gerous thing, and should be filed, as
stagnant water which may remain in it
is common source of disease If this
cannot be done at once it is good plan
to throw in proper disinfectants and
gradually fill it up with sifted coal ashes.
New York Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Sharks Are Off

The stomach OF shark has for many
years been supposed to be capable of di-
gesting anything he could swallow, no
matter what the substance thereof, but
he must now take a back seat. The
juice of one jolly pineapple will dissolve
ten pounds of tough beet, and dyspeptics
and pineapples will now be boon COM
panDns Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Following the Precedent.

Cousin Ethel, | want you to be my
wife"
Family history establishes quite an
other precedent, Henry; my mother was
sister to your father. l think well fol-
low the precedent. ."-Harper's Bazar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

In round figures the enlisted men of
the regular army number about 25, 900,
and the commissioned officers 2,155. The
law, that is to say, fixes the maximum
at these figures. The actual number, of
course, is continually changing from
deaths, enlistmepts. etc.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Meerschaum is imported in boxes, say
80 inches in length, foot wide and 10
or 1S inches high, and holds about so
pounds. A box costs from $15 to 5000,
and as high as $225. The price all de-
pends upon the quality.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

"Well," said the would be humorist to
his friend, 81 have at Last succeeded in
inducing The Funny Gazette to accept
contribution.
Friend-That's nice. What was it?
Humorist-I returned about five hun
dred of their declined with regret
slips.-Kate Fields Washington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Little Johnnie had just returned from
a star chamber meeting at which his
mother had treated him to laying on
of slipper. Amid tears he turned to his
little sister and said: Don't l wish
grandpa hadn't thrown that slipper
when ma got married. She Just throws
1t at me ever since. st. Joseph News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

Mr.. William Waldorf Astor is an ex-
cellent judge of a cigar, and has special
brand manufactured for him by a lead
ing Havana maker. 1t has a delightful
favor and is quite mild. Mr.. Astor or
ders them by the hundred boxes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

1t has been shown that the bad effects
of a fog were felt most by tropical plants
which, in state of nature, were ex-
posed to the sunlight. Plants which
grew under the shade of forest trees did
not suffer SO much. Soft, tender plants
and aquatic vegetation seemed to come
off worst.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

King Humbert of Italy is 40 years
old. His face, like Parnell's, has fixed
expression of melancholy. He is brave,
courteous and devoted to his only child,
a boy of IA. The king speaks French as
well as he does Italian, and is said to be
charming man to meet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

A few thousand years ago-in the
geological yesterday, as we may say
the northern part of North America was
generally covered by great fields of ice,
which were a mile or more thick IN their
deeper parts, and extended south as far
as central Pennsylvania and northern
Kentucky.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Latest Use fer the chila.s Halr.

When Dotty Dimple has her first thatch
of long curls cropped off her mother
doesn't gather them up one by one as she
used to do, and lay them carefully away
in long box with an incription some
thing like this on the outside, "Dotty' 8
curls, cut of when she was years old. "
She gathers them up, to be sure, and car
ries them away with her. but the next
day or 50 she is seen going into a certain
hairdreser's in Twenty-third street,
where notice prominently displayed in
the window reads, Dolls Wigs Made
Here" And DUtty Dinple goes with
her. OF course, and carries Rosamond
Arabella or Fihne, or whatever the name
may be of the potential little lady in
bisqne. And in box the mother carries
the curls.
Then the attendant gravely measures
the bisque pate after he has first removed
the shock of fax that covered it, and
hooks wise over the box of curls and says,
''Oh, yes, madam, there will be plenty
of them, think" Madam and Dotty
Dimple go away after great many low
ing pats and admonitions, and IN a few
DAYS Rosamond Arabella comes home no
longer with the faxen pate, put wearing
lovely blonde wig of real hair-hair that
curls up about her temples and down her
back just as Dotty Dimpae's own does.
And that is just what it is, Dotty Dim
pies own severed curls. And thus are
the demands of sentiment and fashion
united.-New York Evening Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05

If you put spoon in glass before
pouring in the water the glass will not
crack. even if the water is boiling. But
if there is no spoon used it takes new
glass to every hot drink
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
l. ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time Card in Effect June IS. 1890.

tDaily, except Sunday. FDaily.
At Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Railroad for Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York, on which are run. Pullman Dining,
Sleeping and Parl0r 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
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
Tho Witty Parrot

Chappie Ito parrot = Polly want a
cracker2
Polly-Yes-a nut cracker to crack
that chestnut. Epoch.