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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
An EleEatnr Incident.

In one of the elevators in down town
building the other day an absent minded
man came near departing this life with
unbecoming haste He had stood close
by the door when the car stopped at his
floor and had allowed two or three other
passengers to brush by him. He had
made no signs of desire to step out, but
when the elevator resumed its upward
course and the door was nearly closed he
gave start and jumped forward until
his body projected out Of the car and
prevented the door from closing. Luck
lily the conductor understood his bust
ness. With an instructive movement he
stopped the car in few inches. Then
he drew back the door and released the
venturesome passenger, who walked
away without even looking back or say
ing word. The other passengers looked
on in silence.
Even the elevator man had nothing to
say for a minute, but when the next floor
was reached the whole affair seemed to
strike him in new light. He didn't
think of the horror of life suddenly
taken away, Of the sickening sight of a
crushed and mangled body. ''That's
what I call mean man." quoth he with
severity. want to have me sent to the
Tombs, eh? Cad! A man like that
ought to get hurt, he had."-New York
Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
California.s Gold Treasure.

Never in any other country has change
in the political dominion been followed
so promptly by so marvellous an increase
of wealth and population, of productive
industry and general Intelligence Never
did a province repay new masters more
literally for their trouble in its acquisi-
ton, nor did any other conquered terri
tory ever receive greater benefit from
conquest. The most notable instances
in history of triumphant invasions re-
warded with great sums of precious
metal were those of Babylonia by Cyrus,
of Persia by Alexander, of Mexico by
Cortez, and of Peru by Pizarro- pop
ulous empires, with wealth accumulated
through centuries of prosperity. Yet
not one of them yielded to its conquerors,
within generation, so much treasure as
did desolate California to the Americans.
John S. Hitten in Century.
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Noble Tree Planters.

1 read very interesting statement re-
Gently that the three late dukes of Athole
planted in their lifetime IA 900, 900 larch
trees on their estates. The writer who
made this statement seemed to doubt the
fact on the ground that he imagined that
their graces did so with their own hands,
which would necessitate each of them
planting 200 trees a day for sixty years.
When, however, man is said to plant
an estate it does not any more mean that
he does so personally than, when it is
said that man furnishes" house, he
makes his own cabinets and tables, or
puts down his own carpets-though our
grandfathers and grandmothers, as often
as not, actually did the latter, as well as
good soulsl-sewing the various strips
of carpets together.
If, however, it comes to planting trees
with ones own hands, there is still some
thing to be said. Charles II planted
nearly all the trees in the avenue at
Windsor with his, and some that are
now in st. James park; and George III
had mania for planting his own trees,
as well as innumerable grape vines. Her
present majesty has planted over 5000
trees in various places she has visited,
and the Prince of Wales cannot be very
far behind her in also doing so.-Galig-
nani's Messenger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
The CURSE OF SCOTLAND.
There Are Twenty-fsUr Reasons Why th'
Nine of Diamonds Is Called Uniucky.

rber. Are Twenty-fs1r Reasons Why the
Nine of Diamonds LIS Called UnIucky.
Every reader has at some period of his
or her life heard of the nine OF diamonds
referred to as ''the curse of Scotland >
but why, perhaps, you have never taken
the time OF trouble to ascertain
Inmy Repository of the Rare and the
Wonderful find no less than seventeen
explanations of the origin of the expires
sion. while Southwick's ''Quizzisn and
Its Key gives eleven, seven of which are
wholly different from the answers given
in the work above referred to, making IN
all twenty-four different accounts OF the
origin of the expression in the two works.
Southwick traces it back 10 1745, men
tioning a caricature of that date which
represents ''the young chevalier at
tempting to lead herd of bulls laden
with papal curses across the Tweed river
with the nine of diamonds lying before
them.
Perhaps the most satisfactory e1plana-
ton of the enigma is that which refers
it to the massacre of Glencoe. The or
der for that cruel deed was signed by
the Earl of Stair, John Dalrymple, sec
retary of state for Scotland. The coat
of arms Of the Dalrymple family bears
nine lozenges, resembling diamonds, on
its shield. Thus it appears to have been
with reference to them that the nine
spot of diamonds was called ''the curse
of Scotland" The best and most likely
of the other reasons for the origin of the
expression are given below.
During the reign of Mary thief at
tempted to steal the crown from Eliza
beth castle, and succeeded in abstract
ing nine valuable diamonds from it. To
replace these heavy tax was laid on
the people of Scotland, which impover-
ished them to such an extent that nine
diamonds, whether on cloth, cards or
real Jewels, were spoken of as "A1bion's
curse"
In the game of Pope Joan the nine of
diamonds is the pope, whom the Scotch
Presbyterians consider curse.
1t is also said that the Duke of Cum
berland wrote his inhuman orders at
Culloden on the back of card, the front
of which was marked with nine dia-
monds.
The ''Oracle, or Resolver of Questions,
printed in 1770, says that the crown of
Scotland had but nine diamonds, and
that the Scotch people were too poor to
add to the collection.-St. Louis Re
public.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
The Hand KisS.

The kiss of the hand is undoubtedly
ancient, and therefore is not derived
from that of the lips, but probably the
converse is true. The hand kiss is
loosely asserted to be developed from
servile obeisances in which the earth,
the foot and the garments were kissed,
the hand and cheek succeeding in order
of time and approach to equality of
rank. But it is doubtful if that was the
actual order, and it is certain that at
the time when hand kissing began there
were less numerous gradations of rank
than at later stage.
Kissing Of the hands between men is
mentioned in the Old Testament, also
by Homer, Pliny and Lucian. The kiss
was applied reverentially to sacred OBJ
jects, such as statues of the gods, as is
shown by ancient works of art, and also
among numerous etymohgies by that
Of the Latin word "adoro," and it was
also metaphorically applied by the in
ferior or worshiper kissing his own hand
and throwing the salute to the superior
or statue.-Popular Science Monthly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Not to Be Bought,

The results of using big words in con-
versation with people who do not under
stand them are often laughable. In Bos-
ton there is a lady of literary aspirations
who talks even with her servants in a
sort of literary way. The other day an
Irish servant girl employed in this lady's
house entered a neighboring grocer's
shop and asked:
"Do ye kape anny-anny delub-fwhat
in the world is it, annyhow?-anny de-
liberation, is it, now? Doye sell amy of
that?"
"Any what?" exclaimed the grocer.
"Anny deliberation, say"
"No, we don't"
'More's the pity, thin. Sure, my misth-
ress told me to wash the cut glass dishes
wild deliberation, and thin she wint away,
and niver dhrop af the shtoof can
foind in the houser-Youth's Compan-
ion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
A NEW OLD SONG.

I pray as men have prayed since earth WIS
young,
In varied voice or speech, prayer of pain,
sing-ah mel the song is ever sung,
And evermore as now, in vain, in vain
-Tis oh, to be little child once more
little, lowly child. dear God, pray,
would give all my life has yet in store
Could retrace my childhood's rosy way
Oh cruel questioning eyes, SO keen and bright
oh, cruel, all revealing MONDAY SUM-
How can choose but shudder at the light,
When have only wrecks 10 gaze upon
Oh. for the long shadows Of the morn
CThe sun shone only on high places them
To veil me or from pity or from scocn-
Would God were a sinless child again.
How can l choose but mourn my lost estate
OF high emprise and white untroubled trust
The palace of my dreams made desolate.
My king uncrowned, my treasures turned to
dust
Oh, tell me not that life has much in store
Can it give back what once cast away?
But oh, to be little child once morei-
little, lowly child, dear God, pray.
Katharine E Conway.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
A TeFrapin Farm.

Of late years a number of terrapin
farms have been started along the Chesa-
peake. The biggest farm is on the Patux-
ent river, and it consists of large salt
water lake, which could accommodate
thousands of terrapin if they would
breed as rapidly as is desired. The
farmer has surrounded this lake with
board fences to keep out the muskrats
and foxes, which are the terrapin's enc
mics. He has made hatcheries of boxes
partly filed with sand, and so arranged
that when the females enter them they
cannot get out until they are taken out.
He has nurseries for young terrapin, and
he keeps the little ones in here until they
are ten months old, in order to preserve
them from their fathers. G. Car
penter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
The FIy Had the Nerve.

Allan Forman, the publisher of The
New York Journalist, went out one day
not long ago to take lunch with friend.
This friend had glass eye, calamity
Mr.. Forman knew nothing about. When
they had finished their meal they walked
up to the cashiers desk to settle. As the
gentleman was paying the checks the
newspaper man noticed fly calmly,
cooaly and deliberately walking across
the ball of his friends eye. That indi-
vidual seemed not in the least disturbed,
and when Forman spoke to him about it
he said, "Oh, that's nothing" Forman,
naturally astonished, said in reply,
"Wen, by gracious, you must have
nerve" "Oh, no" answered his friend,
''it's the fly that has the nerve. ."-Arkan-
saw Traveller.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
burrows on the Finger Nails.

Nearly twenty years ago Dr. Willzs di-
rected attention to the curious fact that
a transverse furrow always appears on
the nails after serious illness. Medical
men ignored what they called the vision
ary opinions of Mr.. Wilks, giving the
matter but little attention in their med
ical works. Recently a new interest in
the subject has been revived and patho-
logical societies have begun an investi-
cation. One remarkable case shows nail
furrows caused by three days seasick-
ness.-Herald of Health.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Resistance of the Air to a Ioonmotip,

Experiments on the French railways
show that the resistance Of the atmos-
phere to the motion Of highspeed trains
amounts often to half the total resistance.
Two engines, of which the resistance
was measured separately and found to
be 1913 pounds per ton at thirty-seven
miles per hour, were coupled together
and again tried. The resistance fell to
14.3 pounds per ton. The second engine
was masked by the first. It may be ar
gued from this that by suitable adap-
tation of the front of locomotive, cleo
trical or otherwise, a saving of from 8 to
10 per cent. of the effective power could
be made.-Electrical Review.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Every morning is a new mercy.

Every morning is new mercy.
All is not gained that is gathered.
None but the vicious, ,deride virtue
A covetous person is always in want.
Anger restrained is conquest gained.
Passion leaves us weaker than it finds
us.
Virtue has many preachers, few mar
tyrs-
Rather follow the wise than lead the
foolish.
Bad is the condition that loathes ad-
monition.
Desire rather to be innocent than to
appear SO.
None are more rich than those who
are content.
1t is difficult to get the best of those
who love us.
Sin may be clasped so close we can
not see its face.
Diffidence and caution are preserva-
tives from error.
One of the sublimest things in the
world is plain truth.
Persons often lack courage to appear
as good as they really are.
Experience keeps dear school, but
fools will learn in no other.
Reason bears disgrace, courage COM
bats it, patience surmounts it.
Our virtues live upon our income;
and our vices consume our capital. ..
1t is easy to assume habit, but when
you try to cast it off it will take skin and
all
Sensuality not only debases body and
mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleas
ure.
OF perpetual mourning there is none;
no clouds remain fixed. The sun will
shine to- morrow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
NIacauIay's Memory.

1t is well known that Macaulay's mem
ory was prodigious. He could pass from
the minutest dates of English history or
biography to discussion of the compar-
ative merits of different ancient orators,
and repeat whole strophes from the
Greek dramatists. He could rehearse
every word OF every article he had writ
ten without prompting. - New York
Ledger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
VICKs FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1891.

No lover of fine plant or garden can
afford to be without copy. 1t is an ele-
CANT book of over 200 pages, 81 1015
inches, beautiful colored illustrations of
Sunrise Amaranthus, Hydrangea and
Potatoes. Instructions for planting, cul-
tivating, etc. Full list of everything that
can be desired in the way of Vegetable
and Flower Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, etc.
Also full particulars regarding the cash
prizes of 81 600 and $500. The novelties
have been tested and found worthy of
cultivation. We hope it will be our good
luck to see the Nellie Lewis Carnation
and taste the Grand Rapids Lettuce. 1t
costs nothing because the 10 cents you
send for it can be deducted from the first
order forwarded. We advise our friends
to secure copy of James Wick, Seeds
man, Rochester, n. Y.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Queer Remedies.

For cramps a ring is frequently worn
upon the finger, but to possess the re-
quisite virtue it is necessary that the
ring should be made of some metal taken
by stealth, without discovery. The great
Boyle recommended for certain diseases
"a little bag hung about the neck, con-
tanning the powder made of live toad
burnt in new pot. ot."-London Tt-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

If the foot of fly is put under the
glass of good microscope it may be
seen how simple is the contrivance that
seems able to defy the laws of gravita-
ton. The foot is made up of two pads,
covered with fine short hairs, with a
pair OF curved hooks above them. Be-
hind each pad is a tiny bag filled with
clear, liquid gum, the hairs also being
hollow and filed with the same sticky
fluid.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
The Latin Union.

The Latin union is sort of monetary
league, composed of France, Italy, Bel
GUM, Switzerland and Greece. These
countries, under this agreement, make
coins of the same weight and fineness,
and those of each country circulate in
all the others.-St. Louis Globe Demo-
craf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

Theodore Weld, famous as an anti
slavery lecturer, is sS years old. but re-
markably vigorous for one of his age
Mr.. Weld closely resembles the poet
Bryant in looks, although Mr.. Yields
eyes are always uplifted, while in the
portraits of the poet the eyes are down.
cast
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

The late President Grant once spoke
of our western Cordilleras as the strong
box" of the nation. He realized the fact
which many people are slow to recog-
nize, that the larger part of our re-
sources is west OF the Mississippi.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

During the reign of George III his
royal highness the Duke of York had a
duel with Col. Lennox, and the worthy
colonel succeeded in shooting away one
of the dukes curls. Hence it became
the correct thing to wear curl on one
side of the temple only.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

Inquiring Boy Cooking up from a book
What does paying the piper" mean?
Worried Father (absentlyeTell him
to call next week.
81 said the piper pa"
"Well, if it's plumber, he needn't
call for month. Good News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

In applying stimulants to the head a
fair amount should first be used, anC
then the quantity increased gradually
but never carried to such an extent thai
they are used indiscriminately and re.
gardless of consequences.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

The waltz had its beginning in Ger
many, and thence was taken to France,
shortly after which it was introduced
into England. Hungary was the birth
place of the galopade or galop, and from
Poland came the stately polonaise or
polacca and mazourka.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

The little two storied house at Ansolo,
Italy, where Robert Browning and his
sister lived when the poets last book,
"Asolando," was written, has been
marked with white marble slab bear
ing a suitable inscription.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

The accumulation of electricity gen
Grated by the friction of belts in an en-
gine room is often matter of consider
able annoyance. A little steam escaping
under the belts is suggested as a remedy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
Exercising nne Cantinn.

''Haye you made up the list for your
reception YETI
Eyes, but l haven't revised it since the
panic. must consult Bradstreet's be
fore sending out the cards" s."-Harper's
Bazar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

MUCH misconstruction and bitterness
are spared to him who thinks naturally
upon what he owes to others, rather than
what he ought to expect from them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

In conversation use some, but not too
much ceremony; it teaches others to be
courteous too. Demeanors are common
ly paid back in their own coin.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

LIFE is beset with obstacles, and it is
the duty of every man to leap over them;
they may be difficult to surmount, but a
firm resolve will remove every obstacle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

MENTAL pleasures never cloy; unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved of by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

TRUTHFULNEss is a cornerstone in
character; and if it be not firmly laid in
youth, there will ever be weak spot in
the foundation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

We derive from nature no fault that
may not become virtue, and no virtue
that may not degenerate into a fault
Faults of the latter kind are the most
difficult to cure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

To embrace the whole universe with
love sounds beautiful; but we must be-
gin with the individual, the nearest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

TRIPLES discover a character more
than actions of Importance. In regard
to the former, person is off his guard,
and thinks it not material to use dis
guise.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

MEN want restraining as well as
propelling power. The good ship is pro-
vided with anchors as well as sails.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

TRUE glory consists in doing what
deserves to be written, in writing what
deserves to be read, and in so living as
to make the world happier and better
for our living in it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

VENTURE not to the utmost bounds
of even lawful pleasure. The limits of
good and evil join.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

SIN and misery are not lovers, but they
go hand in hand just as if they were.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

THERE is no folly of which a man who
is not fool cannot get rid of except
vanity; of this nothing cures man ex-
perience of bad consequences, if indeed
anything can cure it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

THERE are no worse evils than sad
ness and melancholy, because they re-
reject the cure of every other evil. Sad
ness is malady that unhinges the spirit,
contracts the heart, and brings down the
power of the soul into the caverns of
self-love, where their light is obscured
and their virtues buried in a sensuous
slime.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

THERE is no possible excuse for a
guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive
people will sometimes falsify thought
lessly, but equivocatiOn is malice pre-
penSe
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

To most persons it is less dangerous
to do them hurt than to do them too
much good.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

THE calm or agitation of our temper
does not depend so much on the import
ant events of life, as an agreeable or dis
agreeable adjustment of little things
which happen every day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-26

ARGUMENT may be overcome by
stronger argument, and force by greater
force; but truth and force have no rela-
tion-nothing in common, nothing by
which the one can act upon the other.
They dwell apart, and will continue to
do SO till the end of time.
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DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE
Time Card IN Effect June Is. 1890.
ROUTE.

At Pittsburgh connections made in Union
Station with thrOughstrains 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 an
points In the West, Northwest and Southwest
For further information call on or address near
est Ticket agent. E A FORD,
JUS WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent.
General Manager. Pittsburgh, Pa