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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
The Fair Ophelia.

81 thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet
maid,
And not have strewed thy grave"
The Danish queen was not an exem-
plary wife, but was doubtless sincere in
her grief at Ophelia's death. In every
land we see the pnrest and sweetest of
Ewes daughters gathered to early graves.
A perfectly reliable cure for female
complaints, is DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, a medicine beyond all
praise, which has saved many young
life threatened by the insidious approach
of disease. For chronic female derange-
ments, weak back, lassitude, nervousness
and poor appetite, it is without an equal;
a generous tonic, safe nervine, purely
vegetable, and warranted to give salts
faction, or the price (Sl.0O refunded.
This guarantee is always adhered to.
OF druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming 30 well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song Of
proise. A purer medicine does not exist
and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Elestric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the liver and kidneys, will
remove pimples, bOils, salt rheum and
other affections caused by impure blood.
Will drive malaria from the system and
prevent as well as cure all malarial
fevers. For cure of headache, constipa-
tion and indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Price SOC and 81 per bottle at Patterson
& Sons drug store. 5
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
A Tree That Furnishes Real Lace

The lacebark tree grows in the West
Indies. 1t is a lofty tree, with ovate,
entire, smooth leaves and white flowers.
1t is remarkable for the tenacity of its
| inner bark and the readiness with which
the inner bark may be separated-after
maceration in water-into layers re-
sembling lace. A governor of Jamaica
is said to have presented to Charles II a
cravat, frill and ruf1es made of it,
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
PUBLIC OPINION.

THE UNITED STATES AND HAWAII.
New York Press.
Dispatches from Washington publish
ed in the Press indicate that the project
of the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States is being thoroughly dis
cussed in Congressional circles. There
is already a powerful sentiment in
Hawaii in favor of American annexa-
ton. Intelligent residents of the little
Pacigc kingdom know that it is only a
question of few years at most when
some great power will take possession of
their island; and they naturally prefer
the protection of the United States to
that of any European government. The
situation of Hawaii and its commercial
connections with this country constitute
strong arguments for its annexation
Certainly the United States can not
consistently with its own interests, allow
England or any other European nation
to grasp these islands.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
Strange Foster Mother.

A dispatch to the Indianapolis Neacs
relates that J. C. st. John, of Green's
burgh, Ind, is the owner of dog of the
terrier species, which has voluntarily
taken upon himself the task of rearing
four motherless chicks. The deg is
their constant attendant, and when
harm seems to threaten he rushes fran
tically to the rescue, bristling for fight,
and the chicks huddle about him SEEM
ingly in perfect confidence of his ability
to protect them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

Nothing better illustrates the dullness
of society in the Middle Ages than the
custom used by all high placed and
wealthy persons of keeping profes-
sional jester, nor was it confined to
Christendom, for we read that Cortez
found an individual of this profession
at the court of Montezuma. Our mod
ern clowns, though very different from
the licensed testers of old, owe to them,
of course, their origin; but, so far as i
know, the female jester. who was in
vogue before the male. has no present
representative.
We are told by Erasmus that in all
the great inns on the Continent there
was in his time female official of
this description, who enlivened the COM
pany as she waited at table by witt
cisms and repartee. 1t should be added,
however, that she was generally young
and pretty. So late as 1858, we read in
Mrs. Hornby's ''Travels" that she found
a female jester at Constantinople, who
was exceedingly amusing.-London Il
lustrated News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
BRIEF AND STRIKINGST0
Some are Funny and Some are Not.

HOW THEY CARRY THEIR MONEY.
New York Press.
~ can tell you the business of six
men out of every ten who come in here,
and the social standing of all of them,
from the way they carry their money"
said Broadway ticket seller fol- one OF
Sound steamboat lines to Press report
er recently.
"Did you ever think how much of a
persons individuality is expressed in his
method of carrying his money? see
people every day get at their change and
have made study of it."
"That man." said the seller as an old
gentleman who had purchased paste
board good for a trip to Boston went out,
sis retired banker. Did you notice
that he carried his money in long mo-
rocco pocket-book? That pocket-book
Is carried in the inside pocket Of his
coat, on the right side. 1t contains a
number of bright, clean bills, all neatly
smoothed and laid out at full length and
right side up. He never folds a bill, l
will venture cigar.
"The young broker or wholesale mer-
chant carries his money in small case
made of seal or lizard skin. He folds the
bills twice. His roll is never large, but
he has enough on hand to meet any
emergency.
1.-The clubmen invariably carry roll
of clean five-dollar bills in their vest
pocket, where they can be easily reached.
Some carry only gold. James Brown
Potter favors gold, and usually carries
few quarter eagles in a small silver
case, into which the coins fit without
rattling. Lispenard Stewart usually has
a roll of new bills in his vest pocket.
"The man who comes in and fishes
from deep trousers pocket lot Of one,
two and FIVE dollar bills that have been
twisted up like gun wadding l always
set down as sporting gent OF the Gut
tenburg type.
"The farmer on an excursion to 'Bos-
ting counts out the price of ticket IN
quarters and halves from a tan cOlored
leather pouch that is tied up with a
string run through small slits near the
top. The seafaring man on his way to
his home on the Maine coast carries the
proceeds of his last trip in a calfskin
wallet. 1t has been handed down from
his father. or perhaps his grandfather,
for it is black and shiny with age. 1t
has long strap passed through num-
| Der of cross straps. The cross sections
seldom have more in them than tobacco
dust or frayed tax receipt that shows
he owns home. But in the center of
the wallet is place where bills may be
laid out straight and covered with a
calfskin flap from either side.
"The man who carries change in his
coat pockets has been car conductor
at some time or other The fellow who
! draws ten cent pieces from every pock-
ct in his clothes is a peanut man or ven
der of small wares.
"The women, toe, have a variety of
ways to carry their money, though their
lack of pockets limits their vagaries in
that direction. The young woman with
fluffy hair, who has the price of her tick
ct rolled tightly in her palm, has mys-
terious storage place for money some
where. When she is not spending it
she puts it where no man will ever go
after it, but the place is accessible to her
slim fingers in a second"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
It Should be in Every House.

]. B. Wilson, 81 Clay ST., Sharpsbnrg,
Pa, says he will not be without DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption.
coughs and colds; that it cured his wife
who was threatened with pneuminia af-
ter an attack of la grippe, when various
other remedies and several physicians
had done her no good. Robert Barber.
of Cooksport, Pa, claims DIR. Kings
New Discovery has done him more good
than anything he ever used for lung
trouble; nothing like it; try it; trial bot
ties free at Pattersons'. Large bottles
soc and 81. )
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

ance of the dome's interior, are abso-
lutly black, showing in strong contrast
with the white walls below.
How to clean the dome has been a
puzzle that every official about the build
ing, including the judges of the court,
have endeavored to solve. The County
Commissioners suggested scaffolding,
but the cost would run up to 5000, and
that was considered too much for SIM
pie cleaning of windows, and couple
of coats of whitewash on the dome.
Block and tackle and other schemes
have been suggested, but all were dis
carded as impracticable but one.
That one is an idea of the wardeh's,
which may be put into execution unless
better one is presented. He proposes
to send man up in hot-air balloon to
do the work. He figures that canvas
bag ten feet high and about five feet
wide would support a man in perfect
safety if filled with hot air, and he pro-
poses to keep up the supply OF air by
building a big fire on the fagstone pave
ment under the dome. A volunteer
from among the prisoners will be called
for. He will be attached to the balloon
seated on a chair, and provided with a
mop or whitewash brush as the work to
be done may require. The balloon can
not get away, and rope will connect 1t
to the floor so that it can be pulled down
at will.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
The Poets SoliIoouy.

kiss rhymes to 'b iss," in fact as well as verse;
And ''ill with "pill," and ''worse' with "hearse;"
In fact and verse. We find "comnlete recovery"
For driving out scrofulous and all
other taints of the blood, fortifying the
constitution against lung -scrofuta, or
consumption, for strengthening the di-
gestive organs and invigorating the
entire system by sending streams of
pure blood through all the veins-there
is nothing equal to DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t is the only guar
anteed blood, liver and lung remedy
sold.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
To Mothers in This Town.

The remarkable children's worm med
icine called Mother Gray's Sweet Worm
Powders, is the receipt used by Mother
Gray, for years nurse in the Children's
Home in New York. These powders
are now sold at all drug stores, and
mothers everywhere use and praise them.
If your child is fretful and sickly,
worms often cause it. Ask for this
remedy. Harmless as milk. Destroys
worms and gives new life to the child.
Price 25c. 3-24-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

/ SUFFERED from acute Inflammation
in my nose and head-for a week at
time l could not see. 1 used Ely's
Cream Balm and in a few days was
cured. 1t is wonderful how quick it
helped me.-Mrs. George S. Judson,
Hartford, Conn.--Being sufferer
from chronic catarrh, and having derived
great benefit from the use of Ely's Cream
Balm, can highly recommend it. Its
sales are far in excess of all other
catarrh remedies.-B. Franken, Drug
gist, Sigourney, Iowa. 5-19-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

THE medical profession disguises from
the public the fact of the prevalence of
kidney troubles, because of theirinability
to provide their patients with a success
full treatment. The most noted physician
speaks plainly. H. c. Mccormick, M.
D., Phi. G., of Penn Argyle, Pa, writes,
with 80 years experience L find DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root by far the most
successful kidney, liver and bladder spe-
cifc ever used in my practice. 1t has
cured hundreds of the worst cases for
me-" Sold by druggists. l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

ALEXANDER army knew no defeat.
The same is true of DIR. Fenner's Golden
Relief; it is warranted to relieve tooth
ache, headache, neuralgia, or any other
pain in 2 to 8 minutes; also bruises, burns,
wounds, wire-cuts, swellings, bites, sum-
mer complaints, collie, (alsO in hOrses)
diarrhea, dysentery and fux.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

STEAM navigation was once looked
upon with doubt; so was the power of DIR.
Fenner's Cough Honey to relieve any
cough in hour, until thousands of trials
demonstrated the fact Gives energy
and strength; money refunded if salts
faction not given.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
THROWING STONES IN CoREo.

The Galignani Messenger.
The Corean correspondent of a Japan
paper gives an account of curious pop
ular practice in Corea. Kite flying,
which is universal in that country, ceas-
es suddenly on the 18th of the first Co.
rean month, and the next day stone
fights take its place as the chief public
amusement. In the eastern part OF
Seoul, the capital, there are open spaces
that have not been built upon, and here
occur the most serious and interesting
fights.
One section of the city is pitted against
another, but any one can take hand on
either side at pleasure. There are no
recognized leaders, but the mass of
fighters readily follow tie lead of any
one who shows himself to be little
more reckless than the rest. Two mObs,
consisting of fifty, seventy or hundred
men each, are drawn up against other,
with an interval of perhaps fifty yards
between them. There is an incessant
shower of stones, and each mans busi-
ness is to hit as many men as he can,
and especially to avoid all stones direct
ed at him. From ten to twenty men on
each side are armed with stout clubs,
and wear thick wadded helmets. These
form the skirmishing line. They sally
out from their respective sides, and,
meeting in mid career, strike out vicious
ly at each others heads, each man hold
ing up his cloak with his left hand as a
shield to ward off the blows of his ad-
versary. After the club-fght has lasted
about thirty seconds and one or the 9TH
er begins to give way, invariably the
other side breaks and runs, and some
times are chased into their houses, but
generally some of the pursuing party
press too closely upon the fugitives.
Then the latter suddenly turn and deal
few staggering blows, which check the
pursuers, and in second the tables are
turned, and those who moment ago
were flushed with victory are now in full
flight with their enemies.
Thus the battle goes back and forth
across the fields, while the neighboring
embankments are crowded with specta-
tors. The effect of the laundering cheers
upon the combatants is marvellous.
They charge upon each other as if in
actual battle, and show what would be
bravery if exerted in some useful cause.
Near the river are numerous villages,
numbering from 100 to 500 houses each.
they are situated along the banks at in
tervals of about half mile. These keep
up continual series of fights among
themselves during the season, one village
being arrayed against another. The
defeated party fly across the marshy
fields to their own village, followed by
their enemies, who enter after them,
seizing anything on which they can lay
their hands iron, files, doors--to mark
their victory. Then the whole village
rises against the invaders, and they fly,
glad if they can get back without broken
heads. The first stone fight of the pres
ent season was rather more disastrous
than usual. 1t is reported that six men
were killed, but this is probably an ex
aggeration. A company of soldiers was
ordered out to stop it, which they found
some difficulty in doing, even with fixed
bayonets.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
Tariff Pictures.

New York Press.
The prices of American gloves have
not risen under the Mckinley tariff law,
but the wages of the glovemakers have
risen. For example, glove cutters who
got 81 per day in 1890 now get 1925
per day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
COrns and all Skin EruptiOns, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, % cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

HAVE not used all of one bottle yet
/ suffered from catarrh for twelve years,
experiencing the nauseating dropping
in the throat peculiar to that disease,
and nose bleed almost daily. l tried
various remedies without benefit until
last April, when L saw Ely's Cream
Balm advertised in the Boston Budget,
l procured bottle, and since the first
days use have had no more bleeding
the soreness is entirely gone.-D. G..
Davidson, with the Boston Budget,
formerly with Boston Journal. 5-52t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

Under the Mckinley tariff the United
States, for the first time in its history,
is selling more iron and steel manu-
factures than it buys. For eight months
of 1892 we imported these manu-
tactures to the value of S16,329, ,207.
During the same time we exported these
products to the value of S20.463, 764.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

For headaches, biliousness, constipa
ton, dizziness, sleeplessness. the blues.
scrOfula, the blood and all skin eruptions
DIR. Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and
Nerve Tonic never fails: warranted to sat
lsfy or money refunded; could this be af-
forded if the Remedy wasn't certain?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

THE costliest dinner set ever made was
by Tiffany. Mr.. Mackay brought from
his mines $4,000 worth of bullion and
this the jewellers made up into service
asking $4,000 for the work, making the
cost in all $4,000, and no sovereign in
Europe eats from such gorgeous plate
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
THE CASTLE THAT PATTI BUILT.

THE CASTLE THAT PATTI BULL.
The house in which Patti lives is one
of the most interesting homes. Craig
y-Nos Castle" as the songstress has
christened it, is hidden away In the wild
hills of the Swansea valley of Wales,
writes Florence Wilson in Ladies' Home
Journal. 1t would be one of the most
inaccessible spots imaginable were it not
for little railway which runs within
four miles of it. In pleasant weather
it would be difficult to ind prettier bit
of landscape, but in wet and wintry
weather, when storms sweep through
the valley and transform the tumbling
Tawy river into foaming torrent, it is
good place to keep away from.
PATHS reason for choosing home
there was a good one. The peculiarly
moist atmosphere of the place suited her
voice better than any other locality she
could find on the English side of Dover
Straits. Having once determined where
she would live, Patti began to buiid a
home consistent with her ample ideas of
comfort and luxury. The most remark
able thing about Craig g-yNos" is that
such an establishment is to be found in
such remote part of the country. 1t
is very much as though Jay Gould had
built his Irvington palace in the heart of
the Adirondacks, instead of the slope of
the Hudson river. In point of architect
ural beauty or extent of acreage it would
be absurd to compare "Craig y-Nos''
with any of the great ancestral estates
of the English aristocracy. The castle
takes its name from huge, ilLshaped
hill called "Craig- of-the-Night." To
get around this hill and make her house
moderately accessible from the railway
station, Patti spent $4,000 in building
roadway.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

THE oldest pair IF matched horses in
Connecticut belong to Eli Wakelee, of
Ansonia. They are 81 and 80 years old,
and have been owned and used by him
almost daily for IL years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19
Another Plan.

Aged Admirer-Think of all the lux
uries rich husband like Inc could give
you.
Miss De Young-Oh, a rich father
would do just as well. Marry my moth
er-New York Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

IT is said that some of the Venetians
those who have never been to the
mainland have never seen horse in
all their lives. A Snowman once brought
one to fair and called it monster,
and the factory hands paid Is cents each
to see the marvellous -.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

AT New 1Ofk-.-.... % 10 10 -. / IS -.
-Trans ruin daily. tDally except Sunday. tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 4 30 D m daily
except Sunday; Newark 10 pm; arrive zanesville
55 m, Cambridge 50 m.
Columbus & Sandusky Accom-. leaves Columbus
"a 20 a m; arrives Sandusky IL 30 IN.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
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.
For further information call on B. s. o. ticket
agents, or address o. p. MeCarty, Asst Gen Pass.
Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; L. S. Allen, Asst Gen.
Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.
ROBT. b. CAMPBELL, C. o. SCULL,
Gen Sup't. Gen'1 Pass Agent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

A MERCHANT of Yazoo City, Miss,
has a young turtle with two distinct
heads and necks. 1t is covered by one
shell and has only one set of legs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

THE microscopists say that mosquito
has % ''teeth" in the end of its bill-11
above and the same number below.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

YOUNG MEN-Who have become victims of soli-
tary vice, that dreadful and destructive habit,
which annually sweeps to untimely grave thous-
ands Of young men of exalted talent and brilliant
intellect, may call with confidence.
DRS. FRANCE AND 0TTMAh, after years Of ex-
perience, have discovered the greatest cure known
for weakness in the back and limbs involuntary dis
charges, impotency, general debility, nervousness,
languor, confusion Of IDEAS papitaton of the heart
tmidiiy. trembling dimuess Of sight, or giddiness.
diseases Of the head, throat, nose, skin. affec
tions Of the liver lungs. stomach, or bowels-those
terrible disorders arising from the solitary vice Of
youth-and secret practices. bhghting their most
radiant hopes or snticipations, rendering marriage
impossible Take candid thought before il is too
late. A week or month may place your case beyond
the reach Of hope. Our method Of treatment will
speedily and permanently cure the most obstinate
case, and absolutely restore perfect manhood.
TO Ml00lE-AGE0 MEN-Thcre many from
the age of 80 to 60 who troubled with frequent
excavations Of the bladder, often accompanied by
slight burning smarting sensation, weak ening the
system IN manner the patient cannot account for.
On examination of the urinary deposits, a ropy
sediment will be found, the color viii be thin or
mikish hue. There arc many men who die Of this
difficulty, ignorant Of the cause, which is q second
stage Of seminal weakness We will guarantee a
perfect in all such cases, and a healthy
restoration Of the genito-urinary organs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

Miss MARY ANDERSON declares that
nothing would induce her to return to
the stage. She leads a quiet, hOmely
kind of life in the pretty house near
Tunbridge Wells, bought by her husband
Mr.. Navarro, shortly after their mar
riage.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

THERE is man living at Liberty,
Ind, who eats newspapers as regular
diet, so it is said
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

RooTs of the onion penetrate the
earth to a depth of from to 6 feet
when conditions are favorable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-19

A VERY fine grain of sand will cover
from 300 to 500 pores in the human
skin.