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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04
The History of Tweeds.

had not been many weeks in Edin-
burgh before one of my friends in the
cloth trade wrote me from London in
quiring about a "coarse wooden black
and white checked stuff, made in Scot
land and expected to be wanted for
trousers, and asked me to send some
patterns. of it. This was easier asked
than performed, for at that period shep-
herds checks were only made in plaids,
or mauds with borders and fringes. /,
however, contrived to cut small piece
from the seam Of my brothers cloak and
forwarded it. The postage in those days
cost %. 3d., as the small pattern consti-
tuted my note double letter
He replied that the article was just
what he wanted, and asked me to for
ward him half a dozen pieces, but at
that time do not believe there was one
piece in all Scotland! |, however, soon
got them made, and / believe these were
the first Scotch tweeds that were sent to
London in bulk. My friend was in a
position to introduce them ntoinfnential
quarters, which he did successfully. In
creased orders followed rapidly, and he
and the firm | am connected with had
almost monopoly Of the trade in Lon
don in these goods for a considerable
time.-Border Advertiser.
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Coffee in the East.

How long coffee was in use among
eastern nations before being introduced
into Europe is not known. Aljeziri AL
hambali, a noted Arabic author, states
that it was first made known about $40
Of the Hegira, and so quickly did coffee
houses and booths multiply throughout
Arabia that the government several
times made strenuous attempts to sup
press them, fearing they would lead the
people into idleness.
Notwithstanding these efforts, the ''cof-
fee habit" took such a firm hold on the
people that the beverage was made and
drank in secret. They even went long
distances into the desert and there pre-
pared the seductive concoction without
fear of molestation.
Some pious Mohammedans thought it
might be included among the intoxi-
eating beverages forbidden by the Koran,
but Alhambali, in an able pamphlet en-
titled 1.-The Support of Innocence"
proved that it was not in the prohibitory
section of that book. As consequence
the followers of the prophet once more
returned to the delights of coffee.-De-
troit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04
One wav of Giving Satisfaction.

Incledon, the once famous singer.
never fought duel, and he never in
tended to fight one. On one occasion
some remarks of his gave offense to IA
man with whom the singer happened to
fall in company, and the offended gen.
tleman resolved to have satisfaction for
his wrongs. Accordingly he hunted mp
Incledon the next afternoon, finding him
at dinner in a noted hotel. "Mr. Incl,,-
don," said the waiter, "a gentleman
wishes to see you, sir" ''Show him up,
them" said the singer. Sir" said the
visitor, entering the room in a towering
passion, ''you have been making free
with my name in very improper man
ner, and I've come to demand satisfac-
tionw After some parleying Incledon
rose, and, striking graceful attitude in
the center of the room, began to sing
'Black Eyed Susan" in his most delight
full style. When he had finished the
song he said coolly. There, sir, that
has given complete satisfaction to sew
eral thousand people, and if you want
anything more, I've only to say you're
the most unreasonable fellow | ever
met!"-San Francisco Argonaut.
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One Moman,s Bedtime Hours.

A lovely woman who was talking with
q friend one day about the enjoyments,
disappointments and heartaches Of child
hood, said: The sufferings l endured
when child were more acute than any
/ have known in later years, and the
pleasantest remembrsnces l have of
those far away times are of the bedtime
hours, when my mother sat by our beds
in that low rooted chamber and taught
us the songs she sung as a child, told
stories, some of which were of her child
hood, while others were conjured up in
her own head. Some of the sweetest
hymns and sacred stories learned then,
and there ever comes to me when close
my eyes faint picture Of my devoted
mother sitting there in the twilight.
think the only reason that the darkness
had no terrors for me was that it nearly
always came while she was with us. The
sound of her voice dispelled all fear; it
was associated with tenderest words,
sweetest lullabys, softest good nights. :"
Anna P. Payne in New England Home
stead.
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The Female Bogtrotter.

We are becoming a little surfeited
with these wild women rs globetrotters
and travellers. Their adventures, which
for the most part are fictions based on a
very small substratum of fact, have
ceased to impress, partly because We
have ceased to believe, and certainly
ceased to respect. Who wanted them to
run all these risks, supposing them to be
true? What good have they done by
their days of starvation and nights of
sleeplessness? their perils by land and
sea? their chances of being devoured by
wild beasts or stuck up by bushrangers?
taken by brigands or insulted by row.
dies of all nations?
They have contributed nothing to our
stock of knowledge, as Marianne North
has done. They have solved no ethno-
logical problem; brought to light no
new treasures of nature; discovered no
new field for British spades to till, no
new markets for British manufactures
to supply. They have done nothing but
lose their beauty, if they had any; for
what went ont fresh and comely comes
back haggard and weather beaten. 1t
was quite unnecessary. They have lost.
but the world has not gained; and that
doctors bill will make hole in the pub
lisher's check.-Mrs. Lynn Linton in
Nineteenth Century.
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LITTLE JOHNNIE, on seeing skelet II
for the first time, exclaimed. "Wh .
but they skinned her mighty close,
didn't theyl She looks worse than Aunt
Jane did, before ma gave her that bottle
of 'Favorite Prescription Aunt
Jane" was so completely worn out, by
prolapsus, periodical difficulties and
nervous prostration, that she was con-
slant sufferer, night and day. but DIR.
Pierces Favorite Prescription acted so
promptly and fayorably upon the uterus
and other organs, that she suffered no
pain at any time, and her general health
was never better As a remedy for all
female weaknesses, as a strength giving
tonic and quieting nervine, "Favorite
Prescription" is unequaled. Guaranteed
TO give satisfaction or price (sl,Q0) re-
funded,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04

THERE are things that could never
grow familiar. Daybreak is one. There
is always a mystery about it. 1t is like
coming to life again after death. You
have been away, you don't know where,
and you came back to the world; and
when you find it as it is now-belonging
almost to yourself, all the other people
as good as out of tit is very strange.
Be not afraid of becoming too familiar
with beautiful things.
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GRAINS OF GOLD.

1t don't take bit of heroism to be a
grumbler
Life is thrown away when it is not a
life of love.
If cur eyes were better the stars could
give us more light.
The only way to make people happy is
to first make them good.
Love is especially blind when a man
is in love with himself.
Those who have will to learn find
the world full of teachers.
If work is growth, the world is full of
people who are very small.
The test of true manhood is what it is
willing to suffer fer others.
The deepest gulf known is that which
sin has made between man and God.
Death will be the funeral of all our
evils,and the resurrection of all our joys.
Death is like mighty angel, with one
foot standing on time, and another on
eternity.
Before the devil can make people
quarrelsome, he has to first make them
unhappy.
Whenever you pray for blessing see
TO it that you are on blessable ground
and you will get it.
The mountains are Gods thoughts
piled up, and the oceans are Gods
thoughts spread out.
The love that is right itself will not
spend much of its time in looking for
black spots on other people
1t is often easier for man to complete
a round of pleasure than it is for him
TO make things square afterward.
Most men look down on their neigh
bors from such height that if they
should fall it would break their necks.
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Art In Telling Lies.

Telling the truth is an art, but not
nearly 60 difficult an art as telling lies.
It is within reach of any mans power,
if he will take time and pains, to relate
the thing that is. 1t takes man of i'm
agination and strong memory to bring
forth the thing that is not Besides, the
liar cannot carry his lie all over the
world and back TO the creation; at some
point or other he must piece it ON to the
universal truth, and to do that neatly be
must be good workman, but this is
only part Of the greater question as to
vice and virtue generally. Virtue is for
all who love it; in order to become an
accomplished villain man must have
natural aptitude, careful training and
immense powers of application, and at
any time the william may be ruined, as a
villain, by the unexpected coming to
life Of conscience.-All the Year Round.
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CHURCII DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. R. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbatl
morning a1d evening; Sabbath school $50 a. m
young peoples society of Christian endeavor, Sun
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesda,
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
Ezra lingeley, pastor. Sabbath preaching, l.
l. m.; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nngs; Sabbath school 2:30 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited to all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN " CHURCH
Thomas B2lph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m
public worship, II a, m. weekly prayer meeting
day Of each month, p m; woman's missionar,
,ciety, last Saturday Of each month, p. m; dis
rict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. IN
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. n.
AFRICAN Me. .CHURCH-Re Albert Marel
pastor. Sunday service, 1880 a. IN; p. NJ; Sab
bath school, 2:30 p. m; weekly prayer meeting
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
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NOTES ABOUT WEATHER VANEs.
Carved Wooden yanes Went Ont with
Figureheads In Ships.


Figurehe2ds In Ships.
When the Pn@nician sailor stuck a
needle through the stem Of a feather and
held It out in the wind, he invented the
first weather vane, or feather rane. lie
was nearly ecualed by the Indian boy,
who was taught 10 moisten his finger in
his mouth and to hold; thgt finger aloft
in the air. When that finger grew cold
on a certain side the Indian child knew
that the wind came from that particular
direction. The Phencians, however.
were probably the first of all civilized
peoples TO put the vaIe of feather into
practical use.
have been used in every form and by all
races. Modern vanes in their present
shapes were first made of wood by
travelling carvers and later OF copper
by thinkers and smiths They were used
on poles, churches, public buildings,
ships and were placed on rocky points of
land along the seashore. They are now
made in every conceivable design and
pattern. Horses, cows, deer, eagles,
ships, roosters and even pigs are ham
mered out in copper and used to register
the direction of the wind.
The newer vanes have rain cups at
tached for catching water during a
storm The amount of water that falls
is measured by the square inch in tube
under the vane. Wind gauges also are
attached. These indicate the speed of
the wind. The gauges are small cups
hung sideways 10 the vane. The wind
blows them around in. a circle and the
revolutions are registered by electricity.
Nearly all the large weather vanes in
town are connected with dials in the
buildings below.
The dial is round, like the face of a
clock. lettered like compass, and re-
volving hand shows the action of the
wind on the vane overhead. Vanes are
no longer set in sockets, as it is nearly
impossible to keep them properly oiled.
They are hung loosely, like cap on a
pivot, and the hollow stem of the vane
hangs over the head of the pivot, cover
ing it from rain and rust
One OF tne largest NdueS tfel SeeH III
New York was placed on the postofice
about fifteen years ago. 1t was SO large
that it was considered unsafe and was
taken down. A good drawing of it is
still in existence. The arrow, scroll and
banneret seem to be the favorite shapes
in vanes at present The fence jumping
horse and the plow are yet found on the
grounds where country fairs are held,
but they are not in great demand. The
tobacco leaf vane is found largely in the
south and in Connecticut. The spread
eagle and running deer are wind signs
in the western states, the deer more par
ticularly in Canada. Malt barrels in
copper are placed on breweries through
out the country.-New York Recorder
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AFTER DEATH.

b this the couch where she lay yesternight
With awed, pais face, and 2eetirG, painful
breath,
And great. sweet e:es tha: would 40; shrink
from peeth7
h bis the pillow, soft rs down. and white,
0uwhich her dear face lay, turned from the
hght7
= I downward lean, and lol could almost
swear
feel the old, soft goodness of her hair!
Kind Heaveni II but for one dear time. might
Again press trembling lips upon her check
-H1r, slim, pale throat-her whittier brow
- her hair
Her tender eyes wherein the love-iight
'shone.
But once-but ouce-to hear tlssse sweet lips
speak!
should be glad that she is free from
But oh, this first and awful night alonel
Ella Higginson In Overland Monthly.
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Renzine Cleans Fnrs.

Nothing cleans soiled fur better than
benzine. Actresses immerse their wigs
in baths of this liquid with most excel
lent results. Buy the fluid at paint
store, where ten cents will fill quart
bottle, rather than at the druggists,
where the same amount will cost quar-
ter. Wash the fur until the benzine re-
mains clear; the first two or three rounds
will show fairly black. Be careful not
to throw the fluid into any receptacle
where by any chance lighted match
may follow.-New York Times.
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"An sure" said Patrick to his friend
Dinnis, 81 was near indade the day to
bein made prisint of Il most byootiful
harse, wild the coat of a duck, the grace
of a dancing inasther, and the spade of
an antilawpe."
.'Arrahi' said Dinnis. ''The loikes O.
you bein' near made prisint of a harse!"
Sure, an that l was, Dinnis, dear.
Twas by grain that missed him. 1t
was in chaise he was, and dhruv by a
foine gintleman of me acqua' 'ntance. He
stopped feminist the house of me i'm.
plyer the day.
"'It's fine harse ye hev thayre,' says l.
"'I behave ye're roight," says he.
"'Wud ye give him to mes' says l.
"Naw!' says he.
can begorra, if he'd said 'Yis. I'd n.
had him!'-Youth's Companion
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04
Silver Dollars e75 Miles High.

The treasury counts its silver by
weighing 1t, which is part of wisdom, il
view Of the fact that man, counting al
the rate of eco dollar pieces per minute
steadily for eight hours per day, Sun
days included, would be kept busy fol
considerably over eleven years.
Piled one upon the other, the 800, 600.
600 in the treasury would attain g
height of 67J miles, and placed side by
side they would carpet room so feet
wide and nearly "a miles long.-Dayid
A. Wells in Harper's Weekly.
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A Boarding school supper.

A teacher in large boarding school
for young ladies used to jest over pupil
whose appetite at table caused her neigh
bors serious alarm. 1t was the custom
to have hot raised biscuits twice week
for supper, and this girl, after eating six
one evening, gave her teacher and doctor
a very bad night indeed. Itnever seemed
to enter any3ody's head that hot yeast
biscuit was the food above all others to
cause morbid appetite and bilious at
tacks. Yet the supper of hot biscuits
and cheese with honey or preserves is one
Of the institutions of boarding schools,
and worse fa-s for growing girls it would
be hard to fua--Shlrley Dare's Letter
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A Man WIN Eat. GI,..

According to the Charleston World
the driver of a car on one of the street
railways of that city is confirmed glass
eater The driver, although a small,
spare mn, appears to enjoy perfect
health, and his glass diet, while it may
not be very nourishing, does not appear
to have been very hurtful up to the
present.
Every japanese workman is ticketed.
He bears on his cap and on his back
labels giving his name and business, as
well as his employers name.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04
sous Famous Echoes.

There is famous echo on the Rhine
between Coblentz and Bingen, which re-
peats word seventeen times, while in
the sepulcher of Metella, the wife OF
Sulla, in the Roman campagna there is
an echo which repeats five times in diff
ferent keys, and will also give back with
distinctness a hexameter line which re-
quires two and half seconds to utter.
Brewster mentions an echo on the north
dde of Shipley church, in Sussex, Eng
and, which repeats twenty-one syllables.
-Brooklyu EAGLE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04
An Old Rib of Wood.

In Galveston, in sinking an artesian
well, which is HOW 2,040 feet in depth,
gray and green clay, mixed with wood,
liAe concretiops and pebbles, were found
alta depth of /, $40 feet. The age of tie
wood is estimated at 100000 years by
Professor Singiey, and in the stratum,
which is 100 feet in thickness. he found
seeds resembling apple aud blackberry
seeds. .-Yapkee Blade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04

Bently composed after playing pre-
lude on the organ. or while taking his
"ante jentaculsr" or post prandial'
walks he found in the solitude of the
dense forests something more profound
and Suggestive than anything he could
find in hooks.
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The Dear Old soul.

Miss st. Cyr was talking to old Lady
Goldfoil about her heart affairs, and
during the course of her conversation
she said:
"Even your own son Harold, Mrs.
Goldfoil. was quondam lover of mine" T"
The old lady almost bounced out of
her chair, but laughed it off, and when
she had gone to her room she spoke to
her husband.
"Well," she said, Indignantly, ''there
may be some excuse for fashionable
young women talking about their vari-
ous sweethearts, but profanity is utterly
objectionable. Detroit Free Press.
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How Modern Greek. Vote.

In Greece at the present day the bal.
lot is a little lead ball. There is a box
for each candidate, divided into two
compartments. A clerk goes from box
to box with the voter, carrying bowl
full of these balls. At each box the voter
takes one, puts his hand into funnel,
out of sight, and drops his ball into the
yes or no compartment, making vote
for or against the candidate. If he
wishes to vote for more than one party
there is nothing to prevent him.-New
York Evening Sun.
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Her uubbv's Teachings.

Friend-Why do you get married GO
soon after fne death of your husband?
'sWidow-My dear, if there was any
one thing that my poor dead and gone
husband insisted upon, in season and
out, it was that 1 should never put of
till tomorrow what ! could do today
New York Weekly.
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How Niagara Was Formed.

Once upon time there was a beauti-
full Indian maiden who was compelled
by her family to engage herself to marry
hideous old man of her tribe. In her
desperation she leaped into canoe and
pushed it over the roaring breakers of
Niagara, preferring the angry waters to
the arms of her detested lover. But the
god of thunder, cloud and rain, who
watches over the harvest, dwelt in a
cave behind the roaring cataract. He
caught her just as her frail bark was
dashing upon the rocks below and gave
her home for many weeks in his own
mysterious cavern.
From him she learned many new
things, among them why her people
died SO often. He told her how an
enormous snake lay coiled up under the
ground beneath her village, and how he
crept out and poisoned the springs, be-
cause he craved the flesh of human be-
ings and could never get enough Of it SO
long as they died from natural causes.
The maiden remained in the cave until
her ugly old suitor was dead; then she
returned, and the god killed the serpent
with thunderbolt.
The great dead snake was so huge that
when the people laid Its body ont in
death it stretched over more than
twenty arrow flights, and as it foated
down the waters of the Niagara it was
as if mountain appeared above them.
Its corpse was too large to pass the
rocks, so it became wedged in between
them and the waters rose over it, thus
fashioning the horseshoe, which remains
| to this day w Washington Star.
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An Enigma tn Men.

Most men think that the ways of that
woman is past finding out who rails
against the male sex for chewing ten
cent plugs of tobacco and expcctorating
on the pavement, yet who goes herself
and deliberately wipes up that same
pavement with a twenty-five or fifty
Collar gown that her father or husband
earned by the sweat of his brow.-Al-
banY Sun.
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From Hotel Qellone.

Mr.. c. W. Reed, proprietor Of the Ho-
tel DellOne, Omaha, one of the finest
new and modern hotels in the west, says
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy; I'VE
have used it in our family for years with
the most satisfactory recult, especially
for our children, for coulds and Group 1t
can be depended upon; besides it is pleas
ant to take and seems to be free from
chlorOform and the oily substances put
into many cough mixtures" % cent, 30
cent and 81 bottles for sale by Patterson
& Sons. l-21-6t
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The Boy Who Discovered

The Boy Who Discovered the 'Saw BY
A few years ago a green country bo,
applied to the superintendent of west
ern railway for work, and, somewha
against the superintendent wish, on a.
count of the danger to life and limb ut
tendant upon such occupation, was give1
place as brakeman of freight train.
On one Of his first trips it happened
that his train met another freight trair
at station where the side track Wa.
not long enough to accommodate eithel
of them. The conductors were debatin.
which train should back up to a poin
where they could pass, when the new
hand ventured to suggest that neither
should back; that they could pass eacl
other by means of the short side track il
the thing was managed right.
The idea excited good deal of laugh
ter on the part Of the old trainmen, but
the boy stood his ground.
"Well, how would you go about it,
asked one of the conductors, confident
that the lad would soon find himself
against stump.
The boy took mp astick and traced il
the sand diagram to illustrate his plan
"Good graciousr' said the conductor
81 believe that twill do it!''
And it did do it. Today every train
man in America probably knows how Il
''saw by" two long trains on short sid,
track, but it is not SO generally known
that the thing was never done until an
inexperienced country boy, who is now
the manager Of a great railway line,
worked out the problem for himself
Washington Post.