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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

A ZOO POUND steer was recently skip
ped from Barnesville.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

PREPARATIONS are being made at the
Methodist church for the usual pleasant
exercises of Easter Sunday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

CRossLAND's Wall Paper 1894. s-22 If
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THOMAS CLEGe, grocer of Bellaire,
assigned last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

OLD HOMESTEAD Quartette, Saturday
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
IMPORTANT.

A Few Things Which You Cannot Afford
To Overlook.
New for us and you. We wish to in
form you that we have added to our Dry
Goods, Shoe and Carpet business CON-
piete line of
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
NOMINATIONS.
Strong Tickets Named by Republicans
The Other Sides Mem.

The Corporation Republican Conven.
tion which was held on Saturday night
WAS the largest for years, there being
near hundred votes cast. For Mayor
there were two candidates, Major w. 5.
Kennon, who was a candidate for re-
nomination, and E. E. Clevenger, Esq.
On the first ballot Major Kennon was
nominated with several votes to spare.
For Marshal Joseph J. Harper had con-
siderable of lead over Alex. Taylor.
For Treasurer, L. w. Matthews was NOM
mated without opposition. For Council
men there were a number of names pro-
posed, but several gentlemen declined to
be considered candidates, and on this
account the vote was somewhat scatter
ing. The following were declared the
nominees: E. c. Hartley, James Nc
MILAN and Samuel Boroff. For Sealer
of Weights and Measures Thomas Davis
was placed in nomination by acclamma-
tion. After instructing the resident
committeeman to fill any vacancies that
might occur the convention adjourned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THE Women's Foreign Missionary
Society will hold their annual thank
offering in the M. E. church next Sunday
evening. Mrs. J. NJ. Carr, Of Cambridge,
will be the speaker of the evening, and
an interesting program will be rendered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THE groundhog's six weeks are nearly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

THE spelling contest at Beech Hill,
Friday night, drew large crowd. Young
George Pogue, of near East Richland,
who took the honor two weeks ago, was
again victorious. The young man seems
to know the spelling book "by heart"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
Big DAMAGES

John Mallory has brought suit in
Common Pleas Court against John
Parker, the old man who was robbed
near Pleasant Grove, for 900 damages
for slander and malicious prosecution.
Mallory is son-in-law of Parker and
he was arrested in Cleveland at the in
stigation of Parker, but upon a hearing
was discharged, as mentioned in THE
CHRONICLE last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

A SUCCESSFUL revival is going on at
MorristOwn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

A cANNERY at Caldwell seems to be
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15


THE groundhog's six weeks are nearly
out.
OLD HOMESTEAD Quartette, Saturday
night.
a CANNERY at Caldwell seems to be
assured.
Fruit Trees J. X. SUTTON'S. 3t
WooDsFIELD proposes to have a board
of trade.
r. NJ Wilkins new house is progress
ing finely.
GAINESVILLE wants to put 5000 into
fire engine.
A SUCCESSFUL revival is going on at
MorristOwn.
THOMAS CLEGG, a grocer of Bellaire,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

BARNEsvILLE wants to put 5000 into
a fire engine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15

r. NJ. Wilkins new house is progress
inr finely.
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Fruit Trees-At J. X. SUTToN's. 81 3t
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

II witnessed an event on a street cal
the other day." said an up town grocer,
THAT amused me. If I had read of il
in q newspaper, I would have said it was
made up story, but in this case know
1t to be fact A small sized woman OF
perhaps so years, one Of the nervous, quick
spoken sort, coming into the city on the
Whitesboro line, paid her fare and asked
for transfer ticket The conductor po-
litely told her he could not give her any
transfer
Eyes, you can, too, and you've got to
1 insist upon it" she snapped out.
She was again informed that the con-
ductor had no transfer tickets, but she
was persistent, saying:
Yes, you have, too, and I'll report you
If you don't give me onep'
Of course she did not get any transfer
ticket, although she continued to demand
one for several minutes. Then she started
off on another tack. The car was near
Court street when she suddenly exclaimed,
well, I'll get off here
The conductor sounded the bell, the mo-
torman shut off the current and applied
the brake, but the track was wet and slip
perry and the car went several feet before
stopping Tho conductor waited for his
spit1re passenger to leave the Car, but she
didn't even leave the seat. Instead she
exclaimed, with flashing eyes:
Il said I'd get off back there, and
won't get off hercr'
The conductor smiled and gave the
starting signal, when up jumped the little
woman with, Yes, guess will get off
here, after all, " and as she left the car she
added, Say, 1 guess Pm little bit cross,
amt I?'
And everybody on tho car agreed that
she was right, for once in her life at least
Utica Observer
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
Chinese Learn From Foreigners.

China, so long the most stationary of
all countries, is decidedly marching on.
The Viccroy Ii Hung Changes Medical
school at Tientsin for the study of the
western arts and sciences of healing is al
ready in active operation, and it is stated
by Chinese paper that the army and
navy will in future depend upon 1t for
their supplies of medicines as well as for
tho appointment of efficient medical men
for both services.
The same authority states that the Chi
ncsc druggists are totally ignorant of med
ical chemistry All prescriptions are filled
with raw drugs, and the patients take the
medicine i'll decoctions. Chinese surgery
is based upon brass model representing
the structure and locality of internal
organs in the human body. The model
is vague and unfit to be used by students
of such an important subject Whereas,
says the writer, 1.-THE anatomical works Of
the west are written upon the exact knowl-
edge of the human body. There are 10
guessing works done in the west. Every
tissue of the body is infinitely described
and located. London News.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL HEAT.
Fluctuations In the Temperature of Each
Midday and Midnight Standards.


A bar of iron submerged in boiling wa
ter will be heated to about 212 degrees. If
both iron and water are placed where they
can cool, each will assume the temperature
of the surrounding air, whether 1t be 100
degrees above or 10 degrees below zero. In
this way the iron and water will give
proof of their inanimate, inorganic nature.
On the other hand, one of the principal
characteristics of all living things, from
MOSES to man, is that they maintain,
more or less constantly, standard tenn
perature of their own, regardless of the
surrounding changes, ThiR'tandard varies
remarkably in different Creatures, but in
many individuals any great departure
from their standard, up or down, brings
DEATH Beginning with lowly creatures,
we find that among the plants the con-
tanned heat usually averages from one
quarter to one-h half degree above that Of
their surroundings. In some plants, nota-
bly, the celia lily, Indian turnip and their
kind, the vegetable heat arises as high as
Is degrees above the surrounding air when
they are in bloom. In the animal king
dom we find the bodily temperature from
degree, or even less, above zero up to
about lis degrees in birds. Animals are
therefore divided into warm blooded"
and cold blooded." The former includes
man, all mammals and birds; tho latter,
fishes, reptiles, toads and frogs, tortoises
and all the great classes of insects, spi-
ders, mites and 1.-THE lesser creeping
things.
The warm blooded animals maintain
standard temperature; the cold blooded,
feeling cold to our touch, are usually some
what, not far, above the temperature of
their surroundings Thus there is regu-
lar progression up through plants, insects,
fishes and reptiles, the higher mammals
and man, to birds. Between cold blooded
creatures and man there appears a great
gulf, but in reality the alternating ami.
mails make excellent connecting links.
In man, whose temperature should not
be far from 90 degrees, there are several
sorts Of variations in temperature. AS the
cooling apparatus Of the body is mainly
located in the skin, the outer temperature
of the body is the lowest. A thermometer
held in the hand of healthy person regis
tiers 951a degrees, and at the tongue 90 de-
grees, and in the stomach 100 degrees or
over. There is also a periodic change, ami
NAL heat undergoing a regular ebb and
flow. At midday the standard will be
found at about 99I degrees, at midnight
about 9SI degrees.-Boston Globe.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
American War Methods.

1t is worth recalling that America ha.
three times had the honor of revolutioniz
ing tho art of war To American armie!
was due the introduction of the scout, OIL
open order system of fighting with all the
concomitants of skirmishers, rifle pits
etc. Foreign nations were slow to ADOPT
it, but it came at last and Is now univer
sal America, too, was the first to intro
duce the extensive use of the rife and OF
sights on naval guns Today the rifle i;
the universal arm of the infantry, and L
cannon without sights or means for accu
rate laying is as useless rs one without
powder.
The third revolution was the introduc
ton of the monitor, and here the honor
belongs to the individual rather than tt
the nation Despite all that may have
been said to the contrary, Captain Erics
sons traditional "cheesebox on a raft
was an entirely unique construction. The
idea had never been previously carried
into practice and certainly had never beer
put into successful form. The work OF
the monitor produced a revolution in ma
val ideas, of which the full extent has thus
far been only inadequately realized.-Cas
siers MAGAZINE
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
Was IT the Cat?

The supposed efficacy of black cat as q
lightning rod has been too frequently the
subject of discussion and assertion to be
treated at length at the present time. An
illustration of this popular belief can be
deduced from an incident that occurred to
the wife of a well known business man of
Washington.
The young matron had been expanding
considerable time and attention upon a
handsome black cat, which she continued
to stroke, Notwithstanding the assertion of
her family that by SO doing she was charg-
ing herself with electricity. Finally after
dark she decided that a pleasant way OF
winding up the evening would be to go
for a ride ON the electric cars to Bethesda.
Accordingly, inviting two of her friends
to accompany her, she set out for the ride
in high spirits.
The trio found places together near the
middle of the car and had gone short
space beyond the power house when their
conversation was interrupted by the con-
ductor hurriedly bending over them, as
though to avert some catastrophe from be-
meath, and telling them to leave the car
with all speed, as it was on fire. Scarcely
had they left their seats before q sheet OF
flame burst through the floor just undcr
the very spot over which the young ma
iron had been sitting, the electrical ap-
paratus beneath having igntted at that
very point. She declares she will never
stroke another cat.-Washington Post.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
THE BATH AFTER EXERCISE.
Unless It Is Taken at Once 1t Should Not
Be a Cold One.

Unless It Is Taken at Once It Should Not
Be Cold One.
The popular notion of the injurious eff
feet of a cold bath taken by one who Is
overheated from exercise must possess, as
all such ideas have some basis in expert
ence, and yet it is falsifled by the expert
ences of athletes from the days Off the
Greeks and Romans even until now, who
find in this procedure a refreshing and
stimulating tonic after the exertion they
have recently undergone. And, physio-
logically speaking, cold plunge or douche
taken Immediately after the physical eff
fort, when the skin is acting freely and
there is a sense of heat throughout the
body, is as rational as, in the experience
of the athlete 1t is beneficial. 1t is paral-
leled by the tonic effect produced by the
cold plunge when the skin is actively Sc
creting after Turkish bath and finds its
rationale doubtless in the stimulation OF
the nervous system, in the increase of in
ternal circulation and also in the renewal
of activity to the cutaneous circulation
after the momentary contraction of blood
vessels due to the cold.
The popular belief doubtless rests on
the injurious effects which may be in
duced by the bath in one who does not re-
sort to it Immediately, but allows time for
the effects of fatigue to show themselves
ON the muscles and nerves, and for the
surface of the body to get cool. Taken
then, the bath is more likely to deprcss
than to stimulate; there is less power Of
reaction and greater liability to internal
inflammations. At such a time warm
bath rather than a cold one is more suit
able and more safe.-London Lancet.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
MEN WHO PASS IN THE DAY.
Queer Requests They Make of q Stranger
With q Sense of the Ridiculous.

queer tseQuenuS 1hey MAKO OF q bCFAnBor
With q Sense of the Ridiculous.
"Queer town you have here, he said
to policeman at the Fort street entrance
of the city hall in the presence of a report
er.
II don't know about that, Z" replied the
officer as he looked the man over and i'm
agined he scented the odor Of whisky in
the air.
Queer town, very queer town." con-
tinued the stranger. II hadn't been
here half an hour when met a man car
rying big auger in his hand. He stopped
me and asked as favor that / let him
bore hole in me- refused him as deli
cately and as good naturally as 1 could,
but he got as mad as a wolf about it. I
always do man favor when can, but
I'll be hanged if 1 WANT an auger twisting
around in my vitals!''
The officer looked at him again and sniff
ed at the atmosphere some more, and the
stranger continued:
Met another man carrying big wad
of greenbacks in his hand and crying like
child. Said he was going to commit sui
eide and wanted me to take the money
and buy him tombstone. hated to re-
fuse him, but being a stranger here I
couldn't fool around with tombstones.
Tho Teller got mad and hauled off and
cracked me ON the jaw"
II never heard of such thingT' ex-
claimed the officer.
mo, probably not It's not your bust
ness to hear of such things. Queer town,
very queer town. Never struck such
queer town before. 1t wasn't half an hour
ago that met policeman who asked me
if 1 wouldn't take his place while he sat
down in doorway and cried. Said he'd
lost his mother and felt it his duty to weep.
wanted to oblige him, but had some
weeping to do myself, and he called me a
loafer and whacked me on the back.
What's the matter nowf"
You move on, commanded the officer
as he drew his club.
"That it-that's just what told you'll"
exclaimed the stranger You were prob
ably going to ask me to go over and draw
your salary and take trip to Europe, and
seeing what kind of man I am you get
mad and are ready to murder me in cold
blood. Queer town, queerest town ever
struck. I'll move on; of course I'll move
on. But I'll bet you 10 to the next man
meet will bat mo ON the ear because !
won't accept his gold watch or let him
hang big diamond around my neck. -
Detroit Free Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

I'm little backswoods town in Penn
sylvania, said drummer who was spin
ming yarns, ian exhibition day was being
held, and the class was going through its
sprouts. The teacher asked if any Of the
scholars could tell what state they were
in and promptly got tho answer, Penn
sylvania' Then she asked what was the
greatest city in the state, and the answer
came correctly, Philadelphia.
"Then she asked if any of the children
could tell what building there was in the
city of Philadelphia Immediately connect
ed with the history of this country, and at
the mention of the name of which every
patriotic Americans heart would leap
with pride, meaning, of course, Independ-
ence hall, she got no answer and the
class was stumped until finally a little
boy over In the corner raised his hand and
said he could tell. The teacher told him
to answer, and he said, Der mint. -
Boston Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
He Was Not Disappointed.

why was Adam the happicst man that
ever lived?" reared the gigantic clown to
the ringmaster i'll the faded dress suit as
the latter blew his inflamed nose in his
handkerchief
''Why was Adam the happiest man that
ever nved?" roared the latter in a voice
like tired foghorn.
Because he had no mother-in-law."
IT knew it," said the thin man in the
top row of the reserved seats as he allowed
his legs to hang down between the boards
IN order to get the kink out of them. Il
came to the circus expecting to hear that
joke, that moss grown gag, and 1 have not
been disappointed. It's 40 years since at
tended my first circus, and heard it then.
1 have heard it at every circus have since
attended, and 1 have never missed going
at least once year. Buffalo Enquirer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

Ono of NJ. Carnot's most amiable traits,
and one which he shared with Mr.. Glad
stone, was a habit of tipping" school
boys on almost every available occasion.
A friend of mine once saw him in the
waiting room of French railway station
carrying on an amusing conversation with
a small American boy, whom he had casu,
ally met there, who was minding his sis
ter's luggage. The boy, after the manner
of American youths, was charmingly can,
did in his remarks and informed NJ. le
President that he didn't care for French
men, adding, they want the earth," al
American colloquialism which convulsed
NJ. Carnot. When they parted, he patted
the boy on the head and gave him gold
coin, which young America accepted with
the remark that he guessed he'd go and
make himself miserable" thus giving the
president further food for merriment.-
London Figaro.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
Forgot and Remembered.

A celebrated Russian astronomer recent
" forgot successfully the events of the
previous day, then those of the previous
year and those of the years last passed, and
so on until at last he could only recollcct
the events of his childhood. His case was
considered hopeless, but by sudden stop
and unforeseen return the blank was filled
up in an inverted manner, the events of
his youth reappearing first, then those OF
his manhood, and finally the more recent
those of the previous day. At the time
of his death his memory was wholly re-
stored.-New York Mail and Express.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
A Household Treasure.

ID. w. Fuller, of Canajoharie, n. Y, says that
he always keeps DR.. Kings New Discovery in
the house and bis family has always found the
very best results follow its use !; that he would
not be without it, if prOcurable. G. A. Dyke
man, Druggist, Cat kill, N. Y, says that DR..
Kings New Discovery : undoubtedly the best
Cough remedy that he has used it in his fami
ly for eight years, and it has never failed to do
all that is claimed for it. Why not try RENE
dy so long tried aud tested. Trial bottles free
mt Thos. G. Forwood s. Co.'S Drug Store Be
Air. Regular size SOC. and 81.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

When Judge Charles Levi Woodbury.
requested the assembled guests at u New
Hampshire summer resort to unite in
singing 1.-The Star Spangled Banner" one
Fourth of July, he remarked that it would
add to the harmony of the occasion II
those who knew how to sing would sing
high, and those who didn't know how to
sing would sing low. The general prac,
tice in congregational singing is the re,
verse of this.-Boston Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
The Colors of Caterpillars.

Experiments have been made by Profess
or Poulton to prove that the colors Of GER
tain caterpillars are largely duo to modified
plant pigments, derived from their food
plant. He has now proved that the colors
of some caterpillars are made up of modi-
fed chlorophyl, derived from the food
plant-Philadelphi Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
gnetica1.

TIE FORSAKEN FARMHOUSE.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
Against the wooded hills it stands,
Ghost of a dead home, staring through
Its broken lights on wasted lands
Where old-time harvests grew.
Unplowed, unsown, by scythe unshorn,
The poor forsaken farm-fields lie,
Once rich and ripe with golden corn,
And pale green breadths of rye.
OF healthful herb and flower bereft,
The garden plot no housewife keeps;
Through weeds and tangle only left
The snake, its tenant, creeps.
A lilac spray, once blossom clad,
Sways bare before the empty rooms;
Beside the rootiess porch sad,
Pathetic red rose blooms.
His track, in mould and dust of drouth,
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves,
And in the fireleSs chimney'S mouth
His web the spider weaves.
The leaning barn about to fall
ResOunds no more on husking ewes;
No cattle low in yard or stall,
No thresher beats his SheayeS.
So sad. SO drear! it seems almost
Some haunting Presence makes its sign
That down yOn shadowy lane some ghost
Might drive his spectral kline!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
Hard.

Nothing hurts boys feelings more
than to act smart in front of a girl who IS
staying all night with his sister and then
get whipped for it in her presence.-Atch-
ison Globe.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

In dropping medicine into spoon
place the handle between the leaves of a
closed book lying on the table, and then
both hands may be used In dropping the
sskxsupA
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

Artificial legs and arms were in use in
Egypt as early as B. G. 700. They were
made by the priests, who were the physi-
clans of that early time
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07

A window cord is good barometer.
When it tightens, the reason is found in
the fact that the air is full of moisture
and rain Is probable.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
Tome Institute.

SPECIAL Observation-Disclosures for the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and First High
School grades will be received until further no.
tice. A presentation of the ground to be COW
cred by examinations for these grades will be
sent to all who write for application forms.
JAMES X. CAMPBELL, Director.