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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

HEIGHTS OF THE TALLEST Men,
Turner the naturalist, declared that he
once saw, upon the coast of Brazil, a
race of gigantic savages, one of whom
was II feet in height NJ. Thevel, of
France, in his description of America.
published at Paris in 1875, asserted that
he saw and measured the skeleton of a
South American which was ii feet =
inches in length.
The Chinese are said to claim that in
the last century there were men in
their country who measured Is feet in
height. Josephus mentioned the case
of Jew who was 10 feet , inches in
height.
Pliny tells of an Arab giant, Gabria,
9 feet inches, the tallest man in the
days of Claudius.
John Middletown, born at Hale, in
Lancashire, in the time of James |. was
9 feet inches in height; his hand was
IL inches long and 81 inches broad, says
DR.. Pratt in History of Stsffordshire "
The Irish giant, Murphy, contemporary
with O'Brien was 8 feet 10 inches.
A Skeleton in the Museum of Trinity
College, Dublin, is s feet inches in
height, and that of Charles Byrne, in the
Museum of the College of Surgeons,
London, is feet inches. The tallest
living man is Chang-tu- Sing, the Chi
nese giant. His height is z feet 3
| inches.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
PUBLIC OPINION.
THE REPUBLIC Is SAFE.

Pittsburg Times.
One need not fear for the Republic
nor the experiment of popular govern
ment as long as such scenes as were
witnessed in the State of New York last
week. when sixteen of the men who
aided in the Gravesend crimes against
the ballot were sentenced, are feature
of our courts of justice As long as IL
ia certain that the sacredness of the bal
lot box will be maintained in our courts
even against the richest and most ln1u-
entail assailants so long is there no dan
ger of free government perishing from
the face of the earth.
1t is certainly matter of sincere con-
graduation for every good American
citizen that the outrageous frauds and
intimidations practiced at Grayesend
have at length been punished adequate
ly and in such a brief period from the
time when the machinery of the law was
actually set in motion. 1t is additional
ly gratifying that punishment has been
meted out to Mckane and his followers
for their recent offenses, because they
were the men who had helped to stea
the Presidency of the United States and
had profted by their crimes in this re-
spect.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
GOOD NEWS FROM LONDON.

Cleveland Leader.
Business news from London is very
cheerful in regard both to present trade
conditions and to the outlook for the
future. Cheap money, an active inquiry
and market for good securities, the or
ganization of many new enterprises, in
creasing exports and imports, the prompt
er and more willing pay ment of taxes,
and larger orders for merchandise from
retailers, are among the signs of better
times which are instanced.
All this is encouraging to the business
interests of the United States. If the
tariff question were more settled it might
be thought that the revival of trade and
industry in Great Britain was caused by
the prospect of a wider and more profita-
BILE market in this country. AS it is,
however, the British manufacturers and
merchants can hardly be affected ma
terially by so uncertain contingency as
changes in the American duties on i'm
ports, the extent of which nobody in this
country pretends to be able to predict
with precision. Since, therefore, the
improvement in British trade and in
dustry must be in the main genuine and
quite independent of the possible tariff
changes in the United States it must be
taken simple to mean natural bust
ness revival in the country which is our
principal customer. The more proper
GUS Great Britain is, the more American
products can be sold in that country and
the more British money will seek invest
ment in developing the natural resources
OF this country.
For that reason the news of business
boom in the United Kingdom is the next
best thing to the corresponding good
times which it foreshadows in the United
States. |
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

WORK A BLESSING. labor
is wearying and spirit crushing. to be
sure; yet better that than idieness- -begot.
ten vice. If proof were needed of the
beneficial results of labor, we should find
it in the life of different nations. In
tropical countries, where nature scat
tiers her bounties with unsparing hand.
wi ere clothing and shelter are almost
unnecessary, aud where fruits hang as
in the Garden of Eden, from every tree
here, in favored lands. we find people
ignorant, uncivilized, degraded. In
deed the date palm has been called the
curse of the countries in which it
thrives. inasmuch as it supplies food
without money and without price.
Take away from race the necessity of
supplying their own food, and of pro-
viding for their future needs, and you
take away all desire for knowledge. all
aspiration for higher and better things.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

IT is mans destiny to conquer the
world. Civilization can not rest while
there remains mile of unexplored
country on the globe. Hundreds of at
tempts have been made to reach the
North pole, out so far without avail
Men have perished in the effort, and the
world has applauded them for heroes
because they were in the pursuit OF
knowledge, and wanted to extend the
realm of science. But the North region
is yet unexplored. No man has reached
even to the open sea, which is supposed
to surround the pole. The frozen North
stands as perpetual challenge to the
courage, and endurance of mankind
During the present year several expedi
tions have been arranged to try again
for achievement and renown in this
difficult field. One will go South, two
North. They are better equipped than
ever before, and it is confidently pre-
dicted that the summer of 1894 will be
memorable as the time when one or the
other--perhaps both-Of the poles was
reached.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

As WAS generally expected President
Cleveland vetoed the Bland silver selg-
niorage bill and thus again gave the
silver men notice to expect nothing from
him. He undoubtedly did right in
placing his disapproval on the measure,
since it would have been manifestly dis
honest on the part of the government to
coin the seigniorage, but his reasons
stated in His usually ponderous style and
at great length indicate that he possessed
a desire to sign the bill but feared to do
so. He would have liked to please the
silver men but dared not place himself
in position of conflict with other in
fuences. His veto message appears as
an effort TO excuse q good act and is
cringing in tone and import.
But the more interesting phase of the
question is the effect of the veto on the
future of the Democratic party. The
Democracy of the South and West are
almost solid for silver and to receive re-
peated rebuffs from the man they almost,
unaided, elected does not tend to place
them in a happy frame of mind. In
fact, the breach caused by the Sherman
law repeal has been sensibly deepened
and more unalterably fixed. The free
silver Democrats, and this class COM
prises a majority of the party in both
houses of Congress, care great deal
more about silver than they do about
the tariff and they may conclude that
they do not care for any change in the
tariff if nothing is to be done by the
administration for their pet idea of free
silver. They possess the power to de-
feat the Wilson bill. Whether they will
exercise the power remains to be seen.
They can defeat the bill outright or they
can defeat it by loading it with obnoxious
amendments. Should the silver men
defeat the tariff bill they would be only
taking revenge on the administration.
The fight to the death that is certain to
come. would thus be precipitated a
once, and the disruption of the Demo
cratic party would be all the more
speedy. The President evidently rec
ognizes the hopeless division of his
party, and thus degrades his message
into an attempt to please one faction by
the veto, and to placate the other by his
abject apologies. But the disruption OF
the Democratic party is near. 1t may
come in one way or it may come in an
other, but it will come just as certain as
it is that two conflicting interests can
not be kept apart.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell
as well, or that have given such universal
satisfaction. We do not hesitate to
guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready to refund the purchase
price, if satisfactory results do not fol-
low their use. These remedies have won
their great popularity purely on their
merits. Sold by Patterson & Sons,
Druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
Four Big Successes.

Having the needed merit to more than
make good all the advertising claimed
for them, the following four remedies
have reached phenomenal sale. DR.
Kings New Discovery, for Consumption
Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaran-
Electric Bitters, the great remedy
for Liver, Stomach and Kidneys
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in the
world, and DR.. Kings New Life Pills,
which are perfect pill. All these rem
edies are guaranteed to do just what is
claimed for them and the dealer whose
name is attached herewith Will bs glad
to tell you more of them. Sold at
Patterson & Sons Drug Store. l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
The Worlds Wheat.

National Stockman and Farmer.
Beerbohm, the English statistician, es-
timated the worlds visible supply OF
wheat the 1st of March at 1877, ,176,00O
bushels, against 1S9, ,304 900 bushels the
year before. and 161, $4,000 bushels
March l, 1892. The maximum visible
supply of the last three years was reach
ed the 1st of February of this year,
when it was about $500, 900 bushels
greater than at present. Allowing for
probable errors in these figures the visi-
BILE supply at this time may be taken as
practically or nearly the same as year
ago.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

A JURY has just given VIM. X. Laid
law $4,000 damages in suit against
the millionaire Russell Suge. 1t will be
remembered that Laidlaw was Sage's
clerk, and when lunatic threw a bomt
at Sage, the latter, in order to save him
self, got behind his clerk. The bomt
thrower was killed, the clerk was badly
crippled, and Sage sustained damaged
vest. 1t would be but natural to expect
that gratitude would have prompted a
generous gift TO the man who stood the
shock of the bomb, but not so with Sage;
hence the suit. The verdict is all toe
small. Ten times the amount would
have been nearer right.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
CLEvELAND's LUCK TURNED.


Cincinnati Tribune.
A census of the Senators shows the
Presidents lonely position. But three of
them are on frequent speaking terms
with Mr. Cleveland. Senators Gray,
Mills and Villas make up this trio. They
are the only ones to whom the President
can go for consolation, the only ones Oh
whom he can lean for support, the only
ones into whose ears he can pour his
tales of VICE. This sad state of affairs
occurs after one year in the White
House. Small wonder that the Presi-
dent feels the burdens of State.
With this outlook the present Admin
istration is predestined to fail. The
President needs the hearty cooperation
of his own friends. Those who oppose
him politically cannot help him. Their
interests are in another direction. Mr.
Cleveland's luck has turned, and after
March 4, 1897, he will pass into private
life, seldom to be heard from or of. If
the breach between Mr.. Cleveland and
his political friends is not healed, the
outlook for triumphant Democracy is
still farther removed from mortal ken
than ever.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
Teachers Questions.
The following questions were asked at
the Teachers Examination held in
Bridgeport, Saturday, March IL:
ARITHMETIC.
s. C. MURPHY.
nm, n fsg.ol

(OmH ttcO)
l. A. B and C engage in trade for one
year. At first A put in $500, b 500,
and C $1,000; at the end of three months
A puts in 5000 more, B 5000 and c draws
out $500; AS remaining the same, what
sums must B and c put in at the end of
the 9th month to entitle each of them
to an equal share of profits with A?
2. owe $3.50 due Nov. 10, 1894, and
$40 due March "A, 1895; when can l
pay them both and neither gain nor lose?
3. What is the capacity of bucket,
the diameter of whose top is y inches,
the diameter of the bottom inches, ,and
depth of vessel 10 inches?
4. My agent sold 100000 ft. of lumber
at $l2 per NJ. | sent him % per cent.
additional money and ordered him to
buy sugar after deducting his commits
sion-Ii per cent. for selling and per
cent. for investing. L received 10000
lbs. Was there any waste? If SO, how
much?
5. How do you find the volume of a
sphere when the diameter is given? How
| find the circumference? How find the
surface? Supposing the diameter of the
earth to be 5000 miles, illustrate each
one of your answers.
G. Out of the center of circular
piece of metal whose diameter is u
inches, is cut circular plate, whose di-
ameter is 10 inches-what part OF the
metal remains?
Z. What is commercial discount? Form
an example involving such a transac
| tion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
AN IMPORTANT PROPOSITION.


Pittsburg Commersial Gazette.
The leading Republicans of the eoun-
try, at the suggestion of Chairman Man
ley of the national committee, are con-
sidering the proposed new basis of rep
resentation for the next national con-
vention. The proposition is in substance
as follows: Each state is to have two
delegates at-large and one for each con-
gressional district, and in addition one
delegate for each 1000 Republican votes
and fraction of 1000 votes greater than
one-half cast in any congressional dis-
trict in the presidential election of 1872.
Mr.. Manley asks for the opinion of
prominent Republicans as to the expedi-
ency of making such change in the
party's representation in its national con-
vention, and as to whether the national
committee has the right to make a new
basis under the rule governing its ac-
ton and adopted by the Minneapolis
convention in June, 1892.
The fact that the Southern states
have proportionately as great an influ-
ence in nominating candidates as the
states of the North, which must be re-
lied on for the votes to elect, has been a
source of complaint and irritation, but
the Republicans of the South contend
that it is their misfortune, not their
fault, that they are not able to carry a
goodly number of their states. Their
votes are suppressed and false returns
are made by their political opponents,
but they protest against the Repub-
lican committee taking any action which
would tend to sanction such disfran-
chisement as honest by making the vote
permitted to be cast basis for repre-
sentation in the national convention.
There is Justice in the plea that the
states which cast the votes to elect a
Republican president ought to have the
right to nominate the candidate, but the
change cannot be made without ma
terial disadvantage to the Southern
states. If the plan were adopted four
states would remain the same; n would
gain 343 delegates, and 13 wouldlose 79.
There would thus be a net gain of 264
delegates, thus swelling the total dele
gates in the convention from 9O2 to !, ,l66.
On the proposed basis New York
would gain 81 delegates, Ohio "a, Penn
,ylvania 33, Illinois 81, Indiana %, Mich
gan 81, and so on. Alabama would
lose II, Georgia IL, Texas IL, South
Carolina 9, Louisiana s, Mississippi 8.
Of the states that would gain in repre-
sentation 81 are Northern and = are
Southern, while of those that would lose,
I are Northern and are Southern. The
Northern states would make a net gain
If 290 delegates and the Southern states
wonld show net loss of 26 delegates.
Under the old plan, the Northern dele
gates would number $40 and the South
ern 318, a total of S8S. Under the new
plan the Northern delegates would num-
Der $50 and the Southern 292, a total of
l.152 The IA delegates from the ter
ritories would increase these totals to
604 and 1,l66 respectively.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

Professor Stevenson Has Completed a Won
derful Invention After Years of Labor.
Professor E. E. Stevenson, well
known educator and writer of Quincy,
Mass, announces the completion of an
invention on which he has been laboring
for years, which, he says, will revolu-
tionize the present methods of obtaining
motive power. Professor Stevenson has
pursued his Investigations and expert
ments in Quincy all winter and has at
last brought his idea to a head. Profess
or Stevenson said: 1.-The forces which
have thus far been utilized by the genius
of man are the laws of gravitation and
chemical reaction. In the broad field of
research and investigation we find the
possibilities of the future in molecular
attraction, musical vibration and the re-
fraction of light.
"To understand the theory ON which
have been laboring you mustunderstand
the correlation of forces or the transmu-
tation of energies. We use force to pro-
duce light. 1t is upon the reverse of
this theory that h:ve labored, and my
experiments are at last proving satisfac-
tory. | have found that the heat of an
ordinary kitchen stove generates energy
sufficient, if controlled, to drive the ma
chinery of the Pillsbury mills, and the
flames of Bunson electric burner would
furnish power to light by electricity 1000
lights"
In Professor Stevenson's experimental
machine, however, the heat of the sun
alone has been used. This machine con-
sists of three brass cylinders connected
by means of tubes and valves with a
glass reflector behind the central cylin-
der. A piston moving laterally connect
ing with balance wheel gives the mo-
ton. The shaft on which the balance
wheel hangs passes through the end of
the machine and contains drive pulley,
which makes the force available. This
machine is operated by the sun, working
with great rapidity.-Boston Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

THE PASTOR had no dislike to the
choir, but some of the members were al
most ready to resign. not long ago, on
account of one of his announcements
So many of them were sick that the
choir seats were deserted. The good
man was sorry for it, but the idea up
permost in his mind was to choose a
hymn that the entire congregation could
sing. He mentioned the absence of the
choir and then said, "Since Providence
has seen fit to affiict them with bad
colds. let us join in singing, Praise God
from whom all blessings aow.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

A BRIGHT and amitious woman stuy.
ing in one of the medical colleges and
expecting to graduate soon, has protect
ed heaself und her valuable time in a
novel manner She has a room in a
large apartment house and upon her
door is big white card, on which in
writing as clear as print is the follow
ing announcement:
mo admittance! am here to study
not to gossip nor receive visits. Please
do not even knock on this door until
after my graduation. Time is money,
hard to get, and it should be well EN-
ployed. This means business"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
The Puzzle Solved.

Perhaps no local disease has puzzled
and baflled the medical profession more
than nasal catarrh. While not immedi-
ately fatal it is among the most nauseous
and disgusting ills the flesh is heir to,
and the records show very few or no
cases of radical cure of chronic catarrh
by any of the many modes of treatment
until the introduction of Ely's Cream
Balm a few years ago. The success of
this preparation has been most gratify-
ing and surprising. No druggist is
without it. 9
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

PROPER CARE OF CARRIAGEs.-There
is no varnish made that will hold its
brilliancy more than six months. A
carriage should be revarnished every six
months to keep it exactly in fine order
If revarnished once year, it will pro-
serve the undercoats from damage; but
there are conditions that render revarn-
ishing necessary at more frequent inter
walls. If one has not suitable carriage
house separate from the stable, the am
monia from the stalls or manure pile, or
perhaps from decaying vegetables, may
attack the oil in the varnish. Some peo-
pie do not take the pains to wash the
mud from carriage soon enough after
using, but permit it to dry, when the
mud spoils the varnish. Some people
wash a carriage with soap, and even hot
water has been known to be used. For
such acts of stupidity there are no
words to express disgust. There are
persons who seem to regard varnish as
kind of high polish put on by hard
rubbing, and the more rubbing it gets
the brighter it ought to look. The
number of people who are ignorant
about varnish is absolutely astonishing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

is stamped in the best watch
cases made. 1t is the trade
mark of the Keystone Watrh
Case Company, of Philadelphia,
the oldest, largest and best
known factory in the world
1900 employees, capacity 1000
cases daily. Its products are
sold by all jewelers.. 1t makes
the celebrated Jas. Boss Filled
Watch Gases, now fitted with
the only bow (ring) which can
not be pulled off the case-the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
Nine Out of Ten

people need to use pile remedy
Aliens Discovery for Piles is an honest
remedy of genuine merit. Many people
have an intense itching which always
leads to liberated and bleeding piles
One application of Aliens Discovery
gives immediate relief to itching piles
and given fair trial has never failed
to cure liberated and bleeding piles OF
years standing. All druggists; zoe;
sent by mail. Address Aliens Discov-
cry, Box 295, Leroy, n. Y. 3-29 At
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05

CANADA knows good thing when
she sees it. She is now revising her
tariff, but, as the Minister of Finance
stated, it is being done on protection
lines. Some of the duties are being re-
duced, some increased, and some are left
unchanged, but the whole will afford the
protection needed, and will be framed in
the interests of Canada.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
The Queen of Fashion.

Best Ladies' Fashion Journal publish
ed for the money. None better at any
price. Only soc. year, post-pa Send
three &c. stamps by mail for sample copy
Besides giving general fashion and other
news, it contains illustrations of The
Mccall Co.'S latest Paris, London and
New York fashions and patterns. Ad
dress The Queen of Fashion, Union
Square n. Y. 322 At
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-05
GEOGRAPHY.
(Olnit ffrO.D


l. What is planet? What is the So
lar system? Name the chief members
in order of arrangement.
2. What are winds? How useful? What
is monsoon. hurricane, cyclone?
Where does the rain in the latter fall,
and what is the effect of this condensa-
tion of moisture on the force of the
wind?
3. Account for the moist insnlar eli
mate of western Europe, not n. W.
4. Bound Brazil and describe its sur
face, government and climate, and name
4he chief products we obtain from there
and the articles we give in exchange.
5. Give the approximate latitude and
longitude of Cape Horn; London; Cape
Prince of Wales; Hobart; Cairo, Egypt:
and Montreal.
6. Name the leading products of Nd,
Tex, n. j., Md, Ken, Central America,
France, Egypt, and New Zealand.
Z. Locate the forest, prairie, and des-
ert regions of Africa, and name several
characteristic animals and products.