Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-12-20
Odds and Ends.

nen is a'DloW from q lady well
conner When she strikes you agree
ably.
When are soldiers like black
smiths? When they are drilling and
fling.
Which runs the fastest, heat or
cold
W ant less than you have, and you
VIII always have more than you
want
why are railroad companies like
laundresses? Because they have
lroned the whole country, and some
times do a little mangling.
Slight changes make great differ
ences. Dinner for nothing is very
good fun; but ysu can't say as much
Of nothing for dinner.
A gentleman rode up to a public
house in the country, and asked,
" Who is master Of this house 20 1
am, sir" replied the landlord "my
wife has been dead about three
weeks"
One of the saddest things about
human nature is, that man NAV
guide others in the path of life with
out walking in it himself; that he
may be a pilot and yet castaway.
There is one advantage in being
blockhead-you are never attacked
with low spirits or apoplexy. The
moment a man can worry he ceases
to be fool.
Before ''love comes in at the door,"
it would be well for him to peep
through the keyhele. He might see
something that would prevent him
from entering.
Misery asssils riches as lightning
does the highest towers; or a tree
that is heavy laden with fruit breaks
its own boughs, so do riches destroy
the virtue of their possesssr.
A polite yeung lady recently as
serted that she had lived near barn
yard, and that it was impossible for
her to sleep in the morning-on ac-
count Of the outcry made by gen.
tleman hen.
That young man to whom "the
world owes q living" has just been
turned out of doOrs-the landlord
not being williRg to take the indebt-
sdness of the world on his own
A doctor recently gave the fol-
lowing prescription for . lady: A
new bonnet, cashmere shawl, and
4 new pair of gsiter boots. The
ady, it is needless to say, has en-
'irsly recovered.
In Elizabeth, N. j., the single meh
ire assessed one dollar mare poll-tsx
han the married men. They pay 1t
'heerfully as tax an Injuries.
Lfbefty VIII not dss6snd 5Tps5s
lie; people must raise themselves
o liberty; it is a Blessing that must
,e earned before it can DE enjoyed.
At fancy dress bal. in Paris re-
iently, lady was seen in a very lew
,odied dress, while floating and wa
ing an abundance Of green gauze.
She was politely asked by 4 gentle
nan what she personated. "The
ea, Monsieur" cat lew tide, then.
The lady blushed and
he gentleman smiled.
REsIGNATIoS.-A lady elegantly
lressed in the "habiliments of woe''
vas met in the street few days
lgo by an acquaintance, who ven
ured to remark upon her being in
"Ye-e-s," said the be-
'eavsd one, mournfully, taking a
ew steps to trail her dress, and look
ng over her shoulder at the effect
hereof, "Pve just lost my mother
lon't you think this is q sweet veil?
such q deep heml l' Such a resig-
lation in affliction is touching.
A WISE NORTON AS To TEACH
SG.--Bishep Whately used to say
hat teaching children to learn by
ote what they did not understand,
Tas to make them swallow their
cod first, and chew it sfterWard.'-
When Mrs. Whately and 1 first mar
ied,' he observed, many years later,
one of the first things we agreed
pom was, that should Providence
end us children, we would never
each them anything that. they did
ot understand Not even their
rayers, my lord?' asked the person
ddressed. No, not even their pray
rs he replied. To the custom of
,aching children of tender age to
speat prayers by rote, without at
ending to their sense, he objected
ven more strongly than to any other
ind of mechanical teaching; as he
onsidered it inculeating the idea,
lat a person is praying when merely
,peating form Of words in which
le mind and feelings have no part,
hich is destructive Of the very es-
snce of devotion.