Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-01-24
Odds and Ends

driver.
Portland is to have an enormsus
fire bell weighing 10000 pounds:
The youngest SON OF President
Johnson has entered Georgetown
College.
i A boz in Pennsylvania has killed
himself by eatig acorns.
Eugene is an inch taller than her
husband.
1t is great satisfaction to know
that the earth weighs 1885, ,07o, coo,
OOo,oO0, 100000. tons.
Gen. R. E. Lee, at the request Of q
LADY, has sent lock of his hair to
st. Louis, to be rallied for at a fair.
A coIorea man in Lynchburg, Va,
has Just feunu $4,000 in gold that he
buried ia hurry Immediately after
the surrender.
Rostcr Neck, once the narrowest
portion the city, will seon heits
widest part.
1t has sometimes been said, and
never but by an Irishman, that Ire
land is a beautiful country to live
out Of!
a small house can be more easily
kept than = palace. Economy is =
most needed il the absence of abun-
dance.
A greet financial reformeris so de-
voted to figures thas when he has
nothing else to do he casts up his
eyes.
A dirty kitchen and bad cooking
has driven many one from home to
seek for comfort and happiness
somewhere else.
Halls Journal of Health express
es the opinion that buckwheat cakes
contain mere nourisbment for less :,
money than any other article of food.
IFafmer Gookins was imr ltieAtly
swsiting for his son 70 pass The mug,
when the young hopeful said to him,
'Father, this cider is 50 hard can't
bite it Off"
A widow said cne day to her daugh
ter, ''when You are of my age, you
will be dreaming of s husband -
"Yes, mamma," replied the young
lady, "for the second time"
vegetable pillsr" exclaimeaan
old LADY. "Den't talk to me abAt
such stuff. The best vegetable pliI
ever made is an apple dumslrng; 1or
destroying a gnawing in the stomach !,
there is nothing like it; it can always
be relied on
Ia Dublin, a great Methodist ora
tor once attempted to preach from
the text Remember Lott 5 wife, aad
made failure Afterwards remark
ing to DIR. Bond that he did not knew
the reason Of his failure, the venera-
ole doctor replied that "he had bet
ter hereafter let other peoples wives
alone"
The friend Of poor fellow who
lost his leg at Petersburg, remarked
that, though MANNED, be would al
ways haYe one good point of we'll
drilled soldier, his ''Ieft foot fore
most" as it was prematurely plant
ed at the front. YES said a wag,
she left his left feet at the front; and
now his right foot is left
Or COURSE Nora young and
pretty lady travelling from LsuisvilIa
to Nashville the other day, was OBJ
served to have piece of court plas-
ter on her lips When the cars
emerged from one of the tunnels in
to the light, it was discovered cling
ing to the lips of young man. who
occupied the seat with her. They
both looked as innocent as if they
hadn't been doing nothing"
The bishop of Wurtzburg cnce
asked a sprightly shepherd boy,
"What are you doing here. my beyf''
Tending swine" ''How much do
you get?' ''One form week" Il
am shepherd, also," said the bish-
sp, '.but have much better sala-
rY' s'That may ali be, but then
suppose you have more swine under
your care, replied the boy.
Two good-natured Irishmen, en-
certain occasion, occupied the same
bed. In the morning one of them
inquired of the other; ''Dennis. did
you hear the thunder last night?s'-
''No, Pat; did it really thunder?e--
Eyes, it thundered as If hiven and
airth would come togither." "Why
in the diyil thin, didn't We wake me.
for ye know | can't slape whin It
The following is the ''nub" Of
warn which is told about big whis-
ky guzzling fellow who came home
Trunk one night and sat down by The y
IRE to warm his feet. which we're rrs
llar s.worm killers" says the1egead.
After doing some time he awoke
chilly; the embers were entirely hid
from view, and seeing his feet mis-
soek them for his little boy, when
With majestic side wave Of the
hand, he said, 'Stand aside m little
son, and let your poor father warp~
himself"
a man newly married, be6e abeut
n leave home saif to< i<.- --ef1 -