Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-12-11
miscellaneous.

,ov;no question: "What is faithr''
She replied. Doing Gods will and
asking no questions"
A COW race for a purse of 800 is
announced to take place at Groton,
Mass.
"a lass, a lass!" exclaimed an old
bachelor, who wanted to marry. "Alasl
alasl' he cried after be had been mar
ried awhile.
The end of the World-To make
money.
Ministers oil the interior-The cook
and the doctor.
A Brooklyn genius has just produced
a "patent ruf-foil" for use by gentle
men during the fervid period of court
ship.
The amount of gold dug in Califor-
mia since 1848 is II, 1890. 100000. Of
which S93, COO, 900 were mined in 1853.
A magnificent punch bowl, inlaid
with gold of the most gorgeous de-
scription, is to be presented to the most
attractive gentleman of the Bachelors
German. in Washington, this winter.
A Kansas girl swallowed a pin about
q year ago, which recently made itf
appearance. coming out through the
left, eye. entirely destroying the sight.
According to the last annual excise
returns there were 85.O93 retailers of
spirits in England and Ireland, and i9,
O85 in Scotland. The licenses for beer
"to be drunk on the premises" were
40.7OI.
Our trade with Cuba is quite large
In 1879 our imports from that island
amounted in round numbers to S67,-
OO0. 900. while u exports Sl3,OOO,-
O00.
A German philosopher has traced
the cause Of the alarming increase OF
emotional insanity TO the increased con
sumption of oysters.
s'Take a wing" gusbed q pompous
upstart, extending his bent arms to a
sensible young lady, at the close of the
prayer-meeting. Not Of a gander,"
she quietly replied, and walked home
with her mother.
A steamer now building OF the Clyde,
for the National Line. will be a second
Great Eastern 10 size, and will have
accommodations for Two Thousand
Storage passengers. She is 10 be
called the United States. and will be
finished in about six months.
A Hartford gentleman, who had
tarried late at a wine supper, found his
wife waiting his return. in q high state
Of nervousness. She--"Here I've been
waiting, and rocking in the chair ill
my head spins round like a top!'
Jess so where I've BEEN" responded
he, "H's in the atmospheric"
Under the s'outer wall of a neighbor-
ing female college the other morning,
was discovered, conspicuously dis
played, the sign domestic Sewing
Machine" Some of those specimens
of total depravity known as college
students did it.
Philadelphia is going to build q S.
100000 hotel for the accommodation
of centennial visitors.
There are $780, orange trees on
the St Johns River, in Florida. Each
tree yields about $40 net income per
annum
1t is said that in Colorado last year
200. 600 buffaloes were slaughtered for
their hides
A Maryland man wouldn't stop
smoking for the sake of marrying a
girl worth S5O,OUO.
Number ofsquare miles in each coun-
try-Great Britain, I2I 900; France,
lie. 900; United States, $685. lac. or
leaving out the territories. 1,9O9.18l.
Ostrich feathers are exported from
the Cape of Good Hope to England to
the value of $1,000. OdO annually. The
feathers are worth SO guineas per pound
in the London market.
A bosom friend--A diamond pin.
Is a man shrewd who marIies a
shrew?
A handsome thing in ladies' hosea
neat little foot.
A bachelor at a banquet in Newcas-
tie. England, gave the following toast.
1.-THE women and coal of Durham
County Oh how desolate would the
Preside be without them!'
Irascible old party-"Conductor,
why didn't you wake me as l asked
you? Here | am miles beyond nv
station" Conductor-"I did try, sir,
but all could get out of you was all
right Maria; get the children their
breakfast, and III be down in a min
ute.'"
A gentleman, in search of a man to
do some work, met on his way a lady
not as young as she once was, and
asked her: "Can you tell me where |
can find a MANI" "No | cannot,'' she
replied, "fOr I have been looking these
twenty years for n e myself"
A correspondent recommends feed
ing buckwheat 10 fowls that are at
tackled with cholera. He says he has
tried the experiment several seasons,
and that it has proved in all cases
successful remedy.
An absent minded man entered a
Troy shoe store the other day and
wanted his boy measured for a pair of
shoes. But where's the boy?" asked
the dealer. Thunder" said the man.
"I've left the boy at home. I'll 90 and
get him. and off be started for his
house six blocks away.
Holland, with a population of about
100000, owns more American rail-
road stock than any other country in
Europe, amounting to nearly $780,
100000, besides large amounts of Uni
ted States bonds. State bonds and other