Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
.;ou;ecant tbs.

ltis SitLaarks that wood
tise rnymenfonger if left for the
An eiSofks to saw and split.
"A cynical lady, rather inclined to
firt, says most men are like a cold,
very easily caught, but very hard to
get rid of.
Too True-The man who is aw
fully urbane to his wife before stran-
gers is generally also her bane be
hind their backs!
Anew way has been discovered in
Iowa for exterminating skunks. Ii
IS to administer chloroform in their
hiding places. They speedily suc-
cumb to it.
S. S. Cox, Democrat, has intro
duced a bill in Congress for the
recognition of the Cuban patriots as
beligerents.
Conundrum-Said a boy: 'That
chap. reader, is my brother, and this
girl is his sister and yet she is nc
Relation of mine" Answer-The
boy lied.
The Adventists have started o
paper called the Watchman's Cry.
and. though the paper says the
world will end in February, it wants
everybody's subscription for a year
Alphonso used to call his adorable
Angelina his turtle-dove. He now
drops the "dove'' and Gale her "tur
tle." because she wears such a huge
shell on her belt.
A bear caught IN a trap at Eden
Vt, one day last week chewed OF
his imprisoned leg and walked away
on three, thus setting humanity al
example how to bear an a%mputatlon
"Do try and talk a little common
sense!" exclaimed a sarcastic young
lady TO a visitor. "Oh!' was the
replye"but wouldn't that be taking
an unfair advantage of your
A phrenologist told a man that hi
had combatlveness very largely de
veloped and was of a quarrelsom'
disposition. "That isn't So" saic
the mar angrily, "and if you re
peat it I'll knock you down"
A young lady says that a gentle
mar ought never feel discouraged
when the "momentous question il
negatived by the object of hi
choice, for in life. as in grammer
we always decline before We con.
jugate."
The Mount Pleasant Journal joker
saws: at was found on the Nortf
Side. 1t is about eight inches long
with a steel buckle on the end. W.
think it's a baby's belt, but Babl
says it's a garter"
A kind father tried to encourage
his son to rise early by relating tht
old story of a person who, early one
morning, found q purse of gold
"Well," replied the youth, ''but the
fellow who lost the purse rose earlier
you know"
Caleb Cushing will be seventy
four in January. He is n of thu
most learned men in Washington
and through the administration o
three Presidents he has been KEEP
on liberal pay to instruct the "pow
els that be-"
That was good advice which al
old man ave TO his sons: boys
don't you ever specerlate or wait TO
something to turn up You nigh
Just as well 20 sit down on a ston'
in the middle of a medder with
pail 'twixt your legs and wait for
Cow to back mp TO you 10 be MIXED.
A young lady in Lancaster hai
the initials, Y. NJ G. A, engraved
on one corner of her visiting cards
which she hands to certain gentle
men visitors. At first they suppose
she belongs to the Young Men,
Christian Association, but it is no
long before they rightly constru'
the letters to mean you May Come
Again"
"Now, Johnny" said a venerable
lady to her six-year old nephew
who was persistently denying an
offense of which she accused him
81 know you are not telling The
truth; l see it in your eye" Pull
ing down the lower lid of the organ
that had SO nearly betrayed hi
want of veracity, Johnny*exulting
ly replied: "You can't tell anything
about it, hat eye was always a littlt
streaked."