Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-12-04

quincy m~eTcuaEIS iu'SiSiO eio"
paving debtors into their stores. and
then give them their choice of set
Ting or receiving a thrashing.
Ayoung lady had c%oqIettted until
the victim was completely exhausted
He rose to go away. She whispered,
as she accompanied him to the door,
81 shall be at home next Sunday
evening" $50 shall l." he replied.
A Frenchman processes to have
discovered, by experiment upon him
self, that coffee taken upon an empty
stomach renders the mind abnormal
ly clear, and the temper unnaturally
bad.
An old man nsmed John st. Clair,
who lacked Int a few days Of being
Jos years old, vas run over by a
train of cars, at Fort Wayne, Ind, a
few days ago, and killed.
The first public library at Rome
was founded 167 b. {.
Spicer's son, who works in a candy
shop, says he prefers handmade kiss
es to machine made ones.
The CongregotiOn0list advises its
readers to ''sit at the feet Of a horse
and learn humility" Gust So"
says the California NewS- Letter. Sit
down at the feet of a mule. and if he
don't humiIiate you pull his tail and
tickle the inside of his legs with a
stable fork"
The bottom OF a well must be a
shocking bad place, for even truth is
said t, lie there.
When a mans nose becomes q lit
tie reddish, it ought to be pulled, like
other reddishes.
When the policemen find a man
full they take him TO the station
house, and his friends bail him out.
The Rev. c. R. Beal is a new col
ored lecturer. The Boston Trans
script says that he has but one or
two equals as a platform orator among
his people.
Another crusade is about to be or
ganized against polygamy. You ney-
er in all your life saw a man with one
wife who didn't sigh for the scalp Of
the man who had a dozen.
A letter from Minnesota says that
''notes and due bills out here are
written on parchment, to prevent
them from wearing out by carrying,
as that is all they are good for"
Sitka has q public debt of Sl5O and
only seventy cents in its public fund
30, autumn, with thy dying SMELL
is the latest from the pen of q poetic
gusher.
A reader in New Britain very
truthfully and Indignantly asserts
that no woman, however nervous she
may be, has 4 right to wake her hus-
band from a sound sleep to tell him
on his inquiring what is the matter,
Nothing, only l wanted to know if
you were awake"
The ladies of BelleviIle, Illinois,
have canvsssed the town and allevi-
ated all the cases of suffering they
could. They were obliged to marry
off thirteen ~disconsolate old bache-
Tors before the task was completed.
1.-THE melancholy days are come"
when defunct porkers. with lends of
their nose and tips of their toes
turned up to the roots Of the daisies"
(where they will never more root,
hog, nor die are carried through our
streets, cob in mouth, to be tucked
away with buckwheat cakes.
Prisoner ITO learned magistrate
"Has any one a right to commit
q nuisance?" Learned magistrate:
"No, sir, not even the mayor-no,
sir, not even the governor" Prison
er-'Then you cant commit me; for
/ was arrested as a nuisance, and
you've decided that I'm one"
A German peddler sold a man a
liquid for the determination of bugs.
And how do you use it?" inquired
the man, after he had bought it.
"Ketch te bug I'm drop o little drop
into his mouth" answered the ped
dler. "Pshaw," exclaimed the pur-
chaser, 81 could kill it in half the
time by stamping on it" "Vell.'
calmly explained the German, 'dat
is q good way, too"
Mrs. John A Fisher of Springfeld,
Mass, her mother. grandmother,
eat-grandmother, and great great
grandmother were born On the 18th
of December, and, still more aston
ishing, when Mrs Fisher was twenty
years old, her mother was forty, her
grandmother sixty, her great-grand-
mother eighty, and her great great
grandmother. if she had been alive,
would have been just one hundred.
Disciples of st. Thomas, please no
tice.
A worthy Quaker thus wrote: 81
expect to pass through this world
but once. II, therefore, there be any
kindness ! ear show, or any good
thing | a do to my fellow human
beings, let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it, for / will not
pass this way again"