Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-11-27
miscellaneous.
procer-one who trusts.

Over 81 500, 900 worth of dia-
monds we're sold in New York last
yesr.
Do much or little-so that you do
it for a good purpose.
A disease called black tongue pre-
walls in Crawford county.
The New Jersey Constitutional
Convention has decided against the
proposition to incorporate female
suffrage in the new Constitution OF
that State.
Western women are grumbling
terribly because the managers OF the
agricultural fairs don't give at least
a years notice when they offer prizes
for the finest babies.
A reformer has been elected to
the Wisconsin Legislature, VINO was
forced to resign the office OF Justice
of the Pleace because he could not
read or write.
They hurry things up in Dubuque
A Young man there met q strange
girl on a street car the other day.
paid her fare, and married her three
hours afterward. Bless you, my
children!
The orange crop of Florida prom
ises to be unusually large the coming
season Reports from the Indian
River country speak of the prospects
as unusually good. Early grown
fruit is already being received.
The principal of a young ladies'
seminary, up town. where especial
attention is devoted to department,
was Mortified the other day to find
the big girls playing ''leap-frog" in
the back yard.
A committee of medical men who
were summoned to inspect a skeleton
suspiciously discovered near Maren
gn. Iowa, sadly wendell their way
homeward when they found it wes 8
hoop skirt and a joke.
This is from the Augusta, Ga,
Chronicle: "Delinquent subscribers
sho uld not permit their daughters to
wear this paper for a hustle There
beng so much due on it, there is
danger of taking cold.
The Charleston (South Corolina
News says: ut is rumored that, IL
the event Of President Grsnt declar'
ing war against Spain, the first regi
ment of National guards of this city.
will at once volunteer and embark
for Cuba"
The McDufie (Georgia) Journa
nominates Hon. A. H. Stephens fol
President of the United States, arc
SAYS 1t feels sure of a response from
the people" 1t would be a pool
candidate that couldn't get a re
spouse,
A mar at Princeton College be,
lieves in having "a place for every.
thing and everything in its place
He nails his slippers on the wall, foul
feet up. and all he has to do o
an evening is to wheel up his easy
chair in front of them.
''Unless you give me aid" said
beggar to a benevolent lady, II an
afraid | shall have to resort to some
thing which 1 greatly dislike to do ,
The lady handed him a dollar, an(
compassionately asked, "What is it
poor man, that l have saved yol
from?" Work" was the mournfu
The whole number of Mo1ocs sen
to the island in South Platte River
near Fort Mcpherson, Nebraska, i:
one hundred and fifty seven. the
most noticeable of whom is Miss
Mary Jack, who is eighteen anC
handsome and has long, wavy hair
and a pair of black eyes that SNAP
awfully when anything is said about
her late father.
Steel bars produce a very pure,
distinct. and melodious sound, and
possess many advantages owe
church bells of moderate size. In
Germany they are in some measure
supplanting bells in church steeples,
and an English publication, the
Choir, advocate their general use, on
the ground that while in point of So
nervousness they are equal to the CON-
mon bell, in certain other respects
they are to be preferred to it.
The British Medical Journal says
Dasent estimates that in Europe
alone there are 200, 1000 deaf and
dumb persons. In mountainous re-
gione, as in Switzerland and Savoy,
the proportion is very great. In the
Berne Canton there is one to every
1876 Inhabitants; in Scotland one to
100. In Great Britain, however, the
proportion is only one in 1850; in
ireland, one in 1880. At the census
in 1851, there were 1858 deaf and
dumb, 1854 male and 1869 female.
They have increased in number dur
ing the last twenty years, the former
still heading the list.
A Negro Prophecies.
The Baltimore Gazette gives the
following pen picture of a NEGRO