Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-06-25
Miscellaneous.
Ahont Komen-Men.


The dead Of winter-Flies.
Cape Cod has always been famous
as berrying ground.
The members of the Fat Mems So
ciety naturally belong to the ton.
For once, sad to say, dogs are like
ladies. Both need muslin in hot
weather.
A Chicago reporter touchingly al
luded to man who was "killed and
otherwise injured"
An exchange has this very sug
gestive head line, "An old lady
burned in Greece" Is this crema-
ton incident?
The Detroit Post has crop returns
from nearly every agricultural county
in Michigan, and pronounces them
quite uniformly favorable.
81 rise for information, said a
member of a Legislative body. 81
am glad to hear it." said bystander,
s'for no man wants it more than
you"
A correspondent wants to know
our opinion concerning the disposi-
tion of the dead. AS far as we are
acquainted with them, the dead ap-
pear to be of quiet disposition.
A scene in London-"If I wasn't a
Frenchman Pd be an Englishman,"
says polite Johnny Crapaud. "And
if l wasn't an Englishman I'd be an
Englishman," responds bluff Johnny
Bull
The obstinacy of a turtle is not al
ways an advantage to it. Some boys
at River Point, r. l., discovered a
large turtle in pond the other day
and poked a stick at it. 1t took hold
and held on until it was pulled
ashore. 1t weighed thirty-two pounds.
The New Orleans Picayune thus
wonders: Why is it that the young
man about town always considers it
necessary to grin when he talks to
the other sex? Why can't he observe
that it's a lovely night or ask for
glass of water without giggling like
an idiot?
In a letter from Paris to the Utica
Herald, Writ Skies says: "There
are Americans who keep shops and
stores of every sort here; one of the
most popular and fourishing of dress
makers is Connecticut man, out of
Hartford, named Kingsbury-an art
ist whose costumes are bought by
high born French danes, and whose
vogue is like that of Worth.
Dubuque has an absurd practical
way of doing some things. Two can
didates recently applied to the City
Council for the post of engineer of
the steam fire engine belonging to
the city. To ascertain which was
the best qualified for the position,
each was given trial of skill, lasting
thirty minutes, in getting up steam,
and in the general management of
the engine.
Rowland Hill, in a conversation
on the powers of the letter H, in
which it was contended that it was no
letter, but a simple aspiration or
breathing, took the opposite of the
question, and insisted on its being,
to all intents and purposes, letter.
and concluded by observing that, ifI
it were not, it was very serious af-
fair to him, as it would occasion his
being ill all the days of his life.
whats hayP' asked a man of an
honest granger in Burlington, Iowa,
the other morning. The P. of H.
told him $13 so, and followed the
man around the wagon, as he exam
ined the hay very carefully. He ex-
pressed himself perfectly satisfied
with the price, and liked the looks of
the hay. "Shall put it in your
barn" asked the granger. "Well, |
no." the man said, II only want
good clean straw to chew" .'Take
two; one is hardly sufficient for a
donkey" replied the hay merchant.
A writer in the Milwaukee Sen
tinel deserves the respectful sympa-
thy of all gentlemen who give out
their washing. He says: at is aw-
fully annoying to have some other
fellows clothes left in ones room by
the washerwomen. Saturday we put
on another fellows shirt, but couldn't
wear it. Although it was ruff1ed
around the bottom, the sleeves were
too short to button cuffs on, and
there was no place for a collar"