Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-30
miscellaneous.


be those caused by trouble that new
er comes.
At Catholic temperance meeting
lately in the Pro-Cathedral, about
600 persons signed the pledge. =
Three more assassins of the Rev
Mr.. Stephens, Protestant minister in
Mexico, have been arrested, and one
Is condemned to death.
A little Troy boy, who was worry
ing over piece of shad at dinner
lately, demoralized his mother by
asking, mamma, where did God find
all the bones to make the first shad
OFF,
A young girl living near Pompton,
N. j., described as every respectfully
connected" committed suicide by
taking poison recently, because her
father would not consent to her mar
riage.
A Lutheran minister in Freedom,
Wis, refused to conduct the funeral
service of q farmer belonging to his
parish, because the man had been a
Granger. His society promptly re-
quested his resignation.
Governor Booth, of California, We
toed twenty-five bills that were
passed hastily in the closing hours OF
the Legislature. He did not write
messages, but simply deposited the
bills in the waste basket
"Why," asked q governess of her
little charge. "do we pray God to
give us our daily bread? Why don't
we ask for four days, or five days, or
a week." ave want it fresh," re-
piled the ingenious child.
The last edition of the London
Slang Dictionary, under the head of
"Bummer," says: "In California,
men who profess to be journalists,
and so obtain free dinners and drinks,
are called literary bummers
A Bengal paper supplies neat in
stance of confusion of metaphor.
Criticising the income tax, our con-
temporary hopes "the government
will not repeat the blunder of kill
ing the calf which daily produces the
golden egg"
On the last trip of the steamer ST.
IBERIA to Boston, among the steerage
passengers was q family of Italians
aged as follows: Father, At; mother.
43; with fifteen children. ages as fol
lows: %. %, 20. 19, II, 16, Is, IA,
IL, IL, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Twelve were
boys and three girls.
Sylvanus thinks it would be q good
thing to say, when the governor
blows up and calls you as obstinate
as a mule, Like enough. when you
have an ass for your father" Syl-
vanus does not mean to try this him
self. He has no occasion. Any boy
that wants it may have it.
The Virginia Legislature seems to
be some ahead of that of this State
in the society business. We had the
"Rising Sons of Benevolence," the
"Young Sons of Honor" &C., but
Virginia has just incorporated "The
Rising Sons of Lignumvil@." They |
must be hard lot.
The salmon eggs which were
shipped from London, in January
last, to Australia, and which reached |
their destination in the course of five
or six months, almost all perished be-
fore being planted in their new quar-
ters, as out of 10000 eggs only
about $50 young fry were placed in
The water.
The Mississippi Legislature has
passed law providing that no per
son should be licensed to sell liquor
first securing the signatures
Of more than one half of the men
over twenty-one years of age, and
of women over eighteen years of
lge, in the township or municipal
where he proposes to
open his bar, requesting that such
license be granted.
The United States Senate Commit
zee On Printing, to whom were re.
erred the charges some time ago
made by the Washington Chronicle
.gainst the Congressional Printer,
ave made report completely exon
rating that official, and stating that
he affairs of his Office have been sat
sfactorily conducted, so far as he is
for them. 1t is now in
,rder for the Chronicle to return
hat borrowed paper.
The actual expenditure incurred
" the Shah of Persia during his stay
t Buckingham Palace, last summer,
mounts to something more than
5000, OF which shout one-thIrd has
D be provided by vote of Parlia-
lent, and the remainder will be de-
rayed out of the Queens prlvy
urse. BY far the largest item of
he total is that for fruit supplied to
he Shah AMI his suite-a very intel s
g Die source of expense--but one a
earns with surprise that the bill for a
zine is no less than fl,400-a rather 5
tartllng item considering that the :
blowers of the Prophet are sup
osed to he total abstainers, and the
'ersisns look upon themselves as b
mong the most orthodox among true n
elievers. q !.
One Of the most wonderful things C
! the world is the uniformity of an j
aren't accidents. Thus in Great
ritain, where the statistics are much
etter preserved than in this country, 4
le sbtsl number of deaths by hu- d
ian violence in 1870 was 1888; in b
1863 it was l6,497; it was l6, ,963 in 81
86S; 1886 in 1867; 16,915 in 1866:
1874 in 1865, and 1908 in 1854.
OF only that, but the same uniform
y extends to the manner in which :
le victims met their deaths. How
e we to account for this uniformity,
rcept upon the principle hat in the 4
vine economy of nature there is a
such thing as an accident, or an n