Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-01-22
miscellaneous.

1916.
A Pittsburg peanut vender has
$4,000 in bank.
Pittsburg spends $4,000, 600 for
intoxicating drinks.
Switzerland is to hold a worlds
fair at Geneva in 1875.
A Circuit Court-The longest way
home from singing school.
California is considering the aboli-
ton of capital punishment.
"Bad temper bites at both ends"
is q maxim to be remembered.
Chillicothe is flooded with counter
felt national bank notes.
The Spanish Government has sup
pressed several newspapers.
Coshocton was lighted with gas for
the first time on Christmas eve.
A twelve year old boy was found
dead drunk in Chillicothe, recently.
Monthly temperance meetings are
being held in different places in
Columbiana County, o.
The consumption of horses and
donkeys as food is steadily increas-
ing in France,
Avoid lamp posts upon returning
from the club. Lamp posts are apt
to become social, and keep you out
late.
A San Franciscan being annoyed
by a mud puddle in the street, re-
ported that he had lost a $50 piece
therein; whereupon the pool was
speedily emptied by eager seekers
after the money.
New Jersey iron mines yielded
last year $4,000 tones of ore, of
which 100000 were manufactured
into pig iron. The value of the
product is about $4,000. 00O. In
1867 the product of the mines was
only 300, 900 tons.
The last census returns show the
existance of more trades and pro-
fessions among the women than one
would suppose possible. Besides
women farmers, there are fortv-five
female stock herders, five BARRIERS,
twenty four dentists. two hostlers,
three professional hunters and trap
pers, five lawyers, 545 physicians,
ninety seven clergywomen, seven
sections, ten canal women, 1875 dray
women. one pilot, four gas stokers,
thirty three gunsmiths, seven gun
powder makers, sixteen ship riggers,
with a large number of artisans,
mechanics, inventors, telegraph
operators and teachers of Laviga-
ton.
One of the most curious machines
lately invented is the pulsometer. II
is a steam pump, operating without
cylinder, piston, piston rod, stuffing
boxes, glands, cans, eccentrics, side
valves, cranks, or fly wheels. The
steam and water are brought directly
in contact in certain chambers where
the alternating u and pressure
exerted by the steam is simply util-
lied to lift and force the water by a
species of pulsating action.
Engaging photographer--"Justlo look
a little pleased, Miss! Think of imp
There are 100 men residing in six
counties in California who own 3, l40,-
900 acres of land.
The Marquis of Westminster, with
his London rem roll of $4,000, 900
per annum, has not felt any i'll effects
from the late panic.
In Ceylon the marriage ceremony
is performed by tying the couple to-
gether by the thumbs In this coun
try they are generally put together
by the ears.
Small children dressed entirely N
white fur, with blue ribbon trim
mings, are a conspicuous feature of
New York ~promenades.
An old lady called at a drug store
the other day and breathlessly said:
"There! | have serenaded all the way
down here to get a receipt prescribed,
and disremember the combustibles.
A desperate of the name of Thos
Stone, in Louisville, killed his moth
er-in-law, stabbed his wife five times
with a Barlow knife, and then cut his
own throat.
The Boston Transcript says: "If
the gates of heaven were suddenly
to swing open and all mankind be
asked on equal terms to enter into
the kingdom, don't you know some
people who would pause to see what
some other people were going to do
about it, and some who would draw
back for fear the celestial city was
getting vulgar; and some who would
refuse altogether, if they saw the so
and SOS abont to enter?"
During the last eighteen years
there have heen $50 homicides in
New York City. making an average
Of about AZ per mum The small
est number appears in 1856 and 1866,
in each of which years there were 35;
the largest number was in 1865, when
there were II, and the next highest
10 1858, when there were SO. Last
year there we're Sc, and in 1872 the
record shows 81.
1t is stated that there are fifty wild
ows in Orwell. 1t you don't know
where Orwell is, remember that ig
norance is bliss.
Young lady, Tuesday night at the
post Office: "If | don't get a letter by
this mail | want to know what he was
doing Sunday, that's ALL"
TIE GATE CLosED.-Some people