Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-14
M,scelIaneous.

A doctors motto-"faIients anu
long suffering"
One who is often under cloud
The photographer.
A bad habit to get into-A coat
that is not paid for.
Two heads are better than ones
pecially in barrel.
A converted grocer has forsaken
the error of his weighs.
Motto of the Constitutional Con-
vention: "Lo 1 am with you al
ways"
Iowa erected 1895 school houses
last year.
A.sCanadian matron, one hundred
and eight years old, is still able to de-
vote much energy to bringing up her
little boy, aged ninety-three.
Mr.. Kavanah, a member of the
British Parliament, has neither legs
nor arms. He holds his pen in his
mouth when he signs his name.
There are said to be I34 Free
masons, among whom are seven
dukes, in the two houses of the Brit
ish Parliament.
The song in Louisiana -"Tm afioat,
I'm afloat."
The great want of Fair Play, Col
orado, is "a car load of manageable
girls"
"He has left void that cannot be
easily filled" as the bank director
touchingly remarked of the abscond-
ing cashier.
Anything Midas touched was turn |
ed to gold. In these days touch a
man with gold, and he'll turn into
anything.
A Georgia clergyman has thirty
two children, and his parishioners OBJ
ject to his having four pews without
paying for them.
A Yankee wanted the Bridge of
Signs pointed out to him, and then of
fered to bet America had several
bridges twice the size.
Thought for schoolboy's theme
Beauty and bashfulness are often uni
ted; yet the lovliest maiden is adj
mired for her cheek.
A Kansas Judge believes a man
and his wife to be one. He has de-
cided they are both entitled to admis-
sion to 'show" on a ticket which says
'tadmit one"
Any candidate for office in Omaha
who wears a shirt-collar is consider
ed a bloated aristocrat.
Pennsylvania, as is generally
known, takes its name from William s
Penn, the word "sylvania," meaning
woods.
Of all jokes. says the Selma Ga l
zette, that of the legislature passing 7
law to prevent young men under
eighteen from hurting themselves by +,
overwork, is the greatest. Won't \
Young America enjoy the laugh? a
They have a man at Vincennes by '
the name of Welcome Sprinkle. The !
supposition is that he was born at the
close of a long interval of dry weather.
A quarrel between husband and d
wife was thus settled: Husband t
"My dear, there were thirty in this =
ROOM" Wife-"I say there were for s
ty.". Husband-"I say there were
not" Wife-"WeIl, thirty, then, and
the piano, Quitting her hand on the
instrument), piano forte. There"
The San Francisco Bulletin, of the
10th inst, says: 1.-TWO thousand
pounds of bones, the relics of the few :
Celestials who have succumbed to the
climate of Oregon, were received by
the steamer Orifamme, from Port
and, the other day, for shipment to F
China
The government botanist who is
in Australia mentions, in F
IN official dispatch a fig tree which in e
'ize far surpasses the far famed trees
n the Yosemite country This tree
hree feet from the ground measures
so feet in circumference, and at fifty
i've feet-where it sends forth giant 49,
trunk measures 80 feet W W
ound. ou
The grange store started last fall at be
Vinona, Wisconsin, has failed. Liza Sc Sc
ilities $4,000, with no assets; and wi wi
imilar one at Owatonna closed up be
ftera loss of nearly $4,000. wi
Hon. Mr.. Nesmith, of Oregon, gave j,
he mule very clear and unique
tatus when he alluded to it as lone of n,
hose useful animals that has no pride %
# ancestry anG no hone of noctar;tv ;,