Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-06-11
M,sceIIaneOus.
Real bawl dresses-baby clothes.


The fishing rods over the shoulders
of many, nowadays, show that the
bent of the public mind is the bend
of a hook, and the line OF action Is a
fish line.
The most trying circumstances un-
der which boy can be, is when an
other boy in the alley is winking at
him, and his father offering hlm a
nickel to carry in pile of wood.
Albany Journal: @"We say that 2
and 2 are 4, and we defy the Argus to
disprove it"
Albany Argus: "We say that the
Journal doesn't know what it's talk
ing about, and that 2 and 2 make
22.''
A Goodlettsville Tenn. negro,
having one day last week quarreled
with his wife, secured a moccasin
snake, boiled it's head in his wife's
tea, and the woman was only saved
from death by the administration of
antidotes.
A Milwaukee boy has swallowed
half dozen steel buttons, and his
mother doesn't have to scream for
him when he is out on the street
playing with those Cluckerson boys.
She just brings a magnet to the door,
and he flies to it like needle to the
pole.
A Detroit female, breathing hard
and carrying large hickory cane,
ran down the street, the other morn
ing, inquiring if anybody had seen a
s'small, crosseyed man anywhere along
here?' Several persons asked,
"What's the matter?' But she hur-
ried on, saying, Haven't time now;
I want to get my paws on the fawn-
ing sycophant for just minutep
A Chinese shipbuilder conceived
the idea of constructing vessel
whose paddle wheels should be re-
volved, water wheel fashion, by wa
ter let down on them from above.
The water was to be pumped up into
tanks by apparatus attached to the
wheels. An expensive craft was
built at Canton upon this plan, and
the inventor was really surprised and
panied when it wouldn't go.
The San Joaquin Valley, in Cali
fornia, has been transformed by irri-
cation from desert into fertile dis
trict. The fall of rain there during
the summer is SO slight that crops
wither and come to nothing, and the
farmers had become discouraged and
nearly ruined. Last year they COM
bined to build canals for supply OF
water, and now farm after farm is be-
ginning to yield profit.
A fashionable milliner lin Punch: }
sfYou'll have the flower on the left
side of the bonnet, of course, Mad
amer" Fashionable lady-"Well-
er-no! The fact is, there's pillar on
the left side of my pew in church, so
that only the right side of my head
is seen by the congregation. OF
course, 1 could change my pew"
Fashionable lady's husband-"Ya-as;
or even the church, you know, if nee
essary." Fashionable milliner con-
siders.
The Danbury man, who is in Eu-
rope, came upon the broken walls of a
ruin, the-other day, and they made a
deep impression upon his American
mind. He writes: "How many a
merry step had passed along its cor
ridors, and how many sad face had
peered from it's lattices! A flood of
strange, weird reveries set in upon
my soul, and carried me by its power
away down the ages that are gone.
/ said to the cabman, How old ruin
is thatP pointing to the walls with a
trembling finger. That? That's a
new 'ouse going up for Peter Steven
son, the linen draper on George
street."
The hydrophane, or so called Mex
lean opal, takes its name from the
peculiar property of becoming trans
parent after immersion in water, and
in that state it often displays pris-
matte colors of a beauty equal to
those of the opal itself. Although
very similar to the latter, as far as
substance goes, it is of porous tex
ture, and very absorbent. On be-
coming dry again, its transparency
vanishes, leaving a white or yellowish
surface. 1t is said that, when boiled
in oil, the hydrophane acquires the
same appearance as when immersed
in water, and retains it in part for
years, as the oil does not dry.
A young man in England named
Midwinter married a young lady with
great expectations, who happened to
be ward in chancery. In order to
do so he made declarations before the
proper officer to the effect that he
had obtained her guardians consent.
AS result he found himself in Gus
tody for contempt of court in marry
ing ward in chancery without the
proper consent, and in the next place
was arrested on charge of perjury
committed in making his declarations.
AS law is severely enforced in Eng
land, the young man instead of jump
ing into fortune has got himself in
for term of penal servitude.
The Portland Advertiser states that
a claim has been discovered to a
large lot of real estate (seven acres }
in the heart of Portland, including
Market Square, and it is supposed
that civil suit will be instituted by
Miss Skillings, of New Hampshire,
who claims that her ancestors of the
same name were the owners, the land
having been decided to Thomas Skill
.lings in 1858 by George Cleaves, the
first settler. This was leased for
ninety mine years in 1892, and has
therefore only seventeen years to run.
This is expected to create sensation
among the interested holders Of the