Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Miscellaneous
Many. men have to keep the "oIu,
,ow.a.days, because nobody will take
it.
Years are carried off on the wings
of moments.
We possess only that which we
comprehend. =,
Ministers of the interior-The cook
and the doctor.
A woman's pride and the sailors
euide-The needle.
Brooklyn has twenty-five lady ply
sicians.
The brain of Agsssiz weighed % 4
avoirdupois ounces.
Chief-Justice Waite is said to have
the largest head of any man in Ohio.
Of all the devices for ventilation,
nothing equals the open CRATE.
In press -"Yesterday's Table
CLOTH"
The home circuit-WalBing about
with a baby at night.
Mowers melodies-The sharpen.
ing of the scythe.
What is the keynote of good breed.
ing? B natural.
Five Senators and thirteen Repre-.
%sentatives in the present Congress
were born in Vermont.
A French photographer has in.
vented a process by which he repro.
duces landscapes in colors.
Each West Point cadet costs the
country $4,000 by the time he is I'll
to take his place on the active list.
London has III square miles, $780,.
o hvus~s, -ua e,a5o,oon i-hnhi-
tants.
The fathom (six feet is derived
from the height of a full grown man.
A hand, in horse measure, is four
inches.
The great bell in the Kremlin tow
err in Moscow, Russia, sounds during
the whole time that the Nicene creed
is chanted.
An acre is 4,S40 square yards, or
SO yards, one loot, 81 inches each
way. A square mile, 1860 yards each
way, containing $40 acres.
Young men must WOO gently here
after; the prohihitory law will pre-
vent ladies from accepting "ardent
spirits"
Seventeen Thousand persons are
living or charity IL Chicago, this win
ter, according TO the Inter- Ocean.
A legal stone weighs fourteen
pc Inds, or the eighth of a hundred,
in England. and sixteen pounds in
Holland.
Colts revolver company are making
a gun which will discharge 1900 bull
lets a minute.
Oranges, composed wholly of col
ed persons, are to be formed in
Arkansas and Mississippi.
A drunken Frenchman chatters; q
drunken German sings; a drunken
Briton fights; a drunken Spaniard
swears; a drunken American talks
politics.
Oxford. Mass, seems to be the
paradise of old people. There are
in that town upward of 1870 persons
over the age of 10 years, and IS of
these live within about one mile of
the Postofice.
There are two ways of wasting
money; by spending it and by hoard
ing it unproftably. The former is
doing evil by commission, and the
latter by omission.
Mr.. Proctor says that this earth Of
ours at the end of 1000 years will
be behind time about three minutes.
How shall we regulate our watches
then?
United States Minister Scruggs, on
refusing to take off his hat while a re-
ligious procession in the capital OF
Columbia was passing, was rudely
treated by the crowd.
The other day a sermonizing Aber
deem pastor said TO one of his con
gregation who happened to slip down
in the street while he was passing,
brother, brother, sinners stand on
slippery places" The fallen one,
sensitive and smarting, responded,
81 see they do; but l couldn't"
Many a child goes astray, not be
cause there is a want of prayer or
virtue at home, but simply because
home lacks sunshine. A child needs
smiles as much as flowers need sun
beams. If a thing p~leases they are
apt to seek it; if it displeases they
are apt to avoid it If home is the
place where faces are sour, and words
are harsh and fault finding lie eve in
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