Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26
Miscellaneous.

ny inety
Three Territories r knocking
at the door.
The expenditures of the Peabody
Trustees for last year amounted to
s195, 900.
The tariff on snuff is fifty cents a
pound. This makes it mighty ex-
pensive to neeze
By industry a good farmer in
Europe can get fifty dollars a year
and a suit of clothes as wages.
The one thing about spring that
we never could reconcile ourselves
to is house cleaning.
Don't cram the child at schooi-it
is bad for the brain; not at the Ia
ble-it is bad for the stomach.
Children's sewing machines are
something new. They stitch, hem.
and haste very nicely Many are
now being used TO prepare Miss Dol
lie Dumpkin's wardrobe for sum
mer.
Among other important business
which the Maine Legislature, at its
late session, accomplished, was the
incorporation of twenty three manu
featuring companies, with a capital
of over $1,000, 900, and thirty sever
y cheese factories, with q capital Of
nearly $500, 900.
There is no use of trying to arouse
children in the morning, at this sea-
son of the year, under the maxim
that the early bird catches the
worm There isn't any worm 10
catch, and they know it. Just as
0 O as the frost is out. so that the
worn can be caught, the boys will
be mp and have him to go fishing
with.
Philadelphia stands on her digni
ty, and will resent 1T if Congress and
the States do not aid the centennial
project. Hear what the Press says:
aDriven to that alternative, Penn
sylvania will honor the 4th of July.
1876, herself, singly and alone, and
the recollection of the neglect of her
sisters VIII NC W ncT llhO lbO ~
=. lection of a personal insult"
The latest thing in dolls is a young
lady of tinted wax. who, when
wound up and given a high chair at
the table, reaches out her arms.
SEXES a bit of bread, and slowly puts
it in her mouth. When she has
done this a certain number of times
tits neces airy to open her back, re-
move the foo !, and wind her mp
again. ould that human beings
could be Renewed of indigestion in
this manne
Gala lilies, it issaid, can be made
splendidly thrifty for indoors in
winter, by a summer baking accom-
plished thus: In June, place the
pots containing them on their sides
under a tree, or in any shaded place,
and there leave them, without atten-
ton, until September. The leaves
will, of course, wither away, and
the earth in the pots dry and harden
almost to the consistency of brick.
Upon being taken indoors in au.
tumn and watcred thenceforth daily.
the plants will start into vigorous
growth and bear noble flowers all
winter.
The Richmond Wing says that
the trial of MeCarty for the killing
of Mordecai IN a duel near that city,
a few months ago, developed the
fact that no offense had been com
mitted against the anti-duelling
statute of Virginia. That statute
denounces IS murder the killing in a
duel fought without the state by any
resident of Virginia, upon a previ-
Il agreement made within the
State, but is entirely silent as to any
such killing within the limits of the
Commonwealth, and thus leaves it
merely an Offense ut common law,
which accounts for the curious YER
dict of the jury.
At a musical party in New York
City the other evening m Of the
ladies who was on the programme
for a ballad lost her self-possession
and courage at the eleventh hour,
and said she Greatly couldn't sing
before so many people," Where
upon her father, who was among the
guests, entered into an angry alter
cation with her, which terminated
abruptly by the daughter calling
her father a fool, and announcing
her intention of going straight
home" The rapid return of the
demoiselle's self possession and
courage SO startled the company
that the party broke up Don after.
Hundreds and thousands of men,
says Charles Reade, take a share in
the country's public morality, legis-
late, build churches, and die respect
able, who would be jail birds ooner
or later if their sole income was the
pay of a bankers clerk, and their
eyes and hands and arms rubbed
daily against hundred pound notes
as his do.
Among the later obituaries the
following will not take a very dis
tant "back seat"
OH bury Bartholomew Out in the woods,
In a beautiful hole in the ground,
Where the humble bees buZz and wood
peckers sing,
And the straddle bugs tumble around 4:
So that, in winter, when the snow and
the slush
Have covered his last little bed,
His brother Artemus can 20 out with
Jane,
And visit the place with his sled.
CLOTHING THE NEcK.-The good
n of the following is apparent,
and it N to us from high author
ity: