Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-10-08
M,sceIlaneOus.
A rising mana growing youth.
,o on his metal-shOe

Up to August Sth no rain had fal-
len at El Paso for 365 days.
Balloons might be used by police
men for taking people up
The Nebraska 'hoppers chawed up
wire fence that was painted green.
A man 1O4 years old died in Baltic,
Conn, and the State is grateful.
The most modest thing in the
world is a clock-it is always running
itself down.
A Houghton Mich. barber adver-
tises that he gives ecstatlcai ana
comforting shaves.
It is said that the Mexican pearl
fisheries on the Pacific coast are al
most exhausted.
There is a married couple at Lyn-
don, VT, whose ages are 103 and SO
respectively.
The California vintage this season
is estimated at 100000 gallons,
against 100000 last year.
The Kansas City Journal speaks OF
the Aldermen of that town as ''gen-
tlemen with red ayes and noes"
A young man in Frisco embezzled
a diamond to pay his tailor's bill.
Tailors are at liberty to cut this out
and send it to their customers.
St. Louis complains that there is
too much talent among its public
Ciceros, and. suggests that some Of
them should be muzzled.
A serenading party at Dubuque
were invited IN, furnished with a
lunch duly seasoned with jalap and
other drugs, and the voice of the mid
night song hasn't been heard in the
land since.
It was Chicago lady who sent an
order to Rome to a celebrated sculp-
tor for zone marble figger of Apoller
in his close, to cost not more nor
$1,000"
A recent Canadian tourist describes
a calash as "a chaise, minus top,
with seat for the driver on the dash
er, and built with exclusive reference
to jolting, and it fulfills its mission"
"Yes, Job suffered some," said an
Illinois deacon, 'but he never knew
what it was to have his team run
away and kill his wife right in the
busy season when hired girls want
three dollars week.
A County Treasurer in Alabama
can't read or write, but he has put
$1,000 where no one but himself can
find it. This shows that a collegiate
education isn't essential to the ac-
quirement of wealth.
Jones says when he goes fishing he
never can catch any fish because they
won't bite. He now thinks of fishing
for mosquitoes, because, unless his
fortune should suddenly desert him,
he will have bites enough.
There is a house in Hanover COW
cred with pine shingles that were put
on the day the battle of Bunker Hill
was fought. 1t is not an old looking
roof, and one would Judge it had been
shingled about twenty years.
A gentleman of Boston, just re-
turned from abroad, travelled twenty
thousand miles within the last year
without changing days programme
for bad weather, and never, for seven
months, unstrapping his umbrella.
A turkey hen in Lancaster County,
Pa, disappeared from her usual
haunts few weeks ago, and returned
after a short absence, accompanied
by a brood of young partridges,
which she is now taking care of in
the most motherly way. The little
strangers are said to be very tame.
An amiable citizen of Burlington
called to see another who was danger
ously i'll. Attracted by festive pair
of boots in the room of the invalid
the visitor tried them on, when turn
ing to see the sick man, with much
sympathy he remarked: "Supposing
the worst to happen, I'll take these
boots"
1t is stated that the construction of
the outer girdle of forts for the de-
fense of Paris will be commenced
next November, and that they will
give employment to nearly two thou
sand workmen.
Some months ago man out West
heard that St. CroiX rum was good
for hay fever. The next day he was
taken with the disease, and he hasn't
recovered yet, though the medicine
has been taken daily. This is only
another of the thousands of incidents
showing what virtue there is in pa
tience.
Straw jewelry is something new.
The earrings are small baskets,
stars, daggers, ETC., and there is a
funny kind of bracelet, like stripes of
cane chair bottom. The latest nov
city in earrings is probably the sin
gular pair which was sported by a
dashing Partisan belle at recent
wedding. From each ear hung a
small gold gridiron, on which was
laid a heart formed of garnets.
The surface of Egypt capable of
being cultivated is 7,264,640 Tor H.
354 square miles,, of which about
1925, 900 are actually under cultiva-
tion. Steam is now used in irriga-
tion by all the large landowners, but
the small cultivators have stills most
primitive mode, using, where oxen
or camels are not employed turning
the wheels, leaky baskets to raise the
water into channel, whence it flows
in rills over the land.
New Railroad Project.
A railroad meeting is called at
Xenia, October Z, to discuss the
question of building narrow guage
railway from Cincinnati to Gallipolis.
via. Lebanon, Xenia, Jamestown.
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