Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
M,sceIIaneous.


And now the tuneful frog indites
his plaintive lay to the pale silver
moon, O. nights. And she merely
winks back at him.
A French wit said of a man who
was exceedingly fat that nature only
made him to show how far the human
skin would stretch without breaking.
Cape May is to have new opera
house-such a one as will be availa-
BILE for any public amusement which
may be presented to the ''populace oil
the day"
It is said that the essential oil in
onions is so powerful that if man
were to die shortly after eating one,
his brain would exhale the odor of
the vegetable.
Our unprotected bachelor hopes his
landlady won't join the Cremation
Society, as he would be sorry to have
her hashes handed down to future
generations.
1t is said that counterfeit half dol
lars, bearing the date of 1871, are cir
culating in Sacramento, and bogus
quarters, dated 1874, are very numer-
Gus in San Francisco.
An ostentatious undertaken of Troy,
having charge of an aristocratic
funeral lately, mounted the altar
steps and delivered the following ad
dress: Ladies and gentlemen will
please keep their seats till the corpse
passes out
MA, has aunty got bees in her
mouth?" mo; why do you ask such
question: cause that leetle man
with a heap O hair on his face cotched
hold of her and said he was going to
take the honey from her lips; and
she said, We'll, make hastep"
How it goes to be fresh married in
Buena Vista is thus told by the Sioux
Rapids Echo: Zone of our young
married men thinks so much of his
lovely wife that he lights the candle
two or three times every night to look
at her. Then he quietly goes to
sleep and chuckles in his sleep like
turkey gobbler, he feels so good"
Some one says if we would show
ourselves really good to our daugh-
ters, we ''must be generous to them
in a truer sense than that of hang
ing trinkets on their necks." No
words could be more sensible. Nine
girls out of ten would rather have a
camel's hair shawl than a necklace.
Parents should remember this.
Another one of those benefactors
of the human race has made his APP
pearance in Worcester, Mass, with
an invention which he calls the boys
pocket arrow" There is not much
excitement about it just at present,
but lively times are expected as soon
as the number of one-eyed people
increases.
A new way to claim old debts has
been practiced in Brooklyn, N. Y,
where truckman accompanied by a
boy bearing aloft conspicuous pla-
card, with the legend, waiting for
$12 for removing furniture and put
ting down carpets" has made the life
of a prominent citizen a burden.
Believing that he had suffered enough
agony by reason of the inevitable
May moving, the gentleman very
properly had this latest disturber of
his peace of mind promptly arrested.
1t is reported that the steamer
Queen Elizabeth, recently lost near
Gibraltar, had on board one of the
most valuable cargoes ever shipped
from Calcutta. The entire value of
the cargo is estimated at 50, $4,000,
including 81, 100000 worth of indigo,
$250,000 worth of tea, and $415, 900
of silk, shellac, and other articles
The vessel was valued at $135,O0O,
making the aggregate loss $2,775,-
600. The vessel and cargo were in
sured for nearly 100000.
Among curious wills that of an of
ficer in the East India Company's
service certainly deserves mention
for its originality. Being very poor,
the testator bequeathed ''to the Gov
ernor of Bengal the office of paying
any sum or sums which may be found
at my death that / owe to any person
in needy circumstances-the whole
can not amount to more than 800
rupees" The legatee generously ac-
cepted this equivocal legacy. The
testator also wished it to be under
stood that he won the amount of his
burial expenses from certain under
taker at game of billiards.
Gov. Dix, of New York, has signed
the compulsory education bill. BY
its provisions it compels parents and
guardians to give children of from
eight to fifteen years of age, either in
a school or at home, at least fourteen
weeks regular instruction every year
IN reading, writing, arithmetic, Eng
lish grammar, and geography. It
prohibits the employment of children
within the ages named at any labor
during the time when the district
schools are opened, and school Off
GERS are given authority to see that
it is enforced.
Such stories as the following-the
truth of which is vouched for by a
San Francisco journal-tend to re-
store our faith in the native heroism
of Lo, and incline to the belief that,
after all, the reviled Indians code of
honor and gallantry is not nearly as
black as has been painted: "Six
weeks ago seven male Indians and a
young Indian woman started to cross
Clear Lake, near the northern end, in
small boat, which was capsized three
miles from land. They righted it,
but as the lake was rough they could
not bail it out, and while full of wa
ter it would not support more than