Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-09
miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
interesting mana bank clerk.
A man is thinnest when he's
shaving.
Many man with means is mean
man.
The love for office is the root of
much evil.
To keep food ON a weak stomach
Bolt it down.
Moonlight is merely the beautiful
old age of day.
Deep waters make still noise. So
do deep men.
Rats are known for the cellarity of
their movements.
Dark rooms are unfit for the dwell
lings of human beings.
An unpleasant sort of arithmetic
Division among families.
Happiness is where 1t is found,
and seldom where it is sought.
No matter how ignorant man is,
he can at least make his mark.
The season for sleeping on window
sills and rolling off is here.
Monogram buttons are introduced
on some of the new walking-suit-
Why should magistrate be very
cold? Because he represents just
ice.
A Portland (Me. railway crossing
is called ''the gridiron of death"
Little girls should remember that
murderers die of dancing rope.
Colorado claims to yield sapphires,
one of which was sold recently for
$500.
The jackson Whig and Tribune
has been presented with hens egg
which is the perfect shape of wal
rus.
1t is proposed to try cremation on
the dogs. Well they would burn
easily on account of the quantity of
UdTh III Iucuu-
A Virginian is under arrest for
pawning his wife's corset for pint of
whisky. He believed that tight
lacing would kill her.
An Atlanta child, only three years
old, makes its parents proud and hap
py by carrying forty-eight pounds of
meal fifty yards.
A Delaware man, arrested for muir
der, proved that on that night and at
the hour of the murder he was at
home mauling his wife, and this fact
saved him. A word to the wise is,
and so forth.
The old fashioned women's cru
sade-A boys head and a fine tooth
ed comb.
A Belvidere (Vt.) girl, 13 years
old, carried on a sugar orchard, all
alone, last spring.
A Vermont debating club is now
struggling with the question, (Which
eats the most chickens-ministers or
owlsY'
Lots wife wouldn't have looked
back, but a woman with a new dress
passed her and she wanted to see if
the back breadth was ruffied.
Of 1S2 boys in the Connecticut
State Reform School, the annual re-
port of the Superintendent makes the
interesting statement that $50 are
harsl
Some cremation: The number of
deaths resulting from the sale and
use of an adulterated article of coal
oil, amounts to two thousand annual
ly, in all the States and Territories.
The popular phrase 'too thin is
from Shakespeare. See Henry VIII.
act v, scene 4; ''You are ever good
in sudden concentrations, Bishop of
Winchester, but know l come not to
hear such batteries now, and in my
presence they are too thin"
Connecticut has 5,12S manufac-
tories, employing as laborers 1854
men, 20,S10 women, and 1929 boys
and girls. The capital is $95, 2S1, ,27S,
wages $3S,97S,187, the materials
worked up being worth S86,419,579
and the products turned out $161,-
065,474.
Peaches are a dollar pound in
San Francisco.
New Workers who can afford it eat
peaches at 81 25 peach.
Missouri papers complain that the
Penitentiary there is the worst gov
erned institution in the State.
A Pennsylvania town has an ordi-
nance ito prevent bathing within
the borough limits Do the people
have to go out of town to perform
their ablutions?
The Shah of Persia is about to
erect palace on an English model,
and he has imported large number
of English workmen to aid in its con-
struction and furnishing.
We had better begin to pack our
trunks and prospect for a new loca-
ton if, as the Saturday ReUie,o owl
ishly affirms, there are changes be-
yond the power of man to arrest, and,
long before our planet has dropped
into the sun, it will have become an
unsuitable abode for civilized be-
ings." But where shall we go?
A PLEA FOR THE MULLEN.-It is
something of wonder to find any,
body saving q word in favor of this