Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-01-29
Misccllaneous.

I'LL
G. Ion;s ON the 4th Of February.
awbat comes after To" asked a
.oscher of a small pupil, who was
learning the alphabet. He received
the bewildering reply: "You do-to
see Liza"
The real "Home Insurance Com
psny''-A good wife.
In France the horse chestnut IS
used extensively for the manufacture
of starch.
1t is said that heating the water In
which steel is to be tempered pre-.
vents the development of flaws ana
cracks.
Sir Samuel Baker says that fire can
not advance through grass, ever "nen
it is blowing a gale, faster 'nan SiA
miles an hour.
Recent experiments show that wa,
fer which remains over night IN leao
mines contains one tenth OF . gram
of lead to the gallon.
A California lady owns l73,O65
acres of land.
Broker-"How are you off for mon
ey this morningP" "Cashier-"I am
off with what little there vas in the
bank. Good by"
Kindness is like the u in spring,
melting slowly away winters Snow
and ice, and shedding warmth every
where.
Thirteen people died in Philadel-
phia within q week recently, the
youngest of whom was 80 and the
Oldest SO years of age.
Vice stings US ever in our pleasures,
but virtue consoles US even in our
sins.
There are $40 places of worship in
New York City, with a total seating
capacity of 30S. 500 persons, and the
aggregate estimated valuation OF
these churches is $40, 000, 900.
Sleeping or taking tobacco on ''the
Lords Day in the time of the public
exercise in 1862. vas punished by
the authorities of Portsmouth, n. H.,
with imprisonment in a cage.
"That dog of yourn flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg. and ]
notify you that l intend to shoot il
the first time / see it." THE dog is
not mad" "Mad! I know he's moi
mad. What has he got to be mad
about? It's me that's mad"
A mar in Hartford has stopped his
newspaper because his name was
printed in a list of advertised letters,
and his wife, happening to see it first,
went and got it for him and found it
was from a young lady. who COM
plsined that he didn't meet her at
Worcester, as he promised.
A young man in Detroit who was
married about six months ago was re
Gently finding fault with the prices at
the market He said he could not
understand how it was, for they used
to 6gure it out as he sat with his arm
round her waist on Sunday nights,
and all it would cost them to live was
81 IS q week, and now he spent SIS
and was hungry half the time.
The patent Office in Washington is
literally submerged by inventors, who
are piling in their applications at the
rate of six hundred a week. Genius is
plenty.
A New Haven editor spent last Sun
day in Slawson, and attended church.
When the contribution box came
around be was in a doze, but on being
nudged, hastily exclaimed, 81 have a
pass"
Max Muller puts the number of Is.
ralites in the world at 1000, 600, while
Kolb puts it at 1000, 600, and Mr..
Pressed at 5000, OO0.
The Baptist denomination is to-day,
numerically, seventeen times as strong
in proportion to the population as it
was 100 years ago.
Talking about upsettiug sleighs,
Wicks remarked to a young lady he
was taking out to drive, 81 always
pick out the softest place l can, when
I upset my sleigh" She replied,
"Why, l should think it would grow
monotonous, always falling on your
head"
Some careful experiments have been
made recently on the comparative yield
of fields on which covered or uncov-
cred manure has been used. 1t was
found that the field fortified with the
covered manure produced forty per
cent. more potatoes and nearly twenty
five per cent. more wheat than the
other.
Thompson is not going 10 do any
thing more in conundrums. He re
Gently asked his wife the difference be-
tween his head and a hogshead, and she
said there was none. He says that is
not the right answer.
An inebriate, some little while back,
got into a car, and became very trouble
some and annoying to the other passen
gers, so much so that it was proposed
to eject him; but a kind hearted and
reverend doctor, who was also a pas.
senger, interposed for him, and soothed
him into good behavior for the remain
der of the journey. Before leaving.
however, he scowled upon the other oc-
cupants and muttered some words of
contempt, but shook hands warmly
with the doctor, and said, "Good day,
my friend; see you know what it is to
be drunk"
During the past year there were ex
ported from New York 20, 700 barrels
of shoe pegs, valued at over $50 1000,
and 1.340 cases of shoe nails, valued at
$4,000, while the import of shoe
bristles during the same time amounted
to nearly $4,000.
Young Smith was walking out with
the idol of his heart, the other evening.
and they chose the f~avorite resort of