Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-08-20
miscellaneous.
Engaged for every set-a hen.

OhuCICO Is nOW uScNl
by the ladies as cosmetic.
The paper containing many fine
POINTS, paper of needles.
Colorado calls for more women. 1t
has scarcely a single one.
They have no Mr.. or Mrs. in Ice
land. 1t is only lugibjorg or Val
gerdr.
Be temperate in diet. Our first
parents ate themselves out of house
and home.
Although doubtful things are un
certain, it cannot be denied that Ger
tain things are doubtful.
If all the faithful dogs are to be
muzzled in the bathing season, how
are they to save. their masters from
drowning?
The cranberry takes its turn as the
victim of the numerous enemies Of
vegetation. The crop in Wisconsin
is suffering from the attacks of q
worm called the fire worm.
On the 10th ult., Mrs. Margaret,
the beloved wife of August Peters, a
brewer of Alpena, Mich, died ut the
county pOOrhouse. On the 10th, the
bereaved husband was married to
Miss Annie Glance.
"Quite hail storm last night" re,
marked a guest to a California land
lord, as he came down stairs the Other
morning. mo; only a few of the
boys shooting at Chinaman, and the
balls rattling against the house."
The new postal cards are to bC
ready in September but the pOstmas
ters are to be directed to sell all the
old before the new are put in the
market. Is this because the new are
supposed to be better or worse thar
the old?
There are only handful of old
Virginia politicians left, but every
one of them is trying to get into Con
gress. Stuart, Wise, Smith, Hunter
Letcher and Bocock are on the stump,
eager to represent the dear people al
Washington.
The dispute between the Church
parties in England representing con-
formity and dissent has affected the
cricket clubs. The st. MichaePs
Club ORTHODOXY refuses to play with
the Andover Club (dissentient) !, oil
with any dissenting club.
'Do you believe there are any peO
pie who never heard the old Hun
dredY" asked musical young lady
at the family table. "Lots of folks
never heard it," interrupted the pre-
cocious young brother. ''Whert
are they, | should like to knowY
In the deaf and dumb asylums!'
Tightly fitting dresses and the Sa
ratoga wriggle are all the rage at the
watering places. According to +,
Troy lady, who has let the secret out
the Saratoga wriggle is produced by
so tying the limbs that they cal
move only six or eight inches at :
time. The shorter the tie the NOR
exquisite the wriggle.
A young lady at Norristown, put ;
piece of wedding cake under her pill
low, and went to bed with the happy
belief that she would dream of see
ing her future husband. That even
ing, however, she had eaten two
plates of ice cream, about a pint o
berries, several sweet cakes, and two
large pickles, and now she says sht
would rather remain single all hel
life than marry the man she saw il
her dream.
There is probably nothing else OF
earth that will roll like a hat. A
gust of wind gets under your tile
and before you realize the extent o.
the catastrophe you see it striking {
bee line for the nearest puddle of wa
ter, into which it settles with an in
difference that is highly exaspera
ting. No man ever yet caught his
hat until it got ready to stop, which
is when it brings up under a fence
or when he drives it into the mud
with his foot.
Among the Captains of the numer-
Gus canal boats that go to Alexan-
dria, Va, are some four or five who
are females. Their sex, though, does
not initiate against their efficiency,
for they can blow as shrill a blast
upon a horn, steer as clear of pass
ing boat, and keep their crews as
well in hand as any male Captain on
the canal, and, what is still better, in
the inevitable disputes that result
from their vocation, always come off
victorious.
The students from Bates College,
Lewiston, Me-, and Phillips Academy,
Exeter, who are serving as table-wait-
ers at the Glen House, are giving
universal satisfaction. A gentleman
who stopped at the Glen was so much
pleased with their manly bearing that
he left with Mr.. Milliken $500 to be
divided among them, giving to each a
little more than seven dollars. Their
regular pay is $50 a month. The
boys thus employ their vacation to
aid in paying their bills of term time.
The smallest postOffice in the world
is kept in barrel, which swings from
the outermost rock of the mountains
oyerhanging the Straits of Magellan
opposite Terra del Fuego. Every
passing ship opens it to place letters
in or take them out. Every ship un-
dertakes to forward all letters in it
that it is possible for them to trans
nit 1t hangs there by its iron chain,
beaten and battered by the winds
and storm; but no locked and barred
office on land is more secure. 1t is
not in the track of mail robbers.
THE total number of emigrants
from Ireland in the first six months
of the present year was 45,7S1, of
whom %, ,163 were males and 20,617
Ae comnared with the cor