Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-02
Miscellaneous.


Milk is one dollar q gallon in Gal
weston, Texas.
The basest men have the lowest
estimate of women.
In Nevada. gambling houses are
licensed institutions, and the gam
blers are an influential body of men,
especially about election day.
Twenty seven Nashville ladies
vowed not to wear anything more ex-
pensive than calico to church, and
they stuck to it, as none of them
have attended church since.
AT New Sweden, Me-, a Swedish
boy eleven years old has made this
winter 10000 shingles. Hecut down
the trees, sawed and split the rift,
shaved and bundled the shingles him
self.
The New York Tribune was not
the first paper of that name. The
Chicago Tribune was established as
a weekly Democratic organ April A.,
1910. Its New York namesake was
first published on the 10th of April,
1871.
A Brooklyn young man who sat
down to mediate in his sweetheart s
lap, had occasion to caution her
against looping up her skirts with
pins. He found that the consequences
had a tendency 10 disturb his mental
poise.
At a Juvenile party, one little fell
low, rejoicing in the splendor Of
his new clothes, went up to another
with the triumphant remark: "Yol
amt dressed as well as l am
"Well," retorted the other, Il can
lick you, anyhow"
At a eoncer a celebrated violin'st
was performing a solo on one string,
when a fellow in the audience WAS
heard to say, "Well, 10. if the times
are so hard that 8 fellow cant buy
but one string to his fiddle. it's time
somebody passed round the hatI'
Rochester people are fairly enlisted
in fighting the gas company. About
1000 houses or stores have aban-
doned the use Of gas, and are fitted
with kerosene Amps. The appear.
anees indicate hat the company, OF
the remaining gas consumers, will
suffer considerably at the next quar-
ter.
DR.. A. L Elwyn, of Philadelphia,
has given to III New Hampshire
Historical Society a fac smile of the
autographs oPthe merchants and 9th.
er citizens of Philadelphia who sub.
scribed 10 the non importation reso
buttons of l165. The list contains
abont three hundred names, and the
handwriting is said to be remarkably
clear and beautiful.
'The Lord Raleigh Grape vine,'
which vas growing when Sir Walter
landed at Roanoke Island in 1910,
and was then but three inches in di
ameter, is now spoken Of as one Of
the largest vines in the world. II
covers one and a half acres, and last
year yielded 46 barrels of wine-lS4C
gallons in all--whieh sold for 50 pei
gallon, yielding $3.50.
A statue of the Virgin, twenty
feet in height, is to he erected il
Havre. to commemorate the preserva
ton of that city from the Germans
1t will be placed on the highest poin'
of the road by which the German:
were intending to enter the town
and will bear in golden letters tn,
following inscription: "Havre pre-
served from the Prussian invasion
1870-lS72."
A London chemist has discovered
that the very bricks of which houses
are constructed contain germs Of
disease. He says the refuse of the
table and kitchen are thrown into the
ash barrels, and the ashes are after.
ward used for mixing with the clay
of which bricks are made. The
baking process, it is said. does moi
destroy the active properties in the
putrid fragments of animal and veg.
etable matter, which, it is assumed,
are still liable to engender disease.
A quack doctor in France recently
got himself into trouble. A man ap-
piled to him for advice concerning
his wife, who was deficient in intel
lect, and was recommended to adj
minister cold shower baths. The
husband accordingly tied his wife to
a tree, mp which he climbed, and,
from his elevation, drenched his wife
with a large watering pot The un-
fortunate woman died next day from
the effects of this treatment, and
both the husband and his medical ad
wiser are accused OF having caused
her death.