Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-02-04
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Colonel DeTrobriand is French
creole, native of New Orleans.
Delmonico, the lion tanner, hiss been
3devoured at Berlin by one Of his own
lions.
A Taunton, Mass, boy of ten car
, ried his mother to prayer meeting on
/ his back, last Saturday.
4 within three months each of three
sisters living. in Yadkin county,
North Carolina, has become the mo-
ther of twin female infants.
A little girl, upon her return from
"a children's party, being asked if she
had good time, replied: ayes; but
there wasn't much boys there"
Miss Susan E. Dickinson, sister of
Anna Dickinson, made her first ap-
pearance as a public lecturer at
Scranton, Pa, ON Thursday evening
last.
| Mr.. Pelligrini, the caricaturist of
Vanity Fair, is about to marry Mrs.
Collins, daughter of the late Charles
Dickens and sister-in-law to Wilkie
4 Collins.
The Boston School Board is this
year composed of representatives
of the Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon, Gel
tic, and African races, and six
women have seats and votes there.
| The oldest living graduate of an
American college is Hon. Elhert Her
ring, of New York, who was born in
1777, and graduated at Princetown
in l795-eighty years ago.
The Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Rom
ney, N. H., a prominent railroad
man and lawyer, and related to the
Boston family of the same name, died
on the 10th, aged eighty-two.
The present Lord Derby was
charged some years back with having
described his own politics as Red Re
publicanism, qualified by the expecta-
tion of 10000 pounds a year.
The Swedish Parliament has pass
ed bill enabling women by mar
riage contract to retain the posses
sion and management of their proper
ty. The bill encountered much op-
position.
The tradition runs that Brougham
once asked Jeffrey for fl 600 upon a
promise to work off the debt in a |
year, and did it, writing the whole of |
one number of the Edinburg Review.
King Alfonso's allowance has been
fixed at 2S,O00,OOO reals-that is,
So, 100000, which will, no doubt,
prove real comfort to him, and
ought to procure him food, lodging,
and clothes of superior kind.
The bridal dress of the lady who
married Admiral Porter, last week,
did not arrive until three hours be-
fore the. ceremony; the trunk in
which it was brought from Paris was
detained in the New York Custom
house.
A Mrs. Lord, of New Haven, a
very fat lady, broke one of her legs
in a very singular manner the other
day. She had been suffering from
pain III the limb for some time, and
the bone gave way simply from the
weight of her body.
The Duke of Connaught, better
known as Prince Arthur, of England.
is abont to make tour in the East.
and will go up the Nile, the modern
excursion. He travels ,
ncognito by special desire of the ,
Queen. -
The North American Review pro-
essed once that it wanted to do ius-
ice to Edgar Poe, but dared not; t
Vherenpon Poe presented it this mot
% from Sterne, "As we rode along we L
Jaw herd of asses; how they viewed d
md reviewed usr' q
Baggs got up too early one morn il
ng and began to scold the servant
'irl. His little six-yeIr old, who had s
cen listening attentively during the b
onVersation, broke in with, "Father, d
top scolding; you needn't think b
anc your vile.
The Eminence Constitutionalist cl
.ys that Mrs. Elizabeth Cockrell o.
led on the 18th inst, at the resi- n
ence of her son, Mr.. John CockrelI.
Ear Bethlehem, in Henry county. n
entucky, at the advanced age of one
inbred years and three months.
General Won Osten-Sacken recent ca
completed his SEVENTEEN wear of mi
rvice in the Russian army, and the Vi
nperor conferred on him the HIGH tr'
honor a Russian subject can re- m;
i've from his sovereign-the Cross ne
st. Andrew, set in brilliants. pa
Chester county, Pa, is entitled to n, tn
premium for pie eating. During m ue
e year 1874 the family of Taylor ca, a
iworth, East Nantmeal, eat I6e2 on on
IS. AS the family consists of six MI
rsons that makes 277 pies for each wa
rson to have eaten-not quite one an an
'ece a Wilmington CONNER ,. tnt
u. but
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