Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-01-07
M.s,ceIlaneous.


NUIE1O1AaN--O---
Observation-Disclosures.
Silence is the fittest reply to folly.
The smallest hair throws shad-
ow.
Cheap living-Living on excite
ment.
A bootless enterprise-Going bare
foot
A @put up job"-Bunker Hill
monument.
The greatest can but blaze and pass
away.
Hobby-horses are dearer than
Arab steeds.
What barber mustn't do-Lather
his wife.
Something to boot-Lightning-
rod peddlers.
GOOD kick out of doors is better
than rich uncle
The worst kind of education-To
be brought up by policeman.
Toa poor man with large family,
glory is but little account.
-Gen.- never drew his sword but
once, and that was in rattle.
A wise man may keep his own
counsel; consequently has no jobs
for strange lawyers.
A Green Bay woman who weighs
$50 pounds insists that she is "some-
body's darling"
"Halo" bonnets probably derive
their name from the exclamation of
husbands when they see the bill.
A Green Bay girl shook an old
horse pistol at her father until he
came down with $50 for a new fur
cloak. Detroit Free Press.
A Dutchman describes New York
ers as "berry fine peoples" who 'igo
about der streets ,sheating each oder,
and dey call dat Dizziness.
1t must make man feel mean to
nav an old debt because he thinks he
is going to die, and then have the
doctor pull him through all right.
For sport go to Texas. They have
panthers there thirteen feet long and
exceedingly vigorous; and if you
have no sport the beast certainly
will.
Lines-not by Tennyson, but by
somebody else:
"Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe bloody nose."
That farmer understood human ma
ture who said: "If you want to
keep your boy at home, don't bear too
hard on the grindstone when he turns
the crank"
An Illinois debater "had 'em''
when he arose and said: "Yes, gen
tlemen, Waterloo was the biggest
kind of fight, but Washington
whipped 'em like wink"
A Covington man died and they
put him on ice, but he woke in the
night and yelled out: "Why don't
you put some more wood in that
veT'-DetrOit Press.
A wicked man in Davenport, be-
ing on his death-bed, wished to con-
suit some proper person regarding
his future state, and his friends sent
a fire insurance agent to him.
An agricultural paper says that
kind words will cure COW of kick
ing, but many prefer the old way of
the critter with a fence rail
until her heart is broken.
When boy is sitting on the sun
ny-side of horse barn, waiting for
his father to come home and slick"
him, you might talk astronomy to ,
him for four straight hours and not .
excite his interest.
A gentleman took the following .
telegram to the telegraph office:
''Mrs. Brown, Liverpool street. 1
announce with grief the death of I'm '
Gle James. Come quickly to read t
will. l believe we are his heirs. =
John Black" The clerk having Il
counted the words, said: "There are e
wo words too many, sir" "All e
light, cut out with grief" was the |,
'eply. p
man may grow to weigh ton t
Who feasts his mind with pungent fun; a
But he who scorns its simple sway If
DIT yields to crime an easy prey. 4
Yesterday we overheard a voter :
rom the rural districts say that he t
had voted every darned ticket ex- +
ept the constitutional command E
nents, but he let them alone, as he n
ever did know much about CON- n
anyhow" - Whitehall
Times.
A Chicago alderman tried for three q
ours to think of George Washing r
on's last name, but he couldn't do i
/. He said he knew it was George, E
nd that the man had something to n
o with the Mexican war, but he q
ouldn't remember further.-Detroit q
,ress.