Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-03-04
current Items.

Most people are like eggs-too full
of themselves to hold anything else.
Thsfe ale sixty threeE widows irll
yerssiles, KY. apdsthe strange E1dl
passes through the town is told to
ruf for his iife.l !lfltA
Nebraska has chosen April IA as
the day to be observed as "Arbor
day" and the people have petitioned
the Legislature 10 make it . legal
holides. So
A Washington man who was treat
ed to ''twentysfiye-centern slipped
back the other day and economical
ly exchanged it for 'three for quar-
.rfAd q L. ri
A Vermont lumberman recently
had the misfortune to have . log, roll
upon him and break one of his legs;
vet he loaded his wood and drove
home. It was wooden leg:
Mobts,a basn been able to shsg
over forty degrees below zero this
winter, and her leading citizens are
quite down hearted. They thought
they had some winter OUT there
A beautiful answer was gwen by a
little Scotch girl. When her class at
school was examined she replied to
the question, "What is patience"
.sWait a wee, and dinna weary"
Afworthy old farmer, who was be-
ing worried in his cross-examination
by a lawyer, in Portland, Me-. ex-
claimed: ssLook here Squire don't
you ask a good many foolish ques-
tions| -
! .-~rre cTufyls Uurv' -.s.7oupl ninuHss ffe
and takes the heaviest comfort off the
bed to wrap around her plants is lack
ing in all the noble qualities Of a free
agent.
There is said to have been discov-
cred in North Carolina a breath
ing cave" the suction of which is so
great that it draws in living, ami
mails: ftseeins to have sucked in a
newspaper man.-Boston Globe. s.,
Says the Rochester Chronicle: an
Colorado the other day a strong wind
blew over a train Of cars three
times" Didn't it also blow under
them? The wind may blow over
house and not blow the house over
eh?
Mr.. Alexander Xermus, of Dunn's
Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of a
by-gone race in the mounds on his
plantation nine feet long, and what is
of more Importance to Mr.. Xermus,
traces of gold also.
When an express company is rob-
bed of $4,000 the first thing to be
done is to lie the sum down to SIX
shillings, under the idea that the
conDtrys viii reyolutionize if the
truth comes out.-Detroit Free
Press. ...,
A Tennesseean sent ten dollars to
New York to be turned into "a gold
watch worth $780, and ''them ten
dollars was never seen no more. Any
carpenters apprentice would have
known more than that.
The San Francisco Chinese don't
seem to be troubled much by the
death of the Emperor. Only few
of them appear to understand the po
sition of an Emperor, and they say:
''No care; noder man ali the same
good"
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island,
has taken the commendahle step OF
publishing an appeal TO all of the
Episcopal Churches of his diocease
requesting that during Lent col
lection be taken in every church for
the relief of the Kansas and Nebras-
ka sufferers. 5s:Ef{'l
A District Court in Texas has
made decision worthy of the sharp
est days of special pleading. The re-
spondents wereindicted for stealing
onions. This fragrant fruit was con
verted while growing in a garden and
had not been detached from the soil
previous to the taking. 1t was held
by the court that while growing the
onions were part of the reality and
not an object of larceny, while as
soon as detached they were in the
possession of the respondents, never
having been in the possession of the
after becoming personal
property. Hence the respondents
were simply guilty Of trespass on
real property ~ T.