Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-03-11
ni,sceiianeous.

ton,s counsel are already becoming
anxious about their pay.
Tn New York City the Martha
washington tea parties are for char
liable objects. That's better.
Transmission of money by post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and
the money is liable to con6scation.
aUncle Toms Cabin" has been pro-
duced at the Adelphia, in London,
after an interval of twenty-three
years.
"The den of the unintelligible,
where they talk Of the unknowable'
is what they call the Radical Club IN
Boston.
About these days the business OF
spipe-laying" is about equally divided
between the politicians and the
plumbers New Haven Journal.
Tourists in Florida complain that
hotelkeepers there deceive them by
serving canned vegetables represent
ed to be ''fresh from our garden not
an hour ago."
A dog howled half an hour for a
death in front of an Elm street house
before he discovered that it was a
vacant tenement. Then he left very
much mortified.
The Democratic Sheriff of New
York City has chosen for his clerk
an ex-keeper of Libby prison, while
the Mayor takes for his, JEFF. Davis
private secretary.
Galveston, Texas News: The egg
business is assuming gigantic pro-
portions in Galveston. One firm
alone made sale yesterday of 1869
dozen, or over $4,000 eggs.
"Mr. Smith, how can you sleep?
The sun has been up these two
hours" "Well, what if he has?' said
Smith. "He goes to bed at dark,
while I'm up till after midnight"
After all it isn't right to take ba-
bies to the matinees. They don't
like to go; anybody can see that. If
they liked to 90 they wouldn't be
bowling and screaming all the time.
N. o. Pic.
When a girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her fore
head like a Mexican mustang, and
then ties a piece of red velvet around
her neck, who can wonder at the
number of pale faced young men
that throw away their ambition and
pass sleepless nights trying to raise
down on their upper lips?-I Kansas
City Times.
During the three last months of
1874 the butchers of the capital kill
ed LAO horses, 127 asses, and 6
mules for public consumption. 1t is
stated that there is about to be Or
ganized in Paris a grand banquet
among the English and American
residents, the Wand to be horsefesh.
This banquet is to be preceded by a
lecture on hippophagie by an Eng
lish gentleman.
Why talk about carpet-baggers?
Only three of the States and Terri
tories, Delaware, Vermont and North
Carolina, are entirely represented in
either branch of Congress by their
natives, eleven in all, while the mem
hers of both Houses from Kansas,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ne
vada and the Territories, thirty -four
in number, are all "carpet- t-baggers,"
so-called.
The Democracy of New Hamp-
shire are getting to file in with the
White Leaguers, if we may Judge
from the following sentiment of the
Manchester Union: ''Our own opin-
ion is that there never is to be peace
and prosperity in this country again
until the negro is suppressed as po-
litical power. The Southern people
should understand this, and, instead
of courting him, fight him."
Just as train started out on the
Great Western Road the other day
woman leaned forward and called to
her husband, who was ten feet away:
"Say, Simon, did you wash your feet
and change your socks" "No, by
swan forgot all about itm "Well,"
she said rs she leaned back, ~ feel it
in my bones that there's going to be
a smashup afore we get to London,
and if you are killed I'll purtend l
didn't know YER Detroit Free
Press.
A countryman bought n shirt in
Raleigh, n. c., which was the first
white one he had ever owned. The
next Sunday he was to he married,
and that was the important occasion
that melted him to the purchase
The shirt had a nice starched bosom,
and was open in the back--a style
that was new to the possessor. AT
ter careful study he put it on with
the opening in front, concluding that
the stiff bosom was intended for
kind of shoulder brace to stand erect.
Thus dressed, he met the bride at the
church door; but her knowledge was
greater than his about shirts, and she
made him go home and reverse the
garment before she would allow the
ceremony to proceed.