Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-04-01
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rho:latsss thing in front door locks
Night keys.
Dramatically speaking, kiss is a
conjunction.
Cameron county, Texas, is crunch
ing new potatoes.
How rapidly the coal in the bin be
comes the coal that hath been!
A leading Pittsburg belle went
downon fundamental at spelling
bee.
Yedo, Japan, was lit with gas fol
the first time on the 18th OF Decem
bers4 ~ ~ r. II
The New Haven Journal tells Ola
goose that is fifty years old We'll
take duck then.
Said Pat. "Faix, where wud We find
modern house that has lasted'as
long as the ancientT
A man at Ripon, Wis, whose al
manae says this is spring, had his
ears frozen while planting cabbage
seed last week.
A good many of the so-called .'Ha
vana' cigars would be models fol
married men-they are so thorough
ly domestic.
The hotel in Winsted, Conn.,, j:
getting an abundance of gratuitou;
advertising. Wonder if they wan
any summer boarders there?
The English House of Common:
has again rejected bill permitting
marriage with a deceased wife's sis
ter. by a vote of III to l42.
tits estimated that the four mil
lion cats in Great Britain save to thai
country every year $400,000.000 by
the destruction of rats and mice.
The Charlestonions of West Vir-
ginia don't like the loss of their Capt.
tol, and now the favorite air in that
locality is "Carry me back to old
Virginny."
In Missouri, wolfsealps are re
ceiyed in payment Of taxes, and the
other day Legislative committee was
appointed to burn the; ;scalps thus re-
ceived and accumulated during two
years past, there being about $4,000
at IS a head Il 81 an
Three ounces of ground barley, one
ounce of honey, and the white of an
egg, mixed to a paste and spread
thickly on the cheeks, nose and fore
head before going to bed. This
must remain all night, if you want 8
nice clear complexion. Whew!
A AKefltuclly paper thinks that a
country which is eaten out by grass
hoppers in the summer and where
whisky freezes solid in the winter
might be advantageously left for the
exclusive occupation of the noble red
man and the prairie-dog.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
''In the year 1872, the Japanese Gov
ernment created by the stroke of a
pen $4,000 schools throughout the
empire, and wonderful to relate, sue
ceeded in the course of few months
in bringing a large proportion into
working order.' n
A life insurance company has re.
fused to pay a $4,000 policy because
the insurer committed moral suicide
he having procured the policy in re-
ply to message from friend in the
unseen world to the effect that he
would certainly die upon a certain
day and hour-which he did.
The HOrse-Eating Frenchmen.
Paris Correspondence New York Times.
Hippophagy is making rapid pro
gress in France on account of the
scarcity of beeves and the exhorbi-
tant prices now demanded for all
sorts of meats. The consumption OF
horsefesh in Paris for public afimen-
tation is much greater than it has
ever been. Its use, except in the
manufacture of the well-known Ly-
ons sausages, is of recent date. The
first equine butcheries were estab-
lished in 1866. In 1867, after a trial
of one year, 3, 152 horses were hutch
cred and sold for food. In 1869 the
number of horses, asses, and mules
slaughtered reached 2,65S, and the
number was increased to 5,732 in
1872. In 1874 the figures rose to l.
lS4, which gave, net, 1926, 500 kllo-
grammes of meat-a kilogramme be-
ing about two pounds. On the 1st of
January of the present year there
were fifty shops in Paris where horse
flesh was sold to the public, and there
were five more shops in the suburbs
of the city. In the provincial towns
the progress has been about the same.
] do not think that any one really
likes horse flesh better than beef,
though some do prefer asses flesh to
beef: but it is sold at about one-half
the price of beef, and hence is used
by the poor for their bouillon and
their pot-duJeu. The use of horse
flesh in sausages is now general in
France, and it gives a peculiar taste
that is not palatable, and that pecu
liar reddish color of the Lyons sau-
sages. l need scarcely say that only
old and broken down horses of small
value are sent to the abatton.