Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

Miscellaneous.
The lower lip of baby cries first.
Under the Iowa Civil Damage law
the wives of drunkards in Sioux
CITY have sued liquor dealers for
sums amounting in all to 100000.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says
Mrs. Siebold, of that city, is eighty
four years of age, reads without
glasses, and "has had her back Drok-
en- three times"
In Howell County, Mo-, COWS are
the principal circulating medium.
A thin cow passes current for 20.
good one for $40, and fat one ior
$13.
The American Dairymen's Assocl-
alton proposes to erect a Slo'ooo
hn;ldino on the Centennial Exposi-
t;on grounds, in which to exhibit
their butter and cheese.
Tulle or blonde scarfs, which are
worn with bonnets, are made indie
pendently of the hat, and are pinned
ON the back hair and tied under the
chin before the hat is put on.
There are 81, 100000 square miles
or ne-fourth, is under the dominion
of nations using the English Ian
guage.
A Sacramento beet-sugar factory
turned out 3,O00,0 900 pounds of white
sugar in 1875. The beets yield 131
per cent. more than the average yield
of Europe.
81 thought you said your head
ached five minutes ago." said mother,
when George asked for more candy.
$50 l did," said George, sand l sup
pose it does now, only l can't feel it"
1t was Prince John Van Buren who,
being stopped by highwaymen one
night in the City Hall Park, said:
"Gentlemen, haven't got any money,
but I'll give you my note for three
months"
j. G. Chapman, New Haven's. phi
lanthropist, has, during the past
year, placed 2,120 postage-stamps on
letters dropped in the postoffice
stampless, at cost of forty-two dol
lars and forty-six cents.
A new chronological torment is
suggested by this item: "Mr. Charles
E. Scott, of Vineland, n j., is the
youngest of seven living children,
whose father fought in the Revolu-
tion and died in the year 1872"
The value of trees may be shown in
the fact that New Albany Ind. man
has been offered So, 900 for 129 big wal
nut trees. A Georgia paper says the
offerer can obtain such trees in Geor-
gia for almost nothing.
In the days of our fathers, when a
man suddenly dropped out Of the
community, they used to drag the
neighboring ponds and examine all
available hanging places in the vi
cinity. Nowadays the first steps are
to investigate his bank account.
When man detects missing but
ton after getting on a clean shirt no
one in the house is aware of the
fact. He takes off the shirt and puts
on another, quietly smiling all the
while. He never, never speaks of it
to soul.
1t is said that when clergyman
in Western Massachusetts, recently
inquired of certain lady if she was
"ready to give up worldly pleasures"
she answered by asking him if he
was "ready to give up chewing tobac-
Gu in the presence of iadiesr'
The late Rev. Henry Boehm, the
centenarian, read his Bible through |
more than seventy times, and when
he died the book mark was at the first
page, showing that he was beginning
to 60 through it again.
During the past year 169, ,307 tons
of ore have been extracted from all
the levels of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine, Nevada, and 5000 tons
have been reduced, which yielded
$16,731,6 ,653 in bullion. OF this
amount $l2, ,2O4, 900 were paid out as
dividends to stockholders.
Since Jan. l, 1870, according to
the New York Times, there have
been 291 homicides in that city. OF
this number, the greater proportion
being murders, only seven men have
been executed, twenty four impris-
oned for life, while one-fourth of the
number escaped without having been
subjected to trial.
The Baptist statistics for the year
have been published in their "Year
Book" just out. They foot up to-
tai membership of l, ,S15, 300, showing
an apparent increase in the year of
54,129. But Al, 1854 members included
in Anti Mission Associations have
been dropped, so that it is claimed
that the real increase is 81, ,5S3. One
third of the associations failed to re-
port, so that their members are com
puted from last years minutes.