Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-02-17
MisceDianeous.

miscellaneous.
Woman proposes and man gits up
and gifts, this year. II
The hardest kind of chasm to get
oyer-sarcasm.
Isn't an aim without name syn
opymous with an ominous Anony-
nous?
Kansas keeps nobly in the van OF
civilization. Her State treasurer Is
in Jail.
Elihu Burritt can drive strange
dog out of his yard in thirty-three
languages.
The extreme height of misery is a
small how with new pair of rubber
boots and no mud or slush in reach.
Don't marry till you can support
husband. That's the advice the
Rarnstable Patriot gives the Cape
girls.
An English woman advertises her
self as corncutter to the royal family.
She practises on ''the light, fantastic
toe"
1t is thin excuse for a young lady
to lie abed until nine o'clock in the
morning because this is sleep year.
Norristoacn Herald.
A Newtown man favors the pres
ence of the album in the public
schools. He writes US that ethe
holey book must be kept in the
skools at eny cost"
A iawbone sixteen feet long is to
be exhibited at the Centennial by
Massachusetts. Put it in the Wo-
mans Department, by all means.
Nep York Commercial Advertiser.
A breed of dogs without tails has
been discovered in Africa, and how
the mischievous boys there utilize
old tin kettles and fruit cans, we can
not pretend to say.
The Sandwich Islands are going to
adopt a new flag, but they can't de-
eide whether to take gray horse
blanket with a hole in it, or an old
vest with the back ripped out.
Before his marriage, Broughne
praised the artistic manner in which
his wife banged her hair. Now he
complains of the cruel manner in
which she bangs his head.
Mrs. Edwards, of Streater, ILL.,,
while slicing bread the other day cut
off the end of her baby's nose, but
doctor pasted it on again, and that,
we trust. will be ''the end ont"
A gentleman rode up to a public
house in the country and asked !:
"Who is the master of this house?'
81 am, sir" replied the landlord; !;
"my wife has been dead about three
weeks"
A correspondent, being in the pri-
vate office of Washington pawn
broker, saw fashionable lady come
in and pawn a diamond cross worth
$1,000 for $3.50. He doesn' state
what he was doing there.
A Hartford man wants to sell a
farm in which "meandering streams
and rivulets permeate luxuriant pas
ture, while majestic oaks and state
" naples attract the eye of the be-
holder" Who bids?
Miss Anna Dickenson's new lee
ture is entitled Sowing and Reap
ing" And an old bachelor cruelty
says that Sewing and Ripping would
be more appropriate subject for a
woman.-NorristoW Herald.
"Exploring waist places" said John
Henry, as he put his arm around the
pretty chambermaid. Navigation
of the air" said Mrs. Henry, over
hearing him, and sailing into his ra-
ven curls.-Cincinadti Times.
An exchange says: "'Angular al
cohol' is the Inter Oceans latest way
of putting it." The latest way a
large majority of Western editors
have of putting it is putting it down
their throats.- ts.-NorristOWn Herald.
The majority of pins found In the
sweepings from the Dresden Union
School house are bent in a peculiar
fashion, suggesting sudden ascent
of pupils about to occupy the recita
tion seats.-DreSden D0ingS.
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