Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-05-11
Varieties.

years Of age, only one in l6S can no
read.
Rev. E. P. Hammond, the revival
ist. is 'laboring" among the children
OF Baltimore.
! A resident of Madison. Connecti
cut, lately buried his seventh wife.
/ Leopold l., of Belgium, is to have
a $25O.000 monument, four-fifths o.
the sum to be raised by ia xation.
Mrs. Lorin Andrews, the widow Of
the late President of Kenyon College
IN Gambler, Ohio. Is a clerk in the
Patent Office in Washington.
The late Baroness Diergardt, Of
Prussia, left $50, 900 to found hos
| pital at Paris for Germans suffering
from illness or old age.
Judge Poland, of Vermont. is spo-
ken Of for Chairman of the National
Republican Convention at Cincin-
natl.
Bayard Taylor's Centennial ode
contains three hundred lines, and
will occupy only about twenty min
utes in its delivery.
English capitalists are said to have
lost about five hundred millions oil
dollars in twelve months in Turkish,
Egyptian and Peruvian securities.
A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature to tax tobacco
users - per year, and profane swear
ers $5 per year.
A Richmond Iva. lady has the
remains OF bouquet OF flowers sent
to her by General Lafayette.
mamma, don't you want some
nice candy?" said a little child. ayes,
dear, should like some" "Then, il
you'll buy some, I'll give you half, "
lisped the polite girl.
A Russian Prince, who spent his
fortune in his early youth, is en-
ployed at the Centennial Exhibition
grounds as a stake-driver, receiving
81 70 per day.
The Cherokee Nation is said to
pay the highest salaries to teachers,
men receiving 1925 month and wo-
men 5000.
DR.. Hall says that if you cross
your great toes at an angle of thirty
six degrees you will not have the
night mare.
"Arty," said ~. Marrowfat, yes
terday, with prophecy of the Spring
time in his shining face, "did you
see the first blue bird to-day?" mo,
pop" pensively replied his tirst-born,
'but l saw ma taking blue pill"
A Kansas lawyer, in divorce case,
offered the defendant's nose in evil
dence that he was drunkard. The
nose was ruled out as inadmissible;
but the lawyers black eye has since
been admitted as evidence in case
of assault and battery.
Mr.. Moody began his revival serv-
ices in Augusta, Ga, last Monday.
Nearly 5000 were present the first
night. ALI the exercises take place
in the open air, there being no build
ing in the city large enough to &C
commodate the audiences.
People with corns will be glad to
learn that there are only thirty eight
miles of walking required to obtain
full view of the Centennial.
Peoria is the largest distilling
point in the United States, and will
pay this fiscal year over 81, 800, 900
revenue to the Government on dis
titled spirits alone.
Jefferson Davis sails for Europe
on the first of May. If the Demo
cratic managers could only prevail
on Ben Hill and Randolph Tucker to
take passage in the same steamer,
and then send Toombs to water
cure until after the Presidential elec-
tion, the Democratic horizon would
be materially frightened.
General Santa Anna, now over
eighty years of age, and his wife,
aged fifty-five still reside IN the City
of Mexico.
Mr.. Writ Henry, of Virginia,
grandson of Patrick Henry, has aid
ed in contributing number of an
cestral portraits, books, and med al
lions to the historical department of
the Centennial Exhibition.
The natural thing for the Confed-
crate Congress to is to investigate
the conduct of the war for the Un-
oni, in which their party was so over
whelmingly defeated.
Pittsburg papers tell Of a boy two
years and seven months old, Samuel
f. G. Nixon by name, who can take
apart and readjust the works of a
watch, putting every pin and wheel
in its proper place.
General John A. Sutter, who own
ed the ground upon which California
gold was first discovered, is now said
to be a very poor man, whose friends
are petitioning Congress to vote him
a pension.
A London correspondent informs
us that the English mania for pedes-
trianism and spelling-bees is COM
menly called now the "foot and mouth
disease"
Prince Bismarck has been made a
General of the Cavalry. This is the
highest military office he, as a non
active officer, can attain. Since the
campaign of 1866, when he was rails
| ed from the rank of Major to that OF
Major General, Bismarck has always
worn his uniform IN public, even in
the Reichstag and Landtag, although
his military Office has no connection
with his duties as a civil authority.
'rhe Rich Kansas Wheat crop.
From the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal
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