Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-02-12
Miscellany.

A deceptive age-sausage.
vassar girls say-"buy gum"
A breakfast roll-out Of bed.
The Sultan has only 1000 servants.
A. T. Stewards mausoleum costs $780,
600.
Boston proposes q national cat show
for the first week in March.
Acids and pickels are usually the con-
tents Of the family jar.
Prize fighters should diet on pound
cake.
Writs of error--love letters to another
mans wife.
Adams fatal weakness was that he
could not say No.
Algernon Sartoris, Nellie Grants hus-
band, has sailed for England.
George Washington was at one time
the foreman of volunteer hose COM
pany.
Boston's two hundred and fiftieth
birthday occurs on September 18th.
We part, but not as friends, for have
had enough Of you, said the fellow to
his old hat.
A movement Is on foot in Virginia to
organize a society of the descendants of
the Cavaliers.
The coinage at the United States
mints during January amounted to
s9,576, 500.
Round dancing is not square Chris
tian amusement, says q Kentucky
preacher.
Mr.. william Ripley, of Columbus,
Ohio, left by will $75, 900 to Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth
out; SO when there is no tale-bearers
the strife ceaseth.
The Duke of Newcastle is sixteen
years old, Marquis Camden is eight,
Earl Russell is fifteen, and Lord South
ampton is thirteen.
Only five of the nineteen Presidents of
the United States have had middle
names-the younger Adams, Harrison,
Polk, Grant and Hayes.
Congress is doing nothing as usual.
1t is Democratic Congress. The peo-
pie will have something to say next fall.
Senator Wade Hampton has never full
ly recovered his health since his shoot
ing accident.
Some people boast of their independ-
ence, when the truth IS It Is only their
lack Of politeness.
1t appears to be pretty well settled
that the National Democratic COnven-
ton will be held in Cincinnati.
A German editor remarks that in
America thieves are so scarce that re-
wards are offered for them.
Debating Societies are asking: "Can
the goat reason?'' He can, but he
doesn't want to. His time is worth too
much.
The Democratic party Of Maine is
small, but its capacity for making an
ass of itself is very large.
A good deed is never lost; he who
shows courtesy reaps friendship, and he
who plants kindness gathers love.
So much has been said about Cleopa-
tra's needle that people begin to think
the old girl took in sewing.
Only seven of Gov. Bishops pardOned
criminals have returned to the Ohio
Penitentiary. but a number have found
their way into jails in Indiana.
Boston is so highly crlchawed that
when two lovers break off an engage
ment they call 1t a valedictory.
This is leap year. and girl who
doesn't get married before May day isn't
much of hand at business.
A poet says: "Oh, she was fair, but
sorrow left traces there" What be-
came of the rest of the harness he don't
state.
The kind wife who has a smile for
her husband when he comes into the
house will not drive him into saloon
to get one.
A western editor says one hug is
worth a dozen love letters, and they
cannot be introduced as evidence in d
breach of promise suit either.
Mr.. James Grant, wealthy childless
citizen of Iowa, has brought up in his
fifteen orphan boys.
Senator Conkling's wife is at WASH
ington with her husband this winter for
the first time in several years, i'll health
having usually kept her at Utica.
John B. Cough has wife, no chill
dren, four favorite nieces, $l00,00 a
nice farm, large collection of Cruik-
shank's caricatures, and is much given
to ten pins.
An Albany dispatch to the New York
Graphic says Ex-Governor Seymour will
not permit his name TO be used as can
didate for the Presidency.
A gigantic coal swindle, in which, II
Is alleged, a Russian Count and son OF
Amiral Porter are the central figures,
has just been developed at Washington
Professor r. A. Proctor, who is now
43 years old, is said to have been de-
voted to astronomy even in boyhood.
He is very proud of the appreciation in
which his books are held by Americans.
Portland Parker, and other promi.
nent citizens of New Jersey held Q
meeting on Tuesday night, In Newark
and took initial steps for the erection ol
a monument to Gen. Phil. Kearney.
An effort is being made at Washing.
ton for the relief of Mr.. Sutter, the dis.
coYerer of gold in California. Mr.. Sut
ter Is advanced in years, being now sew.
enty eight, and resides with his wife
and two daughters at I.itiZ, Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Min
nesota farmer, intends to cultivate 80,
600 acres of wheat this year. He will
have twenty steam threshers in opera
tion with I35 reaping machines. Las
year he employed 500 laborers and thii
year will increase the number to 700.
The Chief Magistrates Title.
The President has no title what.
ever. He is not "Honorable," liks
the members of ConpresS or Stat.