Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-01-22
miscellany.

Miscellany.
AS old as the hills-the hollows.
Is a sapIing sugar tree?
Long felt want-the new hat.
half seas over-in mid-ocean.
A bride couple-a span of horses.
Little by little-type setting.
The famine in northern Persia is in-
creasing.
Three crops of figs are annually rails
ed I'm Southern Georgia.
South Carolina has l,340 miles of rail-
road.
Arkansas ranks next to Texas as cot
ton producing State.
The Democratic party is in fair way
to get hurt on the raging Maine.
A tight squeeze-The embrace OF a
drunken man.
North Carolina has fifty-five cotton
mills.
Clubs are to their members meet and
drink.
Sausage is the great American ground
hog.
One of the lights of the future in
Maine will be light Democratic vote.
The population of Augusta, Ca, is
27,0l2, gain of 1,SA during the past
year.
Whoever conquers Incidence can con-
quer most things.
Gov. Garcelon and Congressman Frye,
of Maine, are brothers-in-law.
Wade Hampton wants a reunion OF
soldiers of the two armies of the late
war.
Advance in rate-if you think you
will miss the train.
To shorten the evenings-make the
days and nights even.
There's something in store for you,
said the mouse to the rat.
No man who hasn't had blind boil
between his shoulders knows how it
feels to reach after the unattainable.
How fast the whlrligig of time goes
'round-especially if some fellow holds
your note.
Spain gives Minister Plenipotentia-
ry 5000 year, while a favorite bull
fighter receives $50, 200, with many pres
ents and has little expense of living.
On the farm of George w. Moore, in
Lambertville, n. j., few days ago, 200
flint arrow heads were dag up.
Indignation meeting--when two Ia
dies meet, each airing the latest style.
The house in which Secretary Stanton
was born is still standing at Steuben-
vile, Ohio. 1t was built in 1903.
Harper's Young People are very fond
of getting themselves into the papers.
Miners say there is something in the
lesd." There's always money in it.
Jones says his wife has many street.
memories on account OF her cdndted opin-
ions.
There is q man about town who says
he is constantly engaged in the Hour
mission.
There is a city In New York that has
more Buffalo Bills than it cares for.
One of the clerks at the post office Is
merely waiting for further (money) or
ders.
If this winter is sample Of what we
are to expect during the rest of the CEN
tury, the sooner the office of the jan
uary Thaw is abolished as sineeure the
better. What is the good of thaw
when there is nothing to be thawed?
To give an idea of the ravages of
diphtheria in Southern Russia, it may
be mentioned that in the one province
of Pultave about 1000 persons have
died of the disease in each of the last
three years.
Business man-"YOu vagabond! You
send word in that you want to see me
on business, and when ask you what
your business is-you beg" Vaga-
boud-"But you forget, sir, begging is
my business!"
Mamma: "Why, Poppet, all these
apples are bitten. Have you touch
ed themr' Poppet: mo, man. But
it froze last night and p'r'aps-|
p'r'aps-they're frost-bitten."
A lady in horse car was asked
why she rang the DELL at both ends.
Because 1 want both ends to stop,
sir" she quickly responded.
A German poet says that young
girl is fishing rod; that the eyes
are the hook, the smile the bait, the
lover the gudgeon, and marriage the
butter in which he is fried.
"How nicely this corn pops" said
a young man who was sitting with
his sweetheart before the fire. eyes,"
she responded demurely. "It's got oY-
er being greer" ."-Nec York Star.