Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-03-25
NIIscellany.

A stuck up thing-a show-bill.
Spring halt-May 3l--midnight.
General Schenck lives on milk
diet.
The belle of the kitchen-the din
ner bell.
"Good' for headache--the game
Of fifteen.
Nothing has so many ties binding
it to earth as q railroad.
One triumphs over calumny only
in scorning it.
Four of Brigham Young's widows
have remarked.
Spare-ribs-the sealed wives of
Utah.
An Indian in Graham County,
N. c., claims to be l4l years old.
The New Testament, complete,
with maps and illustrations, is now
offered by London publisher for a
penny.
New York Commercial Advertiser
Cincinnati is called the Paris OF
America, because the first sounds
you hear on entering it are We've
An OK in Chesterfield, N. H., is 19
feet long, over 6 feet high, with .
feet of girth, and weighs 2,S40.
Patrick Gilmore is almost con-
vinced that the last verse Of his
National Hymn came out BIB
IA.
The President has requested the
resignation of Mr.. F. w. Seward,
Minister TO China.
Children and brass bands, in their
extreme youth, don't amount to
much without tutor.
1t is noticeable that the young
man with the fve-cent cigar never
has to be requested not to smoke in
company. 4-rz-
Eve was the first and only woman
who did not gather up her dress In
both hands and yell at the sight OF
snake.
The Chinese Government has. de-
termined to establish consulates in
Boston, Philadelphia, and New
York, for the better protection of
it's subjects.
The brook, you know, flows on
forever. Sometimes it seems as il
a lawsuit was trying to see the brook
and go it one better.
We have had one offer, but the
lady couldn't promise to support us
in the luxury to which we have been
accustomed.--Boston Post.
No matter how finely dentists
parlor is furnished, no one cares to
take a seat in his drawing-room.
This is good joke, but it is tooth
in to draw.
"Truth crushed to earth will rise
again." and the same thing is true
Of a barrel hoop, il you happen To
step on it just right Waterloo Oh
sercer.
A genuine fur seal, weighing
about eighty pound, was caught
near the mouth of York River, Vir-
ginia, few days ago--an occurrence
never before known there.
Hon. John A. Bingham, Minister
to Japan, it is reported, will resign
and return home with the intention
of running for Congress in the
Eighteenth District. O.
The dissolution of Parliament
frightened the money market in
England. 1t is estimated that an
English general election costs in cash
ten millions of dollars.
The late General John Brisbin, OF
New Jersey, left provision in his
will "for the care and maintenance
of his carriage horses, even to their
liberation from all labor during the
term of their natural lives"
A Commercial report says: "The
fall of leather causes an uneasy feel
ing in hides" We have often re-
marked this in youth while lying
across the maternal knee.
A small boy in the parlor where 8
dry goods clerk is sparkling the boys
big sister, will make the course OF
true love rougher than riding in q
lumber wagon.
A shrewd trader says there are
two reasons why he doesn't trust a
man; one because he doesn't know
him, and the other because he does
George R. Richards. of Barton
Landing, VT, who is more than 10C
years old, was married less than a
year ago. Last week family troubles
arose which resulted in the separa-
tion of himself and wife.
Some of the more extravagant
statesmen of Michigan are trying
to increase the Governors salary
from $1,000 to $4,000. Z
The North British railway has ap.
piled to Parliament for power to
rebuild the Tay bridge, substantially
on the old plan.
A man should have fortune who
thinks of marrying ballet-dancer
because it is next to impossible tc
keep her in clothes.
Mr.. Beecher says it takes a man
four years to learn to be President
1t takes a man good deal longer
to learn that he can't be President.
Important Practical Informal
tlOn.
Providence Joarnal.-Dr. r. C.
Kedzie, of Michigan, is Professor o.
Chemistry in the State Agricultural
University at Lansing, and Is Presi
dent of the State Board of Health
OF that State. He is distinguished