Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-04-29
MISCELLANY.

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Trees ana pigs most root for
living.
Beggars description-the story ol
tramp.
Lucy Stone has become a contented
housewife.
Hornets are getting ready for the
spring term of school.
Ohio wool is bringing from AZ to
60 cents in New York.
The q. S. Mint, at Carson City,
New, is to resume operations at once
A Pottsvllle (Pa. lad jumped the
rope 384 times and died.
Senator Bayard has nine children
to dissipate his $4,000 income.
One hundred and fifty persons
have died of starvation in Armenia
A kros word IL little thing but
it IL what stirs up the elephant.
Miss Kneiss, of Armstrong Coun.
ty, Pa, aged fifteen years, weighs
236 pounds.
Match against time-Striking q
1ucifer on the clock case.
There are twenty-one quicksilver
mines now being worked in Cali.
fornia.
The Yonkers Statesman remarks
that the pedestrian has chosen his
walk in life.
A large eagle. while soaring in the
air at New Hamburg, Va, was struck
by lightning. u
A kind word liz little thing, but
it liz just what soothed the sorrows
ov the setting hen.
The National Bank circulation has
increased $20,636,103 since January
1, 1879.
The explosion of q coffee pot
ruined the eyesight Of woman in
Portland, Me.
Lee r. Hall of Chicago, a colored
woman, and Edward Green of Nash
vile, have just died, both at the age
of LOG years. 80
1t is reported that the Pope con-
templates four additional Cardinals
in the United States.
Ralph Waldo Emerson sees but
few people nowadays, and is en-
gagged in revising his papers for
publication after death.
The value of the church property
of the Northern Methodist Church
in the South is estimated at Sc, ,500,-
900.
Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
has been presented with house in
Philadelphia, where he will reside.
Of the 1900 Methodist Episco-
pal ministers in this country, there
are, according to the Methodist, only
eleven who have blots on their
names, and three OF these have been
condemned unjustly.
A cat is the most destructive of all
animals. They mewtlllate every sum
mer night.--Pitts6urg Telegraph.
There are in Germany 329 sugar
beet mills. Twelve pounds of beets
make one pound Of sugar in that
country.
Two German law students fought
duel with sabers in Gottingen. One
of them was mortally wounded; the
other delivered himself to the
authoritles, and was released on bail.
The Chinese embassadress at Paris
is unable to stand on account of her
fashionably mutilated feet. She is
held up by two persons of her suite.
1t will never do to advise the patri
otic Boston. women to. vote as they
fight. There would be too much
scratching at the polls.
One of the church pulpits of New
Orleans is filed by the Rev. Edward
Palmer, who has reached his ninety.
second year.
The forest fires have invaded Vir-
ginia, and considerable damage in
the vicinity of Fredericksburg and
Petersburg is reported.
Maria Pascuala, an Indian woman,
gave birth recently to six children,
three boys and three girls. She lives
in Cordova, Mexico.
In digging out a squirrel from
under pile Of stone, where it had
taken refuge. traces Of silver were
discovered at Rochdale, Pa.
a destitute. Indian woman of San
Diego, CAL, went from house to
house trying to sell her little girl for
ten dollars.
A little boy at Humeston, Iowa,
hanged himself because baby sis
ter received the attention that had
previously been bestowed on himself.
Old Joe Lane of Oregon, who has
been out of politics since he ran with
Breckenridge, in 1860, is now a can.
didate for the State Senate.
The Louisiana State Democratic
Convention adopted resolution in
dorsing Hancock for President, but
the delegation to Cincinnati comes
uninstructed. |
A Chicago man has fled bill for
divorce against his wife because she
wants him to hold that baby while
she lirts with the young man across
the way.
Two Kentucky maidens have
opened q blacksmith shop, and it's
an interesting sight too see mule
blush when the girls accidently
tickle him while putting on his pew
shoes.
The Empress of Russia is fifylsix
years old, was married at the age of
seventeen, and is the mother of seven
children-six SONS and one daugh-
ter--the last being the Duchess of
Edinburgh. +
General Imboden, the ex- -Confeder-