Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-25
Miscellany.

Miscellany.
In-cents-Copper.
Sets things right-The hen.
The ties that bind-Advertise.
Men who eat crow never crow about
It.
The butterfly never goes back on its
grub.
A woman without beauty only sees
the half Of life.
To step on mans corn goes against
his grain.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln gets Federal
pension of 5000 year.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald
remarks that divorce Is the signal for
sessation Of hostilIties.
Nature should mend her ways. Eng
glish tourists think American autumnal
tints entirely too loud.
The trinity of ugliness, in the opinion
of the indianapolis Herald, is the stove.
pipe silk hat, the swallow tailed coat,
and the shirred dress.
Scientists have distinguished abont
50 900 different species of plants, of
which number nearly 1000 are different
forms of grass.
1t generally takes two to make quar-
rel, but very often one mother-in-law
is sufficient.
Any old bachelor will shrek for a
better half when a counterfeit 50-cent
piece is showed on him. III
"How sad!" exclaimed one blade of a
pair of scissors to the other; show sad
we only meet to sever!'
Every five years this country loses
enough by fire to pay off every dollar Of
the National debt.
An Ohio man has brought suit
against his own mother for slander,
alleging damages at $4,000
tits estimated that the money paid
for Texas cattle during the past five
years amounts to $lS0, ,0O0, 900.
General Spinner is nearly eighty
years old, but he can still splash his
signature with flrmness and great rapid
ity.
Several old Delaware Bourbons, in
specting their small majority, swear
that this country is on the brink OF
ruin.
One high-toned dressmaker in New
York will not take an order for dress
the making Of which costs less than
500.
A st. Louis journal speaks Of a man
who got into a political row and was
freckled with buckshot.
London truth desires that England
should have few thousand Cinnamon
as domestic servants.
An English magistrate refused to
z ant music and skating license to a
rink, because s.skating to music Is dan
cing."
Sightless individuals should avoid
liquor. 1t is very easy to get blind
drunk.
The first gold mine in the United
States Was discovered In South Carolina
in 1870.
How to turn peoples heads-come to
a concert late in pair. of squeaking
boots.
So far as at present known, the giraffe
is a silent animal, like the eland and
the kangaroo, and has never been heard
to utter sound, even when struggling
in the agonies of death.
The Burlington Hawkeye has been
admiring the man who loses nickel
under a plank sidewalk, and feeling for
it, picks up a raw bumblebee by the
stern.
Col. Nicholas Smith, who married
Miss Ida Greeley, has son named Hor-
ace Greeley, dropping the Smith entire
". He has daughter named Nicholsa
Smith.
Our Presidential terms are not long,
yet it has not happened before since
1859, that we have had an ex-President,
a President, and President elect all
living.
Several Philadelphia women had bon
nets bet OH the election. This should
be frowned upon as an attempt to intro
duce millinery at the polls.
General Chester A. Arthur has son
taller than himself and twenty-one
years old, and two daughters. He will
retain his place in his law firm in New
York City while Vice President,
A lady writes to the London Queen
that she has been wearing leather pet
ticoat for the last two years, and finds
it comfortable and not at all too heavy
for walking.
1t is now the style in France fol
wedding ceremonies to last three days;
and it is said the Chicago girls are
thinking about adopting the custom,
and thus postpone the time for dl.
yorce.
The defeated candidate is like the old
bachelor, who says he once fell in love
with beautiful young lady, but aban.
doned all idea Of marrying her when
he found that she and all her folks
were opposed to the match.-lGalveston
News,
The Philadelphia Record warns Its
readers that the common idea that tht
evil effects of poisonous or malarious
drinking water can be neutralized by
mixing it with whisky has no founda.
tion. Another good excuse for tippliue
gone.
One of the comets recently discovered
has entirely disappeared. it's now sup.
posed to have been the Hancock boom
diving for the deepest depths of the un.
knowableness of the unknowable.-
fNorristown Herald.
For Husbands Only.