Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-12-16

Right. In the main-Gas.
You can tell dog wood by its bark.

datnerlng rents-Mendlng torn CLOTH
ing.
The sscrstivs reporter is an item.
miser.
10 step on a mans corn goes again
. his grain.
As with q woman, 80 with the horse.
His back hair is his name trouble.
Garibaldi's body, below the waist. is
almost insensible.
There are GOO, GOO fewer acres under
wheat in England than in 1874
st. Julien is horse and he has earned
42s, 900 profit for his owner this season.
At the bali: Grace (whispering)-
"Wbat lovely boots your partners got,
Mary" Mary (ditto)-"Yes, unfortu-
nately he shinesat the wrong end"
As a matter of fact, woman will sit
alongside Of man in car, though a
seat be vacant next to woman.
The plumber finds great solace in his
pipe-water pipes. 7aaHi
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is giving
q series Of lectures on the common law.
Henry Irving, the English actor, be-
lievcs in. having real food on stage
tables.
Congressman Alex. II. Stephens is
suffering from dyspepsia even more
4 than is usual for him. aot !
The six Methodist churches of Detroit
pooled their debts, amounting to $685.
600, and united In successful effort to
raise the money.
Split timber is more durable and
stronger than that which is sawn, from
the continuity OF the fibres.
Augustus D. Leighton, colored, on
trial in New York on charge of mur-
der, has been found guilty.
Making joke is like throwing top
If It doesn't come down on its point
it will not not spin. .sa9 =
The sum voted yearly for the Catho-
lie clergy of France is 81 ,000, 600 francs.
The Anglicans in Rome are building
a fine church there to cost $40, 900. The
: ground cost $4,000. s ts
Plate glass Is formed of silica seven
ty-eight parts, potash two, soda thir-
teen, lime five, and alumina two parts.
The mince pies are little backward
this year, and fears are entertained
that the early frosts have injured the
vines.
A man may carry a watch for years
and still be unfamiliar with the wheels
! OF the little ticker. They travel in cog.
Hair Brushes are best cleaned by
washing them in saleratus or soda
water, which removes all the oily coat
ing.
Red ink is solution of alum colored
< euffh nraufl
solution of cochineal.
The last three Presidents are fathers
Of the same number of children and of
the same sex, each having three sons
and one daughter. =
The Boston Post remarks: "Vice
iesident-elect Arthur has two pretty
daughters. We hasten to state that we
never said word against the old man
during the campaign"
Drunkenness is spreading so much In
Germany that new measure for its
punishment and prevention is being
prepared for presentation to the I'M
perial Parliament. e
Mrs. Mercy Studley died in Bremen,
Maine, last week at the age of JOG
years. Her husband, Nathaniel Stud
ley, has been dead sixty years.
An Iowa farmer says: "We ralse
400 bushels of potatoes to the acre here,
which would be a big thing IL we
didn't raise insects enough to eat 'em
all up"
The Reverend Greenback Represent
alive De La Matyr of Indiana intends,
It is said, to take up his residence in
Florida. w
Judge Houston, the Republican can
didate for Congressman In Delaware at
the late election, has served notice of
his purpose to contest the seat of Ed
ward L. Martin in the Forty-seventh
Congress.
"My boy" said conscientious teach
er, "do you know the reason why am
going to whip your" eyes," replied
the hopeful; 81 suppose it's because
you're bigger than 1 am"
A new fan invented in Germany has
needles and thread concealed in its first
fold, so as to be all ready to repair
damages IT the wearer's gown be torn
at ball.
Mrs. Hayes Is said to be woman of
remarkable endurance. She never had
anv Illness except an occasional head
ache and looks much younger than she
is-forty-nine.
Cyrus 81. Mccormick, the inventor
of the celebrated reaper, has donated
500, 600 to the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary of Chicago in order to place
1t entirely out of debt.
A boy of twelve years, dining at his
uncle's, made such good dinner that
his aunt observed: "Johnny, YOU
appear to eat we'll" eyes," replied
the urchin, 81 have been practicing eat
ing all my life."
During the postal year recently ended
5,353,651 letters and packages went to
the Dead Letter Office. Nine thousand
had no address and $50, 600 had the
wrong address. In the money letters
were found 81, 100000.
Buddhism is rapidly losing It's hold
In Japan. Since 1873 in single district
Il temples have been diverted to secular
uses. 1t is estimated that in the Empire
more than 700 temples have been thus
secularized with the past nine years.