Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-02-05

Clearing donbt-gettlnS lnCo tne
water when the ice gives way.
Our thoughts being endless, it is
easy for them to revolve in the mind.
The coal fields of Alabama are es-
timated to contain 100000 bush
els of coal.
Sixty thousand acres of fruit trees
have been planted in Iowa during
the past year.
The Lee Monument association OF
Virginia have $20,569 in their treas
ury.
Fraud-when fellow says he will
lick you, and knows he can't do it.
An American citizen likes being
sold, but not on the auction block.
The. greatest inducement for 1880
is to try to live through it.
Senator-elect George, Of Missis-
sippi, was once the driver of an OK
team.
Blondin thinks of returning to
America, to repeat his feats at Nj
agara.
A Boston man received coffin
for a Christmas present, and is SIT
cash ahead.
Bishop Haven's dying words were,
"There is no river here-it is all
beautiful"
We like the Bible for everything
except its criticisms on our daily
conduct.
A good resolution may come like
fash, but it takes year to keep 1t.
A French naval surgeon is almost
ready to delare that coffee is spe-
cific remedy for typhoid fever.
1t is easy to run down the accom-
plishments of your neighbor, but
harder to run ahead of them.
The man who acts on impulse will
find himself when he gets near the
goal just three PAGES behind the man
who acts on conviction.
The hardest man to listen to is
the man who insists on talking about
the moral law to you for two hours
at q time, but who never gave an IL
lustration of it in his own life.
The poet of beautiful spring will
soon be out with strips of red fan
mel on his beautiful spring throat.
The man who was born on the
29th of February will have the un-
wonted luxury Of a birthday this
year.
The man who at the end of his life
has a receipt in full Of all demands
from men will have more than an or
dinary amount of credit to begin the
next life with.
Switzerland is this winter almost
one mountain of snow; trains, steam
boats and telegraphs have been in u
chronic state of interruption.
Edison is all right. His success
was predicted in the Bible. In verse
Is of Psalm lxxvii may be found the
sentence, "The lightnings lighted the
world"
The Board of Health at Vicksburg
are taking precautions to keep that
city in good sanitary condition dur
ing next summer.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, pretty
white girl of eighteen years, has
been sentenced to the Virginia Pen
itentiary for horse stealing.
1t is reported that Flood, the Cal
ifornia millionaire, whose daughter
is soon to marry Ulysses Grant, jr.,
has given her 50, 100000 in four per
centum Government bonds.
The Bible used by Washington is
offered for sale by the officers of
Christ Church, Alexandra, V. They
are anxious to pay church debt.
The best of all ls to do right be-
cause it is right. Ifthat is impossible
the next best thing is to do right be-
cause you don't dare to do wrong.
Since the Prince Imperials death,
his mother wells herself as much as
possible from the public gaze.
When she goes to church she goes
completely alone, and remains in the
sacristy during the service.
1t has been ascertained by careful
analysis that rain which falls in
towns often becomes heavily charged
with injurious properties, and can
only in rural districts be regarded
as thoroughly safe drinking water.
Henry Clay is postmaster at
jamestown, Va, the oldest postoffice
in the old thirteen States. Letters
have been delivered there in some
form or other for 2S3 years, and yet
the salary is only $5l per annum.
1t Is sad to think that the best
man that ever lived, would, if reduc-
ed to his chemical elements, amount
to nothing more than a pailful of
water and teaspoonful of phospho-
rus. The real difference between the
worst and the BEST is that some are a
little more dry than others.
There is great deal of religion
which it wonld never do to inocqlate
people with, because it hasn't
strength enough to ''take." 1t is
the kind that is always ready to
teach others what to do, but never
has time to follow its own teaching.
1t is said that Senators Sharon,
Butler, and Booth are all looking
around for wives. The first two are
rich and the latter good looking, and
the ladies are urged to take advan-
tage Of their leap year privileges.