Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
miscellany.

Said he, ssLet us be one." Anu sne'
was one.
The man who died game was never
Chestnuts are better eaten by day
light.
glass. = ~
Rev. Lewis wazawacanaysna is q
Dakota clergyman.
Kewcomber Is the name of Missouri
politician.
Winter is the sleep of the year, and
also its shower. -
The tree toad always takes the color
of the hill on which it liyes.-I Missouri
proverbs.
Nothing can constitute good breeding
that has not good nature for its iounda-
tion.IBulyer Lytton.
The worst education that teaches self
denial Is better than the best that
teaches anything else and not that
[John Sterling.
"Head it up" is the latest bit of gen.
tility, and the man who says it wishes
you to stop talking.
What a beautiful thing is q rosy
cheek! How great the contrast when
1t settles on the nose.
Husband--.Mary, my love, this ap-
ple-dumplingis not half done." Wife
ssWell, finish it then, my dear"
aHe sleeps where he fell, !" says late
ballad, which suggests that he must
have been drunk.
A missionary bishop is to be sent, by
the Episcopal Church, to New Mexico
and Arizona.
Ohio is the only State that is round at
both ends and s'hi" In the middle.
A man In a sawmill at Turnerville,
Neb., was found sawed completely In
two. 1t is supposed that he fell on the
truck In front cf the saw when drunk.
Wade Hampton must be singularly
expert in the use of his wooden leg.
He can still open his mouth and put his
foot In it.
A little boy in Philadelphia recently
asked If groomsmen are the men who
carry out the coffin. Children ask
questions that no feller can answer.
The temperance people of the country
are collecting funds for life sized por-
trait of Mrs. Hayes, to present to her as
a testimonial of her labor for the cause.
A London tailor has invented the
"united suit" which consists of mans
complete attire In one garment.
The scientists say that shutting the
eyes improve the hearing. Yet we
never heard that village gossips were
blind.
Bishop Warren, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has been lecturing
at Omaha and farther West with great
success.
1t is estimated that there are about
ten thousand students in attendance at
the Roman Catholic colleges in the
United States.
General Grant wears no jewelry ex-
cept plain gold ring on the little fin
ger of the left hand. He wears no
watch-guard.
esOh, dear ! I wish / was dead I" ex-
claimed neglected maiden. She had
heard that matches were made in hea-
Yen.-f Boston Transcript.
Edmund Davis, head of the extensive
manufacturing business of Davis's Pain
Killer, died in Providence, r. l., sud-
deny, Saturday, of apoplexy, aged fifty
seven.
A dull old lady. being told that q
certain lawyer was slying at the point
of DEATH" exclaimed, "My gracious!
Won't even death stop that mans ly-
ing"
A young lady wrote some verses for
paper about her birthday, and headed
them 'sMay 30th." 1t almost made her
hair turn gray when it appeared in print
"My 30th."
Alphonse Karr once sent a letter to
friend which contained only note of
Interrogation? The answer was-0.
The meaning of these notes was, "What
Is there new?" and "Nothing." The
brevity of wit could not be carried
much further.
Lady Harberson recommends the
adoption of trousers for walking dress,
or, as she calls them, "skirts" divided
above the knees and made full down to
the ankles, where they might be finished
with band or flource.
DIR. Tanner proposes foFty-day's.
competitive fast in London, with be-
levers in malt and spirituOus liquors,
he to use water alone, and they to SUBJ
sist on their own chosen beverage, and
see what the result will be.
There's one thing you may put down
in your note book; say what you will
about the women, we never yet knew a
woman who could keep secret half so
well as man could tell it, Burling-
con Hawkeye.
Captain James B. Eads says there is
every prospect for the success of his
scheme for ship railroad across the
Isthmus of Darien, and that If the work
was once started he could complete 1t
within three years.
A private letter received in Boston
says that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who
has been living quietly in Germany for
some years past, will sail for New York
early in November. Her health Is ex-
tremely poor, and she returns home to
join her son Robert, in Chicago.
Mrs. Arnold, the sole surviving sister
of "Stonewall' jackson, now lives at
BuckhannOn, West Virginia. She was
throughout the war a faithful Unionist,
although every member of the family
except one-a young nephew-was a
secessionist.