Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-12-30

The csndle-wiek is up to snuff.

An easy money market in New
York after the first Of January is
foreahadow ed.
Widows weeds are easily removed
by 40 active young husbandDan.
Every man has place to FILL The
dentist frequently finds several.
The railroads of the country con-
tinue to have more business than
( they can transact.
Certificates of Electoral votes have
been received by the Vice President,
by mail, from every State in the
Union.
Charles Sickler, of Scranton, Pa,
gave bis wife carbolic acid instead
of chloral. She died in few hours,
and he went crazy.
General Garfield has declined the
invitation of the Lincoln Club to
visit Cincinnati this winter.
j. Sullivan Hale, of Turner, Maine,
father of Hon. Eugene Hale, died
Friday.
The fuel famine in Minnesota is
compelling many farmers to cut
down the groves planted only q few
years.
It is announced that General
Grant will spend portion of next
month at Jacksonville, Florida.
ssDon't bite off more than you can
chew" is vulgar. Say sdon't buy
tree higher than your ceiling"
A knife with 191 blades was lately
sent 10 the Prince Of Wales on his
birthday.
The ladies native in Alaska wear
eealskin suits, drink whisky and eat
whale blubbers.
A son of Chief Justice Marshall,
now eighty years old, is a clerk in
the Pension office.
An editor who was told that his
last article was as clear as mud, said,
"Well, that covers the ground, any.
how"
A great many men are cottage
built; they have but one story. And
they are forever telling it.
Large mouths are now fashionable
among women. They are worn open,
of course, as heretofore.
DIR. Glenn's harvest in Colusa
county, California, is just finished,
and the total yield is 100000 sacks
of wheat.
A small boy and q gun are harm
less when apart, but they make
fearful combination.
Missouri has politician named
Kewkomber. The result Of the late
election got him into pickle:
"Shall we keep open house New
Year day2" is the question which
now begins to agitate the average
female mind.
Mrs. Ellen Grant Sartoris has now
three children-two little girls and
boy. The fonrth-her eldest son--is
dead.
John w. Coleman, weighing 365
pounds and Miss Mary Lemon,
weighing 245, were married 10 Grant
county, Kentucky, last week.
As a Mr.. Bird was recently mar
ried to Miss Worm in Michigan, it
is about time for the paragraphers to
say something about the ''early
bird" etc.
Thirty thousand new houses, all
of brick or stone, have been built
in Chicago since the first of last
April.
New Jersey has eighty-five mil
lions in manufacturing enterprises,
and employs $4,000 persons, of whom
1900 alone are In Patterson.
No, James, when we say farmer
has good crop of Red Top, wedo
not mean that he is afflicted with
red headed daughters.
1t was undoubtedly very mean
old bachelor who said that the dis |
ease which had the most terror for
a woman is the lockjaw.
The young lady who married a |
man employed in bank applied for
a divorce when she discovered that
it was q sand bank.
The population of Alaska aggre-
gates about $4,000, of which about
$4,000 are Indians, 1900 Aleuts,
1900 creoles, 12S white males and 4
females.
No matter how poor people are
nearly every one can afford to keep a |
pair of horses, one for clothes and |
the other for wood.
Married life reaches the acme Of
happiness when a woman can eat
crackers in bed without any COM
plant from her husband.
Newly married couples are so
thick in Washington hotels that the |
other guests require no sugar in
their coffee or syrup on their griddle
cakes.
Belchnarstarl, a Russian priest, 113 |
years old, started in October for
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died
near Joppa.
Mr.. George Merriman and wife, of
Litcbfield, Connecticut, celebrated the |
sixtieth anniversary of their marriage |
on the 30th al
A Cincinnati man says that Ma
mie Anderson's cherry lips are the
prettiest in America. Bah! we'll put
onr lips against hers any day.
[Boston Post.
A clergyman meeting an inebriate
neighbor, exclaimed, "Drunk again,
Wilkinsm to which Wilkins in a
semi confidential tone, responded,
sSho am l, parson."