Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-12-02

m1Scelianys
A faint pocket book never won fair
lady.
Garfield has over. Hancock In Wiscon-
sin 29,734.
Sarah Bernhardt has her life insured
for $4,000.
Cal, HAMILTON is about to write the
"reminiscences of. her girlhood.
The official vote of Oregon gives Gar
field over Hancock 763.
1t don't take very fast horse to catch
the epizootic.
During October 81, ,3l2 Immigrants ar
rived IN the United States.
The Republican electors are chosen In
Michigan by atmajority of only 53,4Oo.
A kindness can never be cancelled,
even by repaying 1t.
Jerusalem is to have gas, street cars,
passenger elevators and g telephone ex-
change. Jerusalem!
An Illuminated red nose Is not a safe
guide for man in a dark night. It
leads directly TO barroom.
Miss Mary Garfield, the young daugh-
ter Of the President-elect, is at school in
Cleveland for the winter.
The Hawkeye demands that the new
Secretary of the Navy shall know how
to swim.
The New York Herald hears 1t said
that there is ill-feeling between Grant
and Robson,
Mr.. Spurgeon will have to spend the
winter again at MentOne. by order of
his physician.
The otiicial vote of Mississ ippi for
Hancock Is 1882, for Garfield 4,S44,
for weaver 5,7SS. scattering go.
The shortest life is long enough if 1t
lead TO better, and the longest life is
short if it do not.-iColton.
There Is not single lawyer in the
newly elected State Senate Of New
Hampshire, which contains twenty-four
members.
Mr.. Mcguire, of Pottstown, Pa,
thought 1t would be fun to twista mules
tail. He hasn't changed his mind, and
: never will.
The majority of Garfield over Han
cock in Cook county, H., (Chicago) is
1854.
A colored man In Tennessee has late
ly contributed sll 600 toward the erec-
ton of a new church.
Mrs. Mary F. s. Hopkins Ia the veal
thiest woman in California. She is
worth 22,2s0,972.
Garfeld's majority in New York, as
officially declared, is 81 ,033 over Ham
cock, and G,l43 over all.
The Southern Baptists have just or
ganized church of Chinese communi-
cants in San Francisco.
1t Is curious provision of nature by
which the trees are made to go bare
during cold weather.
When a man stands for Office his op-
ponents sit down on him at the same
time that they lie for him.
The Detroit Free Press says: fsIf the |
foretell, we will have solid North"
Weaver carried one county in the |
United States. Walker County, Texas,
at the late election, receiving majority |
of sixteen votes over Garfield and Han |
cock combined.
Dom Piatt's paper knows of girl of |
twenty-five who refused to marry man |
of fifty. She said he WAS too old for a |
husband and too young to hold out any |
chance of widowhood
The imports of Great Britain up to |
J date exceed those Of last year by over |
$4,000, 600, the exports by over $780,
1000.
The estate of the late Mary Shields, of |
Philadelphia. is valued at $934, 300, of |
which $S75,000 will go by her will to |
various Pennsylvania charitable soci-
eties.
Some of the Choctaw girls In s'the |
Nation," as Indian Territory is called,
are highly educated, very beautiful,
and nearly as fair i'm complexion as
their sisters in the States.
By the death of Governor Williams,
of Indiana, and the promotion of the
Lieutenant Governor, the State Senate
becomes tie.
General Garfield is expected in Gin
cinnati I'm January next, to attend the
annual banquet of the society of ex-
Army and Navy Officers.
According to the Chicago Inter-Ocean
"President Hayes will sail for Europe
next May"
1t is said that Postmaster General
Maynard will be candidate for Senator
from Tennessee.
The person who attempts to handle
an electric eel generally imagines that
he has found a warm meal.
A Miss Hush, of Baltimore, has sued
a young man named Larabee for breach
of promise. The hush-money is laid at
$4,000.
Rev. Josiah Hanson, Harriet Beecher
Stoves original "Uncle Tom," is to
have a new $4,000 church at Dresden,
Ontario.
Miss Annie l.. Shaw was lately Or
dained at Tarrytown by the New York
Methodist Conference, after considera-
BILE discussion.
Nature has perfections, In order to
show that she Is the image of God--and
defects, i'm order to show that she is only
his image.-[Pascal.
A Philadelphia man has perfected
plan for bringing coal out of the cellar
without eXerting any of his muscle.
He makes his wife cart it up.
A wag suggests that suitable OPEN
ing for many choirs would be, "Oh,
Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable
singers"
Jones thinks man Is fortunate who
has his will contested after death only.
He says his will has been contested ever
since he married Mrs. j.
A beggar held out his hand. "I
haven't a cent" said the gentleman.
II did not specify the coin," responded
the mendicant.
A country doctor, being asked what ]
was the best way to cure ham, re-
marked before answering that question
he should want to know what allied the
ham.