Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-12-09
Miscellany.
Gen. Grant is fond Of pork and beans.

Gen. Grant is fond OF pork and beans.
A head-waiter-an idle barber.
A woman who goes to church to
show her sealskin saeque is sacque-re-
lgious. -
BelIaire makes 500 tons Of glasswsre
every week.
Richland county has voted BY large
majority to build ohiIdren's Home.
The Jews have temple in Chicago
which win seat 5000 persons. v +
1t is said there are 500 Cinnamon who
have become Catholic priests. ~
The King of the Sandwich Islands
will visit the United States again this
year. Ef seal
The only railroad in Greece is i've
miles long.
An Englishman recently transplantad
9 tree which weighed thirty-fve tons.
A man ssout westn was offered plate
of macaroni soup, but declined 1t, declar-
ing that they couldn't play of any billed
pipe stems on him.
Suggestive fact-Hymn "32s'' In the
Methodist Hymn Book is the familiar
sfCrown Him Lord of ALL" 3 .
Before the war there were only two
Congregational Churches In the South.
There are now 73.
The friends of local option are at
work at Portsmouth preparing Pc
titions to be presented to the Legisia-
ture.
Twenty-one divorce cases were dis
posed of at the recent term of court In
Marietta. zEag, srs
Only three wooden shanties now
stand on the site of the hamlet where
Jefferson was born, near Charlottesville,
Va. ~ ka
Ex-senator Lot NJ. Morrill,, Of Maine,
Is very Ill at his home in Portland.
Neal Dow ran well in his own State,
getting no less than sixty-six votes, in
all, for President.
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, is
building railroad up the north branch
of the Potomac river.
It is said that Senator Blame and wife
will entertain on large scale the COM
ing season.
General Garfield smokes short, thick
cigars, and he likes to blow the smoke
mp to the ceiling.
Patrick Car, of Athens County, has
been indicted on a charge of murder in
the first degree.
Nearly a hundred missionaries have
sailed from this country for foreign
fields in the past five months.
The Methodists have in successful
operation in Japan missionary semi
nary for training native pastors.
Mrs. Garfield has refused to let her
photograph be sold or her likeness en-
graved.
Neal Dow received fewer votes for
President than the Prohibition caiidi-
date of 1876.
The sickest State In the Union-Ill.-
Bloomington Eye.l The solid State
Mass Boston Post.] Always round
when the country calls o. {Cin.
Conn.,
A barkeeper named Charles Mohr
was found in creek near Toledo SUM-
day frozen in the ice. He has been
missing since the 18th inst.
"If Jones undertakes to pull my
ears" said loud-mouthed fellow on a
street corner, "he'll just have his hands
full" The crowd smiled.-[New York
Post. .'
The body of an unknown man was
found hanging to tree near Shelby on
Sunday. No trace of the mans identity
could be ascertained.
Married life reaches the acme of hap
piness when woman can eat crackers
in bed without any complaint from her
husband.
4, DR.. Glenn, the great California grain
raiser, is said to have harvested enough
wheat this year to load twenty large
ships.
The Black Diamond steel works at
Pittsburgh have begun to make the
steel shafts which have hitherto been
made only at Krupps famous German
works.
JOHN w. Mackay, the bonanza king,
has sailed for Europe, to assist his wife
In the labor of spending part of his
income. i'itt7
A New York florist recently char
tered car to send piece of decorative
work to Cleveland wedding. 1t was a
oOWOA VI ctidW, lCCI
high, and studded with roses and trim
med with wreaths.
Lewis Rockwell was supported by his
relatives at Honsdale, Pa, until he was
hundred years old; and then, deeming
his longevity unreasonable, they turned
him over to the Poornaster. He is now
1O2.
An old lady who has several unmar-
ried daughters feeds them on fish diet,
because It is rich in phosphorus, and
phosphorus is the essential thing In
making matches.
The Portland Oregonian asserts that
the forged Morey letter furnished the
rallying cry for a nonresident rabble
who put In some 300 or 400 illegal votes
In that city.
AS the holiday season is at hand, it is
in order for the head of the house to
save up his spare cash so that his wife
may be able to present him with the
usual Christmas gifts.
The New York Herald says John
Kelly has about as much opportunity to
lead the Democrats In another campaign
as Benedict Arnold had of taking high
command under Washington after his