Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-01-01
Miscellany.

The French law does not recognize
promise to marry.
! The woman question. "what did sh,
have on 2"
i The man who is hanged takes droI
too much.
/ When the moon gets full it keeps late
hours.
Writs of Observation-Disclosures to an.
other mans wife.
Grant and Malone, of Virginia, is the
latest Presidential combination.
/ Milledgeville, Ca, with 5000 inhab-
itants, has no bank.
Green peas and cucumbers are in sea-
son at Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart pays tax on $780,
600 personal property.
A member of the bar-a trapeze per-
former.
The wind always finds something to
blow about.
"My turn next" said the buckwheat
cake to the cook.
Tennessee and Georgia are having an
iron boom.
The miser, remarks the Herald, has
struck the golden mean.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania
will hold their State Convention Febru-
ary %.
Pockets are always ripe enough to
pick.
Raleigh, N. c., has thirty-eight
streets, with total length of seventy
miles.
Secretary of War Ramsey is the first
Cabinet officer that Minnesota has had.
Adam and Ewes case was heard in
the apple-ate court.
Another champion is annOunced-the
man who has read the Bible through
forty times.
OF the sixteen officers elected by the
Virginia Legislature five are Republic
cans.
The remains of Knight of Pythias
have been denied burial in a Roman
Catholic cemetery at Winsted, CT.
There is nothing so effective in bring
ing man up to the scratch AS healthy
and high spirited flea.
Don't play with the devil when you
are young lest you have to play with
him when you are old.
An exchange asserts that garlic ia
good for diphtheria. Perhaps it Is, but
what in the world is remedy for gar
lie?
The demand of the hour is for bur-
glar-proOf graves.
daytime because at night they are
roosters.
General Grant will be invited to make
a tour of Texas on his way to or from
Mexico.
Silver anklets are to be worn with
dress boots and embroidered stockings.
Soaking timber in lime-water has
been recommended for preserving 1t
from dry rot and the effects of the
weather,
The Duchess of Edinburgh reads
great deal In several languages; her
fayorite authors are Russian and
French.
"What 80 rare as day in Juner
sings the poet. 4 day in January is
not only rarer, but actually raw.
When a cat goes for the tail of
rat sticking out Of hole, she has an
end in view.
The, sausage is the only species of
grounding that does not hibernate in
the winter.
He SAID her hair was dyed, and when
she Indignantly exclaimed, '1is false!"
he said he presumed so.
The pin is mightier than the sward. |
You can sit on the sward with impunity. |
An exploration of Great Salt Lake |
shows that its greatest depth is thirty
six feet.
A boy in one of the misson-schools in |
Pekin, China, at late examination, re-
peated the entire New Testament with
out missing single word or making a
mistake.
A series of experiments has estab-
lished the fact that chloroform neutral
ICES the action of strychnine upon the
human system.
Amber is found In the mines, rivers
and sea coast of Prussia. Ii is used In |
varnish and for mouth pieces of pipes.
The young ladies who ran the Sew
enth Regiment fair In New York for
three weeks realized about 100000,
which will be devoted TO charity.
Rev. George Randall of Yancey
County, North Carolina, has killed 575
hogs this season, and preached two SER
mons every Sunday.
A bill to prevent aud punish the in-
of whites and negroes has
passed both houses of the South Caro-
lima Legislature, and has been approved
by the Governor.
Ex-Governor McClung, of Missouri,
is candidate for Congress, to fill the
vacancy ocoasiOned by the death of
Hon. A. NJ. Lay.
A machine tor cutting stone Of all
kinds rapidly and capable of stricking
six thousand blows per minute, has
been patented.
ssThere Is no place like home"-unless
it is some nice young girls home, when
the old folk are at class meeting, and
the matchbox is empty.
The finances will be let alone, This
much is assured. 1t Is comforting, un-
der these circumstances, to know that
they are In u good condition to be let
alone.
Judge Eldridge OF Memphis fined
himself $40 for tardiness at court. Two
lawyers made able arguments for the
remission Of the penalty, but his honor
firm.
Since the war of the rebellion $780,
900, ,000 have been expended for PEN
sions. 1t can not be said that the ma
ton has forgotten the men who lost
their lives and health in its defense.
Olive Logan say the new Queen of
Spain Is real bread-and-butter miss, as
depicted by Byron, but her mother, the
Empress of Austria, is woman of
great beauty.
of the Hon. John Wentworth,
Is fortunate young lady. 1t Is related
that her father has had $4,000 In
Four Per Cents registered in her name.