Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-01-08
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covery.
Major Penn, the Texas revivalist,
has been ordained to the Baptist
ministry.
A stub-tailed dog will back right
up to an old tin kettle.
Gold coin is the commonest cur
rency afioat in Georgia.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has just
lost by death her only child's daugh-
ter. EE5
Congressman are not all colored,
but they do whitewashing all the
same.
A Tennessee ticket is W. H. Van
derbilt, of New York, and R. M.
Bishop, of Ohio.
A single property in California is
one half the size of Rhode Island.
Richmond, Virginia, has soup
house for the poor. 1t is managed
entirely by ladies.
Canada has Roman Catholic pop
ulation of ], SAG, 800, with % Rishops,
1883 priests, and 1,6l7 churches.
A schoolmaster of Johnston, Iowa,
has been fined for whipping a girl
pupil because she corrected his mis-
pronunciation of a word.
The first impulse of a young mar
ried man on being presented with
his first baby, is to give it a-weigh.
That man who knows the world
will never be. bashful, and the man
who knows himself will never be inn
pudent.
A clever English teacher has orig
mated the idea of shopping classes,
in which girls might be taught how
to buy dress and housekeeping
goods.
Leading Israelttes of New York,
clerical and lay, have just formed a
Sabbath Saturday Observance So
ciety.
Mr.. Frederick Seward and his wife
will spend the winter in travelling
for the benefit of Mrs. Stewards
health.
The New York journal Of Com
merce puts the balance of trade for
1879 in favor of this country to the
amount of about $l50,000,000.
A lady joking about her nose,
said: 81 had nothing to do in shap-
ing it. 1t was a birthday present."
The Austin Texas Statesman
asserts that at a point near that
place rain has not fallen during the
year.
A New York engraver recently
made this mistake: "Mr. and Mrs.
respectfully request your pres
ents at the marriage of their daugh-
ter"
In the list of Georgia lawyers who
have received big fees the Atlanta
(Ga. Constitution puts Senator Ben.
Hill first. He received in one case a
fee of $140, 900, of which 100000 was
paid in cash.
81 say, Pat. what are you about
sweeping out the room?" NO." an
swered Pat, 81 am sweeping out the
dirt, and leaving the ROOM"
Colonel E. Clayton, of Ashville, N.
c., has suit of clothes in which he
was married years ago, and which
was made by Andrew johnson, af-
terward President of the United
States.
A bachelor cynic remarks that it
is singular how early in life child
gains the reputation Of resembling
the richest and best-looking of his
relatives.
"Jane," said he, 81 think if you
lifted your feet away from the fire
we mil ght have some heat in the
room." And they hadn't been mar
ried two years either.
A raw Irishman on his first sight
of locomotive, declared it WAS the
deYil. "No," said his companion,
sits only a steamboat hunting for
wather."
An old bachelor on seeing the
words Families Supplied" over the
door of an oyster saloon, stepped in
and said he would take wife and
two children.
While a bystander on fashion
able street of Boston WIS taking
notes he saw in an hour and a
half fifty.five people who wore eye.
glasses. Thirty-four were ladies and
twenty one were men.
Senator Bayard announces, through
his friends, that Immediately upon
the reassembling of Congress he will
urge his legal tender resolution for
passage. Then the real trouble will
begin.
Sporting guns are now made in
England with the hammer concealed
in the lock mechanism internally, so
that persons who prefer to handle |
their weapons from the muzzle in go
ing through brush need not find death |
in The gun.
Robert johnson, of Middletowu,
Conn, who died in 1864, had eleven
daughters, nine of whom are still liv-
ing, the youngest being over fifty
and the Oldest over eighty. They
are all tall, well formed women.
"Neyer let a cold rum" says a |
cough medicine advertisement. This
is bad advice. Always let 8 cold
run. Let it run SO fast that you
can't catch it-Norristown Kerald. |
An old bachelor, who particularly
hated literary women, asked an au-
thoress if she could throw any light
on kissing. II could" said she,
looking archly at him; "but / think |
it's better in the dark"
"Father, / heard you say in the