The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-08-23
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blue; that Of the Chinese, white.
Thomas A. Compton, of Simpson
county, owns n heifer, one year old in
this month, which gives about quart Of
good milk at a milking.
Goldsmith Maid is now in her six
teenth year, and Lucy in her seventeenth,
and they have trotted faster this year
than they ever did before.
II is generally believed to be danger
Gus to travel on railroads, but statistic:
show il is the safest method Of locomo-
ton on land ever yet devised.
The highest Office within the gift of the
Government is the supcrintendency OF
the weather signal station at Pixies Peak,
which is 1000 feet above the sea level.
There is an old gentleman in Houston
county, Georgia, who says he never had
a pair of shoes until after he was grown
and had become the father Of two chill.
dren. -..
Editing a paper is very much like
carrying an umbrella on a windy day
Everybody thinks he could manage bet
ter than the one who has hold of th,
handle.
The Paris True Rentuckian it author
lied by a responsible gentleman living
in that city to say that he has a thous
and dollars he wants to bet that Greeey
will beat Grant.
A young lady in Peoria church be
came seasick recently from the effect pro
duced by the continuous swaying of fan'
all around her. She had to he takei
from the building.
People never read their papers mor'
thoroughly than when in the countr,
and at the seaside. Therefore it is {
mistaken idea to suppose the summer i
not good time to advertise.
A German musician has discovered
that the tones of violin can be great,
improved by immersing the instrumen
in lager beer, and leaving it there unit
it becomes thoroughly saturated.
Sir Charles Lyell declares that the en-
tire continent of North America will b
washed away into the ocean in four am
half million of years. And yet the peg
pie take an interest in real estate.
1t is folly for an eminent man to thinl
of escaping censure, and weakness +
be effected with it. All the illustriou
persons of antiquity, and indeed of ever.
age in the world, have passed througl
this fiery persecution.
A little school girl refused to defn
"clown" US ga low, vulgar fellow Fo
her stubbornness the teacher whipped he
and kept her detained in play hours, bu
probably felt some remorse when sh
found that the little child's father was
clown in n circus.
The Sioux Indians, since the return O
the visiting delegations from the East
want the government to furnish then
more ice cream and less clothing anon
their annuities, or there will be scalpin
done. Ice cream seems to touch spo
in their savage stomachs that has hithel
to been untitled.
A parallel to the apple-shooting cas-
of the celebrated William Tell was wi
messed few days since in Newport, Ky.
one young man shooting with a pisto
at distance of fifteen feet, circula
card, two or three inches in diameter
from the head Of another young mar
II was the result of bet.
All the known volcanoes in the worl
seem to be simultaneously "on bust.
The volcano of Merapi, in Japan, whic
has been quiet ever since 1868, recent
broke out in great fury, burying a nun
Der of villages, filling up the ravines an
checking the course of rivers, beside
destroying frightful number of inhabl
ants. The eruption of Hecla is locke
for every day. -t
| Mrs, Mary Gray, of Greenup count,
was bern in Prince Georges count,
Maryland, March o, 1859. She ha
lived to the advanced age Of 113 year
and probably the Oldest person in ii
United States. Her descendants numbC
l,075 persons, as follows; First generi
tion, children, 13; second generation
grandchildren, 65; third generation
great-grandchildren, 6l7; fourth gene
alton, greai-great-grandchildren, 3S7
fifth generation, great-great-great-gran'
children, "A.