The interior journal., 1872-07-26
ITEMS WORTH READING.

ITEMS WORTH READING.
j One-half of the slate pencils used in
the world are made in Vermont.
A recent law in Pennsylvania allows
women to buy sewing machines without
their husbands consent,
Scott county claims that nine races
were won at Long Branch by horses
which originated in that county.
A California sheep raiser owning 90,-
O0G5 aeep, from which he realizes nm in
come of 100000 yearly, he commenced
twenty years pgo with a Aock of 800.
\ Eighty thousand dollars was the fort
une left to his daughter by the late
headsman of Paris. He was regarded rs
an artist in decapitatien.
An Illinois man has ploughed all alone
10 acres Of ground, has planted Il in
corn. and will sec it cultivated and har-
vested without any assistance.
Since the street sales of newspapers
have been permitted in Paris, the aggre-
gate circulation of daily papers in that
city have increased 100000.
The difference between a country
and a city greenhorn, is that one would
like to know everything, and the other
thinks he can tell him.
Colonel King, of Texas, has a little
farm of "a, 1872 acres, stocked with 65,-
900 cattle, 10000 horses, 1000 sheep,
and 5000 goats.
The cash value of farms in New York
has doubled during the last ten years,
while the value of the implements has
increased from twenty-five to :sortv-five
millions of dollars.
Z. r. Feavel, the Oldest professional
bill-poster in Wisconsin, and for many
years resident of Milwaukee, has fallen
heir to the town of Patten, in England,
worth S5,0OO,OOO.
Two sisters have eloped from Berlin,
Prussia, with young man whom they
are both in love with, and whom they
both intend to marry when they reach
Salt Lake, which is their destination.
That extraordinary Gilmore offered
Titiens one thousand dollars song if she
wouldsisSN0e and help on the Jubilee
with S'ffeerussGE sh- --..;;11si-'..
yield at that figure.
Some of the best wool known to COM
merce isbrought from New South Wales,
where the English statistics show there
are over sixteen millions of sheep, and
the number increasing.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton in Harvey county, Kansas, is Mrs.
Ellen Webster. She is the first woman
every elected to country Office in Kan
sas.
A Utica girl at the proper hour pulls
string which reveals picture, on the
back of which appears in huge characters
the words, "Ten o'clock is my bedtime" :"
and her admirers take the gentle hint
and depart.
Those thirteen old maids who went to
Wyoming from Vermont few weeks
ago, thinking themselves sure of hus-
hands, are going to sue the Territory for
breach of promise, as they are still I'M
married.
1t appears, from the Census "Tables
of Occupation just published, that there
are in the United States, 1854 clergy
men, 40, 1856 lawyers, and 62.3S3 physi-
clans and surgeons; teachers of all kinds,
1856. $50; journalists, 2,2S6; musicians,
6,5l9; officers of the army and navy of
the United States, 1926, civil officers of
the Government, National, State or Mu-
nicipal, and reporting no other oocupa-
tion, 44,743.
A Louisianian has invented a method
of extracting bee honey from the comb
by means of a centrifugal Process, which
accomplishes its work without breaking
the comb further than uncapping the
cells. The comb is then replaced in
sliding departments fitted to the hive,
and the bees at once commence to refill
the cells, thus saving the labor of con-
structing twenty pounds of comb, bee
bread and wax in order to save one pound
of honey.
A miniature Dead sea has been dis
covered in Nevada. 1t lies in an oval
basin, $50 Geet below the surface of the
plain, the hanks shelving down with as
much symmetry as If fashioned by art.
The water Of this lake is impregnated
with soluble substances, mostly borax,
soda and salt, to degree that renders il
almost ropy with slime, and so dense
that person can float upon ii without
effort. This lake has no visible outlet or
inlet, but being of great depth is proba-
bly, fed by springs far dOwnin the earth.
The Tables of Occupation" at the
Census Office, show that the number Of
persons pursuing gainfal occupations on
the first of June. 1870, was l2,505, ,02S |;
of these 54s, ,0sS were males and l9l. .l43
famales from ten TO fifteen years Of age !;
0, 1856, ,SO7 were males and i,594,959 ie-
males from sixteen to iifty-nine years of
age 635, ,0lii males and 5o,SS5 females
sixty year Of age. OF the total. 0, ,SO2, {.