The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-09-06

! newspaper.
The daughter of Nine. Ristori is soor
to be married TO rich wine merchant.
A California genius is trying TO get uI
! a company to make sugar from water
melons.
T Ii is said that twenty-five millions Of
bushels Of wheat have been raised in
: Minnesota this year.
A child at Milwaukee died Of fright
while being photographed. She evidently
got bad impression.
They allude to the bsld-headed man
in Colorado ~ "persons with their heads
above the timber line."
The great T. Weed and the great
Tweed both support Grant. It's a clear
case Of I. Weedledum and Tweedledee.
In Lincoln county, Georgia. the Meth
odists and Baptists, instead Of Democrats
and Radicals, run opposing candidates
for office.
The effort in New York to win Dem
ocratic votes with General Dix as the
Radical candidate for Governor is said
to be too thin.
The business of manufacturing safes
has grown up in the United States from
a matter Of few thousands in 1S49, to
90, 900, 900 in 1871.
An improvement on the Cardiff Giant
has been invented in Iowa in the shape
Of petrifed buffalo, found standing
and in the act of eating
In this country and Europe there are
$50 manufactures of India rubber goods,
employing 500 operatives each, and con-
suming 10000, 900 pounds Of. gum every
year.
The commerce Of this country is not
confined TO the sea coast Chicago daiy
chronicles more arrivals aud DEPARTURES
Of steamers and vessels than any Atlantic
sea port. -.. ..
The Lennox Glass Company. of Pitts
field. Massachusetts, has capital of $780,
900. IL consumes 1900 tons of coal
annually, and pays its hands $40, 900
per month.
Overton p. Hogan. of Grant county,
has announced himself an independent
candidate for Congress in the Sixth Dis
trict, and will make the canvass on the
Bourbon ticket.
Judge c. W. West has resigned the
Office Of Judge Of the Harrison county
court. Ii Is stated that it is his intention
to prepare himself for the ministry Of
the Christian church.
The cotton mills in the Southern
States now have 10000 spindlcs in OPP
Grafton, and are paying from ten to
twenty per cent. dividends on capital
ranging from 500, 900 to 81 $780, 900.
DR.. c. c. Sharp, Of Lexington, has
received note from Hon. S. S. Cox, in
which he ssys: "NEw York, Aug. "a,
1872. DEAR SIR am for Greeley.
He y the best you or | or any other
~e!l-meaning man can get. Go inl S.
5. Cox"
The Siamese twins are said by a con-
temporary TO differ in their political opin-
ons. Eng approves OF centralized and
permanent government like that of Eng
land, and hence desires Grants re-elec-
ton, whilst Chang believes in changing
to Greeley.
AS an illustration Of the manner in
which mistakes in Typography may arise.
the Bennington Post recently apologized
to its readers for having described the in
famous can-can as delicious dance"
The critic had written "delirious," which
the printer had read as delicious.
An enterprising Englishman has leased
a water-lot in Palatka, Florida. for ten
years, with the design to put up moss
and paper factory. The moss will be
manipulated into hair-eloth, etc. The
paper mill is intended TO manufacture
paper out Of the common saw palmetto.
The amount of logs cut in the State of
Michigan last winter was 2,5l5, ,000, 900
feet, or 1874, $50, 900 cubic feet board
measure. OF this amount l, ,s06, 900, 900
feet were put aaoat in the log, and $780,
900 carried by rail. The lumber is
mostly pine, and is valued at from s25,-
OO0, 900 to s+6, ZOO, 900.
During the past year there were L.
333, ,246, 900 cigars manufactured in the
United States. At ten cents each, the
averaged retail price, shey would cost
smokers sl3S, ,23+, 900, and yet there are
more who smoke pipes than cigars. Two
hundred million dollars for smoking to-
bacco in one year is considerable.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
has sold Of lis lands assigned il by the