The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-03-20
SINGLE SHOTS.


rather be door.keeper in the hall Of the
Changers than to shovel sugar in the
stores of the middlemen.
Millard Fillmores death few days
since, leaves Andrew johnson the sole
surviving representative of the Ex-Prcsi.
dents of the Uuited States.
According TO a recent prophecy the
Pope Is to die this year, and the people
who look out o windows for three days
thereafter are to be struck dead immedi-
ately.
Landlady, fercely--'You mustn't oc-
cupy that bed with your boots on.
Boarder-'Never mind they're an old
pair. guess the bugs won't hurt 'em.
Let 'em ripanyhowg
Americans who pay thousand dollars
a head for about twenty thousand use
less soldiers may envy the fortune of Sir
Garnet Wolsey, who has hired all the
soldiers he wants from two African kings
at fifty dollars per thousand.
For genuine Irish wit commend us to
the general statutes Of Kentucky. In
harmonizing them with the old statutes,
its authors declare all general statutes,
heretofore existing, in conflict with the
present revision, to be null and void ex-
cept certain local statutes. Glasgow
Times.
The Mayfeld Democrat is informed
that several thousand dollars were sent
from Cincinnati aud Louisville, and that
with its aid and plenty Of whisky hun
dreds of voters were made to carry Pa
ducah for license at the late municipal
election.
a young lady of Lexington, Miss
Maggie Edrington, moving in the best
circles, and whose father is in business in
that city, last week instistuted sut against
Mr.. George 5. Lewis, of Monroe, Michi-
gan, for breach of promise of marriage,
laying her damages at $4,000.
A couple of b,acksmiths, formerly in
partnership, in Leon, have a curious
lawsuit. One sues the other for labor
performed and money paid out, and the
other presents counter claim for twelve
months checker-playing INDUCED in by
the plaintiff when he should have been
at work.
A party of ''aged mothers recently
held meeting in an Iowa town. There
were thirty two of them, their ages ag-
gregated 2,162 years; average 81 years;
Oldest mother IS years; youngest 60.
One of them has seventy-two children,
grand and great-grand children and the
aggregate of their descendants numbered
over fifteen hundred.
There is infinite pathos in that scene
in the woman's crusade against whiskey
where two women brought two helpless
babes to a saloon, and held the little fel-
lows up over the counter in appeal
against the venal rumseller! They were
the children of drunken fathers, who
procured most of the liquors that brought
these helpless innocents to want at this
same counter
There are over Il, 400, 900 children of
the school age in this country. We
spend annually for schools over s95, ,000,-
900, which is equal TO one third Of one
per cent of the property, real and per-
sonal, of the whole country, as returned
by the last census ;and We employ 22l, :
600 teachers. The national government
has already set aside for educational
purposes lao, 900, 900 acres of the public
lands.
A correspondent at Washington says !;
The National Grange circular for Janu-
ary shows an increase since the 18th of
December, when the last circular was is
sued, of 1866 oranges. The total num-
Der at that date was 1926; the total
of that of the last circular was 10, ,S62
The membership is only approximately
stated at about 7s0, 200. The increase
largely in the Western and Southern
states.
1t was at Il party that some young Ia
dies, who were discussing the relative
benefits Of the sparrows and worms, when
one of the fair ones appealed to young
Fizzletop, who had just joined them, and
had not caught the drift of the conver-
sation. (Which do you think the worse,
worms or sparrowsy" What do you
think the stupid brute did but innocent
ly answer; IL dent know; | never had
sparrows.
A religious exchange says that the
mark so often seen in signatures should
not be taken simply us evidence of the
illiteracy of the writer, but as a symbol
of the Christian cross and an attostation
of the signer's good faith. Among the
ancient Saxons, it says, this mark was
required to be attached in order to insure
the validity of the document, and the
making of it had religious significance
like the taking of an oath.
Contempt of court meets with prompt
punishment in Kentucky. Two men
father and son-were brought before
Union County Justice. The son was