The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-12-04
GENERAL sSrELLrGENCE.


SEVENTY THOUSAND men and women
are now out Of employment In New York
City.
THE fre-proof vault In one Of Chica-
gos new financial institutions cost
sI25,000.
IT is aid that Tcnuyson has received
100000 from mis- publishers for the sale
Of his poems.
THE preparatory examination for the
tunnel between England and France will
cost si,Oo0,QOO.
NEGOTIATIONS are on foot for the sale
of the Pacific Mail steamship China to
the japanese Government.
They still thresh wheat In New Mex-
leo in the old Egyptian style--with
horses, oxen, goats and sheep.
A CALIFORNIA man raised sixty tors
Of cabbages on three acres Of land, and
got $4,000 gold for the crop.
An Iowa court hold that promise to
marry must be in writing in order to
support an action for breach Of it.
A NOTED architect, when asked,
"what was the best system Of ventila-
tiong replied. "Fireplaces in every
room."
RAILROAD competition between Bos-
ton, New York and Philadelphia, has
this year saved the producers Of the west
over SIC, 100000.
LATE revisions Of the pension list in
France show that there are still living
q, 900 men who served in the armies Of
the First Napoleon.
NEARLY a score of discoverers Of per-
petual motion applied for space in which
to exhibit their machines, at a recent ex-
hibition in London.
FRENCH officers, who have hitherto
not been allowed to marry, unless the
woman had $4,000, cannot now take q
bride with fortune less than $4,000.
MONEY has never been 80 cheap at
this season of the year as it is now in
all the principal cities. There arc now,
however, signs of hardening in the
rates.
New YORK and Chicago have parks Of
900 acres in extent. Philadelphia has
one of 5000 acres, with river running
through it, and pleasant drive-ways fer
miles along the banks.
THE American Colonization Society
expect to send another expedition to E-
IBERIA in a few weeks Thousands Of
freedmen have asked aid to 20 to Liberia,
be only few can be sent at this time.
A SHIPMENT of coffee from San Fran
cisco to Chicago took place the other
day. The coffee came from one OF the
Pacific coast plantations Of Mexico, and
is significant of new channels OF trade to
be opened toward the west.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT and party
of friends rode over the Pennsylvania
Railway from Jersey City toPhiladelphia,
ninety-six miles, in one hour and forty
five minutes, making one stop on the
way. Ab5ut mile minute.
The lifting power Of plants is well IL
Illustrated by an oak tree in South Hadley,
Mass. A rock had seam In it, and q n
brous root from the oak crept into the
seam, grew and lifted the rock, weighing
over ton, to . height of one foot.
DIR. CLARK, the author Of the famous
work. "Sex in Education" believes that
at least two distinct races inhabited this
continent previous to the Indians, both
of which became successfully extinct,
lust as the indians are becoming extinct
now.
New YoRK has three business frm'
whose entire trade consists in the inpor'
tatiop and sale of canaries and Other
/ feathered songsters. The whole number
of birds imported during single season
amounts to about 100000, valued al
s45O,0OO.
TWELVE States have adopted compul
sory education laws: New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Michigan
Kansas, Texas, Nevada, California, anC
from the lst Of January, 1870, Ne"
York. q,
SOME of the leading New York hotel
rent at very high rates. For instance
the rent of the Fifth Avenue is $2oO,0oo
Windsor, 1925, 900; st. Nicholas, sloo'
900; Metropolitan, 100000; Gilsey
ss5, 900; Hoffman, $4,000, and Bruins
wick, $4,000.
The glass-eye trade of the unite'
States is in the hands Of enc firm, an'
but few people have any idea Of the i'm
mensity of their business. There Is II
the United States a deficit of some %,
900 eyes. OF this number about 2o,oo'
make use of glass-eyes. To supply the~
over one hundred specimens of optics ar
manufactured. Some rich, aristocrati'
gentlemen have their eyes made to OF
der.
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