The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-01-15
GENERAL sSrELLsG ESCE.

agent pcrchcd in the rear. When the
child Is tired Of IL, IL can he blown up
with gun-powder, and pleas him and his
papa, too.
EsrARrERo is not yet dead, and evil
IDENTIFY has no intention dying. As the
one Spanish statesman rs to whose hon
esty there is no question, Espartero Il
unique, and il would be pity II he were
to die before another honest statesman
Is evolved from the nass Of Spanish
politics
GRANITE and Macadam pavcmcntsars
to be abolished in the streets Of London,
and only asphaltum or wood are 10 be
used in the future. The Macadam pave
mont is too dusty, and granite, probably,
too slippery. The asphaltum used in
London Is real natural asphaltum, and Is
as hard A. stone.
In San Francisco lately, at the installa-
ton ola Universalist pastor, the opening
prayer was delivered by Unitarian, the
Scriptures we're read by Jewish rabbi, a
Presbyterian offered the second prayer,
the sermon was by q Cengregationslist
the installing by Presbyterian, and
the charge to the pastor and address to
the people by Unitarians
The Hawkes. family of North Saugus,
Massachusetts,, still occupy the farm
owned by their ancestors in 1880, the
year of the settlement Of Lynn, Salem,
and Boston. The house was erected in
1895. Adam Hawkes. owned the iron
mine which supplied ore to the first
foundry established in the country.
Another homestead over TIVE hundred
years old, two miles from this one isstill
held by branch Of the same family.
A GENTLEMAN in Burlington, Vermont,
of an investigating turn of mind, a week
OF two ago determined to" try it" again
with the rats which infested his house.
He purchased supply of "coal tar" at
the gas works, and placed small guam
titles Of IL in the rat holes In his cellar,
and elsewhere in their runways The
rats bedauding themselves, became dis
gusted with the manner of their enter
taiHment, and speedily left the premises,
and have not been seen or heard from
since.
The wife Of Mosher, the burglar who
was killed in attempting to rob the house
of Judge Van Brunt, at Bay Ridge, says
that he was free from all small yices-he
never drank intoxicating liquors, never
used tobacco, never INDUCED in profane
or vulgar language-in short, that his
only fault was his inability 10 compre-
bend that there was such a thing as in
dividual rights Of property. Like the
son whom the anxious father pleaded for
to the unfecling Judge-he was good
man, but be would steal. "a .-.
In the midst of play in Chinese
theater in Yolo, California, two of the
performers had combat 30 realistic and
vigorous as to fix the attention of the
previously listless audience. The actors
were armed with knives, and while they
struggled with each other on the stage
the spectators yelled and stamped their
approval. AT last stream of blood ran
across the boards, and one of the centes-
tants fell back dead. The fight had been
genuine, the actors having quarreled
about woman, who also played in the
piece. p OK p r. o. --HrA
A LUNATIc named Donovan, who died
lately, aged thirtyeight, ut the asylum
near Manchester, England, had the ut
most partiality for iron as an article OF
diet. lie was employed in the shoemak-
er's shop of the establishment, and after
his death nearly two pounds ofiron nails,
seven pieces of iron, each half an inch
square, and cobbler's awl, minus the
handle, were discovered in his stomach.
The poor fellow seems to have labored
under the Authorization that he had the
stomach and digestion of an ostrich.
THE proclamation of Governor Woods,
of December 81, published in Utah, post
pones the holding Of the next term OF
court of the Second District of Beaver,
Utah, from the first Monday in February
to the second Monday in July next, for
the accommodation Of the citizens of that
district. There are now pending in that
district one indictment for polygamy
and nineteen for murder, in connection
with the Mountain Meadow massacre OF
1857. Two of the parties indicted for
the murder, John ID. Lee and W. III.
Dame, are now in confinement.
A BARREL with only one stave has
been invented. The stave is procured by
turning steam log the length of bar
rel against knife Of the same length,
and cutting from the log continuous
sheet or vessel Of the proper thickness.
The sheet is cut into lengths OF the cir
conference Of barrel, and by machin-
cry iscrozed or chamPered, and by means
of gang of saws, saving Sits into the
ends Of unequal lengths, the size of the
ends Is reduced for the heads, and the
proper bilge produced. The barrel, when
bound with the usual number Of hoops,
appears to be quite as strong as the or
binary barrel.
A CURIOUS case of prolonged somno-
lence in an animal is at present interest
ing the medical fraternity Of Paris. The
object is spaniel dog which has lain in
an unbroken slumber since the 18th of
November. lie fell asleep after day of
unusual excitement and fatigue, having
been out hunting with his master, and all
attempts since TO awake him have failed.
lie is nourished by means of enemas.
This case has excited considerable atten-
ton from being the first on record of such
somnolence in an animal, though in
stances Of the kind among human beings
are by no means unknown.
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Charles Lamb.
The calamity that gave an impression
10 the life of Charles Lamb occurred in