The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-07-30

oh rtflke fOr long while, but Instead
OF remaining idle they have gone to
school, and are nov improving the time
by receiving lessons in arithmetic, read
ing, and writing in rooms which they
have hired for the purpose.
A SOMEWHAT singular discovery has
just been made at Buckingham Palace,
London. During some alterations, and
while the workmen were engaged in pull
ing down wall, a large quantity Of val
liable gold and silver plate, of about the
time Of George III, and supposed to be
worth several thousand pounds, was dis.
covered in place of concealment.
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TENNESSEE is To have plenty Of fish
for her brains Only few days ago
seventy thousand shad were deposited in
the Cumberland by an agent of the Gov
ernment, and now seventy-two thousand
more have been placed in the same
stream. At Knoxville eighty thousand
have been left in the Hclston. The Ten
nessee river is also TO receive large finny
immigration before long.
EUROPE has five millions of soldiers
all ready for fighting, with fifteen thou
sand cannon and'a million and quarter
Of horses; it, united fleets consist Of two
thousandand thirty nine vessels manned
by two hundred and eighty thousand
sailors, and carrying fifteen thousand
guns. The cost Of these immense arma-
ments is five hundred and sixty millions
of dollars annually, three-fifths Of the
amount being consccrated to the armies.
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry re-
grets that millers use all their finest,
soundest wheat for fine -four, and the
poorest for Graham or brown bread, the
general name given to mixtures Of bran
and spoiled -four. "What we need is
good, sweet, whole wheat flour, finely
ground, and put up securely for family
U.s., and any Western miller who will
give his earnest attention 10 furnishing
such -four will realize fortune speedily I;
securing the most nutritive principles
the Creator has stored up for mans food -
A LONDON dispatch briefly announces
that Count Won Arnim has arrived at
Carlsbad in a very precarious state of
health. His is hard case. He was
tried at Berlin for abstracting and using
diplomatic documents while Embassador
at Paris He was convicted and SEN
fenced to three months imprisonment
He then appealed his case to the Su-
preme Court. which resulted in his being
sentenced TO nine months imprison-
ment. In The meantime Won Arnim is
in Bohemia, and will il is said, appeal
to higher court.
PRINCE BIsMARCk's decorations are
now iorty-two in number. They com
prise German, Belgian, Greek, Italian,
Dutch, Austrian, Spanish, Swedish, Turk
ish, Tunisian, Persian and Siamese or
ders, also the Danish Dannebrog Grand
Gross, the Grand Gross of the French
Legion of Honor, the Austrian Iron
Crown, the san Marino Grand Gross, and
a medal for saving drowning man, this
last being the first in point of date. 1t
would certainly be difficult for the Prince
to wear all or even half Of these distinc-
tions at one time. A number Of the
German orders were conferred by poten-
tates who, much against their will, have
been placed upon the retired list.
4 SARATOGA letter gives some inter
esting particulars about the boat crews
at the regatta. The correspondent thinks
one cause of the failure Of Yale was, that
Captain Cook had too much on his hands.
He was captain, stroke, and coach, and
his stroke, which he had gone to England
to learn, was on trial these accumulated
responsibilities made him nervous and
used up his grit, 50 that he was demoral-
lied on the day of the race. He WAS the
life Of his crew, and his decentralization
finished them. Nervous exhaustion at
the supreme moment placed them hor'
du combat, almost.
A CASE involving the constitutionality
of the amended postal law has been
brought in the United States Circuit
Court in New York. A gentleman Of
fered book for mail transmission to