The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-08-20
GENERAL sSrElLse FyCE.

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TnE Louisiana census will make the
population Of New Orleans about 20j, 600.
THE French race-hor-e Boiard has been
bought by Baron Rothschild for $4,000
ONLY three hundred American girlsare
studying for the operate stage in Italy.
SERrENrs OF all species she'd their
skins annually, like sea-crabs and lob
sters.
THE orchards of this country are es-
timated TO contain over 20,OO0,OOO fruit
trees.
IN the darkest nights fishes pursue
their usual movements the same rs 10y
daylight.
TuAps become torpid in winter, and
hide themselves, taking no food for five
or six months.
AHEAp again. All the winners u, the
recent international regatta at Peru
were American huats.
TnE Liverpool Post estimates that the
American Rife Team carried oil s1jO, Ouo
in bets from Ireland.
LousrEEs are very pugnaciou., and
fight severe battles. II they lose claw,
another grows in its place.
TuEiI.Es dig holes int" the sand 10y
the ea-shorc, aud bury their eggs, lcay-
ing them to I've Matched 10y the sun.
A CANoE twenty feet long, made out
of y single mahogany tree, is among the
curiositics at the Paris Maritime Exhi.
hition.
liz Chcnanco county, \. Y, are y pair
of twin fourteen ycarold girls whose
united weight is four hundred aud
twenty pounds.
TuE Worcester Young Mems Christian
| Association employs clergyman to fire.
quent saloons and billiard halls and talk
religion to young men.
THERE isn't house to rent in New
Harmony, Colorado. In fact there is
only one house there, and the family
numbers twelve persons.
TuAr Kecly motor appears Ia he a sad
mi,nomer. II is decidedly stationary.
No application has been made for a pat.
ent, and coal dealers feel relieved.
ANoNG the latest laborsaving inycn-
tionsis a patent painting machine, which
is said topaint six hundred laths of orli-
, nary size for Venetian blinds in an hour
The Boston Pos, is responsible for the
statement that an English clergyman
owns mastiti that j. valued ut s25, 600
Only a Kai.er can afford to buy such a
dog
| A NEW BRUNSWICK court Of equity
has decided that deed given by an in
toxicated man, and for "A very Inadequate
consideration, should be treated as a
mortgage only.
JUsT as 300 licensed yictualers sat
down to special dinner at the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace, the other day, the
walters struck for higher wages The
waters came off victorious.
EVERY mail that now arrives from
Australia brings news of the increasing
determination Of the Australian colonies
| to press the annexation of New Guinea
upon the British Government.
A MACHINE is in operation in +. D.
Bronson X Co.'S broom factory in Am.
sterdam, with which one man and "A boy
can make four hundred brooms in ten
hours. 1t is run by steam power.
"WHAT becomes Of all the pins?' is a
question which only acquires a deeper
meaning from the statement that single
factory at Win,tead, Connecticut, turns
out 80, 10000 of them per week.
The Niagara Falls Register says An
| Elmira eXcursionist named Jacob lIar-
ri~on took trip under the Horseshoe
Fall the other day, and on his return
found that hi, sense OF hearing Was en-.
tirely gone.
4 SISTER Of Ex-Governor ~anter,
of Tennessee, fell into trance 80 closely
resembling death that she was prepared
for burial. Upon revival she sid she
had been with her father, who had been
dead many years.
TnE conductors OF one Of the grammar
school, in Nashua, y. H., have di,coy-
cred useful method of teaching gram
mar and rhetoric. The pupils are
awarded two marks ior every error found
in local newspaper
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