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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10
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Washington, New. Jersey, III. s. A
TRAINS.
Passenger Trains, North, $50 AN.
Passenger Trains South. as 4. N.
Freight Trains, North. 96 A. ".
Freight Trains, south, go 7. NJ.
NAILS.
Somerset Mall closes $50 A. NJ, opens 500 z. NJ
Louisville Mail closes 7;1O A. NJ, opens s:oo
Richmond and Livingston Mail closes $50 T. NJ,
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
CHRISTIAN. Services every sabbath. Preach
ins by Elder / Ballou ist 3rd and ith, at n A. NJ.
sunday School meets at Q A. VI. Joseph Severance,
Superintendent.
BAPTIsT-Rezular Services End and 9TH sab
baths, at n A. NJ. Rev. W. W. Harris, Pastor.
sunday school at 3. Il, Ebanow, Superintendent:
METHODIST q. C. overstreet, Pastor.
Preaching every sabbath morning and night.
sunday school AZ 9. J. g Cooper, Superintendent:
PRESBYTERIAN, SoRTH Rev 5. 5 MeIsob
srts breaches 2nd aud lth sabhaths, at II A. N.
PRESBYTERIAN, sOUTH.-Rsv W. Grow
breaches ist and 3rd Sahhaths, morning aud night
sunday school, ate. n. B. eyis,.superintendent
COURT DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT-Third Monday in April aad October
NJ. II, Owsley, Judge; George Denny, Jr., Common
wealth's Attorney; .. b Edmiston, CLERK.
COUNTY First Monday, each month. J. A.
Iytle, Judge; John Blain, Clerk fontaine Fox
Bobbiu Attorney.
PoLICE-I b. D,nnis Judge; John Duddsrar
Marshal CIVIL easss Iris.l act SATURDAY, each mouth
QUARTERLY second Monday In March, June,
september asd December. J. A. Lyle, Judge
COUNTY OFFICERs.- A. NJ. Feland, sheriff;
J. l.. Carter, ASSESSOR, J. N. Hiatt Coroner, j. N.
Philips, Common School Commissioner, W. II. II.
Hooker County Treasurer.
STANFORD BUSINESS DIIEcrORI.
BAKERY.
Bruce House.
HARDWARE
Campbell 4 Miller
PHYSICIANS.
?. ?. Irueheart.
SEwsPAPERs
The Interior Journal.
HATS CARS &c.
N. u. Teyls,
US DERTAKERs.
J. II, stagg
LIVERY STABLES.
POrtinan Ovens.
MERCHANT TAILORs.
s.N. Maihehy.
DRUG STORES.
Anderson McIoberts
CLOTHING a GENT FURSIsHISG GOODS.
DRY GOODS
J. II. Craig.
HOTELS
Myers Hotel,
J. b Owens, Proprietor
GRIsr MILLS.
buffalo steam Grisi,
John W. Roai, Proprietor
SCHOOLS.
stanford Female College.
stanford seminary.
DENTISTS.
Dg. A. y. Merrimsn.
Dr.. Ice y. HUFFMAN.
MILLINERY.
Mr.. NJ. h. Daylcss.
j. II. Craig.
AUcTIoSEERs.
u T. Bash.
J. NJ. Higgins
GROCERIES, ooSFEcrIoSERIEs, &C.
Campbell Miller.
$ h Matheny.
BOOTS AND SHOES, sc.
}. II. Craig
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
A Fruit Dealers Troubles.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
A staid-lOoking gentleman. appar-
emily stranger, stopped at an apple
stand on Whitehall street yesterday
sWhat is the price of the oranges g
lie asked, pointing to collection of
large pears.
"Dees ees not de horange," said
the polite vendor. ''DeeS is de Cal
ifornia paire. One for twenty-ii'
cent
''You don't mean to tell me" said
the stranger, putting his hand on an
apple, that this is a pear !
pardon no! | say dees ees de
pare. Dees ees de apple. Tree for
de ten cent.
"Well, | must say continued the
stranger, picking up a handful OF
chestnuts, and examining them critic
ally, "these are the queerest apples
ever saw
''Oh, my God, no! Dem ees de
cheseynut what grow in your own
countree. You roast theem in de
fire.
"Roast them in the fire! Well, up
on my word" lingering a bunch of
bananas curiously, 81 don't see how
such chestnuts as these can be improv-
ed by roasting. They seem to be soft
enough now. However, l am much
obliged. Ill see you later. Good
day." and the stranger passed up the
street.
"Gentlemen, said the fruit dealer,
turning in an appealing manner to the
crowd that had gathered, "dat man is
one escape dam fool from de peniten-
tiary.''
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Discoveries Made by Accident.

raNOt few discoveries in the arts and
sciences have been made or suggested
by accident. The use of a pendulum,
suggested by the vibrating of chan
deller in cathedral; the power of
steam. intimated by the Oscillating of
lid of tea-kettle the utility of coal
gas for light, experimental on by an
ordinary tUbacco-pipe of white-clay
the magnificent property of the lens,
stumbled upon by an optician 5 appren-
tice while holding spectacle, glasses be-
tween his thumb and finger-are we'll
known instances in proof of the fact.
Galyanism was discovered by acct
dent. Prof. Galvani of Bologna, in
italy. gave his name to the operation,
but his wife is considered as actually
entitled to the credit of the discovery.
She being in bad health, some frogs
were ordered for her. As they lay
upon the table, skinned, she noticed
that their limbs became strongly con-
vulsed when near an electrical con-
ductOr. She called her husband s at
tentiOn to the fact he instituted Sc
ries of experiments, and 1892 the gal
vanic battery was invented.
Eleven years later, with that dis
coverey for his basis, Prof. Alessandro
Volta. also an Italian, announced his
discovery of the ''voltaic pile.
The discovery Of glass-making was
effected by seeing the sand vitriied
upon which fire had been kindled.
Blancourt says that the making of
plate-glass was suggested by the fact
of a workman happening to break
crucible filed with melted glass. The
fluid ran under one of the large flag
stones with which the floor was paved.
On raising the stone to recover the
glass, it was found in the form of 4
plate. such as could not be produced
bv the ordinary process of blowing.
Glass pearls, though among the most
beautiful, inexpensive and common or
naments worn by the ladies, are pro-
duced by very singular process. In
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
A Blockade-Runner's Story.

The Boston Post relates the follow
ing "a small party of gentlemen
were at the table recently with the jo-
vial captain of one of the steamers
running between this port and Liver
pool, when the Englishman abiding to
the late civil war in this country, said
he had paid the States number of Wis
its when it had cost him some risk to
do SO. He explained by saying that he
had been blockade runner, and he
became quite merry while showing
how he had lodged the federal cruis-
ers off Wilmington, N. c.. and slipped
in and out to and from that harbor five
times during the last months of the
war. While on his sixth trip he was
chased ashore, his vessel destroyed and
he escaped to terra firma by the aid of
a ladder over the steamers bow. '0h,
it was fun exclaimed the captain ;
sometimes they plunked it into me
pretty hot, but they never did any
hurt to me in that way. Three rows
of cotton bales make a pretty safe ar
NOR you know He then mentioned
incidentally that certain sentinel cut
ter used to cause him the most trouble,
anu IildI TIC ulldlly u6LoliHluSu W iulI
her down to prevent warning signal
to the blockading fleet. 1T was a
bloody dark night, continued the cap
tain, and was slipping out close in
shore, when that - cutter showed
itself in front of me- After pause
he added, We'll, we went right over
her she didn't signal any body that
night. Was your steamer Kate, cap
tain 2 asked very quiet gentleman at
the foot of the table. yes, was the
somewhat surprised reply. well,
WIS in command of that cutter, and
you didn't run me down quite as much
as you think you did A laugh at the
captains expense followed this. The
Kate wasn't hurt much either. And
l was on the gun-boat that chased you
we got her off, and she is now some
where about New York No one wa:
more amused with the turn things haC
taken than the captain himself, and ;
philosophical remark that somebod.
made about what the whirligig of time
may bring about, was lost in the gener
al merriment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
The Employment of Time.

The foundation of all economy is
wise disposition of time. Let that he
acquired and true economy in every
thing else will infallibly and speedily
follow: and the most difficult step
toward acquiring it is real and wise
economy of lime. Economy has, in
fact, got very bad character with the
great majority of people because it is
COMPOUNDED with stinginess though,
in fact, they are so far from being
connected that stinginess is a very
deadly enemy to real economy, while
liberality and generosity must be con-
fined to words and wishes where econ
Omy is not served.
Still some persons imagine that If
they play the niggard with every cent
and every article of which they can
once obtain possession they are good
economists. A more wTetched and
complete mistake cannot be made.
Economy is the right employment of
money and means, not the boarding
or burying of them. To save is very
laudable and desirable, but it is no
saving to lay up certain pieces of coin
while we shiver for the want of fuel
or faint for want of the food which
those pieces of coin would purchase;
to do so is to save the coin, indeed,
but it is to save it at the expense of
| that health and that duration of lie
which no amount Of money can pur-
chase or compensate for.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Love in California.

The evidence in the Edwards-K eating
breach of promise suit, which has
been stimulating the prurient curios-
ity of San Francisco, included great
MANY lOve-letters. On one occasion
the defendant was SO unreasOnably
amiable as to write My Darling
Emily: / would give all | have on
earth and all of my future to be with
YOU one-half hour" Although he
seemed to be in a mood to mortgage
time and eternity in consideration of
a half hour, she read the letter, seized
a pen, and scolded him for being an
ssinconstant lunar whatever that
may be. When the defendant received
this missive he was watching the
stock market with anxious interest,
and he had no time for romance. In
other words, he was long of stock and
short of sentiment. So he instructed
his cashier to answer the letter. 1t
was done in this wise Mr.. Heating
directs me to say that they sin who
tell us love can die love is indestruct-
ible, but with life all other passions
fly. Loves holy flame forever burn
eth from heaven it came, to heaven
it returneth. X. hopes to see you af-
ter the Spring rise" The Spring rise
in stocks was what The buoyant proxy
meant
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
The vlnous Preferences of Var ieiy {
Great Men.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Frederick the Great, like agOOd many
other persons, had particular affec-
ton for TOkay.
Napoleon preferred Chambertin, but
liked black coffee better.
Peter the Great thought Madeira the
best of wines, but regarded brandy as
superior to all other drinks.
Marshal Richelieu held Medocin the
highest honor, and Rubens had the
strange taste to esteem Marsala the
finest of wines.
John Bart, whom the French persist
in imagining to have been a great adj
miral, drank confusion to the English
in bumpers of Beaune.
Rabelais thought that "the divine
bottle" never looked more natural
than when filled with Chablis.
Marshal SAKE had decided predi-
lection for champagne, while the Sc
verify of Cromwell's countenance is
said to have occasionally relaxed at
the sight of a pipe of Malmsey.
The Emperor Charles V. would plan
his campaigns and devise more strin-
gent laws for the repression of heresy
over flagon of good Alicante wine.
His rival, Francis l., consoled him
self for the loss of everything but
honor with a cup of Heres, or, as we
should say. glass of sherry.
Henry w., whether as Catholic
or Protestant, was faithful to the vint-
age of Suresnes.
In more recent times the genius of
a Goethe was often fired with bottle
of Johannisberg.
Humboldt studied and wrote un,
pleasant things about his friends under
the gentle influence of Sauterne.
Talleyrand often vowed an hour OF
good nature to Chateau-Margaux.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Strange Sounds at Night.

Every one has noticed how many
singular sounds are heard at night
noises apparently unexplainable, and
consequently mysterious. Many
ghost story has sprung up from an
unaccOuntable noise; many a person
terrified beyond measure by an uneX-
pected sound at midnight. Sir David
Brewster gives an excellent account of
a mysterious night sound which would
have frightened many persons, but
which proved innocently harmless
when tested by steady observer, A
gentleman heard "a strange sound every
night soon after getting in bed; his
wife heard il also, but not at the time
when she retired, little earlier than
he. No probable cause could be as
sigened, and the effect upon the imag-
ination became very unpleasant. lie
found some time afterward that the
sound came from a wardrobe which
stood near the head of his bead. lie
almost always opened and closed this
wardrobe when undressing; but as
the door was a little tight he could
not quite close it. The door, possibly
affected by gradual changes of temp
ture, forced itself open with sort of
dull sound which is over in an instant.
From the lady not being in the habit
of using that wardrobe, the mystery
became associated with her husband
only. Had they given way to imagina-
| ton, and never investigated the affair,
another haunted house would have
| beeen added to the long row already
| standing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14

1855 Venetian named Joaquin discov-
that the scales OLA fish called bleak-fish
possessed the property of communi-
eating pearly hue to the water. He
found by experimenting that beads
dipped into this water assumed, when
dried, the appearance OF pearls. 1t
proved, however, that the pearly coat,
when placed outside, was easily rub
bed off and the next Improvement
was to make the beads hollow. Max
ing these beads is carried on to this day
in Venice. The beads are all blown
separately. By means of small tube,
the insides are delicately coated with
the pearly liquid, and waxed coating
is placed over that. 1t requires the
scales of four thousand fish to produce
half pint of the liquid, to which
small quantity of s2l-amoniac and isln-
glass are afterward added.
Lundy Foot, the celebrated snuff
manufacturer, originally kept a small
tobaeconist shop at Limerick. One
night his house, which was uninsured,
was burned to the ground. AS he con-
templated the smoking ruins on the
following morning in state bordering
on despair, some of the poorer neigh
bors, cropping among the embers for
what they could find, stumbled upon
several canisters of unconsumed but
half-baked snuff, which they tried, land
found so pleasant to their nose that
they soon loaded their waistcoat
pockets with it. Lundy Foot, aroused
from his stupor, initiated their eX-
ample and took pinch of his own
property, when he was struck by the
superior pungency and flavor it had
acquired from the great heat to which
it had been exposed. Acting upon the
hint, he took another house i'll a place
called Black Yard, erected ovens and
set about the manufacture of high
dried commodity which soon became
widely known as BACKYARD snuff
Eventually he took large house il
Dublin, and making his customers pay
literally through the nose, amassed z
great fortune by having been ruined
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Miser's Money.

Moncure d. Conway writes from
London to the Cincinnati Commercial
81 once heard George Peabody say
that for many years he had been
bored with letters from America, ask
ing him about visionary estates, fall
ing to more visionary heirs in the Unit
ed States and even SO humble an In
dividual as your correspondent has re-
ceived enough letters about the Jen-
nings estate to yield him glow OF
satisfaction in recording the prospect
that the famous case has at last reached
a situation in which the door will be
speedily shut against any future lnqul-
ries. The High Court of Chancery
will soon have the case in hand. The
Jenningses, to the number of several
hundred, have formed huge family
associatiOn'-a sort of joint stock COM
pany-with treasurerS and secretaries,
and have issued q memorial for pub
lie information In this actuallZa-
ton of Dickens Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce
the title is JennenS VS.. JennenS, but |
believe that the various ways IN which
the name 'Jennens' can be written
when there, millions in it are more
than might be imagined. Many fam
lily that once upon a time concluded
that Jennings or 'Jennins' was pie
bian as compared with Jenyng,
Jenyns, Jannng, seems to have dis
covered in recent years a more arlStO-
cratic accent in Jennings and Jennens.
There never were such number OF
Jenningses in London as at present, no
fewer than ninety-six persons of that
name being on the directory. The
property represents forty million OF
golden dollars, and the holders of tick
cts that may draw prizes are beginning
to speculate in them. The old man
who left the original property points
unusually well the saying, He heapeth
up riches and knoweth not who will
gather them He was a gOd-son of
William ILL.,, and page to the first
Hanoverian King; a miser, he died in
lonely bachelorhood, and an unsigned
will was found in his pocket. Large
sums of money were found hidden
away in all manner of magpie places
about his house. The sum he left TO
be fought over was 100000 and it
has now become f8,000,0OO. Scores
of people have become ruined in the
effort to grasp the old mSer noaru,
and scores of lawyers have made for
tunes by it. When the case is settled
it is expected that number of glossy
gentlemen of the Inns will have to go
about like workmen in the winter,
singing, we have no work TO do-o-o.
Some families may be content with
gaining a certificate of connection with
a ia nily which includes Duchess of
Marlborough Sarah the termagant)
Richard Talbot, Duke of Tyrconnel land
viceroy of Ireland under James |.
Edmund Jennings the famous Jesuit;
Admiral Sir John Jennings, and Joame
Jenyns, antiquary, the most respecta..
BILE of the lot, who reappears rs one OF
the best drawn characters of the late
Mr.. Shirley Brooks most pleasant ro-
nance. The matter has gone now SO
far that some notices of ejectment from
the property have been served, and
the conflict begun centary back, and
waged since in ghostly way, will soon
become warm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Current Notes.

Burlington IIawkeye: A stranger
stepped into the meeting of the German
Methodist. Church last night, late. and
wishing to know who had spoken,
leaned over, asked the man in front
of him ''How long have you been
here Z" He was surprised at the
length of the session when he heard
the reply 'sTen years." Explanations
and laughter ensued.
If you have an old cracked pottery
, in the house. don't throw it over the
| back fence into your neighbor's yard.
Save it, and hundred years hence it
will be worth more than fifty times
| as much as new. The battered tea
| pot that you great. grandmother threw
away would be worth SO now. There
seems to be a mania for everything
that is old-eXcepting old maids.
A clergyman, preaching a sermon
on death, concluded with the follow.
ing observation: "But even death,
my brethren so well-deserved by man.
kind for their sins, the wisdom of
Providence has, in its paternal kind
ness, put a the end of our existence
for only t'ink what life would be
worth if death were at the beginn-
ing"
The modern child is pretty quizzical
This time she lives i'll st. Loais, and
reades her Bible with thoughtfulness
but makes her own cOmmentry. "Did
they take piece right out of Adam to
make his wife e. Eyes darling.
.What right ont of him p And
wasn't he always sickly afterwards =
A great black bear was killed in Or
ange parish, South Carolina, a few
days ago, his weight scaling los lbs
An old darkey who had gazed pensive
ly on the carcass, at length exclaimed
''Great golly EN- we bin huntin' pos
sum in dat air swamp all dis time
Pears as if de good Lord didn't favor
poor niggers wuff dam
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
Arsenic in Candles.

A very curious case of arsenic poi
soning has Just occurred in Paris. A
rich lady residing ia the FaubOurg st.
Honore found herself growing i'll, and
the doctor pronounced her to be suf-
fering from some slow poison. Nine.
Y. rejected the idea as absurd, but, on
rising one morning, found glass of
water, which was usually placed by
her bedside, to be discolored bya white
filmy powder. On showing this to the
doctor, he at once declared it to be ar
senic. All inquiries failed to detect
the culprit, and the next night mad
anne filled the glass herself, and kept
careful watch that no one meddled
with it. Nevertheless, in the morn
ing the white powder again made its
appearance, and the doctor was fairly
at his wits ends to ascertain the cause.
Finally he discovered that his patien
was in the habit of reading in bed, land
for that reason candles were kept
burning all night in her room. These
candles, of dazzling whiteness, lad
been strongly impregnated with ARISEN,
ic during their bleaching process, ana
the arsenic becoming volatIlized by
the combustion, poisoned the AIR OF
her bedroom.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14
A Chapter on Gas.

''NeW York." says a writer, "burns
l 200. 900, 900 cubic feet of gas per an
mum Chicago, 400, 100000; st. Louis,
$50, 900, 600; Cincinnati, 400, 900, 900 ;
Pittsburg, 200, 100000 San Francisco,
$50, 600. 900, and Baltimore, 400, 000,-
000."
''How do they make gas =
''First they put about two bushels of
bituminous coal in long alright iron
retort. The retOrt is heated red hot,
and, of course, the coal IL heated red
hot, when the gas bursts out of 1t, as
you see it burst out of Jumps of soft
coal when on the parlor fire. The gas
as it leaves the coal is very impure.
GLOW do they purify it q
"First, while hot, it is run off into
another building; then it is forced
through long perpendicular pipes,
surrounded with cold water. This
cools the gas, when good deal of tar
condenses from it and runs down to
the bottom of the perpendicular pipes.
This tar is the ordinary tar which you
see boiling in the streets for walks
and roofs.
They now wash the gas. They call
it scrubbing it.
This is done by filling q large vessel,
which looks like a perpendicular steam
boiler, half full of wood, laid cross
WAYS. Then ten thousand streams OF
water are spurted through the boiler.
Through the mist and rain, and be-
tween the wet sticks of wood, the gas
passes-coming out washed and
cleansed. The ammonia condenses,
Joins the water, and falls to the bot
TOM
"What next q
..Well, next the gas is purified. 1t
is passed through watts of lime and OK
ide of iron, which takes out the car
bonic acid, sulphureted hydrogen and
ammonia"
"What next
ssThe gas is now pure. 1t is passed
through the station meter, then through
the mains and pipes, till it reaches the
gas Jet in your room, Then 1t burns,
and you all scold because it don't burn
DETER"
~0>-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-14

The Chinese do not seem to have an
intuitive idea of the sanctity of an
oath. A consular offiee-bOy, who had
been in the service nine years, was
looking for something which he evil
IDENTIFY could not find, and was asked
what it was. 1.-The consul is going to
to try a case this morning, he re-
piled, s'and I'm looking for little
book he makes the witnesses smell.