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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-08-23

THE GosPEL TEMPERANCE MEETINGS
Came TO an abrupt termination on its sec.
ond night, every body voting on the FIRST
night that Mr.. Lincoln was a most decided
huuibug and that his claims as lecturer
were 40 Insignificant thst not even the
sweet voice Of his pleasant faced vile could
tempt them to a repe,iilon Of their folly al
the ira night. To his little audience Of a
dozen persons on the second night, Mr..
Lincoln attempted In his feeble way to be
very severe on Stanford and her people, al.
leginx that they we're too siinsy to let 60
that dfleen cents per head, or were too out,
rageously stupid TO appreciate that Mr.,
Lincoln, the great aia, had eondsseended
10 enlighten them. But he was mistaken.
A Stanford audience can take mans meas.
ure quicker and better than any In the
State, and II that measure does not come
up 10 the mark, they can freeze him out
more thoroughly than u he were chained
TO an iceberg. Next morning Mr.. Lincoln
took the first train nom town, and shaking
the dirt irom his feet. left as he came, an.
invited, unLonorsl, aal unsans.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-08-23
FAYETTE HEWITT.

OF Hardin Co., iss candidate or the Democ
nomination AZ AUDITOR Of PUBLIC ACCOt
August Election, 1879.
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PHIL. n. THOMPSON. Jr

ofMercer Co., Iss Candidate FOR CONGRESS II
this, the sth District subject 10 the action Of M
Democracy.
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AouDEsrs.-Mr. Wesley Holt1claw WAS
thrown from a horse this week and had
the neck Of her thigh bone broken. The
animal became frightened at some hogs In
the Dir River Bridge, on the Lancaster
pike, and turning suddenly to run oar, Mrs.
II. lost her balance and fell. The fracture
Is quite a severe one......Mr. Andrew Tuck
er and wife, while driving by Halls Gap
Station In buggy, had their horse to shy
at some lumber piled up along the road
which caused the vehicle to overturn,
throwing both Of them out, Mr.. Tucker
was not injured, but Mrs. Tucker received
a painful fracture Of the collar bone. .....
While walking In her yard at her ordinary
gait, Mrs. William Eikin suffered the dis.
location Of her knee cap. DIR. Steele Bal
ley, who was called In each Of These cases,
says that the parties are all doing we'll.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-08-23

OF Madison, IL q Candidate FOR CONGRESS
this District, subject 70 the action o. the Deocra
ic party.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-10-11

The Gazette Of Augsburg for Janu-
ary. 1920. gives a singular account Of
the heroism and presence of mind dis
played by the daughter ofa samekeep-
er residing in a solitary mouse near
Welheim. Her father and the rest Of
the family had gone to church, when
there appeared ut the door an old man,
apparently half&iead with cold.
Feeling for his situation, she let him
in and went into the kitchen TO pre-
pare him some soup. Through win
dow which communicated from the
room in which she left him with the
kitchen, she perceived that he had
dropped the beard he wore when he
entered; that he now appeared a ro-
bust man, and that he was pacing the
chamber with poniard in his hand.
Finding no mode of escape, she armed
herself with a chopper in one hand
and the boiling soup in the other, and
entering the room where he was first
threw the soup in his face, and then
struck him blow with the hatchet on
his neck. which brought him to the
ground senseless. At this moment
fresh knock ON the door occasioned her
to look out Of an upper window, when
she saw a strange hunter. who demand
ell admittance, and, on her refusal.
threatened TO break open the door; she
Immediately got her fathers gun. and
as he was proceeding to put his threat
into execution, she shot him
through the right shoulder, on which
he made his way back to the forest.
Half an hour after, a third person
came, and asked after an old man who
must have passed that way. She said
she knew nothing Of him; and after
useless menaces IL she did not open the
door. he also proceeded to break il in,
when she shot him dead on the spot.
The eycitements Of her courage being
now at an end. her spirits began to
sink, and she fired shots and screamed
from the windows. until some gend-
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-10-11

IL is the easiest thing in the world
to be happy, If men and women could
only think so. Happiness is only an
other name for love, for where love
exists in household there happiness
must also exist, even though ii has
poverty for its close companion; where
love exists not, even though Il be in a
palace, happiness can never come. He
was a cold and selfish being who orig.
mated the saying that "when poverty
comes in at the door, love flies out at
the window," and his assertion proves
conclusively that he had no knowledge
of love, for unquestionably the re-
verse Of the axiom quoted is nearer
the truth. When poverty comes in
ut the door, love-true love--is more
than ever inclined to tarry, and do
battle with the enemy. Let those who
imagine themselves miserable. before
they find fault with their surround
ings, search in their hearts for the
cause. A few kind words, a little
Forbearance, or a kiss, will often open
lhe way to a food of sunshine in a
house darkened by the clouds of dis
,ord and unamiability.
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soue,ln,e When all HAS lessons have lccn learned
And sun and stars fsrcvernore have se,.
The thing. which our weak Judgments here have
spumed,
TIE thing o'er which griev~d With lsshes set,
win dash ,rsse Us, ea, d tiis's DARK night
A. stars shine most In deeIcr tints of blue;
And ve shali 80 ho~ all Gs'i's plans were right.
And ho- .hsi ssca.si rrprsof vas love most true.
And we shsn - he~. ~hlIe ve frO~n aud sigh,
i ftioi's plans 80 on lest Coz you and nc;
Hos. When vs eaih-i. hc hcsi~i not oas~cry.
Rsyaasr his wi-lon h. the end cpuli scc.
Aud e'ra a. Pu'dsnt p~rva,s disallo~
Too much OF -.cc, 10 craving baby hooi,
souel. Iefhsl,s, Is tr-piag from "a. nov
ils's sueetsst hing iscaa-e II -s,me,h rssi.
Aai " -,@.,ia,-s ',a,mingisd with Hks ~ine.
We dnd IN. woTm~c,si. aud rolel aud shrint,
Be sure a uis~t hand than yoars 90 niln-
feurs out this I-sr,ion sr car liI- 10 dfink.
Aud " -ome friend We love l. lying lsw,
whers hamsn tis-z cannot reach his fAcr,
90, Do MT hlame the loving Father ~,
Hut wear your ='rr~w with ol--iisnt gracc'
Aud you shall shortly kno~ that lcngihencd brraih
I. not the sweetest gil Goi .end, his ffiend.
Aud that, sometimes, the sAllc pAll u death
toncyals the iaire-i toon his love can send.
II ~e coad push ajar the gates of iik.
Aad stand within. aud all Gods workins,ss~
We eoald inicrprc, all this doub, and siritc.
Aud Cor each mysiery could had Atey,
Hut Pst to-day. Thee te oonteat, poor heart
Goi's plans lke liliies pure and y hiie untold.
We aust not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will wscal tho ealyxss sf gold
Aud m through Iaiient toll NC reach tho land
wh.rr tired ig,'t, With sandals los.e. may rcst
When ue shall clearly kaow and understand.
ihink that wc ~ill say, 'Goi knows the .cst'''
-tlAtielrs IAying Age,
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Aaricc 20 home,r uonen.

Homely girls should never elope OF
commit suicide-in short, should new.
er do any thing which will render
them liable TO get into print. None
but those who have had the sad expe.
rience knows what a wofully irksomo
task il is for reporter to dish up a
readable article about scrawny,
freckle.faccd girl who has jumped into
the river or taken strychnine, or done
some other terrible deed, all for love.
We don't mean to say that scrawney,
freckle.faced girls shouldn't fall in
love, but we emphatically, nay, tear.
fully, maintain that this species Of the
soft sex should so demean themselves
in all their loving and living as to
keep out of the realm which properly
belongs to the sensitive reporter. 1t
is n pleasure, divine pleasure, to
write up the misfortunes Of the beau
tiful. What newspaper reporter in
all our broad land does not hang upon
the suicide with golden hair, and thin,
white hands, and broad, marble fore
head and shell-like ears, and regular,
classic nose, and willowly form and
plump white shoulders. Why, he
fairly gloats over the victim. We
wouldn't have had her live for all the
riches of the world. He presents her
to his readers thousand times fairer
than she is. And yet, put in her
place upon the slab at the morgue,
stoutish or scrawny creature, with a
wart on her cheek, or a glass eye, or
a cork leg, or a false tooth, or red
hair, or bow-legs-the spirit of the
reporter plumps down into his boots
and he either abandons himself to a
chaotic, oblivious debauch, or writes
up the really good item in "half a
stickfull," or inveigles the ingenious
paragraphist of the paper into draw
ing upon his fruitful imagination for
an ideal heroine with which to varnish
his story, so that the homely girls
fate is either not recorded at all or is
recorded under false colors. So we
say, homely girls and homely women
owe it to themselves to religiously
keep out Of print. And by so doing,
they will confer an estimable favor
upon a class that strives without ceas-
ing to please the public. The beauti-
ful alone are born to die. The home
ly and the staid are created for life
and its cold, stern and often bitter re-
alities.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-10-11

A correspondent wants to know if it
is really true that ear wheels are made
of paper. We can assure him that ii
is. The paper is subjected to enor-
nous pressure, and inclosed between
thin plates if iron. Such wheels are
found to have extraordinary elasticity
and endurance, and are coming to be
much used, not only in this country,
hut in Europe. The last novelty in
the use of paper appears TO be for
chimney-pots. They are made in
Breslau, and are light and durable.
Before the paper pulpis moulded and
compressed into the required shape, it
is treated with chemicals which render
it non.inhammable. Specimens of pa
per and cloth made from the Califor-
MIA cactus were recently exhibited be-
fore the Maryland Academy of Sci
ences. The cactus grows abundantly
in many of the Western States and
Territories. and it is found on arid
soil where nothing can be cultivated.
The success that has been met with in
making paper from this plant is so
marked, that the business will proba-
bly, be attempted on a large scale.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-10-11

ln the year 1894, il was discovered
by actual experiment, at Florence,
that diamond would burn. Cosmo
Ill, had one fixed in the focus Of a
burning glass, and, alter some expos
ure To the rays of the sun, it cracked,
corruscated, and finally disappeared
like a ghost, leaving no traces behind.
Experiments Of this kind were costly.
They were long in yielding any scien-
tifc results. II was only a sovereign
prince who could afford to see his Jew
els vanish like the gifts of fairy god
mother. Another potentate, the En-
peror Francis /. tried a number Of
valuable diamonds in the heat of a
smelling furnace, and may have felt
some qualification in finding they had
disappeared. This was in 1850, and
about twenty years later q magnifi.
cent diamond was burned in France.
A jeweler, named lie Blanc. denied
the possibility Of burning diamonds.
aud suspected some unfair play on the
part of Macquer, the chemist. who
conducted the operation. He had Of
ten, he asserted, exposed diamonds to
great heat, with the sole result Of in
creasing their brillianey. Mr.. Street.
er has done the same with success. But
lie Blanc only knew half Of what
Mr.. Streeter knows, and when the
chemist demanded that he should In
close some diamonds in coal in a cru
chile he rashly assented, and in three
hours they hal all disappeared. Then
another jeweler, Millard by name, who
seems to have had a suspicion of the
truth. put three diamonds into an
earthen bowl pipe, packed In char
coal, and exposed them without ipju-
~ to intense heat. LavoisiOn, who
was present. proved in l776. that by
shutting out the air the diamond was
preserved in a furnace, but that the
admission of oxygen, with which the
carbon combines, allows the diamond
to burn like piece of coal.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-10-11

The French National Library, con-
tains 2.0O0,0 900 volumes and adds So
600 a year To its store. There are
$4,000 books of special distinction, of
which 5000 belong to the fifteenth
century, ,and2O, 900 are chefs dauvre of
illustrious printers. Some are won.
derful specimens of the binders art;
Others belonged to famous historical
personages; among them are two OF
Gutenberg's Bibles, printed before
1857, whose value may be inferred
from the fact that an inferior copy has
just been sold at London for SIC, 900.
There are 10000 manuscripts, 5000
Of which are illustrated with minia.
lures; il these were for sale many of
them would be valued at $40, 900 and
over. Therd are more than 1000, 900
autographs, 100000 engravings, and
100000 medals, many OF them most
costly--one was purchased for 5000.
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Edward O'Meapher Condnn

Edward O'Meagher Condor, for
whom a rope was wove and coffin
prepared on the occasion Of the exc
cution of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien,
at Manchester, arrived in this city
yesterday on the steamer Mosel. Ten
years Of confinement in British pris-
ons has turned the hair of his COM
panion, Melody, gray, while that of
Condor himself is touched with the
same hue. Beside the experiences of
these two men the stories of ordinary
romance are tame. Condemned to
death, respited on the eve of execu.
tion, forced to pass long intervals in
the torture Of doubt and uncertainty,
immured in solitary confinement, driv-
EN- to the verge of sickness by hard
ships which promised to be lifelong,
only to be suddenly thrust forth into
the broad glare Of unexpected free
dom-such is the retrospect of these
exiles, who now tread the streets of
New York.-(New York Sun.
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Fahrenheit, the great improver of
the thermometer, was originally a
merchant Of Dantzic, who, having
failed in business, and being attached
to chemical and mechanical pursuits,
was obliged to gain livelihood by
making and selling these instruments.
The divisions of the thermometric
scale had occupied the attention of
several learned and ingenious men;
but it was Fahrenheit who first point
ed out the most accurate means of ac-
complishing this purpose. He OBJ
served how the boiling point differed
under different degrees of atmospheric
pressure, and pointed out the necessi.
ty of fixing it at mean barometrical
altitude. He had also noticed that a
degree Of cold much more intense
than that of ice might be procured by
a mixture Of snow and salt; and con-
ceiving this to be extreme cold, he
commenced his scale from that point,
which is 32 degrees below freezing of
water. Accordingly, Fahrenheit's
scale commences at zero, the tempera-
ture Of his freezing mixture; the ireez.
ing point of water is marked 32 de-
grees, and the boiling point 2l2 de-
gIees, the space between the freezing
and boiling Of water being divided in
to $50 degrees.
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In the sepulchre of Metella, the
wife of Sulla, in the Roman Campag.
ma, there Is an echo which repeats five
times, in five different keys, and will
also give back with distinctness hex.
ameter line which requires two and a
half seconds TO utter il. On the
banks of the Naha, between Bingen
and Coblentz, an echo repeats seven
teen times. The speaker may scarce.
ly be heard, and yet the responses are
loud and distinct, sometimes appear
ing to approach, at other times to come
from great distance. Echoes equal
ly beautiful and romantic are to be
heard in our own islands. In the
cemetery of the Abercorn family, at
Paisley, when the door of the chapel
is shut, the reverberations are equal
tc :he sound of thunder. IL single
note Of music is breathed the tone as
cends gradually with a multitude of
echoes till it dies in soft and bewitch-
ing murmurs. In this chapel is inter-
red Margery, the daughter Of Bruce,
and the wife of William Wallace.
The echo at the Eagles Nest, on the
banks of Killarney, is renowned for
its effective repetition of a bugle call,
which seems to be repeated by hun
dred instruments, until ii gradually
dies away in the air. At the report
Of cannon the loudest thunders re
vertebrate from the rock, and die in
seemingly endless peals along the dis
tant mountains. At the Castle of
a nobleman's scat about
two miles from Milan, surprising
echo is produced between the two
wings of the building. The report of
a pistol is repeated by this echo sixty
times; and Addison, who visited the
place on somewhat foggy day, when
the air was unfavorable to the expert
ment, counted fifty-six repetitions. At
first they were very quick, but the in
tervals were greater in proportion as
The sound decayed. 1t is asserted that
The sound of one musical instrument |
in this place resembles a great number
of instruments playing in concert.
This echo is occasioned by the exist
ence Of two parallel walls of consider
lble length, between which the wave
IF sound is reverberated from one to
The other until it is entirely spent
The World of Wonders.
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1t is estimated by Zosimus, in his
account of the battle between Con-
stantius and Magnentius, at Mursa,
that a soldier, whose name was Meme
laus, possessed the art of shooting
three arrows from his bow at one dis
charge, and with them could strike
three different persons. BY this skill.
ful expedient, says the historian, he
killed great number of those who
opposed him; and the enemy, il might
also be said. were defeated by single
archer. Unfortunately, however, this
valuable man at last fell by the hands
of Romulus. a General of the army of
Magnentius, whom he had first wound
ell by an arrow.
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FOUND OUT.-A man OF exceed
ingly parsimonious habits, who felt
obliged To make a present 10 lady,
entered a crockery store for the pur-
pose Of making purchase. Seeing a
statuette broken into a dozen pieces,
he asked the price. The salesman
said II was worthless, but he could
have il for the cost of packing in u
box. He sent il to the lady with his
card, congratulating himself that she
would imagine that il became ruined
while on its way home. lie dropped
in 10 see the effect The tradesman
had carefully wrapped each piece in a
separate biz Of paper.
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Erancis Murnhy aud tha Ray I

Francis Murphy and the Rev. DIR.
Mears, had falling out at the Round
Lake temperance meeting, as to the
proper way of reforming drunkards.
Murphy said that Mears, by violent
denunciations of all liquor sellers and
drinkers made enemies of. and render.
ed them Indifferent to good influence.
Mears said that Murphy, by refrain.
ing from speaking vigorously of the
sinful tra6c, had done injury to the
cause of total abstinence.
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Those newspapers which are too
proud or too obstinate to retract any
unjust or improper language which
they have admitted to their columns,
should profit by the example Of an
exchange, which gives notice as fol.
lows: If any subscriber finds a line in
his paper that he does not like and
cannot agree with, if he will bring
his paper to the Office and point out
the offending line, the editor will take
his scissors and cut it out for him.
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Two little boys were put in the Hol,

Two little boys were put in the HOl-
yoke, Mass, Jail, for stripping leaves
from tree in the park. Soon after
ward the jailer heard their voices.
Peeping into the cell, he saw both on
their knees. 80 Lord, please let us
out of this place. and we'll never do
it again, never, never" prayed one
sobbing culprit, while the other was
repeating the Lords prayer. "Pray
harder" said one of them, "and
speak your words plain, or the Lord
won't understand you" IL try to
Jimmy, but I'm crying sol can't
said the other, and then both redOub-
lei their prayers. The jailer lot them
out.
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A fulI fnnt of .Jananese tvna n,

A full font Of Japanese type com.
prises 10000 characters, and when a
compositor gets twenty-five or thirty
wrong letters in a word, and the proof
reader overlooks them, they are
scarcely ever noticed by the reader.
The printers case is distributed all
around big room, and when he is at
work, running from one box to anoth-
er, he looks like an American base
ball player making a home run.
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In an experiment recently made in
Bombay, India, to determine the pow.
er Of solar heat for governing steam,
nine gallons OF water were put in
small boiler, and boiled by the rays of
the sun in exactly thirty minutes. Az
ter boiling one hour the focus was
turned of, when it was found that 81
gallons had been evaporated. In the
experiment 1893 glass mirrors, each 10
inches by 81, were used.
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Poragrsyhs Wise oaa Ofher,rfse,
~.sfed Trem Lsgoa's ke"f~~kv
Nes~s Zee C-I.

I Nfst- ~ -"
| A May6eld poet has indicted som'
tender Lines to Peggie.' He u
probably a shoemaker, and IL Is to b
hoped'these few lines" will be his last
Yesterday Rev. Voolfolk preachc'
in Lexington Christ and Him crucifi
ed; to-day he breaches In Frsnkfor
against the currency, anil It contract
ell.
Rev. Greenback woolfork says q
years ago he laid his ambition in the
grave. Then the body-snatcher ought
to he put in the peniientiary for rails
ing all this stencil.
All the way from Pike comes the
good news that the grand jury indict
ell thirteen road oversecrs for neglect
of duty. That's the way to turn Pike
roads into good thoroughfares.
Judge McMsnama says he has been
too sick to attend court, though he has
been out on the streets every dag.
That reminds us Of the boys wish to
be too sick to go to school and just
sick enough to 20 fishing.
As there is much conjecture in the
Eighth district as to the authorship Of
the New York S,m's article on the
Thompson.Daviess difficulty purport-
ing to have been sent from Louisville,
il may be worth while to state that
the article was written in New York.
That sort of thing is one Of the fea-
tures Of Metropolitan journalism.
The Lebanon Times says Geo. Saun-
ders lis said to haye been one Of the
parties in the Richmond difficulty
Yes, and he is said 10 have been at the
other end Of the pistol that killed
poor old George Middleton in tho
church at Crab Orchard, and he
wasn't far of when Buchanan's store
was robbed, and was around when
many other innocent tricks were per-
formed by the Crab Orchard crowd.
Wat johnson, the "Capital Notes
man Of the Frankfort Yeoman--the
Yorick of the Kentucky pre-s--the
Smooth Coon" from the headwaters
of BENSON Creek-has pulled up
stakes and gone back to Baltimore.
This winter he will 90 to Washington
and make his mark and his money re-
porting the debates in Congress. Had
the Legislature done its duty in lock-
ing and damming the stream of true
love. perhaps this had not been thus.
Some half dozen ministers Of the
Gospel in this State are willing, yea,
anxious. to teach Congress how to
regulate her currency, and Kentucky
how to educate her children, but not
one willing to teach the poor people
of Hickman how to die. Goldsmith's
Deserted Village" had her model
parson, but our deserted village was
fist deserted by her spiritual sheP-
herds. And there came q voice unto
them, saying, "Come over and run for
Congress and for Superintendent of
Public Instruction" and you bet they
went in a body.