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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09
A KeIed cIenIman.

Even the patience Of job would become ex-
hausted were he a preacher and endeavoring 10
interest his audience while they were keeping up
an incessaDt coughing. making IL impossible ior
him TO be heard Yet, hov very easy can all this
he avoided by simply using DR.. Kings New Dis
cOvery Cor Consum. ton. Coughs aud Colds Trial
Bottles given away at Penny McAlister's Drug
Store.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

In his speech in Congress Friday,
on the tariff question, Hon. s. $.
Cox. Of New York, expressed him
self in the following terms against the
Internal revenue system: III favor,
openly and boldly, the entire aboli.
ton Of the cumbrous, corrupt, and
spying system Of the internal reve.
nue.. II is not necessary to say that
its officers are corrupt; II is the sys.
tenn. It's officers pursue the voter in
to his cigar and tobacco shops and
into stills, breweries, and factories
with threats, and il has its army Of
5000. Worse than the january or
the mameluke, il undertakes by its
occult machinery to intimidate and
defraud. Away with i'll Every
speck Of it on our body polite is
cancer. lam willing to meet this is
sue at the polls, and woe be to that
member who upholds it to oyerfill our
Treasury, that the greedy may riot in
the peoples hard-earned means collect
ed by its officials. Indeed, it seem a
part Of the plan adopted by the domi.
nant party to allow no reduction. The
surplus is to be piled up year after
year, and this is the issue we are to
meet
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

The old democratic County Com
mittee in Madison held a secret meet
ing and after electing each of its men,
bers for another term, sent the list TO
the State Committee for confirmation.
But the Register discovered the little
game and exposed it, when they got
mad and resigned. A new deal was
made all around, aud james X. Bur
nam, the only democrat in large
family of republicans, was compli
mented with the Chairmanship.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

The Missouri Legislature appor.
toned the State so as to make one
very strong republican district and
the other thirteen strongly democrat
ic. This should have been the course
Of our alleged statesmen. instead of
making three districts SO close that
there must always be a stubborn fight
in them.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

A New York belle has just pur-
chased a 1900 pair of carriers, which
are described as exceedingly beauti-
ful. We suspect that the average
Yankee girl needs something like that
to beautify her shapeless cali, but here
in Kentucky, where the natural de
velopment is so beautiful and perfect,
no such attraction is needed, the leg
itself being prettier than all the dia-
monds ever strung together.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

AN eating-house keeper at Green
vile, Miss, shot and killed DR.. Buck.
ner. under the superstition that be was
a burglar. IL must be exceedingly
gratifying TO the dead man to know
that il was mistake.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

wTH the small pox raging and
her saloons closed on Sunday, Cincin-
matt will be Stunned hereafter like the
Egyptian plague.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

The last number of the Danyille
Tribune was real sunhOwer Editor
Murphy is getting to be almost as
aesthetic as Oscar Wilde.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

On the resolution to fix date for
the consideration of the National
Bank charters, lhirty-eight democrats
voted with the republicans, aud with
the exception of eight, they were all
from Eastern States. To-day was the
time fixed.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

ONE rarely meets in life time a
cleverer or more agreeable gentleman
than Col. VIM. Yost, of Muhlenberg.
Besides being very able man, he is
a decidedly popular one, and if his
friends decide to run him for Con-
gress in the third district. as they are
talking of doing, he will sweep things,
Notwithstanding the republicans are
claiming it as their own property.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

The terrible hardships and dangers
encountered by the officers and men of
Jeanette in their efforts to reach the
north pole, coupled with the sad intel
ligence just received of the finding of
the dead bodies of Capt. De Long and
ten seamen wrapped in an icy shroud
near Lena Delta, ought surely-for a
time, at least<to put an end to furth-
err attempts to explore the Arctic re-
gions. The various efforts in that d.
rection have all proved abOrtive, after
being attended by great deal Of ex-
pense, and in every case by the loss of
many lives. The narrative of Lieut..
Danenhower, of the surviving party, is
continued in the New York Herald,
and is one Of the most thrillingly in
teresling stories of stubborn and de
termined fight by brave men, for two
years, against death in its most awful
form. The only surprise about it is
that any were lett to tell the tale.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

THE democrats seem especially un-
fortunate in their selection of candid
ates for the Appellate Clerkship, the
most lucrative office in the State. Their
last candidate had to go through a
long course of sprouts for dueling, and
now we have one that is peculiarly
disposed while intoxicated. He says,
however, that he will never allow
himself to get so again, but it is al
most as easy for a camel to gallop
through the eye of a needle as for
man with a taste for liquor to give
il up.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

The tariff Commission iniquity
passed the House Saturday, by a vote
Of 15l to SO. The bill is an invention
of the republicans, who wish to stave
of a revision of the odious and OPP
pressive tariff and get it out of the
way as a political issue. Congress is
the proper place, and Congressman
elected by the people are the proper
persons to revise the tariff, and we are
sure that the people will not approve
Of this attempt on the part of their
representatives to dodge the question.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

DIR. Koch, of Berlin, announces by
cable the remarkable discovery that
that dread disease, consumption, which
kills fully a sixth of mankind, is caused
by parasites, about one-third the diam
eter of the blood corpuscles and in
breadth about one sixth of their length.
The lungs examined were alive with
them, and the DIR. gives as the reason
that the discovery has not been made
before, that they are colorless and
can hardly be distinguished from the
media in which they live. The dis
covery has created sensation in the
medical world, and must bring Joy to
those predisposed to the fearful disease,
for if it will present no cure for it,
there certainly will BE established
means of prevention.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

ANOTHER Cincinnatian is thirsting
for fame. Mr.. Sinton is the gentle.
man. He recently purchased the
Grand Opera House with the purpose
Of making the city a present of it for
a city Hall.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09
Mai. A. r. RICHARDS,

OF Louisville, Is candidate for Superior Judge In
this the % District subject 10 the action Of the
Democracy.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

WHEN the star route case Of John
w. Dorsey was called at Washington,
Friday, that worthy failed to put in
appearance and Mr.. Merrick, coun-
sci for the government, called the at
tention of the Court to the fact that
Col. Iugersoll had promised on the
last postpOnement of the case, that
he should be on hand. He claimed
that it was a mere trick of Ingersoll
to obtain delay, when the old in6del
jumped up and said, "You are a liar
sir" There was much excitement for
a time, but as usual, the whole thing
ended in smoke. Bob knows who to
call liar. Some men would give
him a chance to see for himself wheth.
er there is hell or not, if he we're to
use such language to them.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

In conversation with Hon. j.
Proctor Knott, a few days ago, he
said that the talk about Congress ad-
journing this month was the sheerest
nonsense, and that if it got through
its work by the 1st OF July, it would
be doing much better than he expect
ed. In response to our inquiry if he
would be a candidate for Governor,
he said that he had not decided yet,
but intimated that he would like TO
administer the affairs of the grand old
State for the next four years, begin
ming Sept. 1, 1888. tHN
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09
Judge II. ]. BRECKINRIDGE

Is candidate tor Judge OF Superior Court, subject
70 the action Of the Democracy. Election, hrst
Monday In August.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09
IL. M. BURDETT.

OF Lancaster, Is a candidate for Judge Of the 81
preme Court from the "a district. subject To Il
action Of the democracy.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

ls candidate for reelection 10 the once NJ As
SCISSOR Of Rockoasle county, August election. iss2
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-09

THE Spencer Courier says that Gov.
james B. McCreafy Is The very best
man in the district 70 represent Il in
the next Congress, and The Journal
says he has host Of friends in Jessa.
mine that will be glad Of an opportu.
nitv 10 vote for him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
In q Russian Prison.

In the cells of the upper and middle
tiers are put the least compromised crimi-
nails All the cells are of the same size
ten feet long, seven feet broad and ten
feet high. The doors have each two
openings large enough for the daily
food and drink to be put in through it
and the other of smaller size, to serve as
spy-hole for the jailers. The doors are
also each fastened with two paddock
the key of the one being in the jailer's
custody, while that of the other remains
In charge of the commandant of the for
tress. The dish from which the prisoner
eats is pushed in through grooves cut In a
plate of iron which projects from the in
terror of the door, at height of about
four feet from the floor. The dish can
not, therefore, be removed by the priso-
ner, who must take his food standing
against the door-and this with a spoon
which is attached to the plate. The
drinking water is put into sort of Jug
hinged to the door. When the prisoner
wishes to drink he must get down upon
his knees and turn this vessel upon its
hinges or piyots. Food is supplied at
IL o'clock in the morning and in the
evening, and ordinarially consists of oat-
meal gruela and quarterof kilogramme
of meat. Besides this there is daily
allowance of a kilogramme of rye bread.
The prisoners bed consists of plank,
six feet by three, with straw mattress,
sheet so strong and coarse that it is i'm
possible to tear it, and covering of felt
all of which articles are taken away
during the day. The dress consists of a
gray WOODEN jacket quite short and tight
fitting, short pantaloons of the same
color, and long felt boots. For women
the jacket is supplied, and gray skirt ad-
ded. The prisoners must get up at 6
o'clock, and go to bed again ats 1t has
been ascertained, by means of the street
observations, which are con SANITY taken
through the peep-holes, that, as general
rule, the prisoners spend their long hours
from their rising until their breakfast in
pacing to and fro in their cells; after
this they are wont to remain quiet for an
hour or so, only to give way next to an
excess of desolate despair which their
pitiable situation may well inspire
Boston Advertiser.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
Ranlleh.

Ramleh is almost entirely the creation
of European merchants, and is described
as ga little bit of Europe in Egypt"
Those who want to get further away from
Alexandria in summertime prefer Ras-
el-Birr (the head of the land), a small
sandy peninsula between the Mediter-
ranean and the mouth of the Nile, sew
eral miles beyond Damietta. There are
no houses at Ras-el-Birr. People live in
wigwams made of poles and mating, and
a few who stay during the summer fur
nish them with some degree of comfort,
but most of the visitors stay there only
two or three weeks. In winter the waves
dash entirely over this peninsula. What
reconciles people to all the roughness of
the place is its GOODNESS and salubrity.
There are no hot nights. The sea-breeze
blows through the wigwams. People
who go once generally return. The bath
ing is perfect, and everyone bathes.
Plenty of fish is caught in nets, milk
and eggs may be got in the neighbor-
hood, and other stores from Damietta,
the famous old city, once of great i'm
portance, where the crescent finally
gained the victory over the cross. At
Ras-el-Birr, the wide river on one side
and the open sea on the other, with the
contest i'm a strong breeze and current
between the waters of the river and the
sea, produce striking and peculiar eff
feet.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
ShOrt.Paid Letters.

The Post-Office Department authori-
ties make the following explanation of
certain recent rulings of that department
with regard to the "short-paid and Gre
quest letters, which they think had
been, to some extent, misunderstood:
The order of May last, touching the
treatment of mail matter held for postage,
does not direct or authorize the holding
of any letter for an hour, but when let
ter is short-paid, SO that the law forbids
it to be forwarded, if the postmaster has
no clue to the writer, the order directs
him to send a card to the person adj
dressed. If he RENTS the postage, he
gets the letter before it goes to the dead
letter Office. The regulation touching
return request letters is not a recent
but and old one. Postmasters do not re-
fuse to return letters because it is trouble
some to do so. They are not permitted
to return letters which bear no other
hint of request than the printed name
of hotel. The statute permits the re-
turn only of letters upon the outside of
which the writer has Endorsed his name
and address. The Astor House is never
tuC NlitCi VI d lCttci' n IuiS VI Vic LIZ
partment permits letters to be returned
which bear designated place to which
they may be returned. A hotel is a
place to which letters might be returned,
but it is place that is excluded by the
rule, for the prudent reason that the
statistics of the dead-letter office show.
that if such letters were returned to the
hotel three hundred written by strangers
would be returned for every one written
by the proprietor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
Covering House Walls.

Tine usual practice of covering house
walls with paper is pronounced by an
English scientific writer to be objectiona-
Bile in various respects for though con-
venient and pleasing, it is not conducive
to health, this being due to the fact that
the paper itself sometimes gives off de-
leterous particles, and the paste with
which it is held to the walls undergOes
organic decomposition in presence of
damp. A great desideratum is fabric
that can be put up like paper, and that
can'be washed at any time, and so COM
pletely purified. To realize this, it has
been suggested that in some portions of
house ornamental tiles might be adj
vantageously used; in other rooms an
impermeable cement might be employed,
and in Others thin galvanized iron, the
latter of which would prove exceedingly
useful and durable. All walls which are
porous and absorb vapor must be con-
sidered MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
DeXterity Of Sandwich ISlanderers.

After lunch we strolled out in the
cocoanut grove, where the King ordered
a native boy, about fifteen years old
apparently, to climb tree and throw
down some fruit. The trees are about
100 feet high, and are as devoid of limbs
or other helps for climbing as flagstaff.
All of them curve more or less, but with
no apparent order, however; for in
grove Of a thousand not one will stand
exactly perpendicular, and all will curve
differently. At the very top of each is a
graceful bunch of long, waving leaves,
lust underneath which are the punches of
fruit.
When the boy stood at the foot of the
tree we wondered how he intended to
make the ascent, thinking of course, he
must have some assistance. But he
placed the palms of his hands on the
trees sides, dug his toes into the slightly
rough bark, and suddenly, to our amaze
ment, began scalking up the tree. Until
he reached the very top he touched no
part of his body to the tree saving his
palms and toes. At the top he wound his
legs around the tree, and with his hands
began to throw down nuts. Our applause
excited q spirit OF emulation IN the next
native ordered up. He was a young man
larger and stouter than the boy, and
with mite of conscious merit he placed
only his palms and the souls of his feet
against the tree, and proceeded to run to
the top of the tree. 1t was really Won
derful performance, for he disdained to
give himself the slight advantage of dig
his fnac info tho harl- apI xyNull
have proudly fallen at any time rather
than wind a leg or clasp an arm around
the tall tree, up which he ran with as
much ease as though it had been lying
PROSTATE. When he reached the top,
instead of clasping the tree with his arms,
he held on with both palms and one foot,
and with the other foot proceeded to kick
off the cocoanuts, directing them toward
any of us he selected.-Honolulu Cor.
San Francisco Gail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
The Governments Fish Ship.

The Government is building at Will
mington splendid iron steamship, which
will cost nearly 100000, and especially
constructed for the Fish Commission, to
gather and preserve sea fish. The vessel
will be sent to London with millions of
specimens of small fish and sea-bugs, to
be exhibited at the Great Fish EXPOSE
ton to be held there in May. She is to
be christened, the AlJatross. She is 200
feet long, twenty-seven feet six inches
beam, sixteen feet nine inches depth of
hold, and of 500 tons burthen. She will
be supplied with a deep-sea dredge. with
eight or ten miles of wire rope, for the
purpose of fishing up specimens of ami
NAL life which may be found miles below
the surface of the ocean. Past Assistant
Engineer G. W. Baird is experimenting
the construction of the ship, which is be-
ing built at Pusey, Jones & Co.'S yards,
and will be launched in about four
months. The AlJatrOss will be under
the directionof United States Fish Com
missioner Baird, who will 90 with her to
the London Exposition which will be
the greatest fish show ever seen in the
world. There will be on exhibition
there every kind of animal known to ex-
list in the seas and rivers of the world,
from whale toa tadpole. All the leading
fish culturists and dealers in the United
States will send exhibits which, in addition
to the millions of preserved exhibits sent
by the Government, will probably make
our display the most complete of any on
exhibition. The largest number of the
Government exhibits will be microscopic
specimens, but thousands of curious and
valuable specimens preserved inliquor,
and now at the Smithsonian Institution,
will be put on board the Albatross and
sent over.-Philadelphid Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
A Dwarf Killed by Cats.

A Snowman named Joseph Lumeau
has been arrested at Lille ON charge of
causing the death of dwarf under very
curious circumstances. The dwarf who
was seventeen years old, and barely
twenty-five inches in height, had been
sold to Juneau by his father, to be ex-
hibited in a booth. His purchaser con-
ceived the idea of establishing min
iature menagerie, with the dwarf as
tanner. He caused number of cats to be
painted so as to look like tigers, and, Civ
ing the dwarf a whip, compelled him, by
kicks and threats, to goad the cats into a
furious attack upon him. The conse-
quence was that the poor little fellow,
who had always great aversion to cats,
was literally torn to pieces by the in
furiated animals. This took place at the
fair of Beaupre-sur-Saone last month,
since when the Snowman had disappeared.
London Daily Ne,US.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
Flash Words.

think thse is one habit said to
one company day or two afterwards-
worse than that of punning. 1t is the
gradual substitutions of cant or flash
terms for words which characterize their
objects. l have known several very
genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary
had deliqucsced into some half dozen ex-
pressions. All things fell Into one of two
great categories, fast or slow. Mans
chief end was to be a "brick." When
the great calamities OF life overlook their
friends, these last werespoken of as being
"a good deal cut up" Nine-tenths of
human existence were summed up in the
single word ''bore." These expressions
come to be algebraic symbols of minds
which have grown too weak or indolent
to discriminate. They are the blank
checks of intellectual bankruptcy; you
may fill them up with what idea you
like; it makes no difference; for there
are no fund in the treasury upon which
they are drawn.-OliUer WndeN Holmes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
"A foreign paper saws that Gin &c

"A foreign paper says that Gin Ger.
many the sofa is the seat of honor, and to
omit offering its privileges to an invited
guest is to condemn oneself as being
ignorant of the usages of polite society.
But gentleman may not sit upon the
sofa; to take seat there uniRvited is
very presumptuous; and to ask even an
intimate acquaintance to sit beside her
on that sacred resting-place would be
highly indecorous in young lady" In
justice to the girls of that country, how
ever, it should be said that arm-chairs
were in use in Germany long before sofas
were thought on. Y. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01

"A Baltimore negro wife-beater was
recently ordered by Judge of that city
to receive thirty lashes. Such sentence
was entirely unexpected by the culprit
who for few moments seemed stricken
dumb; then he exclaimed: "Fore the
Lord, Judge, give me seven years in jail"
This was the first whipping case under the
new law, passed at the last session Of the
Legislature.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01

in freight car at Allentown, Pa, a
man, woman, and child were recently
discovered lying on the load of grain.
They had stolen a ride from Minnesota,
and had food and water to last them to
Philadelphia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01

One of the finest native gems thus far
discovered in Ibis country is on exhibi-
ton at Bs1gor. 1t is green tourmaline
of rare beauty and perfection. 1t was
found few DAYS ago at Mount Mica,
and has Just been cut by a veteran lapi.
dairy of Boston. An emerald of its size
and perfection is extremely rare, if not
unknown.-RoSt0n Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01

From esthethic Boston comes this
bit of wit: awe were eating our sup
per, and Mrs. Dodge was cooking beef
steak. asked my little girl how she
would have her beefsteak cooked. She
replied, I will have it tender and true.'"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
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