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Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23
cossip and CURIOSITY.


What is gossip but the patent sign
Of vulgarity in heart and mind? In
tellect that never rises beyond the small
mean facts of personal history, fluidity
which cannot keep to itself what has
been told even in confidence, and that
goes about swelling mole-hills into
mountains, can claim no respect, make
out no case for itself against the de.
cree OF gross, vile, stupid vulgarity,
recorded against it. 1t is thoroughly
vulgar as is curiosity; and between
prying into things with which we have
no concern, and retailing gossip which
is no business of ours to handle at all,
there is not a hairs breadth TO choose.
Each is equally the sign Of utter and
entire vulgarity; and if one is the
bulls eye the other is the gold. But
both are faults TO be found growing
as rank as weeds by the wayside, and
it would not be hard TO count upon ones
fingers, among our largest circle of
acquaintance, those who are absolutely
free from the vice of gossip and the
vulgarity of curiosity The Queen.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

A New York undertaken, who had
been employed by a wealthy family to
bury their only daughter, was recent
ly swindled in a novel manner. He
was called upon a few days after the
interment by a well-dressed young
man, who professed to have been be-
trothed to the young lady, and, desir-
ing to give some token of the extent
of his affections for her, was anxious
to pay the funeral expenses. After
much persuasion, the undertaken was
induced to make out his bill, and the
young man, saying that he would re-
turn in a few moments with check.
No check was received, and the un-
dertaker some time afterward ascer-
tanned that the swindler had called on
the father of the deceased and collect
ed the amount.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

A close observer claims to have dis
proved the story about an owl wiring
ing its head off by looking at a man
who was walking around it. He
writes that he placed an owl on a post
and began to walk rapidly around it..
The large round eyes followed him
through three circles, and he began
to wonder why the head didn't drop
off, when he discovered that the neck
had a hy.back motion which, when
the head had been turned half way
around, whisked it back through the
circle, and brought the gaze again
upon him with such precision and so
quickly that the movement had three
times escaped his notice.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

"The very essence of a free govern
ment," declared John G. Calhoun,
Consists in considering offices as pub
lie trusts, to be bestowed for the good
of the country, and not for the benefit
of an individual or a party; and that
system of political morals which re-
CARDS offices to be used and enjoyed as
their proper spoils strikes fatal blow
at the very vitals of free institutions. !"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23
centpr PLants Rendr % Bloom.


Quite n number of century plants,
in various portions of the State of
California, are throwing up stalks pre-
paratory TO blooming. One upon a
ranch in Sonoma valley, on the West
side, near the foothills, grew six feet
in eight days, or three -eighths of an
inch per hour, which is a fair sample
of the rapidity of Aower-stem devel-
opment in these interesting plants.
At Pelaluma two plants are about to
bloom, and will be in their prime
next week. A mammoth century
plant, which has been for years on a
farm in the San Gabriel valley, will
blossom soon. The plant spreads over
a circle of forty. eight feet in circum-
ference. The flower stem is expected
TO become forty or more feet high be
fore it completes its growth. At Al.
varado large century plant is now
thrusting up its flower stem. Eight
or ten other cases are reported in 9TH
er parts of the State. The Agape
americana, or century plant, will, in
California, bloom in eight or ten years
after being planted. The Mexicans
make an Intoxicating drink, pulque,
from the sap, and its manufacture is
said TO be very. profitable. From the
leaves a hemp-like fiber is obtained.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

1t is said that the German wife does
not occupy the proud position of a
woman under the same circumstances
in America. Here she is the pet of
her husbands riches or poverty, while
there she at once becomes the mans
servant. "Do you love me, Gretch-
emf" said burly Teuton to the maid
EN- of his choice. 81 do" was the
mock reply. "And will you be my
wife?' 81 will "Then, my dar-
ling, come here and pull of my
boots" and the proper relationship
between husband and wife was at once
established.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Ii is stated that the streets and pub
lie places Of Paris are lighted with
5,Sl5 gas burners, 63 electric lamps,
50 vegetable oil lamps, and 293 min
eral oil lamps.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Every established local newspaper
receives subscriptions from large cit.
les, which puzzle the publishers, but
which the New York Times lately ex-
planned az follows: "a Wholesale
merchant in this city, who had become
rich at the business, says his rule is,
that when he sells bill of goods on
credit, to Immediately subscribe for
the local paper of his debtor. So
long as his customer advertised liber-
ally and vigorously, he rested, but as
soon as he began 10 contract his adver-
tising space, he took the fact as evi
dence that thsre was trouble ahead,
and invariably went for the debtor
Said he: 1.-The man who is too poor
TO make his business known is too poor
to do business" The withdrawal of
an advertisement is evidence of weak
ness that business men are not slow to
act upon.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

DIR. Talmage is certainly a very re-
markable man, and when he gets into
a frenzy he can make religion more
repulsive than any other preacher OF
whom we have heard. Still an old
itinerant of Virginia delivered ser.
mon fifty years ago which, as a model
ola certain sort, not even Talmage
can improve upon. 1t was on the
text, "Though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall / see God, aud he divided his
discourse into three parts, thus-First,
the worms; second, what the worms
done; and third, what the man seen
after he was eaten up.-[N.Y. Herald.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

A Washington horse trainer asserts
that horses have memory, judgment.
reasoning faculty and sense Of duty.
That's where the horse differs from
the average Ohio editor.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Cover your cucumber beds with
concrete. 1t may kill the vines, but
that is the only sure way ofdestrOying
the striped bug.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

OF a miserly man somebody wrote:
ellis head gave way. but his hand
never did. His brain softened, but
his heart couldn't"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

"Some men leave enduring foot
prints in the history of their time,
and some leave unpaid bills in the
hands Of their friends.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

The largest island in the world,
which is also regard ed as continent,
is Australia. 1t is $500 miles in
length from East to West, and meas
ures $40 miles from North toSouth.
Its area is 1884, ,2S7 square miles.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

No; certainly not editors never
need money, Send in a string of
dried apples once in a while with a
few instructions about running the
paper, and they will be as contented
and happy as bed bug in a bridal.
chamber. II Printers journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

On the 30th Of June Guiteau will
adopt the only platform that Stal.
wart should stand upon. [YeOman.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Captain Tom Henry, Of Union
county, wants it distinctly understood
that he is not the Captain Tom Hen
ry who has gained such an unenviable
notoriety in the last three months
| Post.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

The longest line of fence in the
world will be the wire fence extend
ing from the Indian Territory West,
across the Texas Panhandle, and thir-
ty.five miles into New Mexico. We
are informed that eighty-five miles of
this fence is already under contract.
Its course will be in the line of the
Canadian river, and its purpose is to
stop the drift of the Northern cattle.
1t is a bold and splendid enterprise and
will pay large per centage on the in
vestment. The fence will be over 200
miles long.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Full many an ache of soreness,
deep and keen, the wakings of a
nights carousal bear; full many a
man, who with "the boys" hath been,
feels in the morn his wifes hands in
his hair.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

There is annually manufactured on
the Mississippi and its tributaries
about 800, 100000 feet of white pine
lumber, with its proportionate accom-.
paniment of shingles, laths and pickets.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

A paper lald before the Biological
Society of fParis, tells us, from scien.
tifc point of view, what it is to be
"dead drunk" 1t seems that this
condition exists when the vital fluid
presents the proportion of OF alec.
hol to 1875 of blood. 1t is at this stag Q
that most drunkards cease drinking
or we should have more deaths from
alcoholism; for when the inebriate
continues 10 drink until each 100
parts of blood contains part of al
cohol, death invariably ensues.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Now that it is settled that DIR. STAN
diford will not be candidate for
Governor, Judge Owsley will virtual
ly have a walk.over for the nomina-
ton, and better man for the position
could not be selected.-[Catlettsburg
Democrat.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

Chas. Dudley Warner remarks
although there are scattered thro'
the land many persons, | am sorry TO
say, unable to pay for a newspaper, |
have never heard of anybody unable
10 edit One."
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

The Northern Pacific Railroad was
originally granted 57,92O,000 acres
conditonally. OF this enormous area
27 7,S00, 900 acres have been earned ac-
cording TO contract. Their value is
set down at slS3, $40, 900, enough to
build the entire road and leave a sur
plus of s33, 100000. An effort is be-
ing made to make the Company for
felt the difference between the amount
of land earned and the amount orig.
inally granted, but the effort will
doubtless prove a failure. The stake
is too large to be suffered 10 be lost.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23

The Rev. DIR. Hartzell, of New
Orleans, was discussing the union of
the Northern and Southern branches
of the Methodist Church with a broth
er clergyman belonging to the latter
branch, who insisted that the Metho.
dist Church South was the original of
that denomination in America.
"Well," 4" replied Dr. Hartzell, 81 be-
long to the Methodist Church of God,
and If you want TO call yours the
Methodist Church South of GodI have
no objection
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-23
EVERY COMFORT AND LUXURY,

GOA WEEK. sl2 day at home easily made.
~ <Costly Outfit free. Address TRUK Co., Au-
gusta, Maine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
n ROMANCE OF THE BORDER.

There was Granger, bold and staid.
Don Gomez del GomazZa
VINO loved gentle Greaser maid,
The Donna Frontpiazza-
Don Gomez rode mustang proud,
And a bloody slasher
OF all the gallus Greaser crowd
He was the giddiest masher
Don Gomez once was tempted sore,
despite of law and order,
TO giut his greedy thirst for gore,
And cross the Texas border.
So fare you well, me lady fair
Me pretty little DonnaI'
In vain she tore her raven hair
Her Gomez was a goner.
Then hied he to the Rio Grande,
With Yankee hordeS to battle:
He crossed into the promised land,
And went to stealing cattle.
And there with more than royal pluck
He did his pleasing duty,
And meeting with uncommon luck,
He started home with booty.
But o the Yankees, fierce and strong,
While marching out TO battle.
Beheld Don Gomez come along
A-driving them there cattle.
They gathered in the festive steers,
And snagged that gallus Greaser,
And with a round of boots and jeers,
They hanged him to a tree, sir.
Loud walled the Greaser maiden fair,
The Donna Frontpiazza;
Once more she tore her maiden hair
For Gomez del Gomazzai
-Denrer Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Paris was recently scandalized by a
gentleman at club losing 800. 900 at
q lard table in one night. The police
clos d the establishments instantly.
An English business circular states
that between the middle of last October
and the opening of the present year 49,
DOC. 900 American oysters were shipped
to England ami consumed, and the cry
was for more.
The Episcopal Church at Hughen-
den, which the Hebrew DisraeG usually
attended, has been magniicently deco
rated in his memory. Two beautiful
stained windows have been erected, and
the chancel wall has been covered with
rich paintings of evangelists, prophets,
and angels.
An English nobleman, who eleven
years ago inherited very fine property
in the midland counties. containing some
of the richest and best Cultivated land in
England, finds himself now, in these bad
times of agriculture, with ten large
farms thrown on his hands. The ten
ants ON most of these farms were almost
patriarchal, the leases having descended
from father to SON for a hundred and
fifty or two hundred years.
"A remarkable case of the intricacies
of law is shown in the contest over q
will in Marseilles. A man and wife
were drowned together the by upsetting
of boat. The wife left will bequeath-
ing $4,000 to the husband, and the
heirs of both parties are struggling to
decide which drowned first. There
seems to be no way out of the difficulty,
and the lawyers will probably bag the
whole fortune.
The Bavarian Court Musician is
dead. He was known everywhere in
Germany as s'Flute Boehm," his real
name being Theobald. He was born in
1894, and was apprenticed to gold
smith; but in his 18th year King Max I.
appointed him his Court Musician. He
was not only the most celebrated flute
player of his time, but later on improved
and perfected the instrument after q
system of his own, which to this day is
universally considered the best and most
rational known throughout the civilized
world.
Statistics of the average number of
persons who inhabit a house in the vari-
GUS cities Of Europe give an excellent
notion of the distribution of wealth.
Among the larger cities of Western Eu-
rope, where the system of family houses
is dominant, the average is of course
small. Thus, the average for Bremen
is 1-2; for London, s.; for Amster-
dam, 8; for Rome, II; for Cologne, Is;
and for Main, Is. In
other well-known cities the averages are
these: Paris, So; Trieste, 80; Buda-
Pesth, So; Konigsberg, 25; Breslau, 81;
Leipsic, SO 1-2; Berlin, So; and Vienna,
81.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
The Advancement of Women.

The bottle is uncorked to her as freely
as to any man. She need not be sly
about it, and she isn't. She may have
it in the secrecy of her closet, but she
has it also in the broad publicity of the
restaurant. She goes alone, or in
couples, or in bevies. Where she used
to call for ice cream or Roman punch,
she orders up her small bottle of extra
dry, her cocktail, punch, or hot Scotch
in short, her favorite tipple. And she
does not mask it behind charlotte
russo or bread pudding. She calls a
spade spade, and as spade it is set
before her. This right is not restricted
to settled danes or unmarriageable
spinsters. Bright, fresh, rosy-cheeked
girls drop in on their way to comforta-
Bile homes and have their ''snifter."
Sometimes they go out with flushed
faces, whirling brains, and unsteady
step, just as the other sex does. By de-
grees they are reaching the higher point,
bar, throw the right leg gracefully
the toe, while merry chat, and repartee,
and bandinage go on between drinks.
This is pose which requires practice,
and is not to be attempted off-hand by
the novice. Women are not only exer-
cising the right to drink what they
please, they are filing drunkards'
graves-more of them than the world
believes-and they are not always laid
at rest in pine boxes, but, as well, in
walnut casketse with silver handles.
Proudest triumph of all, Chicago is
about to provide an inebriates' home for
women Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16
gradually modulating into one of Schu-
mann's tender little thoughts.

gradually modulating into one of Schu-
mann's tender little thoughts.
After while, in rich tenor, he sung,
"Come unto Me-" As he was singing,
Mrs. Earle drew near him, and when
he had concluded the noble anthem she
bent down and touched her lips to his
forehead, q tear from her eyes dropping
on his cheek as she did so.
"ParElon me-" she said, "but could
not help it. 1 kissed you as used to
kiss my boy-the only child ever had
whom l hoped and prayed God would
spare to my old age, particularly after l
became widow. But He willed it 9TH
erwise.''
s' 1t is such kiss as was wont to re-
ceiye from my mother who died long
years ago, but not so long that l can
not remember her loving tenderness"
he returned, his own voice husky, his
eyes filled with tears. "And that is the
way kissed her," he continued, as he
rose. and, putting his arms about the
aged woman's neck, imprinted kiss on
her cheek.
"God bless you'll exclaimed Mrs.
Earle; and it was benedictiion that
Philip frequently had occasion to re-
member in later years.
Often had his musical abilities been
called into requisition in " society,"" as
often Landed, but never had he received
any compliment so grateful to him as
the tears and kiss of this honest, impul-
sive, gray-haired woman Could he
have seen the young girl who stood in
the doorway just opposite, to whose eyes
his singing had called the scalding tears,
would his satisfaction have been en-
HANGED?
1t is fact that, ere he sought his
bed, he drew aside the curtain of his
sleeping room and looked for many min
utes at the house sc across the way,
distinctly perceptible in the soft, white
moonlight-wondering if she occupied
such room and wishing her pleasant,
very pleasant dreams.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16

Ten million head of cattle are an
nually slaughtered in this country to
supply the home demand for meat,
which is valued at $500, 200, 600.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16

California is like an unmolested
pair running away to get married. 1t is
on the Pacific slope.-N. O. Picayu1e.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-16

1t is needless to say Florence con-
sented to sing, and that Miss Winter was
present. The latter most cordially ex-
pressed her pleasure at hearing the
| former sing, but in so delicate manner
that her encomiums did not seem like
| f1attery.
81 trust shall again be favored as
this evening. Miss Alling," she re-
marked, as they were about to separate,
''and that our acquaintance may ripen
into friendship
From that time Miss Winter contrived
to be with Florence a great deal. In
deed, SO completely did she monopolize
her company, Philip found scarcely an
opportunity for an interview with her
alone. By degrees, her visits to Mrs.
Earle were discontinued, and when he
asked her s'Why?' she gave him an an
swer far from satisfactory.
He noticed, as did others, that the
happy, animated expression of the girls
countenance faded away slowly; that
she grew pale, nervous, sad. What it
meant he could not interpret, nor could
he ask her in Miss Winters presence,
where she mostly was.
Thus things went ON till one day, at
dinner, Mrs. Earle informed him that
Florence had left the place, "bag and
baggage"
"Gone away" exclaimed Philip, in
amazement.
eyes. The first, last and only thing
the woman with whom she boarded
knew of it was when Florence, this
morning, told her she was going away
sfor good'-not a word as to her desti-
nation"
"Strange," muttered Philip, and, ris.
ing, he left the table.
Taking his way to the hotel, he sent
up his card to Miss Winter, requesting
brief interview with her, if she was at
liberty. Word came back to him that
she should be pleased to see him in her
room, and thither he went. Immedi-
ately on entering her apartment, ere ex-
changing the customary salutations, he
asked:
"Where has Florence Alling gone?n
"Where has Florence Alling gone ?''
she repeated, with manifestation of
composure at the question that, if ficti-
tious, was well-feigned. s'Isn't she in
the mill, as usual?''
ssShe left Burton this morning for
parts unknown
'Why do you come to me for infor-
nation respecting her?''
Evidently she decided on her pres
ent course some time since, and 1
thought possibly she might have in
formed you of her intentions, as you two
have been very intimate.
"You seem to be greatly interested in
her," shade of irony tinging her tone
that he failed not to discover, and that
strengthened his belief that she knew
more than she cared to reveal.
81 am" he quietly answered, and
without further remark, he withdrew.
That afternoon he left Burton; and a
couple of days later the place lost anoth-
er of its city visitors-Miss Winter.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-25
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:
ubteruge less appreciated
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published Every Evening Sundays excepte and contains
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