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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

In the first fifteen hundred years
Christianity had 100000, goo people
as adherents. In the next three hun
dred years it gained 100, 100000. In
the next eighty-two years. comprising
the present century, it has gained
210, 100000. These are commune
cants in the church. The Bible is
fast becoming the constitution of the
advanced nations. And yet there are
some people who say that Christianity
is dying out; but facts, patent to all,
do not seem TO confirm the assertion.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

About two-hfths Of an who 10 ~ an untnely
grave die With the dreaded disease, consumption
Bsown's Ezpse,orsat has eufed every ease II ha'
been tried GA wnsn the disease has MOI been al
loved 10 run beyond The contfol Of medicine sod
BY Penny a MeAlister, stanford, aad W. NJ Web
er, NJ Vernon.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

No matter how faded the constitution
may be from disease or excess, the Great
German Invigoralor restores Il permanent
~. See advertisement For sale BY Pen.
ny a McAlisier.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

Some one has said: HE who mar
ries for love gets wife; who marries
for position gets a lady; who marries
for fortune gets mistress. Ifyou are
sick your wife will nurse you; your
lady will visit you and your mistress
will inquire about your health. II
you die your wife will weep for you;
your lady lament and your mistress
wear mourning" Cut this out, young
man and stick il in your vest pocket.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

Alexander Piummer. u bloomfield, Ind, al
he regards Brown's Expeetorant the best eousl
re.aedy he has ever used. For sale BY Penny 4
n eAlister, stanford, aud W. N. Weber. MtVernol
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

The largest string of logs ever made
into u raft was towed into the Erie
Basin, South Brooklyn, N. Y, Satur-
day morning by the tugs Cyclops and
Haviland. The raft is twelve hun
dred feet long, twenty-four feet wide
and twelve feet deep. 1t is composed
of eleven sections, each of which con-
tains about five hundred logs, ranging
in size from the diameter of wagon
wheel down to that of a telegraph
pole. The logs are piled into huge
bundles and strapped together with
large chains strong enough TO tow
the Great Eastern.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07
Home Lore.

Home love is the best love. The
love that you were born to is the
sweetest you will ever have on earth.
You who are so anxious to escape
from the home nest pause a moment
and remember this is so. 1t is right
that the hour should come when you,
in your turn, should become a wife
and mother and give the best love TO
others; but that will be just it. No
body-not lover, not husband
will ever be so tender or true as your
mother or your father. Never again,
after strangers have broken the beau
tiful bond, will there be anything so
sweet as the little circle of mother,
father and children, where you we're
cherished, protected and kept from
harm. You may not know it now,
but you will know it some day.
'Whomsoever you may marry, true
and good though he may be, after the
love days are over and the honeymoon
has waned, gives you only what you
deserve of sympathy and love-and
usually much less; never more. You
must watch and be wary, lest you
lose that love which came in through
the eyes because the one who looked
thought you beautiful. But those
who bore you, who loved you when
you were that dreadful object, a small
baby. and thought you exquisitely
beautiful and wonderfully brilliant
they do not care for faces that are
fairer and forms that are more grace
full than yours. You are their own,
so better to them always than others.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

The present is a remarkable year
for drying fruit. The apple crop is
fairly abundantin many places, and
unusual efforts are making to save the
fruit by drying, evaporation, DC. OF
late years a number Of new and COM
plete methods have been devised. but
that by which the aavors of the nat.
ural fruit are best retained is the most
acceptable. Good "evaporated" ap.
piles are worth from sl5 20 500 per
one hundred pounds for trapsporta-
tion abroad. and there are evaporators
by which forty bushels Of dried fruit
per day may be prepared without
trouble.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-07

A new swindling scheme is thus re.
ported by an exchange: A man and
woman locate in town, put on lots OF
style, and claim to belong to the way.
up circles. Alter time the man Wis
its the leading stores aud says his wife
had spoken of buying bill of goods,
and il she had done SO he wanted to
pay for them, as he was going out of
town for short time. No goods had
been bought by her; and he goes to
the next store. In a short time the
wife comes in, and easily succeeds in
getting credit for large bill, as the
merchant thinks il is all right because
of the story told by the husband.
When they get a large amount Of
goods in this way, both of them dis
appear. taking the goods with them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Durability of Brick.

1t Is noticeable feature of the New
York architecture of the day that for
the preferred material the builders of
that city are returning to the brick of
which their Dutch ancestors made their
homes. Iron rusts and scales, and stone
scales and wears away in that severe
climate; brick alone withstands the
gnawing tooth of time, and some of the
oldest houses in the city are still the
best. AT last there seems to be some
hope of national architecture in Amer
lea, Judging from the new buildings
which are going up, the first step to-
ward which is taken in building houses
for use and wear, instead of for show.
These brick houses, finished on the ex-
terror with stone and terra Gotta, and in
the interior in natural woods, have a
lgenulneneSs that makes one feel quite
Jas much at home as under tree. 1t is
10 luxury for Americans to build a house
for the way they are to live in it, and
not what the carpenters and neighbors
think of it. Brick is, of course, partic-
Iularly adapted to some climates, and if
severe one it is almost necessary to
use it. In mild climates the builder
Fan please his fancy with stone or wood
or iron; but if he have the good of pos
terity in view, and would like to erect a
home and monument simultaneously he
IAN keep his work before the eyes of
men longest in the shape of brick Au-
IBustus imposed a fraud upon subsequent
humanity when he made that famous
declaration of finding Rome a city of
brick and leaving it a city of marble.
He did nothing of the sort, and there
was no necessity, of putting on airs
about it if he had The Roman brick,
of which many edifices, and some of the
finest even In the time of the Enlperors.
were built, was irregular in size, though
usually quite thin, and of remarkable
density. 1t was rather more like our
Iserra-cotta, both in color and quality.
The square brick of Ninevah, about the
size of those with which we of the pres
emit day lay hearths. bears witness to the
power of man to make with fire and clay
. substance which shall outwear stone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Betting on Mustaches.

Two curious wagers were made and
decided in the Bingham House reading
room within an 1Iour tho other day.
One of the party of gentlemen who
were watching the passing crowd pro-
posed to bet that 80 per cent. of the
men who would pass within fifteen
minutes would wear mustaches, and he
was promptly taken. The result was a
count of 212 men, 19S mustaches and
the payment of so to the winner, who
at once offered to make another bet that
of the next 100men who would pass the
window three-fourths would have on
Derby hats. The loser promptly covered
his wager, and i'll few moments paid
over another SO bill to his friend,
seventy-eight Derby hats showing up
from the 100 men. The winner then
proposed to give his friend chance to
get even by betting $40 that 10 per cent.
of the people that would pass within
twenty minutes would be lame; but the
latter, after a thoughtful pause, ex-
pressed the conviction that "it was not
his day ont, with a postscript to the
effect that he believed the whole thing
to be a put-up job. Then the party
went to the restaurant below and drank
some soda water. Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Hum0r that Achieved an Object.

An interesting "Reminiscences comes TO
hand of the late Ernst Dohn. editor OF
the Berlin Klddderaddtsch. Some
years ago when the Princess Caroline OF
Reuss secured dowry for her daughter
by imposing tax upon her preposter-
ous'y petty principality, he 'improved
the occasion by writing and publishing
"a satirical poem, which was received
with hearty OUTLAWS by the public, but
which greatly incensed the Princess.
She brought libel suit against Dohn.
and succeeded in having him sentenced
to five weeks Imprisonment, despite his
protest that the punishment was toe
great for an offense against so petty a
parsonage, and that for it he ought to
have the privilege of abusing the Prime
Minister himself To Jail he went, and
a few days later home in triumph came
the troops to Berlin from the SchIeswig
campaign. Thereupon his colleagues
on the Kladderdddtsch staff brought
out cartoon representing all the city
rejoicing, save Dohn, who pinned in soil
tude, imprisoned by the crinoline OF
caroline This Kaiser Wilhelm saw.
and was so tickled by the fun that he
spoke to Bismarck about it and had
IDohn at once set at liberty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Wonders Of the Vastly Deep.

As to the quantity of light at the bot
tom of the sea there has been much dis
pute. Animals dredged from below
700 fathoms either have no ewes. q,
faint indications of them, or else theil
eyes are very large and protruding
Crabs eyes are four or five times a.
large as those of crab from surface
water, which shows that that LIGHT !,
feeble, and that eyes to be of any us,
must be very large and sensitive. An
other strange thing is that where the
creatures in those lower depths hay,
any color it is of orange or red. or red
dish orange. Sea anemones. corals
shrimp and crabs have this brilliant col
or. Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet
and i'll many specimens it iGclines towart
purple. Not q green or blue fish j.
found. The orange red is the fish's pro
lection, for the bluish-green light in til,
bottom of the ocean makes the orang,
or red fish appear of neutral tint AMI
hides it from enemies. Many animal.
are black, others neutral in color. Som,
fish are provided with boring tails Sc
that they can bmrow in the mud. Fin
ally, the surface of the submarine mount
ain is covered with shells, like an ordi
nary sea beach, showing that it is thu
eating-house of vast schools of carnivor
Gus animals. A Goldfish takes Who'll,
oyster into its mouth, cracks the shells
digests the meat and spits out the rest
Crabs crack the shells and suck out tn,
meat. In this way come whole mounds
OF shells that are dredged up.-Prof
Ve7TiU.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Bulbs History of the Rabbit.

The rabbit winks with hiz noze an
sumtimes lie duz it with such effek the
ekko agertates wat little tale heze got
lef. Rabbits haz got other funny trates
beside, because heze got knee OF hi2
hind legs that reach from his toze to
hiz elboze an he sets on em more n
he duz on the furtherest end of IN.
His ears liz stiffycates of hiz belongin-
to the iackass family an wen he sticks
'em up the stars begin ter git nervus
an move out ther way Rabbits wares
furs all the hull yeer an wen they walk
yude think the behind ov i'm wuz
harder ter lift AN a burow, but wen
you fetch 'em of litenin bug coodent
ketch i'm eff yude give i'm tn daze start.
Rabbits is good ter eat ony if there's
wimmin round you mustn't menshun
ennythin' bout cats vile the bankwet is
goin' on.--Rome Sentinel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19

There is a curious clock in Japan.
This clock, in frame three feet high
and five long, represents a noon land
scape of great loneliness. In the fore.
ground We're plum and cherry trees and
rich plants in full bloom; in the rear a
hill, gradual in ascent. from which
flowed cascade admirably initiated in
crystal. From this plant thread-lik
stream glided along, encircling in its
winding rocks and tiny islands, but
presently losing itself in far-off stretch
of woodland. In the sky turned gol.
den sun, indicating as it passed the
striking hours, all marked upon the
frame below, where a slowly-creeping
tortoise served as a hand A bird OF
exquisite plumage, resting by its wings,
proclaimed the expiration of each.
When the song ceased, a mouse sprang
from grotte near by, and, running
over the hill, hastily disappeared.
Haroun al Raschid, the principal
hero of "The Arabian Knights Enter
tainments, sent to Charlemagne, in the
eighth century, water clock, in the
dial of which door opened at each
doors were thrown open, as many
knights on horseback issued out, par
AIDED round the dial, and then, return
ing, shut themselves in again.
Vaucanson, a mechanical genius,
made an automatic flute player and
piper in 1873, which were the wonders
of their time The futist was figure
five feet high, standing on a pedestal,
within which were nine pairs of bellows,
worked by clockwork The motion OF
the fingers, lips and tongue were all
initiated by this figure, which, by vari-
Gus arrangements of valves, tubes, levers
and wheels, is said to have produced
music little inferior to the performance
of skilled fute-player. The piper
was constructed much ON the same
principle The bellows of his instru-
ment required fifty-six pound weight
to produce the highest note. As the
fatigue of playing the pipes usually
causes the performer, when playing
rapidly, to slur over some of the notes,
the mimic piper, impervious alike tc
WEAKNESS and shortness of breath, is
accredited with having excelled living
one in the clearness of the notes.
Millardet, Swiss mechaniclan, ex
mblted in London, in the last century,
female figure that played eighteen
tunes on the piano with all the motions
OF natural life, the eyes following the
movements of the fingers on the keys
the pressure of which produced the
notes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Counterfeit Coins.

In receiving so many millions of dol
lars at the sub-treasury, it might be
supposed that an occasional spurious
coin or note would find its way across
the counter. So great is this danger
that every piece and every note has to
pass under the scrutiny of an expert.
People do not realize the quantity of
counterfeit silver dollars that are in cir
lculation. Not day passes that more
or less are not offered at the sub-treas-
Jury. The Assistant Treasurer, speaking
lof this subject, SAYS: "Iou would be
surprised at the ingenuity that is dis
played in debasing the different Gov
eminent coins. One of the neatest
methods employed by those who engage
In this species of crime is what is known
las the splitting process. This is done
by splitting the coin edgewise (probably
by means ola fine saw, digging out the
inside, filing the cavity with metal as
nearly as possible the weight of the gold
taken out, and soldering the two disks
Together again in such manner that it
will pass without suspicion among those
who are not expert in detecting frauds
of this kind. Fortunately this method
of tampering with coin is SO difficult in
its successful accomplishment that it is
seldom resorted to, and coins thus de-
based are not common. An expert at
the business can take five dollars worth
of gold out of a single twenty-dollar
piece. A short time ago 500 note was
presented ut the counter. The receiv-
ing teller, Immediately upon taking it
into his hand, stamped the word "coun-
terfeit" on its face and handed it back.
The proceeding startled the person who
presented it, and he asked the teller,
with an air of indignation, why he did
it.
Because the law compels me to do
it," the teller replied.
The man insisted that the note was
good, "but," said he, IF it is not good
could have it taken back to the person
I got it from"
'You can do that still" said the tel
Ter, "and if he demonstrates that it is a
good note, You have only to come here
and get your money" The man did not
come back.
| Spurious silver coins are detected
more by their weight and general APP
pearance than by anything else. Said
the Assistant Treasurer, speaking of
this: "They have got us on the ring of
the metal. They can make their base
metals to ring as well as ours" The
detection of spurious gold coin is purely
mechanical-by ringing, acids, weight,
the eye, etc. Experience is every
thing, said Mr.. Spaulding. "a base
coin has never been passed on us, but
we have stopped lots of them on the
way. To become expert in detecting
the base coins men have got to make it
q business, study" San Francisco
Call.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
The Kind of Dead Owl He Was.

1t was in September. The owls had
killed some of our most valuable fowls.
One night was aroused by loud squall-
ing and cackling among some fowls that
roasted In some cedar trees that stood
almost under the window where /
slept. l jumped up, seized my gun
and ran out / could hear the owl as
he darted at his victim, but would fail
ITO strike it, but | could not see it in the
darkness. / throw up my gun and
touch both Triggers splendid snap
shot hear something strike the
ground. Walking up to the tree there
lies turkey, and further on a chicken.
--Blrdo, an Forest and Stream.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-19
Burglars Methods and Tools.

Burglars travel in gangs, and have at
their beck and call crowd of confeder-
Iates--c spitalists, layers-out and go-be-
tweens. The iirst-named stake" the
craftsman when he is broke, furnish
the funds for expeditions, and when he
us in trouble look generally to his in
terests. The layer-out is the brains of
the gang, plans its expeditions, often
furnishes the funds, and, after a sue
cess, shares the spoils. The 60
between is he who acts as agent
for the return of the non-eligible
bonds or securities of any kind, for, al
though these papers have no real value
to the burglars, the bank people are
plnched by the same wise, and between
the two inconveniences both are willing
to sacrifice something in the interest of
harmony and the rest. Bank burglars
tools are generally Of very sup erior
order, gathered with care and piece
meal until the kit is made up. A full
kit of the best order is worth g. 900
This may all go in the event of fail
ure OF a job by disturbance, and gener-
ally does when a successful piece of
heavy enough to carry away in itself, so
that tools are left behind. Mechanics
of superior class exist in larger cities
who make a speciality of fashioning
burglars tools. In the absence of such
q mechanic the tools are collected in
parts, but as this is risky way of OBJ
tanning them it is avoided if possible
Kits of the tobyman's tools are kept on
hand for hire, and a good collection
can be obtained in the centers of the
business for from 500 to $500 These
tool-renters are generally tool makers
Ialso, but often the fence has them on
hand, and it is part of the business of
the old craftsman to keep them Fifty
per cent. of the noted burglars are prac-
teal blacksmiths and thoroughly under
stand the temper and capacity of their
own tools. Sometimes gang, each
owning implements of different kinds.
pool their possessions, and thus make
IA full kit. The tool-makers have
their specialties. Some are famous for
ehisels, others for punches and jimmies.
and one maker has made national rep
utation for sledge of lead and copper
that entirely superseded that formerly
used of steel, because # the dull, almost
noiseless, blow it strikes.
The latest great Improvement is in
drills that cut into the hardest steel like
a knife into wood, especially the double.
rachel drill of Howard, the burglar.
who was murdered by his comrades
some years ago for treachery. This
drill is said to be able to bore a hole
Through solid block of steel as easily
Jas does a gimlet in one of wood An
other tool called safe-opener, made
on the principle of the domestic oyster
opener, viii cut the front out of a safe
when once it gets hold But the
most powerful and destructive instru.
ment used by burglars is the safe-drag,
Originally made in England, 1t weighed
at first about 500 pounds, but American
ingenuity has got it down to little
over 100 in weight and improved its
qualities. An expert can tear strong
safe literally to pieces with this terrible
machine. --CIepeLG13d Herald
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-30

simply ran through il. taking the ora
out space about l. by 5 feet. The inclins
now down leo feet, and Tor oall
snat .1lstsnce runs through solid
ore. We hasliy reached a point of some
'Weaty ieet nom the face and sat down en-.
ehsnted. The candies of the miners worS.
ing below revealed u scene not to be foreot
ten. In the half gloom at our feet. above
our heads ana on both sides Law riches
enough 10 almost convince us that we were
dreaming OF some scene in the Arabian
shts' COUNTLESS tons OF rich areentiter.
gus ores, after having been buried in this
IoheSome spot Tor hair-raising number of
centuries, were exposed TO view. Al one snot
Just blasted, our eyes were dagzIed nv iba
brightness of the stuff. which looked 6Ie
native silver. \ more fitting spot could
not well be selected to listen TO the story of
the find" and here il is:
nut llttle over year ago the owners of
AL these riches were poor prosecutors
worse than poor, in fact, Tor while their
assets consisted oftwo horses only they
were over $1,000 in debt. The mine
was located three years since. but the
ore body was not found until recently.
IN June, 1881 Cal and George Kirk
lthe owners were camped on Sauaw
creek, 1--WE miles below here. One day thew
concluded TO explore tributary recently
named Bruno. They took one days pro-
visions, pair of blankets and a gun, in
tending TO stay all night. but before night
lail they came back to camp. after having
located the Cinabar mine. There was no
sur created at what was then so ordinary a
thing as a location. No one dreamed that
they had that day located another Com.
stock, the star nine of Idaho, if not the
Rocky mountains, but so il was.-[Cor. ST.
Louis Republican.