Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1892-05-13


gut TO be n charm. Charms, however,
when neglected. become at times nui.
ances.
We were visiting Lima not long since,
sthrifty town with all the snap and
vigor of new gold camp in the west,
yet with the shrewd and cool headed
business tact Of Cape Cod town. She
has this characteristic, however. 10 which
have darkly alluded. 1t is "A public
square. The public square was Of course
intended 90 be on the start a thing of
beauty, but it has in too many of the
middle state towns become an open air
livery stable, covered with tho choice
decorations Of badly farmed farm.
The square is Of course geographically
IN the center Of the town, and is dis
tinctly visible from every direction. The
idea Is a good one. but when II becomes
the grazing ground Of the motheateI
horse and the home Of the watermelon
rind, the spring Of the year adds no
beauties 10 it aud Taxpayer and Veritas
write pieces about il.
IL is also in many cases hay and
wood market. Here the man in the blue
army overcoat (he has never been in the
army or he would not be wearing III
meets the man in the buffalo overcoat,
and they borrow tobacco OF each other,
chew some Of IL. spit eight times, water
their stock and go home.
People come 10 the editor and say;
THAT square Is getting 20 be n blamed
nuisance. You ought 10 roast it. Go
k. a So So,
per, provided the man who made the
suggestion has paid for his advertising
promptly:
I'VE regret greatly 20 see our beauti-
ful public square in such neglected
condition. VIII not some one move in
the matter? II is a sin and shame, and
as a matter Of fact It is high time to call
a halt"
Teams not actually engaged in traffic
ON the streets ought not 10 be permitted
20 stand hitchod inside the business part
of any city whatever. Even Mime
apohs, big and prosperous as she is, still
permits hundreds Of farm teams 10 stand
tied along its main avenues, not only by
the hour, but 10y the day, "A vast fringe
Of starvation, collie and bolts in the very
heart Of a great, thriving and beautiful
city
The farmer would not want the gas
works on his farm. Why does he expect
TO bring his nuisances into town? Because
the farm is too often in the spring Of the
year vast, humiliating exposure, that
is no reason why these sanitary methods
should be brought into town, is it?
Lima has about the earliest electric
car line in America. tits double trolly
system, and the cars are getting old and
childish. The rolling stock is TO be re-
newed very soon.
AT all these towns nearly every ones
room is heated by natural gas. Ii holds
out very we'll | was through this state
early in the discovery business, and
then prophesied that gas from the in
terror Of the earth would continue to
manifest itself up to the present time,
and possibly even later. Subsequent his
tory has shown that was right
The electric street cars of Lima are
sadly out of repair, as | said. They have
the odor of cheap lodging house on the
Bowery, as nearly as can recall it now.
They are shabby in tho extreme. Also
in the middle. Next Lent shall abstain
from the use of these cars.
Lima is one Of the thrifty and prosper
Gus cities of Ohio, and is also the home
of the Lima bean.
In Cincinnati the other day we tried
to buy New York draft. The first four
banks were just ont of New York drafts,
and the fifth one had just been plagia-
rized by gentleman with cough"
who downed the bank for some $27.35,
| believe, and so it did not feel like sell
ing New York exchange to strangers"
The bank had just offered reward Of
seventy-five cents for the arrest and APP
prehension of the fiend who had Ibid it
up" in that bold way.
1t seems that some months ago a man
from Chattanooga came in with a
cough" and presented draft for pay
ment 1t was pretty large, and the
cashier looked suspiciously at the owner
OF the paper, but he kept his hand up to