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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, 1881-12-20

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,WP. WHTOt, ... tdittf ait Pnprittf. T. K. WILTOK, . . . luvnut Managtr. Suusckiition, 3.50 l'r.K Annum, Invahiaiily in Advance. THt HCHTSMTOr A GIRL Jail f.lrMk t frtllr, Jt fBlU IMU1l U D IWMt, Jaat rntf tftavh la ta alllj, Jul ilalat anoaib Ukttil. Jaat Ull nonh U U (Tferrilt J art atljat DOl foff lift Ja.l draw aaaagb la ta laalf M, Jaataiairi atiab U Waf, Jail Uara taoaib I U t4r, Jaat alba raaaa'b U aa aad, Jaat aoA eaaugh ta rwn1icr Tawr Strati Ihn' tba raJrara aiaj gtaJ. Jut Biaai aaaatb fcr CaktHlMloA, Jul LeM aaaafh ta Va Wart, Jul aaUlaaaauah IW awblUaa, Jaallboafblfalaaaiifb W trt?. A laa,u IktlCM talk altbaatbinataf, Jul aalaabUr tnuk U Imii yilltri lUABt CMu(h U La cbaMlat, Tbalaatlatalaacal7aafaa.a. Oaaarawa taawfli.aajblau.aaartad. Ftr u tk tapta alara; Ok. fraaa bar mi I aartr U pirtiJ, Tm 114k to lk aaals I kf a. A Stttmtkip PnKt. fit Dajt f Cunp. project ! on foot In thli city to etfahlith a purely American line of fast passenger steamera to ply between New York and tome port on the- llrit llrit-Uli - Uli llrit-Uli coast. The plan, ccorJing to if projector, Mr. Jacob Loril lard, is to build thip which will take passengers from New York Monday morning and place them in London before Sat Saturday - urday Saturday night, making the trip from land to Und in fir days or tiro and a half dart. Mr. 1orillard laid to a reporter; "Our veaaela will be COO feet loog.and will be built of itcci to reduce weight. Thaywill be provided with power three tlmea ai great In proportion to their displacement aa la obtained bjr ihipa now afloat. Theie feature mean ipeed. They will bo divided Into water-tight compartmeiita, rend rendering - ering rendering them absolutely uniinkable. There will be fifty auch compartmcuta in each ahip. Thia meana safely. Weahall carry no freight of any aort. We ahall provide no accommodation! fur emigrant. Everything i to be in firit-olas atylc. Our veaaela will be virtually floating palaces. .What Pullman 'a parlor coachea are in the railway aervice our ship will bo on the ocean. Weahall build three ahipa to tart witk. Each ahip will have ac accommodation! - commodation! accommodation! for 500 pasiengert, and each will probably1 coat over 11.000,000, probably 11,250,000. Aa yet it i impoaiible to quote exact figure. The eatimatca we deaire are not given ua. We ahaU not run to Liverpool. Our landing place will Milford lUven, in Walea, which i 200 mile nearer London than ia Liv Liverpool. - erpool. Liverpool. It harbor, too, can be entered on all tide. Upon thia aide of the ocean we thai! aave thouiandi of dollar yearly by the fact that we ball be able to escape wharfage as as-earnest. - earnest. as-earnest. Carrying only patsen patsen-era, - era, patsen-era, it will be our plan to anchor in mid stream, as do menof-war,and have abore communication by meana of tender. Lying oil the Ilattery, we would be aa easily acceitible at are vessels at the city piers." "Wheu will you be ready for bus business' - iness' business' asked the reporter. "lly the apring of 1883, but not before. Our veatela are yet to be built, and the greater part of our ar arrangements - rangements arrangements in other matters are still incomplete, I)ut by the date I men mention - tion mention we tliall be in perfect readiness. Our sueccaa ia assured ao laras capital go. The lino will be called the "Ainer "Ainer-can - can "Ainer-can Express Line," Scientific Amer American, - ican, American, "A Young Man whose father was very wealthy, and who moved among the First Families, was married to a beautiful girl. After the Nuptial Ceremony waa concluded, and just be before - fore before the Happy Pair were about to tart on their wedding jouney, the bridegroom went up to his uiothcr-Iu-law and kissed her. A friend who was standiog by, and waa amaied at thia Extraordinary Action, aiod the bridegroom for an explanation of bis Conduct He replied: Have you nev never - er never read those beautiful lines by Ttnny Ttnny-ton: - ton: Ttnny-ton: "The bitter ere the sweet, The thorns before the rote, Kre spriug time comes with balmy brew, The blast of winter blows. The Friend aid ho had uot noticed tbeui, but he aaw the application. This fable teach es that because a man gets married he l not necessarily wholly bereft of Bu.H Chicago Tribune fable. - An old gentbmau aaked a man in our office the other day how many children he had, by his wife. That old mm kaowi how to ask questions. Glasgow Times.

snouiu lie rcceireii la paymuit or tax ea. The Mct'ullough act of 1879 provided an issue of bonds to refund orortaing in me isce oi me nuprame Court decsafon, that the coupons of me Jicuougn act oon.ls should not bo received for State due. The hone party repudiates one-third of the acknowledged and legal debt, with interest, bringing the sum repudiated up to nearly SN.yOO.OOO. This is psdialiou and nuDification both. The bondholders did lot, of course, give ,i . , , ,, -i, . i- their consent to the Mahone repudis-; , ,f ' -.. , Holders of natioaal bsuk stock are not in all cases aivaro of the fact that they arc rcjponaiblqfor the amount of I their holding. Iff. person holds a tharo valued at $100 par be is respon- sibleforan additional $100 in the event of the bank'a failure from any pause. If atockhoIJera would think of this when they ars. electing direc directors, - tors, directors, they would certainly exercise a greater circumspection, and fewer fig figureheads - ureheads figureheads would be clminally placed in charge of millions.r-tPhlladelphla A 8KVEN-VBAtt-OU loy at Bergeu Point, X. J., thus describes his dan danger - ger danger and his escape last Saturday; "I was a-tumminatoss the .track, when I seen the ingin a-tummi. I kuowed I couldn't git atoss quick enough, so I started to Ida. I lunncd up the tack a little way and tumble. I heard the ingin a-tummin, and I shut my, eves, and nut mv face clos acin the ground, and it went over .jme, and I got up and tunned down the bank." Guitcau'a case is not without prece precedents. - dents. precedents. A Uoston paper kcalla the story of a man down in Maine who pleaded guilty to a charge of murder, i but claimed that bo acted ou d Ivine inspiration. In that case, hjwever, the culprit said that he deserved aud expected to be hauged. His case was called up regularly for senteiw at every session of the court for twenty years, and as regularly coutiuued. The man finally died in jail. . i a aa a i m . In England there are five huadred packs of hounds, numbering about eighty each, or forty thousand in all. There are about one huudrsad and fifteen thousand hunting horses, and the yearly cost of the hunting ostab. lithmentt is estimated at more than $35,000,000. And England is ot much larger'than an American pottto patch either. 1 a - a .i . I A Chicago naturalist stated in Us lecture that a black bear could hiir seven times as hard as a man, and the j next time a mcuagarie visited that town, every girl in the crowd mad! eyeaand waved hir hankerchief at tho black bear, and paid him ao much attention that he got confused ana) blushed. . . i , , .i The bashful young man who asked a lady at a concert if "be could see her home," was much surprised to hear her reply, "that he could go see it if he wanted to, but she didn t think her father wanted to tell;" aud then the coolly walked oft with the roan of her choice. A truthful editor. Says au ex change: "So much space is to-day given to editorial matter that a large amount of interesting reading ia crowded out." The editor is frank, at all events, aud should be honored accordingly,

urn i sees vcro i can mate .o..ie money. I buys a lot of de overcoats anu uai ue.n uye.. p.aca, unu iiens get dem made into bants. I calls de I bants Irish dree ply- Tool und sells dem for nine dollars a Imir. Shust den Levi Cohen says, "Hush, I dinks I bear someding." Ve lisdens und hears a moan, und it comes from vere de corpse vas, und at do same dime an owl on de bouse hoots a gouple of hoots. I don't tay nodiog, und no von taya noding, but I fecit dot an ice house vat on my psck. Den ve bears anoder moan und some knocks on de dable over veao de corpse vas. ICvl Cohen dry to say someding but he couldn't sbeak, und de owl hoots some more. My gracious, Herman, veu I hears de moan agaiu I says, Toys, I dinks dere vas some one at de gate calling me, I vill go und tee vat dey vanls.' It vaa so dark you don't can feel vere your uote vas, und I shust put my head down und knock knocked - ed knocked a hole trow de bicket fence better aa a goat Ven I got on de ouUi.le uf de yard all de poya dink dey hear some one call dem too und More you can vink your eyo dey kuocks down four banels of de fence, und Jacob Heidiogsfelder runs und falls in a gully vat vas more den dwendy feet deep. Vat you dink, Herman, it vaa dot made do poya ao sgaredf "I don't know, Milder lloOen lloOen-stein," - stein," lloOen-stein," replied the clerk, deeply in interested - terested interested in the story. "Veil, it vaa noding but n dog dat vaa sleeping under do ilable,und he vat hitting de floor mit his dail und growling at de fleas vot keep him avake." New Orleans Times. a a' Kentucky, to use the languago of lloila Uyan, "Never bad nnthin but bad luck, aud never 'tqect to have nutbln but bad luck." At leait 'tliii ia the conviction forced upon her peo. since the election of that hotchpotch of faint-hearteduen, Luke P. lllack- burn, as governor of the State. His abuae of the pardoning power hat serv ed in a great measure to thoroughly disgust the pjoplo with him, and the law-abiding citixsn will hail with joy the day. when auother governor shall take bis teat, ilia course in this mat matter - ter matter has been nothing but wrong from the very start, and the longer he holds the office tho norso it becomes. -Hartford Herald. Au investigation ot great impor importance - tance importance has Just Ixou completed at Furir. It waa a scientific inquiry into the chemical composition of the air above, the grouud of great cemeteries. Th'w way found to be essentially the same aa that over arable lands generally; and all the resulta of the investigation indicate that there is no foundation for the popular impression thatexteu sive burial place evercise a noxious inllueuce over tho region in uhich they are situated. Itather n, novel talo took pluco on the publto square Thursday, from the Court house door. Constable It F. Christian levied on $10 SO, in cash, in the hands of Smiley Perry, the property of another (icrsou. Several bidders gathered about tho auctioneer, and the money waa started at S10. In a few minutes it went up (o $10,00 and was knocked off. iiutsellvllle I Herald Enterprise.

heard of President Garfield's dealh. We cannot iuiagiue Arthur's emotion without thinking of that old story of the man handing a telegraph clerk the 'fullowing telegram: lloscoe I an- nounce with grief that our friend is dead. Coine quickly to read will, I I believe we are the heirs. Tl clerk tread ovtr the telegram and said: There are two words more thau you have paid fur. Well, then, strike out "with grief,"aaul Arthur. Tex Texas - as Texas Siftings. a In soma part of the Maryland pen peninsula - insula peninsula the following i believed to be a sure cure or chills and fevers: A live spider it caught and placed in a thim ble and a cloth tied over securely to keep it confined. The thimble is sus pended around the neck ot the fllict ed person until the spider dies, which not only cures, but prevent the chills, It will doubtless tickle the spider to learn that he is worth anything) to anybody. A novel of Caps Cod life was read in manuicrpt by Wiliams ACo., Bos Boston - ton Boston publishers, aud approved. They accordingly published it, and the first edition of 1,000 copies was ao quickly sold that a tecond was nurried out. men came teren uuei suns lunmi aggregate ot $30,000. The uuvelist hsd uot only introduced real persons iua roost uncompli.iientary fashiou, but had giveu their full names. - a a Women were employed and com commended - mended commended aa typo setters aa early a148l. The first notable female printer was Charlotte Guillard, who was in buis buis-nesa - nesa buis-nesa for fifty years iu the city of Par Par-it. - it. Par-it. This pioneer of femiuine follow followers - ers followers of Gut tenberg was celebrated for the correctness ot the works issued from ber press. She Grit e ttird th e typographic ranks in lfiOC. ' ' Ir wTwork upon marble,, it wilt perish; if we work upon brats, time will elTtca it; if we roar temple, they will crumble into dust; but if we work unon immortal minds, if e imbue them wit h principles, with the juit tear of God and love of our fellow men, wo engrave on those tablets omethlug whitch will brighten to all eternity. My mother" said the late Dr. Ilol- laud, "waa so deficient aud sensitive that she was always ill at ease in the presence of strngrs, aud I could not tear to see strange bauds lifiiug her ? - i n-L .. L.. l. yoruoui iraine. inn w woy no aud his brother bore the loved firm l tin hearse, and at the grave tun Urly lsil her at rest with their own hands, Over 2,000 nbintweri killts by ont msu In a Ktutunky Mo-t rrceut rrceut-ly. - ly. rrceut-ly. Every brauch of a cedar thicket tixty arcet in extent lit iu rei brent ed lodicer. and, aUhidjti the tlaughter by huuters.whu um a Uuteru aud, club, it terrific, their iiumbtit do not seem to dacwase.

If any one wiihea to grow llnhy, a pint (.1 milk taken on leliilig at night will on coter the cfwnletl bones. Although we seb a gol ' many Achy persons nowadays, there I are a great many lean and lank i.iie ire and provoke the scandal of the "clipper builcCm the contciouinesi of state to be nourished by solid fl. Ii ia a mistake to scrimp the milk pitch- 1 p T.ti. m . i1k ant Itiiw less meat, ijuk q your iiiijxinap; ! have larae tixeil, welt-filied milk in'tch era on the table each meal, nu I you , MrVfl, ou tllB 0UM (jllIlnii,lee w , Mean.for.i x years. , I w .i.,.,. ,. ,n1ni.J i ,ir(t ,fgi. I Ve seeu the ablest Uyers Br ue ,ier UKt rr ,u. ,i,y L .,,, Ur ,,,t ,01ne ,ur ruUi day tune

000,000 or the old debts should Dot plumpnesiln a rival. In cue of lev lev-bo - bo lev-bo received for taxes or other dues to er and auiun.tr complaint, milk ia the State. Under this act tMOO.OOO now given wills excellent letulir. new bonds were issued. The Virgin The idea that milk is fereriuli has ex. ia Court of Appeals decided that the! plodod, and it is nw the phjsicta-i, coupons "should lie received in pay- great reliance in bringiog through ty lueut of all taxes, debt and demands ' phoid patients, or llioae in l'o low a

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