Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-20
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Mr.. Stephen Johnson on Third creek, has
raised some very fine potatoes. We think
they are the equal of any we have seen
this season. .I ...
The young lady who took pair of shoes
into a shoe shop on Prince street the other
day to have them repaired, was taken
back considerably when the shoemaker
pulled out a pair of stockings and asked
which she wished NEEDED, the shoes or
stockings. ..I.....
The little three year old girl showed
stong development of the prevailing femi-
nine passion, who refused to be taken up
the other day by lady, saying, ooh no!
you will spoil my bustle.n g..r ..
We noticed a man looking over the adj
vertisements of a Memphis paper the other
day at our office in order to select good
boarding house. He expects to visit that
place soon. Yet some men will say adver-
Using don't pay. .....
If You wish to know how many friends
! YOU have, get into office If you wish to
| know how many friends you haven't, get
into trouble.
That country editor who was called out
! of bed one night to receive a subscription
remained up every night for week after
| wards, but the offence was never repeated.
Under the head of "What we know
about farming,N we would say Don't let
| your cattle stray: they wander To the
most mysterious places we once saw a
COW hide in shoemaker's shop.
The order forbidding the sale of water
melons has been made of non-efiect, by
| parties bringing in mixed loads of water
melons and muskmelons, and selling a
very small muskmelon for from % to IS
cents and donating a watermelon of a
size to correspond with the price paid fol
the muskmelOn.
The man that went on \ Clark the
Lat ,f,rht In ra nm "a In i'm
the morning. 1t was the headache.
The market was well supplied yester
day with all kinds of vegetables and fruit
The man who ran down to the depot
yesterday at a $40 speed for fear of being
left, didn't reach the depot more than tif
teen minutes before the train. ..I.. .....
The lady who put her foot on one of the
4" city scavengers u that happened to be ly
ing in her way across the pavement OF
NIabry street, is doing as well as can be ex
pected under the circumstances. There
were no bones broken.
That man who sold those young last yeQ1
roOsters at the market house on Saturday
had better bring in Immediately the
Younger members of that chicken famil y
and sell them ere they die with old age.
The rumor current yesterday, among
the small boys that circus was coming t.
town, grew out of the fact that one of them
mistooll the third page Of "a newspaper he
saw on the street Sunday for circus show
bill. Papers that carry one whole pag,
and more of dead advertisements can soor
be turned into posters. .. ...... .-
The following conversation between two
American citizens ofthe black diamond
I variety, is a heavy hit at circumstantale v
idence and goes to show, too, that every
thipg' I" don't shine that is gold.n a.,
".5ambo whar you git that watch VOL
wared to meeting las Sunday?n I.nI
"How you know had watch?'
Kase, / seed de chain hang out thu
, pocket in 'front.' .- ..... ..... I...I.
"Go way niger. S'pose you see a hal
ter round my neck, you tink dar is hors
|, inside oh me?n f..r.u.Hn. -.r..t.r .. ..