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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-25
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hands OF ignoraut aud corrupt officials,
who, with one CT two exceptions, have
plundered the public treasury and set
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DeutscocF 1tfuaer-BMads 8nll,
The Deutscher Bruder- -Bund will give
IFS fifth annual ball at Cochran hall. to-
morrow-night, and are making ar
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W. Il. HTLTCHELL5S SCHOOL.
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BAR IRON AND STEEL /

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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Looking for Himself.

The ludicrous spectacle of man look
ing for himself and suffering the keenest
chagrin at failing to find himself was
exhibited on the Union Pacific Railroad
not long ago. An Eastern-bou emf
grant train stopped at Rock Creek Sta
ton for breakfast. One emigrant strayed
away, and the first section of the train
started without him. He reached the
second on time and managed to get
away His friends in the first section
of the train missed him and were seized
with a dread that he had been killed.
The conductor telegraphed to the second
section to look for him and bring him or
his body to Laramie. The passengers
turned out readily TO aid in the search
Foremost among them and displaying .
terrible anxiety was the man for whom
they were looking. He hunted for the
missing emigrant with zeal which could
only be accounted for by the fact-un.
known to him-that he was looking for
himself During the whole day and fol
lowing night the search was continued,
the unconscious cause of it suffering
deeply to think that he had been lost
When he reached Laramie the idea never
occurred to his friends, and the railroad
employees might still be looking for the
missing emigrant, when one bright indi-
vidual startled the crowd with the re-
mark that our hero had been looking for
and lad failed to find himself.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Comforting Sentence.

Zone o them fellers, +" remarked Bijah,
as he handed out Tom Ludington, q
young man charged with vagrancy.
so you haven't anything to do, chr"
asked the Court
Nothing" mournfully answered the
prisoner.
"Out of work--no home and your cash
SO short that you couldn't get into a
woman's rights convention, eh?" con-
tinued His Honor.
you've struck it, pardner," answered
the prisoner with smile.
Eyes, and now I'll strike you, Mr..
Ludington. I'm down on loafers and
vags, and Pm going to boost you for a
sixty if it tears the desk down. You'll
have something to do up there beside sit
ting on box in an alley and whistling
Come, Love, Come And when day
fades into night, and the remainder of
the world retires to rest, you'll have a
bed and some covering, They'll hire
some one to hoe that dirt off of you, cut
your hair, dig out your nails, and when
you come out ysu will be so disguised
that your own mother will think you are
some English Duke, over here to hunt
ducks and buy gas stock"
The prisoner said he was willing to go
up, and if the institution pleased him as
well as he thought it would he might
come back for a longer sentence.-De-
tr0St Free Press.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05

" IND he don't haf anydings about some
fun, ehs" inquired the tailor, as the book
was held out to him.
My friend, must / again inform you
that this is not an ephemeral work-not
collection of nauseous trash, but rare,
deep work on philosophy. Here, see the
name of the author. That name alone,
sir, should be proof enough to your
mind that the work cannot be surpassed
for profundity of thought. Why, sir,
Gerrit Smith testifies to the greatness of
this volume!n
9 not knows Mr. Schmidt make no
clothes NIT him." returned the tailor in a
doubling voice.
Then you will let me leave your
place without having secured your name
to this volumel ! cannot believe it!
Behold what research Turn these
leaves and see these gems of richest
thought Ah!if we only had such minds
and could WELD such penl But we can
read, and in measure we can be like
him. Every family should have this no.
BILE work. Let me put your name down
the book is only twelve dollars"
"Zwelve dollar for der pookl Twelve
dollar und he has noddir4gs about der
war, and no fun in him, or say nod
dings how to CLEAN gloztl What you
take me for, mister? Go right away NIT
dat book, or l call der police and haf you
locked up pooty quickr-Detrott Free
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
At Yesuvius.

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle of the crater
of Vesuvius, saws: ave all stuffed our
handkerchiefs into our mouths, held our
noses and stepped up on to the narrow
path that is trodden on the very rim OF
the cone. On one side was yawning
chasm so filled with vapors that ! saw
nothing; on the other was the precip-
itous slope of the mountain, down which
it was easy to cast ones self and slide
for two or three hundred feet without
much effort. In few moments we had
passed the fiery or smoky ordeal, and,
coming around the windward side of the
cone we breathed once more the deli
cious air of the morning. We could now
approach the crater with ease and look
far down into its hideous-nay, its beau
tiful-depths. 1t is very beautiful. The
inner walls are thickly coated with sui
phur, and Pompeiian fresco is not more
brilliant or harmonious than the rich
and splendid greens and reds and vel
lows that there combine to decorate this
temple of the furics. Sudden pufis of
wind sometimes waited the great clouds
that were continually ascending from the
pit high over our heads, and, the sun
charging the sulphurous steams with
light, a CHASTITY gloom was thrown for a
moment over everything. We heard the
commotion of the elements beneath us /;
1t was as though the pit were half filled
with fat, frying and sizzling; the air was
heavily charged with sulphurous gases {;
we felt the heat of the very ground we
stood on through the soles Of our boots (;
in many places we could not touch our
hand to the rocks without blistering it,.
Close by was hole in the side, a jutting
point of lava, into which one of the
guides introduced, without the aid Of his
staff, large roll of paper, which no
sooner touched the spot than it burst into
flame the end of his stick ignited in a
few seconds, yet no flames issued from
the fiery furnace. The boy brought me
a small bit Of lava, at which lighted my
cigar"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Leprosy in Canada.

tx the Arcadian village of TracadIe,
aar the mouth of the Miramichi River,
.a,-s the Toronto Globe, there have been
.aTers for the last eighty or ninety years
4 hosnital for their benefit is supported
hy the local government A CORE
sgordent of the Church Journal, who has
ssacantly made a visit to the establish
rcent saws the lazarett0, though well kept
% far as il goes, is much too small to
s,rnish the requisite accommodation
THE sexes are kept apart, and everything
- done for the comfort of the unfor-
inmates that is possible with the means
,,iaced at the disposal of those who
manage the institution.
The leprosy from which they suffer is
e,enbantidsis gr0c07uDa, so called from its
.apdency to make the limbs swell to
aIenbantine proportions. The disease is
understood to have been brought there
hv French vessel, which, on its return
yovape from Smyrna, touched at the
island of Mitylene, and took in a large
Quantity of clothing and other stores,
and on her way to Beanbaris Island-a
French military port-she was wrecked
near the mouth of the Miramichi. The
necple in the neighborhood played the
hart of wreckers, and helped themselves
Ia the clothes cast ashore, which, it is
s,pnosed, were tainted with leprosy, the
consequence of which was that the dis
ease soon broke out among them. An
other account is, that the vessel in ques-
t;on brought two lepers from st. Maloes,
and that every leper known in Tracadie
descended from one or the other of these
men.
The prevailing opinion there is that
the disease is not contagious, but simply
hereditary. The people have no dread
of it, and persons engaged about the
lepers for years never contract the dis
ease. Not only do the lepers marry
among themselves, but such is the feel
ing among the poor French in Tracadie
that there is no repugnance in many
cases among perfectly healthy people to
taking lepers for husbands or wives.
The faint generally manifests itself in
every alternate generation. In this way
the disease has become permanently
seated in the locality, while the general
poverty and not very clearly habits of
the French population tend to extend
and intensity it.
1t shows itself in the form of small
white spots on the breast; then the face
assumes puffy appearance, and there is
much pain, languor and drowsiness.
The fingers become crooked, the neck
swells, the limbs show all the symptoms
of dropsy, the nails fall off, and at last
the throat and lungs are attacked, and
the sufferer dies, mere mass of loath-
some disease. Its duration varies from
FIVE to twenty years, according to the
strength of constitution.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Bravery Rewarded.

A BRUSSELS correspondent of the Lon
don Times describes as follows the dis
tribution of State rewards of "acts of
courage, devotion and humanitv:" "The
first to be honored was a little fellow
twelve years of age, whose achievement
brought tears into the eyes of the Queen
and Princess. 1t seemed, from the &C
count read to the audience, that three
children, of whom the boy was the eldest,
were playing in the room by themselves
when the little sister pulled over paraffine
lamp and set herself on fire. The brave
little fellow, fearless of burns, did the
best he could to extinguish the flames,
and was so horribly burnt himself that
he was three months ill and will bear the
marks of his achievement to the grave.
The sister died; but the boys act was
recognized by his being awarded the
medal of the first class-a large gold
medal surmounted with the royal crown,
The second was boy who rescued a
child from the broken ice in canal last
winter, and the gold medal was also given
to this little hero. The third was nun,
who had rescued, at the risk of her life,
an infant from burning house. After
the boys and the nun came two members
of the Chamber of Representatiyes-M.
d'Andrimont, the Deputy of Liege. and
the Comte de Borchgrave dAltena,
Deputy of TonGes and BurgomasJer
of Marlinne. M. d'Andrimont saved
the lives of two bathers on two different
occasions. The Comte exposed his life
on two occasions in preventing pubic
calamities at two fires. The two Depu-
ties were rewarded, amid the cheers of
the assemblage, by the Civic Cross of the
second class. The two members of the
Belgian Parliament were followed by
two workmen, one of whom, a slater,
Wagemans, had rushed into house to
rescue a sick woman and was assisted by
a printer named Dacos. Both men were
much burnt, and the slater had the first
class medal awarded, the other the sec
ond. Then came Col Poiters, of the
Garde Civique of Molembeck st. Jean,
who plunged into the water in his
clothes to save man who had fallen
into a canal The Colonel was awarded
the first-class medal. Among the other
heroes in civil life decorated for saving
life were student aged sixteen, who
received the firstclass medal for saving
man from drowning; the Abbot Tho
man, of Ostend, who received the same
for a like act of devotion; a reIsgteuse
named Justine Morelle, for saving a
child carried away by a current; and
officers and pilots of Antwerp were re-.
warded, their acts of devotion being In
connection with the fire of the paratfine-
loaded American ship Westmoreland.
On one of the brave fellows being called
it was announced that he had met his
death by drowning in the River Scheldt:
There were many other presentations OF
like character.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Truth Stranger Than Fiction.

Is 1T or is it not for the interest OF
writer's of romance to have the reading
public convinced that truth is stranger
than fiction? AS justification OF their
seeming vagaries and exaggerations per-
haps it is; but as its ultimate tendency
would be to spoil the market for hctlon
and create an exclusive demand Tor
plain fact, perhaps it is not. Such a
contamination would compel all writers
who have been earning their bread by
spinning yarns out of their inner con-
seriousness to turn themselves into anna,
teur vagabonds and casuals, etc, TO prowi
around after abnormal and hideous facts,
They would be besieging their political
friends to get them places on the ponce
force; they would be candidates for cor
oner; they would open private morgues
and lunatic asylums; they would go OUT
to service as mattresses and CHAMBER
maids, carrying tablets in their pockets |;
they would make believe bankrupt 10
study the effect on their friends, ana note
down the facts; they would get places as
captains of steamboats,, Landlords Oh
hotels and pastors of churches for inc
sole purpose of viewing life at some un-
usual advantage or society In some
special phase, and thus put themselves
in training for startling achievements IN
the line of truth.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
Educated Oysters.

BEFORE the railroad days our oyster
growers used early in the fall to canvass
the villages on the Hudson River for
orders, to be filled just before the river
should be closed with ice. The meaning
of this is that these men committed
themselves to supply oysters in the she'll,
with the guarantee that the biyalves thus
supplied should not die before their time
came. The oysters were actually kept
alive during the greater part OF the long
winter. The fat bivalyes were handled
with some care, and were spread on the
cellar floor, the round or lower side
down so as not TO allow the liquor TO
escape. That such life required a
great change of capacity or habit in the
bivalve is evident; and 1t needed train.
ing. yes, an education, ere the oyster at
tanned such ability. And this WAS the
way it was done: Beginning early In the
fall the cultiyator took up the Fat
biyalves from their bed where he had
planted them and laid them little high
er UP on the shore, so that for short
time each day they were exposed out OF
the water. After few DAYS OF this ex-
posure by the retrcating tide they were
moved little higher still on the shore
line, which gave them little longer ex-
posure TO the air at each low tide. And
this process was continued, each move
resulting in longer exposure. And with
what results? Two very curious ones
inurement to exposure, and the incula-
ton of provident habit of making
preparation for the same. What! proyi-
dence in an oyster? Yes, when he's ed
ucated. When accustomed to this treat
ment, ere the tide retires the oyster
takes good full drink and retains the
same until the tide returns. Once,
while waiting for the stage at a country
hosiery, we overheard the following be-
tween two rustic practitioners at the bar :
Come, Swill, let's take drink
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05

Visitors to the Mechanics Exhibition
have looked in the various departments
In vain for specimens of the following
pieces of workmanship, with which
many are familiar;
Specimens of Political Slate;" curl
Gus article in mosaic, exceedingly brittle.
IAN Iron Will, f" contributed by man
of the right metal.
A specimen of the Face" used to "set
like flint against" various objects
cheek remarkably hard.
"An Instrument Of Niolence;" after
the model of the bass drum.
Two thousand two hundred pounds
soap-the original washington OF Amer
lea.
The Palm that is "borne away" a
handy article.
Tape measures for taking the Height
of Absurdity," the Breadth Of Humor,"
and Depth Of Infamy."
Food for Reflection" OF course the
visitor need not in this case expect too
cereal food.
"a Bar of Progress" Not permitted
to be exhibited by the State Constables.
"The Glass of Fashion"-excluded on
account Of disputes as TO whether 1t was
a looking. glass, champagne glass or an
eye-glass. Spicer, at hearing before
the committee, proved that nigh glass
was also near glass.
The " Weight Of Responsibility"--too
heavy for exhibition to the public and
too familiar TO most visitors.
The Mantle of Charity"-almost i'm
possible TO obtain in these exacting days
Box used for =" boxing the compass"
with celebrated pugilist to explain the
points and show when blow may be ex-
pected at sea.
San Unerring Shaft" All of our
steam-engine builders stand ready to
contribute one or a dozen of these.
"a Piece of Somebody's Mind" This
is given so freely that the committee had
more of ii than they knew what to do
with.
!" Yarns" spun by sailors at sea when
stories are called for; tougher than can
be produced at the regular factories on
shore.
"The Force of Circumstances" War
ranted TO drive any machinery in exist
ence.-B Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05

swell, / don't know. Amt dry myself.
Hows'ever, guess will take drink for
fear l might get dry" With better
philosophy on their side, these educated
oysters twice in every twenty -four hours
took their precautionary drink. The
French method of oyster training is much
more laborious. The adult bivalves are
carefully spread out IN the water and
periodical lessons are given to each one
individually. Each oyster on this occa-
sion receives tap, not with ferule, but
with small iron instrument. This
causes the bivalve to close tightly.
Finally the last day comes with its last
premonitory tap. Its education thus
finished it takes passage with Ms fellow
graduates for Paris. As a result of its
education it knows how to- keep it's
mouth shut when it enters society,"
Professor Lockwood, in Popsslv Science
NOnfhlD
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05
The Solemn Book Agent.

He was tall and solemn and digniied.
One would have thought him a Roman
Senator on his way to make speech on
finance, but he wasn't-singularly enough
he wasn't. He was book agent. He wore
a linen buster and his brow was furrowed
with care-lines as if he had to tumble
out of bed every other night Of his life
to dose sick child He called into a
tailor shop on Randolph street, removed
his hat, took his "Lives of Eminent
Philosophers" from its cambria bag, and
approached the Nilor with: I'D like
to have you look at this rare work"
II hat no time" replied the tailor.
at is a work which every thinking
man should delight to peruse," continued
the agent.
"ZO?" said the tailor.
"Yes, il is work on which a great
deal of deep thought has been expended,
and it is pronounced by such men as
Wendell Phillips to be work without a
rival in modern literature"
Makes anybody laugh when he ices
it?" asked the tailor.
"No, my friend, this Is deep, pro.
found work, as have already said. IL
deals with such characters as Theocritus,
Socrates, Plato and Ralph Waldo Elmer.
SON If you desire work on which the
most eminent author of the day has
spent years of study and research. you
can find nothing to compare with this. ;"
"Does it speak about how to CLEAN
glozey" anxiously asked the man OF the
goose.
My friend, this no receipt book, but
an eminent work on philosophy, as ]
have told you. Years were consumed in
preparing this volume for the press, and
none but the clearest mind could have
grasped the subjects herein discussed.
If you desire food for deep meditation
you have it here"
Does dis pook say sumding about
der Prussian war;" asked the tailor, as
he threaded his needle.
my friend, this is not an everyday
book, but work on philosopy-a work
which will soon be in the hands OF every
profound thinker in the country. what
is the art of philosophy? This book tells
you. Who were and are our philoso-
phersg Turn to these pages for reply.
As said before, l don't see how you
can do without it,"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-05

These remarks have been suggested by
several incidents that have lately come
to our knowledge which we know to be
true, and which would be confidently
pronounced mere exaggeration and carl
cature if set forth in a novel.
A boy recently called at the door OF
most respectable lady in this city in
comfortable circumstances with pack
age on which was charge of four dol
lars and ninety-nine cents. The lady
produced five dollar bill, but the boy did
not have the cent for change. She then
sent messenger with the bill to the top
story of the house to get it changed, but
unsuccessfully. She then sent to the
end of the house, still unsuccessfully.
Finally she called her husband and babe
him put on his hat and 60 out and get
the bill changed, which he did.
There are some old people living in the
interior of New Jersey-two sisters and
brother-who practice an economy not
recorded of any of the famous misers.
They have a comfortable house and are
especially rich in bedclothes made by
the hands of the sisters and accumulated
through many years. But they habitu
ally sit up and sleep in their chairs so as
not to wear out the bedding.
A rich man, Of more than ordinary in
telligence, who had made his fortune by
lifelong industry, had contracted withal
a habit of haggling at prices. He met
with some losses and determined upon
suicide. Going to buy the pistol with
which an hour later he ended his life, he
made determined effort to beat down"
its price; and probably the last sensation
that passed through his brain before it
was scattered by the bullet was pang
that he had obtained no discount on the
instrument of acknowledgement
Journal.