Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-10
Miscellaneous.

The Digger Indian has risen in
everybody's estimation. He is the gen.
| tleman who eats the grasshopper.
| Glass bottles were first made in En-
| gland in 1853. The art of making glass
| bottles and drinking glasses was known
to the Romans in the year 10 A. ID.
A Milwaukee dry goods clerk has
| struck for ten hours sleep. He read that
| a man who does brain work requires
| more sleep than one who performs sim
ply physical labor.
-Ruffs for the neck are constantly
| being increased in size. 1t is now the
custom to run wire in the rufus for the
neck, and distend it far back from the
neck, but high up in the vicinity OF the
| ears.
When one is in the act of tipping his
hat to lady whom he supposes is an
! acquaintance, 1t requires some tact to
| make believe that he is only scratching
his head as he discovers the lady is a
| stranger.
-" Do you know our good pastors
chief end and aim?" asked New York
| Sunday-school teacher of her favoritc
pupil YES" replied the sagacious
child I" to get his sermons printed in the
daily papers"
A Pennsylvania priest stopped a
prize-fight by getting possession OF the
stake money, which had been deposited
with a woman. He told the bruisers to
| go ahead, but as there was no money to
be gained they lost their appetite for a
mill"
1t is now thirty years since the first
telegraph wire was established, and yet
two women will stand and "jaw" each
other from opposite sides OF fence the
entire morning without even thinking OF
the marvellous progress of science.
| Everybody will have feeling of
| respect for the Rhode Island girl who,
being about to graduate at seminary
recently, refused to accept the appoint
ment Of valedictorian because she could
not stand the expense of such dress
as she would be expected to wear.
! 1t is rumored that the fall season
| will see women apparently clad in coats
| of mail, fine network covering corsage
| and overskirt, heavy with closely
wrought steel beads; and when, in addi-
ton to this, the fronts of hats are orna-
| mented in similar manner helmet-wise,
the effect can be imagined.
The public will be shocked to hear
| that Weston is still alive and is to ex-
| hibit the speed and endurance of his tai
ented legs at the Cayuga County On. "
| fair some time next month. 1t was a
cruel public calamity that Weston's legs
didn't receive professional visit from a
ten-inch shell during the late war
| Courter-Journal
To Remove Grease Spots, Etc.-The
| following may relieve some of the eco
nomical and troubled Marthas of our
times To remove grease spots, fly
specks, etc, from oil cloth and window
shades, rub the soiled spot with clean
wooden rag wet in the water of ammonia !;
| i will remove them without injury to
the color or texture.
| Two years ago there was not a Pres
byterian presbytery in the State Of Ne
braska; now there are three, and by an
| act of the late General Assembly these
presbyteries have been organized into
the Synod of Nebraska. During this
| time the churches and ministers have
| just about doubled in the State. Rev
| Mr. Robinson writes that within two
years he has organized about twenty
| churches, most of them giving promise
of growth into permanent charges.
| The Indians who have settled on
farms in Marquette County, Mich, still
cling to their-old style of dress and man
ner of living Although there are good
buildings on their farms they have put
up tents, in which they cook, eat, sleep
and live generally, and while few Of
the male portion don "store clothes"
when they leave home, on the farm the
old-style leggings and blankets consti-
tute their raiment. The buildings are
only used for play-houses by the
papooses, or to store old traps in.
1T is not perhaps generally known
that Maryland watermelons are, by prod
uce dealers, considered the best in the
country, and that there are more melons
in Anne Arundel County alone than in
any other county in the United States,
This year there are over $500 acres
planted in that county, and it is esti
mated that an acre of ground will pro-
duce /, 900 good marketable melons, and
if this is the case Anne Arundel County
will alone produce $4,000 melons.
"A comparative summary of the stats
tics of the Presbyterian Church for five
years, says the Independent shows the
following results (the figures follow the
order of the dates): Ministers, 4,238, A, 346,
A, AL, 1854, 1857. Churches, 4,526, 4,616,
| 4,otO, 4,CUS, 4,b4O commandments, f4O,-
561, 455,37S, 46s, 164, 472,023, 495, 1894.
Contributions, IS, 440, 121, So, 097, 7O6, &c.
0S6, 526, 50, 622, 030, 80, 100, 792. In every
thing except contributions there has been
a steady gain, and the financial stringency
of the last two years explains the falling
off in this particular.
DIR. Neale, of Boston, tells this anec-
dote of DR.. Stillman, his distinguished
predecessor of Revolutionary times:
One Sunday morning he preached, as he
thought, poor sermon. 1t is very like
ly that it was so, for ministers sometimes
do such things, but they have different
ways of meeting the humiliation Some
| put on bold face and pretend to care
nothing about it, some look dignified, as
if they had said something solemn and
deep, others comfort themselves with the
thought that they will do better next
time; but DIR. Stillman was SO mortified
with his failure that he could not eat his
| dinner and was sick in bed. "Jephthah,"
he family said, i shall not be able to
preach this afternoon. You must see the
deacons and ask them to get some other
minister to supply my pulpit--Mr Chaun-