Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-12


Embroidered cloth shoes are in fash
ion.
ALI stuff dresses are made polonaise
style.
Walking skirts do not touch the
ground by three inches.
-Barnum is hunting up the man who
minds his own business.
Scarlet and black is fashionable
combination in bonnets.
1T is not always he who has the most
nose that knows the most
VIcToR HUGO says France cannot yet
get away" with Germany.
Never give anybody piece of your
mind; give him the whole or none.
Love without money is something
like patent-leather boots without sole.
"A lady positively refuses to eat corn
starch lest it should impart stiffness to
her manners.
"A Georgia Judge holds that parent
has no right to lock his daughter up to
keep her from marrying the man of her
choice.
1T was not so few years ago, but
now over 100000 watches year are
made in America. Some of them also
find market in Europe.
We plant and the crop grows; but
we do not harvest it until the end of the
season. Most people look too soon for
the effects of advertising.
Cider sells for So barrel at Brim-
field, Mass, one farmer having sold 100
barrels from his orchard at this rate.
Winter apples sell at $1.25 per barrel,
cider apples for 10 cents and potatoes
for 80 cents per bushel.
"A vein has been discovered in the
main shaft of the Sherman Mine, at
mingled with pure sulphate of silver,
NOT line stage.driver reports that few
nights ago the Hamilton stage was
stopped near Phoebe, New, by three men.
They bound the driver, robbed the mail
and Wells & Fargo's trunk, getting
$4,000. There were no passengers in the
stage.
An Oswego IN. " lady of respect
ability recently asserted her right to
seek her happiness in her own way by
driving horse at the top of his speed
around square several times, throwing
child from the wagon, flourishing re-
volver, etc. When the horse was stopped
she was taken to her home, after striv-
ing hard to use her pistol upon her cap
tors.
Depressed as the times are there
seems to be no reduction in the prices of
such indispensable necessities as opera
tickets, theater seats, livery rigs, bill
iards, silk hats, watch charms, diamond
pins, sleeve buttons, gold-headed canes,
club suprers, caramels, button-hole bou-
auets, baked CLANS, fried-oysters, deviled-
crabs, quail on toast, or even wine and
cigars. Thus are our fortunes nipped by
the tweezer of trade.
Observations regarding the rate of
growth in man have determined the fol-
lowing interesting facts: The most rapid
growth takes place Immediately after
birth, the growth of an infant during the
first year of it's existence being about
eight inches. This ratio of increase
gradually decreases until the age of
three years is reached, at which time the
size attained lis half that which it is to
become when full grown. After five
years the succeeding increase is very
regular till the sixteenth year, being at
the rate for the average man of two
inches year. Beyond sixteen the growth
is feeble, being for the following two
years about six-tenths of an inch year;
while from eighteen to twenty the in
crease in height is seldom over one inch.
At the age of twenty five the growth
ceases save in few exceptional cases.
1t has furthermore been observed that,
in the same race, the mean size is little
larger in cities than in the country a fact
that will be received with doubt by many
who have come to regard the rustic as
the true model man.