Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

How to get ii start in the world-neyer
get short.
"A phib is lie painted in water-colors.
Josh Billings.
To many the path of life is all tun-
nels. This Is what makes il such bore.
Peaches are 80 plenty in the East that
they don't arrest anyone for stealing them.
The grasshoppers have been succeeded
by rabbits as the vegetable destroyer in
Nevada.
Its poor day when old Virginia
doesn't ship 80, 600 watermelons TO hungry
Northerners.
The oyster season is upon us in all its
savagery, and America expects every man
to do his duty.
The moral of the failure of the Cali
fornia Bank seems To be: Don't try 10
spread yourself over too many eggs.
From the way things look in the
financial world, mush.and-milk" par.
ties will be about the thing next winter
The price of tin is lower now than for
many years past, and fyou want dinner.
horn go and buy II before the reaction
sets in.
The colored men at Norfolk, Va, are
going into the business of raising singing
birds for shipment TO the Eastern and
Middle States.
Old daddy-long-legs has a mission.
He has been observed to devour the Larvae
of the terrible potato-beetle, and there are
prayers for his health.
There are but few people who survive
to tell how il feels To be hung, and history
la,,f 1n hau "a laltPapV
about abiding to the subject.
"A husband in Massachusetts can't
make up his mind on the currency ques-
ton, and so he refuses TO allow his wife
any pin-money until decision can be ar
rived al
"A widow lady living near Goldridge,
Randolph County, Ala, found, II few days
ago, on her farm, a nugget Of gold weigh.
ing two and a half pounds and worth
about 5000.
What word is that in the English
language the first two letters of which
signify man, the first three woman, the
first four great man, and the whole
great woman Heroine.
AS an Arab clings to his horse, and as
an Indian clings to the legends Of bis
fathers, so do deaf men cling 10 the habit
Of walking on railroad tracks. The loco
motive Trims one out to find two more on
ahead.
in New Jersey the other day a loco.
motive ran into a train and killed two
men and destroyed 100 bushels ofpeaches.
There was a great deal of sadness ex.
pressed--over the loss of so many nice
peaches.
Yes, IL Is easy enough to initiate Josh
Billings: A man liz like hen bi natur in
doud with jest about so mulch "spred."
Tryin' tn bach out tn meny egs at onst is
allus shure tn end oft in a onplezent
smash
"A few days ago Norwich Conn
man bought chest of tea In Providence
and, on opening il, found a stone inside
weighing nearly eleven pounds. He re-
marked that the weighs Of Providence are
mysterious.
The census-takers Of Winchenaon,
Va, have come across a woman twenty-five
wears old, married at twelve. who has had
ten children, the oldest being now thir
teen years old Her husbands age Is
thirty-nine.
The fire burns, the water browns, the
air consumes, the earth buries And per-
haps it would be well for our race IL the
punishment Of our crimes against the
laws of men were as inevitable as the
punishment OF crimes against the laws Of
nature.
There Is one thing that the poorest
peasant Of all Prussia can do which the
proud and powerful Bismarck cannot--hc
can sleep. This IL thing outside the au-
thority of the great Prince, Who'll il com
PEELED, from wakefulness and fear Of apo
plexy, 10 founder around in straw bed
like sick horse.