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

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No creditors need apply. The Bank
OF California has suspended payment
The Prince Of Wales Is nos coming
10 our Centennial, and yet we must not
grieve.
-" Ah!'' says the farmer, wiping the per
| spiration from his brow, this u the
weather for corn.
Edmond About calls France sick
| soldier Of God needing 70 be cured
through the lapse Of time.
Mr., Armijo. Of Mexico, owns 2,00o,-
90 sheep. Counting them morning
and evening il getting monoionous.
--T,ce says thirteen days Of rain are
coming in October, bat nobody seems 20
have bought umbrellas out OF St Louis.
III has beer ascertained by the anthro
| biologists that. as rule, women nowadays
| become gray earlier than men. Why - il !:
Herzegovina, the scene OF the present
revolt against the Turks, means the puchy,
| from the German Herzog, and hence 1t Is
| commonly known as " the Herzegovina"
Hersek Is the name Of the country.
The tenacity Of life on the part Of
Anthony IL Leayenworth and Carruth
| Vineland has taught people one thing
the useIesness Of attacking editors with
pistols. Nothing but artillery should be
used In bombarding their heads.
An epraged woman with knife in
her hand pursued her lover, Of whom she
was Jealous. through the Paris streets
People ieered al his flight, and, ashamed,
! he turned and waited for her 10 come up,
| when she plunged the knife in his throat
| and he died In three minutes.
| A "medium" told Fayette Greeley,
Of Auburn, N. Y, that he would die in
August, 1875. The fellow increased the
/ insurance ON his life 10 $4,000. The
| other day he accidentally swallowed a dose
of nitric acid and died in an hour. His
heirs should remember the medium.
1T Is stated that the exclusive privilege
oi making and sellingall the Photographic
pictures Of articles exhibited, views and
portraits at the great International Exhibi.
| ton Of 1876 is In the hands OF company
having for it, President William hoffman,
/ Of Montreal, and Manager John A. Fra
ser, Of Toronto.
The last new Partisan note. paper Is a
| single page OF letter twice the size usually
used for writing notes, and the border Is
exactly like fancy pockethandkerchief,
| having a broad band Of color, and small
dots and devices beyond; the envelopes
match, and the sheet Is folded in a manner
that recalls the rundown collar.
Martin A. Brown, a mineralogist Of
| Mortified, Mass, has bought for 800 a
beryl mine at South Royalston, in that
State, and Is digging for specimens for
Amherst and Yale Colleges. The seantis
about eighteen inches wide, and he has
uncovered IL for five or six rods. Some
very fine specimens have already been
taken out.
The editor of the Elmira Gazette says
ave always did like girl with blue
veil, and we rejoice 10 see that this becom.
ing article Of female gearing is coming
into style again. They are twisted into
the most bewitching shapes, and so tan.
talizingly tied around and about as to
make the wearers more wiasome than
ever II there Is anything nicer than q
pretty girl in blue veil We never found il
out"
The London Times OF Aug. 3 says
that an unfortunate and unprecedented nc.
cident occurred recently at the Geological
Gardens In the Regents Park TO one OF
the elephants The female African ele.
plant, being very hdgety and restless, is
usually tethered by a ring round one of
her fore feet 10 the corner Of her stall
while the elephant house il being cleaned
out In the morning On the day in ques.
ton, about half.pas eight a. m, the keep.
ers were alarmed by this elephant calling
out suddenly, AS II In great pain, and on
running TO the spot found that she had
actually torn off the top of her trunk. II
seems that she had thrust the end Of her
trunk underneath the ring by which her
foot was confined, and then by pulling
against the ring with her foot hurt her
trunk. This caused her TO exert such
force In the attempt to withdraw her
: trunk that the end OF the organ was torn
off in the effort For some time after this
extraordinary event the elephant was In
great pain and very uneasy. She has
now begun TO feed again and seems likely
10 recover the use Of her trunk as the
wound Is not infiamed much and IL
gradually healing over.
"A correspondent writes to Nature of a
strange case Of what he considers heretli.
tary affection among brutes which has
come under his notice. He says: ~ have
reared fine masiifl. He is now three
and half years old While he was a
puppy he and kitten evinced strong
liking for each other. The kitten, when
able TO leave her mother. fixed her resi-
denoc In the dogs kennel, and never
seemed happy when away from her large
friend. She ate her breakfast out of the
dogs bowl and slept in his kennel with
his paws around her. She used to catch
mice and young rats and carry them 10
him, and seemed pleased when he accept
cd friendships offering. One morning
observed the Cat preparing bed with
straw in the corner of the kennel--an or
binary wooden one, four feet by two and
a half feet, thought she intended
making the kennel her nursery, and Cato
tthe dog) her head nurse. Such proved
10 be the case She had five kittens, and
there they lay for some time. Thcmothe
frequently went away Tor hours, leaving
the dog 10 look after ner family many
times stopped down to examine them, and
Cato stood by my side, very proud OF his
charge. The poor cut came 20 an untime-
ly end eighteen months ago, but the only
| surviving kitten OF tie five named above
| Is as fond Of the dog as her mother was.
She brings mice, young rats and rabbits,
and lays them down before Cato and looks
beseechingly till he takes them. She con.
| stantly plays with him and gets on her