Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

struck alsle-lne
aorn in church.
GOV" " Iohn Murray, of Windsor, Me-,
1;rb. little girls, aged thirteen, elev-
D. ten. nine, seven. four, three, and one
The average American youth would
.,.one AN election any day for game
x baseball.
prof n r. Palmer's Musical Insti-
- nunkirk, N. Y, begins July 10,
and holds four weeks.
s 4 mourning widower declares that
hing brings him such affecting men,
no ;as ~ his dear, dead wife as to STUN
he over fiat-iron.
mistake of the types in Boston
- cansed an announcement to read /:
p aaRs; Illinois railroads are in the
,onds of deceivers."
The animalcula in Baltimore's drink
;ng water are so large as to be visible to
.I naked eye. A fastidious citizen
aounted fifteen skipping about in tum-
bier. go. ,lass ~ .bo pos.on
r,r;versity includes two young ladies.
xnne hnt secondhand bookseller would
asre marry one OF 'em.
View York is given to thinking that
...-e can little of merit come out of
mat 4 is pleased to term provincial
VIZ. we, hut some of the country" bands
@,ars;c at the Masonic ceremonies fair
=, :, surnassed the noted bands of the me-
topolis
=, rho has been for some time suffer
- from thefts of hair oil by a number
- Young women, prepared decoction
~ gum arabic and sugar, which he deli
cately tinted and placed on his counters,
and since one girl has used it, and
had TO cut off her hair close to her scalp,
he has not been troubled.
Twelve black fish or grampus were
driven ashore at st. Augustine, Fla, dur
inc heavy gale that prevailed there re-
ns1vtlv They consisted of bulls, cows
and calves. One of the old bulls yielded
ion Gallons of superior Oil and measured
twenty-one feet in length. The grampus
e smaller variety of the whale family.
There is something wholly signifi-
cant writes an American naturalisD in
the CLEAN of the snakes eye-it is look
generally of the most malicious nature.
Eats have the same look when irritated.
A. such times there is ray of vicious
Intelligence in the eyes of both cat and
snake. and that beth of them are ami
mated by deadly purpose is soon per
ceived, should any creature be in their
power.
There is a boy in St. Louis who writes
To Sergeant of Police" Dear Captain
lam sorry to tell you that broke pane
Of glass in a lamp post on Twenty-third
street. between Carr and Wash streets,
on Sunday, April 25. broke it with q
ball, and the policeman ran after me but
he couldn't catch me. So / hope this
twenty-five cents will pay for the glass,
and that you will forgive me, and prom
ise that won't play ball on the streets
any more"
"A new baggage on one OF our
local trains was told to pile up the trunks
in the baggage-car, and be sure to hang
the checks on the outside. The liberal
minded youth piled up the trunks and
then took off the checks, with the leath-
er straps attached, and hung them on the
outside of he car. The baggage-master
at the depot was driven nearly frantic by
the passengers per the OriZaba attempt
to identity their boxes.-LOs An0etes (Cat)
Star.
"A young lady living in the northern
part of Indianapolis has, through little
simple vanity, nearly, if not quite, de-
strsyed her eyesight. A few days ago
she painted her cheeks with the red col
B oring matter Of some cinnamon candy
and went to party. During the even
ing her cheeks became very much swol-
4 len and the poison soon after communi-
Gated itself to her eyes. She became
quite blind, and, though receiving the
best medical attention the city could
afford, there seemed to be little hope
that she would ever regain her eyesight.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer tells of
two families in Stewart County whose
lives were saved by gentleman obey
ing a presentiment he could not resist.
lie had foreboding that storm would
visit that section, and that his house
would be In it's path. He told others of
it, but they only laughed at him, saying
he was frightened from reading and hear
ing the accounts of the late cyclone. He
gave credence to the thought, which
would not go down at the bidding, and
dug hole near the house. He had no
sooner finished it than the storm did
come, and barely had he and his family
sought refuge therein than the tornado
tore his house to pieces. All in the hole
In the ground escaped.
Some time ago Swede came to this
city direct from his native country, but,
from the fact that he knew nothing OF
our language and could not make him.
self understood, his efforts to secure
work were unsuccessful. Finally, as
last resort, he went to Fort Leavenworth
and enlisted in the regular army. One
DAY, shortly after the arrival of the In
dian prisoners here, he strolled around to
The guard-house in which they were con-
nned, and, overhearing some of the con-
versation going on between the Chey-
ennes, was struck with the similarity be-
tween their language and his Cwn. He
entered the cell and began to talk with
several, and found that he could, by
taking TO them in his mother tongue,
make them understand. This fact COM
ing TO the ears Of Gen. Pope, that gen.
tleman has sent on to Washington,
recommending that the Swede be sent to
o. Augustine, Fla, where the Indians
are at present confined, to act as inter
preter-Leaoensoorth (Kan.) Times.
Rudolph Bourman, young Swiss,
arrived In this city last Thursday night.
100 days from New Jersey, having
walked the entire distance. Bourman
left New Jarsay an tba fo.t = Y------