Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-18
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L KNOXVILLE, MARCH Is, 1875.


ward to three penitentiaries.
There are upon the Continent OF
Europe fully 5000, 900 soldiers.
The Centennial building in Phila.
deiphia will cover twenty acres.
The "alI quiet" Potomac is frozen
from Washington to its mouth.
There were 606 deaths in New
York last week, and only 5O4 births.
or 55, 900 babies born in Paris every
year, 10000 are "put out to nurse"
The Queen OF England has offered
to make Mrs. Gladstone peeress In
her own right.
Princeton college claims to possess
in its museum DIR. Franklin's origi-
nal electrical machine.
There is a seven year Congress
man, w. II. Barnum, OF Connecti-
cut, who has never made speech.
Last year the Pennsylvania coal
company mined 1885, 1873 tons, and
shipped / 1898, 664.02 tons.
"Here's another doughmestic diff
ficulty." said a Brooklyn woman as
she found her bread heavy.
An American girl won the gold
medal at the recent examination at
the College Of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
Rev. s. II. Ting, Of New York,
has been assessed $50 for not meeting
a lecture engagement at Rochester.
A polished stone tomahawk was
recently fonnd by Canadian wood
cutter buried in the wood of an oak
tree.
Lyons, France, sent about 5000, 900
worth OF her manufactures to this
country last year, chiefly silks and
velvets.
Next to the Mont Gents Tunnel,
the Hoosac is the longest In the
world, being only 800 feet less than
5 miles in length.
The survey for the canal route
across the Isthmus Of Darien is pro-
crossing favorably under the direc-
ton of Capt. Lull.
Charles O'Connor, of New York, 1t
is said, has larger income from his
practice than any other lawyer in
America.
Hobbs says that in one thing he
knows his wife IL the smartest wo-
man In town. She can catch cold
when nobody else can.
Two men lately caught applauding
the verdict Of jury in Bradford Co.,
Pa, were fined by his Honor, the
Judge, s. each.
What is the difference between n
vague idea and boundless sea?
None--for the one Is notion and
the other is an ocean, too.
There Is said to be more ice in the
Ohio river between Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh than at any previous
time In the last sixty years.
Over 100000 bales of cotton are
consumed annually in New England
factories, but only 100000 bales are
bought and sold In Boston.
A New Haven man confessed that
he married his wife because she was
a good carver. That's the kind of u
help-meat every man wants.
The Greeley, Col, Tribune makes
the important announcement that
the coal fields Of Colorado are larger
than the whole area Of New Eng
land.
James Murphy, Barnum's Irish
giant, is dead. He was SO years old,
. feet in height, and weighed $50
pounds.
All the colleges receiving govern
ment aid have been Intercepted as
to the admission Of colored students,
and not one has intimated an ad-
verse inclination.
On the 25th of next April there
will be total eclipse of the sun, of
which fine view may be had from
the islands in the Bay Bengal, and
from Siam.
Sporting news: Horse races in
Georgia, skating races in New Eng
land, sleighing races in Minnesota,
snow-shoe races in Canada, and a
war Of races In Louisiana.
The Cincinnati Times remarks
that babies are not named Henry
Ward as much as they used to be.
But they are still famous for parox-
ysms of true inwardness when
there's something wrong with the
milk.
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