Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

all the matrimonial newspapers in that
city.
/ The young man with flower in his
coat il to marry the young woman who Is
in the habit of saying, The ide-yah."
WHATS the difference between the
debt and the report of q gunpowder ex-
blossoms Ones nations debt and the
others defamation.
A New York woman refuses to le-
her children eat food of which lndiant
meal forms a constituent part, for fear 1t
will make them savage
| Prof. Wise is again fooling around
with his balloon. II some near and dear
friend of his-some one whose whole af-
lection is conferred on the old man-would
take him quietly by the button hole and
whisper softly the name Of Donaldson in
his ear. some undertaken would be cheated
out of irst-class job Warrington Re
publican.
Some people are too trusting for this
world. All a recent trial the prisoner en-
tered plea of not guilty" when one of
the jurymen put on his hat and started
for the door. The Judge called him
back and informed him that he couldn't
| leave until the case was tried. "Tried 2"
queried the juror, why, he acknowledges
shat he is not guilty"
1T is related Of girl, seventeen years
old, down in Southern Georgia, that she
can cut up one horse load OF hickory
wood in one hour and twenty minutes,
| with an ak She can carry the same In
the house and gather up all the chips in
| twenty minutes. She can write comp0-
| sition the same night, make up rolls for
breakfast and learn four difficult lessons,
which she recites perfectly the next morn
ing.
Nelson was made an Admiral in the
| British navy in peculiar manner. He
was only Captain at the time, and fifty
| third on the fist. The Government had
guessed that he was man OF great
abilities and wanted his services. Accord
| ingly fifty-three Admirals were named, OF
! whom fifty-two were at once placed on
half pay, and the hero of Trafalgar came
to the front.
/ The Supreme Court of Maine has
taken long step in the opposite direction
! from the course Of judicial decisions on
the liabilities of carriers. According to
| Portland dispatch Gustavus Broad and
[ wife were awarded STA damages for be-
ing put off a train of the Eastern Railroad,
their tickets being for passage from Ban
gor To Boston, while in fact they were
travelling the other way. The decision
appears 10 hold that tickets are good for
passage either way.
"A large bear that is kept on exhibit
ton at one of the parks In Sacramento,
Cal, escaped from his pen the other even
| ing, and set out in the direction of an in
closure where number Of tame deer
were feeding. Seeing him coming, the
deer leaped their fence and ran at full
| speed down one Of the city streets, but
were afterward caught. TIE bear, when
weary of roaming about, crawled volun-
tarily into his pen again and let his keep
ers fasten him in.
--"Sir," asked an attorney yesterday of
| a witness who was testifying in a case of
assault and battery, have you been in
| this court before?' " Yes, SIR" said the
witness, 81 have been here often" "Ah,
been here often, have you - said the at
torney in triumphant tone. Now
| tell the court what forf" "Well," re-
piled the witness slowly, 81 have been
| here at least dozen times to see you TO
try and collect that tailor's bill you owe"
San Francisco Chronicle.
If the weather be very cold, a turkey
| will hang for week and prove to be all
|
take great care not TO let it be the last
thing gone. Pluck, draw and SINCE with
care; wash and wipe the outside well, and
pour water through the inside. FIJI the
breast with sausage meat, seasoned with
minced herbs, mace and cayenne. Truss
the bird roast il at clear fire, haste con-
stantly with butter, and serve it, when
done, with brown gravy and bread sauce.
A chain Of fried sausages Is often placed
round turkey.
There will be two eclipses of the sun
and two of the moon in 1876. First, a
partial eclipse of the moon, commencing
In New England about IL 80 a. m, March
10. Second an annular eclipse OF the
sun, March %, the moon coneealing the
suns disc, except ring around the
border. In New England It will be Wis.
ible as partial eclipse only, beginning
about five minutes 70 four p. m. Third,
n partial eclipse Of the moon on Sept. B,
not visible in the United States. Fourth,
total eclipse of the sun. invisible In the
United States, but visible in the South
Pacific and Antarctic Oceans.
Some interesting results were given
by Mr.. II. NJ Taylor, Fellow and Tutor
OF Trinity College, Cambridge, in paper
on the Relative Values Of the Pieces of
Chess" read before the British Associa-
ton AT Bristol. He found by mathe-
NAUTICAL process that If a knight and king
of different colors were placed on chess
board at random the odds against the
king being in check were IL to /; If a
bishop and king, 81 TO 8; If a rock and a
king, TO 2, end If queen and king,
% 10 Is. II, however, we consider only
safe check H. G., check in which the king
is able to take the piece the odds are re-
spectively III To /, 131 to 10, to /, 107 to
81. From these numbers we can obtain a
fair theoretical measure of the relative
value Of the pieces. Thus, If we take as
our measure the chance Of safe check,
the values Of the knight, bishop, rock and
queen are In the ratio 10, ID, 24,37, while
the values of these pieces In the same
order, as given by Staunton, are sos, $50,
5.48 and 9.94, the value of the pawn being
taken as unity. Mr. Taylor remarks that
the value of pawn depends so much on
the fact that 1t Is possible to convert ii
into queen that the method does not ap-
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