Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Ii
Hot springs-Jumping rope in Au-
gust.
An unsatisfactory find-fned S. and
costs.
All rowing races have their pull.
backs
An inside dental expense-having a
tooth filled.
When a man is second to none he
might just as well be first.
Chairmaness" is the latest develop
ment OF feminine grammar.
California has a less area of forest in
proportion TO her farm lands than any
other State in the Union.
Two men recently burned to death in
Boston were sleeping with seventy -four
others in room eight feet by twenty.
| five.
A San Francisco pugilist, who was
struck hard blow on his head in a box.
ng-match, became insane and died the
next day.
1t is now announced that in the course
of the next 10, 900 years the whole globe
will be covered with water to the depth of
thirty feet.
The Spirit Of the Times has a $25, 900
libel suit to defend, and it refuses to settle
the same by handing the plaintiff twenty.
| five dollars.
There is faint hope that Donaldson
| may be still alive, but it isn't enough to
encourage anybody to save up money to
buy balloon.
/ The peanut crop of the South was
never so large as is promised this year,
and every school girls face ought to smile
a smile foot long.
Chicago doctors come right out like
men and say that cucumbers are healthy,
and then sit and watch and wait like vii
| lains for calls from collie patients.
"A French woman sixty three years of
age killed herself the other day because
her children said that she was too old to
! marry. How sharper than serpent's
tooth it was.
Recently square in New Orleans.
owned by the city, was sold at $3.50 at
Sheriffs sale TO pay judgment against
the corporation. The price is said 10 be
ridiculously low.
"A stone-bruise on a boys foot will not
prevent him from walking around all day
If circus is in town, but let his mother
~
foot completely disables him.
On an average every Bostonian, man,
woman or child, disposes of two and
half gallons of ice-cream each season.
This fact accounts for the colic-y style of
the newspaper jokers of the Hub.
! A Western Judge has declared il to be
a good ground of divorce for woman to
tie her husband TO a gate-post during
violent thunderstorm, with a patent light
ning-rod hitched TO his spinal column.
1t is noticed that Brigham Youngs
paper, the Salt Lake Herald, avoids as
much as possible local and State news,
and quite abstains from referring 10 that
mythical Mountain Meadows massacre"
-" Mark Twain" has declined 10 en-
gage in the coming winter lecture cam
paign. He says he prefers to remain mt
HONEYWELL, wintry nights and great drunk
drunk over the thought that some other
poor dog of "A lecturer is out in the storm.
While tunneling into the side Of
Mount Mcclellan, Colorado, the miners
came upon solidly.froZen ground ninety
feet from the surface, and, as there is no
channel or crevice though which the
frost could enter, IL follows that the glaciers
did IL.
"A father fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home sent his two boys to
distant friends until the peril should be
over A few weeks after the father re-
ceived this letter from his friend: please
take your boys home and send down the
earthquake"
"A couple, newly married, marched
into drug store and called for soda
water. The obliging clerk inquired what
strip they would have in ii, when the
swain, deliberately leaning over the
counter, replied; "STanger, money is no
object TO me; put sugar in it,"
-" Window gardens" are what the
poetical people call the rows Of flower. pots
that the poor girl keeps in the window of
her hall room; but the person who has no
poetical iancies on the subject Is the man
who had his skull cracked the other day
when one Of the heaviest of these pots
came down.
"A wild steer entered Central Park, in
New York, the other day, and made rushes
on number of people before IL was
killed In every case the park police
shouted 70 the persons attacked TO throw
themselves on the ground and lie motion
less. Whenever this was done before the
steer reached the persons 1t stopped, gazcd
at the PROSTATE form, and ran off without
further demonstration. Even when those
who were struck had the presence OF mind
TO lie quiet where they dropped no further
notice WAS taken of them