Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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| The Fourth.
| Wolves in sleeps clothing-Lawyers
among their parchments.
What portions of the body are the
| best trayelers-The two wrists.
Low as the grave is, only Faith can
climb high enough to see beyond it
A village in New Hampshire is re-
ported to have produced twenty-six editors.
The Buffalo lagerIdrinkers drink over
10000 barrels of beer more in summer
than they do in winter
-" Two soles that beat as one" re-
marked the boy to his mother, as she was
dealing with him for his sins with both
slippers at once.
AT the salmon breeding establishment
at Sebec Lake, Me-, there have been
Matched this season 10000 sea salmon,
which have been distributed in the State.
Sugar from the beet has become so
abundant in England that the sugar re-
finers have protested against the further
| free introduction of the article into that
| country.
You remember Ida Lewis, don't you
observation-disclosures Well, she
weighs exactly 100 pounds now, and to see
her trotting bald HEADED baby as she
peels the potatoes for dinner takes all the
romance away.-Detrott Free Press.
William Flynn, sixty.eight, who died
| at Digdequash, n. B., lately, about twenty
minutes before his death arose from his
bed, unlocked trunk and took out suit
of grave clothes he had kept in readiness
| for several years. then washed ans dressed
himself for burial. His last words were
Welcome, death, have long waited for
thee!"
The first guano brought TO this coun-
| try was sent by Commodore Stewart from
Peru i'm 1925 1t attracted little notice at
| first, though il was used with some sue
cess in Maryland In 1910 ii was intro
duced extensively and used very advan-
tageously in Great Britain, and ever since
the demand has gone on increasing until
whole islands have disappeared under the
pick and shovel and numerous fleets
| laden with the precious material are navi-
eating the seas in every direction TO dis
burse it to all parts of the civilized world.
| A correspondent of the Spectator
writes that in an article published in the
Lyon Medical for April Is, 1875, M. Che
vile declares that he has seen mare re
fuse her food and kick her stall to pieces
from jealousy whenever her groom coaxed
and petted another horse, her stable com
panion. He also says that, in stable
where COW and q donkey were confined
together. curious scene might be wit
messed whenever the dairy-maid came TO
milk the former. No sooner was the maid
seated on her milking. stool than the don
| KEY would leave its stall, come close to the
woman and rest its head on hers until she
had finished milking, showing that the
poor animal was anxious to claim share
of her attention.
| The day following our centennial
festivities the following incident occurred
in South End saloon: A friend had in
vited one of the South Carolina soldiers
into the saloon to put another turf on the
buried Ratchet While standing at the
bar a stranger came in. The Carolinian
suddenly dropped his glass, and closely
eyed the stranger. His gaze was so steady
and peculiar that the friend began to be
alarmed and to fear that the Ratchet was
about to be dug up again. Directly the
| Carolinian asked the stranger ii he knew
him. There was no recognition, where.
upon the Carolinian asked him if he was
not in the late war. Yes" was the re-
ply. "And you were once stationed at
| such placer" "Yes." "And took part
| in such a skirmish ?" "Yes." Well, I
thought So" replied the Carolinian, and,
raising his hat, showed large scar on his
forehead, saying: There is your saber
mark, my boy; come up and take drink. "
And so then and there they decorated the
grave of the buried hatchet.-B0ston
Herald
There is now seen in Pail Mall, at
Walls French gallery, most extraordi-
nary portraiture of the Christ, by Gabriel
Max, modern German artist, which our
readers will be glad to know of, and haply
| TO 90 and see for themselves. 1t il the
face Of the dead Redecmer, much like that
on the kerchief Of Veronica, but with
| closed eyes. However as one advances
the eyes appearito open gradually, until the
spectator is arrested with their mournful
and pathetic gaze This lasts till he gets
quite close, when the eye-lids are again
fast shut in the calm sleep of death. The
effect is miraculous in appearance, and IL
illustrates well the trick of winking Ma
donnas so frequently heard Of Neither il
this all the wonder Of Max's picture. Ii
appears to be painted on a square Of the
coarsest canvas nailed to board; and
this is so cunningly initiated, with mi.
croscopic fidelity, that no one would be
| lievc il was a flat piece of painting without
touching it. Zeuxis in old times drew not
a more marvellous curtain to deceive APP
| pelles. London Rock.
Every intellectual person should know
how TO ascertain the state Of the pulse in
health then, by comparing il with what ii
is when he is ailing, he may have some
idea of the urgency Of his case. Parents
should know the healthy pulse of each
| child-as now and then person is born
with peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and
the very case in hand may be of that pc
| culiarity. An infants pulse is 140; a child
of seven, about eighty; and from twenty to
sixty years it is seventy beats minute,
declining TO sixty at four score. A health.
! full grown persons pulse beats seventy
| times in a minute; there may be good
health down to sixty but if the pulse al.
ways exceeds seventy there is disease I;
the machine is working itself out there is
fever or inflammation somewhere and
the body is feeding on itself; az in con
sumption, when the pulse Is quick, that is,
over seventy, gradually increasing with
decreased chances of cure until ii reaches
\ ITO mr. lD0 when death comes before many