Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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Albany and Troy are suffering coal
famine
Germany is cultivating the Florida
cedar to obtain wood for lead pencils.
James Lick is worse than they took
him for. His temper is said to be bad.
The Boston Traveller proposes this
title for five-cent savings bank: "St.
Nickle-us.n
Mrs. Smith says she celebrates her
wooden wedding every day. She mar.
ried stick, and that's how ii is.
The latest advlces contradict the re-
port that Mr.. Frost chewed up all the
young tobacco plants in Kentucky.
So far as yet reported large ma
jority of the towns in Massachusetts
have decided to grant licenses under the
new Liquor law.
"A wealthy Chinese firm in San Fran
cisco has just been caught smuggling
opium in large quantities, packed in cases
marked "oil."
-" Silks and satins put out the kitchen
fire" but they get the best seat in the
church, while calico STANDS waiting in
the aisle at the door.
-Poe's proposed monument is to be
surmounted by marble raven. Moth
ing could have been more appropriate,
as his poetry was "raven" mad.
"A contemporary says that "a child
was run over In the street by wagon
three years old and cross-eyed, with pant
alets on, which never spoke afterward."
1t has been discovered that the New
England lady who spelled $50 words out
of the word "Congregationalist" has
never learned to make a loaf Of bread
out OF -four, yeast and water.
Here is a casefor relief: The young
grasshoppers in Kansas are starving.
They came out before vegetation, spd
are actually persishing for lack of the
commonest necessaries of life.
Il clasped her tiny hand in mine, /
vowed to shield her from the wind, and
from the worlds cold storms. She set
her beauteous eye on me, and with her
little lips sand she, San umbrella will
do as well"
1t is quite easy to perform our duties
when they are pleasant, and imply no
self sacrifice; the test of principle is to
perform them with equal readiness when
they are onerous and disagreeable.
Up to 1926, on the Sabbath, there
were chains across the streets OF all the
churches below the City Hall, in New
York, to prevent the passage Of carriages
during the hours Of worship.
"A Baltimore actress who wished to
change the color of her hair tried the dye
on a conflding younger brother When
he goes out the boys cry fire, and an ex-
cited policeman turns in an alarm from
the nearest box.
=" Idiotw exclaimed lady, coming
out of the theater one evening as a gen.
tleman accidentally stepped on her trail
ing skirt. (Which one of uss" blandly
responded the man.
Any Concord or Lexington woman
who doesn't carry her broom at right
shoulder shift is immediately put down
by her neighbors as descendant OF the
Tories, and unfit to associate with.
The increase in the cultivation of
beet root in Europe, for the manufacture
nous losses to the cane-sugar planters in
Cuba.
"A Chicago physician has arrived at
the conclusion, from extensive investl.
CATION of the subject, that hog cholera
are identical diseases.
There WAS once Pennsylvania leg.
islator who laid by $50, 900 in one SEES
sion. When he was asked how he man
aged this with a salary Of $1,000, he said
that his wife saved it by doing without
hired girl
Patience Is always crowned with
success. This rule is without an excep-
ton. II may not he splendid success,
but patience never takes anything In
hand it does not succeed with in some
form.
Susan b. Anthony says that there
are GOO, 900 professional drunksrds in the
United States, and that one woman in
seventeen is married 10 such an artist
She would never do ii herself, though.
Collin Graves, the hero OF Mill River,
shoulders bag OF rutabagas and starts
for the farm just like any common man,
and there isn't the least bit Of sentiment
in his voice as he yells at COW: SO,
boss--hist around thar, will yep--Detroa
Free Press.