Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| MASOEALANEVu6 I1EMSs
An easy task-Taking the sense of the
house.
"A lazy cook-One who "fritters"
away her time.
He is poor landlord who is not a
host in himself.
-Kindergartens are being established
in many of our Western towns and cities
The Keely motor can be so applied
that hand-sled will draw itself uphill
again.
The next thing, probably, will be a
" scare" about the frost killing the corn
crop.
| True economy does not consist in
stinting and pinching ourselves and every
body about US.
When you get bill changed have an
eye on the tifty-cent pieces. Counterteits
about, you know.
! And now, picnicking and excursions
having about had their day, preparations
are making for the annual fairs.
Some child of genius has been paint
ing mustache on the Greek Slave in the
Corcoran Gallery at Washington.
"A Boston man spent $4,000 in lot.
terry tickets and drew about 5000 in prizes
This is sufficient encouragement for begin
ners.
/ Those Georgia ladies who agreed to
wear no dresses costing over twenty live
cents per yard make up for it by wearing
$500 diamond pins.
/ This isn't good season for catches"
at the watering places, and many nice
| girls are willing to take up with freckled.
faced, impoverished men.
The ladies of Troy have organized a
boat club. The uniform is neat white
waist and broad brimmed hat The club
is known as Wally-Wally."
The notes of preparation for the re-
opening of the public schools and col
leges are reverberating throughout the
land and the boys don't like IL bit.
| Talk about hot weather. Think of
| 100 degrees in the shade for week at a
| timel Yedaont know anything about it
till you've passed summer in Japan.
A North Carolina editor will dress
| his paper in mourning for ten dollars If
anyone dies, and his liberal terms have
endeared him TO the hearts of whole
\ county.
There Is time when boy has m
| idea Of reforming and becoming good,
and that is when he is freed among the
cherries by lank farmer and couple of
| mastitis.
| Young Williamson of San Francisco,
showed he was not afraid by touching his
tongue 10 strychnine. His courage was
duly accredited To him on a neat ana mex.
pensiye tombstone.
| In the agricultural convention at Dali
ton, Ga, Mr. Johnson called upon all
present who owned sheep and no dogs 10
rise, and thirteen rose up, and called upon
all who owned dogs and no sheep 10 rise,
and sixty or seventy responded.
| The dear public is informed by an en-
terprising correspondent that Jenny Linds
husband : head is "bald and shiny as a
white bean" 1t is said that he lost his
hair by hard study, but the inference is
that Jenny Lind herself did the studying.
Lottery agencies flourish in Yankee
dom. The police of Boston few days
since made a descent and arrested num-
Der OF dealers. The business had been
carried on in sly way, so that half the
newspapers were astonished TO hear of Its
existence,
AS illustrating the working of Gus
toms regulations between the United
| States and Canada the Boston Globe says
| that ID recently cost "A Boston lady "a % 10
transfer trunk from Montreal TO Boston,
only seventy.tive cents being for transpor.
| tatiOn charges.
| "A grass widow" at Holyoke, Mass,
who often went ostensibly, TO strew flow-
ers upon the grave of the dear departed,
was surprised the other day by the de
parted ones returning from slx.years'
absence at sea; and now the gossips are
conjecturing where the widow put the
| flowers
--Danbury has the champion patient
boy. He comes from chronically-bor.
rowing family. The other day he went
10 neighbours for a cup Of sour milk.
81 haven't got anything but sweet milk
said the woman, pettishly "I'll wait
till il sours," said the obliging youth,
sinking into chair.
--One who has seen good deal Of the
weather for the past nine months lets
himself out thus;
Dirty days hath September,
April, June and November,
And from February until May
The rain II raineth every day;
All the rest have thirty-one,
With scarce single CLEAN Of sun;
And II any should have thirty-two
They'd be dull and dirty too.
--McParis had prepared himself for
home dinner TO his liking He sat down
In his dining.room at peace with all the
world and said; Now, Hannah, bring
the cold mutton No hot meat for me
this weather" Hannah hesitated for n
minute and said: but done give II
away, sir" "Givc II away Give my din
ner away" Eyes, sir You said II any
tramps called was to give them the cold
shoulder" McParis took some Of his
wifes chops instead, but he believes Prov
idence has mysterious way OF caring for
the poor.
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