Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Memphis, Tenn, is death to lawyers.
Twenty-seven have died in that city
since 1870.
Two parties in Leavenworth, Kan,
claim that they have seen serpents flying
through the air.
"A patent-medicine agent recently
stuck handbills on all the gravestOnes
in the cemetery of Melrose, Mass.
=" Drimtaidhvrickhillich is the
name of a town in the Isle of Null. 1t
ought TO be railway station somewhere.
How the brakemen would chew that
word up!
The State House at Annapolis, Md,
is becoming unsafe, and Ii is proposed to
enlarge and wholly renovate the build
ing. Its total demolition to make room
for an entirely new structure is objected
to on the ground of the associations con-
nected with the present building.
The inventor of the Baxter steam
canal-boat says the average cost of the
boats is about 5000 now, but when
they are exempted from carrying life
boats and preservers for the safety OF
the chambermaid and cook, and other
useless appendages, they can be built for
$S,50Ol
"A beautiful young lady got aboard
the Nashville. bound train at Decatur,
Ala, recently, and insisted on going into
the locomotive and running the machine.
The engineer willingly surrendered his
position to the fair amateur. She started
the engine off and kept her going at
forty miles per hour till Pulaski was
chn int A
coach and took seat
A pure white salt is now being pro-
duced at Alma, Waubansee CO., Kan, at
the rate of about five barrels day. The
brine is pumped from a spring 200 feet
below the surface and SO strong that the
salt crystallizes by simple exposure to
the air. 1t has been analysed and found
to compare favorably with Michigan
salt and to contain no impurity except a
small trace of lime.
The Burksville correspondent of the
Bowling Green (Ky.) Photograph says:
Yesterday girl thirteen years OF age
filed her petition for divorce a ginculo
matrimonie This is somewhat unparal-
leled in the history of divorces. The
pair, owing 10 the tender years of the
girl and the consequent objections of her
parents, went to Tennessee, where there
are no restrictions, to procure the tying
of the Gordian knot They were mar.
ried in April, 1874, the bride consequent.
ly being only twelve years of age. In one
month after their marriage the husband
abandoned his child-wife and went TO
Tennessee, and abandonment for one
years duration was the cause OF di-
yorce."
AT the hour of twilight boy enters
Maine drug store with a prescription
which the clerk, the only other person
present, prepares and hands TO him.
| Then suddenly he says: "Come with me
to the pack part of the shop and l will
show you something" So he takes the
| boy to the back part and opens the door
of small, back office, where hung the
bones of CHASTITY skeleton, glazing upon
him from its eyeless sockets. The boy
| shrieked and rushed from the shop,
nearly upsetting a thin, tall man, just en-
| tering. That man was the proprietor,
a figure of skin and bone, perfect spec.
| linen of the true apothecary. He asked
what it meant. The boy told him. Said
he: Call him back at once. This may
ruin me-" The clerk hurried to the door
and called to the boy TO come back. The
boy SAID he wouldn't. Then" said the
apothecary, "Pll go" He went, and
cried out: Now, my good boy, come
back, have something nice for you"
mo, yer DON'T" responded the urchin
81 know yer, if yer hsve got your
clothes on"
| Last evening dapper young gent,
with educated mustache and patronlzing
smile, entered an up-bound car on st.
Charles avenue, and having deposited
his fare with the tips of his gloyed fin
| ger took seat and drew imaginary maps
of Africa on shining pair of boots
with delicate malacca cane. The only
| other occupant of the car, excepting the
Jehu, our informant, was a modest young
| lady who sat next TO the lion. Soon q
| fiower-boy entered the car and prOiiered
his wares for sale. The self satisfied
young man CALAMITY directed the boy TO
present the basket to the young lady with
his compliments, with instructions to
| help herself as she pleased. The young
lady slowly and deliberately proceeded
to relieve the fiower-boy of his entire
burden, which so pleased the young man
that he smiled a most approving smile
and promptly paid down the whole
amount to the boy. When the lady saw
that boy had been paid she slowly pro-
ceeded to pile the flowers together, after
which, with an expression of scorn that
added immeasurably to her loneliness,
she threw the whole of them out into
the street. Tableau!-E o. PicaysIae.