Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


who are in the habitof chewing gum, mus,
be told the painful news that the practice
is going out of fashion.
-. Such remarks | consider low and
an insult to my UNDERSTANDING said a
witty Rochester beauty to a gentleman who
praised her small feet.
They turn out 100000 barrels of -four
in Milwaukee every year. Yes, it does
look big, but its only half the quantity Of
beer brewed in the same town.
--Schoolboys will be pleased to learn
that Miss James, teacher in Pittsfield
Mass, has been fined fifteen dollars for
whipping scholar too severely.
When the burglar who wounded Mr.,
Shute heard that Brooklyn detective was
upon his track, he clasped his hands and
devoutly exclaimed: Thank Heaven
Now am SAFE
Our matter-of-fact contributor oh
serves that the difference between an am.
bilious man and mercenary one is that
the former wants credit and the latter only
wants cash .--New York World.
The Utica Herald has had to pay six
cents damages for calling man scala.
wag and rascal, and though the paper may
possibly stand up under the burden it viii
receive check in its mad career.
AT a certain Protestant Episcopal
Church in Boston the congregation re-
yenge themselves ON an inefficient choir
by responding during the litany: Lord
have mercy on our miserable singers"
The potato-bug is becoming cosmo-
politan. From nearly every State in the
Union come reports of its visitations, and
it seems to have civilized capacity for
adapting itself to all vicissitudess Of eli.
mate.
Fishing in the Tennessee River is
pretty good just now. The other day
fisherman hauled up his wife, who had
been missing for two weeks, and he saved
the $500 reward he had offered for her dis
covery.
After all the streetcar conductors who
have committed suicide because their hon.
esty was doubted, the New York compa-
mics now find that they have saved over
million dollars by the use of the bell
punch.
Hartford, Conn, with prudent regard
to the frequency of drowning casualties,
has its free public bath-house situated al a
safe distance from any water, and wisely
refuses to appropriate any money for
launching It,
"A Lowell man keeps up his woodpie
by making bets that his wife can saw and
split two cords in twelve hours. The poor
woman is so vain of her husbands praise
that she never can be brought to see the
speculation in 1t.
ave were married just month ago
today" said Chicago bride after her re-
turn home. 1--WE went to Bawston and
New Yawk and ever so many places, and
had perfectly gawgeous time. New
Yawk's just lovely!'
The quarrel between st. Louis and
Chicago has broken out afresh, and st.
Louis never goes to sleep now without
dreaming that at the dead of night Chi
cago editor comes and pulls down the
bridge. -Brooklyn Argus.
"A man up the lake wants to know
what holocaust is. AS near as we
can make out from an Omaha paper be-
fore us it is used to make an article on the
burning of horse barn read sort o. high
toned.--Detr0St Free Press
-" And shrill cidad9 all the woodland
tire" says the poet, speaking Of the inces-
SAINT singing Of locusts in June. But out
in Nebraska they have a better name for
it. They call it the grass 'oppera. '--Neao
York Commercial Adoe1ttser.
City boarders arc beginning to arrive
at Danbury, says the NeUs, and are going
enthusiastically into the bayfield,. 1t is
estimated that one able-bodicd city boarder
with good sharp scythe will NOW down
ten yards of stone fence and cripple seven
people for life in a single afternoon.
A schoolmaster who had an inveterate
habit of talking to himself was asked what
motive he could have in doing So He
replied that he had two good and substan-
tial reasons: In the first place he liked to
talk to sensible man; in the next place
he liked TO hear a sensible man talk.
While writing verses for my love I
looked up from the paper,
And there she stood. / rose in haste,
and overturned the taper.
How careless TO put out the light"
she said. "Is it surprising"
answered, "that / quenched my lamp
when / saw the sun arising?"
"A peripatetic professor who has
been edifying Albanian audiences with
Scriptural lectures illustrated ly +" Bibli.
cal stereopticon' is under arrest for man.
| ufacturing and circulating spurious nickel
cents; which, in view of his clerical char
actcr, is not regarded as a canonickel per
Torrance.
While the workmen were taking a
ball Of red-h hot iron from the furnace to the
"squeezers" in an iron mill in Pittsburgh,
the other morning, the ball dropped into
water tank, causing AN explosion which
shook the mill and sent fragments of iron
in all directions. Fortunately no person
was Injured.
"A farmer in Bath County, Ky, while
engaged in blowing recently unearthed
"a city OF regular streets, curbed with
stone, and evincing higher order of
architectural knowledge and greater civ.
ilization than any other prehistoric re-
mains yet found in this country Which
shows that subsoil tillage must be car
ried to greater depth in Kentucky than
in any other agricultural district in the
world
The Paterson On. j. papers tells the
following distressing story: Mrs. Post,
wife of Thomas " r. Post, residing on
the Erie Railway, near Ridgewood. sent
her children to the store, about half mile
distant, on an errand. They were so long
absent that she feared they would be late
for school, and accordingly, taking her
youngest-a little boy Of less than two
years--along with her, she started out TO
look for them and found ,ha,, tn -