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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
Air.Plants.

Many are familiar with the fact that a
sprig OF the wild orpine or live-forever
will retain its freshness and often con
tinue 10 grow fora considerable time when
fastened TO the wall or suspended In an
upright position in places where IL can
have access 10 neither earth nor water
The plant belongs 10 the natural family
Cyassulaceo, many Of the members Of
which fix themselves to dry rocks or walls
where there IN little or no soil. One
species the BrgophyLium cGiycinam, Ia
called the air.plant or leafplant, because
detached leaf will grow and even flower
when hung up In moist, warm atmos-
phere. The leaf thus suspended sends
out little buds along It's edges, and these
develop into perfect plants, with roots ana
fibers OF their own. When fully formed
these plants may be separated from the
parent leaf and are then capable OF sus-
tanning an independent life.
Another species, having the same curl
Gus properties, grows In tropical countries,
and Is known 10 botani.ts AZ the ueTea
crsnnta. Like our common live-foreyer
Il has thick, succulent leaves, but II makes
much taller and handsomer plant, It's
spike of greenish flowers rising 10 height
of three feet A single leaf OF the Derea
hung in the window, or even thrown into
dark drawer, will, In the course OF a
week or two, develop roots from its base
and become growing plant. a cross
section Of leaf will often do The same.
The tenacious vitality Of the plant h such
that to dry specimens for the herbarinm II
is necessary first to kill them by INNER
sion In hot water or the application OF
hot iron. -Chicdg0 Tribune
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Gen. Sherman is going to publish
revised edition of his Memoirs"
CARLYLE is opposed to suicides, hold
ing that all should live as long as breath
lasts.
Ex-senator f. g. Ross has been pro-
NOTED to the assistant editoTship OF the
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal.
Who was guilty of that enormous lie
that Andrew Johnson had $3.50, 600 life
insurance. He had not penny.
Thomas Carlyle cannot write himself,
the nerves of his hand being entirely
shattered This is his worst drawback.
Edwin Booth says that when he un-
dertakes to break colt again HELM
point of fact, he'll get somebody else to
do it.
--Hezekiah Leard, of Augusta, Me-,
lately deceased, was the latest man IN
the State. His coffin was 80 inches broad,
20 inches deep and "a inches long.
In the seven years that DIR. McCosh
has already been at the head of Princeton
College, the university has received ST.
$50, 900 in the shape of donations.
Horace White, formerly editor of the
Chicago Tribune, has been comparing
America and England in an article pub
lished by the Fortnightiy Reote@, of Lon.
don.
M. Emile de Girardin denies the
right of the State or the individual TO
punish crime. He says nobody has yet
been able to demonstrate whence il is de-
rived, and urges that crime be treated as
disease.
1t is said to be absolutely impossible
to read Joaquin Miller's ordinary hand
writing. The intelligent compositor
should, under the circumstances, have
credit for considerable skill in making
savage poetry.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
WHY HE SIGHED.

do not mourn, sweet wife of mine,
BECAUSE those ruby lips Of thine
That marble brow
We're kissed by one who might have been
Had not CHANGED to step between,
Thy husband now.
T do not erieve because thy heart,
Pre- Cupid touched it with my dart,
For him would beat;
Nor that the hand which owns my ring
once wore his gift, Mizpah" thing
1t was but meet.
sigh not that his arms were placed
some score of times around your waist,
So sweet and slim.
All no, my love the woe you see
Il mine because you welded me
Instead OF him.
London Fun.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
A Man Supposed Dead Returns After
Five Years. Absence.

Five years ago Benz. 5. Grosvenor lived
In Dowagiac. In June, 1870, he left home
for the purpose of going 10 81. 10 10 butch
err. He did not return, and his wife could
only learn that he got off the cars at Niles
but did not reach St. 10. She heard moth
ing Of him until the following September,
when in huckleberry marsh near Buchan-
an a body was found 80 badly decomposed
that the features were unacceptable.
Some of those who saw IL were positive
that IL was Grosvenor, and sent to Dow
agiac for his wife 10 come and view the
body. She went down and was met at the
depot by dentist of Dowagiac who had
seen il, and he told her that he was posi-
tive IL was Grosyenor, as he recognized
the teeth from some work he had per
formed on them. She went down to see
the remains, and, though she could not
positively identify them as her husband,
All the indications looked that way, and
day or two after she wept over the grave
of her husband, as she supposed. Not
long after n son, who was lying very sick
when the father went away, died also, leav.
ing her with one child, a little girl She
left Dowagiac and came 10 this city, and
il now cook i'm the Grand River House.
From that time she lived u widow and
believed herself such, though she says
that there was always presentiment on
her mind that they had all been deceived
and that her husband was still alive. But
her friends were confident that he was no
longer living, and rs the years
passed by without tidings of him
she had 10 give up hope, and
ONLY at times would doubts arise In her
mind. Any doubt she might have felt
was not shared by others and II was sup
posed that he had been murdered, and she
has received a number of letters from de-
tectives-one from Europe--o offering To
ferret the mystery and bring the murderer
30 Justice. She had some reason to hold
30 her doubts, for her husband, when alb
gent before had threatened to stay away
till he had acquired a competence, but she
did think that il he carried this threat
into execution he would have written to
her.
Tuesday night at midnight man got
off the cars and presented himself before
her II was the lost husband. He had
gone 10 Missouri and had been living
there. He had not yet become rich but
got sick Of the country and returned East
Ills wife was so indignant at his leaving a
sick family az he did and leaving her TO
work for herself, without letting her hear
from him-though lac says he did write
but the letter miscarried-that she gave
him reception more cool thanthat which
Is popularity supposed to be the thing in
such cases, and rather iDImatcd that as
she had got along very well Without him
for five years she could keep on doing So.
This somewhat dismayed him and he,
went 10 see brother near Saginaw and Is,
there still. -Jdchs0h (Htch) Patriot.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

The question, Can a man who loses a
season ticket on railroad compel the
company TO give him another? has
been answered in the negative by Judge
Ross, of Norristown, Pa. The conditions
printed upon the ticket state that If lost
or mislaid it will not be replaced by the
company. The Court ruled that the
plaintiff, having used the ticket, was
bound TO acquaint himself with its condi-
tons; that he has no right TO call upon
the defendant to replace the stolen ticket.
"A man was buried in Berkeley, Mass,
a few days since, who selected and paid
for his coffin some months ago He also
had himself carried to the burying. ground,
and sat in chair by the side of his future
grave and saw that the vault was bricked
up In accordance with his IDEAS. He was
one Of the few who can contemplate de-
parture from this existence with equa-
nimity.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
A Curious Geographical Problem.

A curious geographical problem is sug.
gested by the appearance at the mouth OF
the Seine, near Havre, in the course OF the
present month, of one Of the Theoretically
sealed bottles, in wooden cases, which
were thrown overheard during Prince Ma
poleon's North Pole expedition in 1860.
Wooden covered bottles of this kind were
thrown into the sea daily in the month of
J une In that year from the Princes ship,
in the expectation that the course taken
by them would lead to the calculation of
the direction of the greater oceanic cur
rents; but during the fourteen and a half
years that have interviewed since then none
of these bottles have been seen till
the present one was washed ashore. It's
appearance at the mouth Of the Seine
seems TO indicate that polar current
must be borne into the German Ocean, and
must be carried thence through the
channel to the western coast Of France
Eclectic.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

A LETTER from Waynesbarg, Pa, 10 the
Allegheny Mai says: On Mellow Ridge.
in this county, about four miles from
.Jacktown and on the farm belonging To-
Henry Miller. there is what IL called the.
gas spring This Is probably the great
est curiosity in Pennsylvania. The wafer
is cold, but bubbles and foams as II boil
ing, and the greasssi wonder Is the lheyi-
table destruction Of life produced by in
haling the gas. No living thing is 10 be
found within circuit of 100 yards OF the
spring. The very birds, II they happen
TO fly over it, drop dead. We experiment
ed with a snake Of the copperhead variety
ON lis destructive properties by holdings It
few feet above the water. II stretched
dead In two minutes. II viii kill human
being in twenty minutes. We stood over
Il about five minutes, when duh, heavy,
aching sensation crpt over us, aud our
eyes began 70 swim. The gas which es-
capcs here is Of the rankest kind OF car
bopic acid"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05
TITLE WHILE THE ROSES
BLOOM"

. little while the roses bloom,
a little while the soft winds blow,
: little while the baby laughed,
q little while-from bud to snow.
Rat after all the rose was sweet,
And after all the winds have blown,
And after all the baby blessed,
And after all IL is our own.
II In our thought the rose remains,
And winds are sweet in memory,
Why should not then the baby gone
Forever be babe to meg
Hiram Rich, ia October Atlantic.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

They have new geological garden in
Cincinnati, and one Oscar Nixdorf, an in
mate of the Soldiers Home, at Dayton,
Ohio, knows it, He visited there the
other day and petted the grizzly bear I'M
ill until he got his hand chewed on awhile,
and had his left arm broken in two places.
Amputation has since been performed.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

Ogg morning at an early hour huge
wildcat dashed through the front window
of a Nevada hotel, made its way to the
sleeping apartments and created most
terrible CONSERVATION among male and
female boardcrs, whose fright was made
wonderfully ludicrous by their general
stampede in deshabille through all parts
of The house. One young man awoke 10
find the huge monster almost within
reach OF him, and with wild shrek
called the landlady 10 his relief. The
most laughable thing Of all was that The
aayiohted crowd. some twenty in all,
should have allowed the animal, after a
halfhour's rumination, TO escape I'M
scathed.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

--Naturalists have decided that no hen
can lay over 600 eggs. Therefore, when
you have checked OF to that figure you
can sell her for spring chicken.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

YELocIPEDEs are 10 be used hereafter
by the messengers in the Italian army,
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

CAPE Copslver oil Is extensively manu-
featured at Proyincetown, Mass, Rom dog
fish.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-05

A BAD position Imposition,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08
ELECTIONS,

Monday was rather blue day 70,
the Republican party in Connecticut
Governor English, the Democratic
candidate, was reelected by q plurali'
ty Of 9,4l2. the Senate is Democrat.
ic and the House is close. The Re.
publicans lose two Members Of Con.
eress-among them the gallant Gen.
j. +. Hawley-the Democrats get
ting three out of the four Members
from that State. We don't think
Connecticut amounts to much politi-
cally, any way.
In Rhode Island, whose election
took place yesterday, there was no
election Of Governor, but the remain
der Of the Republican State ticket
was elected by very large majority,
the largest ever given in the State.
The prohibition question split parties
to pieces. The General Assembly
will elect Republican Governor.
At St. Peter Tuesday, Albert
Knight, Republican, was elected
Mayor. At Mankato Wiswell, Dem
ocrat, was elected Mayor, and the
proposition to expend $1,000 more in
sinking the artesian we'll carried. Du-
luth elected Peter Dean, Democrat,
Mayor. At Bismarck the Peoples
ticket was successful, John A. Mclean
being elected Mayor.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

Ex-senator Ramsey is not a
shining figure in our politics. He
came as a shadow, and so he has de-
parted. He was an accident in a
singl lie term under the favoring gales
of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," in
1910. He was the fortunate Govern
or of Minnesota when organized as a
Territory, and first planted the Stars
and Stripes Of our sovereignty at an.
Gent Pigs Eye and modern Saint
Paul. The Governor was always
safe in strategy and celebrated on a
"still hunt" If he would in his re-
TRACY write a history Of the Sioux
war, during our larger irritant Of the
rebellion, which shook the battle
ments of St. Paul, it would put on
exhibition the complex methods Of
stealing within the statute, for which
Minnesota is proudly eminent, from
the annuities of Indians to the thrifty
culling Of pine growth on Cover nment
acres. It alleviates the sorrow with
which we gaze at his disappearing
coat tails to know that he is not turn
ed out to the cold charities of the
world, nor do his child rem supp]icate
for bread.-Neev York Sun.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

LAST Thursday Mr.. Beecher took
the witness stand and his direct ex-
animation has not yet concluded
He denies, in the most emphatic and
comprehensive manner, each and every
Of the charges against him in Tilton's,
Moulton's aud Mrs. Moulton's testi-
mony denies that be bad ever con-
fessed to them anything ar that he
was ever guilty Of anything criminal
to confess, at least so far as Mrs. TIL
ten. Is concerned. His testimony is
gi1en in q very earnest and decided
manner, and, unless torn to. pieces by
the csoss-examination, cannot but have
great weight 81 The indications are
: st he will be on the witness stand
two weeks yet.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

The amendment which Senators
Hamlin and Ramsey and the express
companies made to the Postal law, by
which the rates on third-class mail
matter were doubled, is not only d.
minishing the receipts Of the Post
Office Department but increasing its
expenses. The estimates for postage
for the Departments ware made before
the change in the es. As a
large part of its ri ;sI1natter is Of the
third class, its postage appropriation
will be exhausted inside ofsix months.
Nh. Jewell will then be Obliged to
send this matter by express. The
companies had better make all the
money they can before next Deem
Der, for this source of their income
will then be cut off:-Ch;caqo Tri-
bel,,e.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

Compulsory education is being
enforced in New York City with graf
flying vigor and good results. A Gen.
sus Of children not in attendance up
on school is employing sixty police
men, who will report by the middle
of April. Meanwhile the Truant
Agents are securing the streets for
stray scholars. 1t is a noteworthy
fact that so far no compulsion, prop
erly so-called, has had to be used.
Persuasion has proved sufficient. In
many cases, it has been only lack of
decent clothing which kept children
away. When this was supplied, they
have gone joyfally. As yet the news
boys, boot-blacks, and factory opera
tives have not been approached. The
hardest work will have to be done
among them. While New York is
thus doing her best to insure an edu-
Gated citizenhood, the Bourbon Sen
ate of Ohio, afraid of Universal INTEL
igence and Democratic Defeat, votes
down compulsory education.-Chica-
90 Tribune.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

L1TTELL's LIVING AGE.-No. 1907
bearing date March 9th, completes
volume One hundred and t,oenty5our
Of this eclectic weekly. The contents
Of this and the preceding weekly
number are 'sir Phillip Sidney )"
EARLY Kings Of Norway" "The
English Bar and the Inns Of Court y
Religious Revivals in Medieval
Italy," '*Old Letters = "Nationa]
'Steadiness; " "Vagabonds in Win.
ter Time;" ''The Tyranny Of Moth.
ers, and Egotism;'' and installmente
of four serials. As the next number
the first in April, begins a new vol
ume, a good time for beginning a sub.
scription is afforded. Littell & Gay,
publishers, Boston.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

"A prisoner in the Chicopee
(Mass. Jail cut his throat With q
piece Of glass. Surgeons were hur'
rledly brought, and after a difficult
and skillful operation, the severed ar
teries were tied and the cash sewed
up. While this had been going on
he had several times tried to speak,
but had been unable to dose. After the
surgery was over he said, with an ef:
fort, "All fol-de-rol, DOCTORS. Tried
to tell you 10, and save you any
bother of stitching me up. I've
swallowed bits Of the glass, l have .
.He. really he'd swallowed bits Of the
glass, In = fey hours be died.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

In a recent speech in the United
States Senate, Mr.. Wallace, the Dem
ocratic Senator from Pennsylvania,
gave the following gloomy picture OF
the condition of business and of the
laboring classes in that great State
"You will find our coal, our iron, our
oil, and our lumber lying in piles At
the furnace, at the pits mouth, or the
oil at the tank. or the lumber at the
mill. Artisans are unemployed
their families are starving; they seek
employment; they ask to have from
the men who have capital invested,
support, dnily support, daily toll,
means to keep their children from
starving. The pick and the drill Of
the miner lie idle at the mouth Of the
drift, the fire of the puddler is
quenched, and the axe of the lumber.
man lies still at the foot of the tree.
The hum of busy industry by the
Lehigh and Schuylkill is no longer
heard, and the spindle, and the loom,
and the shuttle are no longer produc-
ing to make taxable values and
wealth for the people"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08
KICKING HACK.

During the past few weeks, the
Lltohtield Ledger has been devoting
its time, talents and energies to map
ping out programme whereby the
present State Administration is to be
ingIOriously kicked out of office next
fall, and sundry gentlemen named by
the Ledger are to be invited to step
in and keep the vacated seats warm
for a term or two. The trouble with
the present Administration is that it
declines to bow the knee to Alexan-
der Ramsey, and in the eyes Of some
people that is an objectionable SIM
The Monticello Times, in commenting
on the somewhat extensive contract
the Ledger has undertaken, quietly
remarks that "when that kicking
business begins we guess there will be
more heels between heaven and earth
than are dreamt of in the Ledger
mans philosophy, and some heftier
rehabilitation than his imagination
ever conceived Of inits loftiest flights"
More than likely.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

In a late interview with a news.
paper correspondent Vice-President
Wilson said: II tell you political
parties are now askew. Party lines
run in one direction and thsfeal diff
erences between men in another.
There are fully one-half of the Dem
ocrats who ought to be in our party
and a proportion of our own that we
could very well dispense with. Peo-
pie with good intentions toward the
whole country, and willing to see
justice done according to the DEGREES
of the conflict just passed, and anx-
ious to see the Government respecta-
BILE; that should be the true coalition.
Now our party and the Democratic
party are both the prey Of rival per
sonal ambitions and resentments.
This third-term idea has done a mighty
sight Of mischief"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08
Notice Of Mortgage Foreclosure.

Default has been made in the conditions Of
certain indenture Of mortgage bearing date June
LIST, A. D. 1868, made, executed and delivered by
George Ernest Krieg and Maria Ursula Krieg his
wife, mortgagors, to Adelph Silver mortgagee, and
in Stearns county, Minnesota, on the 18th day Of
December, A. D. 1868, at O'Clock r. NJ, in book
"E OF Mortgage Deeds, on page los, in which Is
mortgaged and conveyed the southeast quarter a.
ofthe north east quarter ~ Of Sec. twenty-seven
NORTH Of range thirty-three 1887 west situated and
said county Of Stea1ns and State Of Mime
sota and containing forty acres according to govern
ment survey, which said mortgage was on the It'll
day Of December AID. 1869, duly sold transferred
Bradford Root, his heirs and assigns, which said
written assignment was on the 10th day Of Decem.
ber A. D. 1869, duly recorded in the Office OF the
Aforesaid Register Of Deeds at O'Clock L. NJ In book
"A" Of Assignments and Agreements on ipaRes lN
thereby secured and therein described, 1857 90 Il
claimed to be due at the date hereof for principal
and interest, and the further sum Of 5000 attor
neys ices, covenanted therein to be Maid upon far
closure thereo1 and no action OF proceeding has
oeen nstltuted at law to recover any part thereof
Gov therefore,, notice is hereby given that by
virtue OF the power Of sale contained said mort
gage Herewith recorded, and pursuant to statute,
said mortgage will be foreclosed by sale Of said
mortgaged premises, 1t public auction, 1t the
'front.' door Of the Court House, in the city ~ St.
se:n' e9S1 The
said day to pay and satisfy said mortgage debt with
gal costs and charges Of foreclosure. -
BRADFORD L. ROOT.
- Assignee Of said Mortgages,
.~ GEORGE GEIssEL, :
Sheriff Of said Sterns Oo.. Min
l.. ". COLLINS, Attorney. aplS-7w -.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08

England has $3.50, 100000 Of
capital invested in foreign underta-
kings. Notwithstanding the draw
back Of the many Improbable invest
ments in the Southern States, Ameri-
ca has proved her bonanza When
the effects of the panic are fairly over,
the stockholders of the Northern Pa
cific think that English capitalists
can be induced to put in enough
money to insure its completion. The
opening of the Black Hills country
during the coming season will un-
doubtedly be great incentive to
specula te in Northern Pacific stock.