Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

w hen man tells the naked truth ne
must give the bare facts.
Anna Dickinson says that nothing
is so possible as impossibilities.'
The Supreme Court holds that india
rubber tipped pencils are not patentable.
The undertakes of Chicago are adopt
ing new sign. They hang out a fresh
cucumber.
The Sioux Indians want it understood
that the West will be no place for bald
headed men next month.
I'm Cincinnati the vendors cry TIA
Observation-Disclosures In Boston they
cry: Here's yer" and then become
inarticulate.
The Postmaster General has decided
that letters directed TO Arkansaw" shall
go to Arkansas, so don't let that dear old
title go to rust.
They find lots Of hoes, axes and saws
in the ruins of Pompeii, but not so much
as the tip end of a base ball club. Isn't
there deep significance here somewhere
"A pound can of powder exploded in
the house will certainly clear every room
of mosquitoes, but it takes a long time to
get the carpenters and masons around TO
patch up.
-" The best evidence" says the New
York Tribune OF an anonymous CORE
spondent "of the worthlessness of his
opinions is that he declines to be response
bic for Them"
The army-worms have largely in
creased in numbers in Maine. They are
destroying vegetation in every direction,
and the people are trying hard to keep
them from their houses.
The papers are full of cases of drown.
ing, suicide, robbery, burglary, etc, that
are never reported by telegraph. This
country has never been so cursed with
fools and criminals as now.
Pittsburgh people very sensibly ask
the papers not to announce their departure
for summer vacations, as the burglars have
taken TO reading such notices and then
raiding at the deserted houses.
"A tramp made himself obnoxious to a
lady in Hudson, a few days since, by de.
manding money after she had given him
food, and she very quietly shot the
scoundrel with revolver which her hus.
band had conveniently left loaded in Il
bureau drawer.
An exchange says "the Sandwich
Islanders believe that Beelzebub walks
the earth in the form of woman" And
now and then you will find man in this
country who believes So too, and that he
has married the woman. Louisville
Courier-J0urndt
In New York saloon, where some
patent mead Is dispensed, a beehive con-
tanning $4,000 bees, who, so the sign says,
produce the honey from which the mead Is
made, decorate the windows. The bees
are let out every morning for short time
and arc fed on molasses and sugar.
AT Atlanta, Ga, last autumn negro
built a coop six feet by seven, into which
he put dozen partridgcs, the ground be-
ing first covered with grass. During the
winter they thrived in the spring they
mated, laid eggs and Matched out several
broods of young, and the negro now has
about sixty young partridges, all doing
well. They are tame, healthy and seem
10 be contented.
Joaquin Miller has bullets in various
parts of his body which prevent him
| from doing anything but sit in large
| armchair and discourse TO the natives on
poetry. Meanwhile he draws inspiration
through straw. If man asks him TO
play billiards, he says he has a bullet in
his arm If u woman asks him 10 walk, Inc
says he has bullet in his leg; but If any
one, man, woman or child, asks him TO
talk, he does not say he has a bullet in his
brain.
The folly of counting chickens before
they are Matched is nowhere compared
with the credulity OF the folks in Nash.
vile. They have decided that year
from next spring they will have shad Mt
two cents per pound, and they base their
calculations on the fact that large num-
Der OF young shad have been put in the
Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. The
expectation Is that the young fish viii
seek the gulf by the Mississippi River,
and reappcar In due course of time full
grown fish. II were contamination de-
voutly 10 be fished.
"A Chinese proverb says; "Woman's
tongue is sharper than two-edged
sword;' and being furnished by Provi-
dence with such formidable weapon it's
but natural that she should resort to II in
preference to any other, both for offensive
and defensive purposes. Still, instances
where members of the gentier sex emulate
the pernicious example Of the stronger
and punch each others heads are neither
so far nor so few between AZ angels visits.
Dbl az u tutt hhN bhppt'h''ht'u ~
extreme cases by the broom-handle or the
domestic poker, has been found sufficient
to decide the most serious family and
neighoorly differences .-Chicdgo Times.
"A widow who went 10 Paris 10 edu.
cate her children deposited all her money
with Duncan, Sherman & Co., and took
their letters OF credit. She had not $40 in
her possession when notice Of their fail
ure was received and there were rent and
school bills due. Her excitement and
alarm were so great that her friends appre.
hended insanity. There are many teach
ers, students and others In exactly the
same condition, and they are not only in
Paris, but all over the Continent Atleast
four Americans, who heard of the failure
before the news reached the R0thschilds'
agency, secured their money and retired
from Paris TO avoid trouble. One Of the
four was visited by the cashier Of the
agency, who demanded return OF the
money, which was refused A policeman
subsequently escorted the gentleman tothe
American Embassy, where Minister Wash.
burne told the cashier he could not make
an arrest. you can only seize his bag
gage and ] advise you not ~ do that"
The cashier concluded he would wait,
apologized and departed.
"A recent incident on the Ogdensburg
Road IN thus described by the NJ. Adams