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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
How the Spider Builds.

Having first decided upon the general
location of her net, the spider probably
takes position head downward on the
"leeward" side of small twig or
branch, or upon its top, and then, turn
ing her abdomen outward, expresses
from her spinners drop of gum, which
instantly dries SO as to form fine end
of a silken thread. This is taken by the
wind (and careful experiments have
proved that current of wind is abso-
lutely necessary to the extension of the
line) and wafteda outward, waving from
side to side, and usually tending upward
from its extreme lightness, until at last it
touches some other branch at a greater
or less distance from the first When
this stoppage is perceived by the spider
she turns about and pulls in the slack
line until she is sure the other end is
fast. If it yields, she tries again and
again until successful. If it holds, she
attaches her end firmly by pressing her
spinners upon the wood, so as to include
the line. The first and most important
step in the construction of all geometri-
cal nets has now been taken, and the spi-
der can meet with no serious difficulty in
completing her task.-Pr0f. Wilder, IN
POpuIar Science M01t]tLy.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Interesting and Important Discoveries
In France.

WE learn from La Forge (Aube) that
an interesting discovery has just beef
made in Les Corbieres by the engineer
of the copper and lead mines near
Tuchan. Having remarked at the top of
the mountain which overlooks the village
of Padern grotto presenting the char
acter of dwelling of the prehistoric
epoch, researches were made, which have
been crowned with complete success
BY the side of fragments Of skeletons of
wild animals and of human bones, the
abundance of which shows long series
of generations, the subterranean excava-
tons have brought to light articles of
rudely-constructed pottery, daggers made
of sharpened bones, and, above all,
pieces Of shell carved into hooks and
pierced with hole, 30 rs to be hung
round the neck of the ewner, evidently
serving for knives in those remote ages.
The use of tools made of shell is a fact
which has not yet been demonstrated In
the antediluvian caverns. 1t would lead
to the supposition that the vast plains Of
LIE RousilIon, from Perpignan as far as
the environs of Estagal, were formerly
the bed of the sea, and that the alluvium
of the Tet and the Agly Is relatively re-
cent All the objects discovered have
been offered by M. Barnier to the Museum
of Natural History at Toulouse.-Galig-
r0nfs Messenger.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Two "SOld" Bellies.

A NEW YORK correspondent writes;
ain Fifth avenue boarding house OF
great pretension dwells Mrs. H. and
a Mrs. E., two airy females who live
for no other purpose than to see other
folks clothes and get new ones for them
selves. A gentleman boarder had bust
ness with very worthy, plain, old fell
low, and for q few weeks had him to
board in the house. Common clothes
and clumsy manners afforded vast amuse-
ment to the two fair ladies. They
te-he-ed and grimaced at almost every
move the old man made, till at last the
worthy mans patron thought he'd turn
the tide. He encountered Mrs. H,
and in a careless way introduced the
subject, regretting that MIR. - did not
take more pains with his costume, he
worth in the neighborhood of five or six
millions. The bait took. The other
lady asked a confederate Of the first gen
tleman if it was really possible Mr.. -
was worth as much, and the party ad-
dressed said he thought large fortunes
were usually overestimated, but he pre-
sumed, were he forced to sell, he would
come out with three or four millions
from his stocks; about his real estate he
knew nothing. That night at dinner the
two ladies were ELUSIVE in their atten-
ton. The old gentleman passed
most of the evening in the pri-
vate parlor of one of them, the
most honored of the many guests.
One of the ladies had him out to
ride in her sleigh, and after q few days
poor old Mr.. -, who had announced
himself wldower, was being actually
courted by Mrs. H. Mrs. H. had box
during the Kellogg season at the oper a
and often and often the old Wall street
man was its occupant. When illusions
were made to investments and stocks, in
his simple way he joked, never thinking
their inquiries were made in any other
spirit than that of fun. Alasl this week
Mrs. H. and Mrs. E., sitting at the dinner
table one night, shedding their sweetest
smiles on Mr.. Solid Man, happened to
mention they were going to Brooklyn the
next morning. Up speaks the old man I:
II you are going up Fulton street you
must stop and buy bouquet of my
daughter; she keeps aflorist's shop pretty
near Montague street Your daughter
keep a florist shop?' exclaimed both
ladies. Certainly, ma'am, returned the
Wall street man. After gave up my
nursery out IN Flushing Hannah made
arrangements with my successor to be
furnished with flowers, and she's done a
good business ever since Well, the
whole table laughed, taking in the stu
alton at once. Such pair of discom-
flied women one seldom sees. They
have driven out every day since and cut
the solid man and his patron dead from
the awful hour when they discovered
how sweetly they had been Sold"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22

and forsaken. 1t disarms malice. sinh.
dues temper, turns enmity to love and re-
venge to kindness.
BY processes lately invented the
leaves or needles" of pine trees are
woven into coarse flannel, for which
valuable curative properties are claimed
They are also employed as a substitute
for hair in upholstering furniture; and
by other methods they are made to weld
q medical oil, refuse being left from
which an Illuminating gas can be oh
tanned, or 1t may be compressed into
suitable shape for fuel.
"A cherished belief in the minds of
New Hampshire people was ruthlessly
destroyed at Concord recently, when
George G. Emory read long article
proving that Kearsarge Mountain, which.
tradition said, received its name from
a tough, old, leather-leggined hunter
named Hezekiah Sargent, who hunted on
its sides as early as 1850. took its name
from the Indians; that it means Notch
pointed mountains of pines !" that the
name is traced back on records of 1926;
and moreover, that Kiah Sargent is prob
ably myth, anyway.
I'm 1871 lady, residing in an East
ern State, adopted an infant from the
nursery on Randall's Island This LADY
recently died, and by the terms of her
will she bequeaths to the boy, after pay
ing several legacies, the balance of her
property, amounting to about $50, 600
Until he becomes of age the income of
the property will be appropriated for his
support, after which he will receive
$1,000 year until he is thirty years of
age, when the entire property falls to him
The child is now residing with a respect
able family, and is reported as very bright
and healthy.
1T is terrible, this spelling mania.
You are stopped upon the street and in
vited to spell pedler, or pedlar, or ped
dler, or some other word. Your wife
wakes you up in the middle of the night
to spell sarcophagus; your children
hasten to the breakfast table to ask you
to spell corymb, and you devote all your
spare time to the dictionary; and your
oldest boy comes home late at night in a
weeping mood, and explains it thus: 81
went to see Mary (his sweetheart this
evening; she met me at the door with
Spell erysipelas, Tomp l spelled it
with two is and no y, and she said,
Sir, our engagement is at an end can
not love more a bad speller.' Her
father, on being appealed to, says Give
Tom one more trial. Spell consanguine-
GUS, SIR Ispelled it with four ms and
two is, and he babe me leave the house
and never hope to be his son-in-law. "
This spell of weather is bad weather OF
spell surely.-Boston Traveller.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22

has sentenced Daniel Pratt, convicted Of
writing obscene matter on postal cards, TO
! the State Prison for two and a half years.
Women are now eligible TO appointment as
Notaries- Public in Illinois, the late State
| Legislature having passed an act to that
| effect, which has been signed by the Governor.
At the annual Mormon Church Conference
| at Salt Lake on the 10th Brigham Young was
reelected prophet, seer, revelator and Presi-
dent.
The National Industrial Congress met In
| Indianapolis on the 18th, twenty-eight dele
gates being in attendance.
A seventeen ear-old girl named Katie Hess,
living about eight miles north OF Kirby,
Ohio, a few evenings ago hurried up the fire
In the cook-stove by pouring kerosene oil
upon it, when the inevitable explosion fol-
lowed, and she was so badly burned that she
died in about two hours. The building and
contents were entirely destroyed.
Commander Leroy Fitch, OF the United
States navy, died at his residence in Logans'
port, Ind, on the 18th.
A young man named Fred Brandenburgh
aged about eighteen years, was found dying
from starvation and exhaustion under pile
of lumber, in San Francisco, on the morning
of the 18th. He stated before his death that
he crawled under the lumber nine days before
Other lumber was piled around, stopping his
egress.
The Industrial Congress in session at In
dianapolis adopted declaration OF principles
on the 14th, and also unanimously passed
resolutions condemning the lockout Of the
men employed In the mining regions OF Pern-
sylvania, "by a combination of six monster
coal mining and carrying corporations,
because unwilling to accept reduc-
ton Of 30 or 40 per cent. Of their wages,
for which reduction there is no real justifca-
tion," and requesting all organized bodies Of
workingmen throughout the country to for
ward to the treasurer of the congress as gen.
erous financial assistance as their circum-
stances will permit, to be applied to the re.
lief Of victims of the alleged conspiracy on
the part Of said companies.
The Republican State Convention Of Cali
fornia is to be held at Sacramento on the Goth
OF June.
The Louisiana Legislature met at noon on
the 14th, and was, says New Orleans dis
patch Of that date, the most orderly for many
years. The Conservative members were
sworn in. A resolution was adopted In the
House referring the claims Of those who are
included In the award to the Committee on
Elections. Both parties seemed to accept the
award without opposition. Gov. Kellogg's
message was long and elaborate.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
West and South.

The officers In charge Of the approaching
reunion In Chicago of the Army of the Republic
have unanimously agreed to a resolution ex-
tending an invitation to "all the surviving SOL
ders and sailors OF the late war throughout
the country who regard the flag Of the United
States as the emblem Of undivided and indi-
visible nationality" to meet with them on that
occasion. The reunion occurs on the 18th,
18th, 18th and 18th of May.
Patrick O'Shea was hanged at st. Louis on
the 9th for the murder Of his wife In that city
little over year ago.
Hon. Ben. Wade has written letter de-
clining to be candidate for the Governor
ship Of Ohio. He gives three reasons: First
His voice is so used up that he Is not able to
make speech Second--He has recorded an
oath that he will never take the stump for,
or In favor of, an office for which he is can
didate, and this oath alone would bar him.
Third-He cannot well afford to take the po-
sition.
A destructive tornado passed over Ed
inburgh, Ill.,, on the 9Th. One church
was crushed to atoms and five dwellings were
blown down. Some twenty young ladies and
gentlemen and children were In the church
at the time the wind struck 1t, and all of
them were more or less injured, many of
them quite seriously. On the same evening
a similar visitation was experienced near
Little Rock, Ark, by which trees were up
rooted and seven houses destroyed. Mrs.
Jones was killed and her two daughters seri-
ously injured.
IN 1T II &ah N
Agency to Gen. Pope, received at Lenven-
worth on the 10th, gives the particulars OF the
revolt at that agency on April 8. While the
guards were attempting to iron one OF the
Stone Calf Indians the prisoner broke away.
The guards fired and hit him. This pro-
voked several shots from the camp Of
the hostile Cheyennes, causing great
CONSERVATION. The hostile Indians, men,
women and children, to the number Of
two thousand, fled to the Sand Hills.
The friendly Indians stood true. Capt. Raj
ferty, In command of sixty cavalrymen, was
sent in pursuit Of the fugitives. He was
reinforced by Gen. Neill with three COM
panies. Owing to the depth of the sand,
the troops had to dismount and charge
on foot The Indians held their position In
the hills until night and then reiterated under
cover of darkness. The troops were repulsed
three times, with loss of six MORALLY and
ten slightly wounded. Gen. Pope at once
started all the available troops from Hayes,
Dodge and North Fork environments to inter-
cept the fugitive Indians, mostly unarmed.
Mr.. w. H. Harper, the Chief Grain Inspector
of Chicago, has been suspended from office by
the Governor because Of certain alleged dis
crepancies in his fiscal accounts. He has, by
advice Of his bondsmen and lawyer, refused to
yield up his books and assets
A Salt Lake dispatch Of the 18th states that
the trial of John d. Lee and w. fl. Dame for
connection with the Mountain Meadow mas
saere win not take place the present term Of
court. They were arraigned and pleaded not
guilty, their counsel asking for immediate
trial, but the prosecution was not ready.
The United States District Court, ct Detroit,
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Industrial.

--Borax Lake, California, is fifteen
miles long by seven to nine miles wide,
and contains q deposit of borax OF almost
incalculable value, enough, 1t is said, to
supply the world.
The wool interest, which has been
making rapid strides in California, Is
constantly strengthened by importation
of thoroughbred sheep. So large are the
demands for blooded sheep that many
breeding farms have already been estab-
lished.
The ore from the Newburyport
(Mass.) silver mine, it is said, increases
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Personal and Literary.

President Grant recently purchased
SAC, 900 worth Of real estate in Prince
Georges County, Md, few miles from
Washington, to use as stock farm.
III. B. Clafiin, the eminent dry goods
merchant, werth, il is estimated, from
SO, 900 900 to $15 ,000, 900, commenced the
world with nothing but energy, deter
mination and hope, and see how munif-
Gently he has invested them.
Brown, the famous sexton of Grace
Church, New York, began life as car
penter. He is now worth 100000 the
accumulation for the last twenty years
of his salary as sexton and the fees
given him by attendants at the church.
The brakeman who attended ex-Sen-
ator Nye to Richmond has been present
ed by the ex-Senator's daughter with q
pair of handsome gold sleeve-buttons.
Virtue is its own reward; but articles Of
this kind are never TO he merely sneezed
at.
Senator Frelinghuysen, who has
long borne the reputation of being a
clear, deliberate, unhesitating speaker,
is known (says the Philadelphia Press) to
write out his addresses carefully, and
commit them to memory before de-
livery.
The Troy Times says of the parri-
eide, Frank H. Walworth, in the Auburn
Insane Asylum: HE appears to be slow
" wasting away, and his health certain
ly is rapidly declining. Epilepsy in an
aggravated form is his principal ailment.
His mother, who visits him at intervals,
is weighed down with grief at his de-
plorabie condition, and her interviews
with her wretched son are described as
most tenderly pathetic"
The Hon. Ebert Herring, of New York,
was ninety EIGHT years old on April 8, and
is the oldest practicing lawyer in the
world. Mr.. Herring has lived in New York
for more than ninety years, was admitted
to the bar in 1898, and was q Judge of the
Marine Court the year Napoleon became
Emperor of France. Charles O'Conor,
now an old and illustrious man, was q
student in his Office. Mr.. Herring was
also Commissioner of Indian Affairs-the
first that held the position.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Religious and Educational.

The death is announced of Rev. John
W. Roberts, Bishop of the Methodist
Church in Liberia. Bishop Roberts was
a Virginian and a negro, and had been in
Liberia since 1888. He is spoken of as a
man of fine character and excellent abil-
tiles.
The Episcopal Church in the United
States comprises fifty Bishops, five Bish-
ops-elect, 3,O85 priests and Deacons, 2,75O
parishes, 273O82 communicates, 23,007
Sunday school teachers, 225, 1913 Sunday
school scholars. Contributions during
the year, $685., 983.27.
The Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, in =
letter to his brothers Christian Union,
says: cable preaching, by itself, pro-
duces laziness, sponginess, sentimental
ism in the pews." He argues that the
members of a church as well as the
preacher need something to do.
Though Swedenborg, the founder of
the New Jerusalem Church, was Swede,
very little has been done for the propa-
CATION of his peculiar faith in his native
country, owing to the lack of religious
federation. Since the passage of the
federation act" society of sixty mem
bers has been organized in Stockholm.
Southern papers have an account of
a wonderful series of revivals in the val
ley of Virginia, which has been in prog
ress since last summer, in connection
with the labors of Rev. G. N. Howard.
In some places nearly the whole of the
adult population has been converted, the
ministers of all denominations co-operat-
ing with him. Such extensive revivals
were never experienced in that. section
of country.
AT q late teachers meeting in Provi-
dence the Superintendent, speaking of
schoolroOm work, criticised the lack of
life and animation which he had some
times observed, impressing the thought
that dull, listless pupils would result
from want of life and sympathetic in
terest in the teacher. He also depre-
Gated the teaching Of abstract rules be-
fore the illustrations OF them were un-
derstood, and urged thoroughness id that
which Is really to be learned.
The deficient instruction of the pub
lie schools is severely criticised by the
Baltimore american. 1.-THE biographies,
histories, grammars and textbooks of
mathematics and the elementary books
of scientific instruction have, as a
whole" it says, "not been nearly so
much improved as might reasonably be
expected within this generation. Rules
are still crude and dogmatic, the parrot
fashion is still prevalent in teaching,
and the machinery Is not essentially
changed. It has been on trial for long
time, and nobody can deny that with
vast majority Of pupils it confers only 3
very superficial education. The problem
of breaking away from old forms and
erecting new methods on more intel
ligent foundation is both intricate and
difficult, but 1t is one that is confronting
all intelligent people, and must continue
to excite still deeper interest"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Miscellaneous.

May we voter" lisped the fair
daughters Of England the other day, and
gruff old Parliament, bringing down its
equity foot with stamp, unciviliy an
swered "Nol"
"A smile costs the giver nothing; yet
ii is beyond price to the erring and re-
penting, the sad and cherries, the lost
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

About fifteen months ago B. r. Rob-
inson, of 6augus, Mass, stepped upon q
needle. which entered his foot and broke
off. troubling him for @ long time. Recent
ly he felt pain in his ankle and pulled out
the needle, which was three-fOurths OF
an inch long, and had traversed nine
inches through his foot since the acci-
dent.
"A physician Of New Bedford, Mass,
recently performed the operation of tax
ing out the right eye of Frederick U. Rip
lev, and found among the fragments Of
the membrane of the eye single nail,
perfect in all its parts, One-half an inch
in length, which had been In the eye forty
years, and had destroyed the sight dur
ing that time. The iris had become COM
pletely ossified.
Rev. Patrick A. Shields, Catholic
priest, was arrested recently in Chico
pee, Mass, for drunkenness. While in
the lookup he attempted to commit sui.
eide by cutting his throat with pieces of
q glass bottle which was given him filled
with wster. The wounds were not suf-
ficient to cause death, but he died next
day in consequence, it is thought, of hav-
ing swallowed pieces of glass. He was
twenty-nine years old.
Since the Yale faculty have become
experts In the detection of all sorts OF
underhand communications between the
students in the class and examination
rooms, the students have resorted to the
deaf and dumb alphabet. 1t Is now pro-
posed by the faculty to require all stu
dents to wear mittens at the Rotations
and examinations.
"A Portland me man couldn't find
his coat the other morning, and finally
went to his business in an old one. Dur
ing the day his wife found the coat in
the servant girls room. A row was i'm
minent until it was discovered that he
had left the coat in the sitting-room the
night before, and when the girl came in
she threw her shawl upon it, without no.
tlcing it, and when she went upstairs
had picked up coat and shawl together.
Prof. F. w. Walker died at his resi-
dence in Brooklyn, recently, from the
effects of dose of fluid extract of hem
lock, taken by advice of his physician.
He procured an ounce vial of that medi-
cine, and, going home, took it according
to his instructions, and, calling his wife
to him, dictated to her description of
his symptoms under the operation OF the
drug. This dictation of symptoms was
his invariable habit when taking medi-
cines prescribed by physicians. or taken
under his own course of treatment, he
having, at times, been his own physician.
The dictation was begun at 4:10, and was
closed as follows: At $40 p. m, nausea
and twitchin gs OF the right side; trouble
to articulate; eyes closed; fullness
almost to suffocation in the throat;
pulse about sixty. Here MIR. Walker
stopped and asked for some water. Mrs.
Walker started to get some coffee, and
had partly prepared it, when on return
ing to the room to see how her husband
was she was alarmed to find him unccn-
scious. A physician was Immediately
summoned and arrived at the house, but
the professor was then dead. Mr.. Walker
was Past Grand Master in the Masonic
fraternity in Illinois.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
General News Summary.


Congressman Wheeler arrived in Washing
ton on the 9th, en- route for New Orleans, to
aid in carrying ont the terms Of the Louisiana
compromise.
The President has appointed Richard Gibbs,
Of New York, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that money temporarily borrowed by a
banker in the course OF business Is not taxa
BILE as capital.
Several warrants were issued on the 10th
for the arrest OF clerks in the Postofice De.
partment implicated In the recently discov-
cred frauds In that department. J. J. Kinds,
the contractor implicated, had given ball.
Two clerks who confessed their participation
in the frauds were held as witnesses against
persons who persisted In denying their guilt
Treasurer Spinner, on the 18th, received an
autograph letter from the President accepting
his resignation as Treasurer OF the United
States. and expressing for him the warmest
sentiments OF regard, personally, and high
appreciation Of his probity, patriotism and
official integrity
A Washington special OF the 14th says a
Suspicious person, VINO n"u uoon in"s
around the White House for several days, had
been arrested by detectives, and loaded re-
yolyer found on his person. 1t is supposed
he had designs on the life OF President Grant
He gave the name OF John 8. Lockhart, OF
Indiana, and was believed to be crazy, and
was sent to an insane asylum by recon-
mendation Of physicians.
It is stated that all Of the clerks In the Post
Office Department implicated in the recent
mail contract frauds have been dismissed by
the Postmaster. General