Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1T requires as much good common
sense and industry to save crop as to
raise 1t.
Fifty cents worth of lumber and an
hours labor will sometimes save many dol
lars in fuel.
A P ennsylvania court has decided
chat will written with slate pencil is
worthless.
| The youth becomes man the very
day he begins to feel uneasy at the idea of
being dependent ON another.
-" Going through life without sduca-
ton Is like trying to sew boots without
waxed-ends," says wise old shoemaker.
The Boston girls are determined to
know what is written on fire-crackers and
tea-chests, and so a Boston normal school
is teaching them Chinese.
A youth called at the West Albanian
| office one day and after watching them
set type while he said to one of the typos:
You use heap o. four-penny nailsr'
-" Why is it," asks an exchange, "that
| cripples are such bad natured peoplep"
We don't know, but they certainly are not
| to blame for being little crutchetty
The down-East Judge who decided
that an umbrella is personal property and
cannot be stolen with impunity is a great
| deal better posted in law than In fact
An old man in Georgia claims to have
pair of suspender- buckles which he has
worn constantly for fifty years, his father
having worn them for twenty-five years
| previous.
The colored walters who were recently
taken from the East to minister to the
wants of the guests at the San Francisco
Palace Hotel were given reception and
ball by the leading members of the ton in
| colored society.
The innumerahle suggestions made
| TO the Army Signal Service are a proof of
the keenness with which the lack of OBJ
servers is felt in almost every field of sci
ence. The latest is that the observers
should note the flight of birds.
"A few days after the gale which pre-
vailed along the Texan coast sea gulls
were captured at Marysville, Mo. They
Were blown inland, and, becoming lost,
kept flying in search of salt water until
compelled to light from exhaustion.
A piece of charcoal boiled in the
water with high meat or fowls will
render ii or them quite sweet A piece of
charcoal, or powdered charcoal, should
be kept in every larder. Hams, after being
smoked, may be kept for any length of
time packed in powdered charcoal.
Upon being promised penny by his
mother if he would take dose of castor.
oil, a bad little boy obtained the money,
and then told his parent that she might
east her oil" into the street He will
make Il humorous newspaper paragraphist
one of these days.
"A New York man who wore pair of
very dirty gloves to II party explained
honestly and promptly rs Il reason for do
ing SO, that the smell of benzine used in
cleaning gloves is very disagreeable.
Thus will an unselflsh man sacrifice his
personal appearance for the comfort of
others.
"A number Of farmers in the southern
section OF New Jersey have recently been
badly swindled in the purchase Of adul-
terated guano. The largest part proved
TO be coarse sand and gravel. The article
was sold to the farmers IN the original
packages and the fraud was not discov-
cred until the bags were opened,
England is actually shivering ut the
thought that her stock of fuel will last
only $50 years longer. In 1863 II calcu.
lation was made by some mathematicians
who felt alarmed ut the limited amount of
coal in English mines, and il Is now stated
that the country consumes hundred
million tons OF coal year beyond the es-
innate then made.
When lovely woman, once so jolly,
Finds late Ia life that hair grows gray,
How make her case less melancholy,
How hide Times step that none can stay?
The only way his track 10 cover,
To mask her age from every eye,
And II she have spoon for lover,
To keep him still spoons" is-to dyel
Always be courteous. The maxim
was uppermost In the mind of the lady
who, wishing 10 say a lively thing, ex-
claimed "What "A lovely bOyl just tho
image OF his father" kneeling in simu-
lated enthusiasm beside the cradle where
she supposed the babe was sleeping, when,
to her confusion, the cat sprang from the
cot and cut short her eulogium.
An old lady who has travelled much
says that the employees on Western rail
roads are much more polite than those in
the East. AT the East conductors are
usually the pets of some Director or OFF,
Ger Of the road who recognize no obliga'
ton 10 the public. AT the West are ioand
men who have gained their position by
actual merit and promotion. They don't
swell about with fine clothes and heavy
jewelry but understand their business and
consider courteous treatment due 10 NIL.
"A London chemist recently analysed
"a man and presented the result OF his in
yestigations as far as possible in n palpa-
Bile form before his audience at one of his
lectures. The man weighed 1881 pounds.
The chemist exhibited on the platform
23l pounds of carbon, % pounds of lime,
22.3 ounces of phosphorus, and about one
ounce each of sodium, iron, potassium,
magnesium and silicon. lie apologized
for not exhibiting also $685. cubic feet of
oxygen, 10000 cubic feet OF hydrogen
and 81 cubic feet OF nitrogen.
"A civil suit which promises some
very interesting developments was begun
in New York court few days ago. s.
&. Archer sued the receiver Of the Ocean
Bank 10 recover the value of $4,000 In
United States bonds which he had In the
bank on special deposit when II was
robbed In June, 1859. The Directors
claimed that band OF burglars had robbed
the bank Of $3.50, 900 In special deposits Of
United States bonds, which they refused