Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
a watch Word-Tick.

Inc pest material for kites is fiy-
paper
BE temperate in your diet. Our first
parents ate themselves out of house and
home.
The educational exhibition at the
Centennial Exposition promises to be
comprehensive.
The man who knows all about drains
and such like sanitary cOntrivances NAV
fairly be ranked as connoissewer.
Prof. Tice had better take warning
and desist from his evil prophecies at
once. His latest ming at the country ia
an announcement that about the 18th of
June there will be terrific gales
Some ingenious observer has discoy-
cred that there is remarkable resem-
blance between baby and wheat, since
i. is Graded, then thrashed, ana finally
becomes the flower of the family
George III. Price, the messenger who
killed the robber in his car on the Pitts
burgh & Fort Wayne Road, few DAYS
since, has been voted 81 900 in gold 6y
his company-the Adams Express
-Signcr Wandarma, a sword -swal-
lower" died recently from inflammation
consequent upon having cut himself in.
ternally while performing at Calais, Me-.
and they that take the sword shall per-
ish by the sword"
The gossipy Ddnburian announces its
dive under the daisies in the announce
ment that "our next issue will be pub
lished by ear" The little paper has
made fair struggle with destiny, but
Danbury is small and the world is cold
On May Mr. Nathaniel Eaton, of
New Hampshire, reached 100 years of
age, but, in celebrating the event, took
cold, and has since died. The curious
thing about Nate was that for all the
first part of his life he was very sickly
lad
The ladies of ST. Louis will hear
with keen satisfaction that Chicago wom-
ems feet have attained such an enor-
nous growth that shOemakers are now
obliged to determine the distance from
heel to toe by triangulation.- Brooklyn
Argus.
Specimen of the value of fame
found in Western paper: wealthy
New Yorker, Mr.. David Linton, pro-
poses to give $4,000 to adorn market.
place, relying, apparently, upon the
vegetable dealers to keep his memory
green"
"A Brooklyn bibliopole has book
published in London in 1870, in the ap-
pendix of which is letter on the social
condition of women, signed rs. b. A."
The fact is interesting, as going to show
that Miss Anthony had probably made
her mark as early as the reign of Queen
Elizabeth.--Boston Adgertiser.
A reverend gentleman, during So
journ among the hills of New Hamp-
shire, stopping at cottage, inquired OF
the occupant ii there were any Episco-
palians in the neighborhood: Il don't
exactly know" replied the dame 81
believe John shot one in the garden last
week; but he thought it was chip
munk''
"A lady who had been teaching her
little four-year-old boy the elements OF
arithmetic was astounded by his run
ming and propounding the following
problem: Mamma, if you had three
butterflies, and each butterfly had a bug
in his ear, how many butterflies would
you have?" The mother is still at work
on the problem.
Bald headed men are only living
little in advance OF their time Accord
ing to Darwin, we are indebted to our
frisky ancestor, the ape, for our hair, and
men with long boards and prolific scalps
ticularly superior to their less lovely fell
low men. 1t may be extinction to the
barber business and blow to human
vanity, but the coming man is to be bald
headed.-Louisyille Courier-Joaana
This is the kind of men they raise in
Massachusetts: Abner Robinson, of
Newburyport, has pointed to a gun over
his fireplace for several years and said
each time: THAT'S the weppin my old
dad carried at Lexington" The other
day at the celebration the Mayor of the
town went to investigate matters, and
after while found that the gun was
breech-loader of the present day and that
Abner's dad had died of black measles
in State Prison.
An Ohio paper says: "The man
who carries the mail at Union City from
the trains to the Office is clever fellow,
but absent minded. The other night the
train was late and he reclined on the
floor, pillowing his head on a dog, while
he held the mailbag in his hand. When
the train came in he awoke, gave the
mailbag kick and seized the dos by
the cuff of the neck and tail and started
for the mail-car. The messenger told
him the dog was not properly stamped"
The St. Louis Globe thus describes
fire in a milliner's shop: "The flames
crowded through the door and started in
for fun. They tried on spring hats and
jumped upon the chairs and tables to adj
mire themselves in the mirrors. Then
they dashed hither and thither among
the laces and embroideries, feeding on
ostrich feathers till they became bloated,
and then trampled the ruches under foot
and stamped the beauties from out the
flowers until In all the wreck of matter
they were left the only bright things"
Young Watson, of Hartford, Conn,
who committed suicide recently, left the
following note among other writings on
the same subject: do we not condemn
keeping the lower animals in useless
suffering? Then why should not TIE in
curably sick, and others to whom life
would always be burden, have the re-
lief of death as soon as possible? In
stead of secretly committing suicide
ought to be able to go to body of ply
sicians, and, after stating my case, be
painlessly put to death, with the full
sympathy and commentator of So