Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The last acrobatic accident-The fall
OF the leaf.
California is beginning to get its
rainy season.
"A New Orleans goat can play euchre
and seven-up.
The Silly Season"-The honey.
moon.-Punch
Twenty tons of roasted coffee find sale
in New York city weekly.
In Worcester, Mass, the police pro-
hibited pool-selling on the election.
Mature has turned out an entirely
hairless horse in Mclean County, Ky.
The tobacco crop in Lancaster County,
IA, viii amount TO about 80, 900 cases.
Seeing is not believing. There are
many men who can see yet cannot be-
iieye.
Two hundred dollars were paid tor
American GIRLS shoes. And vet people
say these are hard times.
An odd marriage is reported in Bland
County, Va, that of Mr.. Allen Hannah
and Miss Hannah Allen.
A Kentuckian thinks he has attained
the height of human happiness in the pos
session of wife eight feet three inches
tall.
Dawson johnson, fourteen year old
coored boy, has been sentenced TO State
Prison for life in Lexington, Ga, for
arson.
Losses on vessels and cargoes by the
recent gales on the Northwestern lakes
up to latest accounts aggregate nearly
$S0o, 900.
Fewer flounces are to be worn than
usual. The overdress SO nearly conceals
the skirt beneath it that there is very little
room for trimmings.
Connecticut people are writing their
dogs names in the hotel registers because
law has been passed enacting that all
dogs must bc registered.
An aggregate of Z 1875 women are en-
ployed in the different manufacturing es.
adjustments in Chicago, at wages ranging
from 50 to $40 per week.
The California trade with Australia
now employs more ships and more tonnage
than with any other portion of the world,
with the single exception of China.
-" Harry, I cannot think" says Dick,
" What makes my ankles grow 20 thick
" You do not recollect," says Harry,
" How great calfthey have to carry"
Mrs. Darlington desires TO know why
the Captain of vessel can't keep memo.
randum of ale weight of his anchor, in.
stead of weighing 1t every time he leaves
port,
The first death il. the Gunnison Val.
ley Coli settlement occurred the other
day. A little girl was accidentally shot
by her little brother AS he was playing
with pistol
49," Mamie" said mother To little
six-year. old, If was little girl like
you would pick up all those chips"
We'll, mamma" said the little one,
amt you glad you are not little girlY'
Since the accident 10 the Vanguard,
which developed the fact that the best
iron -clads are not invulnerable, the Brit
sh Admiralty has ordered two new naval
monsters, whereat John Bull shows great
wrath.
--" Neuralgia" Is the charming name
Of charming girl in Wales. Her moth.
er found il on a medicine bottle and was
captivated with its sweetness. So some
young man is doomed to suffer neuralgia
of the heart.
From sixty TO seventy marble monu.
ments, hcadstoncs, footstones and granite
ornaments In Oak Hill Cemetery, Woon-
socket, Il. L., were overturned, broken
and defaced by some graceless vandals a
few nights ago.
New Orleans young men, says the
Bukletfn, :" are thinking seriously OF ccas.
ing their visits to all houses where they
are compelled TO entertain the whole fam
lily in order to see the young lady whose
society they desire TO cultivate"
TO know how 10 keep tidy house
and well-aired apartments; TO know how
to select the best kinds of food to know
how to prepare them in the best manner,
these are the first things, and every
daughter should learn them before mar
riage.
An angry lawyer 10 New Orleans
court uplifted an inkstand 10 throw il at an
opponent, spilled the ink all over himself,
and missed his enemy altogether. The
presiding Judge said there had been con.
tempt of court, but the ofiense had in
volycd sufficient punishment.
Pretty Sally Softeyes brought the man
she loved to the popping point by say.
ing TO him, while CLEANS OF loVelight shot
from her halfshut eyes (" | have had two
offers of marriage. The first did not
please me and, as for the second, II
have superstitious regard for odd num-
bers."
Young lovers quarrels always bring
about the same result Here IS Ann Con.
molly, aged seventy.fiye years, Of San
Francisco, suing for divorce from her
husband Henry, aged sevcnty.three, be.
cause the young man wouldn't give up
using tobacco, AS he agreed 10 do when
" he went counting she"
"A plucky woman Is Mrs. McKeen,
daughter of the late Capt. James Burgess,
OF Belfast, Me. Her husband, who com.
manded a Philadelphia vessel, dying on
the voyage to Genoa, she assumed com
mand, put in al Fayal and procured
metallic coffin, In which she placed his
remains, continued In command 10 Genoa,
and attended TO disposing Of the cargo.
"A Davenport man has reduced dice
throwing TO science Al a rattle for two
horses the other day, IN which high.dice
was 10 take one horse and low-dice the
other, two parties requested him To throw
high-dicc for them. He did 80 and threw
forty three for each of them, and the tie
was decided by one of the parties paying
the other 81, and taking the horse. Then
another employed the same thrower to
throw low-dice for him, and he threw
eighteen, winning the second horse.
A writer in the poTy,tl1r Scyeues Month