Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The first thing the magnet ever at
racted--attention
Il society for ameliorating the condi-
non OF jurymen has been organized in
New York.
When will the sanitary authorities
wake up To the most terrible of evils, and
pass a law prohibiting BARRIERS from eating
onionss
in nest of robins found on the
farm of Oscar Wortiell, North Dartmouth,
Mass, are three white and one cream col
ored. The old birds are of the common
hue.
Two young girls of Reading, Pa, who
INDUCED in the sport OF stealing flowers
from the gardens in that city, have been
held in the sum of $500 each In the Mayor
to answer the charge of malicious mis-
chief
They say that baby was born bald
headed and that it seems old in voice
though young otherwise. But it has such
Sartoristocratic way about il that its
mother don't feel like blaming it for those
defects.
In an editorial article in its issue of
the 18th inst. the New York World de.
bated the desiability of ruling the city by
a vigilance committee, in view of the in.
sufhciency and corruption of the police
department
The Milwaukee Neacs celebrated the
national holiday by declaring that George
Washington told an English tourist that
the mosquitoes on Lake Champlain could
bite through thick boot" There's
patriotism!
-" Teamr' Team Team Yes,
keep right on, you blasted noodle-heads,
speaking of half dozen rifiemen as a
team. 1t doesn't hurt anybody out this
way, and perhaps il makes you feel good.
--DaroH Free Press
"A Boston gentleman, while making a
speech, inadvertently stepped forward and
| of the platform. In response To the peals
| OF laughter that greeted his unlucky fall,
he claimed that any speaker had "A right
to come down TO the level of his audi.
| ence."
Having frequently appealed to his
father to buy him jack-kniic, and receiv-
ing for a final answer: " If you speak to
me again on that subject I'll whale you"
he went straightway to his mother, crying
| rs if his heart would break, and said II
can't never be good like George Washing
ton, with such "a dad as I've got"
A correspondent says: The name OF
| a color is elephant breath You have per
haps heard of it, for it was four months
| ago. If you have not seen it, you can
imagine the exact shade of an elephants
| breath-or, for the matter OF that, of any
| animals breath. 1t is sort of dirty
brown. 1t is, of course, AN expensive
color.
-Four of Chicago's morning newspaper
| reporters went up among the clouds in
| balloon with Prof Donaldson yesterday.
They were terribly frightened when they
| were going up--and no wonder. The
| morning paper reporters are so used to
| diving down among Chicago's hells at
night that going upward into pure atmos-
| phere and toward heaven was IA new and
| startling sensation
The Superintendent of Schools in the
| Cherokee Nation says that the greatest
want Of the Indian schools is supply of
competent teachers. The Greeks and
| Seminoles have mixed schools; but the
| Cherokees have separate schools for freed.
| men, which number about ten, and are on
| the increase The interest on the part OF
the Indian freedmen to secure the benefits
1 vi IL 10 cuii aHiOhuNH w
siasm.
"A funny controversy has been going on
between the Boston and New York agents OF
| the Associated Press. Boston telegraphed
several days ago that Mrs. Atocha, wife OF
Judge Aiocha, of New Orleans, had died
in that city New York responds that 1t
is all cherry tree;" the lady is living in
that city; Boston replies the next day that
New York has got things mixed" and,
as clincher, announces that the funeral
services take place today A days 81
lcnce and then New York again responds
that there is evidently something wrong
with the man at the Hub, for f." Mrs. Alto
cha is living at 80 West Twenty sixth
street, in this city New York;, and was
there at breakfast this morning" This
funny controversy must be exceedingly re.
freshing to Mrs. Atocha, the living, and
her relations