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

in rchness as the shaft goes down. Inc
lhtest ASSAY, made few days ago, yielded
Al the rate of more than %, OOO to the
ton. Six hundred feet OF land, on the
Boynton lode, have been sold for $l6O,OOO
to Springfield parties.
The farmers are bringing into the
Hartford market the skins OF animals
shot and trapped by them during the
winter. and there is considerable fur-buy-
ing: mink skins bring about four dollars
apiece. and skunk skins are in brisk de-
mand, ranging in price from % cents to
81. The skins are sent to New York 70
be made up.
The fine wool sheep, formerly the
pride of Vermont farmers, as well as
source of wealth, have almost diaap-
peared from the State. Those who still
continue shesp-raising have now three or
four "clips" on hand, with little prospect
of selling at living price. The dairy
business is now one of the best paying
in the State, and the demand for Yer
mont cheese is constantly increasing.
Foreign GOSSIP.
"A Vienna lawyer is to be prosecuted
for "excess of duty in defending
client"
in Germany it is personal insult to
dun debtor by means of postal cards,
and the law affords remedy.
--Charirart pictures France as lady
lately paralyzed who begins to get about
on crutches called constitutional laws.
in France a man has been con-
demned for libel which he wrote with
q sharp stick on the skin of green
pumpkin growing in the fields.
If you were living in Alexandria,
Egypt, and had boy, and wanted to i'm
prove his syntax, you could send him TO
/" Ismail Pacha Grammar School No. l."
Many dead bodies of Chinese were
taken from the wreck Of the Pacific Mail
steamship Japan, all of which were kept
under water by the money fastened about
them.
"A fellow with queer name has just
arrived in Paris with a diamond worth
100000 francs, which he accidentally
found in an abandoned mine near the
Cape Of Good Hope.
--Mdlle. Estelie, of Paris, gentle Great
ure, bit out half mans cheek recently.
And the worst of it was she made mis-
take in the man. Without lovely woman
the world would be bleak desert.
Sophia Bruce, lineal descendent of
Robert Bruce, has not the same love OF
spiders that her ancestor had. She is a
domestic servant in Nova Scotia family
and sweeps away cobwebs without COM
junction.
They make happy disposition of
persons inclined to suicide in Middlesex,
England. At the Hanwell Asylum 400
patients of suicidal tendency have been
received during the past year, and the
product of their industry saved the coun-
try over sec, 900.
"A nun has just died in Paris at the
age of ninety years whose teeth were
completely renewed a few years ago.
The same phenomenon occurred when
she was forty-seven years of age, and
again at sixty three she had found her
self in possession of perfectly new and
regular set of teeth.
MIR. Rosenthal, the celebrated French
chess-player, recently played, at the
Palais Royal, twenty seven games OF
chess at once with that number of the
best French and foreign players. 1t was
stipulated that Mr.. Rosenthal should
have only one minute for each move,
passing along the twenty-seven tables in
order. Mr.. r. won twenty-three games.
"A Partisan named Mohammed Mira
was confined in sack with a cat, a
rooster and viper, to be cast into the
sea. His executioners forgot to search
him, and as soon as the mouth of the
sack was closed he drew knife and
slew the viper An hour later, when
thrown into the water, he ripped open
the sack, swan of, and escaped.
"A novel suicide is reported from
Paris: An elderly man living in the
Louvre quarter having stopped up all
the holes in his room and arranged his
affairs turned on the gas, shut the door,
and went out for an hours walk. He
then returned, got lighted candle from
the house porter, and proceeded to his
room, which he opened suddenly. An
explosion, of course, followed, and the
man was burned almost to cinder.