Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
AN over-sea.er-A sailor.

which explains why 1t always begins a
tome.
Those lightning mail-cars are light
co lored, and when III rapid motion look
like flying bank,
When printers are taken into custody
they are reported as having their :" forms"
prematurely locked up"
A Kentucky editor tells another that
if his head WIS as red as his nose he would
remind one of bow-legged carrot sur
mounted by cockade.
/ DO yea know that if you spoil a
stamped envelope when addressing it you
can get the value in stamps by presenting
it at the Postoffice? You can.
The ordinary husband never could
tell which end of a bonnet was which,
and now he does not need TO. Fashion
SO trims them this fall that they may be
worn reversed
All the varieties of the maple, hand.
some and desirable as they are, are very
much subject to the sun-scald and the at
| tacks of the borer The same may be
said of the elms.
The Detroit Free Press has hit it
about right;
OF all sad words OF tongue or pen
The saddest are these:
wish hadn't done IT,"
A charity patient IN Baltimore hos
/ pital was recently searched, and more
| than $4,000 in money was found in the
! old clothes he wore. He is SIN owner of
! two farms near the city, and had been
/ living by beggary.
| -" My son." said stern father 10 a
seven-year-old hopeful, II must disci-
pline you. Your teacher says you are the
/ worst boy in the school" "Well, papa"
Was the reply, only yesterday she told
me was just like my father"
speaking of Mrs. Scott. Uda's fire.
escape ladder and the recent fatal disas-
tiers on its account, wicked New York
men are led to affirm that the inventive
genius of woman must now be ac-
knowledged-in constructing machines to
kill of men. ""+
IT s. Mathis, OF Ste Gencvieve, Mo-,
was milking COW. The animal became
restless and suddenly dropped dead. Mr.
Mathis took a rope from her horns and
dropped dead also. He might have taken
some better example than cow to follow
in such a serious matter as life and death.
When you meet small yonth playing
| the drum at the head of lot of two-foot
| soldiers, with stick and brass kettle,
| you may know that his mother has the
| preserving fever, and has sat down to
wiring her hands and wonder "what on
/ earth has become of that boy" she sent
| after Mrs, Jones kettle two hours ago
| Edst0R Free Press.
! According to the Houston TEX
| Telegraph fully 100000 head OF cattle be-
| ing driven to market have crossed the
! Colorado River at or near Austin the
4 A
| the 7eteqrdph, at twenty dollars per head
and It win give the neat sum of SIS, 900 900,
! very near all OF which will come back in
to the State as profits TO the drovers.
Probably the worst error that ever
| passed through the hands of proof-read.
| or uncorrectcd occurred in the Racine
Journal A correspondent at Burlington
wrote: 1.-THE Peoples State Bank has de-
clared dividend" 1t appeared in the
| paper, TO the horror of the bank directors
and the terror OF depositors 1.-THE Peo-
pies State Bank has declared It's doors
| closed. - Hiiyaukee Sentinel. .-
| Providence never forsakes the editor.
| Monday afternoon, one VI III King, of
| Des Mones, assaulted the editor of the
State JauradI with bludgeon. The fero-
cious assailant was scalped with a chair
! leg; policeman dubbed him for resist
ing n'arrest; the bugs in the calaboose
| bit him In 600 places before lac was bailed
out; his baby fell downstairs while he
| was in durance vilc man kicked his
dog right in sight Of the cell window; a
woman school.teacher whipped his boy;
! the wood SAWYER cut all his wood two
inches too long for the stove; hg cistcrn
sprung leak, u rat died under his
| kitchen floor; his COW chOked on a potato,
| and the grocer she stole IL from stabbed
| her with q pitchfork. and his motherin-
| awlanded at his house with six trunks.
| Brethren, il is adangcrous, prcsumptuous
daring thing TO strike an editor.--Bur-
Itngtoa tioaoa) HankEye.
Extract from Florida letter pub
lished in the Covington tKy.) Common
geaith. You remember the large agave,
a species ofcentury plant, which stood OIL
| TO your left MS you entered the garden
the most superb plant, j venture TO say,
| that either Of us ever saw. Ithas finished
| its course, bloomed and died. Here are
| its figures: The disk of the plant wac
| twelve feet in diameter and more than
| thirty feet in circumference IL threw up
stalk forty.Gve feet high, being at the
base say nine or ten inches in diameter
| and looking for all the world like a
gigantic asparagus plant. At distance
Of fifteen feet from the top II began 10
sway in regularly. diminishing half curves,
| throwing out branches at each 1t bore
from 1000 10 10000 flowers, $500 Of
which were actually counted. When AT
its greatest height gust Of wind broke
| fifteen feet off ! never saw so grand a
plant as ii was and only regret that you
did not see It,"
"A case IL now on trial in the Circuit
Court at Des Moiues, Iowa, which is
based on one of the most remarkable &C.
currenccs on record. II is suit brought
| by man named Couch H. The Watson
Coal Company, for damages for injuries
| sustained in a coal mine Mr.. Couch was
standing at the bottom Of the shaft, which
Is l35 feet deep. A cage, or elevator, was
descending, on which were men and tools.
| When about thirty feet down an iron
blasting drill three feet long and one and
| one.f fourth inches In diameter, with one
| end tiattened and made sharp, Tell from the
cage and struck Mr.. Crouch, who was In
STOPPING posture, in the back, near the
spinal column, in the region OF the kid
| neys the sharp end entering first. The
rod went through his body The
| blow FRUSTRATED the wounded man, and a
comrade pulled the rod from his body.