Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Louisa Alcott has earned $50 900 from
the sale of her books.
Father Boehm, of New jersey, COM
menced and delivered the address at his
late tooth birthday reception in jersey
City.
MIR. Ross, the father of Charley, has at
last given up all hopes of ever finding his
son. Some one ought to pull hemp for
this crime, but no one ever will.
Tennessee goes into the Centennial
with the best of nomenclature. George
Washington and William Rule have been
appointed Commissioners by the Governor.
Francis S. Street, of the New York
Weekly, is the youngest millionaire in
Brooklyn. He has made his money by
spending it-that is, by liberal adyertis-
ing
The Herald gives il as rumor that a
volume consisting of the most important
philosophical correspondence of the late
Mr.. John Stuart Mill will shortly be pub
lished
The Philadelphia Bulletin says of the
alleged decadence of certain writer that
"he was lost to us because he expended
too much vital force in efforts to tell the
truth"
Matthew Henry, and not King Solo
mon, was the author of the proverb:
Cleanliness is next TO goodness" Henry
knew, for he was theologian and gen
| tleman, and tried both.
I'm the address which he delivered on
his return home, touching his recent visit
| to the United States, King kalakaua made
! no mention whatever OF Chicago. The
| Cout7er-J Journal thought when he went
| there he would live to be ashamed of it.
Prof Peters thinks he has done great
thing in discovering two new stars. Little
| stars, too. Why, people out this way see u
new moon every month, and say nothing
more about it than: Hullo, there's new
moon" Stars, indeedl You let the stars
alone, Mr.. Peters, and the stars will let
| you alone.
DIR. Nancie Morrelle who lately
reached India from New York, has settled
! in Haidarabad, where she has already oh
tanned an extensive practice. She opened
| dispensary in one of the bazars, and ii is
now so crowded that she is about Ia re
move it into much larger house. Among
her patients are many native ladies who
come from great distances to avail them
selves of her skill.-N. y. Herald
|
editor, is attended with some extraordina-
~ optical results. He cannot clearly see
the left side of objects and has moreover
gained a sort of telescope faculty enabling
him to see objects altogether out of sight
to ordinary persons. He frequently makes
mistakes as to the distance of objects,
| thinking them TO be quite near when they
are a good way off. The lctt.sided obscur-
! ity OF vision marks both eyes and is "A fact
Of scientific value as confirming the theory
of Psychologists that the right optic nerve
| affects the left side of the eyes and the left
nerve the right sides.
Joaquin Miller has provoked many
sharp criticisms on his poetry, but none on
his public conduct under the most trying
| Of domestic Affections. He has persistent
| ly refused to say anything, in self.deiense
or otherwise, concerning the attacks made
upon him by his former wife and by many
| Western newspapers. Almost the only
| public allusion he has ever made to these
attacks is in the preface Of his new book,
where he says -" | have been true 10 my
West. She has been my only love. have
remembered her great men. ! have done
my work to show TO the world her vast
ness, her riches, her resources, her valor
and her dignity, her poetry and her grand.
eur Yet while | was going on, working
so i'm silence, what were the things she
| said of me? But let that pass, my dear
| parents. Others will come after us Per
| haps have blaZed out the trail for great
| minds in this field as you did across the
| deserts and plains for great men quarter
of a century ago"