Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-22

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raise money by getting up bull-fights and
charging exor6itant admission fees, just as
our churches do when they get up testi-
walls. OF course nobody wants to be con-
sidered uncharitable, and so all grin and
| go to the bull-fights as we 10 the festivals
The Nevada ninnyhammer who has
| just buried his wife in silver coffin has
done good deal of harm. Other women
will now feel that nobody cares farthing
| for them If they are not laid away in the
same style, and they won't put up with
| any of your German-silyer collins, either.
A citizen of Didequash, N b., rose
from his bed just twenty minutes previous
| tohis death, took bath, dressed himself
| in his grave-clothes, and went to bed again
| just in time TO exclaim; " Welcome, Death
Ihave long waited for thee, and die. He
was too good to live in town like Dide-
| quash.
"A New York newspaper finds an an
| niversary occasion suggested by the fact
| that next season will bring about the
250th wear since Gov. Minuet, in 1926
purchased from the savages the entire
island of Manhattan for sixty guilders, "a
| peaceful treaty never afterward marred by
blood"
| -" What wealthy old fellows these
| Knickerbockers must have been" said n
stranger, walking through one of our
ancient graveyards. "Why SOY" asked
| his companion. Because" answered
the first, 81 see Died-rich' inscribed on
so many of the tombstones. "-Neo York
/ Commercial.
"A young man who was quite dog
fancier before his marriage now has a boy
a year and half old, and is quite enthusi.
astic over its training. He says he be-
heves the blamed little thing has got as
much sense as q ratterrier, and with
proper training can be taught as many
tr;cks.-Brans,oicker.
| 1t was at the house of well-known
doctor of divinity, and the little toddling
girl. who did not like TO see her aunt trim
a lightes kerosene lamp had come hon
estly by a somewhat modified theory OF
predestination. take care! take care,
or well get blown up into the sky; and
then God1l say: Girls, what are you in
such a hurry for:' "
The Virginia New Chronicle states
that the fifteen-mile fiume of the Pacific
| Wood, Lumber and Flume Company has
been completed and the first stick of tim
|
the Sierra and landed at Huffaker's Sta
ton. This is one Of the most colossal
tluming enterprises ever undertaken on
the Pacific coast, involving great engi.
neering difficulties and the outlay of q
quarter of million of dollars.
"A presiding elder from Maine-a
keen, humorous, somewhat waggish man
was approached by travelling compan-
n. n 1. nlla In
the railway car Brother D." said the
friend, awake up, wake up! Do you
know where you ares" "Yes, | know
where l am" answered the elder,
"Where are youg " Not far from New
York. sHow do you know BE
cause / have for the last hour felt like
stealing somethingp'
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: Mr..
| Christian X. Ross was on Thursday in
consultation with the police authorities.
| 1t Is stated that the entire mystery OF the
abduction OF his son has been cleared up
by statement made by Westeryelt, broth
er.in-law of Mosier except the where
abouts of the missing child, and il Is I'M
derstood that il is with a view to securing
this knowledge, of which Westeryeit Il
supposed to be possessed, that his trial Is
not proceeded with
Next fall, says Prof. Tiee, of 81 Louis,
there will be unusual atmospheric disturb.
ances. and our little mundane sphere will
be very earthquaky. Won't somebody go
and put stop TO this prophet OF evil
| The ills of life and the calamities OF the
world are bad enough when they actually
happen. In other words, " sufficient unto
the day are the evils thereof" This filling
us with trepidation and suspense months
i'm advance Of the coming OF a disaster Is
too much like being sentenced to be
hanged.
-" Eat, Amanda" said New Orleans
husband to his wife one morning recently.
Amanda wasn't disposed TO partake Of food,
and said she wouldn't Mr.. James Madi.
son-that is the husbands name--insisted
upon being obeyed. She declared she
would not. again. Then he said she must
or he would blow her brains out Still
she was obstinate Then he kept his
word and put bullet through her head.
And even then she wouldn't eat james
IL in Jail now, and Amanda i in the hos
| pital--but while he is languishing she i
sustained by the supreme satisfaction that
she carried her point.
A story Is told Of an accident on the
New London Railroad: An intoxicated
Irishman was sitting on the track when
the engine tossed him down an embank.
ment. The conductor backed his train 10
pick up his dead body. The victim was
| found alive. however, only somewhat
bruised. and taken TO Norwich. Here the
conductor kindly offered TO send the man
to his home, few miles away, in hack,
but he insisted on his ability TO walk, and
refused TO be sent home The conductor
pressed the matter, when the Milesian,
who had stood the battling of the COW
catcher SO well, bristIed up with: 60
away with your kirridge. III 60 home by
myself; and If I've done any damage 10
your old engine, bedad, III pay 1t on the
spot"
The Discharged Government Clerks.
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