Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-06-15
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ernor to convene the Legislature to
pass additional exemption and stay
laws, TO bridge over the impending
crash.
| All interior fences should be port.
able, easily removed from place to
place, or removed entirely away
when not wanted. Every farmer
has long lines Of fences which, for
half the time, are no use whatever.
In fact, they are in this way, in the
way of cultivation, occupying land
which he might use to the best adj
vantage, and they become harbors
for bushes and weeds.
The Centennial has attracted such
numbers of ''help' from all sections
of the country-who were either in
search of employment or who want
ed good chance to see the show
that the employment agencies at
Philadelphia are over ridden with
applicants, and the authorities are
growing uneasy at the number OF
unemployed accommodating in that
city.
Mrs. Gutir, of Davenport. remark
| ed to a neif hbor the other day:
"My husband is the hardest to rea-
son with that ever lived. | had to
smash up my china teapot and throw
a inilk-pitcher through the looking
glass before l could make him prom
Use to take m. to the Centennial. +"
"Thomas, spell weather." said a
| schoolmsster to one of his pupils.
"W-i-c a-t-h Ter, weather. Well
Thomas, you may sit down" said
the teacher. 81 think this is the
worst spell of weather we have had
since Christmas.
An awkward man, attempting to
carve goose, dropped it on the
floor. "There, now" exclaimed his
wife, we've lost our dinner" "Oh,
no, my dear" answered he, sits
safe, / have got my foot on it!
A Chicago boy who is addicted to
going to theatre to see the heavy
drama, called his father to supper
the other day by bawling out:
"What, no, there, base craven!
Come hither to thy yesperian hash. :"
A married couple resemble pair
of shears, so joined that they cannot
well be separated, moving often in
opposite directions, but always pun
ching whatever comes between
them.
Glow much did he .leaye!" in
quired a gentleman of a wag, on
learning the death of "a wealthy citi-
zen. Everything responded the
wag, che didn't take a dollar with
him."
The Glenwood Opinion has this
advertisement: $500 bushels of
potatoes, | now have in cellar that
will be sold for 5 cents per bushel.
Come, everybody, and feed your
pigs, cows and calves, cheaper than
on corn or bran"
"a Presbyterian hotel has been
already opened in Philadelphia.
viii our Methodist and Baptist
brethren stand idly by, see this
thing done under their very noses,
and not start hotels tool ~
"Our glorious centennial is at
hand" says a patriotic editor, "and
now let every American who val
ues our liberties, get his Ratchet
ready to tell the truth"
A young man will never recOg-
nize his heap of foolishness for
slowing his big feet into number
skies until he Settled down in life"
with corn for every toe.
The cats used to hold concerts at
night in the old times, just as they
do now. In one Of the prehistoric
Aztec villages 200 terrified cats have
been found.
What fountain Of blessing is
cow She is the mother OF beef,
| the source of butter, the original
cause of cheese, to say nothing OF
shoes, horns, hair, combs and upper
leather.
The grasshoppers are making a
destructive raid into Spain. -Four
thousand soldiers have been sent to
Bajadoes to stop them. They dig
trenches, sweep them IN and then
burn them ~ AA&@ 4 - t~@-.@ y
Motto of Portland temperance
reform club: lHWes bend the knee,
not the elbow" This is supposed
to refer to a dexterious habit Of
drinking out of a bung.
The Island Of Nantucket has cleo
ted female school board. 1t was
step in the direction Of reform and
Nan -tuckot gracefully.
Dom Pedro declares that st.
Louis is destined to become the
leading city Of the American conti-
nent.
j. G. Hale, brother-in-law Of Gov.
Brownlow, of Tennessee, was shot
and killed at Hot Springs, Ark, res
Gently,
The British government has de-
cided to surrender Winslow, and rs
now seeking how it can be done
gracefully.
Z A timid person is frig htened be-
fore danger, coward during the
time, and courageous person af-'
te wards. ~
Nature lives; every pore Is burn
i,g with life; every death is only a
new birth; every grave a cradle.
Paying visitors to the Exhibition
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