Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Sense not common-innocence
An lrishman gives as a reason why
Echo is of the feminine gender. that
"maybe II is because she always has the
last word"
To reprove small faults with undue
vehemence is as absurd as to seek to ro-
move fly from friends forehead with
a sledge-hammer
1 "A colored railroad porter of Chicago,
who has seen the Emperor of Brazil, Is
clean disguised" with that potentate,
because he don't wah nary damon
tallp'
Lots of us folks would have acted for
A. L. Stewards estate for $500, 200 less
than was given to Judge Hilton, and thus
a square halfmillion dollars more could
have been given to the roor.-Detroit Free
Press.
"A man is expected to hang to strap,
but il has been decided iy the Philadel-
] phia courts that woman who Is thrown
down in horse car bv Jolt can collect
| good round damages If she hurts herself
very much.
Can our weak women carry their
| purses in their hands when silver comes
into general use9 If the resumption Of
specie payment should cause the abolition
OF this familiar horror, we will not have
suffered in vain. Chicago Tribune.
Among the seasonsble hints the
Brooklyn Argus says: salt mackerel
| for breakfast at this season of the year
clears the complexion, invigorates the in
tellect and imparts a flavor 10 the mus
tache that will vanquish the most obsti-
nate odor of hair dye"
The honest agriculturists are crum-
bling bits of clod in their horny fingers,
| wondering If they contain anything over
| 5000 grasshoppers' eggs to the peck. No
alarming discoveries have been made In
Iowa, but in Kansas they are tossing
| nickels, where they have nickels, to SEQ
| whether they will flee from the 'hoppers
TO come, or stick By their farms and trust
TO Providence and the relief societies. -
Huntington Hamk.Eye
A petition presented 20 the General
| Court OF Massachusetts, asks for the es-
! adjustment in that State of park of five
or six square miles of every kind of sur
face, still partially covered with wood,
for forest conservatory. The idea is to
reserve this park in its primitive condi-
ton and TO preserve in IL the fauna and
flora Of the State. The petition is numer-
ously signed, Cambridge and Concord
names being especially prominent on it.
The practice of allowing boys to
spend their evenings in the street Is one
OF the most ruinous, dangerous and mis-
chieyous things possible. Nothing so
speedily and surely marks their course
downward. They acquire under cover OF
the night an unhealthy state Of mind,
vulgar and proiane language, obscene
practices, criminal sentences, and law
less ana riolous bearing. Indeed, II is in
the street after nightiall that boys gener-
ally acquire the education and capacity
for becoming rOwdy dissolute, criminal
men. Parents, do YOU believe itg VIII
you keep your children home nights, and
see that their home is made pleasant and
profitable y--Church Union
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle has been heard
from on the subject Of yivisection. He
! says that ever since he was a boy, when
! he read the accounts of Malendic's atroci
| ties, he has never thought OF the practice
| OF yivisccting animals but with horror He
! believes the report about the good results
said TO be obtained from the practice OF
! vivisection TO be immensely exaggerated.
Even supposing the good results 10 be
much greater than Mr.. Carlyle believes
they are, and apart too from the shocking
pain inflicted on helpless animals, he
would still think the practice so brutaliz-
ing TO the operator that he would earnestly
wish the law on the subject to be altered
80 rs 10 make vivisccton, when prac-
ticed BY private individuals, an indictable
oilensc.
Somebody must have played stu
pendous first Of April hoax ON the New
York Epenin9 Post man - force such ut
terasces as these: 1.-THE man who plays q
practical Joke acts after his kind. IL is
not his fault that he Is so constituted az
To delight in making an ass OF himself.
Monkeys play similar pranks, and We
blame them not. The bray of the donkey
Is not musical, and may be even annoying
In its harsbness, but it IL as much part
! OF the animal rs his ears are. In like
manner the practical joke IL not the cause
! Of idocy, but only a symptom. The weak
ness Of mind which prompts its enact
ment and makes IL a source Of delight, Is
like the long but ill.tuned ear Of the ass;
its perceptions are not refined, but they
are very appropriate to the animal pos
sessing them"
"A threadbarc tatterdemalon applied
at the ST. George Hotel last evening for a
nights lodging, and proceeded at once to
tllt IeRlsteiIiB VI ms udTlc. NC HOiii-
fed clerk followed the strangers pen and
saw him write 1.-The Emperor Of Brazil"
Then the man sat down on a trunk
checked for New York and began wills
Ting, "No One 10 Love" Chief Jones
was modified at once. Accompanied by
Sergt. buchanan, he rushed TO the 81
George, and, bowling profoundly 10 the
distinguished stranger, asked: care you
the Emperor Of Brazil. sir" mot l."
replied the shabby man. "Wby, then,
do yoti so register your name?' =" Be-
cause / wish to travel tncOgnito.' The
Sergeant had him by the neck in min
ute, and he slumbercd in the Central
UetT0if free Press.
Every person should know how TO as
certain the state Of the pulse in health;
then, by comparing IL with what 1t is when
he is ailing, he may have some idea Of the
urg ncy Of the case. Parents should
know the healthy puise OF each child,
since now and then person Is born with
a peculiarly slow :. fast pulse, and the
very case in hand may be Of such peculiar
ity An infants pulse is li0; a child Of
seven about eighty, aud from twenty to
sixty years 1t is seventy beats minute,
declin ng 10 sixty at four-score. A health
full & own person beats seventy times in