Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

When man has nothing else to tax
he taxes his resources,
The increase of population in Kansas
since 1870 is 46 per cent
"A man in Louisiana boasts of cat
which is twenty one years old.
"A young woman who was "driven to
distraction" now fears that she will have
to walk back.
| Are your words of more weight
when you propouad anything than when
| YOU announce it.
When man drinks himself to death
in Charleston, 5. c., they call 1t death
from natural causes"
Sally Verb is the name Of a Kansas
girl married the other day. As she was a
verb she was not to be declined.
Twenty thousand books have been
stolen from the San Francisco Library
within year. San Francisco thieves are
| great readers.
Trying to do business without ad.
vertising is like winking at pretty girl
in the dark; you may know what You
are doing, but nobody else does.-N. Y.
Express
A Paris barber. who died recently.
~ T~,oooioVv, IL Is feia'eu oi MIN tnat
no n 'olu customer that ms hair
ousna W pe uihiiheo OF that he needed a
snaiipou'
-Spilkins says that all the perils and
horrors Oh maeistrom aren't q circum-
stance to the horrors OF hearing female
stfom on the piano, next door, from
morning uii night.
"A man In New Hampshire had the
a. "a
misfortune recently 70 lose his wife.
over the grave he caused stone to be
placed, on which, In the depth OF his
GRIEF, he had ordered to be inscribed:
Tears cannot restore her--thereiore
weep
The Khedive Of Egypt has given En-.
gland 10 understand that he is quite com.
petent TO manage his own finances. The
swarthy royalist did, to be sure, evince u
remarkable business tact in negotiating,
recently, the sale of some canal bonds
which were depreciating on his hands.
The Duke of Cambridge, in the course
of a speech the other day said that the
cost Of the eighty.one-ton gun would be
about 9la,OOO, and every shot fired from
IL VIII cost f2o. AT this rate war is be-
coming luxury which impccunious ma
tons viii ind II difficult 10 indulge in.
There seems to be much suffering
this winter among the genieel poverty
stricken women in Washington A few
days ago two ladies, descendants of three
of the most distinguished men whose
names are interviewer with the history of
this country, were turned out of their
home in that city for non payment of rent.
A German tailor at Des Moines has
invented n curious sort OF piano tho hmm
strings. There are in this piano sixty.six
bells varying from two inches 10 thirteen
inches In diameter, all 30 adjusted that
each bell shall give It's perfect tone In
response to the touch of the performers
hand ON the keyboard. -.
An Irjshman WAS brougbt nm beforea
Justice of the Peace on a charge eft va.
yrancy and was thus questioned. % VIVA,
Trade are youYn USure now vopr Hon.
or. I'm a sailorr' lyon are n seafar,ng
mani | question whether YOU have ever
been 10 sen In your llfcr '"snre now
and does your Honor think I came over
from Ireland in n wagin,yr
.c.I,f,rn;a comos - H.. fro,, ,,,,,,
connie ~ ram. rLahio o,rla and I ~ -
trv f. cbariengaJ 10 n,ajnce ,ha,r onuaIa
TIes ,ha Wiss". P p,sa ~ ar'gir eqS Wa
Lao pas,a a. hain, ,,,.,aJ al i'V .hs va"
taIps IN aress tbey can and do Otter bor.
ness and drive lnrsos of their own break.
inc and in cases of cmergencv mount
the reaper and draw IA staadya line over
a pair of colts as the best among the SO.
called lords Of creation Tins year thew
are in the potato business ON a small
scale, Last spring thew procured six
pounds of potatoes of choice varieties.
They planted this seed hoed itthemselyes.
and dug JfTi5 pounds of splendid potatoes
AS the result.
T,hod,, oi,,ar h.s rooo,voa ho e.,
,o,,,nr tc,,or !, incnir, ,snn, a I'LL 90 -
rIo,af snJ ,,,hinh hd ay,,,i', =, $500 .,
S,,,.a. Gio,.aiara pan % nnar NJ
Tai,or, ! 49,, :, al ,,o,, 49,, ,r",,Ia IL
To-, 1,,r,s,n,aa A., 80, -, 80,
from, Toiedn yhn ,old ~. ~, insod ,na
ard tailed cvor an nica.nd aid no won,nd
me 10 be his little wife. and said would
be- h,s little wife. now wont 10 know II
You no him. he said his name was frank
and he Ind gold colored hair. and he said
he worked In a tailor Store. pleas tell me
n he is N company for me. | was born
Of poor but irish parents and don't wont
10 be fooled by him. pleas tell me. direct
10 Maggie -.- + used 20 he n
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