Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-21
HERE AND THERE.

lDufiO~ HeSU was o. co.'s NAN
let Saturday. Horasio Seymour will
be 20 years old next May.
A game of euchre between the sea
sons-SpriDg passes, summer makes it
next, autumn orders it up, aud winter
runs the game out.
It will cost at lesst 100000 to fur
nish The manned Confederate soldiers
of Georgia with artificial limbs, a.
contemplated by an act of the last
Legislature.
It is said that there are thirteen
Jews in Shoreditch, London, who
are worth over million sterling each.
One of these is an old clO' pt ddier,
who follows his vccA!ion.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips says.of Will
liam Lloyd Garrison that bis will be
the name by which our generation
in its relation 10 civil liberty and
progress will be known.
The Pope next year, il is said, will
visit Belgium a0d Germany IS the
guest of King Leopold, at Brussels,
and 60 to Cologne to celebrate the
completion of its peerless Cathedral,
the work of 632 years.
The Zulu lady wears her wedding
ring ia her nose. a double purpose
is thus served. L discourages promis-
cuous kissing. and she is in little
danger of losing her ring She always
nose where it is Boston transcript.
Mayor Marston, of Stafford England,
has been presented with silver cradle
thirty inches high aud weighing two
hundred ounces, in accordance with
an ancient custom prescribing such a
gift for the Mayor whenever a Child ia
born to him during his incumbency.
President Seelye received last week,
for Amherst College, Mass, gifts
amounting to S106, 900 OF this amou a
$4,000 in stock and bonds is from
Hon. Chester w. Chaplin, OF Spring
field; al assurance OF $50, 900 from the
Stone estate of Maiden, and $1,000 from
another source to establish 8 scholar
ship.
Ii has been ascer aiued at the Post
office Department that the American
postmaster who has held his office
longest is Boswell Beardsley, post
master at North Lansing, n. Y, who
has held that Office for fifty-one years.
Edward Stabler, now postmaster at
Sandy Springs, Md, was appointed by
OF the late Senator Chandler, the
Rev. Mr.. Abbott, a Vermont clergy
man, says thet he was rou2 bilt.
overgroWn, awkward, STOPPING, good.
natured, popular boy, who went by the
never-forgotten, familiar sobrjquet oil
Zach" He was not, "a popularity
supposed, the child OF poor parents.
His father was a man of substance and
gentleman of the old school; his
uncle had been mem Der of Congress
He might have had liberal education,
but did not seem to care for it.
The Pekin Gazette is nearly five
! hundred years old, and every now and
then an old man hobbies into the
| Office and pays a years. subscription
with the remark that he has been g
subscriber ever since the Fl rst number
was printed. The clerk, Without be.
traying any surprise, observes as he
| hands him a receipt, Yes, we have
| several names on our list who have
been subscribers from the start
Then the old man goes out mutterinq
something about this world being full
of liars.-NorristoWn Herald.
Mr.. Latbrop, Recorder OF Igor
county, New, has in his Office a.
| Dayton wrens nest containing two
eggs, so charged with electricity tina
they act precisely as magnet. 1
the open blade of a knife be placed
within half an inch of them, cay:
the Lyon county Times, they will b,
attracted at once and will adhere Il
the blade until removed. The eggs
were charged with electricity by tel
| egraph wire passing through the ire
| which sheltered the nest. They have
| been in the cabinet about two months
| and are just as magnetic now as wher
he first got them. An offer OF $50
have been refused for them.
or President Lincoln, at the Gettys
burg dedication, a correspondent o
the Cincinnati Commercial gives som,
interesting "reminiscences. An ad
dress was given in the evening b,
Mr.. Charles Anderson, and in
church. The audience had asse 10 bled
and arose as the President entered
An old man, shabbily dressed. fol
lowed him up the aisle, and whel
reaching the seat reserved for MI
Lincoln, was about going in will
him. Governor Tod, who escorted
the President, put his hand on hin
and said: " No, old man. You can't G
in there" Mr.. Lincoln turned am
said: ayes, Governor, that's na
man." and putting his arm about tn
old man, brought him into the pew
1t was John Burns who went into tn