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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-06

In the Supreme Court yesterday
the hearing OF the Bledsoe county
docket was completed, which finishes
the hearing OF causes for this term.
The Court will probably begin deliver
ing opinions at to-dey's session. Prep
arations are being made. and it is ex~
pected that the Court will be ready to
adjourn final next Saturday.
Oysters! oysters oysters ! !!
Fresh and good, by the Can, Quart
or Gallon, at PETER KERN's.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-06
ART0N
CAV
Opposite Lamar House.

Having completed q New
Factory, we are now prepared
TO furnish Furniture Of every
description at lower prices than
can be obtained anywhere else.
Cur facilities for manufacturing
are unequaled. Having pur-
chased neutrality-suspicious. in
1889. We challenge compe-
tition from any quarter. Come
and examine our goods and you
will be convinced that we lead
in low prices and best goods.
We will duplicate any peice
Of furniture from East Or
West at the same figures and
save you freight.
VIM. CASWELL & CO.,
Corner Of Gay and Church Streets,
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-06
FALL TRADE.

Fail Stock at "a s AaEe A'ssEatSS
Titus.
Mrs. Kate Dallas Titus has received her
fall stock Of Millinery Goods, and is thor
oughly prepared to meet the wants Of all
ner ola patrons end any new ones who may
favor her with q call, feeling confident
that she can Offer to the public as cheap
and as nice goods as any one in the city.
Dress Making and Fitting,
Under her own supervision, made q
speciality, and satisfaction guaranteed IN
every instance. oc'z'
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-06

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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-06
GOODS and NOTIONS

This is the largest and best general stock
of Dry Goods in the city, and [ offer them
for lower prices than they can be bought
for elsewhere.
Orders by mail promptly attended to ut
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Wonderful Slippers.

Students in general, and medical stu
dents particularly, enjoy things outre.
The skull and crossbones being too old
story for Max Weldon, Of Lafayette,
Ind, that young patron OF a Cincinnati
medical college has procured a pair of
slippers made from the hide of a hui
man subject. The hide belonged to
one of Weldon's fellow sawbones, whose
name he will not give. The nameless
student got it into his head to send the
hide to shoemaker in Cincinnati. The
latter first had the thing tanned, and
without SO much as shudder gave it
over at last to the knife and awl. The
footgear show their peculiar texture.
10 the innocent Boccacio of the
Lafayette Co4rier, in which sketch
OF the slippers appeared, "the leather
seemed light brown in color, and was
streaked with parallel veinings of a
darker shade, the whole as soft as silk"
Among his friends," continues the
Courier, *the doctor makes no sec1 ct
of the mystery of the slippers" He
thinks, in fact, that there is no more
harm in wearing them than in wearing
rings made from human bone, or, in
deed, of sporting watchguards of
human hair. The Courier had some
fears at first lest it was being hoaxed,
but, to verify the matter, such of the
hide as had not been put into the slip
pers was produced, thus setting all
doubts at rest.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Tile Boomerang;

This curious weapon, peculiar to the
native Australian, has often proved O
puzzler to men of science. It is piece
OF carved wood, nearly in the form of a
crescent, from thirty to forty inches
long, pointed on both ends, and the cor
ner quite sharp. The mode of using is
quite as singular as the weapon. Ask a
black to throw it so as to fall at his
feet, and away it goes full forty yards
before him, skimming along the surface
at three or four feet from the ground,
when it will suddenly rise in the air
forty or sixty feet, describing curve,
and finally drop at the feet of the
thrower. During it's course it revolves
with great rapidity, as on pivot, with
a whizzing noise. It is wonderful so
barbarous people should have invent
ed so singular a weapon, which sets
laws Of progression at defiance. It is
very dangerous for European to try
to project it at any object, as it may re-
turn and strike himself. In natives
hand it is formidable weapon, striking
without the protector being seen; like
the Irishman's gun, shooting round a
corner equally as well as straightfor-
ward.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Inherited Memory in Birds.

About twelve years ago I was resid-
ing on the coast of County Antrim, at
the time the telegraph wires were set
up along that charming road, which
skirts the sea for twenty-five miles, be-
tween Larne and Cushendall. During
the winter months large focks of star
lings always migrated over from Scot
land, arriving in the early morning.
The first winter after the wires were
stretched along the coast, I frequently
found numbers of starlings lying dead
or wounded on the roadside, they hay
ing evidently in their fight in the dusky
morn struck against the telegraph wires
not blown against them, as these &C
cidents often occurred when there was
but little wind. I found that the peas
antry had come to the conclusion that
these unusual deaths were due to tho
fash of the telegraph messages killing
any starlings that happened to bs
perched on the wires when working.
Strange to say that throughout the fol-
lowing and succeeding winters hardly a
death occurred among the starlings on
their arrival. It would thus appear that
the birds were deeply impressed and
understood the cause of the fatal acct
dents among their fellow-travelers the
previous year, and hence carefully
avoided the telegraph wires; not only
SO, but the young birds must also have
acquired this knowledge and perpetu-
ated it, knowledge which they could
not have acquired by experience or
even instinct, unless the instinct was
really inherited memory derived from
the parents whose brains were first i'm
pressed by it.-Nata1re.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

the population Of the world, placed side
by side, and allowing two feet to each
person would encircle the earth twenty
times. The states of Maine, New Namp-
shire and Vermont, taken together, are
as large as England. Any one of the
states of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, and
North Carolina are as large as England.
Kansas is as large as England and Scot
land together. Ireland is about the size of
Maine. France is more than twice as
large as England, Wales, aud Scotland
together. Texas is thirty. five times as
as EMBELLISHMENTS, or as large as Mas
sachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York New. Jersey Pennsylvania, Delaware
Maryland, Ohio and Indiana combined.
The entire population of the United States
could be provided for in the state Of
Texas, allowing each man, woman, and
child, four acres of land. The entire
population Of the world could be prcvid-
ed for IN the United States allowing each
person one and half acres of lana.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Candles.

Very few persons who have not
looked into the matter are aware how
the manufacture of candles has
dwindled, especially in the United
States. There is very little left of it,
the large houses that once carried on
the trade having, for the most part,
either retired or been forced into bank
ruptcy. Making candles used to be
very profitable; many firms have grown
rich thereby. But of late years the de-
mand has fallen off everywhere, and is
to-day rather lessening than increasing.
Really, there is very little need of can
dies now. They have served their
time; they belong to a fading, if not
faded, epoch. Kerosene. has been fully
as adverse as gas to candles, for kero-
sene goes and is used everywhere.
From all the far-interior towns and
frontier villages the once-famiiar can
die has disappeared, and kerosene has
supplied its place. It is rare to see a
candle anywhere in this country;
candle has grown to be symbol of ex-
treme conservatism.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Strange Employment.

The following advertisement APP
peared in q recent issue of the New
York Sa41a:: "A really good thirty
eight-inch figure wanted: Apply at
cloak department, No. 1872 Church
street" A reporter of the paper, curl
GUS to find out what such figure was
wanted for, responded to the adver-
tisement, and soon learned that in the
cloak establishment, where not only
cloaks but women's suits aremade, young
women of good figure are employed,
from whom measurements are taken
whereby the suits and cloaks are cut.
The young women thus employed are
also employed to try on garments be-
fore purchasers, and young woman
with a good figure is essential. ave
employ four figures constantly" said
Mr.. William Ferguson, the manager of
the cloak and suit department. "They
call themselves figures The French
call them models you know, but the
girls don't like the name, so we speak
of them as figures We make seven
different sizes of suits and cloaks, and
employ four figures to measure from.
Of course I mean four different sizes of
figure. Our thirty eight-inch figure
was taken i'll recently, and we must get
another in her place. hence the adver-
tisement in the Sun. In answer to this
advertisement we have already this
morning had at least sixty applicants, and
yet we have notyet found areally good
figure. We pay our figures $40 week,
but a machine operative at the wages
can save more money, for figure must
dress better than it is necessary an
operative should. She must always be
neat and tidy, for she has not on] y to
serve as measure to cut garments by,
but also figure on which to display
garments for customers. On a good
figure, Of course, a garment looks bet
ter, sets better than on a poor one. A
garment made from the measure from a
good figure is more apt to fit another
person than one made from a poor fig
ure, and, if it doesn't quite fit, is usually
easily altered. So you see how impor-
tant good figure is"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A LINGERING Death.

Our readers will remember the men
ton in last Fridays issue of the death
OF the 9-year-old daughter of Henry
Haldeman and lady, at their residence
on Acequia street. The cause of the
death was very unusual one, and the
Incidents relative thereto were very
strange. When about IA months old
little Annie, for that was the .child's
name, while in the kitchen got hold of
a can of condensed lye and drank a
portion of the contents. Of course, the
consequence was that the child suffered
intensely and came very near dying at
the time. After recovering from the
first effects of the lye, it was discovered
that the child's throat was scald-
ed and that it was unable to swallow
any food of a solid nature. Despite
the efforts of skilled physicians and
the constant attention of her loving
parents, little Armies throat never did
heal up. But the child lived and
grew plump and fat, though bereft of
that vivacity which characterizes chill
dren. The child's pain and suffering
seemed to detract the mind from the
frivolous and the gay, and turn the
thoughts more to solemn and real
things. AS years rolled on, however,
such nourishment as Annie was capa-
BILE of taking proved not sufficient to
meet natures demands and sustain her
growing body, and presently it was OBJ
served that her condition was rapidly
becoming more serious, and a physician
was summoned to take charge of her
case. But no good was ever accom-
plished, the injury received was incura-
BILE, and it was settled that the child
gradually approached the end of exist
ence. Finally, death came, though
Annie had attained the age of 9 years,
during nearly eight of which she had
lived exclusively on soups, Cruel and
liquid-like food. At the time of her
death the child was in appearance as
skeleton, but retained her powers of
mind and conversed nationally to the
end.-Sa1a A7ato1aio (Ter.) Express.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

a general investigation of things, her lit
tie son stepped.in and said:
"Say, ma, do you know that Jack Jones
just come up to see sister Jane2"
eyes"
"Do you know they are IN the parlor
together?"
II do.''
"Do yoc know they are in there gum
ming
whats that you say9n: broke in Mrs.
j johnson, rather sharply.
81 say they are in there cumming
'Jane wouldn't let him!" broke liz
Mrs. johnson, with great emphasis.
'Jane knows better than thatr'
"Knows better than that, ea?' yelled
tire boy as he got outside Thea door. II
don't know what harm there IS for them
to sit in there cumming autumn leaves
! on piece of card 5ourd."
He skipped lightly out, and his mother
seemed greatly relieved.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Ortsiu OF the Telescope.

The son Of spectacle-maker, Of
Middleburg, Holland, happening to
amuse himself in his fathers shop. by.
holding two glasses between his finger
and thumb, and varying their distances,
perceived the weathercock of the
church spire opposite to him much
larger than ordinary, and apparently
much nearer, and turned upside down.
This new wonder exciting the fathers
amazement, he adjusted two glasses on
q board, rendering them movable at
pleasure, and thus formed the first
rude prospective glass. Calico, hear
ing of the invention, set his mind to
work in order to bring it to perfection.
He fixed glasses at the end of long or
gan pipes, and constructed telescope,
which he soon directed to the surround
ing heavens. He discovered four moons
revolving round the planet Jupiter,
spots on the surface of the sun, and the
rotation of that globe round it's own
axis; mountains and valleys in the
moon, and numbers of fixed stars
where scarcely one was visible to the
naked eye. These discoveries were
made about the year 1910. Since that
period, by means of improved instru-
ments, the celestial wonders of the uni
verse have been explored. By the
help OF telescopes, combined with the
art of measuring the distances and mag
nitudes of the heavenly bodies, our
views of the grandeur of the Almighty,
of the plentitude of His power, and of
the extent If His nniva,.sa1 oro,,ira ora
extended far beyond what could have
been conceived in past ages. We can
plainly perceive that the kingdom of
God extends through the unlimited re-
gions of space, comprehending within
its vast circumference thousands Of
suns, and ten thousands of worlds, all
ranged in majestic order at immense
distances from each other, and all sup
ported and governed "by Him who
rides upon the heaven of heavens
whose dominion is an everlasting do
minion, whose greatness is unsearcha-
bic, and whose understanding is in
finite" The invention of the telescope
has unfolded to our view not only thou
sands but hundreds of thousands and
millions,of worlds; and the higher the
magnifying powers of the telescope are,
the more numerous these celestial orbs
appear, leaving no room to doubt that
countless myriads lie far beyond the
reach of the finest glasses that can be
constructed by human skill, and which
are known only to Him "who counts the
number of the stars and calls them by
their Names"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Some Unthought of Statistics

The Boston Transcript thus groups
together some statistics of the kind of
which almost every body might know if
any ore took time to think of them.
Allowing two square feet to each person,
the entire population of Boston could
stand on the public garden, with good
deal of room to spar e. The entire popu-
lation Of the United States could stand
in Boston proper (not including Brighton,
Dorchester, and West Roxbury). The
entire population Of the world (now esti
mated at 1,44O.0OO,00O could stand on
the island of Martha's Vineyard, or in
the space of Boston, Brooklyne, Newton,
Needham, Dedham, Hyde Park and Mil
ton. The State of Massachusetts, would
IN this way accommodate seventy times
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Quiet, Influential Life.

States owe much of their prosperity
to such men and women as are set forth
in Gray's lines:
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life,
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
One of these noiseless men was
Joshua Fry, an early settler of Ken
lucky. He possessed considerable means
and much benevolence, and was thor
oughly educated.
Seeing that the sons and daughters of
his neighbors were growing up in ignor-
ance, through the imperfect education
afforded them, he opened a school in
his own house.
Those who were able to pay he
charged a small sum, and those who
could not were taught gratuitously. He
became noted for his success in man
aging refractory boys.
One day, bare-footed and bare
headed boy presented himself at Mr..
Fry's house. He was the son of brick
maker, and worked in his fathers yard.
All efforts to keep him at school had
failed. His wild habits had caused him,
again and again, to be sent home as an
incorrigibly bad boy.
Somehow, the notion had entered the
boys head that if he could get into Mr..
Fry's school he would learn something
and become somebody. So that day, he
had LETT the backyard to go over to the
schoolmaster's house.
he frankly told Mr.. Fry that he was
bad and had been expelled several times
from the log-cabin school, because the
teacher could not manage him.
But, Mr.. Fry" he added, I want to
come to your school, for think you
can manage me-
Il think can" said Mr.. Fry" come
in"
Bob" went in, and the teacher so
managed him that he became the Hon.
Robert P. Letcher, member of CONGRESS
and Governor of Kentucky.
One day another boy came to Mr..
Fry's house. He was poor, he said, but
he wished to be fitted for college. If
Mr.. Fry would take him, he would pay
him some day for his board and tuition.
Come in and make yourself at home,"
said the kind hearted teacher. the poor
boy became Chief Justice Robertson,
one of the most popular and useful of
Kentucky's great men.
Before Mr.. Fry died he had the salts
faction of seeing many of his pupils
numbered among the distinguished
public men of the State. Thus, quietly
but distinctly, he had impressed himself
by doing all the good he could and max.
ing no fuss about it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Italian Railway Ehternrise.

Feeling sure that should never
climb another mountain, I had brought
from Cortina- trophy to hang un-
der my Mosel oar-the alpenstock with
which I struggled up Tofana-value, %
cents. For convenience I would send
it as freight to Havre. To allow for
the slowness of the clerks we assigned
an extra three-quarters of an hour for the
business of getting it off our hands, be-
sides half hour for buying tickets and
registering the baggage. In front of
the station stands little guard-house,
with the deluding legend, "Expedi-
None."
"Might send this stick to Havre?"
"Sicuro."
@How much will it cost?"
We must ask. The expedition goes
with us to the freight clerk, who an
swers, more than it is worth"
Probably, but how much?"
"How much does it weigh?"
II don't know. Weigh it,"
The expeditor hung it to the hook o.
a steelyard which another man held up.
"One kilo' two pounds). Then, after
a calculation, 1.-TWO francs"
very well; 1 will stand 2 francs.
No matter about the receipt. Here is
the money. Mark it Paid and send
as soon as possible"
But they manage these things better
in Italy. I must go back and see what
"Expedizione" really means. I must
give the details very clearly, and the
official must make out the papers. Z
might go and get my tickets and fight
my baggage through, and then come
back. I came back, at the end of half
hour and of all my patience, and found
him still writing. There were three
freight letters" each as long and in
tricate as a policy of insurance, and two
long declarations" for the custom
house giving description, value, etc.,
etc. (Al concerning % cents worth of
wood and iron, which had not reached
Havre twenty-eight days later, and
probably never will reach there. One
Of those freight letters has got into a
wrong pigeonhole.) Then we went to
the freight clerk, and he signed some
thing and signed something (sanded),
and the Expedizione' man demanded
L
the contract for two francs.
"Ah! mails! the Expedizione' costs
franc and half"
At last I was free. Everything was
attended to, and we had still seven
minutes to get our Seats separated
Jane from poodle with which, and
with whose mistress, of course, she had
made friends, gathered up my bags
and bundles, and started gayly for the
train.
As we turned into the corridor we
saw the great doors swing to. and our
porter shrugged his shoulders.
"But what does it mean2"
"Troppo tardi!"
1T is only 10 minutes past 9, and
the train leaves at quarter past"
"The doors are closed five minutes
before the train STARTS
"Then why in-!' But no; the man
did not understand English, and no
poor words of mine could do justice to
the situation. Jane thought other
wise, but then her words are never
poor, and on this occasion she showed
an approach to genius. As piece of
sketchy Characterization, the estimate
she expressed of italian executive ability
was worthy of permanent record but
she is overfastidious in such matters,
and prefers that her achievement should
be permitted to remain our private pos
session.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
His Meaning.

While Mrs. johnson was walking
around her kitchen the other day. making
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roguish horse-trader that, if he could
somehow appropriate for his own steed
that desirable member. it might be made
the means of accomplishing to advantage
the long-deferred sale. Acting upon
this idea, he carefully separated it, leav-
ing nothing but the hide, to which of
course the hair chung fast, and this he
strained over his own horses stump,
sewed it tightly, and then hurried off to
find purchaser. This he accomplished
without delay; and the buyer, much
pleased with his bargain, took him home
and put him in stall. The next morn
ing early he was summoned to the
stable by the noise made by the horse,
who was kicking the sides of the stall in
the intervals of looking backward as if
in distress; and after q good deal of
investigation into the cause for
the trick was performed so neatly
that it quite bafaed him at
first he found the rawhide of the false
tail had shrunk, and, sewed STRONGLY,
was pinching the poor horse so unmer.
cifully that he couldn't stand still. Re-
ieved of it there stood his neighbor's
rat-tailed horse; and when directly
afterward the scamp was charged with
it, of course he did it, ne said, un-
blushingly, indeed with hearty peals of
laughter, as if it was the climax of good
jokes, winding up his confession with
the received axiom, "All fair in horse
swap" and that he expected his neigh
Dor to @trade on his 0aU7a j,4dgment,"
as he himself had done. OF course the
cheat didn't get into the courts; it was
too novel and too acute, "too good" for
that; but the victimized pocketed his
loss, relying upon getting even with
the successful trickster some day in the
future, or, at least, making himself
square" off of somebody else