Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-05

The drummer's tax has already paid
Texas $40, 900.
Last year Texas produced ogsr 49,
600 barrels of molasses.
The bloody shirt was a bigger ban
ner than Thurman's red bandaDa.
Queen Victoria never takes q cold.
When she goes out she wraps herself
up in her tltles.
The Thirteenth Infantry, which has
been stationed at Atlantis, has Leen
ordered to the front.
An old adage revised 10 suit The
times 'tSome men are born rich;
others are born ia Ohio"
The Arkansas River at Great Bend,
Kansas, is without a drop Of water in
its bed. Such an occurrence is IN
heard of.
A missionary who returned from
Zululand before the late var gives
the pronunciation Of Getty wsyo as
"Tsewayo."
Alabama State bonds have taken q
rise. A few weeks ago they were
quoted at As cents, but now they are
bringing so cents.
The total vote cast in Cincinnati at
the last election was As, 800. According
to the usual ratio this would give her
a population of 271 $780,
Poor Lorne! although unused to the
rigors of the Canadian climate. he will
be compelled to sleep alone this win
ter Just for Lorne, In fact.
1t is estimated that there are 81, 800,
600, 600, or nearly SIS for every man,
woman and child on the globe, invest
ed in the railroads of the world.
The Okolona States man has quiz
the lecture field. He is reported al
saying that it does not pay to talk tt
the man that lights the candles, The
newspaper reporter, the curtain mai
and the man who has only an in
choate right to take up the tickets.
A statement of the receipts from in
ternal revenue from July 1st to Sep
tember 3Oth, 1879. as compared with
like period in 1873, shows al iucreas'
of So, $50 ,448 from collections oil
spirits /; a decrease of $1,442, 276 from
tobacco, and an increase of $2S9,19
from fermented liquors.
Those vulgar New Yorkers! l
they knew how it Jared upon tn,
cultured ears Of Boston they woul'
once and forever abstain from that ex
preston "a bob tail car" Allow u
to suggest this formula, which is boil
terse and elegant, tO-wit. "a Robert
final vehicle ."-Boston Transcript.
What could be more i~ntensel,
American than the act of the Yanke
, who, on visiting an Italian conven
and being shown a lamp which ha,
not been permitted to go out for NOR
than five centuries, quickly steppe
up to it and blew it out, with the re
mark. "Well, I rather guess it's GU
; nOW.n
A young woman at Syracuse, II. Y
had q dream, many years ago, c
eight men standing in a row befOr
her, with outstretched hands. Sh
| interpreted this to mean that sh
would have eight husbands. Her sew
euth husband died lately, and, al
, though she is now eighty-four, she
confident that the dream will be ful
> filled.
A minister once told Wendell Phi
f lips that if his business in life was t
serve the negroes he ought to go t
the South, where they were, and dol
THAT is worth thinking of" reptile
. Phillips; 'and what is your bushes
, In life ?" ITO save men. from goin
to hell" replied the minister. "The
go there and attend to your business !
said Mr.. Phillips.
King Alphonso has just paid a de
icate and sensible attention to his b,
' trothed by sending her all the wa
from Madrid to Vienna a distinguishe
. professor to give her lessons in th
/, Spanish language. The professor
name is Palacios, and he once had til
honor of taking the crown prince {
Germany through a course In Spanisl
!, | conversation and literature.