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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE. GEORGIA.
It is said there is a single county of
Iowa that raises more wheat each year
than all the New England States.
The new metal turrets with which
France has been experimenting have
proved unable to stand the new projec¬
tiles hurled by the modern high explo¬
sives. This, says the London Times,
condemns all ironclad ships without
giving them a chance of showing what
they could do.
The National Cemetery at Fredercks
burg, Va., is the third in size, there being
over 15,000 ’ soldiers buried there, ’ drawn
from , the neighboring . . battlefields ,, of .
Chancellorsville, ’ Spottsylvania 1 J and the
Wilderness. _ , The cemetery itself . .... lies
on
the battlefield of Fredericksburg and in
the midst of most solemn associations,
yet only two Decoration Day services
have ever been held there. These were
in 1886 and 1884.
It is said that the primrose was not
Lord Beaconsfield’s favorite flower at all,
although the English political society
that perpetuates his Tory principles takes
its name therefrom. The story that it
was arose from the fact that the Queen
' sent to grace his coffin a wreath of these
flowers, with a card bearing the in¬
scription, in her own handwriting, “His
favorite flower.” But she meant the
favorite of her own husband, Prince
Albert, and not of Beaconsfield.
Some idea of the extent of the use of
natural gas in Pittsburg, Penn., and
vicinity, and the profits of the business
may be had from the report of one of the
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on February 29 the last of the treasury
stock had been sold, so that the entire
capital stock of $7,500,000 is now sub¬
ject to dividends. Rents, operating ex¬
penses, interest and taxes for the year
amounted to 48.65 per cent, of the earn¬
ings, or $1,709,792.74. Monthly divi¬
dends of one per cent., amounting to
$842,026.50 have been paid. The num¬
ber of house connections made from the
lines of the company during the year
1887 was 4712. A year ago the com¬
pany contracted to operate the lines of
two other companies. The united busi¬
ness of these three companies amounted
on March 1 to the supplying of 678
manufacturers and 11,955 dwelling
houses, and, through other distributing
companies, the supplying of 113 facto¬
ries and 10,961 dwellings, or a total of
23,707 contracts.
“The spiritualists of France,” says the
New York Commercial Advertiser, “have
lately been celebrating the anniversary
of the death of their great apostle, Allan
Kardec, who was removed au almost in¬
appreciable distance from this world in
1S09. It will probably surprise mo3t
people to learn that about a hundred
spiritualist journals are now published,
of which M. Birmaun, who spoke at the
Kardec celebration, gave some account,
and that, according to his estimate,
there are about two million spiritualists
in the world. What seems unaccount¬
able is that more of their journals are
published in Spanish than in any other
language. One is printed in Ilindostanee,
fourteen in .France, one is issued at
Geneva, four’’ in Belgium and one in
Buenos Ayrec,. The Sphinx, the great
German spiritualist organ, is published
at Leipsic, and is said to he ‘purely
scientific,’ being problematically so and
according to the science of the late ill
fated Dr. Zollner, who, if we remember
rightly, was a Professor at the University
of Leipsic, went mad over spiritualism,
.and died in a lunatic asylum. ” ----
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Peculiar People—One Was Enough
—A Great Commercial Truth
Betrayed the Old Man
Short in Experience.
There was a young doctor of Skye,
Whose patients seemed destined to die;
But he left them one day,
To go fishing, they say,
And they all got well, just for a guy.
There is au old man in Duluth,
Who made up his mind in his youth
That he never would lie;
Now he’s longing to die,
He’s so tired of telling the truth.
There is a young girl in Cohoes,
As fair and as fresh as a rose;
But Ami she ciphers speaks in Volapuk, Greek,
she
Awi she ’ 11 die an oI(1 mait L I suppose. .
?.fe Who re wrote wa ? a verses - youn = after I P Em j? this J a plan; P an >
But the populace rose,
A ? Y ou may suppose,
And . , they , wiped out tuat wretched
man.
—Somerville Journal.
One Was Enough.
Agent—“Can house, sir?” I put a burglar alarm in
your
Citizen—“Nop; I had one once.”
Agent—“What tne , matter: , -
xvas
Wouldn’t it go off ?”
Citizen—“Oh, yes, it went off easily
enough. night , and Burglar arned got off ."-New into the house ork one
it 1 Sun.
A Great Commercial Truth.
Johnny (whose father is an editor')—
“Say, Mr. Storekeeper, do you keep su
gar, tea, calico and things?”
Storekeeper—“Certainly, and my boy.”
Johnny—Yes, pa says you will
keepum unless you advertise.”— Sift
ings. <r
Betrayed the Old Man.
“These fish,my dear Mrs. Hendricks,”
remarked the minister who was discuss
ing a Sunday dinner with the family,
“are delicionsly fresh. Iam enjoying
them very much.”
“They ought to be fresh,’’volunteered
Bobby, who was also enjoying them.
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Bangor jj Commercial.
Short in His Experience.
TT Happy , Young r Husband T , 'Belle and , I
get along very amicably. Not the
Wo have slightest coldness has occurred, and we
Wn been married "—'- 1 almost a year. ”
Wise Father—“Did you ever try to
match any trimming for her:”
1 haven t.
‘Then your experience hasn’t com
menced yet.” Life.
Better Than Ether.
Surgeon “Now, my man, I am about
to amputate your foot. ”
“Well, go ahead.”
“I would advise you to submit _ to being
placed under the influence of an antes
thctic. ”
“Hang your anaesthetic! _ But I’ll tell
you what I wish you would do.”
“'Well?”
‘Have somebody bring _ me the score of
the ball game by innings while you’re at
work .”—Nebraska Journal.
Obliging.
Jones met a blind man in the street
the other evening who, with stick in
hand, was carefully thumping his way
along. this Presently he saw him stop.
“Is your house?” asked Jones.
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, then,” remarked our friend,
always ready to do a good turn to a fel¬
low-creature in distress, as he placed a
box something of wax tapers in his Land, “here’s
Judge-. to light your way up stairs.”
—
Imperious Hired Help.
First Dame (a few years hence)-“How
are Second you getting Dame—“Very along now, dear?”
the nicely. I have
secured services of a person to come
in once a day, make the bed, dust the
bric-a-brac and clean the silver. For a
little extra she also lists the clothes for
the laundry.”
“How fortunate you are?”
“Yes, indeed. That leaves me nothing
to do but sweep, cook, wash dishes,
carry coal and scrub .”—Omaha World.
Half and Half.
Young Wife—“John, I wish you would
rock the baby.”
Young Husband— “What’ll I rock the
baby for?” <■„,»!> - _
Y. W.—“Because he is not very -well.
And what’s more, half of him belongs
to you, and you should not object to
rock him.”
Y. II.—“Well, don’t half belong to
you!” W.—“Yes.”
Y.
Y. H.—“Well, you can rock your half
and let my half holler .”—Cleveland Town
Topics.
Horrible Revenge.
Omaha man—“Did you go to Mrs. De
Fashion’s boarding house to-day?”
Wife—“ Yes. She refuses to take us
because we have a child; but I got even
with her.”
“Gave her a piece of your mind, eh?”
“No, indeed; that wouldn’t have done
any good. I told Miss Fad there was a
room vacant at Mrs. De Fashion’s, and
she went around and secured it; paid for
three months in advance.”
“Who is Miss lie Fad:”
“She is one of those art enthusiasts.
She hammers brass.”— Omaha World.
In a hear"’that Bi" Pickle.
Brown—“I Jones is com
plicated ~ financially.” he is in regular
Robinson— “Yes, a
pickle.” “Maybe but he’s not in big
so, as a
p’ckle as he was last summer.”
“I didn’t know that he was financially
embarrassed last summerr”
“I didn’t say that he was. I merely
said he was in a big pickle last summer,
and so he was. He bathed every day iu
the Atlantic ocean at Long Branch.
That , 3 being ° in a big pic kle, ain’t it.”
Siftings _
A Nervous Disorder.
Lady (to physician)—“I wish you would
s t 0 p and see’ my husband, doctor. He
seems to he suffering from some nervons
trouble.”
Physician—“In what way does his
nervousness show itself?”
Lady— “He jumps every time the front
door Physician—“Well, bell rings.” I will stop when I
am passing; hut I’m inclined to think,
madam, that your husband ought to see
a banker—not a physician.”— Tid-Uts.
The Colored Republic.
»Mr. Charles H. J. Taylor, ex-Minister
to tbe Republic of Liberia, puts the
value or mb private property m tnac
country at $1,006,000, or $1 per capita.
The “nation” has a bonded indebtedness
of $2,000,000, and over $7,000,000
lave Been sent to it by benevolent per
sons j n this country and England. There
are about as many Cabinet Ministers as
i„ the United States. There are only
four post otfices in the country. The
navy consists of two gunboats, presented
by the English Government, which are
rotting on the sand. Some time ago the
President of the United States recom
mended to Congress the giving to the
infant republic of two old war vessels,
but the offer was rejected unless crews
and provisions for ten years were pro
vided. The army consists of one regi
meat, numbering 417 men, of whom 388
are officers and 29 privates. The Presi
dent’s body guard numbers 19, of whom
17 are officers. In some of the counties
there are not enough citizens to hold the
offices, but in the others there are just
about enough to go round,
Class distinctions prevail to the extent
they did in the Southern citizens States domineer during
slavery times. The
over the savages and often use them
cruelly. Their boys make the young
savages carry them on their backs to
school and do all kinds of work for them.
Candidates for admission to the Bar are
required to read the " first the chapter of
John's gospel and to spell columns of
words in Webster’s spelling book as far
as the “publication.” laws passed by They the must session also read of
last
Congress. of The breaches, Legislative the Assembly
consists two Upper
House having eight members and the
Lower House thirteen. The annual ses¬
sion generally lasts two weeks, and the
laws enacted fill about three pages.—
Avalanche.
Sympathetic Doctors.
There are some sympathetic doctors in
ported Philadelphia, attending who are practically sup
by a few wealthy the wo
men, who, if there is anything mat
j ter with them, have been no better nor
worse for years. They console tliem
selves with the fancy that none but these
' doctors could have kept them alive at all
and that to them they owe the continu¬
ance of their existence. With many
; doctors, unmarried, unmarried, especially their their sympathetic sympathetic if they are young personali- personali- and
j j \ principal
ity is their stock in trade.—
Philadelphia Times.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The fact has been noted that seamen,
as a rule, are peculiarly subject to color,
blindness. Iu tests made in the British
mercantile marine standard green was
pronounced red in 107 cases out of 189.
One of the three finest collections of
butterflies in the world has been made by
Mr. Berthold Neumoegen, of New York.
It contains 100,000 specimens, and has;
cost twenty years in time and 835,000
in money.
An argument against allowing children
to drink milk iu summertime is drawn
by Dr. Y. C. Vaughn, of the University^
fluid of Michigan, from the poison—tyrotoxicon. the liability of the
to develop
—which is supposed to be the immediate
cause of summer diarrhcea.
A wire charged with electricity which
remained dull at ordinary atmospheric
pressure became incandescent in a mod
erate vacuum, while, on the other hand,
a current which Mould fuse a wire at
ordinary pressure will scarcely redden it.
if the pressure is sufficiently increased.
Snow produces, when melted, from
one-fourth to one-eighth of its bulk in
water according to the degree to which.
it has been compacted before melting.
Taking one-fifth as arough mean, we may
estimate the weight of a snow drift at
12.5 pounds per cubic foot, or 190 cubic
feet per ton.
A well borer in St. Louis says that it
j s very seldom he can penetrate the
earth comiDg to any very great with depth without
in contact magnetic in
fluences. and other On withdrawing iron substances the will tool ad¬
spikes Sometimes he'
here to it. encounters
magnetism two or three times in the same
well.
The decay of animal teeth,_ and to
some extent the loss of teeth of all»civil
ized races, has been accounted for by the
ablest heavier English draughts authorities made on the score of
the by the brain
on general supposed physical that the and force nerve systems.
It is that would
he applied to repairing the teeth is used,
elsewhere.
A curious effect of the wear and teat
to which the earth’s crust is ever being
subjected, is exhibited in the singularly
capped pinnacles Wahsatch existing on the South
river, in the mountains. There
ai’o B-undrecU of these slender pillars,
ranging in height from 40 to 400 feet,
most of them crowned by large caps of
stone. They are not works of human
art, the as might almost be imagined, but
are memorial monuments of the once
rounded hills, from which they have been
cut by the action of air and water.
The affection known as writer’s
cramps is not confined to users of the
pen, but appears in telegraphers and
others who make continual use of one
set of muscles. These cramps were long
regarded as incurable. During has-been several
years plying past, however, Wolff ap¬
gymnastics combined with mas¬
sage to the muscles affected, and has suc¬
ceeded in curing more than half of the
many cases treated. His process is
neither difficult nor tedious, being
simply regular movements of the fingers
or other parts, with rubbing or gentle
striking of the muscles, continued not
more weeks. than_an ~ hour a _day “ for several
,
A United States Navy officer has in¬
vented a life-saving device for the
dreaded emergency of “man overboard”
which promises to be of value. A raft
buoy of sufficient size to support a man
is attached to a long and strong but light
wire rope. The buoy is stocked with a
small supply of provisions, and is fur¬
nished with a potassium compound
which upon contact with the water
ignites and burns brilliantly for twenty
minutes. If the drowning man, aided
by the flame, succeeds iu reaching the
raft, he can be drawn to the vessel with¬
out the necessity of lowering boats.
Should the rope break and his own ves¬
sel lose track of him, < he has, with the
provisions, a chance of sustaining life
until picked up by others.
Consular reports show that the average
wages of women employed as cloak and
dressmakers in the large cities of Ger¬
many amount to from $1 to $2 a week,
while makers of underclothing earn about
$1.50 to $2.50 a week, but work harder.
Few of these workers think of having
what is known in this country as “a
square meal” oftener than once a week
on Sunday.
One of the plans by which the Indians
hunted the buffalo was by stampeding a
herd and driving them over a steep
prcciDice to sure death below, —