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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
A society of people favorable to Cana¬
dian independence is being formed in
Toronto, Ontario.
A French electrician says he will soon
be able to produce a thunder-storm
whenever demanded and in the district
desired, and the cost won’t exceed $3.
The London and Northwestern Rail¬
way has decided, “in deference to the
prejudices of its American customers,”
to institute the system of checking bag¬
gage. _______________
The Government ornithologist at
Washington estimates that the surplus
in the United States Treasury would not
suffice to pay the present bouuty for ex¬
terminating the English sparrows in
New York State.
One does not attribute much filial
sentiment to the red men, says the Inde¬
pendent. But Roan Dog, the big medi¬
cine man of the Sioux, finding his
mother dead the other day, seat a bullet
through his heart.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce
slates that three newsboys of that city,
guilty of no misdemeanor, were arrested
last week at their request and sent to the
Bridewell. Their reason for wishing to
go there, as stated to the police justice,
was that they wanted to learn a trade.
This year is the bi centenary of Alex¬
ander Pope’s birth. The eminent Eng¬
lish poet was born on May, 22, 1688.
Mr. Labouchere, of London Truth, occu¬
pies Pope’s villa at Twickenham and has
thrown the house open to the public in
honor of the author of the “Essay on
Man.”
When the President of France is
elected it is for seven years. He receives
as salary $120,000 a year, and $60,000
for household expenses. He lives hand¬
somely. When he retires from office,
beside the honor which will attach to his
name, if he has been a wise magistrate,
he will be a rich man.
The expression “dark horse,” now in
such general political use, first occurred
in Lord Beaconfield’s “Young Duke.”
Here is the paragraph: ‘ ‘The first favor¬
ite was never heard of, the second favorite
was never seen after the distance post,
all the ten-to-ones were in the rear, and a
dark horse which had never been
thought of rushed past the grand stand
in sweeping triumph.”
One of the ship’s chronometers at the
United States Navy Depariment has a
history. It was used by Captain Hall on
the Polaris, which was crushed and sunk
by two icebergs off Littleton Island, in
1872, and was put in a cairn on the main
land by the Buddington party. There it
remained until 1876, when it was found
by the British ship Discovery and taken
to London, and later returned to the
United States.
The Augusta, (Ga.) Chronicle says:
“Seventeen year locusts abound in the
AVest. There is a well defined ‘W’ on
each wing of the locust. The supersti¬
tious attach to their .visitation the im¬
portance of a warning from Providence,
and maintain that the ‘W’ signifies war.
It is a fact that in 1834, when occurred
the first of any recorded visits of the
pest, the Crimean war was inaugurated.
Seventeen years later in 1871, they again
appeared. That year marked the begin¬
ning of the' Franco-Prussian war. This
Tear?” •*-...... -
BUDGET OF FUN.
UMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Country Idyl—What Ailed Him
—She Thought the Price
Was High—The Doctor’s
Verdict, Etc., Etc.
“Have you dug your grass?" asked the city
Of chap,
the scaring farmer man,
For he thought tie would not crush the swain
Beneath his social ban.
“How was your crop when you dug your
Did grass? hurt
the weevils your peas?
And did the canker worm destroy
Your young cucumber trees?
“I love, good sir, the country air,
From the town I fain would flee
And lose niyseif in rural dreams
’Neath the potato tree.
I would pluck the turnip from its vine,
Thro" the parsnip meadow push,
And restheneath the grateful shade
Of the bending cabbage bush.
“Oh, I drive fain would be a simple swain
And my yoke of cows,
And rest at noon beneath the shade
Of the rutabaga boughs.
Oh, I’d bush hunt the woods for the eocoanut
The whole of the livelong day,
Or start at morn with the rustic hoe
To dig the hills for hay.
“And if at the noonday I grew faint
With my labors’ strain and rush,
I would mix the milkweed’s luscious milk
With the mushrooms luscious mush.
I would pluck the pineapple from the pine—
But why has your color tied ?”
But the farmer fell with a sickening thud—
The farmer man was dead!
— S. W. Toss, in Yankee Blade.
What Ailed Him.
Brown—“You don’t look well lately,
Robinson.”
Robinson—“No; I can’t sleep at niglit
on account of lung trouble.”
right?” Brown—“Nonsense; your lungs are
liobinsou— ’‘Yes, mine are; the
trouble is with the baby’s. ”— Judge.
She Thought the Price Was High.
“John, dear, do they play baseball by
electricity?”
“Why, of course not. What made
you think of such a thing?”
“Oh, nothing; only I saw in the pa¬
per that the Boston baseball club had
paid $20,000 lor a battery .”—Hunand
Lampoon.
Tlie Doctor’s Verdict.
Ethel (to the family physician)—
that “Why, doctor! you really don’t think
po fvder hurts the complexion
Dr. Gruff—“Well, no; some kinds
don’t.”
Ethel—“Oh, please tell me which kind
is the best, and I promise I will use no
other.”
ternally.”— Dr. Gruff—“Baking powder—take in¬
Judge.
The Porter’s Delicate Flattery.
Rich Old Lady (entering a palace car)
want a seat on the shady side, por-
5,
Porter—“Impossible, madam. On
side you sit will be the sunny
side.”
The old lady gave him a dollar, and
writes to the papers to complain of the
overworked condition of the palace car
employes.— Harper's Bazar.
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In Hard Hines.
“This is a tough tough world
Charley,” as he gazed in dismay at an
letter in his hand
“What’s the trouble now?” asked
Charley.
“You know that pretty little thing iu
I’ve spent so much time and money
“Yes.”
‘‘She refused me point black last
and now the old man sends me a
of three dollars for a broken gate.”
— Epoch.
Giving Other Suitors a Show.
“Edward, dear, 1 hardly know my
own heart,” said the girl, softly, “and
you must give me a little time to think
it all over.”
“ Will you want very much time,” he
asked, tenderly and hopefully. “When
may I come for an answer?”
In a low, sweet voice the girl replied:
“At the end of the season.” And she
arose the languidly, adjusted her tournure
gentle tap indicative of noble
and moved gracefully away.— Life.
A Man of Business.
Boston Man (who haft .been rescued as
he was going down for the third time)—
“ Is youi name Hoxey? ”
Rescuer—“Yes. Keep your mouth
shut!”
iioston Man—D-do businesson State
street? ”
i escner—“Yes. Shut up and save
your breath! ”
Boston Man—“Say, Hoxey, would it
b-be convenient for you to pay mo that
two dollars and a half to-day that, you
b-borrowed a vear or two ago?’’— Til
Bits.
Only one Obstacle, hut
“I fear it can never be, George,” said
the maiden, sadlythere is an insur
mountable obstacle in the way.”
“1 am sure I cau remove it Laura,”
said George, eagerly, “if you will only
let me try.”
Laura father—a pointed silently to a portrait of
her large, cross eyed man.
with red hair, a square jaw and a loot
l;ke a canvas-covered ham; and George
took his hat and groped his way out
through the hall toward the front door.
He was'nt large enough to remove such
an obstacle, and lie knew it .”—Chi aj ,
Tribune.
A Hospitable Invitation.
It was one of those cold spoils which
visit us frequently during the summer,
and they two had met quite in a premedi
fated way, on the avenue.
“What are you going to do this even
ing?” she asked, turning the batteries of
two beautiful eyes upon him.
“Oh, I suppose I ll stay at home and
hug the stove,” he answered gloomily.
“Come up to our house,” she said,
sweetly, in a suggestive voice. And the
beating of their own hearts was all the
sound they heard .-Detroit Free Free*.
Doubting His Capital.
Mrs. Catchachance—“What
that advertisement, John, ’ that you * were
going M* to Catchachance—“The answer.”
one about
doubling Mrs. up my capital?”
U.—“Yes.”
Mr. C. —“Oh, I answered it. Sent a
dollar and got a reply.”
Mrs. C.—“And did they show you to
your satisfaction how to double up your
capital?”
Mr. C. — “Not to my satisfaction, but
they certainly showed me how to do it.’’
.Airs. O'. — “I’m so safd glad !”
Mr. C.—“They and fed my children were
my capital, if I my children on
green apples I would double up my cap
Ual at once.”— Bos'on Courier
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A Righteous Judgment.
That the old alcaldes of California
sometimes delivered judgments instinct
^\ L n f° aneot 0 ‘0. C Carly Sh ° Wn
A wife - once summoned her husband
S ,e,“ »‘“ 0
judge .-* “and let him play to f he
us as
Sivaf ca l, V. a U H. ’? W ° ma “ hG Wlshed t0
r „ 1 . . , ,
“Si, senor.”
“Is that the best you can play it?’’
“Si, senor.”
“Then I fine you $2 for distuibing tbe
public peace .”—New Haven News.
Romances From the Senate Cloak
Room.
Senator Kenna, of AVest Virginia, and
Senator Black, of Kentucky, are great
s P ort8men , as everyone knows. Each is
tlle ow “ et ° f a P ointer ’, the relative
merits ., of which , they are frequently en
S a S ed in diacu “|"g in tbe cloak-rooms
ot the benate. , The other day Kenna
said to Blackburn, lightiug a fresh
cigar:
“Joe, you may talk as much as you
like about your dog, but mine won’t go
out with me when the cartridges don’t
fit my gun.”
An audible smile went around the
room, and everybody thought, “Well,
for once, Joe Blackburn has been beaten
at his own game.” The junior Senator
from Kentucky, however, was equal to
the occasion, lie looked at Kenna for
a minute, and then quietly remarked:
“AVell, Kenna 1 admit that your dog
exhibits an intelligence almost akin to
reason, but I don’t mind backing mine
against him. I was in the fields one day
with that dog, and a man I was not ac
quainted with came along near 11 s. My
dog pointed but at him. I called, to that
dog, So nothing I would induce him to
move. went-up to tbe stranger.
i> < Sir,’I _ said, ‘would you oblige me
with your name?’ ”
“‘Certainly,’ replied the stranger;
‘my name is Partridge.’” '
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Without another word henna took
Blackburn’s arm and both disappeared!
rant, in the followed direction by of the the shouts Senate of restau-j their!
friends. — Chicago Herald.
V
Stonewall Jackson.
The history of Stonewall Jackson’s,
life, writes Colonel Burr in the New!
York Graphic, is like the history of an
old-time Cromwellian soldier, He was
a born Puritan and an ingrained tighter.
He taught philosophy and in the Virginia
Military Institute was a pillar of
tbe Presbyterian Church. No one
imagined him to be he much considered of a soldier,
:l ' ;d Jess was a man
who would lay aside his professor's
robe and cap to take up the sword
iu defense of slavery. lie was the
superintendent of a Sunday-school,
where the black people of his ne ghoor
b f j ” 1 were instructed, and ho never
missed a Sunday from among ii:s skive
P and u l ) '{ 3 - showed Tney loved them the all stern the kindness free t man, of
which his nature was capable. If lie
hud been born m isew Bug-laud nud
brought up under the influences which
were potent there in his young days, he
world have been a soldier with'John
Lrown and an ardent ad.ieient of Garri
f<m and 1!S doctrines. As it was. he
not ! ?“ s P? ct ? d °‘ ? ,den ‘ lo ', e for
the peculiar institut.on ot the South.
lbe world was mistaken. With:n n
week af ter ' lr «'. nw ‘‘f 1 P>‘ s ? ed thc ordl -
? anc « ol f ^sswn, he *E™. , wart,
b ? n * coIIe „ S e t ® athe ‘ h: ; d , oiteicd !lis s «r
vices command to the the btate, ana win placed , m
ot troops at Harper s J erry
ILs lame bogau wnh tue first ba:tic of
1 f v ''' in b !, s tlde 01 "stone
wa! !” of at the that battle fight °t General Ball Run. Bernard In the; E.
crisis
?<*• brok ®“ wbo a “ w d i is almost routed ! ’cst to division rally his of
Confederates, shouted : “See, there i*
Jackson standing like a stone wal .
uli J, on Vngmians He died with
the cry on his lips, but the title clung to
tlie sturdy sold er to whom it was thus
given. day
From the of that disastrous battle
until the early spring days of 1863 this
battling dangerous hero was one of the most
enemies the Union armies had
punter. He was here to-day and
hea to-morrow. He shunned no peril
he avoided no danger He fought and
« al “ d victories and he married his Bible
and P ia f d as & fou f, h " J he n
2“^°^ May 180J Jackson P A dashed down °" T around ^ . a
the right of the national army, swept his
brother-in-religion, his General Howard, and
corps almost out of existence, and
XK^of* tS* PoiomacTohLre!
He nested on the night of tho-Sd of Maw
near Chancellorsviile. It was ^ quite dark
between g and „ 0 , clock and rode out
S' t i:‘ P " tJ T
hira as no other comnander on either
side was loved poured a volley of rifle
bullets into the approaching cavalcade.
'«*>» - w*
officers for a squad of Union cavalry.
Covered with wounds, the dying General
was carried to his tent, and five days
after the soul of this gallant soldier
passed to its last account. “Let us pass
over the river,” said he, as he closed his
eves forever, “and rest beneath the shade
of the trees ”
Germany’s Ex-Empress.
Some of the ladies of the Court call
ing upon the late Empress of Germany,
tablishment as Crown Princess, shortly after her es
at Berlin, found her in her
drawing hammer room her ou a step ladder with a
in hand nailing up some
lace curtains. Instead of being confused,
siie was rather proud of it. She put
white caps on the palace maids, cover
ing up that hair whose display is a chief
object in life to a German maiden. She
introduced oatmeal porridge as the in¬
variable first dish at breakfast, and was
henceforth regarded as having insulted
the national cookery. Her three little
daughters once found a maid blackening
a grate in the study. They took brushes
and blackened the maid’s face and deco
rated her apron and dress in chiaros
euro. Their mamma made them beg the
maiden's pardon and buy her a new
dress out of their own money, which for
Princesses Royal of Prussia was unheard
of and staggering. Their brother AVill
iam would have gracefully told some
body to throw tbe maid into the river
and her to stay there till she got clean.
There is something even yet almost bar
baric in the absolute sovereignty of the
the King in Prussia, and of thi3 AVilliam Tmeg, is
choice examplar.—Weto York