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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Since the row in tbe Sandwich Islands
King Kalakaua is King only in name.
He has little or no power, his salary hav¬
ing been cut down and creditors dog him
about and sue him in open court.
Recently-compiled statistics show
that the number o£ National banks in
the country has increased about 1000 dur¬
ing the past seven years. Four-fifths of
these new banks have capitals of $100,
000 or less, and about one-half started
with $50,000.
Since the 1st of December, 18S7,
twenty-three young men have shot or
stabbed young women who have trifled
with their affections, and further cases
are being recorded daily. The Det oit
Free Prtsi thinks “it is getting to be a
serious thing to mash a young man and
then ask him if his mother knows he’s
out.”
The Philadelphia News says that the
Philadelphia Mint cannot keep up with
the demand that is being made on it
from the South for pennies, and that the
increase in the use of the penny in the
South has, ol late, been tremendous.
According to the Atlanta Constitution ,
“the action of the Georgia Railroad
Commission in requiring exact change
to be given by the railroads to persons
buying tickets has, no doubt, much to
do with the increase in the use of pen¬
nies in this State. They are used now
in merchandise in this and other States,
where a few years ago they could hardly
be passed. This is a good sign, and it
will be found beneficial to the South if
the penny comes into as general use hero
as it is in the North.”
The single span bridge which is to be
thrown across the Hudson river at New
York will be a grand piece of engineer,
ing work, says the Times-Democrat, and
will be 140 feet in the clear above high
water. Among those interested in the
scheme is Mr. Henry Flad, President of
the Board of Public Improvements of the
City of St. Louis, who was intimately
connected with Captain Eads in the con¬
struction of the St. Louis bridge, and
was formerly President of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. Another of
the incorporators is Captain James An¬
drews, who built the piers of the St.
Louis bridge and the works at the Jetties
of the Mississippi river. He is the suc¬
cessor of Captain Eads in the ship rail¬
way project. The other incorporators
are well known manufacturers and capi¬
talists of New York City.
F. A. Forbes, a Chicago lad of six¬
teen, about three months ago bought
several thousand bushels of wheat at
seventy six cents. The market went his
way and wheat climbed up to ninety
cents. Forbes closed his trade at that
price, clearing, as he told his friends,
$115,000. Had he stopped there all
would have been right; but he didn’t.
One taste of the excitement of the pit
was not enough. lie went in again, this
time to make a colossal fortune. He
bought heavily. The market fell. Little
by little he lost what he had won. He
became panic-stricken and held back'
paying margins. Attachments were is¬
sued against him, but nothing was
found. He owes, it is said, about $i!0.
000. It is thought that he has trans¬
ferred his property to his mother, Tho
Board .of Trade men are very so'e at be¬
ing beaten by a mere boy.
days L B the Quitojotoa District, Arizona, a few
ago, the thermometers marked 115 de¬
grees m there the shade, and it was so hot in the
wines that the drills had to be handled
.with tunny sacks wrapped around them.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUBIOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
The Malignant piy—Hard Pressed
—The Philosopher and the
Blaiden—The Point of
View, Etc., Etc.
VVhen drowsy morning sheds her light
Upon You’ve the bed where all the night
And vainly sought to win repose,
scarce could gain a simple doze.
The frisky flv.
With feet of fuzz,
Sails swiftly by.
With mocking buzz.
He prances gaily o’er your nose,
Then turns and frisks upon your tons.
In vain you drop a fervent prayer.
And paw the circumambient air;.
He soars aloft,
In haughty ease,
Returning oft,
Y’our flesh to te ase.
I would not care for Cresar’s might,
Great Alexander’s sway I’d slight,
Could I but have the power to crush
That By with one triumphant sqush
Oh hope most high,
Oh joy complete,
To smash that fly
■With fuzzy feet.
—Merchant Traveler.
Hard Pressed.
"If anybody p r „«d for
time . than I I d
am like to see him.”
“There's such a fellow on exhibition at
the museum.”
“Who is he,”
“An Egyptian mummy.”— Life.
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The Philosopher and the Maiden,
AtifSsars “Good
man,” she sa d, “I have come to
ask your advice. Two men have made
me an otter of marriage.”
“Ah, and you do not know which one
to accept,” the philosopher replied.
“You understand the situation. One
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fool"' “ ” Sl!f ' p0 "’ “ d
W "m, cwid,"the
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The Point of View.
The long, sweltering day was drawing
,bo tmp , .,b„.
morsel?” ss, ■ssa. fc yr^hrie“
thetip “Mercy sakes, man!” was the sympa
response, “don’t talk about eat
ing. It’s too hot to eat.”
“And with a sad deep sigh the tramp
turned away, murmuring as he did so:
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A Peck of Trouble.
Wednesday Featherly was making his customary
his night call, and Bobby was
sustaining with part of tbe conversation
his usual ease and fluency.
“Ma,” he said, “do people who steal
get into trouble?”
“Certainly, Bobby. Why?”
“I heard Clara say that Mr. Featherly
would get himself into trouble if he
didn’t stop stealing kisses. ”— Epoch.
An Easy Explanation.
of Toper was rapidly getting the better
a plate of “Ham and” iu a Park Bow
coffee-and-cake saloon, when Downes
chanced in.
“Why, Angy,” he exclaimed, “I’m
surprised to see you here! Didn’t I see
you night?” taking a girl into Delmonico’s last
“Yes,” said Angy, “aud that’s the
reason Pm here to-day!”— Puck.
Better Than Nothing’.
“What’s Young Man half (to numismatist)—
a silver dollar worth dated
1833?”
is Numismatist—“Nothing, flooded with them.” the market
they Young Man (discouraged)—“I thought
were valuable. Can’t you give me
something for it!”
Numismatist—“I wouldn’t mind giv¬
ing you a quarter. ”
than Young Man—“Take it; that’s better
nothing.”— Life.
A Lordly Position.
“What business is your brother Bill
engaged in now, Quimby?”
“He’s running a bureau of animal in¬
dustry.”
“That can’t be. There’s only one in¬
stitution of the kind in the country, and
I know he has nothing to do with that.”
about “Only one! That shows all you know
it. I have a letter from Bill in my
pocket outfit showing that he superintends an
of dog-catcliers in St. Louis.”—
Lincoln Journal.
His Financial Bating’.
Miss Mainchauce—“George, you have
asked of me the dearest treasure a woman
has—her heart.”
lieve George (impatiently)—“Yes, of suspense.” Irene, re¬
my agony
Miss Mainchance—“You must give
me time. ”
A George—“Time? day, How long, dearest?
a week, a month, a—”
Miss Mainchance (sweetly)—“No,
George; only time enough to look you
up in Bradstreei's." — Tims.
Why He AVas Hard Up.
Emma—“I say, Otto, do you remem¬
ber the promise von made me last year?”
Otto-.-What'promise, Emma? ’
my Jo birthday buy me a To-day handsome is my breastpin birthday on ”
kind but-” something of-the
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t> bo)ert , . ,b T -n Burdette, i whom r. everybody
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much, was the because paper there he enjoyed running’so
was never anv un
certainty about it He knewpositively
wouldn’t everv Monday morning that there
be enough money to 1 pay the
compositors Saturday night.
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Olio a», . prominont elllzon of
isaisatfar&s*
red dnj I»« r , . ar p„, p,.»y
n
morning Burdette had pretty nearly a
c ‘ llllmu about it There had beeu so
82 «.WM2‘ Mwas i >?S , S5a
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m the morning read it over to see if the
b °y s bad g ot ifc set up all right, and
smiled sort of inwardly . to himself again,
About the middle of the afternoon
the man who had the trouble came in.
Burdette trembled a, littie at first,because
sgtzg —■ to be ve,i " uch
“That was a good one on me in the
Holder this morning,” said the man.
“Er-yes—do you think so*” said
Burdette.
“Oh capital—took wJite it off first-class hrst cla3S ’
Did you it?”
“Oh, yes, I scratched it off in a hurry
last night. We have to have something
to fill up.”
“Of course. But it was really good.
I didn’t know you could do as well as
that,” went on the man enthusiastically.
“Y-e-s, I thought perhaps it was a
little funny,” admitted Burdette, a little
uneasily. “You”
say in it the hackman was a
small man 1”
“Why,yes,rather small, I understood.”
“Probably not as small as you are!”
“Oh,no-no, I presume not. I’m’ not
3« P "““
for “1-a-e-s, hackmen very and pleasant—a little cold
some editors I know of.
Probably, then, if I licked the hack
men there wouldn’t be any doubt but
that I could lick you!”
doubt. “Oh, n-nc; no sir; not a particle of
Colonel?” Going to the caucus to-night,
“I expect to be there, but you won’t
you’ll be in the hospital—you little,
insignificant, one-horse editov,” and he
reached out and got Burdette by the
collar. “Chased the man out beyond
the fair grounds, did I? Roared
the eight-thirty express coming back,
I?” and he began jabbing Burdette
and down like the dasher of an old
churn. “My actions would
made a fish laugh, eh? Htiwled
till I made the world’s pack ache,
did I?” and all the time he was dancing
around the office with Burdette at arm’s
length. “Oh, you’re going to be th<
great American humorist! No doubt oi
it at all! You’ll make the Universi
double up and roll on the grass somt
day! You’re funny, oh, so very funny
Just give you a little more practice oi
me and you can start out lecturing!” am
it’s hard to tell what would have becoiw
of poor Burdette if a big pressmai
hadn’t come in just then,withh'is sleeve
rolled up and ink on the side oT his nos
and relieved him. The pressman fough
the man ten minutes before he managei
to tear his coat off and shut up both hi
eyes and fire him down the stairs am
half way across the sidewalk. He ac
complished back it at last, however, and wen
himself to work, and Burdette gatherei
together and wrote up a sol cm
account of the death of the oldest Fre
Mason, who had just passed away.— Ne\
York Tribune.
The Chinese Bastinado.
We mentioned some days ago, says
Shanghai Chronicle, correspondent of the Sa
Franoiseo ’ an old prisoner p wh
llad levled blackma i{ on a n w , risone
in che-hsien’s Jail, Refusing and had flogged th
new prisoaer for to pay, an
also 8 1113,1 who was supposed to hav
informed the Che-hsien of the Sint proceed
l»g- Tte Hupao no. „„ th
SttZZ , Sfflj,‘b
buildings well guarded by braves prisonel an
runners and then sent for the
in confined his jait-there there—in batches were twenty-thrcB I
of four notlfl at
tlmc - The first four said they had oil
ing to do with the trouble that had |
curred, but that the jailer in charge
corner, and on Ins refusing had floggr
ml.___ T batch ® „ s of » four , e acl1 , f
f s ® v ? a S ave tlle same re P , l yi wb<
^ \Tl tniJhi! S ’ .T"* The ? lead X
be ,
sistt s h ‘ sn
tho
fs's.-s m&s
, | he 'T SLed'b’^ w® 6 by j“ e e“f of % U l \ l
dragged t <,- v,
him Was into the prison ai
ttjfifsfcsarw v,,- b
with , 1nim ,
boQ ’and . a second man 1000 with the bai
hoo “W' >000 W ! with i therattdn- 7 T \’ a fit th''
t ’ n f P
2Q00 with the rattan.
These punishments were inflicted
bon ?«“™^ bammei tbe d .°v.r5bi ank:e, and
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second who had flogged the new pr
oner and bis fnend » g (,t fi % Mows wi
lbe same hammer on the ankle. Bo|
men ’ s ankle’s were broken, aud the nfi
fainted under the punishment. T
° tbe ’\ two were kept kneeling durii
tbl ? Tb,s W ook P lace bctween fl j
and slx m tbe afternoon, and it is sa
tbat tbe men whose ankles had be
thus hammered were insensible un
nine *? clock. Three of tho men wt
placed m cages, and yesterday moral
tbe e ader > wbo could not walk, w
earned . , before the Magistrate, who
|^ e P a rln ? a speciai cell for his detentic
pbe , lea der is, we informed, t
are
same man who was put iu a case in tl
city to be starved to death a few mont
a § 0
». '*•*, Mb. Tree.
A curious tree which grows in parts
the Island of Jamaica is the “cot
wood” or “ceiba.” It i 3 gigantic, a
has roots which run out like huge b
tresse3, which forming cavernous recesses,
a grown man could easily erot
concealed. There are two on the r<
near brated, Spanish Town which are quite cc
they are so large. They are cal
first and second specimens, and are m
tioned in all books about Jamaica. 1
wood is valueless, it is so pithy;
blossom is a long, silky filament, 11
that on a silk tree, which clings 6
wind agreeably blows to it your clothing when i j
about.—Yew York
sewer.
China feels hurt because Australia
out Chinamen.
