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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Fourteen thousand men and women
earn their living in London with their
pens.
In the graduting class of the college at
Hillsdaie, Mich., this year, two members
of the same family were rivals for class
honors. One was C. H. Jackson, fifty
three years of age, and the other his son
aged twenty-two. So strange a rivalry is
unprecedented in educational history.
It is human to err, moralizes the Phila¬
delphia Inquirer, and just in so far as it
is human to err, men must be excused for
their occasional mistakes. A Cincinnati
druggist has killed a patient by making
a m stake in putting up a prescription,
the first mistake in eight years and iD
200,000 prescriptions.
It won’t be ten years, hence, predicts
the Detroit Free Press, when all build¬
ings piped for heat in the winter will be
cooled in summer through the same
pipes. If ice can be artificially frozen
it would be no great trick to send down
the temperature of a haT, opera house
or room.
Since ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas,
was appointed Alinister to the Court of
Japan, our trade with that country has
grown from $13,000,000 to $25,000,000,
$2,500,000 in excess of the total English
Japanese trade for the same year. It
also exceeds the German-Japan trade by
$19,000,000, and that of France by $12,
000 , 000 ._
A New Y’ork house which ten years
ago employed 100 traveling salesmen now
does its business entirely by illustrated
catalogues and correspondence, and its
trade is ahead of what it used to be.
Others are moving the same way, and in
a few years hence, predicts the Detroit
Free Press, the drummer will drum less
numerously.
It has generally been believed that the
reduction in average height of French
soldiers which followed Napoleon’s wars,
due, of course, to the immense slaughter
in those campaigns, made all of those
soldiers the shortest in Europe. But, ac¬
cording to a high medical and military
autherity in Russia,the minimum height
of the Russian and the French conscript
is about equal—five feet; while in most
other European countries the minimum
ranges from five feet one inch to five feet
thiee inches.
The New York Sun says: “Queen
Victoria’s attention is to be drawn to
the fact that the woman who made the
lining for the superb carriage in which
her Majesty rode on Jubilee Day last
year is on the verge of starvation. The
poor creature is a cripple, bent almost
double, aud has worked and lived in
tbe same room for thirty years. The
lining was exquisite work, but the
woman was paid only five cents per
yard, and by working from dawn till
midnight she was able to make just six
yards.”
The importation of firecrackers this
year, says the American Cultivator, will
amount to 300,009 boxes. This is 100,
000 more than last year. The increase
is partially due to larger population, but
mostly to the fact that this year a Presi¬
dential election occurs. The left-over
stock on the 4th of July will all come
available before November. Of the
more costly pyrotechnics large amounts
are made in this country by American
manufacturers, but nobody can success¬
fully compete with the Chinese in the
firecracker manufacture.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Afterward—Love's Voting Dream—
Some Robustness Left—Every¬
thing Else Settled—Chang¬
ing the Subject, Etc.
•‘Never,” he vowed it, “while life may last
Can I love a-ain. I will die unwed.”
“And I, too, dear, since our dream is past •
I will live single,” she sobbing said.
soul.
She hid in a pillow her streaming eyes,
Aud wept with anguish beyond control.
Just five years afterward, they two met
At a vender’s stand, in U noisy street;
He saw the smile he could na er forget,
And she the eyes that were more than
swe©D.
•*nTr«r 0 ” «n TToa^iii y How well you look!
’ ’ | How well you look!
“I stopped,” he said, just to get a toy
For my little girl.” “I wanted a hoot,”
She softly said, “for my little boy.”
—Madeline S. Bridges.
Love's Young Dream.
' ; Birdie,” whispered happy
a young
Chicago lover, “now that we are engaged ° ”
you mustn’t call me Mr. Porcine any
more.”
“Ah no darling,” responded the girl,
with a sigh and a snuggle, “you must
always call me ‘Birdie’ and I will always
call you ‘Butch .’”—Few York Sun.
Some Robustness Left.
the Bobby (whose grandpa is sleeping on
lounge and snoring as grandpas can
snore)—“Ala,is grandpa so very feeble?”
Alother—“Yes, dear.”
to Bobby—“Well, hear you wouldn’t think so
him, would you, Ma?”— Epoch.
Everything Else Settled.
“So you have my daughter’s permis¬
sion to ask me for her hand, have you,
young
^ air 'tvorthy tb.t
"i' ”>■»“
name
the dav t f ti r> • i
J * !
Changing' the Subject.
Knobley—“I saw you on Fourteenth
street a few minutes ago, Miss Ethel. ”
She—“Oh, did you)’’
hair-store.” Knobley—“\ T cs;you were going into a
tie She—“Ah, yes; I was executing a
commission for a friend. Beautiful
weatherwe are having, Mr. Ivnobley.”
Aud she beckoned haughtily to her
coachman. — Life.
*
* - Superfluous „ „ Caution. _
, Now,]Bobby, said his mother, Mr.
Oldocy is to take dinner with us to-night; .
he is very bald, and you must not say
aU Bobby T r /*!\ D ®' a promised, ^ out his hair. and while dinner
was progressing said to his mother, m
an audible whisper:
X ou ™ d me not say an ytlung
about Air. Ola ,, boy- . s hair. , Why, he
basil t got any. Few York Dispatch.
Not Afraid of Rain.
The old gentleman was restless. It
the Was house. getting late, and he wanted to close
looked out aud Strolling said: to the window, he
“The clouds seem to be banking in
the west; we are likely to have a sharp
shower soon.”
“Yes, sir,” replied young Mr. Din- _
widdie from the sofa, “I anticipated a
storm and brought an umbrella. We
need rain badly, Air Hendricks. Er—
you were saying, Miss Clara—”— Life.
ivhom “No Tom Sellers was calling?
you did not”
“Yes, she is practicing now. Do you
not hear those strains of music floating
down from stairs?” °
up
“Those strains of m: sic?”
uy eg >»
“1 think I hear the sounds you refer
to, but don't they strike you as severe
strains ou the violin?”- Merchant True
eler.
A Frugal hover.
Frugal young man (to object of his
affections )— 1 ‘Darling, your father being
a minister, perhaps we’d better ask him
to perform the ceremony for us. He
would do it ns reas—in fact, I presume
he would think it an iusu.t if I should
offer him anything—er—.” affections—‘‘I don’t
Object have of his heard
know. I often papa say that
he could always tell by the eke of the
fee what kind of an estimate the bride¬
groom put upon the bride.”
Frugal young man (uneasily)—“H’m!
Money couldn’t express it in my case,
darlinsr. All the wealth of the world
could’nt do it! But I’ve got a second
cousin, a justice of the peace, that will
marry us for $2 .—Chicago Tribune.
A Pair of German Lovers.
“>« “0»' ,»■« Ti' “T
Berlin letter in the Chicago Tribune , the
lover came in one morning and pre
scnted liimsclf before the young lady,
who was in the room, and asked for a
few moments’ private him conversation. the floor, and I
stepped out to give afterward
tViis is what she related trans
piled: The young man advanced toward
his beloved aud handed her a note, in
which were written a few lines from her
mother, saying the bearer was about to
propose in good form, and for her to ac¬
cept hm. As she finished reading, an
agitated voice in the vicinity of the door
was heard, for the young man was ex
ceedingjy ^ost nervous and respected on this franlien, occasion: I
' gracious
have the honor to o er you my heart
(and he clapped his hand over that or¬
gan) and hand in holy marriage.” Hero
emotion cheeked him, but not the young
lady, who was twenty-nine years old.
“Most esteemed Herr von H.” she said,
“I thank you for a proposal which I do
myself the honor to accept.” Herr von
and 11. bowed, kissed the young lady's hand and
retired, and ,he latter came out
throw herself on my neck, exclaiming,
“I am engaged,” in a voice which
plainly implied, “At last, at last:”
Well, they were married, but first mam¬
ma gave several parties in their honor,
and there we saw them sitting side by
side on the sofa getting acquainted.
He Deplored Haste.
“Tkero It 1. .«W . dlgniM,
Broadway; “the old story once more—a
fimp!y t0
The jush
and hurry here in New York is actually
astonishing, looked sir,” and the dignified man
around with an expression of
sadness blended with wonder.
“You are not a New Yorker, then?”
saida man who was on his way to his
office in Wall street.
“Oh, yes, sir,”returned the dignified
party, “yes, I live here in New York,
but I always deprecate this spirit of
hurry, this rush, this intense
strain under which we labor,”
and his face assumed a pained,
thoughtful expression. “Now, here’s this
man, if j perhaps j j waited mortally wounded, when
le ia< another moment
jj e could have crossed the street in safe
ty, It is this hurry, this rush, ” went on
the dignified man, “this haste, this un
natural—oh, great Scott!’’ he groaned,
“there gees my car—but I’ll catch it or
bust!” aud he shot in front of a furni
ture van, galloped around a junk cart,
stepped of on a newsboy, dodged the pole
nil ice wagon, and at last got hold of
the rear platform of the disappearing
car and was pulled in over the back
dashboard by the conductor the way a
man hauls in a seine full of fish, aud got
his coat turned wrong side out, and his
hat battered and one thumb partiallv
smashed. “Why,” he said, “I wouldn’t
have missed this car for §10,” and he
looked back complacently at another of
the same line coining not a half a block
behind.— New Ytrk Tribune.
Chronology of India-Rubber,
The first pair of India-rubber shoes
ever seen in the United Stats: were
C nnese mandarin. The pair, which
were handed about as a curiosity, were
followed in 1838, by an importation of
^hundred ill-shaped as Pfrs, they were, which, were rough eagerly ana
bought at high prices; and from that
time ouward there was a regular impor
t ation of fndia-rubber shoes from South
^ 4 mevlca . of fivc thousand l mrs P er
um ' Argonaut, ,
A rich Philadelphia woman, noted for
lier wealth and eccentricity, wears a
striking ring on one of her thumbs.
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Of pig iron we turn out twelve tons,
and of steel rails three tons every minute
CURIOUS FACTS.
A hand (horse measure) is four inches.
Othman I. founded the Turkish em¬
pire, and was its first emperor, A. D.
1289.
As early as 325 the council of Nice
ordered the foundation of hospitals in
the principal towns.
Hosea H. Lincoln, a school teacher of
Boston, has been ordained a minister at
the age of sixty-seven.
William Wilson, of Pittsburg, Penn.,
thirty years old, is to marry a widow
thirty-two years older.
Wagons bearing immense advertising
signs funeral are permitted to follow Chicago,
processions through the streets.
The Inspectors of Butcheries in Paris
report that the consumption of horse¬
flesh has increased to an extraordinary
extent.
The Alaska mosquito bites only in cold
weather, and can be found thickest,
where the snow has drifted five or six
feet high.
The one-story frame cabin in which
Andrew Johnson served his apprentice¬
ship as a tailor is still standing at Co¬
lumbia, Tenn.
The art of making glass bottles and
drinking glasses was known to the Ho¬
mans before the year 79. Bottles were<
made in England about 1558.
Minstrels were protected by a charter
of Edward IV., but by a statute of Eliz¬
abeth they were made punishable among
rogues and vagabonds and sturdy beg¬
gars.
Bread was known in the patriarchal
ages and the baking of it became a.
profession made at Rome 170 B. C. Bread
was with yeast by English bakers,
in 1034.
The crown of King Alfred the Great,
had two little bells attached, according
to an ancient chronicle dating A. D.
872. It is said to have been long pre
served at Westminister, and may have
been that described in the Parliamentary
inventory taken in 1049.
The novelty of pink pond lillies gives
way just now to surprise over the blue
ones, the color range of which lies be
tween that of a fringed gentian and a
forget-me-not. The manufacture of
these pond-lily tints remains as yet a
profound professional secret.
A new fire escape in England is a sort
of a chair that slides down ropes, and
the host of a house possessing it often
entertains his guests by permitting
them to take a ride. At the Italian ex
hibition in London it is expected to
prove a great rival to the switchback
railway.
The oldest newspaper in the whole
wide world is the King Pan, or Capital
Sheet, published in Pekin. It first ap¬
irregular peared A. intervals. D. 911, but Since came the out only 1851, at
however, year
it has been published weekly
and of uniform size. Now it appears in
three editions daily. — Call.
In the Royal Library at Windsor,
England, there is to be seen a work of
great “Psalterieum,” magnificence, a copy of the
from the press of Faust,
and Sch eff er, printed in 1457. It is the
eailiestbook known with a date and is.
and superbly bound in gai ter blue velvet,
on the sides of its covers are the;
loyal crown and cypher in solid gold,
with embossed gold cornices and loops.
Some years ago Franklin Aluller, of
Sugar Creek Township, in Pennsylvania,
agreed neighbors, to take care of an old couple, his
with the understanding that.
at the'r death he should inherit a farm
of their eighty-six death, acres owned by them. After
which occurred five years;
later, Miller discovered oil on the farm
and has already received $25,000 in
royalties from it.
It is said that the oldest man living.
anywhere is James James, acolored man
of Santa Rosa. Alexico, who was bom
near Dorchester, his S. C., in 1752. He was
with master in the Revolutionary
war, elected was forty years when Washington,
was President, went to Texas
when 101 years old, moved into Alexico
five years later, and now, at the ripe
age of 130, lives in a little hut, to which
he is confined by rheumatism, and is
supported citizens by contributions from the
of Santa Rosa.
Kit Carson’s old partner, Dick Woot
ton, once drove 14,000 sheep 1(100 miles
overland to California, and made $40,
*^0 ^y operation.
Shakespeare and the Bible are the
favorite books of Ben Butterworth; the
Ohio politician.
