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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. __ 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. -- -- - 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.