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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
An effort will be made in the Vermont
Legislature at the present session to
adopt a more effectual and satisfactory
common-school system.
Sergeant Kendall, of the British Army,
can exhihit forty-eight different wounds
received in the line of duty. A bursting
shell inflicted twelve of the wounds at
one time and one bullet left three scars.
The last summer was the wettest that
England has experienced since 1879 and
the coolest since 1800. In most parts of
the country the sun did not shine more
than an average of four to four and a
half hours a day. In Scotland the daily
average was about five hours.
According to the statistics published
by the Minister of the Interior the total
number of cases of cholera during the
last epidemic in the Chilian republic
were 26,878, of whicti 10,3S8died. The
government expended the sum of $387,-
563.29 for combating the disease.
Until three years ago it is said that
Mexico was free from mosquitoes, If
this is true, says the Atlau ta Constitution
it is a very interesting fact. Mosquitoes
are common in much colder countries
than Mexico. Where do they come from,
and what are the conditions that breed
them?
A newly organized political party in
Japan has for its programme: The reduc¬
tion of the land tax, the abolition of
centralization in the administration, the
introduction of the volunteer system
into the army, and the revision of the
existing treaties, with the view of put¬
ting Japan on equal footing with other
powers in international intercourse.
The Berlin Borsen Zeitung vouches for
this statement: “In 1873 the Crown
Prince Frederick William caused twelve
copies to be taken by a copper-plate
process of the diary which he kept dur¬
ing the Franco-German war. Of these
copies he presented one each to persons
who particularly enjoyed his confidence,
the plate being afterward destroyed.
The recipients were requested to take
special care that the diary was not pub¬
lished until fifty years after the death of
its author.”
The Berlin Borsen- Courier states that
a geometer of Laibach, Austria, has
offered himself to Pasteur as a subject on
whom to experiment with cholera inocu¬
lation. The would-be martyr to science
makes the following conditions: Travel¬
ing expenses for himself, wife and
daughter to Paris; expenses of a month’s
sojourn there previous to the inocula¬
tion; in case of an attack of cholera,
treatment by physicians of note; in case
of recovery, free passage to Laibach; in
case of death, suitable provision for his
wife and daughter.
What makes Holland, whose old King
is dying, a particular object of envy to
the neighboring nations, declares the
Times-Democrat, is the enormous develop¬
ment within the last ten years of the
tebacco-growing facilities of Sumatra.
The importations of Amsterdam
amounted last year to nearly $15,000,000
worth of this product, of which more
than one-third fbund its way to the
United States. The dividends of some
of the companies have been almost in¬
credible, and as more acreage is being
put under cultivation every year, the
value of this staple to Holland in the
near future can only be conjectured.
In Indiana the illicit sale of oleomargarine
b so great that the creameries in nearly
•very county have shut down.
BUDGET OF FUN.
humorous sketches from
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Vegetable Maid—Hoist With
His Own Petard—Got It
dust the Same—*
Etc.. Etc.
In glancing through the “ads” of all the
From daily the papers,
for the “strong and active girl to the “lady
In the “situations drapers,”
duly wade, vacant,” through which I
There’s none that takes my fancy like the
vegetable maid.
Lettuce try to picture her—commencing at
the top:
Of course her head (of celery) is surmounted
Of fern by a crop
called maiden-hair, so delicate and
Which green.
needs the use of monkey’s-cap to keep
it nice and clean.
Descend a little lower and her ears (of wheat)
Perchance descry,
they may be barley, or oats, or
even rye.
With cheeks a little radish, and a turnip nose
Her (to smell),
mouth a stalk of tulips—which are
cherry red as well.
We must not fa 1 to mention, though it cause
That she you beets some surprise—
an old potato in possessing
great black eyes.
But, unlike that poor old tuber’s, hers can
both blink and flash,
And certainly are not cut out when going
fora “mash.”
No doubt the marrow in her bones is vege
Her palms table, too.
are cased in foxgloves of bright
While magenta hue,
round her neck, the choicest furze she
wears with London pride;
Though an old man with his sage advice is
often at her side.
She drinks from out a buttercup this Canter¬
Her bury bell (e)
name is Rose or Violet, but which she
will not tell:
Some thyme perhaps in fuchsia the secret
will leek out,
But that it is a floral name, can anybody
doubt?
—Yankee Blade.
Hoist With His Own Petard.
Nervous Old Gentleman—“What on
earth is that burning Charles?”
Charles—“Eb?"
Nervous Old Gentleman—“I say, what
makes that terrible odor?”
Charles—“Why, of father, I am smoking
one your cigars. "—Bazar.
Got It Just The Same.
“How about the defaulting cashier
you williger were of defending?” lawyer. “Did inquired Ter
a you succeed
in getting a stay of proceedings?”
“No, I didn’t,” returned the lawyer,
“but the cashier gat a stay of ten years
in the State’s prison .”—New York Sun.
Medical Changes.
Citizen (to-elderly physician)—“You
don’t bleed patients as often as you did
fifteen or twenty years ago?”
Physician (looking over package ol
unpaid bills)—“No, we don’t bleed ’em
at all; they bleed us!”— Life.
It Would Seem So.
“Why do doctors always write their
prescriptions Johnny. in Latin?” asked little
do “My that son,” replied old Brown, “they
in order to give the druggist a
chance to add a dollar on the prescrip¬
tion for translating it.”
A Husband’s Sympathy,
her “My wife always comes to me with
troubles,” said Brown.
“Quite right,” replied the minister.
“A wife should always look to her hus¬
band for sympathy. And how do you
console her?"
“Why,” her."—Sun. replied old Brown, “I laugh
at
Reduced to a System.
Two vagrants called on a kind lady in
the suburbs of New York.
“To which of you two shall I give this
nickel?” she asked.
First Tramp—‘ ‘Give it to him, madame.
He has purchased the route from me, and
I am just taking him around to introduce
him to the cultomers.”— Siftings.
Giving Her Away.
Snobberly- “Have you ever 1
the ocean, Miss Flirty ?”
Miss Flirty—“No, Mr. Snobberly, I
have a dread of the water. I don’t think
I ever could be induced to embark in a
ship “How of any kind.”
about a courtship, sis?” asked
Johnny, Siftings. Miss Flirty’s younger brother.
—
Long Visits.
“What’s the matter, Darringer? You
look dispirited.”
“I’m troubled with too much mother
in-law.”
“That is bad, old boy. How often
does she visit you?”
“Twice a year.”
“That isn’t often, Darringer.”
“No, it isn’t—only that she stays six
months at a time.”—Time.
Tlie Clerk’s Diplomacy.
Shoe Dealer (to clerk)—“William,
why did you insist upon selling to that
old gentleman a pair of small.soft shoes,
when he called for large cowhide
boots?”
“Well—er-”
“I insist upon knowing.”
“The fact is I call on his ctaughter
quite frequently in the evenings.®— Lin¬
coln Journal.
An Awful Day.
“Come right in the kitchen, Johnny,”
said Mrs. Brown, “and get your supper.
Don’t make the least noise, and as soon
as upstairs you are bed.” through you must get right
to
“What’s the matter, ina,” cried little
Johnny, putting his finger in his eye.
“Hush, dear,” she replied, “your
father has been putting up the stoves
this afternoon.”
Could Afford to Wear Any Kind.
“The young man who accompanied
you to church last evening, Laura,” said
Miss Garlinghouse, “has a fine, intel¬
lectual face, but it seemed to me that his
—pardon me—his trousers were some¬
what baggy at the knees.”
Kajones, “Quite, likely, Irene,” replied Miss
with some hauteur, “Mr.
Hankinson is, if I mistake not, one of
the heaviest stockholders of the Bag¬
ging Trust .”—Chicago Tribune.
Harmony in the Party.
Mrs. G.—“I understand that you have
had trouble with your servant girl.”
Mrs. H.—“Not at all.”
Mrs. G.—“Oh! then I was misin¬
formed.”
Mrs. H.—"It was nothing. I was
going to have a reception, but she had
arranged for one herself that night.”
Mrs. G.—“And she gave hers up.”
Mrs. H.—“No, I gave up mine, so we
are still the best of friends .”—Boston
Courier.
No Use For a Foot Rule.
A laborer in a shipyard was one day
given a two foot rule to measure a piece
of iron plate. Not being accustomed to
the use of the rule he returned it, after
“Well, a good Mike,” deal of time.
asked his superior,
“what is the size of the plate?”
‘‘Well, replied Mike, with the smile
which accompanies duty performed, “it’s
the length of your rule and two thumbs
over, with this piece of brick and the
breadth of my hand and arm, from here
to there, bar a fiuger.”— Youth's Com¬
panion.
Two Ways of Selling Goods.
“What do you git fer them crab
apples?” boy. asked an old lady of the
grocer’s
“I’m very sorry, marm,” replied the
boy, “but I’ll have to charge you a dol¬
lar a measure for ’em. ”
“Huh! that’s too much,” and she
turned to go.
“Can I do anything for you, madam?”
inquired the proprietor, approaching.
‘ ‘I was askin’ the price o’ them crab
apples,” she said.
madam, “Well, that, I’m very glad to inform you,
make seeing them you’re an old cus¬
tomer, I can crab apples to
you at only one dollar a measure.
“All right. 1 guess you kin send me
two measures.— Epoch.
Couldn’t Afford to he Cheated.
A Poland man once had occasion to
borrow a horse of ex-Governor David
Dunn, the famous Poland lawyer, having
to ride several miles to see several peo¬
ple. He made the trip, returned, drove
to the Governor’s house, found no one at
home, put the horse in the stable and
then went ‘to the store, where he found
the Governor talking with some friends.
“I put the horse in your stable and
fed bim. ”
“All right.”
“Now, what’s the bill?
“Where did you go?”
“I went first to Leacon Smith
“How far do you call that?”
“Three miles.”
“I know better. It’s three and a half.”
“Well, call it so. Then I went over
to my brothers.”
“How many miles does that make?”
"Seven.’* r
“It’s all of eight.”
This examination continued until the
entire route had been covered, when the
man who borrowed the horse said:
“Now, Governor, what is the bill? Tell
me, and if I’ve got money enough I’ll
pay it now.”
“The bill?” said the Governor. “I
don’t want anything. When you want
the horse take him. I didn’t care how
far you went, but when you undertook
to tell me I couldn’t afford to be cheated
in the miles .”—Lewiston {Me.) Journal
The Age of Trees.
When the zone test can be applied, we
know that the age imputed to the tree
will not err in the way of excess. A
clearly marked ring infallibly denotes a
season’s growth. Assuming an unfavor¬
able season to have resulted in an unu
sually thin, or perhaps an undistinguish
able layer, one year’s credit will remain
unentered in the tree’s automatic ledger.
On the basis of computation the follow
ing ages have been strictly verified in
land Germany. In that country, as in Fin¬
attained and Sweden, from the pine 700' and fir have
to 500 to years. The
greatest ascertained age of the larch (in
Bavaria) is 274 years, while the silver fir
has reached 420. The o dest known
specimen of the holm oak near Aschaf
in fenburg) all the numbered 410 years; while
common oaks above
320 years old the heart was be¬
ginning to decay. The maximum
ages of other German trees—as found by
counting beech the rings—is as follows: Red
245, ash 170, elm 130, birch 200,
aspen 210, and alder 145 years. The
lime, beloved of the Fatherland, generally
evades this test. Probably one of the
longest-standing in sound of all, it is seldom found
a condition at an advanced age.
At the Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition,
four years ago, much interest was shown
in the sections of two Scotch firs, one 25
feet in circumference, distinctly vouch¬
ing its own age to be 217 years, the other
lb feet in circumference, showing a clear
record of year-circles to the number of
270. As the site of both was known, as
well as the dates of the felling of the
one, and the biowing down of the other,
it might have been possible to ascertain
why the larger tree was so much younger
than its companion. As an excellent
example of what can be effected by
such an investigation, the following
incident is especially worthy of
notice: A few years since, an
American engineer had occasion to
clear a plantation of hemlock trees, in
which species the marking of the annual
zones that the is peculiarly distinct. He found
layers were of very unequal
breadth, indicating a growth five or six
times fuller in some years than in
others. The trees were of various ages,
but every tree told exactly the same
tale. “If you began at the outer layer
of two trees, one young and the other
old, and counted back twenty years,
when the young tree indicated a growing
season by a full layer, the oldest tree in¬
dicated the same. ” A similiar concur¬
rence happened with the meagre seasons,
though icity the there was nothing of like period¬
in return either. By such a
identify comparison particular as this we are enabled to
years as those of un¬
usual increase, or the contrary; and, by
turning to the meteorological records for
these years, to ascertain the nature^ ol
the weather which has been favorable to
the growth of the wood .—London Stand/
ard.
A Monster Mushroom.
The sensation of last year’s “goose¬
berry season,” toad says weighing a Paris letter, was a
monster which discovered many pounds,
was of and at some attracted place in
the centre France visi¬
tors from all parts of the surrounding
country. Now the phenomenon is a
gigantic mushroom, which has sprung
up in a garden The in extraordinary the neighborhood of
Limoges. effort ol
nature was first noticed in a plot of cab¬
bages. It was then as large as a hen’s
egg; now it measures over two feet in
circumference. In a few hours it had
added three centimetres to its dimen¬
sions, and its owner and his neighbors,
who may be said to be watching it night
and day with the utmost solicitude, de¬
clare visibly—swelling, tney can actually old see it growing
as Mr. Weller
would have Indeed, remarked, mushroom before “their wery
eyes.” the is the
wonder, and, pride and delight of the whole
district, as the snails of that part ol
the country have taken an equal fancy t«
it, the connoisseurs argue that it cannot
be poisonous.
The average vineyard is exposed U
twenty-two different each season.
