Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-12-16
How A ToAn PuIIs Orr I'M PANrs-I

How Toad PULLS OFF His PANTS
writer in The North Carolina Farmer tells the following:
"About the middle of July, found toad hill ofmel
ons and, not wanting him leave, hoed around him.
emily observed him pressing his elbows against his Sides
rubbing downward. He appeared so singular, that
watched TO see what he to. After few smart rubs
bis skin began to burst open straight along his back
'Now, said / old fellow you have done it, but he ap-
peared to be uneOncened and kept rubbing until he
had worked down all his skin into folds his sides and
hips; then gasping hind leg with his hands, he haul
ed oil one leg Of his pants the anybody would,
then stripped the other leg in the same way. He then
took his castO cutice forward between his orelegs
his mouth and swallowed it, then, by raising and lower
ing his head swallowing his head down. he strip
ped of the skin underneath until it to his oreegs
and gapng Of these with the opposite hand by
siderable pulling stripped of the skin; changing hands he
stripped the other aud by slight motion of the head he
drew from the throat and swallowed the whole The op
Grafton seemed to be agreeable one aud occupied but
short time.
AN IMMENSE CHANDELIER.-There has
been completed establshmentin in Philadelphia one
otthe largest and most magnificent chandeliers
sructed in this country is intended to light up the
Boston Opera House, and will be put in its place by the
hrst January at which time operate performances will
he commenced The chandelier over twenty four feet
in heighh from the bottom to the top of canopy and
about seventeen feet In diameter and having five rows
burners with two hundred and forty lights made in ta-
ton Of waE candles The body of the chandelier Is dvd-
ed into sx compartments, each compartment being
posed of glass psms that sparkle and gisten like nnum
cradle diamonds There also festoons Of prsms and
glass tasses giving to the whole very beautiful appear
Inc Mneu place, VIII Melgn ABOUT
four thousand pounds and TO sustain this great weight
strong iron pipe through the centre Of the chande
er while smaller iron pipes each other in the
tre giving additional strength and at the time af-
iordng means for the passage Of gas.
A WIRES LETTERs-INTEREsTIN PosT-
AL General Holt has recently de-
eded an interesting and novel question. husband who
had been separated from his wife demanded that his viii
lage postmaster should deliver her letters to him, and
threatened suit at law il his demand not complied
with The wife, on the other hand forbade the delivery of
her letters to the husband In these circumstances the
postmaster appealed to Mr. Holt for instructions That
officer pronounces the claim advanced by the husband
preposterOus to be seriously reutedndeed he says Il Is
abhoant TO law It is to the Christian civilization of the
ageand he directs the postmaster to deliver the letters to
the wife.
"Parson Brownow," Of Tennessee, at
tended pro-slayery indignation meeting at Iynchburgh
Va on the lst and made characteristics speech. He
said he would rather be with the South n landemonium
than with the Abooniss In Heaven. He also remarked
that he intended to give his family instructions to
bury him in Yankee coffin, but IT, in of emergency
they should have to do that they must leave both ends
open, that when the Devil and the Abooniss came
nat one end, he could go ont at the other.