The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-06
TOLEDO, TAMA COUNTY IOWA. THURSDAY, AUGUST g. 1874

ALMOST $4,000 is the amount contrib
uted by the Patrons of Husbandry of
Missouri to the relief of their suffering
brethren in the overfowed districts of
the South.
NEIGHBoRs of sick brother in Ohio
recently organized Sunday haying- bee
for his benefit, and next day all were
prosecuted for violating the Sabbath.
NURSES now frighten the children by
| telling them how little Charlie Ross was
stolen by bad men. Pity they cannot tell
them how those bad men were skinned
alive.
SEVERAL months since business fell off
and hurt itself badly. Since then it has
been very poorly, and, indeed, its recov-
ery seems very doubtful at the present
writing.
THE irrigation works of India are so
extensive that in the fourteenth district
Of tie Madras Presidency there are
AZ, 900 native tanks, with 10000 miles of
embankments.
THE compositors throughout the
country have entered into competition
| to misspell caterpillar. AT last accounts
the caterpillar party was beating the
caterpillar faction.
A WAYNE COUNTY Qnd) man became
enraged at his horse, which he had at
tached to plow, and, taking a sim
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over the head with it, killing it instantly
An English capitalist has just pur.
chased three square miles of land in
Kansas for himself and four square miles
for two of his friends They all intend
| to come out with their families next
spring.
THE kill of cattle the current season
| along the La Plata is said to be 100000
below the average. Europe and Amer
| lea will therefore be short that number
of Buenos Ayres bides the coming au-
| tumn.
A New BRUNSWICK cow switched her
tail so tightly around a small tree that
she could not get away, and remained
tied there a whole day, in a very trying
and perplexed state of mind and back
| bone.
! ROBERT NUNER, of Calaveras, Cal,
knows how it feels to fall into hole 800
| feet deep. He was working at the top of
the shaft of the Gwin mine when he was
struck by the tub and knocked headlong
| into it.
! A PARTISAN commercial agency has q
subscription list of 100000 for its mer-
camille records, which contain about
| 1000 names of business men scattered
throughout the commercial world.
SPoRTsMEN are now reaplng rich har-
vest of fish from Cayuga Lake, N. Y,
the result of 100000 trout placed therein
by Seth Green several years ago.
| A BUILDING at Portsmouth, r. l., con-
tanning half ton of powder, was struck
| by lightning, the other day, but the top
dart of the roof was cut clean off as if by
sharp instrument, and the powder was
not ignited.
A WISCONSIN man says that the flames
of burning kerosene can be extinguished
| by throwing on flour. 1t seems reasona-
bic that any absorbent material not read
| lily combustible might be effective for
such a purpose.
| THE Lake of Constance presented a
curious appearance lately; its whole sur
| face was covered with thin layer like
yellow flour. This was caused by the
pollen from the flowers of the surround
ing fir forests, which had been blown into
| the lake.
"To LIVE" says a moralist, "that no
association or circumstance can affect
your character or reputation For in
| stance, always possess such breath
that nothing can affect it, not even
onions No character is so pure that
suspicious associations cannot taint it.
| Fly poison is said to give the poor
partakers violent stomach-ache, and
humanitarians object to that mode Of
killing the flies. Next we shall hear of
their objections to brushing away the
ferocious flea while in the active pursuit
of a natural-born inclination.
THE Reading (Pa.) Times is authority
for the statement that an Allentown man
made wager of $4,000 that he could eat
| fifty quarts of peanuts at one sitting of
twenty five hours, but died at the end of
fifteen hours, having got away with forty
quarts.
| Mr. BUCKMAsTER, of East Thirteenth
street, New York, tied an offending cat
to a clothes-post and then blazed away
at it with his revolver, and SO accurate
was his aim that he succeeded in laying
out his next door neighbor, Mr.. Kelly.
| The cat escaped.
A GREAT many landowners in Pike
County, Ind, dig their own coal from the
veins that crop out along creek bottoms
and along hill-sides. They find it much
cheaper to burn coal than wood, not
withstanding over half the country is
still native forests.
A YOUNG lady in Sedgwick County,
Kan, advertises that she will give $500
to young man who will love her in a
kind and gentle manner. A young man
of that kind, warranted to keep in any
climate, is worth more than the amount
of money she mentions.