The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-13
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A NEE cave has been discovered IN
Los Angeles County, CAL, containing .
tom of honey.
A WAYNEsBURe (Ps.) lady has just com.
pleted her forty-eighth perusai OF INV
Bible.
A COMMANDING Pennsylvanian passeo
away while yet in the midst OF MS W
tieth quart of peanuts.
THE first bale of Texas Cotton gi"u'
good middling, sold in New io'A ~
Gently for thirty-six cents per pouno'
T. i ! remarkable fact that there mas
mover been murder in Lawrence Mass,
.;noa ,ts incorporation as city.
rrrY dollars more have been sub
.-;hod IN the Washington Monument;
snd another stone will soon be placed.
A JEWISH paper says that the present
fashion of ladies' costume is almost ex-
actlv what it was in the days Of King
Solomon.
A BosToN lady in California says that
the big strawberries on the Pacific coast
have but little flavor, being cross be-
tween turnip and dried apple.
A WESTERN druggist recently charged
a soda fountain with arsenic instead Of
marble dust, and nine persons partook of
the compound before the mistake was
discovered.
HEREAFTER the old copyright formula
on books and pictures is to be super
seeded by the simpler and every way just
as serviceable legend, copyright, 1877
by"
A WRITER in the Ioaca Stock Journal de-
scribes model horse as weighing 1900
pounds, sixteen hands high; Of bay or
brown color, clean, hard-limbed, high
headed, short backed, broad breasted,
well ribbed backed and iron-muscled.
FLOUR will extinguish the flames of
burning coal oil, according to somebody
in Wisconsin As soon as it becomes
generally understood that coal oil is
dangerous, this discovery may prove of
great service.
LONE TREE, Neb., knows something
about one of the plaques of Egypt, for
the other day frogs innumcrablc and in
tolerablc took possession of the place.
People couldn't take step without
treading on frog carpet.
A MARRIAGE took place in Decatur, Ill.
recently between a couple who were en-
gagged twenty-six years ago. In the
r~:n
their partners. Again they met BY
chance, the usual way" and were
married
DON'T wave your handkerchief out OF
the car window in Connecticut. The lit
tie boys in that moral State stand by the
side of the railroad armed with horned
sticks and gather in harvest of linen
and cambria waved by enthusiastic tray
elers.
AN Iowa farmer on his way to Colorado
with 81 800 in greenbacks was caught in
storm and completely soaked. In or
der to dry his money he put it in a little
camp-stove and his wife built fire in
that stove. He sent the mutilated re
mains to Washington and started back
East disguised.
THE New York Mail denounces as a
double distilled fool a young Frenchman
who, seeing the dead body of very
beautiful woman displayed at the Morguc,
went and killed himself, first writing "A
letter stating that he committed the act
in To l.. h.
next slab to hers.
JUDGE SHIrMAN, of the United States
Circuit Court, has just rendered d de-
cision declaring that the law of 1916, fix
is still in force and takes precedence of
the instructions of the Secretary of the
Treasury, which fix the value of the frame
at 1913 cents.
A BRIGHT little girl of New Bedford
Mass, desiring to secure some cancelled
executive postage stamps without the
knowledge of her friends, wrote to Prcsi
dent Grant, asking him to send her a few.
After few days she proudly exhibited Ii
letter from the President, inclosing full
set of uncanceled stamps and his photo
graph.
THE Newburyport Mass Herald says /.
"At a recent wedding in neighborine
town, in the middle of the ceremony, Tn,
bridegroom tainted away, and it was only
after long and vigorous application OF
the usual remedies that he was restored
The clergyman commenced de moro and
got safely through
A wE1.LKNowN yacht-builder of New
York recently took yacht through the
canal to Philadelphia. Three mules were
hired to tow it; but shortly after start
ing a stiff northeaster sprang up and
hosting sail, Pat reversed the position
and towed the mules into the canal and
through it for nearly mile before the
accident was discovered.
For some weeks past a singular dis
ease has been prevailing among the cat
tie in various parts of Buchanan Coun
ty, Mo- The cattle were suddenly at
tackled with blindness in the left eve.
and this was speedily followed by blind
ness in the right, and in very few days
time the animal became perfectly blind
In few weeks time some hundred head
of cattle were attacked in this way, and
even few horses were stricken with the
complaint.
A MAN in st. Landry Parish, La. is re
ported to have destroyed the worms in
his cotton and saved his crop by a yer,
simple plan. He took one end of Ion.
rope, and his son took the other, anG
then went from row to row knocking of
the worms by striking the rope against
the cotton. In this way the worms were
knocked to the ground, and being al
that stage unable to crawl back they
died. Two men can brush twenty-five
acres of cotton day in this way.
A Troy (N W woman had her hus
band arrested on charge of nonsup-
port She testified that he had given her
a house and lot worth $4,000, together
with several smaller pieces of real estate,
that his life was insured for her benefit
to the amount of 5000, and that he gave
her fifteen dollars of his weekly income
of thirty-fve dollars. She wanted TWEEN
ty-five dollars, the brute refused, and she
had him arrested; but, being blinded by
masculine prejudice, the Judge dismissed
the case.
A CONSCIENTIOUS New Hampshire milk.