The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-03

VI idiIS W pay MS ne1p at the appOlnt0C
/ time, they visit him with rope anC
threaten to hang him if they are no,
, paid. This argument generally succeeds
IT is reported that there is deficien
!, cy of $4,000 in the accounts of the Sec
ond National Bank of Boston and no one
is suspected of dishonesty That is no,
the name they give to it in this enlight
ened age.
THE Detroit Tribune has just moved
{ into brand-new stone office, and prints
picture OF it with q man going upstairs
two steps at time to whip the editor
and woman coming down street with a
piece of poetry for him to print.
SCIENTIFIC men dispute as to the spe-
cies of grasshopper prevalent this year
Some maintain &hat it is the red-legged
variety; others take the yellow-legged
side of the controversy. The color of the
hopper's leg does not seem to have any
apprcciable effect on his appetite.
q THE custom which express companies
have of selling of, every now and then,
unclaimed packages, which are unopened
is declared by the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania to be illegal, and fraud
upon the rights of the owner, for which
the company is liable in damages
THERE were two men in Doylestown,
Pa, lately for the purpose of
seeing the circus, neither of whom
had ever been to circus, although
sixty-tive years of age. Both live within
sight of Doylestown, and one of them
who has acquired three farms by his
thrift and eXertion, has never been on a
railroad train.
"THIs venal Sheet" remarks the San
Antonio Herald, in an article regarding
the San Antonio Gazette, "again squirts
its bilgewater at the San Antonio Herald,
which we might notice more specifically
But such being the case, we relegate it
to its connate filth as we would dog to
its vomit or hog to its wallow"
Nor long since, at a meeting of a club
in New York, Il jelly was exhibited on
the table, and alongside of it an old,
well-worn leather boot The spectacle
of the boot was a mystery until 1t was
explained by one of the members that
| from the fellow of the boot the jelly had
been made by some chemical process.
Jelly for the table made out of old boots
I-Chambers' Journal.
| In response to the request of Mr.
Touzalin, the general land agent of the
Sante Fe Road, for the products of the
country along the line, a character
around Hutchinson or some of those
towns boxed up bushel of grasshop-
pers and sent them to him with the fol-
lowing explanatory note: Here's the
products of your blamed country-a
hundred bushels to the acre"
THE Boston T,uyeller says the first half
of August has been colder in Boston this
year than it has been since 1856; and
what is more, there have not been more
that two Augusts since the year 1886
when the first sixteen days have been SO
cold as those of 1874. In 1886, it may be
remembered, Indian corn did not ripcn in
/ IL
portions of New Hampshire the corn crop
failed entirely.
| THE Titusvillc Herald wants to know
Is there anything in the world more try
| ing to the soul of man than to find that
his quarters gasbil exceeds the highest
figures his prolific imagination had whis
pered?' Yes, there is. 1t is to have
your wife come home from the country
and find that bill and sniff out "a remark
to the effect that "You said that you
went to bed early while was away"
| boston Globe.
A WOMAN of Dubuque, Iowa. has dia-
mond ring which she has been in the
habit of pawning to a certain gentleman
when she wanted money. Lately she
stepped into Il jewclry store and had "a
paste stone inserted in the place of the
diamond. She then took the ring and
pawned it for $50. The gentleman hap
pening to step into the jewelry store with
the ring on his finger, the dodge was ex
posed. The woman was arrested.
| THE New York Central Railroad Com
pany have arrested woman in Buffalo
for walking on the track. There is "a law
against this sort of amusement. 1t pro-
vides penalty of fine and imprisonment.
1t appears an effort is to be made to en-
force this obsolete law. What people
will not refrain from under fear of death
it is hoped to prevent them from doing
by fear of fine and Imprisonment. Here
tofore the company has been content to
make mince meat of the offenders. 1t
now resorts to severcr measures!
| AS ALL families are not provided with
scales and weights, referring to ingre-
dients in general use by every housewife,
the following information may be use
full: Wheat flour, one pound is one quart; !;
| Indian meal, one pound two ounces is
one quart; butter, when soft, one pound
one ounce is one quart; loaf sugar, broken,
one pound is one quart; white sugar,
powdered, one pound one ounce is one
| quart; best brown sugar, one pound two
ounces is one quart; eggs, average size
ten eggs are one pound; sixteen large
tablespoonfuls are half pint, eight are
a gill, four half a gill, etc
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from a GER
tain town in Penobscot County, Me-,
states that on a recent Sunday an anus
| ing scene occurred at the Corner" At
the afternoon service in one of the
churches the officiating clergyman was a
gentleman of the old school, who greatly
taxed the patience of his hearers by the
length of his discourse. After he had
been preaching almost two hours the
congregation began to get nervous, and
finall y one man, who evidently thought
that forbearance had ceased to be vir-
tue, astonished the people and the rev.
crend gentleman by remarking in very
loud voice: "There! you have preached
long enough! If you preach any longer
we shall forget the subject of the text"
The meeting closed Immediately after.
! A CERTAIN lawyers clerk had been in
the habit of taking an afternoon nap, in
| the absence of the boss. On such Occa-
sions he had been in the habit of put
ting up his placard on the front door:
"Gone to the Clerks Office" Some
young men who had witnessed the per-
formance concluded to play joke at
his expense. Accordingly, they watched