The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-31
ITEms OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
"vENus, vidi, vici," as the photogra-
pher said when he caught the goddess on
the rapid transit.
| AN Arkansas grocer has been sent to
the Penitentiary for six years for shoot
ing man who "kept helping himself to
the crackers"
ACCORDING to q Washington paper all
the gentlemen at a recent party there
wore "striped silk stockings and low
shoes, with buckles and rosettes."
TEX million five hundred and sixty
thousand is the number of eggs shipped
from Pierrepont Manor, N. Y, during the
past season to New York city and the
Eastern States.
THERE is happy couple in the First
Ward of Syracuse, N. Y. They have
thirteen children, the eldest of whom
is ten years old. Six pairs of twins are
among the number, and the thirteen are
! girls. -
/
sent special agents over to England for
the purpose of collecting quantity Of
small birds of various kinds, and col
ony of humble bees, for introduction into
that country.
| THE San Francisco Chronicle dropped
into poetry and welcomed King Kalakaua
| thus:
Hoky, poky, winky, wank
| Well honor the King If we bust bank
To give him welcome due the rank
OF the King of the Cannibal Islands.
THE editor of journal in New York
thus appeals to the better nature of his
delinquent subscribers: "To all those
| who are in arrears one year or more, who
will come forward and pay up, We will
give them first-class obituary notice
| gratis in case it kills them"
Mrs Ex-JUDeE PRATT, of San Fran
cisco, sues for divorce and alimony of
81, 100000 If some of the wives of us
| fellows would only sue us for divorce
and that amount, now, get both and mar
ry US again, what big thing it would be
for the family!-&. Louis Republican.
THE New York Evening Post thinks
that horseback riding is very well for
those hardened to its use, but for people
who have to eat their dinner off the
mantelpiece after the exercise, they will
| find it ian unnatural motion" and ex-
hausting to stamina and vitality.
CHEERING New York Times says:
eft seems to be the general opinion of
our tradespeople that better business
has seldom been done at this time of
year than that which is now going on
The influences Of the holiday season are
opening the hearts and pockets of all
classes, and for the present stagnation in
trade has disappeared, we hope not to
return"
"a GENTLEMAN, occupied all day, but
having some hours of leisure in the even
ing" instead of advertising for books to
write up, has set up seml-suburban pri-
vate patrol, charging his neighbors four
dollars amonth for watching their premi-
ses. When asked whether he did not
find 1t exhausting to work all day and
walk round all night he admitted frankly
that he only visited his customers once a
month and that was to collect. " But
don't they find you outf" said the querist.
"Uh, no." he replied, They heer the
burglars going round and trying the
doors and they think it's me."-Chicago
Tribune.
THERE are various ways of obtaining
money in this wicked world, and perhaps
as agreeable a mode as any is that of ap-
Quoting heircsses. So thought, at least,
Mr.. William Timms, of Idebury, Oxon
England, aged flfty-six, as he ran off with
Miss Annie Sophia Power Turner, aged
| fifteen years, daughter of William
Power Turner, Esq, of Field Terrace,
Bath Road, Worcester, gentleman. A
few days elapsed when the anguish of
| the parents was still further heightened
by the receipt of note asking forgive
ness and mentioning casually that the
young woman had been married at Dover
to William Timms aforesaid. The young
lady is the presumptivc hciress to large
fortune and the old reprobate now lies
in dungeon awaiting the sentence of
the law upon his mercenary and heart
| less crime.
j. NJ. STEARNs, JR., in the New York
Sun, draws a comparison as to the speed
| of railroad trains between the present
time and that of twenty years ago. He
suggests that the difficulty is to be found
| in the ponderous cars now used in the
transportation of passengers. If we wish
to travel fast, says the writer, we have
got to have small, light, low cars, with
basket-work easy chairs, sides OF glass,
steel frames and low trucks, to bring
the center of gravity down as low as
possible. These, provided with air
brakes, can be made to roll over the line
with a proper locomotive fifty miles to
the hour, without any more damage to
the permanent way than is occasioned
by the pounding of tons on tons Of dead
weight now dragged after the engine.
Such cars should not hold over twenty
persons each.