The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-19
ITEMS or INTEREST.
CORNER loaferism in Richmond, Va, is
punished by fine Of - per loaf.

SuIa suc Try Vi ~ AothSc, ~. L., IOI fJ,-
600 damages for taking house Of hers
for pest-house.
A WOMAN at Alexandria, Va, fell into
cistcrn the other evening and her deaf
husband sat up all night, only thirty feet
away, waiting for her to come home
SLEIGHIsG was reported good at
WstestOwn, 4. T., few days since.
Trees, roofs and sheds were broken
down with the weight Of the snow.
A NEW town in the California quick
silver region is named Mercury. What
class Of operators that heather deity
presided over every school-boy knows.
An Indiana woman dreamed that she
saw her husband kissing the hired girl
and she got so mad over it that she dis
charged the girl before breakfast next
morning.
THERE is still another point in favor Of
narrow-gauge railroads. When the loco
motive runs over a man two-thirds OF
the body is left in good shape for identi-
fcation.
THE Danbury Meas says that ..the
maddcst kind of woman is one who
spends half hour in arranging her toilet
before descending to the parlor on the
arrival Of yisitor-who proves to he a
book agent"
The New York Mil says that :. the
average female is just now crazy over
hats II she hasn't got soft felt, with
rakish Crown and q thieyish-looking
brim, she is crazy 70 get one. and if she
has got one she Is mad because she didn't
get The other pattern
Az Aberdeen preacher recently COM
mented in the following complimentary
way upon the conversational value OF
men and women. There i The same
difference between their tongues a be
tween the hour ard minute ha1d-one
goes ten times a. fast and the other si--
niies ten times 8 much
Miss ANA snow was just getting Up
10 leave tr.la 81 CAR al Newourypor,
some tao aeekz ago, having ridden from
Boston when A.la found . roll " bills Of
large amount il her lap. hui how they
came there she could not tell She I'd
vertised them. and a man has proved
them 10 be his, though he was not d the
train On the day they were found, and
had never been IN Newburyport
THERE Is rarely If ever any need q
using soap On the face. except tor very
dirty people, or where there il much CIT
secreted By the skin Pure soft water j.
generally quite sufficient. As a rule
avoid the very free use Of soap CD the
skin. except The niIdest kinds. Pace
powders injure the skin just a. dirt does
by obsiructing the pores If there is
any poison IN the face powder, as there
often is, II only adds poison 10 dirt and
makes the matter 50 rnncl the worse.
THE Wilmington y. c. Joursal SAYS:
A young alligator, scarcely launched
into is pQppy-teens, was on exhibition
last evening in front Of the Purcell
House An admiring crowd soon gath.
cred around, when a too confident Young
friend Of ours placed his hand in the ami
mails mouth TO sec If Is teeth had ret
began to spfeus. Evidently they had.
IS when The young man withdrew liz
hand, with cry Of pain, several young
alligator-tusks were plainly photo
gTaQhea OF IT,
LEYDEs, Mass, used to drink some.
The " Oldest inhabitant1 says that fifty
years ago Reuben Sheldon sold thirty
hogsheads- or 3, go gallons, of rum d wear.
A that TING there were some forty cider
mills and five distilleries in town, three
Of tie latter at least doing thriving
business. One man put in his cellar. thc
first Of winter, two and half barrels Of
cider brandy, which liquor was gone he
fore having was overland the old repro.
bate signs for the good Old times"
again
DAs DAVIS, Of Virginia City, paid,a
visit % Pfomoatory, on the Central Pa
cific Railroad, and was charmed with the
manners and customs - almost patri-
archal in their frank simplicity ~ IL Tile
people. He stopped at the principal
hotel Of the town Il was nice place
and the landlord was d very agreeable
and friendly sort Of 4 man. SAYS Dan:
hen dinner was ready the landlord
came out into the street in front Of his
hotel with double barrcled shotgun.
Raising lie gun above his head be fired
of one barrel. said to him. What did
you do that for:' Said he, To call nv
boarders to dinner / said Why don't
you fire off both barrels:' Oh said he.
| keep the other to collect with
PEW days ago an interior Journalist
came to Detroit on business. and In some
way was induced to leave the straight
and narrow path and take more LIQUOR
than he could carry. He fell among bad
people, was robbed Of his all. and was !
found in an alley next morning by |
policeman. As he was reused up he /
looked around him, cot his bearings and
started off. Here, where are YOU
goings" shouted the officer. Home.
replied the editor as ne halted. But /
You haven't a cent in your pocket. /
You'd better 90 around 70 some Of vour
friends and raise something" "Friends
be hanged" replied the editor. ats
only sky miles, good going. and three
days before MY paper comes out.n and
he started OF at q pace which made the
dust jump up ii little clouds and float
oyer the fences.-Itetrmt Free Pres.
ASEeEo Of Baltimore has had u warn
Ing which, if it docs not turn him from
some Of the errors Of his way, ought at
least to convey wholesome lesson to
others. He had been indulgingin strong
drinks TO excess and was enioving a
cheerful attack of delirium tremens.
One morning he got cut Of bed and
ascended TO the roof to take an air-batb
men he was seized with the delusion
that the people in the street were trying
TO shoot him. To escape from them he
Jumped from house TO house and ran
along the combs of the roofs until the
row OF houses came to an end. He then
dropped himself down a chimney out of
the range OF imaginary guns He slid
down the chimney until lie became firm.
~ Wedged above stoye-pipc hole, and
IN that stove q fire had just been built ia
cook breakfast. The negro now became
impressed with the idea that he had
reached the Internal regions at last. and
hOwled accordingly. 1t was necessary