The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-02-05
ScisOOeInktunn1.
Philadelphia is 100000 in debt

wages OF Eli have net Ocen TeuuCtu.
The oil wells OF Western Pennsyl.
vania spou, out daily - tho extent
Of about 40 900 barrels.
There is but ono baby in . newly
made Oregon town, and the neigh
bors take turns borrowing il.
The Public schools OF Chicago are
about to get wlndiall in the ehape
Of an estate yaluoi at $1,000. 900.
There is an orange treo in one Of
gardens Ut Paris that has reached
tho respectable age oi 400 yeats.
More marriages are said TO take
p,ac. in Boston on New Years day
and Thanksgiving day than any 9TH
or day in the year.
Shall the inmates OF the county
house have lager beer and arctic
oy.rshoes? IS the question that u
now agita,ing St. Louis.
The active Massachusetts, militia
numbers j ,52S officers and men, aud
was maintained last year At n cost to
the State OF $l7O,000.
An indianapolis beggar goes
about selling his wife's weddins.ring
to buy bread for his children. lie
has already sold sevcnty-hvs OF II.
The American Screw Company ap'
pears to be as prosperous ~ ever, un'
der our beuelicent protective ~ stem.
Its stock sold the other day tor
655.
Employees on the Bay View
Street Railroad in San Francisco
have struck against nineteen hours
work each day. Wonder they didn't
strike before.
The Rochester Chronicle says that
ola maids arc the best judges OF men.
Well 20 further axl put up stamps
tha. they are also the best judges OF
vinegar.
A woman at Fort Laramie has
suel paper for saying that she has
, murdered thr.e husbands, when tue
!. fact is she hasn't murdered but two,
the lhirl one getting away with .
A Hollander recently paid @3Oo
Tor Il. divorce without publicity il
Chicago, only TO discover when too
lat. (alas } that hie vito was deat.-
a His frenzy of agony At tho loss-et
+ tho mon.y--is described as simply
! heart rendiny.
The Springfield Union srggests the
idea Of having national Calcratt.- :
: Executions, 1t says, ars generaliy
= bunslvd in this country by tho want
= OF practice in the offic.rs managing
= them. The Hartford Post suggests
: that tho hangnan might be selected
= by competitive examination.
il A Keokuk dandy rubbed his han'i'
n with glycerine to make his ~"
to Years's gloves 80 on easy Whe'
" he had concluded his calls ho was d.
"a lighted to discover that he had mis-
he taken liquid glus tor the g'ycerin'
re-. and spent mcst OF the night with u
!. hards in owl Of hot water.
cd A lady Ut our national capt.;
80 learns iron tho best authority" tn
cr- &. Washington, father OF his cou
vas try, wore false tceth, and the cor
he oression OF the lips, represented
rms his portr ats, is the result OF an effo
't!y to keep them in place. Psha"
W. That's too thin Tho story is on
run an advertising dodge Of tho dcn'
nv fraternity.
pe' A negro was buried alive in . "
a,' ~ Butler recently His friends !
down to him IN about tour hou
.s and found him alive and well.
-. said he never wanted to sneezc
- had in his lite, but WAS afraid
- would jar down some more DIRT.
- good healthy negro has a. hrtn u
~ uron lite as cArs-load OF tom cats
.ince The most appalling case OF q
20, ness that we ever came across
vans, side OF an asylum was that Of III
ore lady who lives just across the st'
men from tho navy-yard. The other
stand they fired . salute OF twenty
,s ia cuus. Tho old lady was obs+'
vii, TO start ani listen as the last gun
gress fired, and then exclaimed y
.poly inl'
aid. Orange county butter had . :
,nh ta,,on one hundred years ago. a
r.o,. pears from tho following a'lve'
!, N. msnt wh.oh appeared Ia Zen
&, .,IN.w Yo.k Weekly Journal o.
p;..,. v.mb., i, 1883: ITO
almos, Peter Lynch near der y
!, ..,hc npu..., sn,as v.ry gooY