The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
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SteMS VI INTEREST.
! WILLIAM KUPP, who recently died a
Douglasville, Pa, weighed 45O pounds
Not Kupp one would care to raise I,
the lips very often.
NEWELL RossER committed suicide a,
Wlnnemucca, New, "because he seemed
TOO verdant for this life" He feels blne
enough now, probably.
AN ingenious Vermontsr has invented
catapult with which he can storm for.
| tlncations at great distance, and is
practicing with it on mountain near
by.
RATHER than dodge behind the wheel.
mouse when the collector came around,
st. Louis young man Jumped from Il
ferry-boat, when asked for his nickel.
and was drowned.
IT costs fifty dollars to kick dog in
Fitchburg, but when the dog is sensitive
and pugnacious, and reflects that you
are not old enough to know better, the
THE New York World says the
Catholics have population of 81 900 in
Boston," which is rather steep, consider
ing the fact thai the entire population of
the city is only 100000.
81 CAN'T say as he went TO heaven"
remarked Fort Scott citizen of de-
ceased townsman, "but he paid bill of
eleven years standing only the day be-
fore he died, and you can judge for your
self"
APRoPos of the presence of King Kali
akaua among us, it is perhaps worth re-
membrance that the Christian civiliza-
ton of the Sandwich Islands cost the
American churches no less than one mill
ion dollars.
THE Milwaukee Ners says: a." Here is
Charlotte Cushman, worth $250,OO0,
sailing around the country getting $500
a night, while Mrs. Bryant, in Illinois,
who has raised seven children and buried
two husbands, has just gone to the poor
house.
For full dress Kalakaua wears a fash
ionably cut black broadcloth swallow
tail coat, studless white shirt front, boots
of the box-toe pattern, a parti-colored
ribbon in his button-hole, three immense
plain gold rings, a bracelet on his left
wrist, turn down collar and "A black tic.
He also wears pair of pants.-Bostom
Post
A MAN took seat on the head of an
empty four-barrel on Michigan Grand
avenue Saturday, and remarked: ~
got down the gun and loaded her up
heavy, and just as | was" AT this
point the head fell in and the man, or
about half of him, disappeared, while
his legs loomed up like a schooncr's masts.
He was helped out and a boy hired to
rub sweet oil on his back but in spite of
the earnest entrcaties of the crowd he
would not go on with the story.-Detroa
Free Press.
Mrs. ELIZA BRooKBANKs, residing on
Western avenue, who has mourned as
widow for the space of twenty years,
was recently surprised, as also delighted,
at the receipt of intelligence denying the
death of her husband. On yesterday
oft TUute
hither, and before the close of the week
she will doubtless clasp her long-missing
Abraham to her heart He left Chicago
nearly quarter of century ago, and
remitted regularly for several seasons,
when he suddenly ceased and all trace
,cf Ifn ic cold fn no tho
proprietor of two silver-mines in Arizona
and rolling in wealth. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
WHITTIER recently wrote as follows
concerning his literary works: Il have
not felt able to place a very high csti-
mate upon my writings. know too well
their deficiencies. But l have given the
public the best | had to give, and the
measure of favor with which il has been
received has been constant surprise to
me. This, at least, / can say truly, that
have been actuated by higher motive
than literary success, and it has been my
desire that whatever influence my writing
may exert should be found on the side of
morality, freedom and Christian charity"
TWENTY cents apiece is all the
Centennial Commission asks of the peo-
pie of the United States to pay for the
peep-show of the universe"
A YOUNG married woman in Worcester
dreamed twice lately that she would die
at midnight on the first anniversary OF
her wedding-day, and so strongly was
she impressed with the visions that she
actually made preparations for her fun
eral, and even gave sum OF money to a
friend to purchase mourning. Her hus-
band, becoming alarmed at her condition
consulted medical friend, stating all
the facts of the case. The astute doctor
after minutes cogitation discovered 6
way out of the difficulty. Telling tn,
husband to keep the patient amused as
much as possible till late in the day, he
went down to the house in the afternoon
and administered a harmless narcotic
which kept the lady asleep until the
dreaded moment was passed She is now
in good health, and joins with her friends
| in laughing at her superstitious fears.