The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-20

j jTEwo ~ INTEREST.
MONEY makes the mare-go, but PLUCK
makes Chicago.
THE public is very stupid. An Indian
apolis apothecary turned his sigh oi
Drugs" upside down to attract atten;
ton, and everybody thinks it was put in
that way by mistake.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Minneapolis
Tribune, writing of the grasshopper
plague, estimates that some 1000 people
will require aid from now until they can
realize on their crops next ycar-fully
twelve months.
MANASSAS KELLY, of Missouri, worked
hard for a year and raised 1900 bushels
OF wheat, which he stacked. Then he
plowcd the ground around the stacks and
set fire to the stubble-field. The fire
rolled over the plowed ground and ruined
Manassas.
The new comet is not as yet visible to
the naked eye, but has to be sought for
with telescope. 1t is located short
distance south of the star Gamma, the
upper pointer of the Little Bear, or Little
Dipper. 1t is of small size and slow
motion, and is estimated to be at least
loo, 900, 900 miles from the earth.
TIE Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts,
famous engineering work, although bored
through the mountain, is not by any
means completed. Two years, it is
thought, will clapsc before it can be
opened to travel Much brick arching
has to be done, railway laid through
the tunnel, and connecting roads from
both ends to the railways that are to 90
through it.
THE farther west you 60 the more in
teresting the stories become: "In Ger
vais, Oregon, during a recent storm, a
large tree was struck by lightning and
cut completely off, as with sharp in
strument, about four feet from the ground.
In falling, the tree was thrown forward
ten feet, raised high in the air, and the
butt driven into the ground, the shock
shivering the branches and leaving the
trunk standing upright"
AMONG the Captains of the numerous
canal boats that 60 to Alexandria, Va, are
some four or five that are females. Their
sex, though, does not initiate against
their efficiency, for they can blow as
shrill blast upon horn, steer as
clear of a passing boat, and keep their
crews as well in hand as any male cap
tain on the canal, and, what is still bet
ter, in the inevitable disputes that result
from their vocation always come off vic.
tOrious.
ALFRED GERALD, of Providence, r. T.
asked George r. Whipple, halter, to
sell him hat on Sunday Whipple, in
the way of favor, complied. When
bill was sent to Gerald he refused to pay
1T, on the ground that business transac
tions on Sunday are illegal, and conse-
quently the debt was not collectable
The case has been tried in court, the de-
cision being that Gerald by subsequently
acknowledging the debt had made the
claim good.
A MANCHESTER IN. H. mechanic and
his wife have managed money matters in
this way the past twenty years: He has
earned from $3.50 to 1926 per day, from
which he has paid the rent and provided
clothes for himself and family, and then
given his wife from $50 to $50 per month
to meet the household expenses, which
were managed entirely by her. SO they
lived along without asking or knowing
the condition of their private purses till
they counted their money for the first
time, few days ago. The husband pro-
duced about $500, and the wife 81, 700
more, making the nice little sum of So 200
which had accumulated and been kept in
the house those years.
THURSDAY morning last a little red
squirrel, having been pestcred consider
ably by the lads about the saw-mill of
Ebcn Webster & Co., on Marsh Point,
Orono, took refuge for life by running
up the large brick chimney near the mill.
by clinging to the corner he kept foot
hold SO well that he succeeded in reach
ing the very top. Here he found himself
upon the iron-cap 1851 feet from the
ground. AS more and more of the waste
stuff from the mill was added to the fur
mace, the chimney grew hotter and his
situation grew more and more disagree
able. He tried to descend upon the side
OF the chimney, but after getting down
few feet gave it up, turned about and
went back. BY this time the chimney
top had become so hot that he must
leave it, so, after looking about carefully
for few minutes, he evidently made up
his mind that he must leap to save his
life, and this he did, spreading out his
legs and balancing himself so that he
struck the ground about fifty feet from
the base, uninjurcd, and Immediately
scampcrcd off and sccrctcd himself IN
der a pile Of boards little distance
away.-Bangor (.Ke) Wing.
A WISCONSIN paper mentions as a re-
markable circumstance that certain
man out there "has positively seen
ghost riding yellow horse along the
turnpike and flourishing wagon stake"
This does seem to me to be little out of
the common run of things, but it is not
as marvellous as it might be. How very
much more extraordinary it would have
been if that man in Wisconsin had seen
a yellow wagon-stake riding along the
turnpike on ghost and f1ourishing
horse! And even more odd it would
have been if he had seen the turnpike
riding horse along yellow ghost and
a wagon-stake; while should
have been painfully surprised if he had
seen horse riding wagon-stake along
q yellow ghost and flourishing turn
pike; or a yellow turnpike riding ghost
along stake and fourishing horse and
wagon; or flourish stalking wagon
along q horse and riding ghost of a
or-but any of these, think,
would have been sufficiently sensational
to have amazed even that man in Wis
Adeler.
WHEN the train from the West rolled
up to the Perry street depot yesterday,
,ne of the wheel-sounders discovered
bulky object among the bars and timbers
IF the forward truck of the postal-car.
At first he could not tell what it was, but |
ne poked it with a stick, when it bent
SIDEWAYS and in a moment a human form,