The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A NEW postal card will soon be issued
MEXICO also has, chinch bugs in til
grain.
ANNA DICKINSON is at work on her owl
biography.
MAN and wife are one, but which one9-
is the question.
SAY what you will, the whole world i
governed by cheek.
MoTTo for the tea merchant Homes
tea is the best policy.
New ORLEANS is trying to raise 1925 ,00
to pay Mrs. Myra Games.
WATER forms nearly tnree-lolrths 0
the entire weight OF the body.
THE wisest of men arrive at week con
cluslons on saturday nights
The modern golden rule 30 untt
| others as they would do you
1T is now alleged tnat the odors Of tht
allanthus stifle the mosquito.
A MAN was drowned recently in thu
Boston Common duckpond.
BUILDERS of the period-Burst of Mil
River and Crash of Syracuse.
A LITTLE ammonia in water Is one Of
the best head-cleaners there is.
If a man doesn't take care Of No. 1 he
will soon have to take care OF.
ROSE HERsEE is engaged to Albert
Howells, of the old Parepa Rosa troupe
Miss MILDLY MORGAN, the cattle re.
porter of the New York Tribune, will lect-
ure.
HE comet is supposed to be dog,
star" run mad-a sort of rabid skye
terrier.
In a single day, recently, 1858 China
men were landed in California from two
steamers.
TIE city of Chattanooga has voted to
give 100000 to the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad.
THE poet Longfellow is to write life
of Charles Sumner, of whom he was a
warm friend.
MORE people have been killed in cele.
brating independence Day than there
were in establishing it.
THE Connecticut Historical Society has
come into possession of Andres pocket
book and Arnold's watch.
Miss HAGGIE PRICE, of Norfolk, Va,
has duck which laid ninety eggs in
ninety days, and then went to setting.
By the inundation Of the Mississippi
the cotton product Of the year will be re-
duccd three or four hundred thousand
bales.
ONE farmer in Monmouth County, n.
j., who has six acres in blackberries,
sold last season fruit to the value Of
$4,000.
Iowa raises most of the eggs "whole-
sailed" in New York city. Fifteen thou
sand barrels have been forwarded since
January.
THE New York Herald has been COM
PEELED to remind the scene painter at
Niblo's that steamships do not sail stern
foremost, as rule.
DURING a hurricane in Kansas County
Treasurer owned up that he had stolen
81, 500 of county money, but after the
wind susbided he denied it.
YOUNG LADY" That piece just played
was by Wagner-wasn't it too lovely for
anything?" Young gentleman" Yes;
and amt his palace cars just gay?"
GERMANY has sold her needle-guns to
China, not because she has no more need
of them, but she has found another kind
which can kill twice as many French
men.
UNTIL recently there was a horned
tree in Michigan. Somebody had placed
the horns of an elk in the crotch of the
tree and the wood had grown around
them.
MRS LAURA FAIR has announced her
mention of emigrating to Japan. After
she has shot Mikado or two over there
they'll learn to love her as we Ameri-
cans do.
SAID conscientious auctioneer: LA
dies and gentlemen, there is no sham
about the carpets; they are genuine tap
estry carpets. | bought them of old
Tapestry himselfl"
THOMAS HOOP died composing
that, too, humorous poem. He is said
to have remarked that he was dying out
of charity to the undertaken, who wished
to urn lively Hood.
HENRY thinks the reason the fish didn't
bite, Saturday, was because he had no
bait to suit them. He will put bill OF
fare on his hook next time, and let them
call for what they want.
SUMMIT STATION, Cal, was at last ac-
counts still surrounded by five or six feet
of snow on an average, and in places the
drifts can be sounded to depth of thirty
feet without reaching terra firma.
IT is said that Dr. Mary Walker now
carries pistol for newspaper men. We
have always spoken Of that beautiful and
accomplished physician with the highest
Courier-Journoi
MISS ADELAIDE NELSON has arrived
safely in London, and the English papers
say that she has arranged with Max
Strakosch to return to this country next
season, with guaranty of $500 per
week.
THE influence Of Imagination on the
vital functions has always been recog-
nized, and it was this recognition that
enabled the ancient physicians to he so
successful with charms, amulets and in
carnations.
A DESCRIPTION of two Massachusetts,
statesmen: George F. Hoar, crisp,
crotchety and little uncertain, is never
theless above the average Congressman.
E. R. Hoar, cold, cynical, snappish and
exclusive, is honest, able and a good
hater Of shams, and SO very able and
useful member"
Delicious Citron Pudding.-Beat un-
til very thick and light the yolks of six
teen fresh eggs. Stir in gradually, beat
ing all the time, three-quarters Of apound
of sugar. Then mix in three-quarters of
q pound Of melted butter from which all