The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Veazie Village, Me, Mr., Thomp-
son has in living spring a.tame brook
trout that will come at his call and 9th
erwise shows appreciation of kindness
A LOUISVILLE cXcursionist on Lake
| Champlain boat recently went to sleep
| on deck and in the morning couldn't find
his shoes. "Whcrc did you put thcm:"
| asked syhpathizing friend. " | opened
that little cupboard and laid them on the
shelf, he replied. The victim had opened
the wheel house and laid his shoes on the
paddle wheel The Captain said he
| thought the wheels started "uncommon
hard"
A LITTLE blind boy at indianapolis
possesses wonderful memory, and is Il
perfect walking register of the doings of
the Fire Department of that city for sev-
eral years past. He can give the date
and place of each fire, what engines
turned out, the number of the alarm box,
whether II fire or a false alarm, the
engine that got the first water on, etc
The fircmen say he is better informed of
the affairs of the department than the
Chief Engineer himself
WHEN an cntcrprising and ingenious
superintendent of a San Francisco street
railroad line invented II plan to register
the passengers by spring on the lower
step of the rear platform, he made no
provision for the ingenuity of the conduct,
ors, who became excessively polite and
stepped off to assist parties to alight, but
all the time kept one foot on the step, so
that no more than one person was regis
tered, as the step was not allowed to
spring back.
LAURA BERRY recently fell fainting in
the school-room at Carson, New. There
was nothing mysterious in the origin of
her swoon; the only wonder was thu She
weeks committed to memory 800 pages
of history and 200 of natural philosophy.
The night before she and a clasS-mate
had not gone to bed at all, but studied
throughout the night and until nine that
morning. Her guardians, it is unneces-
sary to state, never tainted away over
books.
The Laporte Gnd) Dtmocrot tells
this dog story: "a large dog, about II
year old, belonging to ncighbor, who
had been bitten in his ears, had his
head washed several times with carbo
liZcd water. Several weeks later he saw
one of the children of the family bath
ing her head with liniment for the car
ache, when, watching an opportunity, he
gets the liniment bottle on the floor,
spills it, and dabs his own head in the
| spilled liniment, and then rubs it in with
| his forepaws. This was witnessed by
| four members of the household"
CONNECTICUT has marksman who
gave an exhibition of his skill at a fair
recently. lie used an improved target
! rifle, requiring neither cartridge, powder
nor air, percussion cap alone, sending
| a large shot-single B-with force suf-
| ficient to penetrate pine board at some
| distance. He stuck a pin in a board,
twenty-five feet distant, took his rifle in
one hand, pistol fashion, and knocked
the pin down. He then stuck his knife
| in the board, at the same distance, and
split several shots in succession, while
he rang the targct-bell nine times out of
/ ten.
| Hot GRoUND.-Th Virginia City (Nev)
| Enterprise adds the following to its long
list of curious stories We are informed
that the reason why there are no shade
trees about the hotel at the Genoa Hot
Springs and why none can be grown
there is that the ground is too hot for
them 1t is said that upon digging
through the thin surface soil sub
stratum of hard earth--called Il hard-pan
lis found This is two or three feet i'll
thickness, and upon digging through 1t
almost anywhere in the neighborhood
boiling hot water is encountered. on
account of this subterranean lake OF hot
water trees of no kind can be made to
grow in the neghborhood Soil enough
for the nourishment of the trees cannot
be collected upon the surface, and the
moment their roots pass through the
substratum they are in hot water and arc
cooked. By sinking an artesian well Id
this place there could doubtless be OBJ
tanned a fine fountain of hot water, but IL
it were desired to surround this fountain
with trees it would be necessary TO nave
them made of cast IRON"