The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BETTER slip with the foot than the
tongue.
THE heavy-link gold chain necklaces
are in vogue again.
PARTIAL culture runs to ornate; ex'
.trefne cultureto simplicity.
To CURE dull times-Apply an adyer
tisement to the afflicted part.
Who ever heard of a great man whose
mother was a fashionable woman?
GENTLEMEN are wearing the ribbon
and seal fob watch-chain as grandpa
used to.
WHY should spider be good CORE.
spondent? Because he drops line by
every post.
MEN who travel baYefooted around q
newly-carpeted bedroom often find them
selves on the wrong tack
THE handsomest bonnets are of black
velvet, relieved by one bright color in
ribbon, flower or feather.
A BOY has just died from dose of ink
out West. An ink west determined the
fact Washington Chronicle.
WHY is beautiful young lady's foot
like romantic tale of olden timesg
Because it is an interesting legend.
THE most unpopular man in the coun-
try these days is the one who saws his
wood too long for his neighbor's stove.
By a recent invention, called the quad
ruple telegraph, four messages may be
sent over a single wire.
SMALL men are generally plucky
men, and Bantam rooster with one eye
will whip ten times his weight in Cochin
fowl
A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman when dying
made her husband swear on the Bible
that he would never marry a woman with
sharp nose.
A BOsToN girl had a man arrested for
"winking at her" in a street-car, and he
proved that he had been blind for TWEEN
ty-two years.
WHAT is the difference between the
outer wall of bridge and two nice young
ladies? The one is parapet, and the
others pair Of pets.
AN Iowa farmer declares upon his SOL
emn honor as gentleman that the last
leaving the State stood on a
gate-post and said: "Get some more
fence rails ready for us by next June"
A New JERSEY contractor has just dis
covered that a handsome bridge he has
Dccn Uullu1ng over Jne HackenSaCK is
exactly five feet too short. He says the
fault isn't his; the rivers that much too
wide.
THE Bazdr says that milliners just re-
turned from Europe speak of the preva-
lence of scarlet, carmine and the dark,
rich cardinal" red in millinery, and
also in the accessories of dress, such as
scarlet sashes and neckties.
"WHY are men seeking office called can
didates?" Because they are all sweet
ness. They are something more than
candy; they are candy-dates. After
their election they are called officials,
because they act SO officious.
A CALIFORNIA man has discovered a
spring, the water of which possesses the
peculiar property of taking grease-spots
out of the finest fabric without altering
the color in the least, and also of remov-
ing freckles from the face The owners
intention is to bottle the water and sell
it.
A CINCINNATI man on visit to the
Longview Lunatic Asylum recently was
attacked in the park by four of the in
mates, and while fighting them was as
sailed also by two tame stays, the pets
of the lunatics. He would probably have
been killed by these strange enemies il
help had not arrived speedily.
Mr.. ID. FITzHUGH, of Bay City, Mich.
has salt water shad that was caught in
Saginaw Bay. 1t is the first of its species
ever caught in Michigan waters, and is
supposed to have come down from the
Shiawassee River, for the reason that
80, 900 of the spawn of that species OF
fish were put into that stream last year.
A LADY who was urging some friends
to dinner felt disgusted when her eight
year-old son came in and said: Mrs
Jones says she can't spare no bread, anc
Mrs. Fox amt to home, so didn't gel
any butter" The friends thought they
had better dine elsewhere, and the lady
thought so too, but she taught that boy
that the way of the transgressor was
hard.
In Buffalo lately bereaved husband
visited his wife's grave only to find thu
coffin and shroud exposed and the body
gone. Officers Immediately searched tht
dissecting tables Of medical college il
town, and found body which the hus
band recognized as that of his wife. Nov
the professors are swearing that the body
was on their tables before the man!
wife died!
THE Lawrence (Mass.) Sentinel say
that number of months since Haver
hill man desired some accommodation
of the Boston & Maine Road, but wa
refused. The action SO provoked hin
that he determined to get square by SOM
means. and at length, noticing that ther'
was no draw in the railroad bridge nea
the city, he determined to put the com
pany to the expense of building one. s.
he commenced building schooner o
about 200 tons at a point above tn
bridge, and now, as it is nearly ready t
launch, he will soon load it with legiti
mate freight, sail down to the bridge ant
demand passage, which the railroad peo
pie must grant him whether or no.
In the Medical Press and Circular DI
Locke johnson suggests that in case Q
injury from cat or dog bite-whether tn
animal be in a rabid state or otherwise
roller (garter, piece of cord, handkeI
chief, ETC., will answer the purpose in a
emergency should be at once tightl
applied above and below land also clos
toy the seat Of injury, and should not b
removed for some hours subsequent t
cauterization. When the rollers canno
be effectually employed on account OF th
position or seat of the injury. compre
sion all around the wound should b
made by firm pads, pieces of card-boar
perforated. gutta-percha, or other sui
stances, and the security of such con
press maintained by means Of role
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