The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CALIFORNIA jury, in suicide case
lately, found the following verdict: We,
the jury, find that the deceased was a
| fool"
A MAN recently died in Pigeon Cove,
| Conn, "of fine mind and unusual be-
nevolence and fatness, with high moral
principles, weighing $50 pounds
| A SPECIAL train on the Northwestern
Railroad recently made the run from
Clinton, Iowa, to Chicago-13S 1-10
miles-in 142 minutes, running time.
THE Alaska Herald expresses the be-
lief that in $50 years Sitka will be one of
the greatest ship-building cities in the
West, but that is long time to wait
AN Alabama girl slid down rope lad
der, stole horse, rode twelve miles and
paid the parsons fee, rather than not
have the marriage ceremony come oft.
ANY girl may raise mustachc by
shaving her upper lip every day for
about a month A st. Louis girl has
demonstrated this fact, and now wishes
she hadn't.
a FRENCH naturalist has discovered a
species of acarus which lives in cigars.
As it selects only good brands, domestic
microscopists need not hope to find it in
the Connecticut Havanas.
AN extensive business is doing at Kit
terry, Me, in collecting and bleaching sea
moss, which is in great demand among
brewers for the purpose of settling ale
1t is said to be a mos profitable industry
A HOG of Wayne County, N. Y, weighs
LOO pounds. The animal has been pur
chased by joint stock company, for the
purpose of discovering how fat he can be
made, 1t is proposed to make him weigh
l 800 pounds this fall.
INDIANAPOLIS has the champion kind
tree, loaded down with fruit, because he
feared that his neighbors children might
get hold of the green fruit and be made
sick
THE Lowell (Mass) mill girls have .
novel way of getting rid OF any male
employe who happens to be obnoxious to
them. They rush at him in groups and
kiss him, and keep up this treatment
until the poor fellow is forced to leave.
A CORRESPONDENT states that Mis-
souri, town has organized an anti-fashion
society One of the pledges taken by
the female members is to trample" on
all dresses worn by ladies in public with
long trains, or which come below the
ankle.
A MAN died in New Hampshire who
had lived ninety five years in one house.
A lady died in Newburyport recently
who had been under the same roof
eighty-four years, and whose family had
occupied the estate since the settlement
of the town.
SAYS the Bedford Pa.) gazette: "There
are in Pennsylvania $50 Postmistresses.
1t has been common for many years to
appoint women to that position, and they
are always efficient officers. We believe
no one has ever proved defaulter to the
Government"
THE Aun California says: Raising
cork trees seems to be an approaching
industry in California. They are said to
grow very rapidly among the foothills
At Auburn there are number OF trees
three or four years old that have bark
thick enough for any ordinary cork"
"WHAT is this for?" asked the colorcd
porter at Long Branch hotel the other
day, holding out twenty-five cent note
given him by the gentleman addressed
for carrying up his trunk. That" said
the gentleman, taking the note and put
ting it back in his pocket, "was for your
trouble, and this is for your impudence,'
and he kicked him eleven feet nine inches
and half into the hallway.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tleman says: Every spotted dog has thu
end of his tail white, and every spotted
cat the end of the tail black. OF thi'
fact there can be no doubt. l have ex
amincd dogs and cats without number il
France, in England and in America, ant
always noted the same result. | hav'
looked at many paintings of dogs in tn
galleries of Paris and elsewhere, in re
gard to this, and found even there tn
dogs spotted, always "in ORDER" provinl
to me that the artists had invariabl..
copied after nature.
WILLIAM SHAwsoN, the champion
acknowledgement Of Luther County
CAL, raises seedless watermelons, an
this is the way he does it: When tn
vine begins to bear, he lets the firs
: watermelon on each branch grow undi'
! turbed, but covers the branch up wit
| dirt from the first melon to the secon
one, or within about six inches OF tn
/ end of the branch, and the watermelo
: that grows near the end of the vine wi
: be q seedless one. the one nearest tn
i body of the vine having kept all til
seeds.-N. 7. World.