The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-02-19

The best cure for dirt 10 . vatsr
cure.
London has III square miles, 6OO..
OoO houses aud 3, $50 900 Inhabitants,
| A thirsty one desires TO know Il
they drink stock ale at the brokers' q
board.
! st. Louis is about to double in
area. Chicago, Of course, iurnishe,
the railing.
| February was so warm q month
nlnety-nlne years ago that lads went
in bathing.
There were sl,337,533 cases Of
boots and shoes shipped from Boston
during the year 1879.
| A Rochester paper declares that .
man who can't rent achurch pew
has no right to be pious.
Chicago is growing because she
has Mayor who can drink sixty
glasses of vine without winkiag.
fashioned wedding cardc are
long and narrow and havo the initials
or monograms in tho left. hand corner.
Twenty-Five State Legislature, be-
sides our own, are filing at tho old
laws and grinding ont new onos.
A poor family in Green Bay had
to mortgage their six dogs last week
to get barrel OF flour. That case ia
pitiable.
An Iowa machinist is constructing
the smallest steam engine on record.
The cylinder is TO be no larger than
a grain Of wheat.
Dancing classes" that meet on.
Saturday evening are quito the rage
just now. No cake, no wine no any.
thing, but small talk and dancing:
Another West Point officer is
about to be married. This makes the
fifth since October. We fear dearth
ct military beaux at the Point next
summer.
An cnterprising merchant IN Paris.
distributes umbrellas gratuitously,
on which are displayed advertise.
ments Of the business Of the giver.
seen this season are OF supn. glass,
tintede very imaginable hue and color,
They are especially effective under
gaslight.
The old style OF making button.
holes has gone entirly out OF fashion.
Nowadays they are neatly. bound
with silk braid the color of tho dress
The English postofii,e carries On.
nually abou. $40, 900, 900 letters, 75,.
100000 postal cards. 1O3,OOO,OOO
book packets, and 99,OOO,OOO news.
papers.
Two partners in street mendican.
cy, in st. Louis, haying dissolved
their firm, are engaged IN o lawsuit
to settle the division OF $4,000 sur.
plus capital.
A calprit in Chicago police court
recently began an address to the jus.
ticc with Nov, just look'ee here, old
Blinky,' and he got ten days for con:
tempt.
Why do yon sot your cup Of COT.
fee on the chair, Mr.. Jones? said .
landlady at breakfast. It is 90 very
weak, madam, thought I would lot
it rest.
Nearly tho whole ot the English
ballad trado is In the hands OF .
single London publisher, Catnaoh,
whose place of business is ia the
classic regions of Seven Dials.
Tho Legislature OF Illinois have
passed law TO protect shes BY max.
ing 1t legal to scatter posion whore
dogs will get It. No society with .
long name in that State.
Heroism IS limited after all. A
girl who tho other day jumped into
the Merrimack River and rescued .
drowning child, tainted away when
she saw her false curls floating down
the stream.
Mr.. Joses carries his money in his
hat, and the other day, when hs ssw
the entire supply going Of on the
winds Of heaven, he bit tsrly remark.
ed: That's what yoc get with your
internal imitation.
A wealthy gentleman who owns .
country seat nearly losk bic wife,
who tell into . river which 6ows
through the estate. He sooouscsd
the narrow escape to his l1sods,