The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

RI VOLUNTARY abduction" is what al
: exchange paper calls an elopement.
II AT Camp Grant, Arizona, soldier wa
; bitten to death recently by an enraget
. cavalry horse.
ii The Pawnee reservation, which il
practically abandoned. contains som,
100000 acres Of good land.
A NOTED architect when asked $ wha,
was the best system of ventilation" re
piled: "Open fre-places in every room
An Allegheny pa.) eating house keep
er was fined dollar and costs the
other day for ringing his dinner-bell toe
loud. +
| A BosToN man who retails sheet music
at forty cents per song makes thirty-sil
cents profit on each. These afeprofta-
BILE notes. =
| a YOUNG jockey in Califofsia wspfs
ridden horses in several races during t.
past two years has been discovered to
be girl.
A DETROIT lake captain spells il
naverjation," but he sails his schooner
Ijust as we'll as if he had published a
spelling book.
GREAT Caesar! "There are S,157, 900
women in the United States absolutely
doing nothing" No wonder the winter
is backward.
| Two welldressed girls, neither of them
over fifteen years Of age, staggered up
Jefferson avenue, Detroit, lately, in a
shocking state of intoxication.
| MRS. GRANT, of Pennsylvania, has
killed eight deer thus far this season,
but there is many day when her hus-
band has had to make his own bed.
Boston is the place to look for in
stances of filial affection. A dutiful son
in that town had the hacks engaged for
his mothers funeral eighteen days before
she expired.
A MAN in Rutland, VT, eating roasted
chestnuts, put hot one between his
teeth and bit. The nut thereupon ex-
ploded, and seriously burned and lacer-
ated his mouth.
DIo LEWIS says Goldfish gravy imparts
cheerfulness As soon as the defeated
political candidates learn this fact there
will be deafening clamor for Goldfish
gravy-Norristoaon (Pa.) Herald.
SOME of the Southern planters are go.
ing too far with their new pet theory of
small farms. An Alabama nabob has
cut his plantation into patches, not one
of which is bigger than Rhode Island.
In NEVADA recently woman knocked
down seven men, one after another, who
had entered her house for the purpose of
robbery 1t is superfluous to say that
the robbery was indefinitely postponed.
Mrs CATHERINE BROWN attempted to
throw tub of water out of second
story window, in Troy, N. Y. She lost
her balance and fell to the ground, sus-
tanning injuries from which she died the
same day.
A MASSACHUSETTS man bet ten dollars
that he could ride the fly-wheel in a saw
mill, and as his widow paid the bet she
remarked: "Wi1!!iaPR Will PRn5w 5ws a lsird bbo8si
CHRISTMAS and New Years will come
on Friday this time. If anybody who
expects nice present should fail to re-
ceive it the disappointment must be at
tributed to the fact that Friday is an
"unlucky day"
THE most astonished jury ever seen in
Connecticut is one that has been serving,
off and on, for three weeks, and now
finds that the law creating the Norwich
City Court makes no provision for the
payment of jurors.
A CHARMING little fish story comes from
Vermont: :" A boy caught an immense
pickerel, which broke the line and dis
appeared. The boy fell into the water
and sank to the bottom, whereupon his
brother grabbed him by the hair and
pulled him out, only to find the lost pick
erel firmly clasped in the boys arms"
IT is told of the late Judge Benjamin
Tappan, of Ohio, that when he applied
to the Judges Of the Supreme Court for
admission to the bar Of that State he
was asked the following questions, to
which he gave the answers as follows:
&c Mr.. Tappan, what is law" Answer
can unjust distribution of justice"
Mr.. Tappan, what is equity?' Answer
-"An imposition upon common sense"
No other questions we're asked, and he
was given a certificate of admission.
A CALIFORNIA Justice was asked to fix
the bail in the case Of thief. He wanted
to know the value Of the property, and
the complainant said $500. So the bail
was put at $4,000. The Court afterward
learned that the property consisted of
bulldog, whereat he released the prisoner
on his own recognizance. This reused
the anger of the owner Of the dog, who
remarked that the Jestis as can't ap-
preciate animal what's whipped every
thing wuth whippin' on the coast amt fit
| to sit"
AN Arizona paper says Last Satur:
day q young Indian, one Of the fanciest
dressed of his tribe, canae-to town with
the wages of weeks work. in his
tpocket, and sought out the different
stores to find some article that would add
to his fine appearance. He examined
many styles and colors Of scarfs, hand
kerchiefs and blankets. BY and by his
fancy was arrested at the sight of new
| style hat. It was just exactly what he
wanted-a hat with feather and bird in
it. He bought it eagerly, and went of
happy in the possession ola lady's hat
Of the period"
A vaQabond's Paradise.
CRIME has its compensations, and
criminals occasionally live in clover
Deer Island, in Boston Harbor cDeal