The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-30

She came out elegantly dreSSed IN SILK,
satin and lace, and there was kissing all
around.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A TRIP around the world can be made
for $1,000.
SAN FRANCISCO now pays women
teachers in the public schools the same
salaries as men.
THE British and Foreign Bible Society
issued 2,654,089 copies of Bibles and
Testaments last year.
THE festive hay-cutter is now busy re-
moving incautious fingers and furnishing
employment for surgeons.
A MAN in danger of being hanged said
that of all games of his childhood skip
ping the rope would he most agreeable.
UDDERzooK complains that his life in
surance will not save him from hanging
He should have taken an accident pol
icy.
JAMES WINsLow, of the banking house
of Winslow, Lander & Co., New York,
died quite suddenly few days since of
pneumonia.
A MAN in Maineecommitted suicide by
locking himself into his house, setting
fire to it, and suffering himself to be
burned alive in it.
A SINGULAR DIFFERENCE.-Calla girl a
young witch and SHE is pleased; cal an
elderly woman an old witch and her in
dignation knows no bounds.
THIS reads like base ball item, but it
isn't any such thing: I'm clearing out an
old house at Americus, Ga, the other
day, AIS bats were captured
An old maid is not without power. A
writer observes that he has known one
such to turn a steamboat excursion into
an occasion of gloom and dependency.
A BRUSSELS telegram says the Wash
ington Government has given notice to
terminate the treaty of commerce and
navigation with Belgium the 1st of July
1875.
ANOTHER idiot plays with rife, and
his lovely and accomplished sister is
.thercupon dressed in a shroud. He
should now be made to play with noosed
rope.
I'm not in mourning" said a young
lady, frankly, to a querist, "but as the
widows are getting all the offers nova
days we poor girls have to resort to ar
tifice."
A PHILADELPHIA girl called a young
man thief and when requested by the
mother of the accused to prove the
charge, said he had stolen several kisses
from her.
KATE FIELD writes from Spain that if
nature would economiZe on fleas, and
disburse the extra energy on the men Of
that country, she would be doing thrifty
piece of business.
1T is said that the Transatlantic
Steamship Company Will appeal against
the award of the British Admiralty
Court, in the case of the abandoned
steamship Amerique.
THE Worcester (Mass.) Palladium is
edited by two sisters, daughters of the
former editor. They are desirous of
making it an art journal, and have able
writer's engaged for that purpose.
Miss McHENRY, of st. Stephens Church,
Philadelphia, sets noble example to
women who wish to he of real use in the
world. She has raised 100000 for
three church homes, which care for 6OO
children.
MIR. HENRY STEPHENS, the well.known
agriculturist and author OF the famous
work, "The Book of the Farm" died on
the 9th of July at his residence at Bon
nington, Scotland, in the eightieth year
of his age.
THE Detroit Free Press processes to
have discovered young lady who
bushes, goes to bed at nine, eats hearth
~, speaks plain English, respects her
mother, doesn't want to marry lord and
knows how to cook.
AN old lady writes to say that she Is
warmly in favor of women doctors for
women; that sick woman will tell one
of her own sex more about her feelings
in five minutes than she would . male
doctor in an hour.
THE body of little girl who mysteri-
ously disappeared four months ago has
been found buried in the cellar OF the
residence where lived the boy-6end,
Pomeroy, in South Boston. Pomeroy is
awaiting trial for numbering . boy in
April last.
A MARRIED lady who was in the habit
of spending most of her time in the So
ciety of her neighbors, happened to be
taken i'll, and sent her husband in great
haste for physician. The husband ran
short distance, and then returned, ex-
claiming, my dear, where shall ! find
you when come back?"
MISS MOORE, of East Liberty, Pa, pub
fishes this challenge in the Pittsburgh
Post: Hearing of 50 many pedestrians
of late, but of none of the old timers !
avail myself Of the opportunity OF chsl.
lenging any man in the State Of Penn.
sylvania to walk with me 100 miles in
twenty-four hours for the sum of 81 600.
THE San Francisco Board of Supervi-
sors contemplates an ordinance which il
intended to stop swearing in public. II
imposes q fine not exceeding $1,000, OF
| imprisonment for not more than sir
months, upon whoever shall utter In
public place, or in the hearing OF two Of
more persons, any blasphemous words ol
language"
A PAIR Of laughing king6shers, intend
ed for presentation to the poet Whittier
are ON exhibition at the Central Parl
Menagerie, New York. The bird is
native Of Australia, where it receives
from the colonists the name Of "settlera
clock" on account Of the regularity will
which its laughter rings through tho fol
est ct certain hours Of the day.