The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE national game now in New York
is killing dogs.
WAYNEsBURG, Pa, has cat that catches
two rats at a jump.
BRAZIL is to have grand new arsenal
costing $2,000,000, near Rio Janeiro.
THE commerce OF the Pacific side is
running more and more into steam YES
sells.
"VEsPERTINE' is the Philadelphia
name for afternoon theatrical perform
ances.
Two CHILDREN, twelve and thirteen
years of age, have just been married at
Gouldtown, N. Y.
A WOMAN eighty-seven years old has
started from Rockland, Me, for San
Francisco, alone.
ENGLAND takes from us annually agri-
cultural products amounting in value to
nearly $10O,0O0,00O.
COLORADO is reported to be out of girls
again, and it asks for fresh invoice (as-
sorted) from the East.
THE new Chicago lake tunnel is called
"another sublacustrine source of aqua
pura for the million"
THE first thing San Francisco lad is
taught after he can walk is how to throw
stones at Chinaman.
THE Agassiz memorial fund is getting
into the second series of its teens. 1t
now exceeds $4,000.
A s1NGLE company has monopoly of
the ice business in Boston this year.
That's a nice business.
A WORKMAN found in the Allegheny
River, the other day, gold ring, in
scribed Lafayette, 1924"
THE King of the Sandwich Islands adj
vises the negotiation of reciprocity
treaty with the United States
SCoTCH gingham has been revived this
season, and again, after many years of
neglect, it is popular and pretty.
A NEwBERN Is. c. naturalist believes
that the catfish is the male and the eel
the female Of the same species.
In Missouri, after the 1st day of Janu-
ary, 1876, every person, in order to be-
come voter, must be able to read and
write.
THE editor of Colorado paper recently
published card explaining that he had
not been hanged, as had been wrongfully
stated.
The editors of two Vermont papers
would have fought duel recently but
both chad to leave town on important
business"
WHILE New York is growing rabid
over dogs, London is having great exhi-
bition of pet pups, hounds, and ours OF
all degrees.
THIRTY thousand dollars annual rent
for farm! This is the amount that Mr..
John Clay pays for the use of some land
in Scotland.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Cal, has an al
mond orchard containing 100 acres and
more than 10000 trees. To this 140 acres
more are to be added.
A CLEVELAND tobacconist has pla-
carded live turtle and placed it in a
| fountain in one of the public squares of
that city as an advertisement.
A HARDIN COUNTY (Ky.) farmer pro-
poses to fatten about sixty hogs on
onions alone, and for that purpose has
planted large crop of the esculent.
A BosToN lady in California says that
the big strawberries on the Pacific coast
have but little flavor, being cross be-
tween turnip and dried apple.
| A JAPANESE young lady, who came
over to our shores three years ago, bore
off four of the highest prizes at an
Eastern female college not long ago.
LOOKING at the Chinese productions,
one might be led to think that, were the
bamboo to perish suddenly from of the
earth, the whole Chinese Empire would
collapse.
| FoUR persons in the Jura-father
mother and two children-were gathered
up under one umbrella during recent
thunderstorm, and were all struck by
] lightning.