The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
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recently decided that the conditions OF
railroad pass proposing to exempt the
company from all responsibility for in
jury to the person or property of the in
dividual gratuitously carried are void
and of no effect.
A REMARKABLE friendship exists be-
tween dog and hog at Grand Junction,
Iowa. This strangely assorted couple
are to be met in each others company in
] Aeinds of places except mud holes,
sc OF wifion passes, and if a person
eA6lests one he has to fight with the
other.
AN Iowa doctor writes of the remark
able grasshoppers: In my opinion they
come from the lower portion of the
British Possessions. They are very
hardy insects. 1t takes quite freeze to
kill them. Immerse one in water for
three hours, and he will come to have a
better masticative and digestive faculty
than ever"
Mrs. MINNIE A. BEDELL, of Elmore,
Vt, advertiscs the departure of her hus-
band in the following classic language
Whereas, my charming husband, Daniel
G. Bedell, has lett me for the twelfth
time, without just cause or provocation,
this is to warn all persons from trusting
him on my account, as am done paying
his debts and supporting him. Hereafter
he must cut his own feed or starve."
THE town of Columbia Hill, Cal, is
nearly mined away. There is nothing
left but a narrow strip of land, not more
than $50 yards wide, On which the houses
are situated. We're the houses removed,
not a foot of the ground on which the
town stands would be visible in month
afterward. Great efforts are being made
to induce house-owners there to remove
their houses, SO that the owners of the
mines can wash away the gravel on which
the townsis built The house-owners are
stubborn and won't yield.
CoNCERN1NG NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. de-
fines what is known as the maidstone
as q porous coralite, having the property
Of adhering to wounded surfaces in the
character of natural but very imper-
-frcecupping- glass. Be that as it may
the maidstone certainly acts upon poi
soned wou1iQ in manner to draw out the
poison very effectually, if applied in
time, and all the professional skepticisn
in the world cannot change the fact that
the old popular belief in the virtues OF
the beneficent "coralite" has had hun
drcds of justifying occasions.-Heart1
and Home.
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THE Detroit Free Press relates that ,
man named Wilton, siXty-four years O
age, from Fayette, Ohio, and the fathe
of nine living children, appeared at th'
Central Market recently, and took ;
stool at one of the eating stands. While
munching piece of huckleberry' pit
he suddenly ceased to chew, and said t.
the girl in attendance: f" My dear, l wan
to marry; l love you; will you MARI.
meg" She tried to pass the question OF
as joke, and asked him if he'd hav'
another fried sausage; and when he i'm
plored her to believe that he was in sol
emn earnest she said she'd mash dried
| apple pie over his aged head if he didn'
go away He went away, but before HI
left the market he proposed" to tw'
| widows, offering each heart full OF low
and a good home for life, but failing il
| each case.
THE tramps" lntesting some parts o
Michigan and other Western States ar
said to have a system of cabalistic sign
by which they inform their followers o
the charitable possibilities of differen
farm-houses. Each vagrant carries
piece of hard red chalk, with which h
marks cross upon the gate OF tn
farmer who has been hospitable to him
and an 0 upon that of the ungraciou
host. The latter sign is also intended t.
hint to the next tramp" that fraud, AM
even violence, may be used to make tn
stingy" farmer help the wayfarer II
San Francisco the Chinese house-servant
have, in like manner, system OF secre
! writing for their successor; indicatin
uby peculiar characters on the walls, o
golsewhere, whether or not the family
The'Sfaithful service.-Graphic.
neFH. HoRNscHwANz, living in Gilbert
vtown, Iowa, commenced digging we
on a lot. When about twenty-five fee
down he came to broad, flat stone
which was removed with much Labor
| L uuofuedtu III was lOuuu o SoiSoPh"Su "a
of which it appeared to be the cover. |
this receptacle were found many article
which will prove of important interest
archaologists. The skull, vertebra, an
some ribs partially charred, OF a maj
an iron circlet or crown a bronze dagge
and battle-ax, the first instance OF til
two ages being thus combined, sewers
finger rings, peculiar instrument
music resembling modern jewsharl
but without the vibrator, and sma
panel of wood much worm eaten, bt
that having been done before intermen
on which is partially engraved and pa
TALLY printed nude figure bound to
tree, with an arrow stuck in the side
and around the head glory similar
that seen around the heads of saints
the pre-. .Raphaelistic pictures. Thes
ancient remains are now on exhibition
and will eventually become the propert
of the Academy of Sciences.-Dacenpo
(Io,oa) Democrat.
4 Absent alindedness and Mental Power.
il IT is worthy of notice that the grow,
of the mind is often accompanied by Q
apparent loss of power in particular r
spects; and this fact is exceedingly In