The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

RED flowers are eginning to be worn
in hats.
TUE leading boot-black in Omaha is q
Polish refugee
As SOON as young woman gets some
steady employment she stops fainting
away at sight of a mouse.
A sMoKE-sTAcK that eats up its own
cinders is on trial, and lovers of open
windows on railroad trains feel an inter-
est in its success.
A NEW JERSEY enthusiast compares the
sound of the mosquitoes whetting their
tusks at the sunset hour to the music of
a distant saw mill.
THIS collating the evidence for and
against the happiness of marriages is
hardly logical. It's only the unhappy
ones that you hear of.
THE Boston Globe says the cockroaches
will soon hold convention and pass
resolutions complimentary to the first
man who recommended borax as a means
of exterminating them
A CALIFORNIA newspaper chronicles
the fact that a defaulting county Treas
urer from that State has turned up" in
one Of the FIJI Islands, where he has
plantation and flock of native wives.
\ MATRoN of Pequonnock, Conn, who
was struck by lightning few weeks
ago, has not spoken loud word
SINCE" and henceforth no lightningrod
agents need apply to any married man in
that vicinity.
ANOTHER argument for an adulteration
act: An entire supper party at East
Montpelier, VT, was seriously sickened
and litter of kittens subsequently
killed by eating custard favored with a
fabricated "eXtract of lemon"
THE boy who, when asked to what
trade he would wish to be brought up,
replied: Il will be trustee, because
ever since papa has been trustee we
have had puddings for dinner" was
wise child in his generation.
"A DISTINCTION without difference"
was what Kentucky farmer thought
when seven or eight men called him out
of bed the other night and compelled
him to give them several sides of bacon,
saying they must have food, but couldn't
steal.
PLAINFIELD, Conn, has IA sensation in
the return of one 4. b. Cornell, who de-
parted in 1861, poor, and rejected
suitor of n young lady, and now has re-
turned very wealthy to claim the damsel,
who has changed her mind and is will
ing.
AS WE have frequently remarked, this
big foot talk is becoming bore, but
they do say that on last Christmas Eve
Chicago man put the long wished-for
pony phaeton in his wifcs stocking to
pleasantly surprise her in the morning
ST. Louis Journal.
CHICAGO women are cool. When
husband is brought home dead his wife
doesn't utter a single howl until she has
searched his pockets and satisfied herself
that he hadn't any letters from any other
woman, then she gives way to her grief
Detroit Free Press.
| A DowN-EAsT gentleman showed con-
siderable alarm the other evening when
he discovered that his wife had loaned
the family Bible. When he returned
from the house where the Bible was he
brought with him 81 600, which he had
placed in it for safe keeping
THE editor of a Kentucky paper has
| I;oeovnrnd on old rnan whn for many
years past has carried about with him,
| wherever he travelled, the bones of his
dead child, to whom he was passionately
attached. They are contained in neat
caskct and he never allows them out of
his sight.
ONE of the rising generation in Yer
mont, rising four years old, went to a
blacksmith to see his fathers horse shod
and was watching closely the work of
shoeing until the blacksmith began par
ing the horses hoofs, when, thinking this
was wrong the little boy said earnestly:
my pa don't want this horse made any
smaller"
TIE coolest man has been discovered
at Troy, N. Y. A funeral was in prog
ress. Just as the coffin was about to he
lowered into the grave young man
stepped out from the crowd of mourners,
deliberately opened a pen knife, chipped
splinter from the rough pine box in
which the coffin was incased and coolly
proceeded to whittle out toothpick.
AN old apple tree is alluded to by the
Secretary of the Maine Board of Agri-
culture in late report, which was
brought from England in tub 200 years
ago, and was bearing fruit in 1870. An
other, near Wicasset Bay, which was an
old tree in 1905, is still bearing; another
in the town of Bristol known to be over
200 years old is still bearing
THE Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts,
famous engineering work, although bored
through the mountain, is not by any
means completed. Two years, 1t Is
thought, will elapse before it can DC
opened to travel Much brick arching
has to be done, a railway laid through
the tunnel, and connecting roads from
both ends to the railways that are to &c
through it.
SALMoN-FIsIIING must be superb III
} Cascapedia River, Canada. An Albany
editor states that one afternoon he TOOK
two fishes weighing more than thirty
!; and twenty pounds respectively. VI
J trout he writes: "The trout here are
very large and very abundant, but we
, won't bother with them. l gave an hour
, to it Saturday and caught forty-one OF
. four pounds and four that welghed
/ twelve pounds-inside OF twenty min
, utes. We lose our patience when trout
strikes"
LAST March man named Emory Pra-
7 tie. a machinist in the employ OF the
r Michigan Car Company, made q De.
! with another man as to which could
> longer hold out the handles of an cleo
r trio battery which travelling nuisance
had on Campus Martius. Prattle wor
the bet, but at heavy cost. His system
: received such shock that up to this
time he has not been able to do a day.
, work. He has fallen away from pow
erful, heavy man to q skeleton almost
and his physician cannot say that he will
ever be restored to health-Detrost Fre
Press.