The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-28
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THE latest Americanism is nuptiated,"
for married.
PUTTING stops to gossip's tongue is diff
ficult punctuation.
THE walnut and butternut crop Of New
England is very abundant this season.
THEY have commenced to deny that
Gen Taylor said a little more grape,
Capt. Bragg"
Mrs. PARTINGTON says she was much
elucidated last Sunday on hearing fine
discourse on the parody of the prodigious
son.
THE marrying trade is not so brisk in
Philadelphia this year as it was last, by
1000 Money is too scarce for rings and
CATERS.
THE last Arctic expedition was emf
nently successful. They got a sight of
the coveted land and nobody was frozen
to death.
THE Brooklyn San says: 1T is a gen
enerally received opinion that Chicago is
built on prairie. All wrong. 1t is built
on credit
CRIPPLEs may never have been cured
by the laying on of hands, but naughty
boys have been greatly benefited by the
operation.
\ DETROIT woman wants to set eyes on
the female who can empty pan of ashes
and not have the wind blow half of them
back into her face.
A CERTIFICATE of marriage was issued
in Boston a few days ago to woman
only eighteen years old who had been
married twice before.
CINCINNATI proposes to utilize its va
grants during the coming winter by max
ing them quarry stone under the direction
of the wOrkhOuSc authorities.
CHINAMEN don't work we'll on the South
ern plantations. When they go out to
plow they want to ride the mule and let
the plow run itself.-Detr0H Free Press.
a ROWING gypsy man in Bangor, Me,
snapped horses nine times the other day,
and when night set in he found he had
the same horse he first snapped in the
morning, and that he had $45 in money
and watch in addition.
THE latest social hobby is "Autumnal
Leaf Parties" which is The name chosen
by those who gregariously go forth into
the woods and country lanes for the pur-
pose of gathering the brilliant-hued leaves
that are showered about by the fall
breeZcs.
THE Freshman class of Hamilton Col
lege (the Utica Observer says has left that
institution because three Of its members
were suspended for hosting a carriage to
the top OF the observatory tower in which
Prof Peters had discovered 50 many
asteroids.
FROM the general tone of The press it is
evident that it is considered all right for
American Girl to have amonument before
George Washington. The fact that George
Washington never trOtted Il mile in 2:l4
bears heavily upon him.-St LoWis Re
PUJljcaR.
"As TO being conflicted with the gout,"
said Mrs. Partington, thigh living don't
bring it on. 1t is so incohercnt in some
families, and is handed down from father
to son. Mr.. Hammer, poor soul, who has
been so long i'll with it, disinhcrits it from
his wite's grandmother,
An Englishman was boasting to Yankee
that they had book in the British Museum
which was once owned by Cicero. "Oh,
that amt nothin'," retorted the Yankee;
:" in the museum in Bosting they've got
the lcad-pencil that Noah used to check
off the animals that went into the ark"
A CONNECTICUT girl baby came into the
world the other day to find her relations
50 mixed up that she will never get them
straight as long as she lives. Her great
grandmother is first cousin to her great
grandfather; her step grandfather is first
cousin to her mother; her unclcs and
aunts are her second-cousins, and her
mother is her third d-cOusin. But of course
the poor little thing doesn't know it yet.
AS wORKMEN were tearing down an old
house in Philadelphia, the other day, they
came across a regular Revolutionary bo
nanza in the shape of a large number Of
heavy leather hats and caps which wcre
provided for or used in the war of the
Revolution. The house was at one time
occupied as headquarters by Gen. Wash
ington, and the goods were concealed be-
hind partition to preserve them from the
British troops who subsequently used the
structure as barracks.
A MATCH was recently made in Hous-
ton, Tex, between two Texan ponies for
$50 side and two horses. 1t was ques-
ton of endurance on the horses part and
an act of cruel punishment on the part of
the riders. The animals, by agreement,
were to walk, trot or run for twelve hours,
the one making the most miles at the end
of that time to be declared winner. The
winning horse made forty eight miles in
five hours and thirty minutes, being forty
eight consecutive runs around mile race
course without rest.