The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-16
TOLEDO COUNTY, IOWA, DECEMBER 6,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST,".
THERE is one Gentle to five Mormons
! in Utah
QUEEN VIcToRIA's pet horses are hand.
some grays.
The enrolled militia of California num-
bers 1876.
LAD with drop-sIckIe tendencies-A
lazy farm boy.
"THoU art so near and yet SO fur said
the maiden as she hugged her seal-skin
about her.
KANSAS has 100000 sheep and $1,000
dogs. Scarcely sheep and a half for
each dog.
A MAN who must draw the line some
where-The surveyor.-Ne,o York Conn,
nlercial Adpertiser-
Coon rules won't always work both
ways. For instance, to carp at Turkey
doesn't make Turkey carpet.
The German Empire has 800 Consuls in
foreign lands. Twenty-Five of these are in
the United States
To THE surprise of everyone but her
husband California woman has just
licked lion in single combat
THE thrifty farmers who take poultry
into Hartford, Conn, have taken to put
ting in chunks of lead before they are
weighed.
THERE is something in pronunciation,
after all A Detroiter found it out when
he went into grocery and inquired foI
"oblong" tea.
THEY "cure consumption" in Reading
Pa, by giving the patients doses of oil
made from dog fat, and feeding them on
dog-steak fried.
For q fit of idleness- Count the ticking
of a clock; do this for an hour, and you
will be glad to pull off your coat the next
one and go to work.
In Boston women have so thoroughly
proved their entire fitness as school
officers that their reelection is almost
unanimously called for
"WHAT makes water hard?' is ques'
ton recently propounded in the Popular
Science Kont1ly, and every school-boy
yells: q Freezing weather."
MIR. BuDD asked her: Rose, wilt
thou be mine?'' Rose answered: II am
sorry it cannot be-but rose cannot be
come bud" Then he arose and depart
! ed thence.
OVER the porch OF the old South
Church, at Boston, is chiseled: Behold!
have set before you an open door," and
under, on the door, is painted in emphatic
letters; Positively no admittance."
AMArDEN once said; "I1I not mate
With man who has not fortune great"
SO she pouted and waited,
And scorned TO be mated,
She's maiden yet-age fortyefsht
GUILFoRD, Vt, had shocking suicide,
the other day, the victim being boy OF
twelve, by the name Of Cross. On COM
ing home from school he bade his mates
good-by and then deliberately shot him.
self.
SPEAKING of school examinations, the
editor of the San Antonio Herdld says
ave examined one of our boys, the other
day, with a fine comb, and it is asking
too much for us to say we were pleased
with the result"
An association of officers of National
Banks in Vermont was formed at Mont,
peIier, in that State, recently, TO provide
for better protection against burglars and
for the speedier punishment of those who
commit crimes against banks.
ONCE in while man gets the starch
50 thoroughly taken out of him that its nc
use trying. A few days ago prairie
schooner passed eastward through Peoria
| On its canvas cover was painted in large
letters the legend: Going back to my
wifc's folks"
THE Utes at the Uncapahgrc Agency
will be poorly sheltered this winter. The
contractors announce that it will be i'm
possible to complete the new quarters
short of another summer. The Indians
are not pleased with the outlook anc
threaten to abandon the reservation anc
winter in the towns.
| A WILLIAMSBURG O.. .I) man, the fathel
of seventeen children, found a basket a
his basement-door the other morning con
tanning a little golden haired cherub abou
two weeks old. A tag appended to tht
handle of the basket bore this legend
"You appear to be fond Of children.
amt Please accept this one"
FLOUR kept in barrels for a long time
often acquires peculiar odor, supposed
to be derived from the barrel. This smel
actually indicates an inclpient decomposi
ton preiudicial to bread-maklng, owing
to the gluten having become PARTIAL.
soluble. 1t is therefore much preferable
to keep -four in sacks, unless for shor
periods.
A MANCHESTER (EnglanO firm, whicl
takes all its employees for days trip Il
the seaside during the summer, decided
last year to visit Blackpool. 1t is tn
general custom of the workers to have
dip in the sea beforelbeginnning the usua
amusements. "Eh, mon, how dirty y
arer' said one hale Lancashire lad to hi
fellow -bather. missed the trip las
year." was the laconic rejoinder.
MADAM" he said, "you see befor
you blighted fellow-creature! / amt
tramp, marin, l amt! l have hadm littl
store of wealth laid away for these rain
DAYS; but ah! marm, relative and spec
ulation brought me to this sad state i
which you see me! l was long on /
railroad stock, marin, and-eh? Wood
Me! Me saw that wood9 Madam, fee
you cannol "ealize my situation. Goo
morning.
! WHAT is there in an empty but tightly
corked Jug? The natural answer woul
be nothing" Another person woul
suggest "the cork" Another air.
And yet there is something in the jug thu
existed before the morning stars sang tt
gether or Adam was created to breath
air and corks were yet unknown. Give
up? Yes. "And darkness relgned o
the face of the deep" which the same
what ails the inside of the jug.
DANIEL PERKINS, of Pleasant VALLEY
w., recently had desperate fight with a