The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A BREEcH of the piece-Butt of gun.
Only two of the States let first cousins
| wed
THIS is the season when fashion says:
Marry, go to Europe, or de-
A METALLIC sort of marriage is one
where the brides tin is matched by the
| brdegrooms brass.
PRoF. H. r. PALMER's Musical Insti-
tute at Dunkirk, N. Y, begins July 10,
| and holds four weeks.
CHICAGO cannot boast of any Bunker
Hills, but then she has plenty of bunko
hells.-Chicogo Jownal -.
DONALDSON says he expects to be killed
this summer on some of his balloon trips.
He has unroofed barns and knocked down
chimneys until he has presentiment of
shot guns.
WHEN they build railroad the first
thing they do is TO break ground. This is
often L me with great ceremony! They
then break the stockholders. This is
done without ceremony.
"AH," said John Henry, the other day,
England is a lovely country. Marriage
contracts are still in fashion there, and one
lawyer can ask the other: Does your
client snore?"
A Mr. FRANCIS GALToN has been COM
pairing schoolboys in town and country,
and announces that at the age of fourteen
the average rural pupil is an inch and
quarter taller and seven pounds heavier
than his city cousin.
STRAWBERRIES were recently selling for
three cents quart at Norfolk, Va.
Growers allowed people to pick all they
chose, as it cost them three cents quart
to pick the fruit and, consequently, there
was nothing left out of the ruling prices
to cover expense Of packing and shipping.
They had good deal of trouble with
an elephant in Rhode Island recently. 1t
appears that they were feeding one end of
him in Massachusetts and the other end
got into a farmyard in Connecticut. The
neighbors came out and attacked the Con
necticut end with pitchforks, and the
Massachusetts end got mad. There was
good deal Of excitement for a time, and a
majority of the inhabitants stepped over
into the adjoining States till it was over.
-N0wicA Bulletin.
Mrs. BLIBKINs says she's not agoing
for to 90 to any of your stuck-up, fashion
able summer resorts this season, but she
and little Tommy and "my darter Mary
Jane" are a-going for to go down to Uncle
Daniels farm, where the milk is pure;
where no "style" is seen or expected, and
where it costs less AN nothing for livin'.
But 'sposin' Uncle Dan and his wife
should not be tavorably disposed to this
little sponging arrangement? Has the
madam thought of Erchonge.
THERE is a very good reason to suspect,
the New York Times says, that numbers
Of those persons who are supposed to die
intestate do not so die in fact. In too
many instances the will has been de
stroyed The temptation offered is too
strong to be resisted. There is a bright
fire in the crate, and standing beside it
the finder Of the will peruses clause after
clause only to discover that sum intin-
itcly less than he thinks his due has been
bcqucathcd to him. Let him drop the
document into the flames, and, under the
assumed intcstacy, ahandsome slice must
be his. The solicitor may, indeed pro
ducc duplicate, which can be entered
for probate, and the criminal may thus
find himself defeated. But what then?
The crime, at all events, cannot be brought
home to him. 1t was the opinion of one
of those most experienced in testamentary
suits that the otfense was frequently per
petrated.
THE prince of habcrdashers does bust
ness in Boston. He employs in his estab-
lishment many women, and his regulation
is that when female enters his employ
she is informed by the head of the firm
that whenever she is not serving custom
ers she is at liberty to sit down in a CON-
Portable chair, provided for her. and take
it easy, and that the approach of one of
the proprietors is not to scare her into an
appearance of being busy" She is also
to have four weeks vacation every sum-
mer, and when she is i'll her salary is con-
tinued without interruption. By these
rules the dry goods man maintains aspirit
Of loyalty among his employees and gets
quite as much work out of them as if they
were kept upon their feet for ten hours and
treated like slaves. Ifpoor young women
will not do household work, and will in
sist upon running their health in fashiona-
bic dry goods establishments, their life
behind the counter should be deprived Of
as many Of its thorns as is possible.