The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
STATIsTICIANs declare marked differ
ence between Jews and Christians as to
longevity. In 100 Christians fifty die
before the age of fifty-seven and with Jews
the same proportion reaches beyond six.
ty-seven.
WITHIN short distance of Dresden
resides couple who have been married
twenty-five years and are the parents OF
twenty-three children. The age of the
father of this interesting flock is forty
seven, and of the mother thirty-eight.
"THE child has since died." is the la.
comic remark which Pennsylvania
paper affixes to an account of twelve.
year-old girl who had already mastered
logic, rhetoric, geology, botany and the
mysteries Of mental and moral science.
THE clash in the fashionable world just
now between the girls with pretty feet
who want to wear short dresses and
those with ugly feet who insist upon
having long ones is described by the
fashionable dressmakers as something
fearful.
LIEUT.. Col. LONG, formerly editor of a
newspaper in Maryland and now an OH.
Ger in the service of the Khedive OF
Egypt, claims to have discovered the true
source of the Nile, in south latitude deg
80 min, and between Urondogani and
Uganda.
AN Austin (Tex) paper advertises to
be raffled for, IAN Indian outfit, consist
ing of bow and quiver and an Indian
scalp. There is also one white feather
on a string, showing that white man
had been killed by the Indian to whom
it belonged"
A ACoRREsPoNDENT of the London Tablet,
writing from Rome, says the want Of
priests is becoming perceptible in all the
Roman Catholic dioceses Of Italy. In
Rome every year the number of deaths
in the priesthood is three times as great
as the number of ordinations.
A DELIcATELy NODDED Englishman is
spoken of by the Liverpool Post, who
lately made wager that he would bite
a toad's head off, eat an ounce twist of
tobacco and follow this up with three
raw potatoes. The bet was the price of
the tobacco and two gallons of beer,
which was easily won.
BUTLER COUNTY, Mo-, has the most
eccentric genius on record. He is now
sixty-five years Of age. At the age OF
twenty-one he commenced to count two
billions. He has counted almost inces-
sanity ever since and his task is still in
complete. He says he wants to count
that number and die happy.
AN exchange tells us that the law in
Minnesota won't allow father to thrash
a child over sixteen years old" In Ken
lucky it is not the law that prevents the
father from thrashing child over six
teen years old. As general thing the
child attends to that little matter him
self.-L0ussUille Courier-J Journal.
A Mrs. BUSHNELL, living in Pike
County, Pa, had fierce encounter with
a wild deer which ran and hid from its
pursuers near her house the other day.
She bravely seized the animal by the
horns and held on until its furious strug-
giles broke the antlers off, and it fled,
leaving them in her hands.
The widower's grief has been pro-
nounced by competent authority to be
lovely while it last, but it is not con-
structed to endure the rude assaults OF
time. A Connecticut man who only last
spring threw himself upon the cold turf
that wrapped his beloved's clay and wept
until his eyelashes fell out has since had
three women following him around for
alimony.- Brooklyn argus.
"OH! YOUR nose is as cold as ice," a
Boston father thought he heard his
daughter exclaim the other evening as
he was reading in the next room. He
walked in for explanation, but the young
fellow was at one end of the sofa and the
girl at the other. while both looked so
innocent and unconscious that the old
gentleman concluded his ears had de-
ceived him, and SO retired from the
scene without word.
A BosroN street was crowded one day
lately by about 10000 people who had
registered guesses as to the amount Of
LIQUID Z large kettle infront of . tea store
would contain. The appointed commit
tee poured first gallons, then quarts, and
finally gills Of water into the mouth Of
the kettle, and shout of applause rent
the air when the result was announced
as 227 gallons, 2 quarts, | pint and
8 gills. The nearest guess coming
within three gills Of tho exact quantity
Twas made by eight persons, each Of
whom received q package Of tea u .
prize. One estimate was less than ter
gallons, while another was more thar
1000 r
MA FHERx BE1uDIcx, Of Antioch
Cal, has solved the question, Whatcal
women dor" Some two years since chi
took out papers as sole trader, gaines
the consent Of her husband to allow he
complete management Of the farm ans
transact I'll the business Of the place, ans
q I time when the farm was mortgage.
for several hundfs I dollars md faxnainI
im,nlomAnte ont Of repair. Now. b,