The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A PLEA-BEIN'-A lawyer.

SPELLlNG MATCHE III
matches.
THE fee of Mr.. Evarts in the Beeche
trial is $4,000.
NAsBY got $135,0OO for his interest il
the Toledo Blade.
SILKS that "stand alone" now Civ
place to softer ones.
How TO make clean sweep-Give hin
good washing.
HIGH living has its penalties among
cannlbals as well as among white folks
The measles have broken out in thu
Fejee Islands.
HoRRID A New York paper speak!
of gentleman who was quartcred at {
hotel, but does not tell us what became
of the quarters.
THE Baltimore Council has forbidden
the construction of Mansard roofs o.
combustible material in that city undel
heavy penalties.
A wELI-KNowN printer of Albany has
sold his houshold effects, and, with his
wife and family, has joined the New
Lebanon Shakers.
THE Erie (Pa.) papers announce with
pride that not single person was al
rested for drunkenness in that city on
st. Patrick's Day.
A SWEET little twelve-year-old OF
Brownsville, Tenn, is on trial for poison
ing three little children. She did ii
"just to see 'em die"
GEN. CUSTER says that it takes but
four minutes for an Indian to perform
the scalping process, but time is money
and four minutes are worth mule.
AN ingenious Detroit dentist makes
crayon sketches, canes chairs, and repairs
watches and jewelry during his leisure
hours. Hope he doesn't get his tools
mixed.
THE steamship business between New
Orleans and New York has declined
fully two-thirds, and two of the weekly
lines of steamships have been discon,
tinued.
In Denmark the farmers try the vitali-
ty of clover seed by putting some on a
knife blade and heating it over candle.
The good seed pops off and the poor seed
burns on the blade.
A YOUNG lady who accompanied her
beau to spelling sociable the other even.
ing gave him the mitten because he
| spelled it with one t and an o. Served
the stupid fellow just right.
A SPECIAL dispatch to Erie, Pa, says
that oil has been struck on farm in
| Warren. The stream forces itself above
to the top of the derrick. This strike
develops an entirely new belt of oil ter
ritory.
ACCORDING to the recent report of the
Massachusetts Commissioners of Taxa,
| ton there are 1870 church editices in Suf-
folk County-the county in which Bos-
| ton is situated. Their estimated value is
$11, ,240,2 200.
THE practice of offering dictionary
as prize to the best speller in the
matches now in vogue reveals the fact,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, that the
person always gets the dictionary who
has the least need of it.
He was an old man of eighty, and he
said that he'd figured and calculated and
pondered, and had come to the cOnclu-
sion that the man who drives the band
wagon around town had a perfect right
to look down in contempt on bankers and
mill-owners.
THE fashion of wearing linen cuffs
outside the sleeve is again revived
| Colored cambria collars and cuffs, such
as blue, brown and gray, with flower
embroidered at the corners, are to be
worn somewhat. The diversity in the
shapes of collars is bewildering.
A GIRL screamed in lecture audience
in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the oihel
girls screamed. General CONSERVATION
ensued and rush for the doors. People
were bruised, clothes torn and the room
at length was emptied. The frs
screamer had seen rata real one.
AN English paper says that some cute
Yankee is flooding the country with coun
terfeit penny-pieces." The evidence
that it is Yankee is not given, and Sc
it is as likely to be Britisher as anyone
else. The curious part of the matter il
that the mint authorities show no incli
nation to interfere.
THE Rochester Eapress has the follow
ing on the fruit prospect From all W.
can learn through our leading nurseryme1
the peach bud is beyond doubt safe
In fact the prospects for an abundan
fruit harvest have not been better TO-
years.. When the fruit harvest promise
well in this region it is generally consid
cred safe throughout the State, it not thu
whole country"
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds 0
the newspapers to this effect "Ther
is one good wife in the country ant
every man thinks he has her" Oh
Brown, who lives on Olive street, who i
bald, and whose wife has red hair and ;
wicked eye, read this and murmured, a
he meditatively passed his hand over hi
head: 81 dunno! l dunno"-St. Loui
Republican.
THE recent combat between the liol
and the ass at the Geological Garden
has spoiled the contrast of these two an
imals in warlike qualities, which ESQ
thought the height of humorous absurd
ity, and which has done so much service
in the literature of all ages. For twic
did the enraged lioness assault the as
and twice was she sent retreating witt
as much as her ferocious stomach caret
for.-Cincinnoti Gazette.
THE present rage for spelling-school
revives ali anecdote of Gen. Scott. H'
had drawn up the rough draft of al
order in which the word "wagon" oc
Cured. The General inserted one g
too many, and his clerk, on discovering
it, timidly asked on what authority h
spelled wagon" with two "g's." "Ol
the authority of Lieut.. Gen. Scott, com
manding the armies of the United States
sirr' thundered the pompous old Gen
eral. The clerk, at least, thought tn
authority ufficient.-Boston Globe.
In an account of the last hours of Vas
quez the San Francisco Ch0nicle says
"About half-past eight he again aske'
Sheriff Adams if he could see his coffin
In compliance with his wish a profusely
ornamented casket was brought into hi