The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


SPELLozooTIc" is the latest name for
it.
A PAIR of rubbers-A washerwom" n,
hands.
SIGNS of spring-Th" ,;o,,.;,roa, ,,o,
are on the ro-
-apER Is Heavens first law, and it has
never been repealed.
A QUEER beast for Barnum-The
Equine Ox.-Arcadian.
THE most melancholy spectacle in the
world is cold pancake.
If you are out in driving storm, don't
attempt to hold the rains.
A PRISONER in the New York Toombs
has lately died of trichina.
THE aroma of kerosene upsets the
stomach of the average rat.
A NEW emblem for the escutcheon of
America has been earned-a dictionary.
WHY is promissory note like a rose
oCCdu0C IL 10 UldtuICu Wy
dew"
THERE is great distress at RienZi,
Miss, in consequence of the recent tor
nado.
WHY is naming the day" like naval
battle? Because it's marrytime en-
gagement.
WHY is a solar eclipse like woman
whipping her boy? Because it's hid
ing of the sun.
A YOUTH of twenty-three was married
to dame of sixty-tive in West Cornwall,
Conn.,, recently.
AN Irish doctor lately sent in his bill
to lady as follows: "To curing your
husband till he died"
THE latest spelling match wrinkle is
contest between the old maids and bach
elors of Quincy, Mass.
One of the rules of Rhode Island base
ball club is that no man shall make a
count by knocking his ball into Massa-
chusetts.
THE oyster beds along the Shrewsbury
River, near Long Branch, have been
seriously damaged by the cold weather
of the past winter.
SOME men don't get enthusiastic over
the return of spring. There's old Sor
ghum, for instance, who swears his wife's
feet are as cold as ever
A MILWAUKEE woman has been sick
nearly year from fancying that she saw
kangaroo in the looking glass while she
was trying on new bonnet.
A VERY little girl told her mamma be-
tween the sobs resulting from her finger
being jammed in door the other day
that 1t took "all the air out of her."
A MILLION dollars worth of silver has
been forwarded from the Pacific coast to
the Philadelphia mint, and will be coined
into fve-cent pieces and twenty-cent
pieces.
con! I've loved before" said De-
troit woman to her fourth husband, as
she took handful of hair from his head
because he objected to hang out the
weeks washing.
Mr. HEDGEMAN Brown recently killed
"two hundred and fifteen rice birds" at
single shot. He fired one barrel of his
gun only, which was loaded with fine
bird-shot. So says the Dallas (Tex.)
Herald.
"No," SAYS Miss Wriggle, "no in
deed, we didn't smuggle when We came
home from Europe. Pa had friend in
the Custom House, and we got all our
things over so nicely, you see." Oh, yes;
we see!
THE latest centennial idea is that of
Frenchman who offers prize of 5000
francs for tie best drama upon the Exhi-
bition, the main point to be the glorifica-
tion of his country for aiding in the work
of American independence.
WHEN common japanese goes into
the presence of an office-holder he must
say: "Great and distinguished child of
the sun, deign to put your foot upon my
neck" There's some pleasure in hold
ing an office in that country.
A PUPIL in the Kritztewn Pa.) school
got mad, drew a revolver and blazed
away at the teacher the other day. The
bullet lodged in the wall without hurt
ing anybody. The old-fashioned spit
ball is the thing for school-rooms.
NOTE for spelling-maJcnes: The die
tionaries give authority for no -ess than
fourteen spellings of the word in ques.
tion, viz: : Mosquito, musquito, moscheto,
moschetto, mosquetoe, mosquetto, mus
Ghetto, muschetto, musketo, muske-
toe, muskitto. musqueto, musque-
toe and musquitto. And then there are
'skeeter and gallinipper, which are au-
thorized by good usage.