The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-23
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reach it.
MIR. NARROWING, of Milledgeville, Ga
while shooting at cat recently, shot his
only son.
| LEN SPOTTED TAIIIoNIs is what the
New York World calls the law of the
Black Hills.
| LIFE on the ocean wave is all very nice
it is death on the ocean wave that all sc
A FIRE at Paderborn, Prussia, on the
10th, burned 100 buildings and rendered
800 families homeless.
| Don PIATT says that French coffee is
mere slop and London women are as
homely as pineapples.
THIRTY-F1vE lives were lost on New
| Orleans steamers during the first half OF
this year-twenty- -one by fire
A ST. LOUIS paper says that sensible
married couple ought to live on ten dol
lars per week and save something.
MATILDA Cairo-single woman
weighs 422 pounds-says she wants
someone to love her for herself alone.
| CANADA encourages single -blesscdness
One of the agricultural societies there
offers prize for the best bread baked by
bachelors.
The people in the United States ovel
100 years of age-fit subjects for the Cen
tennial-now count up Just 412 as far as
heard from.
AN association has been formed in Lon
don to secure a supply of live cattle from
the United States to meet the wants of the
English market.
"FATHER's hair is growing gray" is
the latest popular ballad and it is enough
to make it tosee the way young people arr
acting nowadays.
Mr.. CORN recently sent in a petition tC
the Chicago Common Council. They
should certainly grant him an earring
New York Commercial.
ENGLISH IVY growing on wall doe
not promote dampness, as has been long
supposed; on the contrary, it is said t'
produce the opposite effect.
In many localities oysters and the pub
lie schools are opened simultaneously
This accounts for the raw-oysterous con
duct of some Of the scholars.
A New HAMPSHIRE man sends four
- of his children to one school, ant
when they combine against the teacher hi
knows he can safely bet on the result
Is OUR civilization failure and is tn
Caucasian played out? The people o
Huntington, N. Y, wanted to hang
man because he fogged his wife. Be
nighted Huntington!
THE London Mark Lane Express say
that the British crop is short as whole
and large importations will be necessary.
Of these it is estimated, two-thirds will
be drawn from this country.
A PHILADELPHIA paper talks of IRE
spccting Cranberries" Such sour-dispo
sitioned things are not worthy of respect
-Erchange. But people stand good
humoredly a good deal of cranberr.
sauce.
The happiest moments in woman
life are when she is making her weddin!
garments; the saddest, when her HUSBAND
comes home late at night and yells to he
from the front steps to throw him ou
some key-holes, assorted sizes.
Gas A husband" says Chicago man
"Pm ever willing to do my share abou
the house. My wife for instance, puts u
all the preserves in the summer-it !
pleasant then but when cold winter come
l don't ask her to do anything about then
i put them all down alone"
MOUSE holes in walls and closets shoul'
be first filled with lime and atterwar
pasted over with plaster Of Paris, mike
with water. 1t is a good plan to keep
paper of the latter in every house, as it i
useful in filling cracks, and, in fact, come
in many other ways into household econt
my.
In Providence, r. l., man who wa
under examination on charge of being
common drunkard stated that his strang
action on a certain occasion was not OWN
to intoxicating liquors, as alleged, but
"the concern OF mind arising from tryin
to negotiate a mortgage on his propert
to get money to pay his bills and taxes"
The Harvard class of 1875, accordin
to the statement of the class secretary
stands thus in respect to religion: I'm
tartan, 39 Episcopalian, 35; Congreg;
tionalist, 3d. Baptist, II; Presbyterian
6; Liberal, 4; Methodist, 2; Roma
Catholic, 2; Universalist, 2; Rationalis
/; undecided, %. Destined for the minis
try, g. Whole number, 1876.
WILMINGTON, N. c., reports sea Sc
pent ninety feet long and as big as ba
rel in its vicinity. He ran on one of tn
shoals and party of brave men ran
attack him, but he raised his head an
opened his mouth wide enough to swallo
them one at time and they retreated di
creetly. The sea serpent is ditfusiN
reptile.
A PLEASING episode id subber life at I'll
bountaids last week was a beetig of tt
Udited States Hay Fever Associatiod
Bethleheb, Dew Habshire. Sobe five {
six huddred of the afflicted were id attet
dadce, idcludig Hod. F. B. Fay, of Che
sea, ad Hedry Ward Beecher. Letters
coudsel ad cobfort were read trob vario,
physiciods, ad recipes and prescription
were freely idterchadged. Br. Beech'
bade fuddy speech, id the course
which he expressed the opiniod that Il
Labedtatiods of Jerebiah ad the thord
the flesh of Paul had ad idtibate relatio
to hay fever. After gederal sdeeze tt
Associated adjourd to beet dext tibe.-
COngregationalist.
UpoN examining the edge of the SHARP
est razor with microscope, it will appes
fully as broad as the back of a knife
rough, uneven and full of notches an
/ burrows. An exceedingly small need
resembles an iron bar; but the sting of
bee, seen through the same instrumen
/ exhibits everywhere the most beautif'
polish, without flaw, blemish or in
quality, and it ends in point too fine
| be discerned. The threads of a fine law
are coarser than the yarn with which rop
are made for anchors. But silk-worm
web appears perfectly smooth and shinir
and everywhere equal. The smallest d
: that is made with pen appears irregul
t and uneven. But the little specks on Il
j. wings or bodies of insects are found to
! the accurate circle.