The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AN old sailors yarn is his stock in
trade.
A KANSAS man recently lost his arm
through the bite of a horse.
WHEN a lawyer makes love the first
thing he does is to get out an attach
ment.
A DENvERITE has collected the rattles
of 700 snakes and takes great pride in ex-
hibiting them.
ONE evening spent at home in study is
more profitable than ten lounging around
country taverns.
CHRISTMAS is coming, and when the
roll is called that morning every little
child should be able to answer, "Pres-
ent."
AT laundry near Jersey City 5000
pieces are washed daily, and 100 barrels
of soap are used per week. "Big wash
ingr'
FIVE young American ladies have late
" received "honor certificates" from
the examiners of the University of Ok
ford, England.
SOME Icelandic colonists on the shores
of Lake Winnipeg, in Canada, have taken
up tract of 900 miles, fifty miles along
the shore and twenty miles inland.
Two AND HALF acres of rock, at Hell
Gate, are to be lifted, next Fourth of July,
with $4,000 pounds of nitro -glycerinc
Somebody will be very apt to get hurt
SANTA Rosa, Cal, claims to have the
largest eucalyptus tree in the State. 1t
was planted fifteen years ago and is now
40 feet in height and two feet in diane
ter.
WYOMING TERRITORY has no public
debt and $4,000 are slowed away in the
Treasury for rainy day. The assessed
value of property is $S,604 900, an in
crease Of $4,000, 900 in the past two years.
THIS is the kind of weather that makes
the dashing young man wish that instead
of spending dollar and a half for that
massive diamond-pin last summer he had
judiciously invested it in a pair of winter
drawers.-No,7cih Bulletin.
THREE young boys were arrested at
Yamaska, Quebec, a few days ago for
piling logs on a railroad track 'to see
the cars jump" the cars " jumping" and
killing some twenty peoF &C. On account
of their tender years they were held ire
sponsible and discharged.
The great astronomer of Paris, Leverricr
who discovered the planet Neptune, which
could eat up this little earth of ours and
not suffer from indigestion in consequence,
has made prediction which is note
worthy 1t is that the winter of 1856
will be uncommonly severe. Enormous
quantities of snow are to fall in December
and January.
A ST. LAKE paper says: !" 1t may be
of interest to large number of young
gentlemen and ladies in this city just now
to know that there is no Marriage law in
the Territory. Simply standing up in the
presence of your mother-inlaw and say
ing: Sal, let's hitch, or, 'Jerusha, let's
go pards for life, constitutes a legal mar
riage and doesn't cost cent"
HIRAM S. BEERS, one of the original pro-
prietors of the Boston Herald, is now a
type-setter in the office of that paper. A
few days ago he had the pleasure of set
ting take from an article printed in the
Herald thirty eight years ago, which he
recognized as having been set by him
when it first appeared. The take came to
him the second time in the usual way-by
lot.
QUITE a stir has been created in Paris
by the refusal ofthe Government to recog-
nize title of nobility conferred by the
Pope. or to permit the newly-made noble
man to bear it at all. II says that the
Pope is no longer temporal sovereign,
and has no right to confer titles Of nobility
which shall come in competition with
those granted by the monarchs of the
earth.
A MALICIOUS attempt has been discovered
to stop the working of two of the Western
Union Telegraph company's wire be-
tween San Francisco and Sacramento by
wrapping them with fine wire, one end OF
which was fastened to nail driven into
tree in such manner that it could not be
seen by the line-men. 1t was several days
before the difficulty was discovered. The
"a r1 Of GOSl for fhn
arrest and conviction of the person or per-
sons. The act is penitentiary offense.
WIN. WEIGH, a lawyer and thinker,
proposes a new rule of suffrage. His
plan is to allow citizen forty-two years
of age two ballots, and one sixty-three
years or over, three votes. This would
give the controlling power to men of age
and experience. Those who have accu-
property, who have families
about them, who have given precious
hostage to society for good behavior and
learned wisdom, would have the weight
in public affairs that is given them in the
NATURALIZATION Journal. .-.
al IL lCStINdl dt ii ltioliliutoi hiS1ie"-
ton, recently, gentleman said, of the
cure of the use of intoxicating drinks: "
overcame the appetite by recipe given
to me by old DR.. Hatfield, one of those
good old physicians who do not have a
from a ncighboring druggist.
The prescription is simply an orange ev-
cry morning half hour before breakfast.
Take that, said the doctor, and you
will neither want liquor nor medicine
have done so regularly, and find that liq
uor has become repulsive. The taste of
the orange is in the saliva of my tongue,
and it would be as well to mix water and
oil as rum with my tastcn
THE following sad tale of disappoint-
ment is told by the Portland (Nfe.) Press:
" A lady of this city recently started to
ride from Boston to this city on ticket
which read From Portland to Boston,
but the conductor said it wasn't good, and
she was obliged to purchase new ticket.
On her arrival here her husband was very
indignant at the conductor, and decided to
test the legality Of the thing. Consequent
ly he purchased ticket for Boston, and
then started back on the ticket that the