The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A WOMAN in Washington, who got
divorce from her husband in December,
has already repented and married him
again.
LINEN busters, after the Ulster pattern,
reaching to the heels, and girded with
belt, will be fashionable for gentlemen
this summer.
MARYLAND and North Carolina are the
only States in the Union that have pro-
vided for care and education of blind
colored children.
AN Eastern college professor tried to
make his wife live on diet of vegetables,
but she played roots on him and went
home to her mother.
| HARRIET HosMER is to send to the
Centennial Exhibition a set of golden
doors-a copy of a superb conceit ordered
by an English gentleman, who has al
lowed her to duplicate them for Amer
| lea.
WHEN an actor offers the city editor of
the Washington Chronicle fifty cents to
give him good notice the city editor
turns away in contempt and writes up
the attempted bribery. A dollar is little
enough.
THE National Bank redemption agen-
cy of the Treasury is redeeming, assort-
ing and delivering for destruction, and
replacement with new otes, half mill
ion dollars daily in National Bank notes
unfit for circulation.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE says of meer-
schaum pipe: at is like woman's heart
as soft, as light, as brittle, and as enig-
matte, and only time and use can prove
1t true" And, unlike woman's heart,
its adorers prefer the colored variety.
THE Boston Aldermen are considering
the passage of an ordinance debarring
boys under fourteen years of age from
admission to evening amusements, un-
less accompanied by parents or guard
ians.
THERE are fears expressed that the
Great Salt Lake of Utah will soon grow
too large for its confines. Since 1861
there has been steady rise, and it is
eating under the land on both sides at a
tremendous rate.
NEW YORK grocers are ingenious. One
of them sent around circulars with de-
scriptions of his teas, and adds: " If |
do not hear from you to the contrary |
shall consider it an order, and will send
you ten pounds Of the best by the Goth
inst. and draw on you for the money"
WE gain some idea of the extent of the
pension business from the fact that the
rejected applications on file in the Treas
ury alone number 10000, while the in
vestigation of fraudulent pensions has
necessitateI the appointment of gen.
eral travelling agent at salary of 81 l,S0O
and 50 per day for expenses.
HERE is something that should be
more generally known: 1t is said that
bedbugs will live year without air or
food if placed in an hermetically-sealed
bottle. Persons desiring to keep their
bedbugs over the winter without feeding
them will do well to remember this.
Thus science assists the most humble.
Mrs MCNAIR, of Fayette County, Pa,
died recently at the age cf 104 The Cir
cumstance was chiefly remarkable be-
cause two years ago, a granddaughter of
the old lady being seized with spasms,
the whole neighborhOod clamored for
the burning of Mrs. McNair as a witch.
A witch doctor was called. who accused
the poor old lady of practicing the black
art
NEW YORK city real estate is difficult
to sell. A good deal of valuable prop
erty has been offered at auction without
getting bids of any sort, and capitalists
there still seem to be in doubt whether
prices are to recede or advance. There
are, however, two things which contrib
ute to this state of donbtfulness: One is
that real estate in New York city is al
ready twice as high-even in proportion
to population and business prospects-as
it is anywhere else in the United States.
Another is that New York is losing its
control of the trade of the West, and
though the aggregate volume of trade
in New York may be kept up and
even increase in other ways, the changes
which are steadily progressing in some
branches of business contribute to unset
tie peoples estimates of the value OF real
estate there.