The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
A Blanket Romance.

| AN eSJlmaDlG lauy living Ill tHt uedl
edge of Pueblo County, Col, had occa-
sion to visit the States few months
since, and found it convenient to borrow
a handsome red blanket of Mr.. Ed. Red
mond, highly respected and jolly stock
man of our county. AT Denver, where
the lady stopped one night, the hotel
was crowded, and two other ladies occu-
pied the same room. The night being
cold the possessor of the blanket gener-
ously offered her room-mates the valuable
article for their comfort during the night,
but at the same time enjoined them to
take good care of it as it was borrowed
one The ladies gratefully accepted the
kind offer, and with curiosity peculiar
to their sex asked who might be the
happy owner of the handsome article
and were told that it was Mr.. Redmond,
bachelor fiiend living in Southern Col
oradc. In the morning one of the ladies,
a young widow, clipped small piece
off one corner of the blanket and put it
in her pocket, and, returning the blanket
with her card, said:
"Tell Mr.. Redmond if he wants the
rest of his blanket to come and get it,"
In due time the lady returned from her
Eastern visit and delivered to the owner
his property, the ard and message. Mr..
Redmond, not to be outdone by banter
from lady, wrote her note. Other
notes followed each way. Their intima-
icy, SO romantically begun, ripened into
love and marriage, although they had not
seen each other till the time the nuptials
were celebrated.
After MI Redmond had started on his
trip to claim his loving bride" )" he was
met at the depot at Colorado Springs by
our efficient Clerk of the District Court,
George A. Butte, and told that he would
have to be retained as witness in an
important case that would soon come up
in the court Mr.. Redmond pleaded im-
portant business in Denver-business
that could not be attended to without
his presence-but found Mr.. Butte mex
orable until he told him the nature of the
business, when Mr.. Butte, recollecting
that he himself was-a bachelor, thought
it right to obey the Scripture command
"Do unto others as4you would have them
do unto your Without further deten-
tion Mr.. Redmond arrived safely in Den
yer, claimed successfully his bride, and,
on leaving to return with her to his
home, he was told by some young ladies
present that If there were any other
bachelors in Southern Colorado having
red blankets tell them to send them up.
CHARIvARI has the following: A gen.
tleman dressed all in black presented
himself one day at the .box-office of the
Theater Comique. Madam" said he
to the ticket agent, with tears in his
eyes, "I wish box in order to place
therein the body of my wife at the mo-
ment when the Requiem of NJ. Verdi
is played" "Why," cried the stupefied
ticket agent, "is your wife dead?" f" Yes,
lost her yesterday, and / thought that
requiem would cost me less here than
at the church, and then would permit
me to hear the work of M. Verdi"
| AWELL, that's catamount to positive
refusal" as Mrs. Spilkins remarked the
other night when Spilkins declined to
get up and prorogue cat nocturns must
Gale on the back shed, under the plea OF
sympathy with Mr.. Bergh.-Neso York