The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
MEN tire themselves in pursuit of rest
ECONOMY in youth makes cushion fol
old age.
LITERARY men can never be sure OF
having said a smart thing unless they sec
the proof"
On, ftful autumn time,
How like to good old apple sass thou art
Half sweet, half tart.
SPREAD cloths over cucumber pickles
to keep them under brine. They keep
better if treated thus.
MEN are sometimes called dead heads
but just now almost every horse you meet
is oughin'.-Lo,ceU Courier.
IT Is said there are nearly 1000 white
men in the Chickasaw nation, Indian
Territory, in violation of the Intercourse
law
THE Maine man who kicked can OF
nitro-glycerine out of his path won't be
bothered with any more earthly obstruc.
tons.
THE man at the fair who didn't get a
premium for his chickens exclaimed in
his grief: "Htnc fll@ Lachrym@"-" hens
these tears
THERE cannot be surer proof Of low
origin or Of an innate meanncss of dispo-
siton than to be always talkingan think
ing of being gentecl.
She keeps familiarity and impudence from
being kicked to death, and often saves
herself broken head.
A DUEL with swords was fought neal
Paris, on the 10th, between couple OF
Americans named Riggs and Paine. The
latter was slightly wounded.
SHARKEY, the murderer, says he could
blind his eyes, tie his legs together, get
into a sack, and then escape from a New
York detective in broad daylight.
NOTHING makes a boy so mad as to
steal ounce and crawl under barn un-
ucr lne impression tnaL ne mas SOuU1,u
something new in the line of California
pears.
THE man who owes everybody can al
wavs be counted on to subscribe for every
new article that comes along; and the
more useless the article the more certain
he is to have it.-Danbury Ne,cs.
FROM the amount of trimmings now
put on ladies' dresses ii is reasonably pre-
dicted that the coming winter is to be an
uncommonly hard one-ior husbands and
fathers.
RED CLOUD has come down five dollars
on his price of $4,000, 900 for the Black
Hills, and five dollars is a good deal OF
money for an Indian to lose.-Detr0it
Free Press.
A WAC seeing door nearly off its
hinges, in which condition it had been
some time, observed that when it had fall
en- and killed some one it would probably
be hung.
THERE are elks in Arizona that weigh
two tons after dressing. Either so, or else
the Arizona papers eXaggerate, and ii
doesn't seem as if an Arizona newspaper
would cxaggerate.
IT has been demonstrated that American
peaches can be sent to England in good
condition, but it yet remains to be seen il
the skins can fling John Bull flat on the
sidewalk in proper way.-Detroa Fire.
Press.
THERE is ledge of rocks in New
Mexico acknowledged to be immensely
rich in precious ore, and yet the ledge is
valueless, there being no known means OF
separating the metal to advantage in its
peculiar amalgamation.
HOWEVER oppressive local taxation may
be in Virginia. the State taxes can never
be SO great as to be burdensome. ltsprop,
erty is assessed at one-third of its value
and by a constitutional provision the State
taxes can never exceed five mills on the
dollar.
THE study of art in the East is becom'
ing altogether too common. A clerk in
grocery store in New York has successful
" counterfcited one dollar greenbacks
with pen and diherentcolored inks. A
slip of the pen hurt the looks of one OF
them and he is in Jail for it.
The Picton (Canada) Times perpetrates
the following on late baby-show:
Twenty-four babies all in row,
Twenty-four mammas also on show;
Twenty-four daddies happy as clans,
A show of live babies, none of your shams
A vision of angels, dear little lambs.
POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York city,
has ordered that hereafter all letters ad,
dressed to his city marked poste restonte,
"to be called for" or words to that effect,
shall be retained for three months, subject
to the call of the persons addressed, be-
fore sending them to the Dead Letter Office
1t has formerly been the rule to retain
them for thirty days.
THE fortunes or misfOrtunes of certain
Kentucky family might form the plot OF
French novel. Many years since the wife
of wealthy and distinguished man, in
fit of insanity, threw her two little sons
out of lofty window of her beautiful
home. One died, the other was un'
harmed. The mother was committed tc
alunatic asylum, where she remained
many years without recovering. BY his
wealth and political influence the hus
band procured an act of the Legislature
by which he became divorced from his
unfortunate wife. In the meanwhile the
son whom his mother had thrown from
the window had become atfianced to {
lovely girl but she Tilted him and mar
ried his father, who gave her most of his
vast estate. Finally the father died, thu
first wife recovered and sued the secont
wife for the property, assisted by her son
whose early love for his stepmother wa
turned to gall by her unfalthfulness, ant
transferred to the mother who attempted
to deprive him Of life. Sra ,rr-r
l-SThe tax which presses most heavil.
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