The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-05

children not to eat cucumbers they let 'em
alone.
CARYLE's 8 recommendation was Make
yourself an honest man, and then you may
be sure that there is one rascal less in the
world"
For young lady graduates of colleges
the degree of "maid of arts" is appropri-
ately suggested in place of the now newt
able A. B.
| THERE has been discovered in San Fran
cisco an insect, new to science, which is
believed to be a species of the very valua-
Bile cochineal.
| New ORLEANS has a haunted cell.
Three suicides have occurred in it, and
several other prisoners have been pre-
vented in the very act.
HAIR, nowadays, is twisted into knot
at the back of the head; no matter if no
bigger than hickory nut, and only takes
three hair-pins to hold it.
To Squire who was boasting of his
horses speed, Foote, the witty comedian,
replied: Pooh, my horse will stand
faster than yours can gallop."
THEY tell in Chicago of rat that got
into a bird-cage, ate the bird, and was so
distended by the repast that he couldn't
squeeze out again between the wires
AN Illinois horse has liking for raisin
cake, and an Iowa pig squeals for rasp-
berry lam. No one can tell what refining
influence will yet do for the animal crea-
| ton.
| A GEORGIA farmer has raised from one
| grain of wheat 191 stalks and 100 heads
The largest head has 1885 grains. This is
the most remarkable reproduction on
record.
| THE Baltimore tin-can makers, having
to pay for leaky cans, say that sometimes
they find themselves in debt to their en-
ployer, instead of receiving wages for
themselves.
THREE children who were prostrated by
a stroke of lightning that had first struck
| A tree at Americus, Ga, all had more or
less photographs of the tree imprinted on
their persons.
A COUNTRY store in Virginia was the
other day struck by lightning, the fluid
making large hole in the roof, and pass
| ing through q t6atherded, the recognized
non-conductor.
GEORGE r. DEAN, of Sacramento, has a
vigorous coffee plant growing in his door
ward. 1t is from Central American seed,
three years old, and will bear this year, as
it is full of blossoms.
SOME of the Cincinnati ladies propose
to take whole room in the new Centen-
nial building, and to inlay the floor with
tiles of their own painting and to tresco
the walls themselves.
THE absence of all jewelry is the choice
of many fastidious men, while others do
not reject those articles that show some
reason for being useful, such as shirt
studs, sleeve buttons, etc.
A TIPsY fellow, who mistook globe
lamp, with letters on it, for the queen OF
night, exclaimed: "Well, I'll be (hic)
blest, if somebody hain't stuck an adver-
tisement on the mOon."
! Mrs. YOUNG, the mother Of little Mabel
II. Young, the victim of the Boston
church h-belfry tragedy, suffers such acute
mental agony since that sad event that she
has to be constantly attended.
A NEW Brunswick court Of equity has
seen its way clear to declare that deed
! given by drunken man, who received
very inadequate consideration, should be
treated as mortgage only.
| ANOTHER indication that economy is in
fashion is furnished by Saratoga shoe
maker, who, surrounded by piles Of old
boots, slippers and shoes, remarked: 6
never saw so much Goblin in Saratogs
before"
| JUDGE NYE, of Alameda County, Cal.
has decided that in future he will not nat
uralize any person who has not read o.
heard read the Constitution he swears tt
support. This causes a good deal Of
caviling. ..'-f
JOHN CHINAMAN is loaning The Mis-
souri, farmers money and taking goot
mortgages, through Yung Wing, the Edu
cational Commissioner, who looks afte
the titles and collects the tithes for TIN
benefit of the Orient. ..
No LESS than twenty-nine trade mark
have already been secured in the Paten
Office for the word centennial" as ap
piled to various articles of manufacture
such as almanacs, cigars, backing, bit
tors, shirts, watches and even lager beer.
A NOVELTY in costume is fan, tn
handle of which forms pocket-handkel
chief holder. Some fans have also a tin.
scentbottle inserted at the bottom of tn
fan n-handle. And thus fan become
handkerchief, scentbottle, and fan il
, one.
, WILLIAM WHITE sued New Yorl
, railroad company fourteen years ago TO
81 900 damages for killing his wife, bu
getting tired out he took $50 the othe
day and called it square His secon'
wife used the money to get her a sill
3 dress.
r SOME men have keener sense of humo
t than others, like the father of Denve
9 boy. The latter pulled the bung out of
, barrel and put his thumb in the hole. Th
barrel rolled over and broke the thumt
4 Now the father sues the owner Of the bal
lrel for 5000.