The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Sartoris baby will be home in time
for Christmas dinner
IT makes hen tender to let her lay
awhile after she is dead
A CACTUS at East Fairfield, Vt, is re-
ported with 2l5 buds and blossoms
HARD-TIMEs PARTIES" and "calico
balls" ought to be very popular this
| winter.
DEBATING clubs are taking the place of
last years spelling matches in the country
towns.
ZERO means nothing until the mercury
in the thermometer reaches 1t, and then
there's trouble.
IT is estimated that no less than Sc, 900
snorting, putting and screeching locomo-
tive engines inhabit this mundane sphere.
AN exclusively colored panel in a Lou
isiana court lately returned the written
conclusion: 1--WE, the verdict, find the
jury guilty"
If names mean anything the recent
marriage of Mr.. Grippin and Miss Clinch
gives promise of an occasional lively mat
rimOnial set-to.
IT is said that there are more lies told
in the sentence 81 am glad to see you"
than in any other six words in the En-
glsh language.
LATIN and Greek are all right" said
a Delaware farmer, as he halted his team,
:" but gimme man who can plow around
an apple tree 'thout touching the roots"
A MAN in Greenville, Tenn, has capt,
ured twenty-seven hawks by setting a
steel-trap upon the dead limb of a tree
upon which they have been in the habit
of alighting.
A NEW YORK rabbi states that he has
admitted thirty-eight Christian male adults
to membership in the Iraelitish Church.
There was a marriage ceremony imme-
diately after each case.
A CAREFUL housewife in Altoona, Pa,
put an eighteen-dollar order and ten
dollar greenback into the drawer of the
coffee mill for safe-keeping. Next morn
ing the family enjoyed a twenty -eightdol-
lar cup Of coffee.
A LITTLE fellow only nine years old was
arrested in England a few days ago for
causing the death of girl eleven years
old. He struck her in the stomach with
his clenched fist, and she dropped imme.
diately, dying soon after.
,,-Ii1o Il xipo m hp,nIn
ries of a farm in Huron, Wayne County,
n. Y, few days ago, discovered that
more than seven acres of land had been
washed away by the waves of the lake
since the first survey was made.
THE signitication of pet names appears
to vary according to locality. Out in
Arizona, for instance, Jolly dog" is
man who keeps Il well-stockcd private
grave -yard-at least this is the term ap
piled in an Arizona paper to one of the
class.
If there is anything that will bring tears
TO the eyes of an Indian tobacco-sign it is
to witness young lady undergoing the
irving ordeal of endeavOring to bring
fallen clothes line full of clothes to Il re-
alization of its solemn duty.-DetroH
Free Press.
AT the departure of the Prince of Wales
from England, says the Boston Commercial
Bulletin, a sailor rebukca a landsman who
was laughing at the grief Of the royal
family in the following impromptu:
Avast with your laughing,
You heartless land lubbcr;
At such sad parting
What can Whales do but Hubber!'
a PHILADELPHIA friend, who rejoiced
in the name of Comfort, paid his devoirs
to a young and attractive widow named
Rachel II, residing on Long Island.
Either her griets were too new or her lover
too old, or from some other cause, the of
fer was declined. Whcreupon a Quaker
friend remarked that it was not the first
modern instance he had known where
Rachel refused to be Comforted
THE Sanitary Inspector of Glasgow,
Scotland, has found that the yellow toy
balloons sold to children are poisonous.
He says that the coloring matter consists
of one part of chromate of lead and three
parts of carbonate of lime. Children,
being in the habit of applying their
mouths to the orifce of these balloons for
the purpose of filling them with air, may
readily receive quantity of such poison
Gus powder into their mouths. Toybal-
looms, therefore, although admirably fitted
for playthings at baby-tarms and other in
slitutions of similar character, should
be viewed with suspicion in every we'll
regulated nursery.-Erchange.
THERE is nothing half so funny as a
practical joke, and this, as told by an
Eastern paper, is regular rib-tickler
Frederick Walker and Peter Kohler, of
Gutenberg, n. J., stuffed an old suit of
clothes with straw, the other night, and
carried it to Bulls Ferry road and Her
man avenue, where they placed it against
a lamp-post About midnight they began
an imaginary quarrel in a loud tone, and
continued it until number of people
were aroused from their beds. Then they
shot the imaginary man. Tile body fell
down and the young men ran away. The
neighbors, thinking murder had been
committed, chased the young men, and
Kohler was shot in the leg before the de-
ception was explained" Think what
solid enjoyment Mr.. Kohler will have
laughing at that for six weeks while he
nurses his leg, and what a screaming farce
| il would have been for his whole family