The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-06
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arrive at spanking age.
THE man who courted an investigation
says it isn't so good as an affectionate
girl.
Iris said that Digger Indians are never
known to smile. They are grave Dig
| gers.
MAINE claims to have been the first
State to allow women to solemnize mar
riages.
THEY have an Amalgamated Tailors'
Society in England. What is an ANAL
gamated tailor9
WHEN cold acquaintance suddenly
changes and becomes kind, look out for
him-he expects pay for it.
THE courts of South Carolina have
ruled that in the trial of an issue of fact
| involving the examination of a written or
printed instrument it is good ground
of challenge to juror that he cannot
read.
A HALF century ago an old gentleman
in Southern Massachusetts caused every
shingle with which he covered his roof
to be first dipped in boiling whale oil.
The other day his grandchildren replaced
| the shingles on the old mansion for the
first time, and found many of them in a
perfect state of preservation
THE young and progressive live in the
future; the aged and retrogressive in the
past. Hope inspires the former; memory
is dear to the latter Most men run half
the race of life, then, turning, walk back
to the starting-place childhood. Few
are the noble souls that press on to the
| end.
"Do YOU know that only two out of
every 100 who come to Chicago to try
their fortunes succeed?" said Old Realist
to brawny youth applying at his bank
for something to do, the other day.
"That may be, sir" replied the lad, but
I'll be one of the two" That boy will
get along.
A STORY is told of a woman in Provi-
dence who, having secured good place
| to see the St. Patrick procession, report
ed to policeman that she had lost her
child and earnestly asked him to find it
| for her, as she did not dare to go in
search of it, for if she did she would
close her place"
"SuALL women" exclaimed Lucy
Stone in a public lecture at Providence,
the other day, "leave their children at
home and neglect them while they go to
vote?" just at this point little infant
that had been quietly sleeping in its
mothers arms awoke and, in protest to
some motherly correction, cried out lusti-
ly: "No-o-o"
THE Lawrence (Kan) street railroad
has been sold at Sheriffs sale, and at a
low figure. One party bought the track,
right of way and franchise, and the equip.
ment was divided among several parties.
1t will probably require the formation OF
new company to get the fragments of
property together again and put the road
into operation.
A BosToN lady, while in Paris two
years ago, sent letter to her sweet
heart, ship Captain, addressing it to
St. Helena. 1t missed the Wanderer. and
followed him about the world finally re-
turning to Paris, where the Captains
banker forwarded it to Boston. 1t
reached him one evening as he was
bouncing a sixweeks-old baby on his
knee, he having married the writer of
the letter year ago.
THEY have a new wrinkle in Boston
for making chickens out of old hens
that is, by breaking the breast bone
about one and one-half inches from the
point where person feels for it. 1t
looked as if it had been done with long
pliers by bending the bone up. 1t is
very nicely done, and cannot be discov
cred until the chicken is dissectea. This
is no fish story, for l bought them my
self; but should call it foul play.-Cor.
N. Y. Herald.
COLORADO is a promising field for poll
ticians who are out of jobs or expect to
be soon. There are two United States
Senators, one Representative in Con
gress, Governor and State judiciary
to be chosen the moment the act of ad-
mission is consummated. Then there
are also the United States Collectorship
of Internal Revenue, the minor State
offices, such as Secretary of the Com
monwealth, Auditor and Surveyor, Gen
eralships, Lieutenant Governor, and all
the lesser functionaries incident to State
sovereignty.
BOSTON offers some prodigies in the
way of cats. Five kittens were born in
one of it's suburbs recently, each OF
which was Joined to another after the
manner of the Siamese twins. The own
er, who had doubtless never heard of
Barnum, had them all drowned. At the
South End, the Boston Herald says,a lady
has kitten, not two months old, which
has five heads-one in the usual place
and one at each knee-joint on both front
and hind legs. The tail grows perpen-
dicularly up from the back, and cannot
be bent downward without causing the
animal to cry.
THE steamship Nova Scotian, which
arrived at Baltimore recently, from Liv-
erpool, pta Halifax, reports that at eight
a. m. on the 14th of April, in latitude AZ
deg. 90 min, longitude 40 deg. 10 min,
an immense ice-field was met in the At
lantic. The steamship skirted its edge
for FIVE hours, and altered her course to
escape it. From the mast heads, as far
as the eye could reach with the aid of
glasses, an unbroken stretch of ice was
to be seen, extending for many miles.
There were in it many small icebergs
and number of vessels, some of them
long distances from the outer edges, and
seeming to have been caught there 9
long while before. There were ship,
two barks, brig, and other vessels SO
far in they could not be made out. This
ice had come down from the Arctic
regions, and the imprisoned vessels had
doubtless come many miles with it, and
will not be liberated until the warmer
waters of the gulf stream melts them
out. The steamship also reports that
eight American fishing schooners had
been forced to seek refuge in the harbor
of Halifax, where they were driven by
the heavy fields of floating Arctic ice.
The Pure F." Cussedness'' Of the Mule.
THE mule is not the stupid animal he
is represented to be. His powers of OBJ