The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A FAIRFIELD (Me) youth announces
that he will give a chrome to the young
lady who will take him for better or for
worse" No special rates for clubs, how
ever.
PROF. MORSE says that there are prob
ably not over 100 moose in Maine, where
not long ago they were annually killed
by the thousand. He thinks the spec!es
will become suddenly extinct, the condi-
tions growing more and more unfavora-
BILE for its continuance.
THE young aspirant for journalistic
honors who came into our Office four days
ago and wanted to learn to be reporter
has proved himself an indefatigable
worker We sent him out after an item,
and he's been out after it ever SINCE
New York Commercial Aduerttser.
You may go on inventing washing-ma-
chimes for the next fifty years, but to the
average eye you can't patent anything
equal to the sight of lady's diamond
rings flashing in and out of the sparkling
suds as she humps wet towel up and
down the sh-board.-Detroit Free
Press.
ALI. accounts agree in describing the
weather on the North Atlantic this sea-
son as almost unexampled in severity,
the prevailing winds being from the
northwest, which reach to the height Of
the hardest gale and blow with tremen-
dous fury, day after day, with scarcely
any cessation.
JONES and his beautiful bride are on
their way East, and the Nevada editors
are all wishing that "No cloud may ever
lower upon the path of the happy
couple" We take pleasure in adding
that any cloud associated with Jones
will be very likely to have silver lining.
Brooklyn Argus.
PRETTY SALLIE ADAMS, of Portland
Me-, brought the man she loved
to the popping point by saying to him,
while CLEANS Of love-light shot from her
half-shut eyes, II have had two offers of
marriage. The first did not please me. and
as for the second IL have a supersti-
tious regard for odd numbers
PROBABLY the largest elm ever cut in
the State was recently cut on his farm by
MI. Harrison Farrar, of Paris. Me-,
and hauled to the Paris Hill Manufac-
turing Company. 1t scaled 1850 feet,
and 900 rings were counted from the out
side to within three inches of the center,
where they became too indistinct to be
counted. 1t was probably 300 years old.
If q man finds himself "stuck" on a
one, q five, or even a ten dollar bill he
stoically resolves to "grin and bear it,"
as it won't break" him. anyhow, but
counterfeit $500 greenback is disagree
able thing to find in ones small change.
A very we'll executed counterfeit of that
denomination has lately been discovered
in circulation in Maine.
The agent confessed that he was, and
so advised the passenger for Destination
to walk up and down the wharf in the
sea- breeze for half an hour, and then to
come back for his ticket. Threatening
to report him to the company for neglect
of duty the stranger rushed downstairs
as if he would leave mis- impress on every
tread. His ticket waits.
A VERY hospitable lady, who does not
live over fifty miles from Utica, gave
party for her friends, among the young
misses and masters, the other evening.
Round dances were proposed, when the
lady said: 81 cannot allow you to have
any round dances. If any of the boys
wish to hug the girls, let them sit down
upon the tetes and go right at it in earn.
est, but-no round dances, mind your
Wasn't that sensible?
A REsH-wATER clam, according to a
foreign scientific journal, was last year
shut up in perfectly dry drawer for 2Sl
days, and then, being plunged into water
showed signs of remarkable activity.
This was during a voyage from Australia
to England. On its arrival at South
ampton, 498 days after leaving its ma
tive marsh, it was again put into the
water, where it opened its valves and re-
newed it's former habits as mollusk.
JENNIE JuNE's notion of sleigh-ride
isn't bad: Young ladies snugly wrapped
up in white buffalo robes, their bright
faces peeping out from abundant wrap
pings, have been taken through the park
to High Bridge by devoted cavaliers,
and there regaled with the customary
hot lemonade and mince pie, while
laughter and sleigh-bell, all through the
night, waking one not unpleasantly,
though at unseemly hours, out Of quiet
sleep, tell of impromptu parties long
ride shortened with jest and fun, with an
oyster supper at one end Of it, and
stolen kiss or tender hand. pressure at the
other. There are hours that never do re-
turn; few of them have to suffice for
lifetime"
1--we cannot bury our dead in the
ground for fear of unwholesome gases
generated from them, nor yet burn them
and let the odor be waited into the air,
what shall we do with themi A London
medical Journal now tells this story
about cremation: "The remarkable
statement has been recently made that
the immense number Of corpses burned
by the Hindoos, who are compelled BY
the worship of Brahma to burn their
dead, il the real cause Of Asiatic cholera.
The poisonous gases generated IN this
way hover in the air during the day. out
at night sink into the lower atmosphere,
mixing with the water md the various
kinds Of food, and permeatlng the lungs
| in the process Of respiration. n Hindo-
| stan the Asiatic cholera ID endemic, yet,
subject to certain influence In the at-
mosphese, Il becomes epidemic, and then
causes ruin and destruction u ths ~
motess cOuntziea."