The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEURALGIA is said to be a "cheeky"
disease.
IT is stated that there is more railroad
building this year than in 1860.
When Il broker says a man is of no ac-
count he means no bank account.
A CHINAMAN in San Francisco is the
latest victim of kerosene lunacy. He
tried to light a fire in the American way.
THE horse bit his master,
How came it to pass?
He heard the good pastor
Say All flesh is grass"
A Boston paper says that Gov. Dugley,
Of Maine, is constantly receiving letters
from Maine farmers who have gone West
and want help to get back again.
A MONTREAL physician has lately sued
his landlord for 100000 damages for i'll
health, caused, he alleges, by the I'M
healthincss of the house in which he re-
sides.
ACCORDING to DR.. Hall, person should
always sleep with his face turned 10 the
wall. The Detroit humorist says "That's
all right, especially if his wife has been
jawing him"
A KENTUCKY couple planned an elope-
ment and the girl invited forty or fifty
friends to be in waiting at her house "to
see how romantically they scooted. ~
Detroit Free Press.
THE Massachusetts State census shows
that there are many thousand more women
than men in that State. What few men
are there, though, are believed by Massa-
chusetts people to be the cream of the
world.
ALWAYS fill coal-oil lamp every day
before using. The bowl should never be
allowed to get empty and be lighted in
that condition, for the vacant space is al
ways full of explosive gas.-C0r. Prairie
Farmer.
If ladies of the period are as just as
they are beautiful they will contribute
something toward a monument for King
Canute. He was the person who origi-
nally ordered the tide back.-St. Louis Re
publican.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican tells
of small terrier at Meriden, Conn, that
lost part of his tail last winter, and now
it is growing out again, and at right
angles, too, so that he carries behind a
kind of stove pipe elbow.
SHE was brushing his hair and he en-
joyed being fused over amazingly. Roll
ing up his eyes, he said: My dear, why
was Columbus, when he landed in Amer
lea, like me now?" She couldn't tell him
and he explained: because he was
tickled at being fust over"
"THERE may be such thing as love
at first sight," remarked Detroit girl
as she twisted " friz' around the curl.
ing-iron, "but l don't believe in it
There's Fred-I saw him a hundred times
before I loved him. In fact, l shouldn't
have fallen in love when l did if his
father hadn't given him that house and lot
IT IS related that when Mrs. Molly
| Richardson, late of Baldwin, Me-, was in
her ninetieth year, as she was one day eat
ing fine apple she remarked that she
would like to raise some fruit of that kind
She therefore planted the seeds, one oi
which sprouted and became a thrifty tree
Mrs. Richardson lived to be ninety sever
years old, and ate fruit from the tree.
DURING the present "corner" in cusary
seed the economical will give their pets q
mixture of rape and millet seed. A half
peck of rape costs seventy-five cents, and
an equal quantity of millet thirty-one
this is nearly equal to mixed canary SEED
and costs small fraction over thirteen
cents a quart. A half-peck of canary
seed, costing $1.25, may be added, making
a mixed food equal to what retails at forty
cents, and which will cost less than twenty
cents, quart.-Spinafeld (Mass.) Repud
licnn.
THERE are some peculiar facts concern.
ing the distribution of the nightingale in
Europe. It is found as far north as
Sweden and as far west as Spain and
Portugal, and yet it never visits Scotland
Ireland or Wales. From the boundaries
limiting its habitat in England it appears
that the bird is restricted to those portions
of the country which are covered with
secondary or tertiary formations. Hence
it may be inferred that the insects on
which it lives do not obtain means of sub
sistence where the primary soil prevails
THERE is singular natural curiosity
about one and half miles from Thomp-
son, Pa, on the Jefferson branch of the
Erie Railway. 1t is deep, narrow crew
ice between the rocks, about sixteen inches
wide. A stone thrown into it can be
heard for several seconds strike from side
to side, the sound becoming fainter and
fainter until it dies away. Owing to the
unevenness of the gap it has been found
impossible to measure its depth. On a
cold, frosty morning the warm air arising
from this pit and coming in contact with
the cold air without makes it appear like
! a smoking chimney,