The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-01
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this summer on some of his balloon trips.
JACKSON, the Boston defaulter, says that
people had no business to trust him.
Wonderful coincidence-all his victims
say the same thing.
No, DON'T you do it. If you are court
ing a woman and she talks about your
settling $4,000 on her, you just settle
yourself out O that
IT'S naught when woman humbugs man,
For that's the good old style;
- But oh! mans confidence in man
t Makes countless thousands smile.
WHEN a Detroit sign painter gets to
work there is no stopping him. He
says: Groceries provisions sugars teas
oils Goldfish starch the nimble sixpence is
our motto we can't be undersold if you
don't see what you want ask for it,"
"No, GENTLEMEN of the jury" thun-
dered an eloquent advocate the other day
in a Denver court, this matter is for His
Honor to decide, who sits there sleeping
so beautifully" His Honor opened both
cN Us ultl lloutil, dliu Silti. an ONllG pD
your narcotic speech, SIR
HE leaned ON the fence pouring out
warm VOWS of love and admiration to the
lovely being on the other side. 1t was
dark. We could not see her face, but she
said: "Pray desist You are too vaci1-
lating. Only week ago you told that
same story three doors below here" They
parted.
liza man wishes to cruelty lacerate the
feelings of an acquaintance, he remarks:
" A cow would regard your feet with com,
placency," and upon being questioned
why he answers: Because she would
see at a glance that her hide would not
have to be cut down very much to make
shoes for them"
CANNING green currants is done as any
fruit canning is, but the following recipe
is worth trying: Gather when green, strip
off the stems, put the currants into dry,
clean bottles and cork, with rosined corks,
tightly. Kept in cool place in the cellar
they will be fresh for year or more, and
are very nice in the winter for pies.
!. Two PERSONS were once disputing so
loudly on the subject of religion that they
awoke big dog which had been sleeping
on the hearth before them, and he forth
with barked most furiously. An old di-
vine present, who had been quietly sip
ping his tea while the disputants were
talking, gave the dog kick and ex-
claimed: "Hold your tongue, you silly
brute! you know no more about it than
they do"
By an order from the Postoffice Depart
ment separate pouches for registered let
ters will soon be placed on all the princi-
pal mail routes in the country. This will
be invaluable assistance to the mail rob-
bers. Heretofore they have been obliged
to carry off bags of unremunerative
letters and with much care and toll
fish out the letters that had money in
them. Thus doth beneticent Govern
ment extend its benefactiOns over all its
subjects. Detroit Tribune.
A MEXICAN bandit was recently shot
and killed near Lone Pine, Inyo County,
Cal. The Investigating Committee"
which went out TO discover the cause of
the robbers death made a report, which
the lnyo Independent says was as follows:
Lone Pine, Inyo County, Cal, May 20,
1S75-Wc, the undersigned members, who
were sent by the Committee of Six to in
vestigate and find all particulars regard
ing the killing of the Mexican, do find
that the man was one of the robbers or
bandits, and that his name was Jose Maria
Guerro that we found him in the canon
described and that we buried him accord
ing to Hoyle."
THERE is a young colored woman in
Oskaloosa who has a strange history, if
the story told by herself and friends be
true. She is called Maggie Adams, and
is about seventeen years of age. Until
recently she had lived with family by
the name of Allen in the south part of
this county, who came from Missouri to
Kansas. During all the years since the
war she has been in Il state of slavery, re-
ceiving nothing for her work. being com
PEELED to do washing, etc, for various
families, allowed no books or opportuni-
ties for learning, and kept in ignorance of
the fact that she was no longer Il slave.
She was kept so jealously guarded that
she knew nothing whatever Of the aboli-
tion of slavery, and was enlightened and
her release procured by a young colored
man who somehow learned the facts and
went to work to have her set at liberty
LeaoenW0Th (Kd9.) Times.