The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

matches.
THE fee of Mr.. Evarts in the Beechel
trial is $4,000.
Massey got $135,OOO for his interest in
the Toledo Blade.
SILKS that "stand alone" now give
place to softer ones.
How TO make clean swecp-Give him
a good washing.
HIGH living has its penalties among
cannlbals as well as among white folks.
The measles have broken out in the
Fejee Islands.
HoRRID! A New York paper speaks
of gentleman who was quartered at a
hotel, but does not tell us what became
of the quarters.
THE Baltimore Council has forbidden
the construction of Mansard roofs of
combustible material in that city under
heavy penalties.
A wELI~KNowN printer of Albany has
sold his HOUSEHOLD effects, and, with his
wife and family, has joined the New
Lebanon Shakers.
THE Erie (Pa.) papers announce with
pride that not a single person was ar
rested for drunkenness in that city on
st. Patrick's Day.
A SWEET little twelve-year-old of
Brownsville. Tenn, is on trial for poison
ing three little children. She did it
"just to see 'em die"
GEN. CUSTER says that it takes but
four minutes for an Indian to perform
the scalping process, but time is money,
and four minutes are worth mule.
AN ingenious Detroit dentist makes
crayon sketches, canes chairs, and repairs
watches and jewelry during his leisure
hours. Hope he doesn't get Ills tools
mixed.
THE steamship business between New
Orleans and New York has declined
fully two-thirds, and two of the weekly
lines of steamships have been discon-
tinued.
In Denmark the farmers try the vitali-
ty of clover seed by putting some on a
knife blade and heating it over candle.
The good seed pops off and the poor seed
burns on the blade.
A YOUNG lady who accompanied her
beau to spelling sociable the other even
spelled it with one and an o. Served
the stupid fellow just right.
A SPECIAL dispatch to Erie, Pa, says
that oil has been struck on a farm in
Warren. The stream forces itself above
to the top of the derrick. This strike
develops an entirely new belt of oil ter.
ritOry.
ACCORDING to the recent report of the
Massachusetts Commissioners of Taxa
ton there are 1870 church editices in Suf-
folk County-the county in which Bos-
ton is situated. Their estimated value is
I'll $40, 200.
THE practice of offering = dictionary
as prize to the best spcller in the
matches now in vogue reveals the fact,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, that the
person always gets the dictionary who
has the least need of it.
He was an old man of eighty, and he
said that he'd figured and calculated and
pondered, and had come to the conclu-
sion that the man who drives the band
wagon around town had perfect right
to look down in contempt on bankers and
mill-owners.
THE fashion of wearing linen cuffs
outside the sleeve is again revived.
Colored cambria collars and cuffs, such
as blue, brown AMI gray, with flower
embroidered at the corners, are to be
worn somewhat. The diversity in the
shapes of collars is bewildering.
A GIRL screamed in lecture audience
in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the other
girls screamed. General CONSERVATION
ensued and rush for the doors. People
were bruised, clothes torn and the room
at length was emptied. The first
screamer had seen rata real one.
AN English paper says that some cute
Yankee is flooding the country with coun-
tcrfeit penny-pieces." The evidence
that it is Yankee is not given, and so
it is as likely to be Britisher as anyone
else. The curious part of the matter is
that the mint authorities show no incli-
nation to interfere.
THE Rochester Erpress has the follow
| ing on the fruit prospect: From all we
can learn through our leading nurserymen
the peach bud is beyond doubt safe.
In fact the prospects for an abundant
fruit harvest have not been better fol-
years. When the fruit harvest promises
well in this region it is generally cOnsid-
cred safe throughout the State, it not the
whole country"
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds Of
the newspapers to this effect: There
is one good wife in the country and
every man thinks he has her" Old
Brown, who lives on Olive street, who is
bald, and whose wife has red hair and q
wicked eye, read this and murmured, 81
he meditatively passed his hand over his
head: ~ dunno! / dunnor-iSt. Loui,
Republican.
THE recent combat between the lior
and the ass at the Geological Gardens
has spoiled the contrast of these two an
finals in warlike qualities, which Esor
thought the height of humorous absurd
ity, and which has done so much service
in the literature of all ages. For twice
did the enraged lioness assault the ass
and twice was she sent retreating with
as much as her ferocious stomach cared
for-Cincinnati Gazette.
THE present rage for spelliDg-schools
revives al anecdote of Gen. Scott. He
had drawn up the rough draft of an
order in which the word wagon" oc
Cured. The General inserted one G.
too many, and his clerk, on discovering
it, timidly asked on what authority he
spelled "wagon" with two "g's." "On
the authority of Lieut. Gen. Scott, com
manding the armies of the United States,
sirr' Numbered the pompous old Gen.
eral. The clerk, ut least, thought the
authority sufiicient.-Boston Globe.
In an account of the last hours Of Vas.
quez the San Francisco Chonicle says
About half-past eight he again asked
Sheriff Adams if he could see his coffin
In compliance with his wish profusely.
| ornamental casket was brought into his