The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-10
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How much does fool weigh, general
| ly? A simple ton.
THERE are eighty-nine American stu
dents at Stuttgart Conservatory.
THE Boston Post says that there are
only 1000 lawyers in this country.
Good heavens! We thought there were
1,50O, ,cO0 with Texas to hear FROM
Detroit Free Press.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee de
cides that the State statute is constitu-
tional which prohibits the bearing of
arms in any other manner than by carry
ing them openly in the hands.
By an act just passed the Virginia hus
band is henceforth exempted from liabil-
ity to pay the ante-nuptial debts of his
wife; neither is her property, unless it
was acquired from him, subject to his
debts.
DURING the war Gen. Polk ordered a
| Sergeant to fire a cannon which had
been loaded while hot and allowed to
cool The Sergeant said it would burst.
Polk said it wouldn't. 1t did and killed
thirty men. Polk picked up the Ser
geant's head and apologized.
CARE the young ladies of the present
urer of his audience. "They are fit for
husbands" responded female voice;
"but the trouble is that you men are
not fit for wives" The applause was
great, and so was the discontinue of the
| lecturer.
"YEs, you may come again next Sun
day evening, Horace, dear, but"-and
she hesitated "What is it, darling?
Have l given you pain?" he asked, as
she still remained silent. "1ou didn't
mean to, Pm sure" she responded, /" but
next time please don't wear one of those
collars tn the points turning outward;
they scratch so."-Uttca Herald.
THERE is a maple grove in st. Johns
bury, VT, which has been twice thinned
out, and is now held at $500 an acre :;
and, seventy years ago, the same field
was covered with growing corn. The
fine sugar orchard has come up as a
natural growth, and the opinion is quite
prevalent among those familiar with the
subject that the best way is to grow
| trees from the seed.
THE Viceroy of Egypt is about to as
tonish the world again. He has resolved
to build a railroad along the valley of
the Nile to the interior of Africa, and as
he has plenty of money and thousands of
serfs at his command he will no doubt
accomplish his purpose. In few years
African explorers will be able to travel
in sleeping cars, and to write magnifi-
cent descriptions of places which they
will have passed through in the dark.
In one of the illustrated papers of Ber-
lin there is cut of Bismarck and Won
Moltke looking from garret windows on
opposite sides of the street. The sky is
black and threatening, and in the out
lines of its rolling clouds the faces of the
Pope, Victor Emmanuel, EmperorJ Joseph,
Mac cMahon and the King of Belgium are
discerned. All around and beneath are
the house-tops of Berlin, each gable. peak
having the figure of German soldier,
erect, with helmet-spike and musket
bayonet pointing straight up. Bismarck
says: "Sultry air; thunderstorm is
gathering" Won Moltke, gazing around,
replies: cts no matter; the lightning
rods are all in orderI"
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD, the Cali
fornia poet, now travelling in Italy,
writes of some peculiar customs he has
observed there. He had stopped at a
hotel in Sienna, and upon going to his
bed chamber he found an extraordinary
invention tucked away under the bed,
quilt. The bed, he says, looked not un'
like model of pyramid done in plas
ter. Upon turning back the sheets he
discovered a wooden cage quite large
enough for brood of turkeys; in the
center of it hung an earthen pot of Goals
and these Goals, which were still glow
ing, had heated the bed finely. This il
an Italian warming. pan. Akin to it
says Stoddard, is the little silver or cop
per globe filled with hot water which
the Italian ladies carry about with then
in winter to keep their hands warm
They nurse the ball while they talk will
you in their drawing rooms and send i
out occasionally to be refilled when tht
water has grown little cool.
A BAD SPELL."-A friend has handed
us letter which is worthy of publica
tion. We give it uerbatim ct hterdtsm. Il
is hoped that the writer of the gushing
epistle got that girl: Nov. 80 the 1874
Dier mys it is with much FLASHER to mt
to seate myself to rite you afew Inns tt
leyto now how lam gitin along in my
way of life lam tirud of livin SINCE
life for my part and hav com to the con
clusan to chang my way of liviD for my
part and setel dun on farm and go t.
work at hom for travlin is bad practi
mis- susan think yo air the pirtis yont
lady in oregon and my mind is on yot
each day and mite and hav bin sins FRS
sean yo at butter creek and thot tina
iwod rite 20 a few Inns to lete yo now my
teelins in referans to yoors lam resolv tt
join in wedlock band and yo air m.
chois of all the yong Lads in this worlt
and ihop the same of me ishal heft t,
bring my Letter to cloas so nothin mo
at present but remains yoor friend rit
son and often Civ my respects to all 0
the family that hope that they air al
well and air doin we'll "-Poytland Orr
gonian.