The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-18


A GIRL was recently on exhibition in
Charleston, S. c., having four welldevel
oped legs and feet, the two central ones
being somewhat smaller than the outer.
She eats four hearty meals every day.
\ SWARM of bees was recently taken
up IN Lancaster, Pa, that had been at
work in the same tree for fourteen years,
and had never swarmed during that time.
Over 400 pounds of honey was recovered.
EVIL is predicted for Queen Victoria if
she continues to hold on to the Kohl
moor diamond. 1t is to be hoped that
there is nothing ominous about the dia-
monds worn by our American hotel
clerks.
THE Moulton House, of Hampton, for
merly hotel, was the first house in New
Hampshire, if not in New En-
gland, to be painted white, the paint
being imported from England expressly
for the purpose.
WHEN Eve brought ro to all mankind,
Old Adam called her 'ro-man:
He then pronounced it ,UOO-nldn;;
But now with folly and with pride,
Their husbands pockets trimming,
The ladies are so full of 1Dhj',s,
The people call them lrhtnt-nen.
Ir was young and not at all good
looking lady who yesterday stepped out
of Third avenue Car and disappeared
into store in the Bowery after apologiz-
ing to the conductor for asking him to
wait while she purchased eight yards of
muslin and materials for winter dress.
& was back in less than ten minutes
she subsequently complained to an aston
ished policeman, "but the Car was gone"
-Neao York Sun.
MANS inhumanity to woman was strik-
ingly illustrated at Worcester, Mass, a
few days since, where a woman was AZ
rested and tried for talking to her hus-
band in loud tone of voice" The re-
port of the case says the woman was ac-
quilted; but it leaves us in painful sus-
pense as to whether the jury found she
had not talked in a loud tone Of voice or
whether the Court decided such talking
not to be an otfense.
THE other day when a resident of First
street went home to dinner his wife asked
him why he sent stranger to the house
after his Sunday suit. 81 didn't" he
bluntly replied. But young man
called and said so, and l gave him the
Clothes" she said There was a painful
pause, and she continued: "You can't
blame me-" Ono, / can't" he replied,
"but l wish you and l knew enough to
last us over night" She didn't eat any
dinner, of course-Detroit Free Press.
PEOPLE live longer than they did when
| the " Psalmist" set the limit at " three
score and ten" A hundred years ago the
average duration of human life was about
twenty eight years. In 1917 it had in
creased to thirty one years, and is now, as
we learn from recent compilations of NOR
tality statistics, nearly forty years. This
may be ascribed to Improvements in hab-
its of life, better houses, food, clothing
and medical attention, to the diminution
of pestilence and to very marked dimi-
mutton of the mortality of infants ts.-RurdI
NeU Yorker.
NINE. SENYAH has been doing some
terrific Ieaping in South America. The
Lima papers tell, for instance, of one et
fort far more than usually thrilling. Nine
Senyah was to make flying leap in open
air from stand fifty feet high. In the
leap she was to catch a stationary rope
suspended perpendicularly; swinging or
this she was to catch another rope fifty
feet away and then swing to the trapeze
In making her swing to catch the las
rope she flew past it, but seeing that she
could not catch it she threw back som
crsault and caught the extreme lowel
end of the rope as she was gong down
She was saved. The excitement was In
tense and many ladies tainted. The fea
mentioned is simply impossible; but thu
story is pretty nearly as good for all that
A CORRESPONDENT of the Providence
Journal writes from that city to say: A
noon-time often take walk on the parl
promenade, and about that hour may b.
seen women with pals, ETC., bringin.
dinners to their husbands who labor OF
the streets. A woman came, met her hus
band, and they seated themselves on tn
greensward, and spread on the grass tn
dinner, he giving the wife some Of tn
edibles After drinking from the pail b
gave it to her, gave her kiss, and wen
to his work, and she to her happy home
On one of the benches sat man and wife
she had brought his dinner. After got
bling it down he took up the pail and
after tasting it, dashed the contents int
her face and went to his work. The poe
woman, taking her shawl, wiped hel face
gathered up her pail, ETC., and started fo
her miserable home. l wanted to put m
, cane over the brute's head, but feare
, he would be too much for me, and let hir
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