The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-02-25
TOLEDO COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY, rs,
NUMBER 9.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A NEW JERSEY editor, who pretends
to be familiar with Spanish politics,
s&ys that Alfonso wears an ulcer over
coat.
A BosToN journal prints directions
how to walk with safety down inclines of
plate glass showered profusely with oil. :"
The best plan is 10 slide of and take to
the street.
IT will cost the New York Central
Road nearly $4,000 to pay for the forty
carloads of cattle which were frozen and
injured by cold few nights since be
tween Rochester and Syracuse.
THE New York Graphic says there's no
use trying to get round those ice men.
Just because there's great deal of it
and it's thick and heavy and hard to
handle is the reason given for putting up
the price next season.
ONE EIGHTEENTH of the land in Kansas,
except few Indian reservations, is de-
voted to common schools. It cannot be
sold for less than three dollars per acre.
1t may be paid in cash or in ten annual
payments at 10 per cent. interest.
| WALL PAPER is now said to be in use
in England which will bear washing
with soap and water, and is also damp
proof. These two advantages are suff1-
cient to bring 1t into universal use pro-
vided 1t can be furnished for q reasona.
BILE price.
"TRUru," says q sage, "never gets its
votaries into tangles; it imprisons no
man in the network of his own words"
Perhaps net. But if q man told the
truth when asked where he gets his
winters wood it might imprison him in
something worse than network of his
own words.
A YOUNG bride who had been fashiona-
bly, educated was asked by her fond hus.
band to attend to the ordering of the
dinner, as he shouldn't have time to 60
to market 1t is fact that she blandly
requested the butcher to send home a leg
Of tongue, seventeen pounds of steak and
two halibut."
BRUYERE once said: "An inconsistent
woman is one who is no longer in love;
| false woman is one who is already in
love with another person; tickle woman
is she who neither knows whom she
loves or whether she loves or not, and
the Indifferent woman one who does not
love at ALL"
GIRLS don't look behind 10 see if the
"young fellows" are watching them any
more; they have got over that. It's
new invention. 1t consists of little
round looking glass, the size of half
dollar. Every once in while they ad-
just stray curl and see if he "really is
looking"
"a NOVEL and somewhat serious acci-
dent" says the Sacramento (Cal) Union,
happened at the railroad repair shops
ON Wednesday noon One of the EN-.
ployes, Charles Gill, had placed his din
per-bucket-a patent affair, with screw
on the top-by the fire to heat his coffee,
and as he took 1t away and was about to
open it the steam that had accumulated
caused it to burst with loud report,
throwing the scalding contents into his
face, burning his neck and face quite
badly. He received medical treatment
soon, and it was found that his hurts,
though painful, were not serious"
DR. WILKES, in his recent work on
physiology, remarks that cit is esti-
mated that the bones of every adult per-
son require to be fed with lime enough
to make marble mantle every eight
months" 1t will be perceived, therefore,
that in the course of about ten years
each of us eats three or four mantle
pieces and few sets of front door.steps
1t is awful to think of the consequences
if man would be shut off from his
supply of lime for a while and then
should get loose in cemetery. An
ordinary tombstone would hardly be
enough for q lunch for him.-Phila-
de!phia Bulletin.
THE relative strength of hand-spun
yarn rope, machine yarn rope and Rus
sian yarn rope has lately been made the
subject of some test experiments in
London. There were nine pieces of
rope, each ten feet long, being three of
each of the above classes. The ultimate
stress or breaking strain of the Russian
rope was found to be 1900 pounds, or
1884 pounds strength per fathom; ma.
chine rope, 1850 pounds, or 2,155
pounds per fathom; and nand-spun rope,
1929 pounds, or 3,028 pounds per
fath0m. The rores were all of five
inches circumference, and every piece
broke clear of the fastenings. The re-
suit showed that the handmade was
cheaper by seventy-fve cents per hun
dred weight, and broke at the testing
strength Of 7,10O pounds over Russian,
and 6, 752 over the machine-made.
THE Paris correspondent of the New
York Times tells of bold attempt at
stealing a newspaper business, as follows:
'The american Register has just had
an adventure which is probably unique
in the history of journalism. A dishon
est employe tried to steal the journal.
Two editions are published, one for Lon
don and one for Paris, and the London
business clerk took it into his head to
appropriate the former. He got up
paper called the american Traveller, fac
ssmile of the Rsgister in everything but
this one word, and which would deceive
anyone when folded upon the news
stands. He copied all the advertisements,
and then called upon the advertisers to
read q letter from the proprietor, as he
alleged, which said that the Register was
to be withdrawn in favor of the journal
he exhibited. Many of the advertisers
were taken in, as this man had long been
dealing with them fer the Rsgister. The
curious part Of the affair is that it came
very near succeeding"
The ldy Of the Streets.
She was stout, florid woman, re-
markably stout and horid, but she was
richly dressed, and as she came down
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