The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-02
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| WHICH lnlest their plants.
! THE street-sprinklers of Cleveland are
in danger. The mortality among children
there is charged to the continued damp
ness of the paved streets.
A STATEMENT of the liabilities and as
sets Of most of the suspended firms might
be summed up in the words: d" Much due,
about nothing. - Commercial Adrerttser.
A LITTLE Harrisburg (Pa.) chap found
a hook and line and went fishing in the
yard. He caught something-hi young
er brother-and a surgeon got a job of
cutting the hook out of the youngsters
| nose,
THE little thirteen year-oid girl who was
recently sentenced by an English magis-
trate TO fourteen years in prison and four
years in the reformatory for plucking a
geranium has been released by the Home
Secretary.
THE problem of education becomes for
a man the problem of self-education. He
who supposcs that, at twenty or fifty five
years, he is finished man has not con-
ceived of the nature of education or the
pufpdse Of llit;
Don't, says the Louisville CoUrief-J0Urs
nal, sneer at the bad writing in newspa-
pers. 1t is often done in room where
four or five men are disputing about the
last great game Of bastball-a STATE Of
affairs vastly worse than the toothache.
4 TRAMP called at house in Norwich,
Conn, the other day, and, after being fed,
asked if the man of the house was at
home. NO." replied she who had
served him, but I'll letyou know, mighty
quick, that the woman of the house is at
homel" and, taking down DIN old sword,
she started for him, but he escaped.
SHE famed herself with her handkcr-
chief as she sat down on the stool in front
of the soda fountain, and as the clerk was
drawing the sirup she turned to her
daughter, a girl of fifteen, and remarked ::
Now, Mary, be careful. Don't gulp it
down at three swallows and get exploded
all to pieces by gas, but sip, sip, and don't
run any risks
YESTERDAY, during one Of the numer
Gus showers, Detroit lawyer walked four
blocks through the drips" to reach the
office of Justice of the Peace and say
:" 1t rains upon the justice wells the un-
just" Ills Honor removed the pipe from
replied: "Grass needs it." And the law
yer went out and kicked at newsboy to
relieve his burden of madness.-Detr0tt
Free P"CsS.
THERE was big rain in Providence
r. l., on the 18th inst. A scientific OBJ
server, Dr. Caswcll, says that but one rain
in forty-onc years has fallen at 50 rapid Il
rate, and then the amount was less being
3 - inches, while on that day the fall was
3,4, inches. In the first case, July II,
1920, thc whole amount fell in an hour,
and on the 10Th it was about an hour and
half in falling.
A MAN who had been feeding a thrcsh-
ing machine in McMinvillc, Tenn, the
other day, felt his pantaloons catch in the
machinery, and had just time to brace his
feet and hands against some firm object
near by in order to save his life. Fortu-
nately the pantaloons were Of thin material
and gave way easily; the shirt followed,
and he was left standing with nothing on
but his shoes. Threshing machines, like
time and tides, wait for no man.
A LADY residing in Lansingburgh, N.
Y, hailed a passing car, with her little
son, the other morning, to see him safely
on the hOrsc-car for a trip to Troy. He
stepped on board, and scrambled for the
front of the Car. As he was going his
mother said: why, aren't you going to
kiss your mother before you go:" The
little fellow was so delighted at the pros
pect of a ride, and in such hurry, that he
hastily reioined, looking back eXcitedly:
Mr.. Conductor, won't you kiss mother
for me?'
\ YOUTH of ighly-imaginativc nature
in New Orleans recently saw Il red-headed
female of uncertain age standing in front
of a mud-puddle in the street, and he thus
pours himself out in the New Orleans
Bulletin: "a fairer picture never haunted
the dreams of Raphael, and had she but
glanced downward and caught in the
shining water the reflection Of her perfect
face, made lovely by dreamy, azure eyes,
and crown of such exquisite auburn hair
as one rarely sees, save on canvas, surely
the fate of Narcissus had been hers"
OUR own country is not alone in its
atiiction from the grasshoppcr plague.
A Roumanian correspondent of the Lon
don Times, writing from Galatz on Aug.
1, describes a swarm of locusts which he
had witnessed that day that was from
three to four miles wide, fifteen miles
long, and was about five hours in passing.
The correspondent says; 'All over this
part of the country lately all the horses in
the village have been kept saddled, and
the instant the locusts are reported in the
neghborhood all the people turn out and
gallop after item, and raise an awful din
with pots and pans, and SO on, to prevent
them from alighting. If once the flock
alight it is all up; but by this means they
manage to frighten them from alighting,
and cause them to move on elsewhere
This is a remedy for grasshoppers our
Western farmers have never tried.-ChicdgO
Tribune