The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
ITEMS Of INTEREST.

ITEMS Of INTEREST.
They are making tOmbstones in st.
Louis with Didn't know it was loaded''
all cut in advance.
WHY is store that don't advertise
like Enoch Arden? Because it "sees no
sale from day to day."
MARCH came in like a whole menagerie
of lions. Unless the lamb and lion story
is lynn story he will 60 out like mill
ion sheep.
If you we're o Brien, of San Francisco,
you could lend your brother-in-law
$5 ,O00, 900 and then have as much left to
keep visions Of the poor-house away.
brou. .ANBuRY boarder, when the waiter
that his "strong holts did not lie IN tnat
direction. and ordered bottle of musk
instead.
THOSE Delaware women have good
memories. One of them, who is seek
ing a divorce, states that during the past
three years her husband pinched her
3S45 times.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore
Sun has found in Florida a young girl
named Neuralgia. She was christened
after bottle of patent medicine which
her mother esteemed.
On Cayuga Lake, in the State of New
York, during the past winter, the expan-
sion of the immense body of ice up
heaved the rocks and soil of the shores
to an additional height Of several feet.
"Now, there's a finished gentleman for
you," said fireman as he gazed upon
the pieces of the engineer that had been
scraped up and gathered to his fathers,
after the last attempt to run train on
nothing.-St Joseph Herald.
THE editor of the Placer (Cal.) Argue
has informed the editor of the Herald, of
the same place, that hereafter he would
settle all controversies between the pa
pers by personal meetings instead of re-
plying through the columns of his paper.
If YOU want to please an Ohio man,
praise his cows; Kentuckian, his horses /;
an Arkansas man, his shooting; a Kansas
man, his dogs; an Iowa man, his girls; a
Wisconsin man, his feet; Virginian, his
family name; Tennesseean, his MULE
Detroit Free Press.
NIAGARA FALLS is to have daily pa
per. Now, at last, the patient, meek
and suffering hackmen and the unob-
trusive curiosity-vender will have an
opportunity to ventilate the impositions
practiced upon them from time imme-
mortal by an arrogant and close-fisted
travelling public.
ACCORDING to DR.. Schmitz, diabetes,
that much dreaded disease, is almost al
ways the result of congenital pre-
disposition; mental anxiety, severe pain,
injuries of various kinds, ETC., whether
they affect the nerves of the system or
not, being powerless to bring about the
affection without an inherited tendency
to it.
No! NO! no! A thousand times no! It
must not be done. A Swede out in Sola-
no County, Cal, has applied to the courts
for permission to change his name from
Peter Azel Nystrom to John Smith, as if
there were not already John Smiths
enough to craze anyone who cOnsults a
directory to find particular John
Smith.
A NEW contributor sends the following
note, accompanying communication, to
the Independent: :" Mr.. Editor-I am a
new hand at writing, but if the follow
ing is Of any use to you please accept it,
and say it is from the pen of John J. Da-
Wis, of Oakland, gentleman well known
as one of the profoundest thinkers and
most brilliant literaters ives. Of the Rocky
Mountains. Say, also, that for deep re-
sirch and keen suggestiveness it stands
peerless as satire"
| THE newest suits Of black silk and o1
the plaid fabrics used for spring have
long, deep shirred aprons reaching from
toe to belt, and formed Of two breadthl
Of silk, each Of which forms . singl,
lengthwise puff that is slightly shirret
and rufiled on each edge. Down th'
middle Of the front is ; sloped marrow
band Of the trimming (Which is velvet o.
silk suits and silk on woolens), and tn
ruined front edge ID sewed to this; th'
other sides Of the breadths are sloped mp
ward and rounded out over the t0urnurt
whore intricate drsping snd looping
i trim the back. With such 3 tablicr th'
skirt has two rows Of knife e-pleating, eaca
six inches deep and stitched down twice
Ths basque has vs3vss point down tn
nifadle Of the back and d0a11g oe1ler q
velvet in front. Very high collars an,
class slssvsss coetlsue. n sssus.--He,
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