The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ITHACA points to those brawny boys and
says: "These be my jewels-Cornellians.
THE survey of the Black Hills will
not be completed before September or Oc-
tober.
A NEW YORK doctor says that the prac-
tice of wearing garters is killing hundreds
of women.
EXCESSIVE airs, like excessive dress,
show person to be not only fop without
but one within.
He that does base thing in zeal tor his
friend burns the golden thread that ties
their hearts together.
THE importation of breech loading rifles
and fixed ammunition into the Territory
of Alaska is forbidden.
WHITE barege toilets are very popular
this season. They are trimmed with
plaitings of the same or with fringe.
GILRoY, California, has brass band
with four women in it, and they say there
never was so much soul thrown into
bugle- horn before.
To THE man in debt the race of life Is a
sack-race; any attempt at striding as an
untrammeled man can will cast him into
the dust of bankruptcy.
SAYS the Herald Of Health: "The peo-
pie need more SUM-" There seems to be
wisdom in the remark, but who's going to
hang another sun in the heavens:
NOTHING cheers q man so much as to
sit on a cracker-box in the shade of
grocery awning and read an item about
the terrible scarcity of harvest hands.
THE Kentucky paper which crowded out
sermon and three funeral notices to make
room for report of horse-race proposes
to stand by the interests of its subscribers.
DOES giant farming pay?" asks the
Chicago Tribune. If the Tribune really
wants inform alton, it ought to go and talk
to the giants themselves. The agricultural
papers can't know everything York
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How bravely man can walk the earth,
bear the heaviest burdens, perform the
seyerest duties and look all men boldly IN
the face, if he only bears In his breast a
clear conscience, void of offense toward
God and man!
HE wrote and told her he would be
around at eight O'Clock in the evening,
concluding his note with the following
couplet:
With breath as sweet as roses
Thou'lt breathe upon me, love.
And she coldly answered: You'd better
not come We had onions in the soup to-
day"
SAID Brooklyn girl to her lover: " |
wish it understood that when we are mar
ried you will make it a rule to give me all
the money I ask for, and never inquire
what | do with it." &" But does that show
proper confidence in me? How can you
so wound the feelings of the man who
loves you?" "Ah! my dear" was the
quiet reply, "my mottois: Principles, not
men,"
A WRITER describing the bravery of
the women of China says: " During a
fierce conflict with pirates in the Chinese
Sea there was pirates wife in one of the
boats, holding so fast by the helm that she
could scarcely be taken away. Having
two cutlasses, she defended herself and
wounded some soldiers, but on being
wounded by matchbox ball she fell
back into the vessel and was taken pris-
oner"
4 TRAMP writes to the Providence
Or. ~ Journal of his profession as COM
posed "of men who go from place to
place through the country, gathering and
disseminating, of course, great amount
of useful information, relying mainly
upon the public hospitality for their tenn
porary maintenance, never wearing out
their welcome by long sojourn in one
place, never interfering in politics, care
fully and conscientiously abstaining from
| all agitation of the labor question in any
| of its phases"
THE following authentic incident is
given as illustrating the hardships of the
English law of marriage: An officer in
India was married about ten years ago
under peculiar circumstances. The
woman, being disappointed in her desire
to obtain another man, took this officer out
of pique, but as soon as the marriage
service was over told him why she had
married him and refused to go home with
him. From that day to the present she
has not given her husband one hours
companionship, and yet he has found him.
self. unable to extricate himself legally
from bond which makes him the vic
tim of woman's pique against another
man.
THE New York Herald of recent date
says Postmaster James received in yes
terday mornings mail from Mount Yer
non, Ohio, letter addressed to National
Bank, New York City," the word Third
stricken out before National" 1t con.
tanned valuable drafts, sent by the Knox
County National Bank, of Mount Vernon
Ohio. Mr. Anthony Yeomans, the Gen
eral Superintendent of the Postoffice, took
the letter to the National Bank of Com
merce to learn from them what bank was
likely to receive remittance from the
Buckeye bank just named, when John
King, the assistant-cashier of the Nationa
Bank of Commerce, stated that the letter
was intended for him, and opening the
same showed the Endorsement of the drafts
to his name. The envelope was sent back
by Mr.. James to demonstrate to the care
less correspondent at Mount Vernon how
the postal service is abused without any
fault of the officials. This is only ont
case out of many where letters are misdi
rected and the United States mail servic,
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