The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
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THE original Independence Day, July 4.
1915, was on Thursday. ...
RELIGIOUS disturbances are reported in
Crete, being fomented by certain indis.
Crete parties.-I. Louis Times. a. b.
III Brigham Young wore an additional
"weed" on his hat every time he lost a
wife or mother in law, it is estimated
his hat would We to be twenty seven feet
! high. .s
A Protestant CHURCH has been built
at Smithtield, London, to commemorate
the martyrs burned there, and the Catho-
lies intend to build one at the Tower to
commemorate others.
THERE is not.a base-ballist killed yet,
and the sporting editors are becoming I'M
patient Some good work can be done on
the Chicago nine by a discriminating muir.
derer.-Chicago Tribune.
ALI, the myths OF the century are fading
one by one. Spotted Tails daughter never
loved a pale-face; he never scorned her
love; she never died of grief for him. In
short, Spotted Tail newer had a daughter,
Detroit Free Press.
A PHYSICIAN in Laramie, Wyoming,
states that he has Just discharged case
of conffuent smallpox without pit, and
he gives the remedy he used. He painted
the face of his patient with collOdion and
ivy black, applied as often as necessary to
keep up a complete mask.
FAREWELL, for one year or thereabouts,
TO the startling cracker, the annoying tor
pedo, the detonating Chinese bomb, the
impaling rocket, the sight-destroying Ro-
man candle, the fzzing pin.wheel, the
suicidal pistol, the holoCausting cannon,
the metropolitan shotgun.
The district in Kentucky known as
Trospcr's Chapel has sixty children and
eighty-two dogs. Allowing all the dis
tricts in the county (fifty-two) to average
this and there are AGA dogs in the coun-
ty; allowing each one pound of bread per
day, they consume 1,j55,360 pounds of
bread per year.
In some ginseng root received at store
in Nashville, Tenn, the other day, d
piece was found that had bullet i'm
bedded entirely in it, 1t had either been
shot into it while growing, Or the plant
had grown near the bullet and enveloped
it as it grew, completely covering and hid
ing it. The ball was not discovered till
the root was broken in two.
THERE is large and dangerous rock in
the harbOr of Victoria, British Columbia
and it is intended to construct IA Golfer.
dam ten feet square over the center of the
rock. A shaft will then be sunk to the
depth of twelve feet, and four headings or
drifts driven from the shaft. A large
quantity Of giant-powder will be placed
in the slaft-hcadings and the whole ex-
ploded by electricity about Aug l.
On being asked by one of his fair
daughters why the bulldogs nose is placed
so far behind his mouth, the very reverend
gentleman discovers another instance of
the merciful consideration ever shown by
shall we say g Nature ?"-to the hum
blest of her creatures, and replies: My
love, it is to enable him to breathe more
comfortably while he is hanging on to the
nose of the bullp'-Punch.
RECENTLY, while workmen were en-
gagged in making repairs in the wleel-plt
at pottery in Bennington, Va, one OF
their number, while feeling under de-
cayed plank came in contact with Shiny,
slippery something, which proved, after a
somewhat protracted struggle, to be an
enormous eel. Its length was six feet,
seven and three-fourths inches, and 1t
weighed nine pounds and seven ounces.
DIR. HALL relates the case of a man who
was cured of his biliousness by going
without his supper and drinking freely OF
lemonade. Every morning, says the doc
tor this patient arose with wonderful
sense Ct rest and refreshment, and feeling
as though the blood had been literally
washed, cleansed and cooled by the lem
onade and fast. His theory is that food
can be used as a remedy for many diseases
successfully. AS an example he cures
splitting of blood by the use of salt; cpl
lepsy by watermelon; kidney affection by
celery; poison, olive or sweet oil; erysip-
elias, pounded cranberries applied to the
part affected; hydrophobia, onions, etc.
So the way to keep in good health is
really to know what to eat-not to know
what medicine to take.
A THEORY of the Boston drug store ex-
plosion is that it was caused by the vapor
of ether Several bottles of ether were
kept in the rear of the store, and the sud
den breaking of any one Of them by fall
ing, or by pressure, would, by the ignition
of the air-mixed vapor, be sufficient to pro-
duce the disaster. The vapor of ether,
when mixed with atmospheric air in the
proportions of one part Of ether to six or
eight of air, affords very powerful and
dangerous explosive agent. On one oc-
casion, known to the editor of the Boston
Journal Of Chemistry, in 1859, blythe leak
age of retort, the air-miXed vapor trav-
elcd over space of more than fifty feet in
contact with the furnace fires, and an explo-
sion occurred which lifted the building
from its foundation and leveled brick
wall of great strength even with the
ground, though fortunately circumstances