The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CHAIRS and sofas stuffed with aromatic
herbs, (which fill the air with an agreea-
bic, bat not too powerful, perfume" is the
latest Partisan folly.
In excavating for ore at Salisbury,
Conn, the other day, the workmcn found
layer of frost, two inches thick, fourteen
feet below the surface.
DON'T you think things look blue 2
said man to Spilkins yesterday. That's
Just azure inclined to look at them," re-
piled the incorrigible Leander
ROEDERER said constitution should
be Short" and he would have added
clear" but Talleyrand interrupted and
said: Z" Yes, short and obscure"
THAT name is Herzegovina" and if
you hear newsboy crying out; "Awl
abawt the Hearsagovineyard warn you
may know that he means well enough.
HAS anybody ever explained why a
young man who is going to be married
invariably casts gloom over the occa-
sion by having his hair cut, and short?
AN Emperor respectfully asking Par
Lament to give him vacation for eight
cen months, as just seen in Brazil, is pre-
eminently a nineteenth-centuy spectacle.
NEVER speak harshly to a hack-driver.
Though he may not be an orphan, he will
answer you in language so meek and
gracious as to make you feel ashamed of
yourself.
NAPoLEoN ", like other modern
Princes, is going to take tour round the
world He cannot take one of his papa's
iron -clads for the purpose, however, for
several reasons.
A LAW in Nebraska requires every busi-
ness firm to register its name and kind OF
business, and the name of each member
of the firm, with the County Clerk, under
penalty of 81 900 fine.
THE managers of New York cemetery
recently gave an excursion to lot OF
iovial undertakers. This is getting the
popular weakness down among the dead
men with vengeance.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD girl Of Westtield
Vt, weighs III pounds, measures three
feet six inches around the waist, thirty
six inches around the chest and twenty-five
inches around the head.
EAST Rock, which overhangs number
of cottages near Great Darlington, Mass,
is so shaky in its balance that the cot
tagers are imploring Government to pro
tect the weaker from the bowlder.
THE good boy who goes home and tells
his mother how he rebuked his cOmpan
ion for robbing birds nests will perhaps
pass the pantry twenty times that very day
and still find it locked. How ignorant
parents are, and how little they under
stand their children!
WILD pigeons, though of late years no
so numerous in Connecticut as they useC
to be forty years ago, when they came by
| the hundred thousand, are nevertheless!
reported to be plenty just now, in certain
regions. Two of their famous localitie:
are Gfanby and Simsbury.
As A passenger train halted at Laramie
the other day for dinner an insane woman
| leaped from one of the cars, threw he
babe into mud-puddle and ran frantical
ly up one of the streets, bowling as sh'
went. The mother and her infant wer'
placed aboard the train again.
You people who have bankrupted thu
boarding house when you had a cold, ant
went hungry when you had fever, be
cause an old proverh says Feed colo
and starve a fever" will feel cheap now
1t has been discovered that the autho
means if you do feed cold it will giv'
you fever to starve.-MilDaukee Sentinel
THE Sunday statute of Vermont pro
vides " that no person shall travel on tn
Sabbath or first day of the week excep
from necessity or charity" And the Su
preme Court of Vermont has accordingl.
decided that lone travelling on the Sab
bath without excuse cannot maintain al
action against the town for any damag
he may suffer through defects in its high
ways"
THIS is the season when she come
downtown to see if her summer hat Cal
be pressed over to look well for fall wear
The girl in the milliner's shop doesn'
treat her with the Difference accorded t.
woman who buys hat all new, but tn
glance the milliner's girl gets for thi
lack Of courtesy is something she will
remember to her dying days. Loui
Republican. .. .- ..r-., .
IT is rather surprising, writes a Pari
correspondent, to see how the dress o
even the most fashionable American la
dies at home occasionally differs from til
Partisan model, which they all profess t
copy. For instance, a party of elegan
and wealthy New Workers arrived in Ell
rope about six weeks ago, all wearin
bonnets with immensely-broad, turned-u
| brims, the like of which had never bee
seen in Paris during the entire season
| So much attention, in fact, did their move
head gear excite that they were all force
to pay an early visit to the fashionabl
milliner .... .....,. -.
MR.. T. J. HUTcHENs, who lives fey
miles below Rushville, Kan, says thai
some days since, his wife attempted to RI
move hen from nest where she ha
Matched out gang of chickens, and o
raising the hen off the nest she dis
covered a large moccasin snake coiled III
der the hen among the little chickens
This so excited Mrs. Hutchens that sh
dropped the hen back on the nest and ral
to the house. When Mr. Hutchens cam
home his wife told him of the circun
stance, and requested him to, kill tn
snaKe. Accordingly he approached tn
nest, when, to his surprise, the snake an
little chickens were stretched out dead
and the old hen was still on the nest, wit
her head swelled up as large as a man
fist. 1t was evident that the snake killet
the chickens and the hen killed th
snake.
The San Jose (Cal) Patriot man
getting discouraged because of the maj
velous inventions of the age, and col
cludes: e 1t certainly becomes aquestio
of serious consideration whether man
any great production after all; it seems t
be only question OF time when he will b
forced to give way to animated stones an
lbrickbats." ssv ~