The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IF your brain is ON fire, blow it out.
A LONG ISLAND farmer, who is suffering
with smallpox, took the disease from
pet dog.
A MOTHER asked her little daughter to
do something, and the daughters response
was A general tiredness pervades me-"
-Watertoann RgforDaer.
THE Poughkeepsie On. " Ne@s has
had slight misunderstanding with the
clergymen of that city because one of
it's compositors made it announce them
as having convened at an Internal" in
stead Of an informal" meeting.
81 LIKE to hear q man indulge in u
hearty laugh" says the Rev. Collyer. So
do we, in case it's some other man who
suddenly sits down on the sidewalk.
When it isn't some other man" We de-
spise hearty laughter.-Detrott Free
Press
AN Eastern paper says that it cost them
two dollars to get a blacksmith to pry
open a Philadelphia charity-box, and
when he got in it and emptied out four
cents the charity ladies, who had been
engineering that box for year, looked
an awful look at each other,
A MAN down East" returned his news
paper to the printing Office with Jack
ass" written on the margin, and In the
next issue the editor stated the fact and
wound up the paragraph by asking:
i" Will our indignant subscriber please
to let US know at what stable he can be
found?"
Mr.. WILLIAM j. SToDDARD, of San
Francisco, has horse with SIX perfectly
formed feet, but only four legs. The
two extra feet grow out of the fetlocks
of the two fore legs, and, though small,
are fully developed. The horse, which
was raised in Oregon, is five years old,
stylish, and works in single and double
harness. His extra feet cause him no in
convenience.
WHEN John Chamberlain, the gambler
prince, was looking for den for his
tiger in Washington, his first choice was
the old Madison mansion, on Lafayette
Square, near the Arlington, now the res
idence of Admiral Wilkes. The location
was by all odds the best in the city for
Chamberlain's purpose, and he made an
extremely liberal offer; but the sturdy
old Admiral, though anxious to sell on
account of pecuniary embarrassment. in
dignantly refused it when informed OF
the use to which the house would be put.
So shines a good deed in naughty
world.
THE original copy of the Declaration
of Independence, which has been IN the
Patent Office at Washington for years,
has faded so that the signatures are
scarcely visible, and skilled penman
is to go over the document with the aid
of strong microscope and retrace all
the signatures 50 as to make them dis
tinct and legible. One republican ma
tion has outlived ink-marks, and the old
Declaration of Independence will proba.
bly, have to be retraced with pen ana
ink great many times before its prln-
ciples shall lose interest in American
hearts.
HORACE MANN used to tell story OF
conversation he once had with an inmate
of lunatic asylum at Worcester, Mass,
whose peculiar mania resulted from an
inordinate development of the bump OF
self-esteem: whats the newss Has any
thing unusual happened Of late, sirs" in
quired he, with consequential air. Mr..
Mann happened to recollect that furious
storm had occurred few days previous,
gave him some account OF it, mentioning
that on the sea-coast it was very severe
| several vessels having been driven
ashore and wrecked, with the loss OF
| many lives. "Can you remember, Sir,
what night in the week all that hap
penedy" eagerly inquired the listener.
Mr.. Mann said he believed it was the
night Of Tuesday. Abr said the
lunatic, with an air Of solemnity, min.
gled with triumph, and lowering his
voice to whisper, 81 can account for
it, siri That is the night I whistled 20.
must be more careful in the future"