The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-08
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SPEAKING about frigid June weather
old Massachusetts folks tell about four
inch snow-storm June 13, 1912, when the
| ground was frozen an inch deep.
A PRINTERS devil says his lot is hard
| one; at his boarding house they charge
him with all the pie they can't find, and
at the Office they charge him with all the
| pi they do find.
WHEN Delaware boy picks lemon
off street stand, even though it is only
two-cent lemon they jail him for thirty
days in order to strike blow at the boys
| all over the world,
| ASTRONOMERS have just found out that
it isn't but 100000 miles to the sun, but
| 100000 miles on a journey of this sort
doesn't amount to anything. Let's stick
to the old figures.
Boston, populous Boston, may properly
| be described as the town i'll which hun
dreds of thousands daily live and move
and have their be-ans"-Neo York Conn
| mercidL Adrertiser.
A GIRL. covered her face with both her
| hands when she thought he was about to
kiss her; then she complained: "Oh, my
hands are too small; there is room for 800
yet between them"
A WASHINGTON Cd. c. man writes to
the National Republican complaining of
the water we drink" He has been exam
| ining it under the microscope, and says
there's millions in it,
A New YORK servant girl, out on the
harbor in boat the other day for the pur-
pose of committing suicide, saw Il red
| headed sailor, fell in love with him, and
was married instead of drowned.
A DISEASE called the mad itch'' has
appeared among the cattle that run on the
commons near Memphis, Tenn. 1t in
cites them to such playful pastimc as toss
ing men, women and children into the air.
| A PHILADELPHIA baker has informed
the police that he has an irresistible desire
to bake his wife, and they have locked
him up. Philadclphians now pull their
| loaves apart and look for baked bakers
wives.
THAT was an exceedingly uncompli-
mcntary young man who, after paying at
tention to damsel for some months, on
discovering her one morning sans her false
teeth, remarked Goodness gracious
Your mouth looks like railroad depot
| e., all IL, Inv Lot
WILLIAM" observed a Danbury woman
to her husband, "Mrs. Holcomb feels
pretty badly since the loss of her child
and wish you would drop over there and
see her. You might say that all flesh is
| grass-that we've all got to go the same
way and see if she is going to use her
dripping pan this afternoon. ."-Danbury
| Ners.
JUDGE Hunt, of the United States Su-
preme Bench has decided, in the case of
the United States Us. George Hughes, of
New York, that testimony taken from
| books and papers of the defendant seized
| by the Government shall be admitted, I'M
der the statute which authorizes the use of
evidence elected " from the party as a wit
ness
THE jaier of Hartford, Conn, was re-
warded the other day by an enjoyable
demonstration from his prisoners. The
spokesman of the party that waited upon
him, in a voice tremulous with suppressed
gratitude, said: MIR. Belden, in behalf OF
| the other inmates of the institution, come
to thank you for the improved quality of
the hash"
A CENSUS enumerator in Albany asked
an old maid her age: "Thirty- y-one," she
replied. "Ohor' calculated the question
er, incredulously; "are you married?'
" No, sir" said she. "Aha.' was his
second exclamation The aged maiden
glanced over his shoulder into the book,
saw that he had put her down at fifty
one, and an instant later he had more
scratches and less hair than when he en-
| tered
A BOY got his grandfather's gun and
| loaded it, but was afraid to fire. he, how
| ever, liked the fun of loading, and so put
| in another charge, but was still afraid to
| fire He kept on charging, but without
firing, until he got six charges in the old
piece. His grandmother, learning his
temerity, smartly reproved him, and
grasping the old Continental discharged it.
The result was tremendous, throwing the
| old lady on her back. She promptly
struggled TO regain her feet, but the boy
cried out: "Lie still, granny; there are
five more charges to 60 off yet"
AT SAN Francisco, the other afternoon,
lima De Murska appeared before large
audience in concert. She had begun to
| sing the mad scene from "Lucia" when
| two little black -and-tan puppies escaped
from their keeper behind the scenes, ran
on the stage, and chased each other around
and around the singer, dodging under her
skirts and out again, until the whole house
was convulsed with laughter. De Murska
accepted the situation good-naturedly,
but not till long time after the dogs were
carried off could she or her hearers re-
cover sufficient gravity to admit OF the
| continuance of the concert.-Erchange.
A HORRIBLE story is told by the Enter
prise Miss Star 1t seems that small
pox has been rather prevalent, and re-
Gently negro woman, with five children,
was attacked by the disease. As soon as
it became known that the woman had
smallpox the other negro families ada
cent moved off, and left the miserable
woman to her fate. The negroes claim,
however, that they carried food near the
house and called to the children to come
out and get it. The woman fingered four
or five days in great agony and finally
died No one would attempt to bury the
remains for several days, and one night
the children were called out and fire was
set to the house, burning up everything in
it, body and all.
THE Indian Mirror gives the following
curious report on newspapers in India
"In Bengal there are forty-nine English
newspapers, eighty eight vernacular news
papers, fourteen in both English and yer
nacular. In Bombay there are thirty
seven English newspapers, sixty-six yer
nacular and twenty mixed. In the north
west provinces there are thirteen English
; newspapers, fifty-eight vernacular news
papers and seven English and vernaculal
mixed. In the Penjaub there are sever