The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A TIE game Getting married.
SEALsKIN bonnets are the newest.
SOMETIMES gets out of temper-Steel.
A PAIR of pinchers-Those tight boots.
THE hardest part of the cradle-The
rock.
OFTEN "hauled over the coals''-The
poker.
EMILY FAITHFUL does not believe in
wearing Grape.
A BAwL of worsted-The cry of a
spanked child.
BUSINESS when fiat on its back of course
has to look up.
THE bears IN Montana are hibernating
under SIX feet of snow.
THERE were A, 400 deaths from cholera
in Syria the past summer.
If you find it hard splitting wood, sup
pose you split the difference.
WEAK men are the hardest to control.
They have no more backbone tnan an an
gleworm.
The man who was asked to sing solo
said he would if his friend would help
him duet.
The old custom of having wedding in
vitations given orally by the bride herself
is again being revived.
WHY must the letter cd" be the most
wonderful letter in the alphabet? Because
it is the center of wonder"
THE Stlrer Void, published at Lake
City, Col, was started before the town
had Postoftice, and the editor carried
his earlier editions about 100 miles to mail
them.
THERE is an old lady in the vicinity of
Old Fort, N. c., who has, with the assist
ance Of large dog, captured two or three
escaped convicts, delivered them to the
officers and received the reward
IT does not follow that man is a Chris.
tian because he accepts creed and at
tends fashionable church any more than
that he is gun because he swallows the
physicians powders.-N. Y. Herald.
A PARIS letter says that the Americans
are not at all behind the Russians as ac
complished skaters, and there are two or
three Americans in Paris who can hold
their own with the best of the world.
THERE is commotion among the bosses
in the employ of the Maine Central Rail
road on account of an order to discharge
such as cannot read and write; four "boss
section men" have lost their positions,
one of them after service of twenty five
years. He says that he is going to master
his b c's or die.
Mrs. RUTH SoUTHwoRTH, widow of
Edward Southworth, of Plymouth, Me-,
ninety eight years old, has gone to keep
ing house for her son, doing her own
work of cooking, washing, scrubbing,
ETC., with all the cheeriness and zeal with
which she entered on these duties in her
early married life.
A sYLpH-LTKE lady school -marm, in
Yonkers, N. Y, lately whipped thirty five
school children one forenoon for refusal
to learn their geography lesson. Then
she kicked the stove over, slammed the
door of the house from its hinges and
walked home like queen Of victory. The
children say that her touch was warmer
than the thickest wooden drawers, and
that her arm moved liked the hind leg of
mule.
;, laos ipnraln1it,r Of Il
centenarians so frequently reported
nowadays. 1t is certainly true that peo-
pie are living longer, or the newspapers
are more industrious in finding out the
old ones, or there is more lying on the
subject of old age, than formerly. The
State census in New York, this year,
shows 100 people in that State who are
over 100 years old, which is nineteen
more than were found ten years ago
Brooklyn has several of the oldest, includ-
ing the very oldest, Sarah Hicks, aged
ia. About half of the whole number
were foreign born, twelve were colored
and two Indians.
A GENTLEMAN named Wall, residing at
Ph9nixville, has several very fine canary
birds which he has given much attention.
One of the birds he has taught to sing
+" Home, Sweet Home" clearly and dis
tinctly. His mode of instruction is as
follows: He placed the canary IN a room
where it could not hear the singing Of
other birds, and suspended its cage from
the ceiling so that the bird would its re-
Election in mirror. Beneath the glass
he placed a musical-box that was regu-
lated to play no other tune but Home,
Sweet Home" Hearing no other sounds
but this, and believing the music pro-
ceeded from the bird it saw in the mirror,
the young canary soon began to catch the
notes, and finally accomplished what its
owner had been laboring to attain, that of
singing the song perfectly. Mr.. Wall has
been offered and refused $50 for this
yellow-throated soprano.-Reading (Pa.)
Eagle.