The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE Wetumpka M JoaD is an in
huential Alabama paper.


THE Wetumpka M JoGU is an in
huential Alabama paper.
THE sooner John d. Lee is hung the
better. d. Lees are dangerous
Rochester Chronicle.
IT costs a New York country news
paper verdict of $4,000 damages to
call a clergyman "moral leper."
Soon, too soon, every paper in the
land will have an article beginning,
"Now that the Centennial Exhibition
is closed" etc.
In two weeks from now, the man,
woman or child who doesn't have a
Centennial medal will be counted poor
trash.-E@change.
THE popcorn man who bought the
Centennial grounds for $4,000, and is
making 5000 day, is so happy and
patriotic that he can't sleep.
YUsEF 'IZZU-D-DIN is the next heir
to the Turkish throne. When you
leave ConstantinOple next time you
will have to have pass for Yusef
'Izzu-d-Din his oflice.-N. Y. Graphic.
A BOY was gnawing away at some
watermelon rinds, and passer asked
him why he was eating those rinds.
The answer was conclusive:- "COz
some other Teller has eaten the corep'
In a police court two young men, ac-
cused of stealing pie from a bakers
shop, pleaded that they were hungry.
"Why didn't you steal bread, then?"
the Judge asked, and the sententious
reply was, "Liked pie better
THE largest fish ever caught in Lake
Ontario was taken at Sackett's Har-
Dor, few days ago, in seine. 1t was
a sturgeon nine feet in length, and
weighing 200 pounds. The blubber of
the fish weighed sixty pounds.
A LIVELY girl had bashful lover,
whose name was Locke. She got out
of patience with him at last, and, in
her anger, declared that Shakespeare
had not said one-half as many things
as he ought to about Shy-Locke.
A GENTLEMAN standing on the
Body House steps, this morning, was
accosted by bootblack in this manner:
"Shine, SURF" "Nor' "Shine 'em
up quick, sur. Dot in three diffrunt
languages-'Publican, Demmyc:atic
and Greenbacks." He got the job.-
Toledo Blade.
A MAN who cheats in short measure
is measureless rogue. If in whisky,
then he is a rogue in spirit. If by
classifying his accounts, then he is an
unaccOuntable rogue. If he gives a
bad title to the land, then heis rogue
indeed. If he gives short measure in
wheat, then he is rogue in grain.
THE French Minister of Agriculture
never saw field of wheat until he
had held office two years. This is like
putting a man to-binding wheat when
he doesn't know how band is made,
or comforting the degree of D. D. on a
preacher who imagines that the Bible
was originally written in English.
A PARIS fashion writer describes a
ball-dress made entirely of flowers.
The garment is really an overdress, al
though it is so long as nearly to cover
the other. From beneath the edge
falls some dropping flowers, like
fuchsias, and covering the upper part,
generally made of muslin, are flowers
of one species, or mixtures of all kinds.
In answer to the question whether
any full-blooded negroes had died of |
yellow-fever, the Savannah Meas says:
s"The result of our observations and |
inquiries upon the above subject is to
the effect that the pure-blooded negro
is not subject for yellow-fever. Those
colored who have died here, without
exception, have been persons of mixed |
blood"
Two RAG-PICKERs are cropping in
the same gutter, and simultaneously |
strike cotton rag of most fearful ap-
pearance. "My esteemed colleague"
says one, who had evidently seer bet
ter. days, "might I trouble you to
yield that handkerchief to me?"
"Might 1 ask my honorable friend
whyY responded the other, with
equal peliteness. ''Because, sir, my
daughter is soon to be married and 1
am DESTROYS of furnishing her with
trousseah suitable to her station. -
Paris Paper.
A MARRIED couple were attacked in
the street by dog. The wife screamed
and tried to run, but her husband
caught her by the shoulders and held
her firmly between the Infatuated
beast and his person, while he whis-
pered in hoarse voice: "Don't you
dare to let go of me, darling. I'll
stand by you, even if he does bite"
Never losing his presence of mind for
an instant, the daring man baffled every
effort of the fierce brute to get at him.
The owner of the dog interfered, and,
as the couple moved off, the husband
was heard to say: eff you had only
let that dog bite you, l might have
sued the city for 10000 damages. But
you never did have much sense."-N
7. Sun,