The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-06
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positions in the service OF the House, al
Washington.
equity, with some doubts about his
being the man that did it," is Pennsyl
vania verdict.
THE New York papers are agitating the
community by discussing the question
whether it is proper or not for gentle.
man to cross his legs in a street-car.
KATE FIELD carries a revolver. Some
day some malicious person will load it,
and then she will have to put it in pail
of water and run behind the door until
the danger is over.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY says pleasure is
the legitimate end of life provided il
transgresses no law and Injuries no person.
This code of morals is not generally &C
cepted by the philosophers.
The New York Herald says that so per
cent. of the Christmas slippers did not
tit. Twas ever thus in boyhood's hour
Slippers never fitted them-perhaps be-
cause they were tried on improperly.
A FRENCH doctor says all great criml-
mails have been great smokers. We OBJ
serve likewise that all great criminals
have been in the habit of sleeping at night
and eating three meals a day.-Rochester
Democrat.
THE Lieutenant Governor of Rhode
Island should remember that there are
worse things than having $4,000 horse
die on short notice. 1t might have been
a $4,000 colt and so he has made saw
ing OF $4,000.
IT is believed that Vesuvlus means to
make it hot again for the surrounding
country, and amidst your woes be thank
full that you don't own any garden land
at the loot of the growing mountain
Detroit Free Press.
JOHN MONTGOMERY SEARS, son of the
late Joshua Sears, of Boston, came of age
Christmas Day. He owns more than
81 4,000, 900 of real estate in Boston, and is
worth many millions more in mortgages
and bonds of various kinds.
CHESTER BARDoN, an Oregon murderer
under sentence of death, has cheated the
gallows by starving himself to death
Chester always was dishonest, and to out
rage the law was his favorite amusement
He doubtless died with a grin on his
countenance
As A specimen of deliberately sowing
the wind with dead certainty of reaping
the whrlwind, the case of the small boy
who intrudes upon his grown-up sister
and her young man is especially notable.
But the small boy always takes the chances.
st. Lauis Republican.
NEXT year will be a great year for this
American nation. 1t is leap year, Presi-
dental election year and the centennial
anniversary of our independence, and for
the purpose of giving us rest during so
much excitement there will be one extra
Sunday, or fifty three in ALL
Now THIS is why the sly lobster bushes
so after being boiled: The shell of the
lobster is imbued with black or blush
black pigment, sccreted by the true skin,
which also gives out the calcareous matter
after each molt, so that lime and pigment
are blended together. This pigment be-
comes red (pale or intense) in water at
the temperature of 212 degrees.
ONE night last week one of our saloon
keepers heard rattling in his cellar, and
procuring light went down and dis
covered rat caught by the tail in clam
shell. The rat, after being caught, at
tempted to enter his hole, but was stopped
by the clam being too large to follow, and
was found in that position by the saloon
keeper -Orleans american.
JOHN KITLER, a private of Company
co. Twentieth Infantry, committed sui
eide at Fort Ripley recently. Five minutes
before he left the mess table, went into the
squad-room, seated himself on "A trunk, re-
moved his shoe, and touched the trigger
of rifle with his right foot. The death
was instantaneous, and brains and blood
were scattered about the room.
THE Roman Catholics are building a
grand fountain in Philadelphia to COM
memorate the Centennial. They will
issue some time the present month a
medal bearing on one side picture of the
fountain and the words: " In Honor of
the One Hundredth Anniversary of 1nde-
pendence," and the reverse bearing the
official badge of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Beneficial Union, with the
words: "1776-A Tribute to American
Liberty-1S76."
OLD SCRooGE is dead. His name this
time was George Stebbins, and he lived
in Springfield, Mass. He died in a fit on
Christmas Day. Although worth several
thousand dollars, he has been extremely
misery and penurious, living on bacon
and crackers and other cheap diet. His
house, which few persons besides himself
have been permitted to enter, was found
to be dirty, bare and dreary, containing
only few rickety chairs, some broken
crockery, an old piano and little corn.
AN old man in Baltimore, who has been
great favorite with children, gave three
little girls some small cakes, a few nights
ago, which he had carried in his pocket
After eating the cakes the girls were
taken very ill and one of them died before
physician arrived. The lives of the
others were saved by the prompt use OF
emetics. On going to the old mans room
he was found dead in his bed. An exam.
ination of his pocket showed that he had
carried matches with the cakes and the
phosphorus had poisoned them.
SIX years ago Messrs. Wolcott, John.
ston g. Co., of Freehold, N. j., sold to
Lewis D. Mount, a farmer, a twenty five.
cent package of what they represented as
seed that would produce excellent early
turnips. The seed brought forth late
turnips of such poor quality that MIR.
Mount was compelled to feed them to his
CATTLE Mr.. Mount sued for damages be.
fore Justice of the Peace, and was
granted judgment of ninety-nine dollars
damages. The plea of the defendants
was that they had purchased the seed un-
der the impression that it was first-class,
and having paid the ordinary price nc
fraud was intended. Appeals were taken
to the Court of Common Pleas, and after
ward to the Supreme Court, and then to
the Court of Appeals, and these all af-
firmed the original decision Of the Justice OF
the Peace. In the suit $40, 900 damages in
legal expenses have been paid.
LAST night Mr.. Middlerib, happy and
beaming, went home with both arms full
of Christmas bundles and his hands were