The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-18
Z Personal AND LITERARY.

-Epl1raim Martin, an eccentric citi-
-sen 0f- Sutton, N. H. who died long
ago, beaueathed to lis daughter four
hedgehogs, to his Oldest son So, to the
second son $4,000, and to the third
$50, 200.
A Cambridge (Mass.) man, wait
ing in line for his turn to buy some
lecture tickets, got hungry and gave a
boy quarter to hold his place whilehe
went to lunch.a The boy. with true
Yankee thrift, Immediately sold out the
position to another, man for o.; and
left yeh ala 93I 9aaeaH iNgR "A fHf9 S.f
: f-Dr. r. T. Trail, of New York,
whose death was announced the other
day, fairly earned the title Of the great
cold-water apostle. He"was the, head'
and front of the cold-water movement
in the Eastern States years ago, and
was writer of singular clearness and
power H5 e
Cole Younger, the notorious North
field robber, condemned to imprison
ment,forlife, has become very devout,
and spends much of his time reading
his Bible and religious books. He says
he is well satisfied with his present sit
uation and thinks he is just where he
onght to be.
The wife of the Rev. E P. Ham,
mond, the Evangelist, lost her. gold
watch while attending a picnic in Con-
neeticut lately, and did not discover her
loss until she reached her home, four
mites distant, in the evening. Taking
an attendant and lanterns she went
back, and was rewarded by finding the
watch on the ground where the COM
pany partook Of refreshments. H
10 Matthew Arnold admits the irregu-
lafities of our language, but he says
that '.the English Nation will not be in
duced,m in the hope Of making spelling
easier, .'to take the writing Iced uz
not intus temptashun., p ''ss What.
changes are made" he adds, ''..will not
be made in the hope Of making spelling
easier to children, but because certain
ithings in our present spelling are IRA
tional.n
"A correspondent writes to inquire:
"Where in Shakespeare does the quo.
tation "a looker-on in Venice occllr?"
There is no such quotation as "a
rIooker-on in Venice The passage,
often misduoted, occurs in Shake
speare's comedy of Measure for Meas
ure," Act 5, Scene 1, and is in these
words:
NV business in thus State
Made me looker-on here in Vienna.
3sls - Chicago Journal.
-E. "A. Woodward, the tool Of the.
Tweed Ring, has lost none of his assur-
ance. On his release from the Tombs
and his return to Norwalk, Conn, he
engaged a pew in church and said he
wanted to be vestryman. He got only
one vote, and then he became angry,
and said "they might have the pew;
>he didn't want it, Then he insisted
that he must be elected Trustee of a
savings bank, where he had $1,000 on
deposit Nobody would vote for him,
and he got mad again and called for his
money.-N Y. Post. si.3 s1s8I
Here is little romance: 1t will be
remembered that when Barnum's show
was here several years ago, says the
Atchison Champion, his Treasurer took
sick, and was. left at the Massasoit
Hotel. He died there, and was buried
here, we believe. He was engaged to
be married to Miss Fish, a sister of
Barnum's present Treasurer. After his
death, it became necessary for Miss
Fish to write several letters to Mr.. Bar
mum, in reference to her dead lover
Barnm admired the lady, because of
her well-written letters, sought an ac-
quaintahce--an acquaintance which
soon ripened into love, and, to make Is
long story short, the then Miss Fish is
now Mrs. PIT. Barnlim. Mr.. Barnum
IS twenty-seven years older than his