The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ANOTHER lip-year's gone forever.
PARIS artists say the best market for
them is in America.
THE holidays are over; now for--oh!
for st. Valentines Day.
A VAIL has been invented to protect
London ladies against fog and damp
ness. -l>.# r.l..ag... ......
PROFIT results from concentration
of effort, and not from a diffusion of
supervision. ..........
Icy pavements caused eleven broken
limbs and other serious injuries in
Philadelphia in one day.
THE world is moving. Several New
York milkmen have been sent to Jail
for selling adulterated milk. ....'
AN ex-Sheriff of Marion County,
Miss, has been sent to the Peniten-
tiary for official malversation. 81
WITH the advance of porcine sci
ence, the only portion of hog that
cannot now be utilized is his squeal. =.
THE opinion that Weddings-day fol-
lows appropriately after Choose-day is
put forth with due diffidence by the
Philadelphia Bulletin.
GoD makes sech nights-all clear an still,
KHrs4.snCeanr snr gfst''n:
, Hosea BigloaO.
THE heaviest swell in London socie-
ty is he who visited the Centennial
over in Philadelphia, America, you
know" IN. Y. Euening Nail. 49,. ...
"YouNa man." said he solemnly,
"Pm sorry to see you smoking to-
bacco," and the young man assured
him that he wasn't, that it was Con-
necticut cigar.
WHAT a silent old world 1T would
be ifmen talked only as much as they
think. A fellow would have to carry
a rattle around with him to make
noise with.
QuACK doctors will avoid Texas, if
they want to make a living. By new
law, physicians must pass examina-
tions in all branches of their science,
/, before they can collect their bills.
! AN old and profound observer has
noted, as the result.of his observation
and experience, that any young man is
made better by a sisters love. And
the Philadelphia Bulletin adds that the
love of another fellows sister will do.
THE pockets of ulster overcoats this
winter are lined with zinc and fasten-
ed at the flaps with spring lock, and
a ring to hang railroad check on, so
that a man doesn't have to carry a
trunk when he travels. Burlington
Haaok-Eye. -.
LUCY HOOPER, implores American
girls not to lay out any portion Of their
superfuous wealth in the purchase of
nice little French nobleman. Noin-
vestment could be less profitable. Dia-
monds and laces are by comparison in
expensive luxuries.
Don't keep diary this year. Keep
a dog. 1t will cost you little more,
but you can't neglect it as you do the
diary. Every time you forget the dog,
it will turn up wffthing and bowling
under your feet, or somebody will
rock or tread on its tail. ~
| THE satirical man of the Boston
Home Journal says one of the largest
hotels in Berlin is owned and managed
by a woman, who does not permit
more than six cents worth of waste
every fourteen yearsl In this way she
sustains the reputation of her race fol
genuine economy.
II UP in Muscatine the musical anG
literary young men of the Unitarian
Church organized the Muscatine Uni
tartan Musical Philosophical Society
but when the abbreviated title came
out in print NJ. U. NJ. P. S., it strucl
: in on the Association and killed it,
Burlington Ha,ok- Eye. 4s
, THE Black Hills Pioneer pleads tha
,, the legislation required by the peopl'
!. of the Black Hills must necessarily b.
peculiar, and, therefore, that a new
|. Territory should be established will
!, the Black Hills as it's center. Itwant
: to take for this new Territory abou
: %, 900 square miles from Dakota, ant
: 14,OOO each from Montana and Wyo
ming, making Territory about one
third the size of the present Terrltor.
Of Dakota. The new Territory is t
be called Ell Dorado, if that will sui
Congress.
MANY men think of sleigh-ridin,
e merely as driving from one countr
h | tavern to another to get "suthin' hot; :
+ others indulge in it to bring out tn
= possibilities Of horse-aesh; still dii
\ ferent set find that the excitement Q
q motion, the crisp air and the solitud
n Of cutter add a zest to the society o
! the one above all others. Each ACCORD
! ing to his taste. but no one has reache
: the ideal until he has participated in
r sleigh-ride, with plenty of straw
q plenty of robes and plenty of people
d Springfield tMass.) Republican,