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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-22

than after reading the Psalms or perform.
ing any other perpendicular psrt Of The
service. And another curious fact il IN
attraction which hat thus exposed upop
seat exerts upon q fat person. Neither
Of these facts has ever been sstisfsctoriiy
espiainei J, although they are matters ci
A man may enter remote pew In q
serange church and place his hat on seal
IN = position where II Is impossible for q
TAT man to perceive it on entering the
church. Nevertheless, experience has
shown that IN SIX cases out Of ten the sex.
TON Will show . fat man into that precise
pew within ten minutes after the hat is in
position. while other aud furthef fat men
viii, ffom time TO time, hover about The
locality. with the evident desire of ascer.
tanning if the hal is still susceptible Ioi
further smsshing. There Is clearly a Law
OF nature at work here which needs to be
definitely formulated, and it is discredita.
bic 70 science that this has not yet been
AS to putting ones hat on the floor uu.
derneath the seat, no one who follows
this reckless course can expect ANYTHING
but disaster. II there is small boy IN
tne pew he VIII infallibly discover th6
hat. and kiokiit to the further end of the
pew within the first thirty minutes of the
service. II there is . lady in the pew, a
surgical operation will be required to re.
move her boot from the interior Of the
hat; while, in any event, the hat is Ger
tain to absorb every particle Of dust with.
in q radius Of eight feet, and to fasten it.
self to the floor with the aid of forgotten
Sunday School gum drops. Neither under
the seat, on the seat nor in the aisle can
the worried hat find rest, and the plan OF
establishing hatpound in the vestibule,
where hats could be ticketed and kept
during the service, would simply result
in converting church into hat ex-
change, where the sinners would secure
all the good hats, and the saints would be
compelled to content themselves with
worn-out and worthless ones.-Boston
transcript.
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How q Dog SAVED q Boys Life.


! ABouT noon yesterday some workmen
driving COW along Twenty third street,
when she became .enraged, and the horse
men lost control Of her. She espied boy
of about toastesns years, who peddles
small wares from . hand basket, and made
thin. The boy was knocked down, and
tde infuriated brute began to gore him,
but fortunately her horns had been cut
down: p:about o1e.half and she could only
bfuise end grind him against the eArth and
trample On HIM. The men tried to lassc
her but tscould not do so. Patrick Spain
heard the lads cries for help, and ran out
Eof his house. On Seeing the situation he
Calfed out to his wife to unchain medium
sized bull.dog which he keeps at his
place, which being done, Spain threw the
dog over the fence and then ran around tc
the gate to follow him. The dog compre-
hended at once what was wanted of him
and sprang for the maddened beast which
was now paving and crushing the boy
down. The dog could only get at the COW
by getting upon the boy, which he did
speedily, and as she made another charge
the bulldog seized her by the throat and
in second or two more he had the COW
down and rolled her over and over, never
letting 60 his grip. One of the drovers
then threw Spain rope, which, after
long trial and much risk, he slipped ovel
the cows head, and by main force she was
drawn to a post and tied down, the dog
still clinging to her throat. The fury Of
the COW was such that it was found neces-
sary to kill her on the srot. The boy
meanwhile was taken charge of by Mrs
SPAIN. who dressed his wounds, and Spain
then took him to his home He was bad
II bruised and torn. But for SPANS
presence of mind in calling his dog to the
rescue, and the dogs instant comprehen
sion Of his duty, the boy would in all
human probability have been killed in .
few seconds more. e.-Saoramento Record
and Union.
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The Order Of the Garter.

z. y. i
Prince WILLIAM, OF Prussia, has re.
ceiyed the highest honor which = is in
the power of the Queen to confer on a
foreign PrinceLan honor, too, which is
sometimes coveted In vain by feignine
Sovereigns Guizot mentions how glad
Louis Philippe was to receive the Garter,
which he only did upon his visit to En-.
gland in 1874, when he had already been
fourteen years upon the throne of France.
He is said to have expressed the feeling
that now at length he could no longer be
called q mere King of the Barricades, but
was formally received into the brother.
hood Of Monarchs upon equal terms
Napoleon III. was equally pleased when
In 1855-less than four years after the
coup d'etat-he was invested with the blue
ribbon by Her Majesty in person. On
the other hand, we find Lord Pslmerston
I'm Lord Dalling's Life writing to his
brother, Sir William Temple, and telling
him that /" Bernadotte has been flying a
kite for the Carter" adding that his
Swedish Majesty was not to get it. At
the present moment decided majority of
the Kings are entitled to wear this highly
priced decoration, bit the Kings OF
Spain and Sweden are as yet left out in
the cold. The only foreign Princes. not
actually reignine Sovereigns, who are
Knights of the Garter, are the Crown
Prince of Germany, and his son, Prince
Louis of Hesse, and Prince Christian Of
Sleswig- Holstein. Three out Of these are
heirs to crowns. The Duke Of Cumber-
land has worn crown, and is moreover a
lineal descendant of George H., and by q
statute passed on the 17th of January,
1905, the order is to consist of the Sover-
eign and twenty five Knights Companions,
together with such lineal descendants OF
King George II. as may be elected, al.
ways excepting the Prince of Wales, who
is constituent part of the original insti.
tuition. Special statutes are passed for
the admission of foreign Sovereigns OF
Princes as extra Knights.--Pau Mall Ga
sette.
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feans smother. There II resemblance
bwesn yea aad an uncle Of mine
Don't wait here one second longerp'
Interrupted the Court, and John hurried
ont. ~
aJEss 30, JUDGE
When Mr.. Gardner Was walked out i
I'm discovered that he was . real nice
TT man, with feet : trifie smaller thar
Bijah's, and bald head.
Jess 30, judge he remarked. ~ ~
came to half. ~ own mp that Nsl
overcome for the time being, but then, i
was the first time In seventeen years, and
you can afford to let me off,
You ought to be Ashamed togo stag.
gerinE around when all Detroit is excited
over the temperance Icause,'' said the
court.
! "Jess go, Judge-I feel as if i could
sink down through the floor. This will
be great and lasting lesson to me-"
"The officer says you were very NOISY. y
AJess 30, Judge-don't doubt his word
in the least. When a man gets about
three -fifths intoxicated his great and earn
est desire is to yell about four times as
loud as whole tribe of Indians. Now
that you call my attention 70 it I remem.
Der Of thinking it was my duty to yell
Jess so, Judge, jess So"
"You ought to set better example,
Mr.. Gardner
"Jess So. feel that I had, Judge, and
Twill. 4 I'lfcommence this very hour tc
set good example"
"You think you can keep sober after
this, do you?'
81 know can. I'll do it if 4 have to
drink thirty gallons of ice water pei
day"
"Well, you can go, and 1 hope you'll
keep your word like man."
81 will, Judge. Good -bye-jess so"
And His Honor remarked to the audi
ence that it was always better to be kind
and gentle with bald headed man.
Detroit Free Press.
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The Imperturbable Passenger.

A train-boy on an Illinois road found q
rather tough customer in an old gentle
man of composed mieD, who received all
shots as if he were bullet-proof The
boy bombarded him with papers, and
pamphlets, and candies, and bound
books, and nuts, and fruits of one kind
and another, But it was no good. Had
the elderly party been lined inside with
brass he could not have shown greater in
difference. The boy fretted under his
treatment, as was plain to be seen. He
had passed the cigars some thirty times,
and without success, when he said, in a
! one of desperation LaEI s
,e "Try some of these cigars, and if they
kill you within month III give you
THE money back"
The man was somewhat amused by that,
but he hadthe boy. He said: sgofaS
81 III am dead, how can you give me
he money! p. .ss,,...s
"I'll give it to your family, then"
But l amt gotno family
swell, I'll give it to the family next
door" persisted the boy.
"But there amt no family next door, :"
said the man, with the smile lengthening
his face. iss6l ssii' alf 3a's4l ~
sob, there'll be one move in when they
hear you are dead,'' was the quick reply.
The elderly passenger shut up like a
borrowed knife.-Ddn6ury Neaos.
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stock Gambling in San Francisco.

EVERYTHING is not gold that glitters, es-
pecially in San Francisco, and San Fran
cisco is California, just as Paris is France.
All the wealth and commerce, all the mis-
cry and poverty, center in San francisco.
To casual observer San Francisco seems
Paradise. To the careful student of its
institutions and resources it is a silvered
sepulcher, for which Nevada furnishes
the silvering and the dear public the
corpse. And the sepulcher is!fast filing up
with the corpses of the killed at the
Stock Exchange. Everything written
about the wonderful resources and the
immense advantages offered here are cre-
ations of fancy. Hundreds of men with
capital, large and small, continually ar
rive here, lured on by the highly-colored
reports of the advantages enjoyed here,
only to find that their credulity has proved
stronger than their sense. And when they
find that ordinary investments are not as
remunerative as they supposed, they do as
thousands have done before and thou
sands will do hereafter-they gamble in
stocks yet theycan easily find out that the
proportion of those making fortunes to
those that lose them is about one 10 q
thousand.
Stock gambling is mania here. The
grocer who sells pennyworth of tea also
sells and buys stocks. The eminent mer-
chant who disposes of the product of
other countries examines the stock report
as carefully as he does his invoices. Every
boot black is an embryo stock-broker, and
every waiter an expectant millionaire.
The daily, papers are examined more
closely for stock quotations than for the
news, and The paper having the largest
circulation is the Stock Reporter. The
state of the weather, whether cold or
warm, whether rain or sunshine, makes
no apparent difference to the San Francis
can He is ifisensible to Natures beau-
ties, and watches only one variation, and
that of the stocks he deals in. The San
franciscan, in fact, sees the world through
stock prospectuses and stock reports. Yet
he considers himself blessed over other
mortals, and occasionally tells. you so.
Outwardly considered, he is a fair speci-
men of humanity. He is well built, and
broad shouldered, and if he is not, his
tailor soon makes him so. He is generally
well dressed, wears clean shirt, occa-
sionally drinks twenty-five-cent cham
pagne cocktails and smokes twenty-five
cent cigars. The increase of the wealth
and prosperity of other cities is, in his
mind, problematical, but that Frisco, as
he calls it, will soon be the hub and spoke
of the universe, is with him certainty
San Francisco Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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The effect of an ill-regulated diet of
sensational literature upon q weak mem
tai system, says the San Francisco Post,
is well exhibited by the rather extraordi-
nary career Of three youngsters--Isaac
Wilson, aged fourteen: James Phalon,
aged thirteen, and Eddie Wilson, aged
eight-two Of whom were captured under
the sidewalk at 658 Mission street, whith.
er they had crawled for shelter. On the
21st of January they started on an ambi-
tious tour of highway robbery, the where
withal being furnished by q raid on Stein
fePs butcher-shop, at ,225 Broadway,
where they stole $3.50 from shot+bag
containing $240, generously leaving the
butcher the balance to operate with.
With this money they began round OF
dissipation and debauchery, filing them
selves up with drink after drink of soda
water, and making the fortune of several
candy sellers. With the intention Of
"taking the road" they went to Oak
land, bought horse, saddle and bride
and shot-gu and started for the rocky
defiles and gloomy canyons of Temescal
but, having got there, and failing to find
any old gentlemen with bags of gold and
pretty young ladies4n their coaches, they
again sought the enticing designations OF
this city, leaving their stock in trade in
the highway business with j. j. Perkins,
of -Temescal Coming back here, they
soon exhausted their treasury, and were
arrested as stated. Judge Louderback,
on Tuesday, sent them to the Reforma-
tory at San Rafael. s s.i. va \,
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what Yen Do, Do weil.

"WHY do You take such pains in cut
ting out these little figures ?" asked Wini-
fred of her brother Ernest.
1T will tell you why, sister," replied
Ernest. I" / take pains because my teach.
er tells me, that, if thing is worth doing
at all. itis,wprth doing well. y
/" Did he ( mean that we should Try
to do we'll even iny trifes ~ asked Wini-
NYes, :, answered Ernest, !" because, as
great man once said, Perfection is nc
Winifred sat looking at her brother, as,
handling pair Of scissors, he carefully
cut out figures Of horses, dogs, pigs and
various other animals.
Three years sfterwsrd she remembered
this conversation; for it happened at that
time, that, her father having died, her
widowed mother was left almost desti.
tute with family of seven children to
support. asi!4. 1Ho ~
What should the poor woman des AT
first she thought she would take in
washing, then that she would try to keep
little shop. While she was hesitating,
Mr.. Mason, brisk old gentleman, came
to the door, and asked: "Whefe is the
boy who cuts these figures and faces in
proflef' .s,. .9 =
One Of his grandchildren had brought
him home from school some specimens OF
Ernest's skill; ;sand Mr.. Mason saw at once
that they were the work of a gifted and
pains taking artist.
"You must mean my little Ernest" said
the mother. " Poor little fellow! He
little dreams what is coming. l shall
soon have to take him away from school. .
Why SO ?" cried Mr.. Mason. 'sTake
him away from schoolf You shall do nc
such thing. I'll not allow it.' e! Nd
"We are destitute, sir, and ] have nc
means Of support" said the mother, with
sigh.
"No means Of support! Nonsense
With boy in the house who can cut
figures like that, do you say you have nc
means of support?' exclaimed Mr.. Mason
Good woman, ] will insure your boy
good wages every week for the next year,
if you will let him come between school
hours, and cut pictures under my direc-
tiop." - s- 5a9 -a
The rest of my little story may soon be
told. Ernest became the staff and stay Of
his family. The little talent he had cul.
tivated so carefully and diligently was the
means of giving him not only an honest
employment, but a liberal support. He
rose to distinction; and his productions
were much sought after by all good
Judges of art.-Ena;yv Carter, in Nursery
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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

= v y
"A nurse dozed by the fire in Shelby,
Ky, and . baby fell off her lap and was
burned to death. -. =
ep--A little girl in Savannah, Ga, was
bitten on the finger by 3 playful dog, and
died. in nineteen days, Of hydrophobia.
a "A hunter in Cumberland, Md, tells
the following a. 8 tine story He was in
atpec, waiting f0r deer to pas; rzised his
gun to fire at ono, but Just then he saw a
panther above him in the tree. He
'dnepped from the tree, falling on the
deer, breaking its back. He then saw, a
bear near by, and, was about to fire at
bruin, when the panther sprang upon the
bear and MORALLY wounded it. just then
he fired at the panther, killing il, and thus
secured the panther, deer and bear"
L-Mr. Alfred 81. Parslow, one of the
sufferers by the Ashtabula disaster, ar
rived in town yesterday and was seen for
a short time at his former headquarters,
in the office. of Thomasj jTilleys Esq. He
is still suffering, as well he may, consid
ering the terrible nature of his injuries.
A wedge, eight and. q half inches long,
entered at the Esheulders and, passing
down, Game out under the arm, miracu-
lously missing the vital parts, and making
a.hole through which the surgeon was able
to put his hands, one at each end, and
meet in the center. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The audience of the First Methodist
Church, of Rochester, N. Y, were treat
ed to couple of sensational incidents, the
other evening, that were not down in the
regular service. The pastor had just an
nounced his text when, suddenly, a tre-
menGous yell was heard, which so startled
several ladies that they jumped clear
across the aisle. The yell. it was soon
ascertained, proceeded from a young man
who sat in the back part of the house, and
who had been taken with q fit. When the
preacher was about half through his ser
mon, and when the foregoing incident had
been about forgotten. an unusual noise
was heard on the stairway and vestibule
leading into the church. One of the mem
bers hurried to the door, but before he got
there the startled audience saw the some
what amusing sight of one boy struggling
to get away from another who was pum-
melting him at a lively rate The two
lads, it appeared, had got into a quarrel
on the street, and the smaller one took
refuge from his opponent in the church,
imagining that he would not dare TO fol-
low him thither and continue the fight
The latter's bump of yeneration was not
big enough to keep him from this piece of
sacrilege, however, and the fight proceed
ed for few moments at the door in an
energetic fashion, but when the large fell
low saw some one approaching he took to
his heels and fled. The smaller fellow
was promptly seized, but on learning the
facts those who had him in charge let
him go. .t-,,s r..-f
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eo11sspOndlne .. back when 'th.ssill ID & voices

ii $50 q ..l
corresponding set back when their voices
we're judged ON their merits" Lass
No trial has yet been made, however, of
the transmission Of sounds 50 great dis
tance as across the Atlantic. Mr., Watson
said that, as far as he had been able to
ascertain, there seemed to be limit to the
distance over which the sounds could be
made TO travel; but he expressed himself
- confident that in due time any given
distance could be annihilated. I'VE have,
In fact, !" he added, talked through a wire
arranged to give an artificial resistance
equal to 4O, 900 ohms, which is more resist
ance than the entire length of the Allan
tic cable would offer. But there are other
obstacles to be overcome in order to trans
init the sound Of the voice correctly to
such . distance as that. Prof Be1l and
are constantly at work here perfecting the
system, you see. When favorable op-
portunity offers. we shall try and have a
practical test over the transatlantic cables"
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NUMBER ~.
Youths Department.
LucK. ANb LABoR.

LUCK doth wait, standing Idly ut the gate
Wishing, wishing al the day;
And at night, wfttout d IRE, without Q light
And bef0se an auap y-txAy, wa
Doth sadly eay:
NTO-moRrow something may fukn mp; 7N1
Tonight on wishes must sup. as.
Labor goes, piowing deep tho fertlle. rows
Singing, singing all the day;
Az al night, before the hre, beside the light
And with wesl-flied tsay, frssi lts
Doth gladly say:
/" Tomorrow I'll turn something up;
Tonight ON wages earned sup" -Ff
-Cdr0ltne n. Soule. in st. Nicholas.
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The Future Of the Telephone.

The Boston correspondent of the New
York Sun gives the following account o1
an interview with Mr.. Watson, of tele
| phone fame: W
81 haven't the slightest doubt" Mr.
Watson said to-day, that in afew months
things will be 80 that man can make q
lecture here in Boston and be heard by an
audience in any part of; the country"
Do you expect that the telephone will
entirely supersede the present system Of
telegraphings :" / asked.
Yes, VIC expect it will, eventually. A
company is now forming for the purpose
of manufacturing and introducing the in.
the old dot and line alphabet system en-
tirely. We expect, At first. II win be used
mostly on private lines and for city bust.
ness. It viii probably take the place Of
the present district telegraph companiea
and the like. ss it win be especially con-
venient for that class of business.
Won't the receiving operators have to
learn short hand - , q y
Yes, l suppose they will. In our ex-
periments we haye generally paused sftel
sayiug asentence, 90 that the receiver had
time to write out In long hand.''
Mr.. Watson remarked that the intr0duc-
tion of the telephone would probably have
the effect Of increasing the telegraph busi-
ness to such an extent that il would hasten
the time whom the wires would have TO be
laid under ground instead Of boing strung
on poles Apropos 70 singiny hy tele.
graph, / asked If II would mot saxo good
deal Of expense % cur American oDerar
manasefs. - AmeFfcaa audience
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That DetreI: Police Court.


JOHN ScoFrELD could remember Of
drinking nineteen glasses of lager, glass
of whisky and another of punch, but YET
he thought his case didn't come under the
head Of Drunkenness He had stretched
out in the middle Of Woodward avenue
for short nap, and was trying to fit his
back to = hole in the pavement when an
officer came along and suggested that such
. position didn't become him.
..Do you own this town - inquired
John, through the darkness. sesfie
ii The officer acknowledged that he didn't
own half of it, but insisted that the prison.
er get up. Prisoner insisted that he
wouldn't. Fight. True merit always
wins. Prisoner taken down apeg or two
Also taken to the station. 4ssta
Are you prepared 10 neet your doom p
inquired the Court, a. he looked down
upon The man from Indiana ,,ss..s
Judge, don't lay up no grudee on
me-, replied tl1e maa. !" I'm feller who
has had heap Of trouble I've beer
uasTisd -four diGereqt tines, and I've
lust run away from my fourth wife. I've
had three good horses die Of the bots, LOST
svSrysi,in& sTS % e ss9sns 4 q q s. siown 8 81, ne"
" Well, + don't zee how it helped youl
,eases snI 70 Set drunk = observed Hi
n:1I sis sid1is a1ssp ,siiyx6f co,.rss j,
! q .;i,ss M 3 q Il 8 Ysg ;sg sssS :sS
fx " uud. p&tfdtzfu1pfh16A oi
DE hesr, rheqms4isp5; 1eyeI and ageF and
Z lag becAs nd T14e ~ TT gqt inithe
ecshty nd pesesfullS and quietly *
| elfu ssshvs iss ni9se5
. Yes, / do. I'll leave Town and di<
aslR fepA adlee We - Asl sids
ss',s 8, -! sC''ss & ss sI gsG Tn s'ssd
ps' s'sfI'lllsl 81 2 I'D thgs Cert Nm
~ 6&ln{ ~ 6dje: 8 2. Kk6 o46s 0f ths
16ihr6Ss 1f1]hg lS nfSies 6pdmshs
irsckqT. e ~ shsnId a ,ple6(d Up q
rdj vhete the pfice q slrSWtusisl
wouldny cause you : singh anxjoul
lhoufht.'' =
3e6es, l bslisvs you. yeu don'
look ~ maa Nho oaYs ~ ajne ~