The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-25
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

lowed in sudden burst of laughter.
The famous war dispatch sent by
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the Eastern cor
respondent of the London Daily Ne,os,
which described the second battle of
Plevna, cost $1,000 simply for trans
mission.
An Indian woman while bathing at
Victoria, British Columbia, the other
day, was seized by an octopus, or devil
fish, and drowned. The body was dis
covered by Indians, the next day, lying
at the bottom Of the bay in the grasp
of the octopus. They cut the tentacles
and recovered the body.
"A Wayne County farmer left his
vest hanging upon chair. In one of
the pockets were about a dozen strych-
nine pills. His two little children dis
covered them, thought they were candy
and ate them. Physicians were called
and antidotes administered, but both
died within an hour.-N. Y Times.
While Miss Matte Woodwork, of
Grant, N. Y, was helping her father in
his grist mill, her hair, which was
hanging loose in her neck, and her
dress both caught in the shafting, car
rying her around between the shaft and
the hopper at very rapid rate. One
of her legs was broken twice and the
other once. Her scalp was pulled loose
from her skull, and her body badly
bruised.
"A few days ago small colored boy
in the Township of Chatham held one
end of short hickory whipstock in his
mouth while running and playing. In
the course of his scampering he fell,
and the end he held in his mouth was
driven through the back of his neck,
requiring the strength of a powerful
man to draw it out. Providentially it
missed the spinal column, and, being
healthy, the child is again quite well.
Chatham FONT. Planet.
The Auburn IN. W News prints
the story of the marriage of an Auburn
girl some years ago to circus man
while the company was wintering there.
When summer came the fellow went
off with the show, and his wife heard
nothing from him until he recently sent
for her to come to him in Western
town, where he was dying. She went,
attended him in his last moments, and
received his handbook, in which he
was credited with $4,000.
"A jeweler in Harrisburg, Pa, gives
the following curious fact in reference
to the use of tobacco: He does not use
the weed, neither does one of his work.
men. One of the employees of his store
uses tobacco almost to excess. The
former two can handle any polished
tool in the shop and lay it aside again,
without wiping it off, and no injury will
follow, while on the other hand, if the
employee who INDUCES in tobacco, for
gets to wipe off any of the tools of a
fine finish, rust spots will invariably APP
pear in very short time.
Fresh anecdotes of the Presidents
experience during his southern trip are
appearing daily. 1t is related that at
Wartrace, Tenn, man on sorry
looking mule rode up and shook hands
with the President, saying: "Tve rode
ten miles this morning without my
breakfast to take him by the hand, and
by gum, I've done it, AT Atlanta,
Ga, little boy four years old mounted
the platform just after the President
had stopped speaking, and said, 'sHel-
10, Hayes!'' The President of the
United States smiled graciously upon
the youngster and said, 6 How dye do,
little one?"-N Y. Post.
A Joplin (Mo.) man, while on his
way home from Jefferson City, fell into
the hands of the wicked and covetous.
He was on the train, and near him sat
an innocent young man in whose eye
there only shone the love of the human
race. In his hand he held three books
very cheap-looking books. The in
nocent young man reached into his
pocket and took out a $40 bill and laid
it between the leaves of one of the
books and closed it up. He then
turned to the Joplin man, and with a
smile that was very child-like, told him
he could have the choice of the three
books for Sc. Our friend from the
land of lead and blackjack saw the
edge of the SO bill sticking out of the
end of the book, and thought to him.
self, That fellow amt so sharp, after
all, I'll just take that x in.'' He paid
his Sc. purchased the book, and oh
no, he wasn't mad and didn't cuss
around when he found that. instead of
a $10-bill sticking from the end of the
book, the meek looking fraud had cut
about the eighth of an inch off the end
of bill and pasted it to the edge of
Leaf. Dallas (7sr.) Iutelligencer.
You cannot, oh day star of my
life, y he plead, throwing himself at her
feet, lyon cannot refuse the rich ex-
haustless mine of love l pour out at
your feet, you cannot turn away from
the rare treasures Of my hearts devo-
ton that cast before you, you cannot
turn away from all this lavish wealth
Of heart and hand that is yours to take,
and say me nay = She couldn't and
she didn't; it sounded too wealthy.
That was nearly four years ago. Day
before yesterday be gave her $3. IS to
run the house a week, and when she
said she would have 10 have anew pair
Of shoes he raised the appropriation to
even dollars, and grulnbled about
womsn's extravagance till he was out
Of hearing. Oh. woman, woman, thou
Of the tender heart and trustful soul. If |
you don't scalp q man raw every time
you get chance, you are little idiot. |
~ the same. Burlington Hdsct-E Eye.
a lodge has been built near Brig
ham Young grave, and ! continual |
yuaFd y kept MsFs night md day,