The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"A little boy, on being threatened with
. whipping, hung-his head.
| 1t is proposed to tax cats. For the
benefit of the public purrs, of course.
ALI dogs are Spitz dogs for hydro
phobic purposes. No dog Is the safest
dog.
Some editors are so peaceably in
clined that they refuse to put heads ON
I their editorials. ssa
"A Geneva University has Russian
professor named Dragomanoff. He ought
to quit teaching and get on the perlice.;
-Ye heavily hinged grasshopper is no
bounty -jumper.-ButaIo E1press. No,
not exactly; and yet he's bounty jump.
-" Can animals communicate ideas ~
asks an English writer. Come over,
dear sir, and lean up against an American
mule t.,
The New Orleans Republican wants
some rich man to die in such way that
his heirs can't prove that he was fool or
. lunatic
If you own Spitz dog you mustn't
let your judgment be warped by what the
papers say. Let him bite you and then
wait for results. e-@ns
1t is said that the number of tin ped.
dlers is increasing at rapid rate, but
that's not bad news. It gives the women
. chance to learn al; the gossip going on
in the next neighborhood.
The all-devouring Amerlcan potato
bug has just passed his gripsack across the
AZ L -.
istered himself from Colorado, and asked
for nice room on the ground floor.
"A mine of " Muscovy mica" is re-
ported discovered at Westfeld, Mass.
Muscovy mica" Is 10 common mic4 q .
girls bright orbs are to her grandmoth-
cr's spectacled ones, being far superior for
most purposes to the old isinglass.
-" Madam, did you ever lift dog by
the tail?' why, no, you cruel thing,
you.'' 81 didn't know, because l just
saw you carry your little child across the
gutter by one arm. A dogs tail is q good
deal stronger than the igamcnts Of q
baby's shoulder" tisa
Something is going to happen-thercs
no doubt about it, and it only requires a
seer to say what. A pure white muskrat
was caught in the north part Of Great
Darlington, Mass, the other day, some-
thing old hunters never saw before in
that part of the country. ss
If you pass through the henroost with
careful eye, just now, you will notice
sadness creeping over the countenance OF
the old hens. It Is not simply the knowl-
edge that they must die, but the thought
that they must be sold for spring chick
ems after they're sslaid" out
( "A coach passing along country rad
had nearly run over servant girl, when
the coaciman cried out, Take care,I
6allys" The girl, without attempting to
escape the danger, looked up at the coach
man with an air of offended pride and
said, 'tIt isn't Sally, or any such low,
'yulgar and common stuf-it's Amelia
Ann"
"A young lady out on North Hill has
been trying for three weeks to get photo
graph Of her pet poodle, but the fidgcty
little animal wouldn't be taken. 50 she
Just had the artist take q Photograph OF
her incest young man, whiten the NOUS
tache and Burnsides, and paint the ears up
q little, and the resemblance Is SO perfect
that the innocent young man himself adj
mired it, and begged for copy as "a
s0ovncer Of the Spacious animal. ."-61r-
ltnsson Hdsak-Ey
The magnificent new Episcopal
Church, in Boston, lately dedicated, ID
heated in = novel way. The entire base
mrnt has been taken for a chamber for
warming and distributing the air, which
/ IL done by five immense stoves, the con-
sumption OF which is about ton of coal :
day. The air in the basement, as last a.