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

"A murderer may get free from the
courts, but he can never get free from him
self.
Now begin business. If business
doesn't push you-why, you push bust.
ness.
SNOW is the fertilizer that nature
spreads on the poor as well as the rich
mans farm.
1t is hard for rich man to die with.
out leaving doubts Of his sanity--Neo
Orleans Republican.
1t is certainly true that the scourts are
being run quite too much on the "per-
jury" system.-Chicago Journal.
The new postage stamps will be issued
June LIST, and then you will take Last sad
lick at the green three -centers.
Punctuation was first used in litera-
ture in 1920 Before that time woHdsand
entenceswereputtogethe like this.
They say it is dangerous to go into
the water after hearty meal. But who
expects to find hearty meal in the
water. X
! Look out for twenty dollar gold pieces
with the insides gnawed out and lead run
in. They look all right. but they are be-
low par.
When German wants to speak of
the United States" in his own LAM
guage, he simply says-"die Vereinigen.
Staten
Carlyle says love is adiscerning of the
infinite in the finite. He probably meant
to say it is discerning of income and calt.
culating pin money. -
Don't let blue run away with yc q.
Our forefathers didn't regard the color as
worth shucks until it was mixed with ed
and white.-Detroit Free Press.
Women" remarked the cont I'M
plative man, g are as deep as the blue wa.
tiers of yon bay" "Aye, sir" rejoinei
the disappointed man, land as full o.
craft
Another petroleum excitement ha.
broken out and hundreds are investi ng il
land. They'll learn in time that it rs no
oil well which ends we'll, and that :tht
proverb is delusion. ~
"A woman in Oshkosh ground nearly
half of shirt through clothes wrfngeI
last wash day before discovering tn at hel
baby was in the shirt. 1t was an awful
strain ON the wringer.
Pink stockings have been reflected
owing to the poisonous quality OF kle dye
used in their coloring, and now h is an.
nounced that some brown hat-ba hds pro
ducc headaches. So we may RUN from
one extreme to the other.-L eais0ilt
C0urier-J Journal. as, saseEa tf-a :
The mansion of the Hon. Th oJnas G
Perrin, of Abbeville, S. c., which. was re
Gently burned, was the scene of the las
session of the Confederate Cabir Gt. JEFF
fcrson Davis and his Cabint t passcf
through the town on their reti eat from
Richmonl, and were cntcrtainc d at thi
house, where, after final consultation
they determined to disband. Mr. ,Benja
min, Secretary of State, consulteslw " it'll Iii,
host, who had been the first man so sigl
the South Carolina Secession Ordin dncc o
1860, as TO the disposition 10 ,-Ir, l;ll,lc o
the great seal Of the CmfctleIacy g Col
Perrin urged him To cast it into tive Savan
nah River, which he was 10 cr' SIS the mex
day, and it is believed that this was done
Arbitrary as the Gear, Var flerbilt wa
wont to govern in his private affairs will
a rod of iron The husband L one of tn
daughters of the Commodore being unfor
tunate in business, many ears ago, sh
went 10 her father for assis lance, whicl
was refused in manner rnone forcibl,
than elegant. She abruptly Withdrew Il
fight for complete independence. Mex
morning the New York Of ulooe days wa
highly surprised to read the following ad
-vertisement, specially displayed:
MRa DESIRES TO SEA TIE THAT SHI
VA has excellent table board : Id sccommoda
tions for families or single ga tlemen- Refer
to her fathu, G. Vanderbilt
That advertisement app cared exactly
one time, for ~ Commod ore realized th'
situation, and advanced bac award prompt
ly, ,1hd there was no moredi ascension tha
brunch Of HE family forever afterward.- =
N. r. CSI Ba0als 0csfne. rcida-
Elder Evans, the loc al leader of tn,
Shakers in Berkshire County, Mass, i.
urging plan for utilizing the dead, /,
by buryinG them about twenty feet apar
and planting . tree over acIi one, 30 tha
the burial ground will, in few years
become 3 beautiful grove or profitable
piece of wood land, instead of collection
Of stone memorials Of d. $ubtful artistic
merit. He has plea Of Justice st the
foRndatjoa of his scheme, that, as ever
man during his life, and his ancestors be
fore him, have had their stntenance from
the elements and productions of the earth
he should be willing In his death to con
tribute to the support Of tll0se who come
after him. The plan has already been
carried y out On - small scale It lew
Lebanon, N. Y, where = burial ground
that had become crowded was gradetl,0f
and planted with evergrDens, all maFlxs
of the subsol occupants sbf the lot being
oblitera1ed. . As asSea ~ ss'7' Nsss'iss
.l.sBases', writesto the Boston IGloh
Last Saturday, freck1ed boy, with the