The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-02-01
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LENT comes on st. Valentines Day.
THE survival of the fittist-A live
milliner.
AN old bachelor says that when he
wooed she wouldn't.
THE mercury has been as low as 2e
below zero in South Carolina this win
ter.
SENTIMENT for minister" Either
this preaching or this coughing has got
10 stop" s-~'-zss.s
HoRAcx GREELEY once said that
perseverance is only another name for
genius.
A BUTCHERS sign out West reads as
follows: "John Jacobs kills pigs like
his father"
DEMosTHENEs had an idea that if
he put pebbles in his mouth he could
make rattling speech. O. Repub-
licGn. "a
THE Providence Press holds that the
unpretentious Goldfish gets more vic
Tins in New England than any other
one thing, except pie-crust.
To THE public the Presidential prop
lem may be . weighty question, but
the candidates themselves think it one
of wait. -PhtladelphiG Bwzetin.
A PHILOSOPHER who went to 4
church where the people came in late
said it was "the fashion there for
nobody to go till everybody got there"
THE Chicago Journal complains that
it is coldest just about the time q man
has decided to get up and build FIRE.
This whole country should be heated
by steam.
IT is by no means a bad idea of the
New York Herald that the hairpin is
mightier than the sword; though it ID
to be observed that pistols are not
mentioned. s As,ss s.~
ARE blacksmiths who make a living
by forging, or carpenters who do lit
tle counter-fitting, any worse than men
who sell iron and dlsteel for living?-
st. Louis Journal.
THE Victoria bridge across the st.
Lawrence is more thanea fo0t-shOrter
in winter than in summer, and il pro-
vision were not made for this change,
something would have to break.
If you don't stop your coughing,
sir" said testy and irritable Judge,
"I'll fine you $500. ~ ''I'll give your
lordship 1000 if you can stop It for
me-" was the ready reply. The Judge
ought to have sent him out of the
room.-P,tnch.
THIS has thus far been a winter of
unparalleled severity. There would
doubtless have been the most intense
suffering among the ladies who are
compelled to attend concerts and
things, were it not for tho warm lace
scarfs they wear. Xatck-
Eye. s
A MILWAUKEE editor WRITES in this
melancholy strain: W0dnln't want
our wife to go to the auction, and so
we hid her shoes to keep lleF at home
having occasi,g 80 go out an hour
afterward, we looked for our boots,
but they weren't there; ReitEer was
our wife. 1t isn't any uSe.'
THE Norrissown Pa) Herald ex-
plains it as fellows: Macaulay said
that as civilization grew poetry de-
clined. And now hundreds Of young
and ambitious poets will understand
why their contributions fnd their way
into the editorial waste basket instead
Of into the columns Of 9 newspaper.
Civilization is growing.
A LITTLE girl, in one of the Boston
schools, brought her teacher nosegay
Of flowers the other dby.3 which the
teacher carried for some time, every
now! and then enjoying their fragrance.
By-and-by another little eirl said: II
know where she got those flowers"
Where ?"1. "Oh, her little cousin
was buried yesterday, and they were
on the coffin" " What ID he die Off
!" Scarlet fever
A LADY of a religious tnrn of mind
residing in the country v1g anxious to
present her nephew, who vas going to
sea, with some slight testimony of her
affection, and decided, ifshe could OBJ
tain it, to give him = l{pus work,
known as 1.-THE Companiq 10 the Al
tar" But the nearest town was nine
miles OF, 50 she walked 0von 70. the
neighboring village and Inquired 1Qr
the work at the general hop, which
combined. groceries, habef1a6herY and
the postofifce with q little bookselling.
The proprietor replied that heI thought
he possessed the book, but after rum
ming his finger along his shelf he turned
round and said ri an sorry to say
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