The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

but he had disappeared.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The ties which bind Fashion to Trade
novelties.
Every man who would rise must be
his own yeast.
The first of April: the day we sell a
brat-or conversely.
The expense of the Centennial to the
British Government was $3.50.
When are bracelets like soldiers 2
When they ground arms.
"A very malignant type of measles is
prevailing in the Cherokee Nation.
Punch defines a woman as a crea-
ture endowed with a self-ornamental in
stinct.
Missouri offers reward of SIC, 900
for the discovery of a specific for hog
cholera
"A Jerseyman has wife whose name
is Betsey, and he always addresses her as
" You Bet"
The Canada thistle is being acclimated
on the Pacific coast. This'll make the
farmers swear.
1t is no longer the bully boy with the
glass eye, but the bovine gentleman with
the crockery optic.
-' Wot's hall this Hamerican beef
coming over 'ere for, hanyway w inquiries
the Sheffield butcher.
If prison convicts are allowed any
amusement, the New Orleans Republican
thinks they would prefer skipping the
rope.
:" Crayon portraits warranted to give
satisfaction, by A. Dauber," is the allur-
ing sign of an artist on Broadway, New
York
We should feel for the poor in our
pocket as well as in our heart, but the
pocket referred to is not where the hand
kerchief is carried.-Dan6ury News.
Talk about your blue glass cure! One
of our subscribers writes: II have just
looked over file of the Bulletin for
weak back. ."-Philadelphia Bulletsn.
Mrs. Jackson, of Boston, spends her
time in collecting money with which to
redeem articles pawned by poor people
in that city during the past hard winter.
Somebody having remarked that q
great many people were out of doors yes
tcrday, Lavender wanted to know why
they didn't 60 to door factory and buy
some.
"A New York paper believes that the
boy who wants to run away from home
should be allowed to shoulder his bundle
and get right along. He will come home
better boy.
"A few minutes before being shot the
Mormon Lee was requested by . photog.
rapher to "please assume pleasant
look" This world is prsne to ask great
deal of man.
Olive Logan says she'd like to be an
Englishman's wife and have him ask her
to bring him his boots! She'd make him
think tornado had struck the house.
Detroit Free Press.
The newest style of fancy shirts for
gentlemen are made of white linen,
double breasted, ornamcntcd with fine
line of red, blue, or brown, and with col
lars trimmed to match.
The rich young men who didn't learn
trades ten years ago because their fathers
were " Independent are now in New
York sitting on Eastwood shovels and
waiting for snow bank TO draw on.-N.
7. GrapAic.
"A young lady in Boston recently got
up handsome subscription for letter.
carrier and then married him. She'll
make an amazingly good wife if he can
keep her out of the canvassing- for a.
church society business.-St. Louis Re
publican.
Tradition says that years ago, when
the headwaters of the Chesapeake
swarmed with wild fowl, the hands en-
ployed at an iron forge at Havre de Grace
once upon time refused to work because
they were fed on canvas-back ducks in
stead of bacon.
"A New Jersey man argued his own
case before q jury, and not knowing much
about law-books, quoted from Bret Harte's
works instead. The result was gratify-
ing success, his argument being the means
Of cutting down the claims against him
from $51 to $8.65.
Chicago is not only the first city on
the continent in point Of pigs, but it is un-
surpassed in the originality and interest Of
its murders. New York has undoubtedly
produced several good, substantial, work
man-like murders, but they have lacked
the brilliancy Of Chicago crimes.-E. r.
Tribune.
For the child Of fame Is waiting still
A crown and . scepter bright.
But their beauty will fade like the morn.
ing dew in the presence Of the silver
plated certificate that is drawn up for the
man who can sleep in boiled shirt and
ret up in the morning with the bosom
looking as well as it did ct night. Fulton
tHY ~ Times.