The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
INCIDENTS AND AcCID1Nrs.

Kerosene is bad drink for chill
dren. Itkilled q New York child the
other day.
"A New York man partook Of pail
full Of boiled cabbage and died from q
rupture in his stomach.
"A woman fifty-nine years old, with
her son, arrived in La Grange, Ore,
recently, having walked thither from
her home in Indiana. She carried q
pick.
"A young man in New York has
been amusing himself by calling out
the fre-engines; and the worst of it is
that in the Penitentiary, where he is
going for ninety days, they won't let
him laugh.
About eight weeks ago Laura Desch,
Of Macungle, Lehigh County, Pa, was
bitten in the finger by pet Maltese cat,
which died the next day. The wound
inflicted on the gi-rs finger healed, but
few days since she grew worse, and
after suffering several hours she died OF
hydrophobia.
Some Canadian lumbermen, by
way of joke. convinced one of their
number, after he had recovered from a
spree, that he had murdered o Magis-
trate. The poor fellow took to the
woods, wandered there for ten days
without food, became a raving maniac,
and was taken to an asylum.
An Oshkosh, Wis, lady of color
recently revenged herself on a procras-
| tinating shoemaker with whom she had
left pair of shoes for repair, in novel
manner. After repeatedly calling for
her brogans and being put of. she lit
down on the unfortunate son of st.
Crispin and smothered him with kisses,
to the great amusement of his shop
mates. The next call brought the
shoes.
"A young lady while returning from
prayer-meeting in Middletown, N. T.,
recently, lost her bonnet, and would
have gone as far as her fathers door
without missing it if handsome gen.
tleman walking behind her had not
picked it up and run after her. When
she had gone half block he overlook
her and handed it to her, whereupon
she clapped her hand to her back hair
and murmured: "Thank you; that is
MINER
The Aiken Is. c. Courier-Jour,aal
says that one John Palmer, after hav-
ing imbibed too much whisky, went
home one day, recently, and to fright
| en- his wife, with whom he had some
unpleasant words, procured rope and
| attached it to a beam overhead, got on
a chair, placed his neck in the moose,
| and requested her to pull it from I'M
der him, as he did not want to live any
longer. On her refusing to assist in
the execution, and after she had left
the room, he kicked the chair from I'M
der him and found himself swinging in
the air. and dancing on nothing. The
sensation was not agreeable, nor the
result what he expected. After consid-
| cradle exertion and some tall climbing,
he succeeded in getting out of the scrape
a sobered, if not wiser man.
"A few days ago, in one of the most
careful households in this city, where
tenders guard the fireplaces and safety
matches aggravate the strange visitor.
smoke was discovered in a room adj
joining the one where the family were
at breakfast. Investigation showed
that chair in the room was burning.
How it could have taken fire was mys-
terry, until it was noticed that the sun s
rays falling on large magnifying lens,
used to study photographs with, had
been concentrated through it upon the
chair, and had set it burning. If the
family had not fortunately selected for
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