Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-09
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California publishes 23S newspapers
and periodicals.
Boston has wooden building which
was erected in l1o9
The London Tia.s has been publish.
ed every day, except Sundays, s;nco
January |, l7ss.
The British Royal family cost the
country s32 So, 900 annually.
lhe frst printing done by steam was
the issue of the London Times for No.
vember %, 1914.
Two Americans have obtained tha
right to purchase 1000 acre. of l,nI
in Sinaloa, Mexico.
A human skullmhedaed in the ,runk
Of : tree, with 400 years, growth oat.
side, has been discovered in Kentne-
Ky.
Locomotive engines were used for
the first time in New England on the
Boston & Worcester Railroad, i,
April, 1884
There is an oak tree on the border
of Lee, Mass, which stands in two
counties-Rockingham and Stafford
and three towns-Lee, Enning ard
\ Nottingham.
Niagara has found rival in the Vic.
toria Falls on the Zambesi river, South
Africa, which are nineteen hundred
yards wide and four hundred feet
deep.
In Spain there is one Clergyman to
every 81 inhabitants; in Italy one to
900; France, one to $50; England, ons
TO $50; Austria, one to 600.
The paper mill, in which was manu-
featured paper used by Benjamin
Franklin in his office, is still in opera
ton in Delaware county, Pennsylva-
MIA. Itis named the ivy Mills" and
was erected as long ago as the year
| 1918.
"A singular story comes to us from
Switzerland, to the effect that q cloud
r heavily charged with electricity, pas
s sed over field at St. Martin. and sut-
n focated ss sheep.
: There are over 5000 papers in the
L United States, and new ones are %.
z tabllshed at the rate of about two a
It day. There are only about one hun.
o dred in the country that have 10 900
$, circulation.
II The Neae Free Presse give, the fol.
lowing proportion Of murders to The
number OF inhabitants In England
| IN CTS 900; in Holland. in 1853 900
!. in the North German Confederation,
r in 100000; in Austria, l in 1900; i
: Spair,1 in 4,Oo0;and in the Papal Stat,
| | in $50.
There is but one nobleman with
title in Norway. Years ago all title
were abolished. That is, the possesso
: of them could keep them, but the
children could not inherit them; SO t!
old generation IS now all dead but on
and he lives at Christiana, much belo,
el.
A prominent character in Swedis
history has just died at Stockholm
Count Otto Won Morner was Dor
in l7s1, and during his long lie of
J, years, took an active part in the pol
tics of his country. 1t is to him ths
the present Swedish dynasty is ellie |
indebted tor it's possession of til
throne.
There is church in East Haver
which was dedicated in the month o
September before the battle Of Lexinc
ton, and the Society was organize
l6i years ago. All the clergyme
who have otiiciated as pastors lie bu1
led in the cemetery near by Th
Church is built of stone. which wa
entirely worked out by the neighbol
ing farmers, who were, with one ey
ception Impractical in masonry, an,
though erected nearly 100 years age
the walls look as we'll and firm as
done yesterday.
1t may ne he generally known, tha
the first man killed in America in du
G! was stabbed by his adversary on,
evening on the Boston Common. an,
his tody was buried in the old Grana
ry Cemetery, near the Park Stree
J Church. He was young man abou
70 years of age, nanied Beniamir
Woodbridge, and got into quarrel
with his companion overa game O
cards. This occurred July Sd, 1928
! Woodbridge's antagonist, who was 3
young merchant. fed to France, where
he died Of disease of the heart.
a Word for Newspapers.