Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-04-08
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Chargers-Hotel Clerks.
On the Trail--Ladies' skirts.
Unpleasant ism--Rhcumat ism
Sour Delicacy-kissing an old mail
Stolen Luxury-kissing the hired
girl.
A "fat take"-Our Devils sweet
heart.
The Chambermaid's Club - The
broomstick.
Horace Greely says that the darkest
day IN any mans career is that whore
in he fanclcs that there is some easier
way Of gaining dollar than by square.
ly earning it.
An English Judge, Baron Andersen,
on being asked to give his opinion as
to the proper length of a sermon, re-.
piled: Twenty minutes, with lean
ing to the side OF mercy
The snow was 50 deep in Essex,
Mass, in 1895 that there was no mov.
ing about without sn9,g fkhoGsses horse had
what .sy was snstn ssFss as well as men.
Gen. S. 3. HazeItine, Of Bakersfield,
VT, 81 EARS OF age, has been unanl'
mousls elected town clerk for the titti,
eth wear. During that period only IL
votes were ever east against him tor
that office.
The Sultan of Turkey has issued 8
decree throwing open to Christians Of
every denomination the mosques ana
temples Of the faithful, upon the sim.
pie condition that they will not scott
or disturb the wors.lpers in their
prayers.
The three oldest living graduates OF
Harvard are Samuel Thatcher, (class
Of 1887 Horace Binney, Ql90 and
Willard Hall, Q79O. All have been
members OF Congress, but are other
wise respectable gentlemen.
Here is an epitaph written on stone
on the banks OF the Sweetwater river
Here lies the body of Jeems Ham
brick, who was killed by an old-tash-
ioned brass-mounted pistol, with no
stopper for the cock to rest upon, and
of such is the kingdom of heaven"
The Romans always had homemade
bread until the year b. G. la, when
the first paved streets and the first
public bakers appeared simultaneously
in Rome. The want of pavements had
kept the women at home, and they
were thus enabled to make the bread
for their families.
A deacon OF the Russian Church,
addicted to mechanical tastes, has
given the postofiice of his capital a
novel letter box of his invention. 1t
gives receipt for every letter dropped
INTO it. Deposit your missive, AMI a
ticket is thrust out to you, bearing =
stamp showing the year, month ard
day OF the posting.
A man who has made tour among
| the sects reports that, so far rs he can
| learn the Unitarians don't care what a
man believes if he only does well; tho
Presbyterians don't care what a man
does, if he only believes; the Episco-
palians don't care what man does
or believes if he only belongs to
their church.
Mount Hood and other high peaks
in Oregon have begun to quake, and
the inhabitants of the State tear earth
quakes. All the peaks named, Hood
$4,000 feet high, Jefferson ul,o0o
teet), and the Three Sisters-not Broth
ers, as some of the papers print it
| (1,o90 teet, are extinct volcanoes;
and Mount Hood has been active with.
in the tradition of the Indian tribes.
\ recent case in England affords a
curious illustration of the value OF
photography. \ man applied for a
grant of administration to the effects
Of his brother, who went to Australia
long since and hal not been heard Of
for years. No direct evidence was
furnished of his death, but two men
identity photograph possessed by the
surviving brother of the one supposed
to be dead, as the portrait of man
whom they, about a certain date, buried
on hillside at the gold-ligging.
The Jatfa road from the coast to
Jerusalem has been placed under the
care of an American, Mr.. Floyd, one
of the members of the so-called Jaffa
colony from Maine. lie receives a
comfortable salary as road-master. A
few of the Jaffa colonists still remain,
and intermarriage with the natives has
commenced. Five thousand Germans
contemplate going from Wurtzburgh
to the regions about Nazareth, and
settling there. Several have already
arrived and commenced operations
with view to helping others along.
The editor of the Newport Or. I.)
News has been shown a timepiece, be-
longing to Colonel L. Rhodes OF that
City, which is 200 years old. Il has q
heavy silver case, and weighs about
/ five ounces. The balance wheel is as
large as an old-fashioned copper cent,
and the other parts are in due proper.
tion. One OF its peculiaritics consists
in the fact that it has only an hour
hand, leaving the owner to guess at
the minutes, which in olden times do
not seem to have been considered
worth counting. The figures on the
face are raised, and the whole presents
an appearance becoming it's great age.
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