Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-04-22


5000 posts, aud membership
exceeding 100000.
a correspondent writes to say that
a still smaller man than Knee .hiuh.miah
is mentioned in the Bible; Bnl-Dad ot
Shoe Height. Job is1)
There are IN Sweden 96S noble fam
lilies. OF these, 6S are counts, liz bar
ons, and the remainder common no.
blemen The 96s families number
about ii 600 persons.
Alexander Hamilton wrote with h;s
own hand the act which kept Al.xan-
der I. Stewart out of the Treasury
Department. 1t is not supposed how
ever, that he held any malice toward.
Stewart.
Mayor Putnam is fighting the Com.
mon Council Of Portland, Me. They
insist that his pay shall be $1,000 a
year. and he insists that 81 200 is
enough. He will resign If they insist.
Father Tgnatius, who has been lee
turing in London on 'sThe Christainf,y
OF the Low Church Party" makes one
sensible remark, that, seeing that there
are 900, 100000 of people in the world
who don't believe in Christ at all, it il
La, great pity that believers in him
should quarrel among themselves.
Senator Buckingham, of c Connecticut.
IS. by correspondent, signalized from
other Senators by "his gentlemanly al
mosphere, neither chewing tobacco,
nor splitting, nor putting his legs into
his neighbors chair when bis neirhbor
is out OF it, nor slouching around with
his hands in his pockets"
Sir Kenelm Digby, Of England
wrote to Gov. Winthrop, the second,
of Massachusetts, in the eighteenth
century, and recommended the follow
ing cure for the ague: "Pare the pa
tents nails; put the parings in a little
bag round the neck of live el, and
put him in tub of water; the eel will
d. and the patient will recover"
London Fun reports thai the Peace
Society Is considering the feasibility of
reducing the hight OF the Alps below
the line Of perpetual snow. Their rea-
son tor wishing to do this is that at
present these mountains endanger the
peace Of Europe. They give rise to
piques, and produce GOODNESS between
France and Switzerland and Italy.
The London Spectator states that
among the collections Of the minister
to India, the library of Tamerlane, ae.
cumulated by that conqueror in the
course OF his expeditions, has Just been
discovered. 1t is said that among the
riches which it contains, are valuable
documents relating to the lie of Ma
homet.
In Alaska there is river, the Kwich.
pack or Yukon, which in length and
volume OF water exceeds the Nile or
the Ganges, and is itself exceeded ONLY
by the Amazon, the Mississippi, and
perhaps the Plata.
The nucleus of all museums is club
which killed Captain Cook. FIRST get
your club and then build around it
By careful count there must have been
from 5000 to 1000 natives around
that prosecuted explorer and martyred
navigator when he met his death, and
each OF them took hack at him, that
their clubs might 50 down to posterity
in glass cases.
Fall River, Mass, with a population
OF about $4,000, has 10 cotton mills,
with 50l 1000 spincles, manufactures
ia, $4,000 yards of cloth. or 6l.977
miles year. This would encircle the
earth two and one-halt times. The
print works print twenty million yards
OF cloth yearly. The manufacture OF
nails and iron in different forms, Is i'm
mense. The capitol stock in the IRON
works is 100000. They use -, 900
tons Of coal and make 200. 900 lbs. of
nails per annum. The pay roll OF these
different establishments amounts to
s200,000 each month.
Mr.. c. was III the habit of asking his
children to repeat the text, on their re-
turn from church to peove that they
gave attention. On the Sabbath the
text was: why stand We here all the
day idle? Go into my vineyard and
work. and whatever is right will pay
thee Charlie came home, and was
asked to repeat the text. He hesitated
moment. and then, as if it just came
to him after much thought, he said
wv hat are you standing round here
doing nothln' for? Go into my barn
yard and go to work, and I'll make it
all right with you