Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-03-25
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Keep yourselves from opportunities
n God will keep you from sins
Bless God tor what you have and
rust Him for what you want.
lie who conquers himself docs
more than he who conqucrs orlds.
Whatever you dislike in another,
'ake care to correct in yourself
ihe peasdre OF ,lo.ns good is the
oniy one that never wears out.
Go slowly to the entertainments OF
my trends, but quickly to their misior
tunes.
. !" hen fish is woln lei, the oth-r
Ilshes iai upon and ,i.vour him -
There's some human nature in ii.l-s
Joseph Joubert says: Instead Of
complaining that roses have thorus. h,
glad the thorns are surmounted Is,
roses
When man dies, people geaeraly
inquire what property he has lett d.
hind him. The angels will ask, wha,
good deeds has he sent before him.
He who has never triei the CON.
panionship- OF little child, has care.
lessy passed by one OF the greatest
pleasures ut lite.
The heart softened by the fire of
affection is like the iron when heated
IN the turnace capable of receiving
impressions and beng fashioned at will
-Scaent5fc american
That MI IN" said sydney Smith q.
not the discoverer of art who first
says the thing; but he who says is 40
loud, and So clearly, that he compels
mankind to hear him.
He who receives good turn should
never forget 1T; he vino does one
should never remember it,;
Only, four or five Boston clergymen
voted against General Grant tor Presi.
dent.
The average prices OF productive
land is highest in New Jersey, lowest
in Florida. -
Otthe Southern States Kentucky
has changed less than any OF er III the
value OF its real property within ten
years.
Dip the ends of nails into grease,
and then they will drive easily into
any hard wood, where they would
otherwise double and break.
A diligent realer of Scripture has
discovered that the velocipede, OF the
variety, wa, pre- lcted
more than two thousand years ago
See Ezekiel l.: l5-2l.
George " Lawrence, of Pennsyl.
sania, ex-memb.r OF Congress, has
been Appointed First Assistant Post
master General.
SENATOR Fowler. of Tennessee, being
considered no !onger a member OF the
Republican party, has been asked not
to attend its caucuses In the future
a quee statistician at Portland, NJ,
> crusty old bachelor, doubtless as
this statement OF matrimo-
niai matters ia that city:-Ria.way
wives "a, runaway nu.omls i91, mar
rled persons legally div ,rcel 81,
living iii open warfare I +4o, Lying in
private misunderstanding. ll06, mutu-
ally Indifferent sl6J3, regarded as hap
ry Z9l, nearly happy y, psrtect'y hap
py 8.
General John e Fremont gives
$lol tor the monument 70 be erected
to Alexander Won Humboldt, in New
York Central Park The centennial
anniversary OF Hunboldt's birth oc-
curs SEPTEMBER II. AMI among other
distinguished men who were born III
the prolific year l76J were Napoleon,
Wellm .t,p Cuvier and Marshals
Soult and Ney.
Mr. Catlin, the prairie traveller and
artist, his communicated to IrMbasrs
4,asrtea.s aud Orseatal Literary Record
the curious tact--lt it should prove to
be tact-that a great river, larger
than the Mississippi" flows under the
Rocky Mountains! Mr.. Catlin is
about to submit the evidence waich he
has collected IN favor of this. startling
hypothesis to the world. 4 a.ss.y
The youngest man aver elected
President is, Ulysses r. Grant, who
will be 47 years old on the I'LL Ut
April, 1869. Washington was 81,
John Adams was6l ,lEnnmas J sferson
was 81, Madison was SO, Monroe 81,
John Quincy A lams,5s, Andrew Jack
son oyer d. Martin Vsal Buren, 81,
William Henry Harrison 81, James 4.
Polk 80. Zaahsry Taylor o5, Franklin
Pierce 4S, james buchanan %, and
Abraham Lincoln nearly 81, whenthsy
We're elected o. 81 s+5 80
!. The .sew York Sas gives an amu-
sing incident illustrative Of the liltia
weight that should be accorded to,
petitions in favor OF any nody or any
thing .itirst happeied'in Aloary several
years ago. Twomem bers Of the Leg
lslature were disputiny on this subject,
whrn one OF them laid = wager OF $lO0
that within threedays he coutd. produce
a memorial with one hundred verltA-
bic names attached, asking the Legis.
lature to pass ailaw to hang the Rev.
Dr.. Spragi,e, Que OF the most dlstin.
sulshed clergyman at the State capital.
The bet was taken, the money was put
up, aud within the Tins The memorial
was produced Or course, the me-
morialistS neither knew No: cared
what they had signed.
WHrRG Tm-r Goethe other day,
says an exchange, ayoang lady called It
the house ot trend. and seeing .
couple OF not larye-sized pincushlons
lying upon q table, winch, upon slnqM-
~, she found had :beeu in use tor tive
years, suggested to- the lady OF the
eouse that It vu.lld be goot idea to