Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-03-18
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A bed OF pure chalk has been found
near Omaha.

near Omaha.
San Francisco thinks Of having =
Nv Worlds Fair in 1870
The Spanish clergy are alarmed at
he safe OF Protestant hooks II Malaga
ard Seville
A gentleman in Salem has the por
traits OF nine general ons OF his ances-
tors hang n : upon his parlor walls
One banker in Paris, II Tnibaudeau.
holls seventy thousand pounds W orti
ot Confederate bonds, for which hs
paid fifty per cent, OF their face.
A statute is to be erected in St Lou
is to he memory of Gen. Nathaniel
Lyon, who was killed in the battle Of
Ni,on's creek i'll August, ISL.
Among the reured army officers
who have ieen rclleyel from their
present assignments by order OF the
president, is Fl st Lieutenant Frank
Z. Brownell, he avenger OF Ellsworth.
INSANE Miss Mary Harris OF Bur
linyton, who shot Burroughs in w ash
,ngton City few years since, has gone
Insane and is new is an asylum near
Washington.
In Congress the Eastern colleges
are represented as follows: Yale ten,
Harvard. tw }; West Point, none,--
Princeton, tour; Dartmouth, two, Viii
.lams tour; Brown, tour; Union, two;
Columbia, one; Amhers, two.
London has l3 Mary Ann streets
Il James, 81 Edward, 46 Charles, -
r'reierlcN, 36 Henry, 81 John, IS
li.abeth, 13 Jane, 1 Emma, and
Emily streets. There are 50 New
streets.
Old Faueuil Hall, Boston, was first
built and presented to the ton by
Peter Faneuil in l742 1t was des.
-royed by tire in 17ol, rebuilt in 1863.
1t was enlarged to its present size in
.so5.
Con!ucius End Washington are, it
IS said, the only men mo have ttainel
universal tame. The name OF Contu
cius Is we'll known here in the West
while in the empires OF the East
ashingtOns name is the only IA
nous one that has ever penetrated
rom the Ocsident.
1t is said that before the establish.
n,ent OF | gat.nouses in the northern
extremity of Scotland, the Orkney
Island farmers aud wreckers used
c.aret w.ne instead OF milk in their
,ariey porrldge, and fenced their tar ms
with Honduras mahogany They
utterly opposed the erection vt light.
louseS.
Granite, Notwithstanding its exceed
.ng hardness, splits rs straight aud
clean as Il chestnut stick. Al ore of
The granite quafries OF Maine, re Gently,
4 block was split out winch NE assure /
100 feet long, 81 ? te,t wide, and )
teet thick 1t weighed over 200 tons
Among the members OF the Sorosls
Ciuo OF New York are SIX artists,
twenty-five authors. six editors, thlr :
teen musicians, one historian, eles en-
poets. nine teachers anl lecturers,
eight we'll known phllanthroli =, two
oIy ys,c.aas, .Odf writers Oh science
.nd forty contributors to psIio Iicais.
In order to anase the child.en on =
sabbath, lady was engaged III read
ng from the Bible the story OF David
.nL Go iah, and coming to the passage
~ which Goiiah SO boastIngty and de-
.iantiy dared the youny stripping, =
tide chap, almost ii hs irst trow.
sers, SAID: "Slster, skip that-skip
that; he's blowing! I want to know
who licked.
Jo Dayiess county, Illinois, was
named in honor OF Joseph Hamilton
Dayless. OF Kentucky, VINO was killed
At the battle OF 'rippecanoe. The
States OF Indiana, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, have each = Daviess county nam
cd in honor OF the same person. 1t
has often been proposed, aud il now,
10 strike of the "Jon from the name
Of the Illinois country, but heretofore
it has met with little favor II 10 one
OF those peculiaritles OF nomenclature
that should he preserved by all mcans.
Photograph OF fash, onabls m1sio,
copied from the original
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Key to the above.
'Wolcome sweet dsy nf rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this ievis.ng breast
And the.s rsj.ifaS eyes