Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-07-22
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CLIPPINGS.
fiery steel--IIorsc radish.

Railroad furniture-Timc tables.
Behind time-Thc back Of clock.
A hen by day is rooster by night.
A veil able space-A woman's face,
Brigham Young is indeed pillar of
Salt Lake. His wife is--Lots.
To keep your wife in constant check
Make her dress in gingham
The female population of Bcrmu-
das exceeds the male four times.
St John River, Florida, falls only
eighteen inches in three hundred miles.
What is that which ties two persons
and only touches one? A wedding
ring.
Shelburne Falls, VT, has acitizen who
claims to be the champion horse-swap-
per-" He is 40 years Of age, and has
traded horses over 600 times.
The emancipated peasantry in Rus
STA are industriously cultiyating the
ground, now that they have a greater
personal interest in the proceeds.
There are four sisters residing in
Danbury, Ct, all OF whom are widows,
whose united ages amount to 324,
namely S., So, IS and75, in years.
"Sam, why don't you talk to massa,
and tell him to lay mp treasures in
heaven?a What for? What de use
Of laying up treasures dare, where he
never see EN- again.
Theodore Parker used to say that
women by our civilization awere com
PEELED to choose between marriage and
nothing, which was very often a choice
between two nothings,n
A correspondent suggests that the
inebriated person who proposed to es-
cort his girl to see "Crossington Wash
ing the Deleware," should do so OF,
Birthingtons Washday.n
A woman in one of the census dis
tricts on Long Island, gave to the emu
merator the names OF twenty of her
children, and then said she believed
there were two or three more, but she
couldn't just remember their names.
A boy having complained to- his
father that Bill had thrown the Bible
at him, and hurt him on the head, the
father replied swell, you are the
only member Of my family on whom
the Bible ever made the least impress
Sion"
"lt any man wants to be an old bach
elor, and sc: sick at a boarding tavern,
and have back room in the fourth
story, and have red-haired cham
bermaid bring his Cruel to him in a
tin wash-basin, he has got perfect
right TO do it,
Fish.hooks are made now almost en-
tlrely at New Haven, Conn They
are made entirely by machinery. a
piece OF wire going into a machine and
coming ont perfect fish hook. The
machinery is the most ingenious that
has ever been invented tor any pur-
pose.
Beeeher is reported to have said
that a text may be compared to gate
opening into the Lords garden. Many
ministers, instead of unlatching the
gate and leading his hearers in to plucl,
the fruit and flowers, content them.
selves by getting upon il and swinging
to and fro.
a three year old boy of Pittsfield
clergyman, watching his mother
making biscuit one Sunday for tea,
asked her If it was not wicked to work
on Sunday. OF course she sad it was,
and the logical chap continued, "Oo'll
catch it when 90 get to heayenr'
A learned doctor, referring to tight
laclng, ayers that it is public bene.
fit, inaslnnch as it kills all the foolish
girls and leaves ali the wise ones to
grow up to be women. This is rather
severe philosophy, but there is GER
tainly more truth than poetry in it.
David Ricardo, the celebrated polit-
ical economist had what he called his
own three golden rules, the observ-
ance OF which he used to press on his
friends. They We're: Never refuse an
oi,tion when you can get it. Cut short
your losses. Let your profits run on.
A bishop who loves the weed, once
dinel with Admiral Farragut, and al
ter the dessert rendered bunch of
lIayanas to the sailor, with the invita-.
ton: Have cigar, Admiral.f--
'No, Bishop said the Admiral, with
a quizzieal glance, Il don't smoke-I
swear little sometimes