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

haiHDeTS o,ooU posts, aud mch
exceeding 100000.
y correspondent writes to sayN \
a still smaller man than Knee -hioh.mM
IS mentioned in the Bible; Bill-Dai o
Shoe Height. Job 1917 X
There are IN Sweden 96S noble fam
lilies. Oh these, 6s are counts, liz bar.
ons, and the remainder common no.
| olemen. The 96s families number
about 1000 persons.
Alexander Hamilton wrote with his
own hand the act which kept Alexan.
der T. Stewart out of the Treasnry
Department. 1t is not supposed. how.
ever, that he held any malice towards
Stewart.
Mayor Putnam is fighting the Com.
mon Council OF Portland. Me, Tbev
insist that his pay shall be $1,000 =
year, and he insists that ST 200 il
enough. He will resign If they insist.
Father Ignatius, who has been lee
turing in London on "The Christaini.s
of the Low Church Party makes one
sensible remark, that, seeing that there
are 9O0,0OO,0OO of people in the world
who don't believe in Christ at all. if is
great pity that believers in him
should quarrel among themselves.
Senator Buckingham, of Connection.
is, by correspondent, signalized from
other Senators by chs gentlemanly at
mosphere, neither chewing tobacco.
nor splitting, nor putting his legs into
his neighbor's chair when bis neichbor
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
tlents nails; put the parings in a little
bag round the neck of live ell, and
put him in tub of water; the eel will
d e and the patient will recover"
London Fun reports that 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 endaneer 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 a 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 a 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 % down to posterity
in glass cases.
Fall River, Mass, with population
OF about $4,000, has 10 cotton mills,
with 5Ol 900 spincles, manufactures
ll4,564,Oo0 yards of cloth, or 64,977
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 $1,000
tons of coal and make POS. 900 lbs. of
nails per annum. The pay roll OF these
different establishments amounts to
s200,00o each month
Mr.. c. was N 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
a moment. and then, as if it Just came
to him after much thought, he said:--
NV hat are you standing round here
doing nothln' for? Go into my barn
yard and so to work, and I'll make it
Ill nj ri, with