Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-08-05
CLIPPINGS.

Lig ht diet-the feast OF lanterns.
Kansas has population Of 100000.
The population of Canada is 1,459,OO0.
Norway catches thirty million cod season.
There are l31, 900 acres Of coffee plan ted
in Ceylon.
A Dutch engineer proposes to drain the
Zuyder Zee.
I.sziness is good deal like money; the
more man has of it, the more be wants.
Local annals, ii is said, mention Gl earth>
quakes IN Massscrusevrs uurtrfg -tho-p.a. ..oi /
years.
The fishing at Au-sau-au-q quot au-son go
mon-go-ton-go lake, in Oxford county, Me-, is
reported IS tirstrate; at any rate, the name is.
The first day q little boy went 10 school fhe
teacher asked him if he could SPELL YES,
SIR "Well, how do you spell boys so,
just as other folks DO"
A white boy met a colored lad the ether
day, and asked him what he had such shor
nose for. 4 spect's 50 it won't poke itself in,
to ether peoples business
During an examination Of cadets at Wies-
baden, one of the boys was asked when the
battles of jena and Auerstad; were fought
lie replied that his teacher told him he needu t
know anything about battles where the Prus-
slams were licked.
Practical VIEW OF THE QuEsTIoS.-A
young lady wants to know whether the wo-
man rights movement includes the right of
girls TO DO the courting fit does, she is in
for ii, as her young gentlemen friends are
very bashtul There is something practical
about that.
Yo Semitic, the name applied 10 the famous
valley, or Canyon, in California is the Indian
for Grizzly Bear. 1t is probable that the
valley took its name from noted chief who
once ruled over a tribe whose faYorite ret t
was in this valley which is now the lie OFT
OF 50 many tourists.
An English Clergyman recently trie1 to
persuade one of the black sheep of his flock 10
come TO church, on the plea that he had seen
his wife there on the previous Sunday. II
hope you'll try to come now, James .Well,
Sir, think I'll try, for our Mary says you re
a hell of q preacher"
Boise the capital of Idaho, derives its name
from the river on which it is situated, and
eigniies "woody," in the Indian dialect. No
oak tree grows in the territory, but there are
groves Of FIR, mountain mahogany and in
some parts, cottonwood, balm and willow.
A singular relic Of the Mound builders has
been discovered near Cumberland Ford, in
Kentucky. 1t is a beautifully carved statue
of man, in yellow pine, which, from the
quantity of pitch it contains. is known to be
as indestructible as stone. 1t was evidently
an object of worship, and of a date anterior
TO the Christian era. 1t is to be sent to the
Smithsonian Institute, in Washington.
Mrs. A. is we'll known as one Of those ma
lignent Christians, who, as Hood says, .'think
they're pions when they're only bilious"
and who furnish their highest evidence Of
religion by perretually recommending it to
other people, as if i: were an article they
wished to dispose Of, to keep it from spelling.
Brown was asked if he did"'t think she was
"deeply pious., EYES,, said Brown, sher
piety is SO deep that l never could see any
bottom to IT.
An Englshman in Naples made bet with
some young Italians that he could set runs
ming all the lame and paralyzed beggars
crouching in certain corner Of that city
Matters having been arrangei the English
man retired, and after while came rushing
round the nearest corner, followed by . rsb-
BILE, all shouting, "The tiger is loose! The
tiger is coming" and rushing madly past the
beggars, they, in their terror, forgot their
professional trickery. and leaping to their
feet fled with the crowd.