Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-06-17
VAR EITlES.

Sheet music- Snoring.
| Dear Eating-Venison
| He who wishes to rest must work.
Burning wo!ds-A dictionary on
fire.
Illegal misunderstanding a
wife.
1t is illegal to buy cigar in Pitts
burgh on Sunday.
The name of the newly elected
President OF Costa Rica is Jesus j.
mineZ.
To kiss rosy checked girl, and find
your mouth filled with Venetian red,
and she growing pale on it, is truly
awful.
| The Welsh have a saying that if a
woman were as quick with her feet as
with her tongue, she would catch
lightning enough to kindle the fire IN
the morning.
Remember who you are taking to,
sir" said an indignant parent to trac-
tious boy, "Tmyour father, SIR We'll,
who's to blame for that" said young
imrertinence; ''taint me-
\ man in Maine applied for two
gallons of rum for mechanical pur-
poses" For what mechanical pur-
| poses:" inquired the agent. For
raising barn" was the rcEly.
There is conductor on the Fitch
burg railroad who always carries in
his mouth or about his person a fresh
blossom. The spirits have told him
that is the only condition by which he
can expect to meet his wife in heaven.
A person asked Zeno, the philoso-
pher, if wise men ever fell in love-
| His answer was: If arise men do not
iall in love, beautiful women must be
very unfortunate" Thecentures have
given us nothing that could add to the
wit or wisdom of the remark.
A gentleman of Rochester saw an
| advertisement that receipt for the
cure of dyspepsia might be had by
sending postage stamp to the adver
tiser. He was victim and sent his
stamp The answer was, dig in
your garden and let whiskey alone!'
The new State Librarian of Michi-
gan is lady (M-s. Tenney, wife OF
Prot. Tenney, the former Librarian)
She became accustomed to the duties
of the position during the absence or
sickness of her husband, tor many
years, and is said to be thoroughly
qualified.
China is acquiring Christian notions
rapidly. \ few days ago we heard
that the son of the Emperor had got
drunk on opium. Now we learn that
Chinese official OF hi gh rank in Pekin
has been slapping the chops OF the
French Ambassador, causing the with
drawai of the Legation
| A gentleman in Pittsburgh, Penn,
publishes the following offer: Il will
donate $40 tor every passage OF Scrip
ture where the immortality OF the SOU
is mentioned, to any Church or Sunda,
School the finder may elect" His ad
dress is John a. Best, corner OF Fifth
ave. and Tunnel-st., Pittsburgh.
Tbs Stockbridge Indians in Wiscon-
sin are gradually disappearing. This
tribe once numbered 10000 warriors;
they emigrated from Massachusetts to
New York in l1s9, to Ohio in 1909,
and to Wisconsin in 1921 They now
live at Shawano, are suffering for food,
and number about 800 men, women
and children.
Vast ruins have been discovered in
the Zulu country in South Africa
obelisks with colossal carvings, ter
races. and halls of hewn stone, are cut
out of the solid rock. The natives re
gard them with mysterious awe, and
keep strangers from them, for tear that
it they are approached, no rain will
tall tor three years.
Fire insurance in Japan is simple.
but effective. No paid-up capital re-
quired. The COMPANY" consists of
the Mikado, who issues one general
policy which he calls an edict. The
chief condition Of the policy is that e.
1g person mhose hoase catches fire shall
haze his head cut of. The losses have
been remarkably light,
AT the burial of a minister in town
in Massachusetts, as late as 1924, the
| town, as Parish, besides brandy and
| West India rum furnished, voted TO
pay for l6 mugs OF flip $500, delivered
to the singers, also rum and cigars tor
the men who shoNeled snow. The
singers should have sung with the spir-
it as well as the understanding.
AT New Orleans, lately, very
homely woman was arraigned before
a magistrate for some petty offence
"What are you up here ior?' inquired
the Judge. "My beauty, l reckon. -
Your what" My beauty Are
you certain OF that" "Oh, bcdad,
there's no m,s,ake:" Then l discharge
you--you amt guilty. and the ac-
quilted lady took her departure.
The sensations on taking a camel
ride for the first time are thus de-
scribed: Take music stool, and hav
ing wound 1T up as high as it would
go, put it in a cart without springs,
get on top, and next drive the cart
transv varsely across plowed field, and
you will then form some notion of the
terror and uncertainty you would cx
periencc the first time you mounted
camel.
According to Chinese writers, the
great bell of Canton was cast five cen
turies ago. At first no person was
bold enough to strike it. Afterward,