Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-08-18
CLIPPINGS.

The following notice was posted
up in a Tennessee town: "all hogs
that Is found in the Corporate Limits
running at large after the IL day oi
July 1870 will be taken mp and fins
and Cost imposed on the same July
s, 1870"
A census taker near Racine, Wis
consin, has found . colored woman
lO7 years old, who complained 10
him that she had worn herself out BY
taking care OF white folks. but hoped
to "outgrow" her troubles after few
years OF rest.
An urcl.in, hearing his father read
an article in the paper in relation TO
new invention OF bricks of glass, ex-
claimed: "Glass bricks? | know
what lhem isl "Whas are they 2
inquired one of the family. "Tnm-
blers OF liquor SAID the youth.
Some boys at Chicago dropped an
anvil weighing two hundred pounds
out OF q fourth. story window on the
head OF an African who was passing,
when he hal them arrested. lie
said, - s'eA
Use willim' dat boys shall lave dar
fun, but when dcy jam a gemman's
hat down ober his eyes, and spile it
in dat way, de law must take its
course"
The Independent asks, "How shall
We explain the fact that not Withstand.
ing the law Of Christ and all the
Magdalcnes 10 flank it as auxiliary
appeals to every generous instinct,
society to-day forgives a man for a
thousand transg, cssions-nay will
fondle aud fiatter and crown him
without repentance or forgiveness,
and trail sister, tempted overmuch,
shall make but one false step to be
consigned to hopeless infamy? Are
Christianity and chivalry both buried
in the graves Of saintlincss .:anc ge-
MUS p
At a spiritual circle in Cincinnati, a
man burst into tears when medium
a tail, blue cyedspiritstand.
ing by him. with light side'whis-
kcrs aud his hair parted in the mid
die.
do you know HIM ?" inquired a
man at his side, in sympathetic wills.
per.
"Know him." I guess I do" re-
piled the unhappy man. sHe was
engaged to my wife. If he hadn't
died lie would have been her husband
instead OF me. Oh, George, Gcorge!'
lie ,nurmured, in a voice choked with
emotion, "why did you peg out -
Josh Billings has been to Long
Branch, and thereof writes: The
biggest thing they hav got here at
tho present IL the pool ov water in
front Of the hotels. The pool IL sed
bi good judges tew be 5000 miles in
length, and in some places toAr miles
in thickness. Into this pool, every
day at ten O'Clock, the folks all re-
tire-males and females, and Wit
ders, promiskuis. They dress in fan
mel attire, ov iacnny colors, and look
as near alike, when they are in the pool
as a flock ov ducks and brakes. The
water III this pool haz stood SO long
it haz got salty and ought tew bc
changed"
Once upon time, says the mar.
rator, Lyman Beecher and Hosea
Ballou met to compare Calvinism
and Universalis,n. Both were Bible
men, and came armed with textile
missiles. after several apostolic
blows from each, shrewdly parrled by
the other, DR.. Beecher opened 10 the
ninth psalm and read, "Thc wicked
shall be turned into hell, and all the
nations that forgot God" There,
sir, the wicked are in hell; get them
out it you canr' Hosea Ballou, calm
as summer morning, pointed to the
twentieth chaptcr OF Johns Rcvela-
ton, and read, death and hell deliv-
er up the dead which were IN them. "
There" said Father Ballou, "they
are out I; get them i'll again it you can" +"
-Ncw Corenant.