Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-10-20
CLIPPINGS.

All are not saints that go to
church.
The woman in Utah are very apt
to marry Young.
Russia Furnishes drunkards by
making them sweep the streets.
Bismarck was asked, What will
the war cost?" His reply was '.Only
two Napoleons."
When does the rain become too
familiar to lady? When it begins
to patter ON her back.
A widower was recently rejected
by a damsel who did mt want affec-
tions that had been '.warmed over"
A voice comes from Washington
Territory, saying, "Serd US wives!'
And a thousand unhappy Bencdicta
respond, Take ours.r'
Napoleon was wont to remark
that s'The Empire is Peace He
may now puralize the idea, and say,
':The Empire is Pieces
A bachelor, seeing the words
Families Supplied over the door Of
a shop, stepped in and said be would
take a wife and two children.
"It is curious fact says some,
entomologist, shat it is the female
mosquito that torments us" A
bachelor says that is not at all Curl
Gus.
It is said that the man who wont
take a paper because he can borrow
one has invented a machine with
which he can cook his dinner by the
smoke of his neighbor's chimney.
The Methodist says:-"Rev. I.
James, NJ. D., Of Bustleton, Pa, has
the honor of being the Oldest Metho-
dist in the world. He is i'll his 94th
year, having been born January 49,
l777."
Moliusk inquiries as to the exact
''helght of the ridiculous" QAy
sick smile can answer so foolish
question. n. B.-The bearing of this
ere observation depends upon the,
spelling of it-''six miles, - Bos-
ton Advertiser.
"Sir," said the astonished landlady
to traveller, after he had just sent
his cup forward for the seventh
time, ''you must be very fond of cot.
fee." Yes, madsme, l am" replied
he, cor l should never have drank so
much water to get little
A gentleman passing through po-
tato field Observed an Irishman plant.
ing some potatoes. lie asked him
what kind he had there. ...Raw ones
to be sure,n replied the son OF Erin;
iii they were boiled they would MT
grow a
/. An erring Indiana hen was recent
~ found in tho hack part OF hard
ware store, where the poor misguided
fowl had struggled three weeks try
ing to hatch out halt dozen white
porcelain door-knobs. She was very
much reduced. Il
Any one who is much talked OF
must be much maligned. This seems
to be harsh conclusion; but when
you consider how much MORE given
men are to depreciate than to appre-
ciate, you will acknowledge that
there is some truth ia the saying.
An assistant United States mar.
sharin Louisville, in taking the cen.
sns, asked q colored woman what
personal property she possessed, to
which she replied, .sNothin' but desc
tree chillen yere, and dcy amt wuth
much since the Emancipation prock-
lermation." tsf@ I .s' a''ss
The Chicago Post says Napoleon
must abdicatc." Send him marked
copy, quick. before lie do MT do it,
Phlladclphia Press. sfitei
I'm. B. takes The Post, though his
subscription is now, overdue. on ac-
count OF the inability OF the Bank of
France to stand a-loan. Our prog,
noslication was correct. fie has
hcartlessly quit the society OF Nancy
and Susanue, just as 5enedetti form
ierly withdrew from Ems, and it will
not probably be a!lnonth before he viii
abdi- Kate. No man, by simply sub
scribing for the Post, can s.ppres
our conyictions.-[C Chicago r, i.