Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-02-23
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The Roman Empircswas once sold
at auction.
The taw school OF the UNIVERSITY
of New York is now open
There are 223 studeuts registered
at Ripon College, Wis, this term.
Prussia possesses at the present
time 4S commercial and industrial
schools.
The original territory OF the Che
lrokee tribe OF Intliass comprised
over $4,000, 900 acres. . .
The advertising recsipts Of the
London Times have sometimes reach.
ed *I25, 900 in as,ngss month.
The game Of chess originated IN
India about Eve thousand > ears ago
the game Of checkers is even older.
20 woman! in our hours Of ease. -
Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please;
Bat sesn Too on, familiar wigkhsr face,
Wei endure, then pity, then embrace.
Folly-to think you can make pork
out OF pig iron, or mat You may be
come shoemakes'Ny drinAing shet-
| ~ cobblers. nseA hs
One thousand 6ve hundred and
sevent1,fonr registered Letters were
stolen from the United States mail
last year. r,la
A Boston lady having been asked
| if she was an admirer Of Trollope's
novels, replied: "Yes, have always
been Trollopoloper."
John Mayo was q German artist
distinguished for, the. length Of his
whiskers, which reached the ground
when he stood up.
The first ball mentioned IN history
was given at Amlens in 1885, on the
occasion Of the marriage of Charles
". with Isabella, Of Bavaria.
All the Catholics in the country
are becoming Protestants. They pro-
test vigorously against the occupa.
ton Of Rome by the italian Govern
ment. f6
The Postmaster at Adaline, w.
Va, has salary Of one dollar per
annum. He do mt 60 to Washington
very often to see that he DO Mt loss
his place.
DR.. S. Lucas. OF Hampdsn, Masea.
chussetss, was the original discoverer
of emery in the United States, snd
Captain John Elliot was the first to
work an emery mine.
Edward Baliol, King Of Scotland,
sold his right to the Scottish throne
to Edward III. OF England, for 5000
marks and yearly pension Of 1000
pounds sterling.
The amount Of ink product OF this
country Is estimated at about 10 ,00O,.
900 gallons annually, nearly all OF
which is consumed within our own
limits, besides which We import 4
large quantity from England each
year.
The first knitting mill ever put up
4 in the United States was erected and
operated at Cohoes, N. Y, in 1882.
That place has now eighteen Of these
mills, which each turn out an aver
age of about 100000 worth Of
knitted shirts and drawers annually.
a few years ago this sign was mp
on ono of our mercantile houses: ~
Bull :. Co., Importers" A wicked
wag one night took paint and brush
and IN one minute made it read thus:
II Bull + Ces Imported" Numbers
of people called the next day to take
look at the imported cattle.
The learned "pundits,' who have
discovered that Michigan is only a
corruption Of the name OF Father
Mike Egan, will soon aver that Ore
gon is only corruption OF O'Rcgan.
and that Omaha fs natural deriva-
tive from o 'Meagher.
The Atlanta Sun asks: "Why are
we not to day the richest people in
the worlL?' The Louisville Journal
presumes it is chiefly because there
are other people IN the world who
have the advantage Of Us in point Of
property.
Military men have discovered
new remedy for iutoxication. Il IA
nothing moro than raw potatoes.
which are cut up into slices, and eaten
without salt. An ordinary murphy
| it is said, will cure the most obsti.
nate case in halt an hour.
This is the curt reply Of Horace
Greeley to Wendell Phillips; Tow
10 not expect says Mr.. Phillips,
''to find a martyr in an editorial
! chair mo nor do We expect 10
find ono on application to lecture.
bureau. We arc more likely to get
pharisee.n
J Tho idea that a person imbibee the
characteristics of an animal he catsls
very widely distributed. The Ms-
LAYS give large price for the flesh OF
the tiger, not because they like it
but because they believe that the
man who cats tiger acquires the sa-
gacity as well as the courage, Of that
animal" s
| At last somo attention is abo, TO
be paid to the grave Of ex-Prcsadent
Harrison at North Bend. II y
about tine something was done in
the premises. Petitions to the leg.