Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-23
Odds and Ends,

Hues-Cuttlng wood tor winter.
Autumn leaves--When winter
comes In.
A Cincinnati cook makes soup OF
acorns.
Echo answcrsAWhat does nature
avoid? A void.
An olegenius fact-Whale q boy,
and, you will find hun full of blubber.
Mr.. Seward says Americans are
the fashion now all over the world.
DO not choose your friend by his
looks. Handsome shoes often pinch
the feet.
Not all the girls are in tor woman's
rights, but the majority are in for
married rites.
A young lady recently tried to do
up her back hair with honey comb
to make it look "sweet."
Railways are aristocrats. They,
teach every man to know his own sta
ton. and TO stop there.
Why is q lawyer like a sawyer ?
Because whichever way he turns,
down must come the dust.
Josh Billings says "knowing how
to sit square on bile, without hurt
ing, is one Of the lost arts.n
In too many lamentable instances,
the "last scene of all this strange,
eventtul history" is-kerosenc.
The courts now hold that wite's
interest in life insurance policy, IS
sued for her benefit, does not cease in
case of divorce.
Those of our citizens who design
witnessing the eclipse of the sun, on
the 18th OF December, had better be
starting for Arabia, Sumatra, or other
favored countries.
A victim of Grecley's handwriting
says: "If Horace had written tha.
inscription on the walls os Babylon,
Belshazzar would have sbeen good
deal more scared than he was"
A man reading q newspaper in a
bar.room. Say or two since, asked
another whats the meaning of the
Bohemian Diet, about which we hear
so much, Of late?" "Freo lunches
was the ready reply.
Some one thinks that young man
must have very fancy opinion Of
himself. when he proposes TO a young
lady to marry him, and then coolly
informs her that it will be at least
two or three years before he is able
to marry. We think SO, too.
A learned London author. with
abundance of leisure for crudlte tri-
tles, Is said to be preparing a book to
show that the golden image which
Aaron set up for the worship Of the
Israelites, was q COW instead OF a
calf. He intends to occupy two large
volumes to prove his point.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has made new departure in
the matter OF shitching up folks.
He has swept away the old establish
ed rules OF marrying for tee, and
announces that he shall hereafter
marry by weight. charging four cents
per pound for the happy man and
two cents for the bride. The idea
is q novel one.
1t IS no longer matter of wonder
ment that men in different parts OF
the country continue to vote for
Daniel Webster and Andrew Jackson
The Indiana Supreme Court on
Tuesday reversed tho judgment OF
the court below in the case of whit.
ny, sent to. the Penitentiry for eleven
| years, on conviction tor y scandal
Gus crime. The appeal was taken on
u motion for new trial. The judg
ment grants Whitney new trial,
and rcmands him to Marion county
Jail. The worst of it is that Whitney
has been dead and buried for three
weeks.
| Examples Of mighty rivers and
their trlbtaries drying up are getting
to be quite frequent. The Danube,
though larger river, is united for
purposes OF commercial intercourse.
| It we look near home We find that
the destruction OF the forests and the
cultivation of the al djaoent county
are having tho effect Of drying up
the Connecticut, very gradually, 70
. be sure, hut still mono tho less effect
ually. Many OF its tributaries which
formerly contributed large volumes
, OF water the twelve mohths through
! are now dry toy three tourths OF ths
year.