Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-03-16
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The Slang Of Our Day.

The Slang Of Our Day.
~ JOSHUA Rose.
The slang Of our day 10 pd.a.e,
Invented by-ah, who can tell?
A drink 10 70 smils," ora "gussls;"
A swindls 10 merely 'ssll."
One tells yeu tale you cant cavalier"
He tells you, by thunder liz true;
You bet him your last 'bottom dsllar,'
by thunder" ths,s al you oaa Dc.
They ask ySd elbow goes it," on meeting,
"Take care Of yourself 10 adieu;
They substitute cheating for cheating,
And sometinsa combine both the two.
Iffo 'lish, your "hsad isn't level"
Or, may be, your "head isn't clear"
Instead Of saying, go to the dsvil,'
They tell you, "walk % on your ear"
To praise you they say "Yeu are bully;
For hones. they nickname You square"
Although please to understand fully,
There's not many that way, II swear"-
While robbing they call "going through
you,"
And go for him" means an attack.
When financial troubles come TO you
They say, "OA, he's up on his back"
"Fusil oil" 10 the hs~ name for whisky,
.'Spondulix' cognomen for pelf,
tIv - L. L.. 49,
risky;
Well, "You know how il 10 yourself"
And il rsproof you should offer,
They tell you that "gams 10 quite played,
Say, walk OF you "big dirty loafsr,"
Or . large "Manssrd roof will 10 made.
Then sometimes you're "cornered' or ''su.
chered,"
That 10. il you get in "6x;"
They call you "gAloot" II untutored,
In every galoot's knavish tricks.
There are THAT'S what the matter With
Hannah's,"
And ''dead beats" on every side,
II the sskunks' will not alter their man.
ners,
don't care "cus," "lct EN- sliic."
Large Farms.
Grundy county can boast of 40
large farms within her borders "a any
county, perhaps in the State-lf It is
a matter OF which to boast. An i'm.
mense quantity Of our lands are own.
ed by Eastern capitalists. But dit.
ferent from most spectators, they do
not permit those who are here to do
everything toward making their lands
valuable.
One OF our heaviest land owners is
Mr.. George Wells, who is the owner
Of five or six thousand acres of laud
mostly under cultivation; and he is
counted as one o, the largest farmers
in the State. Mr.. Wells breaks an.
nually, about 500 acres OF prairie, and
has q tenant on almost every quarter
section of his vast prairie domain
Mr.. Horace Boies, OF Waterloo, has
1880 acres of land near town, nearly
all under cultivation, and has several
tenants on his farm, and is devoting
his attention largely to the cheese
business. Hon E. Aiken, OF Amstsr-
dam, N. Y, Is the owner Of about
1000 acres, mostly improved. HUGH
ems and Martin I. Townsend, of Troy
New York, are each the owner Of
about 1900 acres, mostly improved
Rogers, OF Buffalo, New York, is the
owner Of more than thousand acres
mostly improved. Then there is Col
| McMartin, Of New York, the owner
of an even 2OO0-whose nominal
home is in Amsterdam, but who
spends the most Of his time oversee
ing his prairie kingdom. Then there
is Judge Marble, who came to our
county Is years ago, when the whole
OF Grundy was but little better than
q wilderness and who has struggled
up from nothing to the owner Of
about Jour sections--the most of il
improved George w. Warner is the
king Of great many broad acres, all
earned by honest toll; and we might
mention a dozen others who are the
owners of from 500 to 800 acres Of
Grundy soil. Large farms are not as
beneficial to the coanty as small ones;
but we have but little fault to find
with eastern land owners who are
willing to help develope our county
by improving their lands, it they do
happen to own A. much territory as
il contained in rome county Of ono 81
the little New England States
GGrundv County Atlas.