Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-09-07
ALL SORTS.

Parental acres-father's corns.
How to serve dinner-cat it.
The poor mans story-the garrett.
Little and often fills the purse.
All are not hunters that blow the
horn.
The best band to accompany lady
vocalist husband.
The best time to cut corn-when
it aches.
Smooth words make smooth ways.
Great Britain consumes four times
as much tea as the United States.
The Ohio river is going into de.
cline. 1t keeps its bed, and Is quite
low.
Young ladies suffering from pane
in the side may be relieved by wear
ing sash.
What an unlucky sutton iid--he
woocd and she would MT. He cooed
ed and she could MT.
If the ants give an example of in
dustry, 1t is much more than good
many uncles do.
What was the proverb that King
Lear heard from his two daughters 3?
"Go father, and fare worse"
The day to pick your wife is
Chooseday. "Wednesday is the day
to be married on, of course.
In Arkansas dressmaker made
bridal troasseam the other day which
contained 800 yards of calico.
The mean depth of the North At
lantic ocean, which IS stated by Mau.
fy to be 12,500 feet, has been reduc
ed by more elaborate soundings to
5000.
The Baptist and the Quakers are
the only religious bodies that have
increased in Ireland during the last
ten years.
\ San Francisco doctor advertised
for a good "office cat" He has al
ready received 243 felines, with the
southern counties yet to hear from.
OF $4,000 pupils in the New York
public schools who have been vacci-
mated, not one, it is said, has taken
the small pox.
The swells Of New London Pro-
nounce Pequot, Paquo, and the Bull
letin says: "Shades OF Uncas Shall
we have to wrestle with Poquetanoc,
Pogwamsticock and Wiccopeset in
the French language ?"
What is the difference between
rhododendron and cold apple
dumpling? Perfectly obvious, and
yet nobody ever guesses it, Why,
of course, the one is rho1odendron,
and the other is cold apple dump
ling.
Doublin IS suffering from bad
odors emitted from the river Leffey,
which bisects the city, but, less for
tunate than Chicago, she has no
means of civerting by short cut the
current of the pestllential stream.
A correspondent of an agrlcultu-
ra! paper asks: Where can wool
be proftably grown?" We are OF
opinion that there is no place where
it can more protitably be grown than
on the back Of a sheep.
A Boston physician says that four
young girls, full of intelligence and
promise, have been killed outright
by the severity of the tasks imposed
upon them in high school in that vi
entity.
A gentleman of Slatersville, r. l.,
states that all old lady, farmers
widow, recently sent him ten cents
saying it was 'overpay taken for pro-
duce thirty.nine years ago.
A M:ssissippian in Dragging about
his wife, wound up with the decara-
ton: "Why. she'd make a regular
high pressure steamer, she's such
talent for blowing up"
Texas papers report that five humid
red skeletons were found hanging
from limb of a tree in Hunt coun.
ty, recently. Horse thieves are treat
cd with severity down there.
The Dolhnger movement is taking
a definite organic shape. A London
dispatch reports that an important
meeting was held last Sunday at
Heidelberg. to lay the foundation OF
the German Church. The Council
of Constance, 1914, will be taken as
a basis.
An advocate having lately gained
a suit tor a poor young lady who
was very ugly, she remarked: II
have nothing to pay You with, sir,
but my heart q Hand il over to