Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-08-01
Mary had little lamb,
And oh, how she did love il;
1t grew to be . tough old ram,
And She made mutton Nv it.
OLA PODRlDA.

There is per capita tax on wives
in Utah.
Minnesota is building nlne new
railroads.
Clam fisherman on Long Island av.
erage 50 Jay.
James Parton is called a piece OF
Fanny Fcrnlturc.
Ole Bull scrapes $4,000 year
out of his fiddle strings.
The hot spell has been worth
thousands to paper collar men.
Georgia girls use none but r7lig.
ious papers tor Sunday bustles.
Croquet players have strnck for
eight hours at the summer resorts.
Memphis is making preparations
Tor sturendous exposition building.
One of our bachelor readers sup
poses lady's bridal day is that on
which she first takes the rein.
Flory McFlimsey's new trunk is
called the Cottage 1t is larger
than the well known Saratoga"
When a young lady offers to hem
4 cambria handkerchief tor a rich
bachelor she means to sew in order
that she may reap.
A Georgi.. Judge seventeen years
ago sentenced 4 man to be hung, and
last month passed 4 similar sentence
on the mans son.
DR.. Loring says il he should DO q
can iidate for Office he does MT know
why his wife should not vote for him
She does, probably.
A Bridgeport young man was
thrown down by tram and serious
Is injured. The lady who wore it
did Mt stop to apologize.
One Indianapolitan has sued an.
utEor Incl napolitan for SIS, 0CO con.
sequential damages done TO the form.
cr's vile by the latter's COW.
There is lady fifty years old in
Winton, n. G., who never heard
or saw a fiddle until a few days ago.
She is neither deaf nor blind.
A colored girl IN Allegheny City,
Pa, tried to mitigate the darkness Of
her complexion by means OF white
lead, and she, too, sleeps in the silent
tomb.
Mount Vcsuvius never sleeps"
said Joseph. "Ycs,' said jacob,
but it's always Just on the point o:
sleeping" 'IIow so:" because it's
always yawDing.'
The driver of stage in Gcncsce
County, N. y, died recently, and
his widow has succeeded TO his office,
which she fills with the ability Of All
experienced Jehu.
Five hundred thousand dollars is
to DO raised to build, equip and on
dow new university, projected by
the Presbytcrians OF kentucky, sec.
tarianism being disavowed.
A few days ago, seine hands at
work on the plantation Of Mrs. F. s.
Thompson. three miles from Jeffer-
son, Ala, killed dull" snake meas
uring upward Of seventeen tcet in
length.
The rebel ram AlbG marie has been
appraised at 1862, $50. The appraisc
ment Is conf med by the court
Scvcnty-nire thousand nine hundred
and fifty-four dollars has been die
tributed to the captors.
An Owen. Ky, girl who wanted
to be married the other day, but was
Mt old enough, got friend Of twen-
~ five to personate her at the clerks
Office, and by tho shrcwd dodge Sc
cured husband.
An English Lord once said to
Train, "Mr. Train, have you the law
of primogenlture in America ?" Said
Train, "No." what" said he, mo
hentall p SAID Tram, "No; but we
have the cocktail"
A correspondent writing from
Rocky Point, r. l.. says: Dolly
Vardens are exclusively confined
here to tho servants, and really make
very scrviccablc scrnbbing dresses
and the like. They do Mt show dirt.
Uorl Ia tho u;co &c auft;c;ont