Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-03-21
OLA PODgvDA.
Texas has 10 newspar era,

Enosberg, VT, has bride aged
twelve.
Catholic Franco has eight hundred
Protestant schools.
1t four quarters make yard, how
many will make garden?
Notes to poem are like aua;omi
cal lectures on savory JOINT.
fthrec miles make league. how
many will make a coniederacy
Indiana constebles enforce tho
game law by arrcsting card players.
! Josh Billings says: There is a
great deal ov raw bliss in getting
tired
| AT Fairfield, Conn, carriages are
made entirely of India rubber, ex.
cepting the axles and tires.
| Two young ladies have appealed
10 the law to decide their ownership
to seventy five cent ring.
in Paris there Is an American so.
cie,y OF ladies' which meets every
Monday to sew Tor the poor.
Tho averago AGO of American
c'ergymen who died last year was q
traction over sixty one years.
The Kansas Legislature proposes
law that no one shall be hanged
until one yearsaiter conviction.
A new style OF glove for ladies is
made Of opossum skin; it is very soft
and durable, and can be worn IN full
dress.
Strasbourg University, where
Goethe took his Doctors degree
one hundred years ago, is just 10.
opened.
Massachusetts has now mile of
completed railroad for every fyo
square miles OF territory, and for
each ono thousand OF population.
It is remarked of a Vermont town,
which experienced an earthquake u
week or two ago, that more than
usual religious interest is now felt
there
a cannon recovered from the bed
OF the Penobscos, after being sub.
merged tor ninety years, was used to
fire salute at Bangor on Washing.
tons birthday.
1t is announced tha. a new cable,
tour thousand miles in length, is be-
ing manufactule in London tor the
European and South American Tele-
graph Company.
Prepared Tor any emergency in the
future: the Ohio man who has been
married seventy five years, and has
had his mother-in law as boarder
dun ing the whole time.
The unprejudiced juror has been
found in Indiana. lie wanted to
know If they were going to elect
Jackson once more, and asked when
Daniel Webster would spout in the
Senate again.
An Illinois youth las been wear
ing fine plated bosom shirt, which
opened on the back, 'hind side be-
fore for more than year. He said
he thought they had laid out good
deal of work on tbs back.
Now that the Omaha bridge over
the Mississippi Is complete, there is
an nnbroken line Of rail from Oak.
| land, Cal, to Boston, $3.50 miles,
and even further distance down i'll
Maine, counting mp in all probably
1000 miles.
One hundred and fifty thousand
women OF Massachusetts, pay taxes
on sl3l 900, 300 OF otprope:iy, aud aro
ready to vote whenever the other
halt OF the republic enforce the doc.
trina that taxation without represen.
tation is tyranny.
A New York politician, in writing
letter OF confidence to the widow
oil country member who hal heen
his friend, says: Il am PANIED to
hear that - has gone to heaven.
We were bosom friends, but now we
shall never meet again."
The oppressed ones have it their
own way in several places in Ohio.
The men cannot get whiskey from
the dealers unless they show writ.
ten permit from their wives, and in
all these places an unmarried bibu.
lous malv cannot now be found,
Statistics show that the Swiss go
ahead OF Americans in letter.wrlt
ing, as IN one year her mails carried
forty five million letters, an average
OF eighteen to each individual, while
in this country the number was five
hundred and thirty one million, An
average Of only fifteen to each per-
son.
There is actually considerable com.
merce in toads between France aud
England. A toad OF good size aud
in fair condition will fetch shilling
(25 cents) in the London market.
aud dozen of extra quality arc
worth 81 (s5), You may see these
imported toads in all the market
gardens where the soil is moist, and
the owners Of these gardens even
prepare shelter for them. They pay
their way by catching insects.
n lady sophomore at Michigan
University saws her own wood, quite
TO the chargrin OF her brother sopho-
mores. 1t is even reported thao
when certain ones Of the aforesaid
did assail her wooi-piie and reduce
it to length suitable tor burning,
she dislained TO touch q stick OF it,
and continued to use none but what
had been sawed by her own hands.
The Portuguese Cabinet has an
nouneed a very sweeping project OF
reform. 1t includes abolition OF tho
hereditary peerage, the removal Of all
rnst r,.t;,,pS cn tho prnSS tho ahrli.