Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-08-22

of toothpicks daily
Acrobats Of cYe~y household
Pitcher and tul..b.er.
Minnesota is Just now hoasting
about its cool brcczes,
Lake Winnipiseoccc is full for the
first time in three yrrls.
Denmark possesses well-equ,p-
ped army of $4,000 men.
There are $50 Masonic lodges in
Indiana, and -, 600 Masons.
The great gas well recently discov
cred near Ti,usyile is on fire.
A wire heated by galvanic cur
rent will cut wood like "a saw.
a New Yorker says tobacco in
moderation cured his dyspepsia.
Mahogany wood has been discov-
cred III the Guinea region Of A 'rca.
Thirty thousand people sailed from
Liverpool for the United States i'll
May.
A recent vote in New Mexico on
establishing free schools stood 81 for
and 500 against.
A steamboat has been launched on
Lake Gulch, near Central City, 10 the
Rocky Mountains.
I, is said there are moro divorces
granted in Austria than in any other
country IN the world.
A lady IN Georgia recently died,
leaving seven sons, the Youngest OF
whom was aged fifty.
Tho Young Mems Christian Asso
cation Of Albany ia about to cstab
fish FREQ baths in that city.
Tho Government employs upward
Of 5000 women in the different lie.
partmcnts in Washington,
A citizen of Mobile was fined
twenty dollars, the other day, for ct
tempting to bribe an officer.
a Georgia paper suspended for
week in order that all hands mi ht
enjoy the Fourth aud hanging.
The greatest "pain annihilator" in
existence IL said to he q boy who has
smashed 1000 windows This year.
One hundred aud eighty Elk years
s,nce the oldest German newspaper,
the Aags1e'yer Possseit"ng, was print.
cd.
A gentleman Of Nanckannc. Wis,
left the calf Of his leg IN the path Of
the conqucrinE bazz.saw, aud where
is it?
a Gothamitc writes from Europe
to tho New York WorM that the
Danube is "nci.hcr beautiful nor
blue"
San Pedro Bay, Fla, has wild
man, and OF course covered with ha,r,
and so wild and fleet that no one can
catch him.
by the recent sinking Of a ferry.
boat at For, Rice. Dakota, two mon
belonging to tho 18th infantry were
drowned.
A citizen Of Grccnbush, n. r.,
stopped his daily paper because there
"were 50 many murders, suicides,
etc" in it.
Tho Boston Pilo. says: "The dc.
sire to live by writing is, TO ninety
out oi hundred people, bad sort
OF insanity"
A patty OF Charleston fishermen
caught sword fish last week fifteen
feet in length, with sword having
fifty two teeth.
A Society for tho encouragement
OF young men desiring to marry is
organized among the young ladies at
Rondout, N. Y.
The Colorado desert. acros, which
the Southern Pacific Railroad will
run, is three hundred feet below tho
level OF the sea.
A poughkccpsic man t!icd the
same day that the news came Of his
having inherited $4,000 from a rcla.
tive in the old country.
There are in the United States G3,.
600 church cdificos, affording accom-.
modations for twen,y.ono millions
and q halt OF worsh,ppers.
1t looks as If war was not only
threatened but almost inevitable il
South Americs, between Brazil and
the Argentine Confederation.
Mayor Hall had tie novel expert.
once, the other day, Of signing war.
rant tor $4,000 to pay Wheeler II.
Pcckham for prosecuting him.
There arc in the ;uratic asvlums
of Austria one hundred and two per.
sons, each of whom believes that he |
is the late Emperor Macmillan, Of
Mexico.
A German poet has lately written
a touching poem, ~ which the hero
is represented as deyourcd by All ali.
gator under palm tree on the shore
of Lake Ere.
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An editor in Illinois, having OIL.
gagged now reporter, received the
following rs his first effort: 1--WE
are informed that the gentleman hoo