Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-07-11

any other city.
Connecticut exports cutters and
sleighs to Russia.
+ Philadelphia is making push to
become the capital OF Pennsylvania.
OF 2,87S Episcopal ministers IN
the United States 32l are unemploy-
ed,
/ There are SAID TO be over so pc.
riodicals published at present IN Lon
don.
Some follies are as catching, says
Rochefoucauld, as contagious dis
eases.
| Emerson says, in his incisivc way
Good nature is stronger than toma-
| hawks"
| a Tennessean pawned his 5000 set
of false teeth and went on drunk
en- spree.
| Aristotle informs us that there Is
! foolish corner even in the BRAIN OF
the sage.
The number Of miles of railroad in
the world is less than one hundred
thousand.
| A planter near Montgomery, Ala,
shot eighty brace Of suipe in ono
forenoon.
The national debt of Great Brit
ain has reached nearly four billions
of dollars.
Commissioners report the coal
fields OF Great Britain sufficient for
800 years.
Six of the foreign diplomats at
Washington are married to Ameri-
| can wives.
The trade in silk hats is now larg-
cr than ever before since plugs
were invented.
Ordinary laborers in Dublin re-
ceive sixty cents per day, and skill
ed laborers Sl.5O.
The Chinese, with good deal Of
quiet sarcasm, call ceremony the
| smoke OF friendship.
Cincinnati spent six million dol
lars tor lager beer last year, but is in
hopes to beat it in 1877.
A Tilted lover in Mobile, Alabama,
stole the presents he had given the
tickle fair one while she was being
| married to his rival.
An erud;te Georgian wrote to the
Savannah News to inquire if Mr..
Shakespeare, OF whom he had recent
ly heard, was an army ee:resp ond-
ent in the late war
/ A Denver restaurant man recently
charged traveller 50 for little
lunch he put up for the latter to use
between meals on the road betwixt
Denver and Kansas City.
In the FIVE States of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,
:here are 397 vacant Presbyterian
churches, out of a total of 1916, or
"a per cent. OF the whole.
| A very convenient kindling wood
is made IN France from corncobs. by
lmmerslng them in a mixture OF six.
ty parts OF melted resin and forty
parts OF tar. They are sold in bund-
les at the rate of three or tour TOR a
cent.
! Two log huts, eighteen feet high
and twenty feet square, were discov-
cred in digging Tor the foundation
of a new building in the rear OF 50
Sullivan street, New York. One was
evidently a residence Of primitive
times, and the other cattle shed.
The English people are again seri.
ously agitated by the deceased
wife's sisters bill,' which is before
Parliament. The bill has passed its
second reading and from present ap-
pearance a deceased wife's sister will
be allowed to marry her brother-in
law, if he's rich.
During The past year there have
been greater accessions to the Epls-
copal Church, in proportion to the
number Of that denomination, than
to any other. Which is attributed
to the aesthetic growth and poeti,
culture gradually gaining strength in
the American mind.
They have bowling pebbles in Ne
vada. They are about the size OF a
, walnut, an3, when placed on the
floor within three or tour feet OF each
other, draw spontaneously together
until they are huid!ed in a heap
The cause is that they are composed
OF magnetic iron ore.
: John E. Potter & Co., of Phila
. delphia, have SIT 900 for the author
J, of "White Rocks" the manuscript O
r which was lett with them five year,
r ago, by boy who has never beer
J, seen since the book was published
e The author was to receive royalty
2 Of ten cents per copy, and l4o,oo'
: copies have been sold.
y The first Parliament OF the FIJI
Islands wound up on the 3d OF Jan
l. uary with a grand fancy dress ball.
t About seventy men and thirty ladie
J, were present, and the show OF COS
J. tunes included the enthusiastic
u speaker in his shirt sleeves. This i
= all cheering evidence OF progress
l. and Young FIJI will be a man befor'
| his mother.
A Partisan quack has been adver
tising an infalllbie remedy for cnrin,
: diseases OF the skin. 1t appeared, o
= his examination in court, that ther
were objections to his mode G
practice. If his patients were trout