Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-03-07
ALL SORTS.

you think.
Auctioneers are generally of NOR bid
disposition.
Easter-Sunday will fall this year on IN.
. 3lst of March.
Good musicians execute their music bad
ones murder it.
Vaccination is the leading Industry
among the doctors.
Farmers daughters are the best kind Of
agricultural fairs
Mock turt,e-Kissing before company
and fighting afterwards.
John II. Surratt has settled down to school
teaching at Brookville, Md.
One hundred years ago there were but
four newspapers in America
Evergreens-Merchaurs who expect to
make money without advertising.
Over four per cent. Of the entire populs-
tion OF Cincinnati, cannot read or write.
The Widows "Mite"-The little chap
who married the dead mans big, bouncing
wife.
A Locomotive consumes, on the average,
forty-fve gallons Of water for every mile it
runs.
Garrison says that the woman question
was an ''all-embracing' one. who said it
was MT.
Why is a screaming baby liks the god
dess of morning s-Reccuse it is roares
(Aurora.)
The lighting of Rochester n Y. with nat
ural gas from the Bloomfield wells. is likely
to prove success.
Some one says book is your best friend.
because you can shut it up at any time
wi hout giving offence.
II say, Tom, what did you clear by that
stock speculation ?" "Clear," said Tom,
'Why, | cleared my pockets
What is tae di ference betw cen q blind
man and sailor in prison? One can't see
to 60, and the other can't 60 to sea
What is the difference between half
glass of water and a broken engagement
One is not filed full, and the other is not
fulfilled.
Fires arising from .'non explosive" ker-
osene are Of daily occurrence in Yedo.-
American civilization sweeps everything
before it.
kankakee, H., has the young woman
who dared avail herself of her leap-year
privileges and ask young man to marry
her. He consented, of course.
Baltimore was the first American city to
introduce gas. Boston was only year be-
hind it, having gas in 1922. New York did
not follow these examples until five or 81 Y
years afterwari.
excuse this bit of sarcasm" said Smith
to jones, g but must say that you re an
fafpaoonis afaois sSsnR7Gassfn 7Gassfnan ha&ed wlnsor:: SIR
" alter Scott observes in his diary in leoo,
..There is a madman in London who IS try-
ing to light the city with smoke
The learned DIR. West, having married
lady by the name of Experience, who was
very tall, being asked what he thought Of
the married state, he replied, that 'by long
Experience he had found it good thing to
be married.
A doctor and military officer became en-
anore of the same lady. A friend asked
her which Of the two slitors she iptended
to favor. She replied that sit was difficult
for her to tell as they were such killing
creatures"
The supply of India-rubber,to the world
is considered inexhaustable. Trees endure
tapping for twenty years, and grow in dense
groves which show no signs whatever OF be-
ing thinned out by what has been done to
them hitherto.
A lawyer once wrote the word Rascal
in the hat of a brother lawyer. The latter,
on discovering it, entered complaint IN
open cour. against the offender, who, he
said, had not only taken his hat, but bal
written his name in it..
Anew York journal, in speaking Of the
magic strains of q hand organ, says
swhen he playeI old Dog Tray. We notie-
ed eleven pups sitting in front Of the ms-
chine on their haunches, brushing away
tie tears from their eyes with their fore
paws
Splitting the diference.-A young man
asked his sweetheart if he might be permi'-
ted to kiss her, and give her an adectionate
hug. NO. said she, Il can't allow that !;
bu, XII tell you what will do; III split
the difference with 20 u-you may kiss me-
AMI Ill hug you.'
A young lady with very pretty foot, but
rather large ankle, went into a San Fran
n'sco shoe-store to be measured The ad-
mirinc clerk, who is Of Gallo extraction,
oomplimentei her in the foil wing queer
way: .Mal-am, you one beautiful foot, but
70 legs commence too Immediately.
Hvenas live in Africa and Asia, and are
about the size Of very large dog. They
| live in dens and caves coming forth at night
in search Of fool, feeIeng mainly on ami
mails which they ini dead. They are fero'
cious and greedy, AID have such stout teetl
ana power ul jaws that they are able Il
crush the bones Of the largest prey AM
they swallow the fragments w'aout masti
eating them.
Washington served two terms as Presi
dent. and when he finally retired from OF
fee to the quiet Of Mount Vernon, the Phi
adelphia Aurora thus spoke Of him III e'
ar nation has been debauched by maj
the American nation has been debaached
Washington. Let the history Of the fede
al government instruct mankind that II
mask of pat riotism may be worn to conce
the foulest designs against the liberties
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