Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-21

Which, like the toad. ugly ana venomous'
Wears yet precious ]ewei IN MS mead
"Ugly and venomous" Ugly, therefore
yenomous; for that seems 10 De Inc chaln
ofargument applied 10 the unhappy toau'
mature" says LORD Brougnam OF ROPES
pierre, chad imprinted on ms lace per.
petual warning OF the mans dlsposl'ion,
rather singular argument py the way,
lol li0 noo''
upon. :. e. oro remark ohio IN
find nnet such as Wadsworth uttering
tho corollarv of the same proposition in
his "Ruthn-
,.v.,,.s,, or.t nnrsu;ts ween.
That a - sometimes there did intervene
Pure hopes of high intent;
For pass,Gs nkeaao iG, nre III, So LII share
A% nf os XXX ,sent;0aeri."
,r;uond,,s ront,r
baseu, perhaps, upor, d!nand 8 &c, h,,r srt
GUS aluminium ~ asao ,'i' - - " 80
upoh nei 'i"'
There's nothing Ill ran dwell in such temple;
tne th;n SPIT, ,v nav str I've i 10 dwell with m
nY.I.- .,,ot o,ts ,,boSe office
IN nu, ! suPp ., ont; s 80 tha yorshin of
I,ho 'haV y. E''ioi 70 G,nat;o,, Il IL 70
'no peau.iiun' ell IL oolor ,xartinr in
Supply Iio mai mi.n a" aro bn,nJ hy, their
Ilie W W. hauaS 49, '.i,;e Jnatr;ne Cor y
sooa'ioI G pi.;en d ,nn1 ono
uu'h "' :. -
AS touching the TOAD, however, lhe poe.s
appear TO be wrong. rope pictures MS
enemy, the beautliui Lora t1erVes- liei 9
vey the handsome, Under the ngurc VI
1hat llluseu reptile, DIS whispering mo
good queen Carollnes ear:
"Who at the ear of Eve. familiar toad,
Halffroth, half-venom, spits himself abroad"
Rut in fact tbaro ia no venom There is.
;ndesd an .cr;G Secret;on of the follicles
~ tho sl,ir 81 tho nacL .nd rarity over
tho 'n ,nbnIa hodv uh;ch evndes and even
shirts ont on pressure and is sufficiently
offensive to cause a dog, on Selling a
toad, to drop it somewhat hastily from its
mouth. It is potent enough sometimes to
redden the skin of the hand: but it is
perfectly innocuOus in the blood, as has
been proven by injecting it into the cir
culation of Chicken. And this exuda-
ton is, of course the "sweltered venom"
of the poetical toad in poetry.
But the Rev. J. G. Wood. that excellent
naturalist and charming writer assures
us that his children had a trough full of
tame toads each of which answers TO its
onn particular name and comes when
called THE children he saws. carry them
round the Garden and hold them ND to
anv insect which they NAV chance to
fancy. to enable them to swallow it, which
thew do bv a LIGHTNING flash of their
glutinous fongues Nav. more: their
tender care for their unloved pets is so
great that thew batbe and kiss them daily,
he declares inst az thew themselves are
treated bv their nurse. Upon one occa-
sion. one Of the children who had re-
ceived an ORANGE was seen with her own
especial toad seated ON her hand. partaking
with his mistress of the orange in altern
ate sucks or bites Well de qustibus is
an old axiom. and. it seems, a true one.
Eror, ,ho avnor;oncn 81 oained Mr.
Wood do"ior o ~ . ,nad ~ be more nu;ck.
Nv ond aoS;d' t .no IT, H. ,"st otber ami
waIs Sn - ;.a d;snns;,;om seema tn he
&C douo;S % .Fa 'o 10 or 10 ,hus;rnn It;s
cnr;o,. 'u y. w. se ,a,r q" tbat thn word apgly"
acroSs ~ ~ .iont;c rofsrs nriv IN nsnrol
deforn,;, ,o an% haS No haor;nn On nbvsicaI
anraana.. "ae La '"Ho 800
n, "
me precious Je"ei III ,ne 'oau roe =:
was was also an ar.icle Vi geneial peiiei in
nnahespeares Time anu IS eApiaineu ny
naiiiweii 10 nave peen soohe Ci PoIens
e.ect IN medicine. Any DooK Vi loIsiorc
mad; .aom nov ti doaIt r.;th al S;nds Of
rant;Ia i pe,iou III, a. n,,",, ..,,"no,n.,a az;
NIL nos, anu ao.ne. ha,s u,is an3 othnr
ma;n5 40 a neusInoss' Da' wi" ,hnms a Co.
800 800 anu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "a - E,,ia