Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

II takes 3G0, ,o00 street lamps TO illuminate
London.
wi'con.in has tried peat for domestic fuel,
and likes it,
Two large yelocipedc factories are now run
ming in New York.
Salmon fishing in 0hio has been unusually
good this year.
The Government Of Spain proposes to
abolish bull fights.
At Fort Scott, Kansas. the inhabitants pro-
cure all their coal by gradin ths streets, where
it is fonnd in abundance.
Western farmer has imported and set out
5000 apple trees from Russia.
The British navy, according to the last report,
consisted Of 13j steam vessels and Isl saiin 2
vessels.
4 writer to the Hetlodist Protestant tried to
say that Scotland is land of heather" The
printer made it "Scctland is a land OF hea-
then.
American missionaries are working hard at
the church at Tarsus, the birthplace OF the Apos-
tie Paul
Iron mastie, the new material for making
wooden baiidings fire proof and lasting, il prov
N g success.
There are 1873 billiard rooms in New York
city and Brooklyn.
Pecan nuts are very abundant this year in
Texas.
The merchant steam marine Of En- glaud con-
sists Of 2,ss0 vessels.
In Australia they have fenced in / 0 600 acre 8,
where ostriches are kept, and it is found that
the feathers Of full grown bird will sell for
500 year.
Two domcstics in Lee, Massachusetts,, have
recentlr been bereased Of relative, who LEFT
them S70.ouo each with which to mourn his
loss.
One Of the slliest election lets was that u a
a Webster, Mass. man, who engaged to take a
cowback ride through town if Grant was cleo
ted. He tried ithfully, but failed.
The Poles, in Paris, keep vase Of earth, taxi
en- from Polish soil, and, whenever one Of the +
number dies, handfull Of this earth Is thrown
into his coffin.
The Black and Baltic seas Will be uni,ed by
rail before January, 1869.
The now standard of coinage in Spain is to
be Ike the French money system.
In Yazoo, Mississippi. the Democrats have
established school for the in s,rue,ion Of col
ored children whose fathers voted the Demo
cratic ticket.
Fifty years ago not pound Of & ne wool was
grtwn in the United States, in Great Britain
or any other country except spain.
San Francisco is overrun with feas Of huge
SIZE, anu eie-ait 'Ddck-scratc1ers. IN rory
form common ornament OF the parlor-tabie
A vessel is said to be building in New YORK
city. for the China trade. larger than any other
in the world except the Great Eastern. She
is to be called the America.
The Hawaiians out do the people of Paris
The latter indulge in herse-fesh but Kanakas
eat the flesh Of the jackass. and declare ii the
tenderes. and swe test Of meats.
The Bacyrus (0hio Forum GOOD hurnori,y
says The beasty majorities which many Of
the States gave the Black Republican canii-
dates bear sad testimony ofthe ignorance which
prevails among the masses.
Oliver Dyer is authority fer the assertion
tha- 2oo,0ee people below Twentieth street in
New York. live in cellars. He has obtained the
actual figures of the liquor shops 5,2is There
are .61s b lard sa.eos in the city, and 40. 900
destitute and oatcast children.
udicrous incident; recently disturbed the
gravity of the Vermont State Senate An hon
orsble member who had been speaking sat down
where he supposed his chair was and anded on
the floor. Qeiekly picking himself up be re-
marked, amid the laughter Of his brother Sen
ators: "Mr. President, think am entitled 90
the door now"