Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-02-07
TEiayGE.

LaGrange wore $4,000 wot;h Of
diamonds on lier first apfesrancc 1T
4 Pixies Opera House. Horace Gree.
ley says that no stranger who ever
borrowed money Of him ever returned
il except one, aud he was in lun attic
asy lu.n, ---W When is silence likely to
get wet When it reigns.-----Ex-
Governor Cox, of Ohio, is going 90
practice law in Cincinnati. The
! New York Sun makes a fire point on
George Francis Train. 1t says he
has mot always been remarkable h.r
monotonous regularity of conduct"
- cry sad accounts are still re
ceivcd Of the famine ii Finland. The
peasants in that country are reduced
to such ex;renities that tkey think
themselves happy if tiiey can procure
Ioayes composed, in equal portions, ct
sawdust, moss, and coarse rye -four.
Many have obtained permission irom
the Government to emigrate. a
Gentleman at musical party asked j.
friend, in a whisper, '.lIow shall
stir the fire without interrup,ing the
music - Between the bars" re-
piled the friend.-ArgumeEt for
short skirts-They give plain girls a
chance. What nature has denied the
face, she often gives totha undersfa a.
in-.---Robert Johnson. SON and Pri-
yate Secretary of Andrew johnson,
has been committed 10 lunit.c asylam
for treatment as an inchriate. Like
father, Ike son.-The sugar we'd
ding" which occurs thirty days after
marraigr, is said to be followed, after
very short interval, by the vinegar
wedding. "a dying West Inaia
planter, groaned ont 10 his fayori,c
negro servant: "Ah, sambo. ! am co
ing long, long journey" "Nc,er
mind, massa,' said the negro, consol-
iagly, 'him all down hill :''-Ihe
hearuess superintendent of the Phm-
nix Mill, At Seneca Falls. New York,
has furbidden the min girls to chew
gum during working hours. This
cruel invasion OF private rights has
not yet resulted in strike, but prob
ably it will.--A snob at theatre
was staring at mans wiie the other
evening with a lorgnettc, when the
married man took the printed card
"Taken," which lay on the seat near
by. and held it Up before the wife.
The snob looked 10 more.--A laiy
that would please herself in marrying,
was warned that her intended, al
though a good sort of maa, was
very singular. "Well," replied Tie
lady, Sit he is very much mike other
men he is more likely to be good
husband. HE who receives =
good turn should never forget it; ~
who does one should never remember
lit is said that Henry J. Raw
mond Is to write q history of General
Grant, assisted by William Swinton.
--ltcv. t. X. Beecher gives tie fol-
lowing expression 10 an undoubtcd
fact: sThe less man knows. and tire
more liquor he drinks, the more de-
terinil. ed he Is to make tais :. white
mans Government .'"--BisLoh Simp-
son has expressed the belief that tfc
great vices in our large critics viii
never be conquered until the balo; is
pG. IN the hands of women.--Bis-
mark met his barber at Baden Baden.
Barber complained Of the rnixad So
ciesv at Baden-Baten. The eounfre-
Piled, "Well, we cannot ali be brr.
bers, .ou knew."--it is very indis-
Greet and troublesome ainbitian
which cares so much about fame
abont what the world says cf us; to
he always looking in the faces Of oh
ers for approval; TO be always anx.
ioas about the cfcct of what we do
or say /; to be always shouting. to
hear the scho of our own voices.