Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-15
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GlEANI'NGS.

A Pennsylvania editor rejects an ad-
yerlisement sent him by an Indiana fawyer
on the condition that he should take his p,v
in divorces, saying, howevei, that he is .
bachelor, and the proposition is scandalous-
ly premature.
The hotels in Cedar Keys. Florida, tha.
raised on piles have holes bored in The
first floor. convenient distances apart, TO I've
used instead of spitioons. Generally there
is hole bored i'll The floor near to each bed
stead which is in the room.
A woman s-rigl advocate insists .ha,
divorced women have right to vote under |
the Fifteenth Amendment. which provides
that the right OF suffrage shall rot be denied
or abridged on account of race, coor, Or
previous condition of seryitude.'
A lady travelling ,rough Ohio ard lec-
turing oh woman's rights. in answer to the
iaterro2a'orv. How about women working
the r. a Is ?" said, "Judging from the APP
pearance of the roads in her travels, she bad
concluded that they could not be n: ach
worse il they had been worked hy women"
Mrs. Churchill. one Of the advocates of
woman suffrage in Vermont, refused to
walk. the other night, from hotel to the
hall i'll which she was to lecture. with i.
member OF the Woman Suffrage Associa.
iion, because he was drunk: and declarc
that either he must leave the canvass or
she would leave the State.
A negro Juror in New Orleans. who wa
asked as 10 his having conscientious scru.
piles against the nfiic,ion OF capital punish
men'. WAS somewhat puzzl. at first 10 ar
swer or even understand the question but
after bordering on he sul llec,. arrived at
the sensible conclusion that IN his own case
be should prefer some other punishment.
-GetrIe Te,er, q West Vrginian. willie
riding or horseback recently, and rea ding n
new-pa er. was aroused from his literary
pursuits br having his pan S leg catch OH
fence stale. pulling him off and leaving
him hanging head dow " nd. After a long
and acotizing struggle, he at length reieas-
cd himself. Moral: When you make o
studio Of the saddle, don, wear pants.
A correspondent at Hamburg, n Y,
of the Buffalo Express writes as follows =
''Miss Alice Peck, recently resident of AL
exandria, Genesee county. but now living
al Beria. Madison county, Ky, wiring to n
lady friend in Hamburg, SAYS that there
have been over l30 Anurders in tina, county
within year past. and in not single in
stance have the perpetrators been brought
to justice.
Virginia has n natural curiosity in the
shape of girl, four years old, having
mousrache and whiskers, the hair upon the
forehead reaching to the eye brows, and a
very heavy head Of hair, exceedingly black.
extending below the shoulders. The cl i'd
is quite sprightly, with fully developed limbs
and well-formed body. The arms, shoul.
ders and back, if not the whole body, are
covered with soft, downy hair.
The Rochester Mimi Post SAYS that
III looking into the case OF an alleged gam
bling house at that place, one o.. the Jurors,
in search Of eontraband information asked
a witness how The game OF poker was play
ed. and drew ont this busness-hke answer
"Gentlemen, i has cost me big pile Of
money to learn how to play that game, and
don't know that care to give yon the
benefit of my experience without yon'l Il pay
enough to make it an object. The ques.
ton was not pressed.
A Glen's Falls. n Y, merchant, re-
Gently hired new clerk, and of course in.
iiated him at once into the mystery of the
''trade mark" The same afternoon the in
duc.cd knight of the vari stick was show
ing some goods to a lady customer when sh,.
demurred 10 the price Of the articles. The
feelings OF the merchant NAV be imagined
when the Young man called at the top of his
voice "What shall sell this for? /! is
marked $3.50 and cost 80 cents"
-"Grace Greenwood" tells good story
Of the effect once produced BY the elo.
qnenee Of Senator Nye. Biblcally backed.
'fervent and eHectual," by telling texts.
Though what is vulgarly called stump
speech, it had so much the character Of
pulpit or,torv, that one auditor ut least,
WAS profoundly affected A nice, suscer.
tiblc old lady. wlping the tears from her
eyes. snid, addressing some calous politi-
clans about her: IL don't know what YOU
may think. but | believe that that mau
knows something about vital piety.''
"A broker once saw so many chan
ces for making money that be was inclined
to speculate; but, after listening 10 friend
one day. h. promised TO walk within the le.
! citimate channels Of his business. He
kept. however. a fictitious account of tho
stocks he would like to nave invested in.
had he not given his pledge. and at the end
Of three months he struck balance, and
great was his surprise to find that he had
lost four lines the sum necessary to bank.
rupt him.
Here is another little story which Ros.
| ton tavors the rest of the world with: A
young lady there met IN company Young
gentleman who evidently had an excellent
opinion of himself. During the convers: .
ton he introduced the subject Of matri,u, =.
ny. and expatiated at length upon the kind
of wife he expected to marrv-that is. if
ever he shonld take the decisive step. The
honored lady must he wealthy, beautiful.
accom- lished. amiahle, etc, etc His lis
tener qniet.y waited until be en6ed, and
then asked coollv, "And pray. sir, what
have von t. offer in return for all this ?''
The young man stammered, redieued I
| little, aud va KID away.