Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-22
GLEANINGS.

Seventy different kinds of rice
are cultivated in India.
Boston takes 20.e48 gallons of mix q
day, and 1916, 020 annually.
In reply to a young writer who wished
to know what magazine would give him the
highest position quickest, q cotemporary
answered, "a powder magazine, if you cou-
tribute fiery article
Before the ink of the Fifteenth Amend
ment proclamation was dry, General Grant
received a note from member OF The press
asking for the pen. 1t was sent inn edi.
atelv and before the messenger had left the
ante-room he was offered $50 for it.
Judge Highly, of S,ratford, Conn, was
feeding his fowls the other day, when one of
them few up and lighted on his shoulder,
and, reaching round, picked him in the eye,
nearly binding him for while. Inham-
nation set in. and for few days it was
feared he would lose his sight.
A youth asked Count Montrond-the
memoir writer-to teach him the art of sue.
ceeding in society. "Oh, it is simple
enough" said the count. Talk to the
middle aged and young ladies, and listen
when the old ones talk to you."
When you sleep in room with one
who is in the habit of snoring aloud, com.
mence to whistle any air, assuming low
tone and gradually raising it. By degrees
the snoring will cease, without disturbing
the sleep of the snorer.
A certain literary society in the sub.
urbs, the other night discussed the charac.
ter of Washingten as a Statesman. "He
was a great man, said one of the speakers,
"whose mind had q powerful grasp of the
future if ever man was non conr,os me,s-
It's he was that man." 1t is dangerous
sometimes to handle tools Que is not &C.
quainted with.
Master Charlie, aged four years, WAS
not pleased on being reprosed by bis moth
er for some mischievous prank, and showed
his displeasure in his face. wheu his mother
remarked "Why, Charlie, am astonished
to see you making faces at your mother"
why, calculated to laugh, but, mamma,
my face slipped
A Boston writer comes to the defense
of women against the current notion that
they are peculiarly addicted to gossip, al
leging that country grocery store, among
barrels Of molasses and piles of sal, fish,
more gossip is talked BY men i'll one even.
ing than is heard Of i'll all the farm houses
of the town.
A Dutchman, the other day, reading an
account Of meeting, came to the words,
"The meeting then dissolved He could
not define the meaning Of the latter, so he
referred to his dictionary, and felt satisfied.
In few minutes n fiiend came in, when
Houty said, 'Dey mnst have VERY hot wed.
der dere in New York. ret an agount of
meeting yere all de peoples had melted
away
The first line of hymn given out at
prayer meeting so excited the curiosity Of n
little girl that on returning home she asked
for an explanation the line rs sue heard it
was:
mike Rimes a bird and long have been"
A patient ingenuity and an old hymn.
book solved the mystery. The original Of
the above translation was:
"My crimes burden long have been.'
The author on a recent work on India
defends the climate of that country, which,
he says, is principally dangerous to persons
who do not take proper care Of themselves !;
and in Illustration of this fact, he quotes
the remark OF the Irish gentleman in refer.
ence to Europeans in India: "They eat
and they drink. they drink and they eat,
aud then they die, and then they write homo
10 say that the climate has killed them"
Internal revenue assessors ofen receive
funny answers TO the questions printed on
Had your wife any income last year y OF 9
person replies "Ies, one boy" Another,
IAN imper,inent question, but nor A
third, "Her husbands love, and as much
money from him as she wants, but 70 OIL or
income" Fourth. "Yes. twins. both well,
willing to be taxed for them"
Sometime ago John Bright was dining
with friend Of Cottonopols, end the CO; :
versa,ion turned on the subject Of the growth
and development of America. 81 should
| like" said the host, who is an enthusiastic
admirer of the Great Republic, ito come
back fifty years after my death, to see what
a fine country America had become" II
believe you would be glad of any excuse 10
come back" said Mr.. Bright, with q grim
allusion in the tone Of his voice to the quar-
tiers from which his friend would be likely
to emerge.
A servant girl, who had just been ad.
mouished by her mistress to be very careful
in "wsshing up" the best tea-;hings, was
overheard shortly afterwards in the back
kitchen, indulging in the following solloquy
while in the act of wping the sugar basin !,
"If was to drop this ere basin and was to
catch il, s'pose shouldn't catch it, +; but II
was to drop j, and VAST 10 catch it, |
reckon should iuai catch it,