Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-12-30
Gleanings.

: On dst, that wedding dress is nov
r being made in Milwaukee; the skirt eo
, which will be eighteen feet long! -.
"Well if hatch hand no hand har
hand a hess hand hee don't spell 'orse,
then my name hain't 'Enry Ill" f1ah
During one of the recent sortlcs from
Paris, four sons of merchant of that
city were killed by one Prussian shell.
A Providence man thrasI,cd his better
halt, was tried and fined twenty dollars,
and the abused angel washed and earned
the money to let him loose. 3,
Sound advice from an old merchant:
"Never owe any more than you are able
to pay, and allow no man to owe You
more than you are able to lose" :.ti'
Never mind the obituary, Judge" said
a Montana culprit when the court became
pathetic in pronouncing the sentence,
Lets fix the time for the funeral" l@+' e;
Carlyle's hatred to France arises from
the fact that his works We're never trans.
lated into French. He ought first to
have put them in English
A runaway lumber car on the Erie rail
way, recently made 100 miles an hour on
a down grade and was only checked by
rise and switch, in time to save an ex-
press train.
Scientific men have recently discovered
that the poison taken into the system
from continued smoking of tohOcco will.
cause death in one hundred and sixty
seven years.
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free ticket, says its comicai and enter
tanning to stand on the outside of the cir
Gus tent at night, and watch the shadows
on the canvass.
There is an old Ia " in St. Joseph, No,
who has kept house over twenty years,
and who has had only one paper of pins
in that time and yet has part of the
paper left
Since the beginning Of the siege of Pa
ris, there have been more than 100 cases
of insanity among the national guard, OF
which 600 resulted from the excessive use
of spirituous liquors.
A shorthand reporter Of the Washing
ton Globe can write with both hands ut
the same timc-the left taking notes, and
the right transcribing-and is said to be
the only man in the world who can do
this.
A countryman, whose load of hay was
found to contain half dozen paving
stones when weighed for sale, said he
couldn't quite account for them, but he
remembered that in turning out for
team on the road he ''druv putty clus to
a stun WALL
One of the people who believe in the
preservation of martial purity mourns
that divorce is miraculously cheap. 1t
never was, he says, so expensive as mar
riagc, and now it is way down to stove
polish and corn starch quotations, where
no family can afford to be without it."
! Father Farrell, pastor of a New York
Catholic church, stated to his congrega-
ton, on Sunday, while submitting to
them the proposed address to the Pope,
that he objected to it, and being an Amer
lean, would not raise his arm Ito restore
any king under heaven to his throne"
Capable women are gradually obtain
ing lucrative employment in Washington
as clerks in the departments and as news
paper correspondents A few days since
a young lady was appointed stenograph-
er on duty in the office of the Secretary
Of the Interior, position which few men
could fill I'LL
A young lady hesitating for word in
describing the character of rejected suit
or, said: He is not tyrant, not exact
ly domineering. but" "Dogmatic," sug-
gested her friend mo, he has not dig
nifty enough for that; think pupmatic
would convey my meaning admirably"
We don't doubt it.
The big grapevine at Santa Barbara,
Cal, is five feet two inches in circumfer,
ence where the main trunk branches, and
the arbor which it covers is sixty nine
feet by siXty-threc. At these limits. the
branches are three inches in diameter.
and are kept trimmed to prevent its
spreading over more ground. sH.
One of the greatest engineering enter
prises undertaken in the west is that Of
: constructing the Pacific ra lroad bridge
across the Missouri river at Omaha.
which is progressing successfully. They
have now 800 men employed on it, and
much Of the work is done by five mon
| ster steam engines.
There is a child five months old now
) living in Woodstock VT. which is a rep
resentative of the fifth generation It's
mother is now eighteen years Of age. its
grandmother forty, its great gTtndmoth-
er sixty five. and its great great grand
mother ninety All are now living
within nine miles of each other. t
; An editor down East recently publish
ed long obituary notice of an uncle Of
his who died ont in Australia, and left
him, his only nephew, 100000. The in
t innate acquainiances Of the editor regard
Q n carefully devised scheme to get trusted
. for Il couple OF winter undershirts
: Barnum recently told Il correspondent.
r alluding to his proposed new travelling
show: Il am nearly dead with ennui.
| have been playing the gentleman for
, four years. with plenty of money and
; nothing to do, and am nearly dead.
: don't want money; mean to give away
} every dollar make. But | must work
: or die"
: The Governor of Minnesota has par
| doned John Brown who was sentenced
, for life on conviction of murder. making
- ii1N NNiltititil ltttl he HltlSt never
. appear in lie Sueur county, where tn,
deed was committed, or drink drop o
liquor. Upon the first instance of a vio
lation of these requirements, he is to b,
: again imprisoned to serve. the full tern,
\ At Il recent examination of one of tn
schools in Washington, the question wa
4 put to a class Of small boys: "Why i
e the Connecticut river SO called?" when
n bright little fellow put up his hand. ID
you know, James?" YES ma'am. Bs
cause it connects Vermont and Nc,
:, Hampshire, and cuts through Massachu
u sets" was the triumphant answer
An experienced New York real estat
: operator declares that city property ther
: will not yield five per cent above exper
). ses The trouble is in the specalativ
|, value of real estate. As y house or stor
4 passes rapidly from hand to hand it rise
J. five hundred or u thousand dollars wit
each sale, So that finally it has double
or treblcd in value without cent bein
), spent on it for Improvement or repairs
, Don Piatt declares that interviewin
!, Sumner lis not such pleasant busine.
!, as some suppose. He has toplof.ica
Senatorial way Of looking down on til
u reporter that makes that Representative
u of the mighty press feel as if he We're i