Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
Gleanings.

Five hundred and twenty five thousand
six hundred trains leave London in the
course Of one year
Three hundred and ninety-two works
on American topics were published in
Germany last year
In the States Of Iowa and Indiana, about
two hundred women are working farms
on their own account
1t will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests rutlilessly wasted in tho
military operations Of the late war
The word gentleman" occurs 452 times
in Shakespeare; but the word .'gent" is
not found in any Of his writings.
In London, it is said, for many years
mercantile men have been the most liber-
al supporters Of the fine arts
The Emperor of China is said to have
an income from gaming houses estimated
at not less than S3,o00,000 year.
Delaware announces the introduction
there Of three pairs Of English sparrows,
which are expected to do great things.
The pagan Mongols Of Sacramento are,
many of them, selling their tails" at So
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New Caledonia. desolate island in the
South Pacific Ocean. is the place to which
France intends eyiling her Communist
prisoners.
The announcement is made by . Maine
newspaper that the number Of candidates
for that State is narrowed down to cigl-
teen.
The capital invested in vessels on the
Mississippi river and in the cargoes they
are constantly carrying is estimated At
$500, 100000.
A Cincinnati paper thinks it necessary
to correct a typographical error in a late
issue by saying "revelling" should read
"macLnery."
Cambridge, Mass, meditatcs the forma-
ton ola society for the removal Of orange
peel, lemon peel. and other dangerous rub
bish f.om the sidewalk.
The latest sw indie in Springfield, Mass,
is to wrap up an old iron screw in paper,
and pass it for roll of pennies. 1t works
well until the paper breaks.
1t is pleasant, in these torrid days, to
think that Capt. Hall takes with him in
will register So degrees below zero
A woman advertises in the Nashville
papers for her children, saying that she
has twenty seven, and knows the where
abouts of only three of them.
A bill has been introduced in the Con-
necticut Legislature making the legal rate
of interest six per cent. when not other
wise agreed, and repeating the usury laws.
No less than two hundred and twenty.
four life insurance companies have been
wound up in Great Britain within the
last twenty-six years. This is twice as
many as now exist there
Gen. Prim left to his family very val
liable library of 10000 volumes, Of so
much historic and documentary interest
that the Cortes intend to purchase it for
the Spanish Government.
\ Maine paper compliments two young
surgeons for the skilful manner in which
they performed delicate operation, and
predicts, though the patient died." great
success for them in the future.
y Delaware clergyman has advertised
for his satchel, which, he says, was taken
by some gentleman by mistake from 3
railroad car, and contained nothing of
value except some ten or fifteen of his least
bad sermons and book of skeletons"
Butterflies have been found flying at
sea, 600 miles from land Their buoyan-
cy is great, and the muscular effort Of
flying must be small, while the wind
drives them forward rapidly over great
distances
Williams College has organized boat
club, for which the lightest six -oared boat
in the world has just been built 1t is of
papier mache nineteen inches wide, forty
nine feet long, and weighs one hundred
and twenty pounds,
An Australian gentleman, examining a
mining claim, was seized, stripped, and
covered with tar and wool He went and
got himself photographed in this guise,
and sued his assailants for $4,000 dana.
ges, putting in the picture as evidence
The writer of an obituary notice of an
estimable lady said that the bereaved
husband was hardly able to bear the de-
mise Of his wife" Imagine his disgust
on reading in print that the bereaved
husband was hardly able to wear the
chemise Of his wife"
Mrs Bella French lcctured in West
ern town not long ago on "Corscts, To-
bacco and Whisky A correspondent Of
the Chattield (Ohio) Democrat says: Her
lecture has had a telling influence on our
inhabitants. Every man in our village
has left off wearing corsets. and most Of
the women have quit chewing tobacco
and drinking whisky"
A disgusted amateur fruit-raiser saws:
Il have no more admiration to waste on
the father Of George Washington for for
giving the destruction Of his cherry tree.
\ cherry tree is only curculio nursery,
and the day my George Washington is
SIX Y, ars old I'll give him hatcbet, and
tell him to down with every cherry tree
on the place"
The Importance Of careful punctuation
cannot be insisted on too urgently. Here
are a few instances which illustrate It:
WANTED young man to take charge Of
a pair of horses Of religious turn Of
mind."' "A child was run over by wag-
on three years old and cross eyed with
pantelcts which never spoke afterwards"
Lost, an enamclled lady's gold watch
and charms"
The ideal marriage is thus described by
a young lady of ST. Louis: "A moccule
of oxygen roaming lonely through space,
seeking for its mate, but finding none, Of
a sudden, in some hidden nook, it dis..
covers molecule of hydrogen, when 10!
there is Il rush, an embrace, and there is
neither any more oxygen nor hydrogen,
but diamond drop of dew reposing on
the bosom OF the lily" But when she
added that she herself was molecule IF
hydrogen, the only responsive rush on
the part Of the other moccule was toward
the door.
There is a good opening for divorce
court at Elmca. About year ago half
a dozen couple of young things at Il party
got married for fun, just to see how 1t
would seem, and whether matrmony was
such q fearful thing as the old maids had
been talking around that it was; and now
they have und out that they are married
the worst way, and that there is no help
for them. Some of them would give IS
if they had stayed away from that party, =
while others wouldn't have missed it for
How people differ about these
things.
In Lancaster, Pa, there is organiZx-
ton known as the Mystic Band Of
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