Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-12-22
WHOLE NO. 1886.
0leanings.

0leanings.
| Many fashionable ladies who arc par
| tial to low-neckcd dresses and have not
/ a pretty neck wear q false neck Of wax
or alabaster, which, when heavy neck
lace is worn with it, cannot be detected
from the real article.
A young man recently married in New
| York chartered whole train to convey
himself and his bride ON the first part of
their wedding journey. What load of
bliss there must have been to need such
extended accommodation
| A Kansas paper informs the public
that Mr.. -, of Missouri, got to own
ing horses that did not belong to him,
and the next thing he knew, he couldn't
get his feet down to the ground"
A Kansas paper, urging cnlistments
for regiment to fight the Indians, says:
''The service will last but three or four
months only and will source of health,
pleasure and profit to all who enlist"
Thomas Jefferson said he would rather
live in country with newspapers and
without government, than govern
ment without newspapers. The press,
instead ofbcing the fourth, is the first
estate of the realm.
A thoughtful Danbury lady puts lard
on the stoop when she wants her hus-
band to stay at home of an evening"
Barring an hour or so devoted to rub
bing his back, the time is pleasantly oc.
cupied.
At social party, where humorous
definitions was one Of the games of the
evening, the question was put, "What is
rcligion?' "Relgion," replied one of
the party, more famous as a man of busi-
ness than of wit, 'is an insurance against
fire in another world, for which honesty
is the best policy"
If long hair be the glory of women,
| then there is glorious young lady in
Boston. Her height is five feet three
inches, and when she is standing erect
her back hair falls to her feet, and trials
a quarter Of yard on the floor. 1t is
scventy-fve inches in length.
An unprecedented case of somnambu-
lism occurred few nights ago, in New
Haven, the subject being child three
years old, that went out in storm twice
in single evening to meet its parents
| and was brought back each time and put
to bed without being awakened.
A man engaged in investigating the
charges of carlessness against the work
men in the Scranton mines found after
ward that, during the investigation, he
had been given an open keg of powder
to sit on, while he held lighted candle
in his hand.
Good wives are better conscrvators Of
the public peace and morality than po
licemen, magistrates, prisons, statutes,
and all the terrors of the law Let
man be thus home-anchored, and have
| an interest in house and lot, and ex-
cept that he is radically bad, he becomes
selfappointed guardian of the peace
| and of public morals.
A filial ten-year-old of Miltonburg, O.,
| gathered and sold chestnuts enough, this
season, to present his widowed mother
an elegant sewing machine with the pro-
ceeds. He would make good sub
ject for a juvenile magazine, were it not
that his having to hook the chcstnuts
would be rather damaging
Mrs. ]. S. Cannon of Bryan, O., has
comcnccd action against nine whisky
sellers and the projectors of two build
ings in which saloons are kept, in that
place, for selling intoxicating liquors to
her husband during his lifetime The
aggregate amount of damages claimed is
$4,000.
Here is an item of interest to the law
yers. The Probate Court of Cincinnati
has just decided that an attorney cannot
receive compensation for partial or un
| finished services; that he must go through
with case once undertaken, or surren-
der all pecuniary claims against his eli
ent. Also, that he cannot, without the
consent of the client, transfer to another
attorney case intrusted to him.
A man travelling in Italy has been SEN
fenced to one months Imprisonment at
Ancona tor trying to pass himself off as
Andy johnson, ,exPresident of the United
States. The selfimposed disgrace of the
poor fellow ought to have been taken as
sufficient punishment
1t has been discovered that, by care
less drafting of the law granting pen
sion to the soldiers of 1912, each man
that receives pension is obliged to take
an oath that he will support the Con-
stitution Of the United States, and the
surviving widows of such officers and
enlisted and drafted men as took part in
that war;
The old Manassas battle field was sold
few days since for eight dollars an acre
When the war commenced it was under
high state of improvement, and the dwell
ing house upon it was of.thc finest in that
section Of the State; but that scourge de-
vastatcd it, and the open fields, and
young pines, and shatterd mansion-all
now bear evidence to the bloody con-
fficts of which it was the scene
THE latest joke on Mrs Woodruff is
that of the Madison Democrat, which as
serts that her vote was rejected by the
Board of Inspectors because Demosthe-
nes by whom she claims to be inspired,
was neither an American citizen nor had
ever declared his intentions to become
such. Naturalization papers should be
applied for at once.
According to the Pennsylvania Dutch
weather prognosticators, January will be
a month Of pleasant weather; the first
half of February will be little colder
than January, and the last half, will be
stormy and unpleasant. If the weather
breeders" as they are called by those
Dutch prophets that is the first days Of
Deccmber-do not lie, the months named
will turn out exactly as predicted.
A journeyman tailor named Jimmy
Yolk, "a years old, is now traversing
Ohio, as professional tramp" He has
been on the tramp for seyenty-ffve years,
and has visited every State in the Union
many times, walking, on an average,
5000 miles per year. He has good eye
sight yet, and processes to be able to
work at his trade. He has returned
from little walk in Nova Scotia, and is
now en- route for Texas.
! A gentleman recently asked the veteran
actor, Charles Matthews, who is now 6S,
how he managed to preserve his youth
full spirits and vigor SO well. "Well,"
said the comedian, 1--WE lived pretty
free life, but / always made it rule to
have eight hours sleep out Of the twen-
tv. .fnur No matter where was Or