Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-08-18
G1eanings.

license to perform the marriage ceremony.
A Mississippi girl hanged herself, as
reported, "undcr the influence Of qui-
nine"
A citizen Of Massachusetts, while in a
drunken frenzy, dug up his entire crop
Of tobacco.
In some portions Of the South, at
tempts are being made to revive knee
breeches and shoe buckles.
Why is a soldier who attempts to bay.
onet a ghost an unprincipled fellow: Be-
cause he sticks at nothing.
st. Paul has womaE's paper, q new
dam, cighty-six saloons, and a race
course, but longs for other novelties.
A man up in Portsmouth, n H., man,
ed his two children Ebenezer and Flora,
and always spoke Of them as "Eb" and
"Flo.n
Having thrown hot water on her brOtl-
er because he refused to lend her some
money, Charleston woman was sent to
Jail for year.
Small but active boot-black to wear
cr of thirteen: Sly, boss, le' me black
your boots; do it for five cents an aero,
and warrant it done before sundown."
One Of the best fencers at the Hcidel-
burg University, last year, was an
American, from Kansas, and the greatest
beer drinker was also one Of our c0un-
trymcn, from Kentucky.
One Of the best young lawyers in CO.
umbus. Ga, and an excellent speaker,
not able even to read when he was
nineteen years old, and has lifted himself
out of the slough
The Governor of Ohio has received q
letter from Dundee, Scotland making in
qliirics as to the suitablencss of that
State for Il Scotch colony, which is about
to emigrate bodily to this country.
Mother" said bright little girl, "is
hell hot place." Being little puzzled
what reply to make, the mother answer
ed, Yes" "Then," said the little girl,
who don't they turn the damper:'
He who studies other men learns
much but he who studies himself may
not learn a great deal. Possibly by
studying better men he would improve
himself and become more valuable to the
community.
\ charcoal man and his wife, who be-
longed to the commune, escaped the viyi-
lance of the police by the happy device
of Il thorough washing. The disguise
was too perfect unluckily, for they have
been looking for each other ever since.
A story told out in Denver, Col, is
that, during the late tornado there,
gentleman lost his bran new stove
pipe hat. and rushed to the next station
asking to have his hat stopped on it's
course, to which the reporter replied:
Too late; already passed.
a gentleman of Dubuque sent up lit
tie red balloon labelled so that it should
be known who sent it and where from.
In less than a week he received letter
from Akron, Ohio, that it had arrived
there, five hundred miles from where it
started.
At Tangipon, Louisiana, last week,
some laborers, in making an excavation,
found several human skeletons of enor-
nous size The skulls are described as
being OF doublc the Size OF an ordinary
skull, and the several bones being in pro-
portion equally as large.
Two mothers Were boasting of the
achievements of their respective only"
children Said one: My son blew out
the candle when lie was only seven
months old All" replied the other.
''the boy who blows out the candle at
seven months old will never set the
world on fire.
There is an albino in Clarhsvillc, Tenn,
about eighteen months old His head is
covered with white wool much in ap-
pearance like the wool of meriuo sheep,
quite fine, and about twelve to fifteen
inches long The clilds parents are
both black, and can afford no hypothesis
by which to explain this strange anoma-
~
An Indiana man has effected stratc-
| gical combination against the potato
| bugs He planted a grain of corn in
each hill Of potatoes. The corn came up
before the potatoes, which, of course,
cheated the little pests into the belief that
it was a corntield, and they never went
near the potatoes until it was too late to
do any damage.
4 lady living in Lyndon, Vt. who lost
| her husband in the war, had'an offer Of
marriage from a man who lost his wife
| by divorce She answered: The Lord
! parted me and my husband. but your
own devilish actions parted you and
your wife, and if you want another one
you must go to the devil for her, for I
won't have YOU
\ rural youth of eighteen summers in.
vested in banana in the cars on
NJ IT of,,,Il, 4,
and put it on the seat by his side: then
he broke the fruit up in small bits, eye
| ing it anNiously rs he did 50. When
this was done. he picked up the peel,
shook it in his lap, and finally threw the
pieces out of the window, remarking as
he did SO. That's the fust of them prize
packages ever bought, an it's the last,
YOU bet"
The tunnel under Mont Cents still en-
counters difficulties, the last of which is
the want of ventilation. The heat in, ide
the tunnel is intense. and when the first
train passed through, two or three men
were sutlocated by TIE smoke of the en-
glnc The passage IS so long that it is
impossible to make use of stationary en-
gnes At either end, While at the same
time. no current of air can be forced
through. Science, however, will doubt
less surmount or tunnel this difficulty, as
it has done the mountain.
Two miles from Levenworth. in Craw-
ford county, Ind, there is an immense
pile of large parallelogram san.lstones>
covering about half an acre of ground,
and it is firmly believed that these were
quarried, dressed and transported there
| by some ancient race who once Inhabited
that region. In addition to- their having
square sides and being of great unifor-
nifty of width, there is none of the same
kind of stone found elsewhere in all the
country, except two smaller piles near
the large one. The largest stones arv
thirteen feet long and about four wide.
Phoebe Cary. sister of Alice, has sud,
denly followed the dead sister to the
grave She died at the residence of Il
Quaker friend in Newport. r. l., on
Monday evening. For some time past
her health had been suffering, but her
robust constitution and her characteris-
tic vitality We're such IS to remove all APP
prehension from her friends Her death
surprises us all. Her name has long
been household word in many II home,
and her memory will continue green for
many year.
| James Gordon Bennett Sr who iS