Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-16

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Swiss farmers daughter.
Miss Nellie Grant will be sweet six.
teen on the 4th of July next.
The entire length ofthe Hoosae Tunnel
between portals will be 25,586 feet.
Lowelrs mean man was given . boz
Of strawberries, recently, and on return.
ing the empty box wanted i've cents for u.
Father, wont you buy me . Ash
pole? said pious boy. "You ksow the
Bible says, Spare the rod and spoil the
child"
Fame is like young duck in mud
puddle-very easy to see, very easy 70
talk about after you have seen it, but +
is an awful job to get hold of it.
An Indiana school teacher has been dis
missed for kissing the big girls. The girls
say the school board had no right 10 iA-
terfere with their studies in that way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has returned
from his visit to California, which he q.
joyed exceedingly and speaks of with en-.
thusiasm.
A Providence merchant saves his um.
brellas by cutting q small piece out Of
the handle, which he carries in his pOck.
ctbook, ready to prove property at any
time.
A Cleveland merchant lately received
q package labeled, 81 box Tom. acts"
1t took him some time to dccipher the
fact that the incription meant box Of
tomato catsup
AS this is the season when sunstrokcA
may occur. every precaution should be
used to guard against them. Almost any.
thing placed in the hat, except brick.
will protect the head
A Nicksburg man who set spring gun
in his chicken house, found himself wid-
over in a few hours afterward He saws
he will tell his second wife when he puts
a gun there again.
A gentleman who combines the advo-
cacy of total abstinance with the manu-
facture Of paper bags, has esta sfished q
new periodical to bring both Of his yoca.
tions prominently before the public.
A Chinese photographer in San Fran.
cisco, being upbraidcd by lady custom.
er because the pictures didn't suit her,
briefly replied: No have handsome; how
can?,' [Old, but good story modernized.1
The Connecticut papers are telling ofa
Sunday School boy who, being asked who
made the beautiful hills about there, re-
piled that he did not know, as his parents
only moved into town the Friday before.
Butterflies have been found flying at
sea, six hundred miles from land. Their
buoyancy is great and the muscular effort
of flying must be small, while the wind
drives them forward rapidly over great
distances.
People do not always get correct ideas
from the definitions Of the dictionary.
One Of the pupils in the public school
found ''carouse" to man drinking free
ly," and being required to make sen.
tence, gave, John caroused the water.
Kansas is very prolific State in news
papers, having in one year produced forty
new journals, increasing the number in
the State from sixty,two to one hundred
and two, Kansas still adds to the number
at the rate of one week.
The fortune of Miss Burdett Coutts, re.
Gently raised to the pcerage by Queen
Victoria, is estimated at 10000, 900.
She has given to charitable purposes not
lie than e5.O000OO, and will leave large
bequests to benevolent institutions sfter
her death.
A Boston paper says: "A horse ran
vocfopf1ny, an.4
coroner ran and reporter ran Also The
horse fell, the rider was unhurt, the doc
tor had no case, the coroner had no fee,
the reporter had this paragraph, and that
was all that came Of the runaway"
Among the people who flocked to So
Mr.. Greeley at an interior railroad sta
tion in Texas, was venerable African BY
the name Of Union Pillar" As be was
one of the pillars of the Union, it was pc
culiarly appropriate for the great peace.
maker to embrace him.
A bright five.yearold, who WAS at .
christening at Newport Episcopal
Church, on a recent Sundry, reported 70
his mother that they had the biggest spit
toon there he ever saw, and the minister
came out with a long white night gown
on, a man turned some water into tho
spittoon, and the minister washed tho
baby's face in it.
They evidently had hard rain in some
portions of Alabama on the goth ultimO.
The Selma Times stakes its reputation
for truth on the statement that a negro
hitched mule short distance from the
bank Of a creek, little while before the
rain commenced and when he went for
him, after the rain, found the mule dead
in water more than six feet deep.
The Santa Clara valley in Cnlik,snia,
now irrigated by artesian wells, has thres
hundred acres devoted to strawberries,
Between 1000 and 5000 pounds are pro-
duced to the acre, which, at i've cents =
pound, give very nice profit to the pro-
prietors. Between 10000 and 10000
pounds of the fruit are consumed daily
in San Francisco.
Gen Scott is to have bronze statue
weighing four thousand pounds, made Of
guns captured in his Mexican campaign.
The cast has just been completed BY H.
X. Browne of Newburg. and twenty one
artists have passed high encomiums ON
the work. If it is the masterpiece that
some enthusiasts pronounce it, it will be
lost in Washington, which is the paradise
Of mediocrity.
An immense deposit of stone plank has
been unearthed in Tioga county, Pa.
covering some six acres The stone are
found in slabs, smooth and true, about
20 feet long by 10 broad. and preserving
q thickness ofthrcc or four inches as even
ly as if sawed by machinery 1t is very
sof and easily worked when first taken
out, but hardens by exposure to tho ~.
mospherc.
James Russell Iowell-so the story, goes
in Boston-was dining at the fremont
House some years ago, and in answer 10
the walters question, How will you have
your roast beef sir" promptly responded
Bring it to ME, John, rare-as a day II
June" The remark at once circula.ed
around the table, and the next morning
appeared in the Boston Post: and from
that day to this it has always been CON
sideled the thing to quote Lowell every
June time.
A new musical instrument hiss been ex
hibited in Edinburgh 1t is described !.
a keyed instrument, having six octaves
and resembling harmonium in genera
form but very different in mechanism
The sounds are produced by the friction
of wooden hammers against revolving
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