Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
Gleanings.

ADOut tHitt lOuTiUS ol tHt lcdu 'tkNl
the United States is said to be imported
Noank, Conn, boasts of thrcccyed
cat, and inquiries how is that for eye.
Rhode Island had only thirty four
clam bakcs TO the acre last season, but
Will come up to par this year.
An Indiana woman married her affinity
within rive minutes Of her divorce from
her last husband.
A man in Henry county, Ind, has dis
covered a way of exterminating snakce.
lie bites off their heads
Why is a donkey which cannot hold up
its head like next Monday? Because its
neck's week
The editor of the London Spectotor de-
clarcs that no toll fatigues like reading
manuscript.
A Chicago merchant offers for sale
apples and peaches, "cvcry one to cor
tain prize"
Why is your chambcrmaid inmortals
Because she returns to dust every day
without dying.
The female population of Edinburgh
exceeds the male by nearly 10000 In
Glasgow the excess is 10000.
Fashionable virtue-Flirt with your
friends pretty wife; pretend you are in
love with her older sister
The census returns of Great Britain
show that the surplus in the female pop
ulation is on the increase
Adamanta and Diamontla arc
the cuphonious names of two new settle
mcnts in the diamond fields of South
Africa.
A temperance paper asks bitterly,
$50 into one of our American gin pal
aces, and what do you tind:' Very apt
to find gin.
Accommodating a creditor-''IIou- of.
ten must | climb three pairs Of stairs
before get the amount of this little ac-
count?"
Carlyle says: make yourself
good man, and then you may be sure
that there is one rascal less in the
world
A brcklaycr in Philadelphia has
been bound over for trial on the charge
Of maliciously throwing mortcr into the
eyes of a little girl.
y hcntucklan WHO 0led recently
left liberal bequests to his old slaves.
All Of them have been his pcnsioner since
their emancipation.
Hibernian Senator, speaking of sui
eide. said: '.Thc only way to stop It is
to make it capital offence, punishable
with death.
Young ladies' bowing this season. in
cline the body forward from the waist.
This is for acquaintances; to friends.
low inclination of the head is en- regle
salt" is the subject of the school boys
latest composition. The salt is a spice
which spoils the potatoes-if you forget
TO put it on"
The New York Express thinks that the
greatest piece of impudcNce it can con.
ceive Of is putting the motto In God we
Trust" on bogus five cent nicllles
The Second Regiment United States
Cavalry furnished thirteen general Off
GERS for the Confederate army from the
roster of its commanding officers as re-
turned for 1860.
A base ball game was played at Chi
cago recently, between a pure black and
a pure white nine. The sympaihies of
the audience was with the sable battcrs,
and their side won.
Cypress shavin@s are being used for
street paving at Mobile Ala, with the
most gratifying results. They make
hard and castle road bed, which will re-
main firm eight or ten years.
A Western editor has been sent abroad
Nv !, -,,I Of
health. This is the first instance of the
kind on record. Clergymen are some
times subject to this treatment.
The New York slang factory has al
ready brought out it. midsummer style.
AS substitute for "You know how it is
yourself" the new shihboleth is, He al
ways was that way
A gentleman asked Lady: How
did you get along. when abroad. to make
yourself understood:' "Oh my dear sir"
replied she. with quite a French air, we
had an interrupter with us
Edward Dicely. the well known Lon
don journalist and Itterateur. is the last
Englishman mentioned as coming to this
country next season to lecture, and-of
course-to write book on America
4 young man in Indiana lately be-
came so alarmed at a widows persistent
attempts to marry him that he turned
over to her all his property and left the
country.
4 country newspaper which recently
spoke of "buttered thunder. and was
asked by contemporary if that had any
affinity to CREASED lightning" manifest
ed some anger in explaining that NUT
tered thunder was what was intented.
THAT You believe that YOU have call
to preach is all very well so far as it
goes" said ar old doctor of divinity to
theological student; "hut," he added, ',vc
must wait and see whether people think
they have call to hear YOU
The cabinet of Amherst College has
been endowed with fragment of the
metcoric stone that fell at ScarSport. Me,
on the e2d Of May. The aerolite br kc
in falling and the fragment obtained
weighs eight pounds.
An impudcnt boy in Canada. who
! Glanced 10 hear ycuNr Edv playing
pvt me in my little he'd Oh concerti.
na. likcncd the Music to the grunting of
pig. He was straightwav dragged into
court and fined So for his impertincnce
Boston paper asserts that they
used to have habit down on Cape Cod
of sending town paupcrs to the Legisla-
turc. that the commonwealth might re-
licvc them from the expense of paying
their board during the winter.
\ Springfield. Mass, man was going
home one night, when he wis aSSailcd by
| Il couple Of rowdics who asked him if he
had any money "Yes. lots Of it," said
he. and ut once Knocked them down and
gave each good beating.
Virginia papers say that the powder
tanks found by the wrcckerS in the Con-
fcderade iron clad Richmond. now lying
in thirty or forty feet of water off Chat
! fins Bluff are in good condition, and the
powder as dry and ready for use as be-
fore its snbmersion six years ago.
The premium Of 5000 per scalp Of
fcrcd i'll Sonora for the killing Of Apache
Indians has created quite new trade in
that frontier State, because pays the ran
chero better to hunt these enemies than
to raise cattle. which are always liable to
be carried Off
A gentleman Of West Chester, Pa.
thinks that he has discovered substance