Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-21
Gleanings.

collars.
The latest style of visiting card is of a
pale lavender tint, and in shape almost
square.
A subscription for the General Thonl-
as monument is to be opened in
Boston.
The latest style of silvcrware is satin
finished oxydiZed and ornamcnted with
purest gliding.
Bean bags have superseded button
strings, and the girls are delighted with
the new pleasure.
A three hundred and eighty -ycar-old
prayer book has been sold in Stuttgart
for 200 florns
The noted Schwab Opera House at
| Hamilton, o. has been sold by Peter for
T sixty thousand dollars
A Charleston woman keeps the an st
! fashionable and attractive undertaker's
establishment in the city"
A leading merchant at Trinidad, in tho
| West Indies, murdered a friend because
| he refused an invitation to breakfast.
Why will Mr.. Bergh speak Of cattle as
dumb animals when in state of nature
they always make themselves herd?
Since 1866 there have been twenty six
small planets, or asteroids, discovered.
| Fifteen of these were discovered in
America.
1t is stated that the house in which
John Calvin lived and died, in Geneva,
is now occupied by a Roman Catholic
school.
A silver salver is exhibited in store
in New York which has engraved in it's
center a copy of the Declaration of In
dependence.
The new green, so much worn by wo-
men now, is said to be imprcgnated with
arsenical poison to such degree as to be
detrimental to health
\ young married woman in the coun-
try says She wishes she had magic mir
ror to see how her husband amuses him
self in her absence.
Senator Morrill, health permitting, has
consented to deliver the annual address
at the Washington County Fair, Mont
peller., VT, in September.
The Postmaster General has issued in
structions to the effect that the postal ser
vice will no longer be nsed as medium
for private advertising at public cost.
A recent murder trial in New Orleans
is said to have been the first case in this
country where all the jurors were black
and the prisoner was white.
An acre of land in London was recent
" sold for $500 900 On the other
hand, Scotchman lately bought 10000
acres of land on the Fell Island for II
cents per acre.
Another newly discovered enemy of
the potato bug is the Canadian cucum-
ber fly, which hegins with first principles
and flankS the Colorado beetle by dcs-
troying all its eggs.
OF those who engage in business on
their own account, only three out of a
hundred escape failure, and only five out
of a hundred succeed in avoiding an en-
tire collapse of their first effort.
A Fenian over the water was called on
for n toast He gave the following:
, All hail the American atlrt
Proud bird of fre dom all hail
The fowl that invaiglc.
| Or put salt on IT. beautiful tail
The table on which the Versailles peace
prelminaries were signed has. been pre-
sented to Prince Bismarck as souvenir,
and stands in his wifc's room. small
silver plate recording its historic sgniti-
cance.
People talk of going to Florida in
search If health, and yet the books Of tie
Internal Revenue Department show that
there is but one solitary lager beer brew
cry in the whole State
An Irish dentist, desirous of being
elected Coroner of Wexford, heads his
appeal to his constituents with the APP
propriate and graceful motto: "A long
pull. strong pull, and pull altogether"
4 housewife in New Orleans, in filing
UP her schedule of the census paper des-
cribed herself as the head of the family"
while, in respect to the trade of her hus-
band, she wrote He turns my man
gle"
The Boston Transcript relates how q
hen Of that nei@hborhood was shut into
an empty barrel and came out, after tour
weeks Imprisonment. about starved to
death. but able to travel. with a slight
grogginess about the legs.
An effort is making in Philadelphia to
erect statue to the memory of Martini
Washington, in Chestnut street, beside
that of George Washington. The amount
to be expended for the purpose, $4,000,
is to be raised by 81 subscriptions.
The alligatorS in Central Park. New
York. are terribly bullied by the small
turtles, which make use of them rs
cushions on which to take their maps.
This furnishes new f.ct in herpetology
which has not hitherto recognized any
kind of alligator with nap upon its back.
John Olvany. of Michigan City, is the
last hero whom few will ever hear about
He was out boating with three friends
when the craft oyerset, and they tried to
save themselves by clinging to the boat
1t would only support three. He said
"good,by boys, you've got flmilieS and [
haven't" let go his hold and sunk
The old style Of presenting each guest
At Il wedding with box containing Il lib
eral slice of wedding cake to take home
and dream on, has again come in fashion,
and is much more sensible and agreeable
to all part eS than having a very elaho-
rate cake in the center of the table for
every one to look ut and be aggravated
by the smell Of it.
The ridiculous little boat called the
City of Ragusa has arrived out safely.
with its entire crew of one man and u
dog. The Red White and Blue and the
Nonpareil its tiny predecessors. also
performed the Atlantic voyag" without
disaster. and the three sets of madcaps'
who have undertaken foolish feat go
upon the record as successful lunatcs
Now we are decCiving weather reports
from the sun. The Hartford Courant
says that on the Goth of June severe
storm was raging ON the surface of the
celestial luminary The observers ut
Trinity College saw crescent shaped spots
appear with great rapidity. Some Of
them seemed to be almost equal in
length to the semidiameter of the sun
4 London paper describes the English
dandy of t.!u DAY, as an impertine and
brainc>s fellow who wears glass in one
eye and u nosegay in his button hole:
who lounges in Pail Mnll and rides in
Rotton Row; who lives fast and bets
himself into bankruptcy, swindles his
creditors, and, after going to pieces So
cially, financially and morally, recovers
responsibility by entering the army or