Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-30
Gleanings.


The Queen of Belgium is the most ac.
complished cquestrienne among the crown
ed ladies of the Old World.
Jennie June says it is easy to discover
which fashion magazine is taken in a
Boston household by the way the help
does her hair.
A Providence merchant saves his um-
brcllas by cutting a small piece out of the
handle, which he carries in his pocket
book, ready to prove property at any
time
Poor John Smith. 4 Pennsylvania
court has decided that his name is no
name at all; for as names are intended to
designate one p,e-ecr. FROM another, Johns
does not quite come up to that mark.
Mrs Emma Beckett, who left the Grace
Church choir at Troy, New York, and
was arrested for singing in the congrega
ton, has been awarded $3.50 for fllse in
prisonment.
Somebody has written book entitled
"What shall my son be-" Upon which
some one replies. ''lf the boy is as bad as
the book, the chances are that he will be
hanged"
The scan la, that school teacher in
Vermont had fioggcl her uncle is some.
what mitigated when we learn that the :
uncle is only twelve years DID, and was
one of her unruly scholars.
In Mrs. Liyermore's opinion the love Of
drink is inherited, as is the love Of coun.
try, and she adds, to punish it with i'm
prisonment seems unjust as well as alb.
surd.
A Cincinnati observer says tllat the
first five months of this year have been
hotter by nearly FIVE degrees than the
average during the same period for four.
teen years.
Near Manistee. Mich, is a well thirty
one feet deep, in which there is an abun-
dant supply Of water when the wind
blows from the west, but which is dry
when it comes from the east.
1t will probably surprise many people
to learn that the territory called the Brit
ish isles" of which Great Britain and Ire.
land are the chief lying off the European
continent, are fully 500 in number and
that 115 are inhabited
DR.. Willard Parker, the eminent physi-
clan Of New York, says that no man can
do headwork faithfully for more than
four, five, or six hours. If he exceeds
that, he becomes irritable, broken down.
and softcning of the brain result
The Smith family are going to have an
excursion from Baltimore on all the YES
sells they can charter, and invite all the
''Smits Smiths, Smyths. Schmitts.
Schmids, ScLmidts, Schmitzs, Smidts
and Smitts."
A young man wants to know what bu
siness he had better 90 into that will en-.
able him to occupy high position in So
clety. Let him try the roofing business;
in that trade smart man will soon get
to the top of the ladder.
i is calculated by Samuel B. Ruggles. the
statician, that in 900 the population Of the
United States will be $4,000, 900, and that
cereal food will be raised here sufficient
not only for our own population, but
for 200, 900, 900 Of the people Of European
countries.
South Joggins, Nova Scotia, has its SCI
entitic mystery, which the native pundits
are scratching their heads over with
slight hope of solution. 1t is nothing less
than fossil human foot, which a gentle
man of an observing turn of mind recent.
ly dug out of a sandstone rock
Mortimer Jones, of an interior town in
Illinois, was recently tarred and feather.
ed by his follow citizens, because lie
thought it proper to play croquet twenty
four hours after his wife died, and he has
| brought the matter before a jury to know
| if these things can be-
A young married lady beng applied to
for a situation by Il servant girl, she ask
ed, why did you leave your last placer"
why, you see, ma'am," replied the girl.
| Il was too goodlooking, and when l
opened the door the gentlemen always
took me for the missis"
In reply to young friend leaving
town because some things in it were not
exactly to her taste or content, an old Ia.
dy of experience said, My dear, when
you have found place where everybody
and everything are always pleasant, and
nothing whatever is disagreeable, let me
know, and III live there too"
The Rev. Mr.. Johnson, colored broth
er in Sumter, S. c., was Kluxly invi-
ted to leave in fifteen days, CT die. The
colored brethren held Il 500 man mass
meeting, and voted to kill two white men
for every black man murdered. This
combating of Beelzebub with caloric has
made everything quiet at Sumter, s. c.
| The collection of skulls from the battle
fields of the Franco -Prussian war is men.
toned by German writer as an oppor-
tune means of adding to our knowledge
o. ethnology. He urges particularly. the
Importance of obtaining Il good series If
the skulls of the rurcos and other Afri.
can tribes represented in the French
army.
When Socrates was asked whether it is
better for man to marry or remain single,
he made answer: Let him take which
course he will, he will repent of it," We
have an imitation of this in the reply of
the youth who, on being asked which Of
two very bad roads to certain place was
the worse said: Take either, and before
you get half way you will wish that YOU
had taken the other"
"WeN," said an old gentleman, the
other day, II have been forty-seyen wears
i'll the business, and can say what very
few can after such experience IN all that
time, my friend, never disappointed but
one single creditor" BLESS me, what an
example for our young mercantile com
munlty" replied the person addressed.
Nv hat pity that one time occurred: how
was it:" why" responded the old gen
tleman, Il paid the debt when it became
DUE and never, in all my life, saw
man so much astonished."
"Old Trottcrs" is an eccentric genius
who drove the first stage out of Fort
kearney westward, and whose deeds and
sayings will, in future time, become his.
torlcal. The following is related Of him:
'one day he stopped Il man on the road
who drove miserable team of sick aged
little mules. with the ejaculation, Look
a-here, pilgrim. l know man that
would give eight hundred dollars if he
could see them mulesn Why exclaimed
the man, startled by such an unexpected
prospect Of luck, yeou daon't say so.
Who is he.' Hes blind man. said
Trotter; 'g'lang""
The son Of a well known New Haven
politician. whose name begins with b..
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