Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-03

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conundrum, "Why do wives fsdc.' We
suppose it is because they won't wash.
Reputation is what men and wouuen
think OF u.s. Character is what God and
angels know Of US. ab
A very particular swain in Huntington
sent his marriage to the paper with the
| addition NO cardimons." He said Le
despised authorizations.
The man who married three sisters in
succession excuses himself for so doing
on the ground that he got Oft with only
one motherin law etf
! At shop window in London there
lately appeared the following notice:
"Wanted-two apprentices, who will he
treated as one of the family"
Commander Bronson, of the navy. has
| given Yale college a collection Of 400 Jap.
anese and Chinese coins, some Of them Of
| great antiquity.
Movable or adjustiblc horse shoes have
| become "fxed fact" This shoe can be
taken off at night, or when the hose is
not at work, and put on again when
wanted, as easy as pair of boots.
A Heading lecturer classities his audience
as follows: The "still-attentives, theE
| 'quick respohsives,n the "hard-to lifts"
the ''wont-applauds, and the get up
| and go outs"
If, as is alleged. fifteen millions of people
| in the United States may always be found
with corsets on, we may receive the fact
as pretty good evidence that the wearing
Of corscts Is not injurious to the health.
Never chew your words Open your
mouth and let the words come out A
student once asked: Can virclu, forti
chude. gratichudc, or quiechude dwell
with that man who is u stranger to rccti-
chude:'
The ways OF society are curious Two
ladies who reside neal each other on Il
New York ayenue have exchanged calls
and invitations for six years, and yet
have never met personally. Again, fact
is stranger than fiction"
1t looked curious to see Thackeray with
his wife, for he WAS six feet three, and
| she was below She middle hight; so that
she could barely reach his arm. Talking
OF his stature, lie remarked to friend Of
his: after six feet, it all runs to seed,"
would be-school teacher in Alabama
recently replied to a question By one OF
the examiners, DO you think the world
is round or tiat:" by saying, well, some
people think one way and some another,
and Ill teach round or fiat, just as the
parents please"
/ President Edwards says: If Gods peo-
| pie in this land abounded in almsgiving
and deeds of charity as much as in pray
ing, singing, hearing ami religious meet
| ings the windows of Heaven would be
| opened to us, and we would experience 8
wonderful outpouring of the spirit"
Come. girls" said a jolly old aunt.
''about this census We are always heal-
ing of united ages Let US club our
years, I'll put in sxtytwo, and you four
shall put in twenty each Then we shall
all be under thirty The girls nearly
kissed her old head off for her audacity.
| The Boston Post continues to select
and reproduce the gems of the 7ribune's
farming articles. Here is the latest ofits
excerpts: Greeley SAYS these mole plows'
arc all foolishness You'd have to get
more than a hundred moles to draw one,
and they are SO blind they don't know
how to gee"
| The young man who viii distance his
| competitors is he who masters his huSi-
ness, who preserves his integrity, who lives
clearly and purely. who devotes his lcis-
ure to the acquisition Of knowledge, who
never gets in debt, who gains friends by
deserving them, and who saves his spare
money
| Greenland got the news ofthe probable
outbreak Of war between France and
| Prussia at the visit of an American ship,
September 12th and unless by accident,
they will hear nothing of the war until
next summer. That is almost the spot
| Cowper sighed for. where rumor If op-
preston Or deceit shah never reach
The Rev Mrs Van Cot. the Methodist
evangelist, says that in the last four Years
she has preached "a sermons, held 2g6
prayer meetings, and 20 love feasIs, Ice
tured l3 times, written 545 letters, and
Travelled 5.9lS miles. During the same
time 800 persons have joined the Meth
odist Episcopal Church under her min
istrv.
There was a large amount of valuable
practical philosophy in the remark Of The
| gambler who recalled his companions at
| tention 10 the business in hand whenever
they fell to discussing what might have
been if certain cards had been differently
used, with the remark. Look here gru
t'enen, there aint no use q nlavin' post
| morton hands" f.4
\ boy was sent by his mother to saw
some stove-wood out Of railroad ties.
Going out doors shortly after, she found
the youth sitting on the saw horse with
head down. The mother asked her hope
ful son why he was CAS-. down. and why
he didn't keep AZ his work The boy re.
piled: My dear mother. l find 1t hard,
/ very hard, u sever old ties
4 Philadelphia judge has picked up
somewhere the absurd idea that witne>sts
are not criminals. He rebukcd iavvc:>
for badgering one in Il late case and laid
down the astonishing proposition that :.
witness should be treated in the same
manner As any gentleman would treat a
visitor to his house. j he lawvers-taik q;
having him impeachcl or sent 10 q lana,
tic asylum.
A family in Detroit hav. s:Abv whicl.
is the wonder ii the neighborhood 1t is
4 moNth Ola, about six inches long weighs
| "iN i''-Hi ana TWO ounces, ana mas ntN-
ct ctled since it was born Some idea
t,,n be formed ot its dimnutiye size, by
the fact that its legs are no larger around
than a mans foretingcr. If this prodirv
OF baby lives to become of age, :, vii,
rival tom Thumb and Com a,,aare Nut
in litt'cncss.
) In Sheffield, w., ON the farm owned bv
William Gray, there is large granite.
boulder. lying apparently on the surface,
on ihe top Of which is u spherical excava
tion constantly li,iod with water, even in
the dry,st time this summer. with no Wis
IDLE inlet. What makes il more curious
the Fact that it never was known to
un over, hut is always full MIR. Gray
,ays that the water has been DIPPED out,
,nd it immediately res@ iittJ It's usual full
ness, wi,l.out any rain.
The brightest woman among the num-
yer now b, seglng Congress is said to be
Mrs Adele nazlett, the small, slender
, yiry little woman from Michigan, who
has an indefinite amount of snap" in her
eye, and, in the words Ola feminine all
mircr. an lawfully cunning little turned
up nose and is dreadfuliy saucy" This
little woman says that the more women
think ofth question ,hc less they re-
~, l. Al y