Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
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four years old, was taken at Albany not
long since-from the steeple of an old
church.
There is an eccentric Russian at Old
Orchard Beach, Me, who has an almost
insane passion for everything connected
with the sea. He drinks two or three
gallons of sea water daily, it is said, eats
seaweed by the handful, and bathes four
or five times day. He is very healthy
and robust, fat as seal, and has fat,
round, jocund face.
Col. Tennie Claflin finds some difficulty
in reconciling herself to the brief, terse
phrases of military command. She or
ders her sable phalanx to halt in the
following harangue: "Now, the very in
stant stop speaking I want every man
of you to stand still where he is. | will
be minded. Haiti"
Timber culture is not bad business if
a man can afford to wait Half century
ago, a wornout field in Western Con
necticut was planted with young trees,
and whom cleared last year, produced
| fifty cords per acre, besides furnishing
fencing timber for the whole farm and
ten cords of wood annually for the past
twenty years,
According to Haller, women bear hun
ger longer than men; according to Plu-
tarch, they can resist the effects of wine
better; according to Unger, they grow
older and never get bald; according to
Pliny, they are seldom attacked by lions
(on the contrary, they will run after lions)
and according to Gunter, they can talk
week
A movement is on foot in New York
looking to an early abolition of the usury
laws in that State. AS preventives Of
usury these laws are said to have been
thoroughly tested, and to have proved
not only useless, but positively injurious
to the business interests of the COM
munity.
A minister once told Wendell Phillips
that If his business in life was to save
the negroes, lie ought to go South where
they were ana do it. "That is worth
thinking Of" replied Phillips; 'and what
is your business in life?' To save men
from hell replied the minister Then,
go there and attend to your business, re-
joined Mr. Phillips"
J.. NJ. P. Nolin, of St. Louis, a young
Irishnlan, broke into two or three mill
tary prisons in this country during the
late war. He spent about GOO days in
seclusion in this way, and thinks our
government owes him about 100000 in
consequence. His claim goes before the
mixed commission at Washington, but it
is not expected the board will allow it in
full
Mr. H., of the Burlington and Missouri
Land Office, was among the passengers
of the Metis. He is nervous man, and
while floating in the water imagined what
his friends would do to acquaint his wife
with his fate. Saved at last, he rushed
to the telegraph Office and sent this mess
age: "Dear P, am saved Break it
gently to my wife!'
A Scotch landlord was seated one day
on the hillside of Bonally with Scotch
shepherd, and seeing the sheep reposing
in what he thought the coolest situation
he observed to him: ''John, if were
sheep would lie on the other side of the
hill" The shepherd answered: "Ay,
my lord; but if you had been sheep.
ye wad have had mair sense"
The Rev. Dr. Howard, chaplain to the
mother of George Ill, and rector of St.
Georges, Southwark, was always in ar
rears with his tradesmen, and was often
pcrplexed to keep them in temper. He
once took for his text. Have patience
and | will pay you all" After dilating
at some lenth on the virtue of patience
he said, and now come to the second
part of my discourse, which is 'And
will pay you ALL but that shall defer to
a future season."
A member of military company was
in Boston, and went to the Jubilee. On
the programme was march from MO
zart's Twelfth Mass" After the perform
ance he happened to be introduced to Mr..
Gilmore. who asked which of the pieces
he was most pleased with "Well, cap"
answered the young soldier, ''the thing
that knocked me was that ere march you
called Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts.''
Mr.. Gilmore stared at the creature, look.
cd down one side of him and up the other
bowed disdainful bow, and left that
man from Newhuryport
Apropas of Greeley's loquacity in the
present campaign, a contemporary pub
fishes this anecdote of President John
Adams: Not long before the death Of
the elder Adams he paid a visit to the
old Cradle of Liberty, Faneuil Hall, for
the purpose ofinspecting a picture of
Washington then recently painted by
| Stuart. After gazing upon the portrait
for some minutes in silence, he said: .Ah
gentlemen. Washington was wise man,
he knew when to talk and when to be
dumb; but that-fool,' tapping with his
cane marble bust Of himself, never
could keep his mouth shutr'
The Postmaster General Of England, in
his annual report, quotes, among others
the following complimentary letter from,
an American gentleman, which goes f.r
to prove the perfection to which the
postal system has been brought in Eng.
land; "Haying recently arrived in Eng
land, and not knowing the present where
about of a sister, addressed a letter &c
her late residence thus: Upper Norwood
or elsewhere l received a reply in
ordinary course of mail saying it had
been delivered to her on the top of a stage
coach in Wales l venture to say no
other country can show the parallel o,
would take the trouble at any price"
In the museum Of Brown University
at Providence. r. l., is q curiosity in The
shape of u birds nest Aside from its
ingenious construction as swinging
nest, partly suspended by strings ant
cords. carefully woven into the nest ant
around the slender branch which holds il
another evidence of the builders sagacit,
is given, AS sthe young birds grew. and
the nest became daily heavier, the moth
or bird saw that the slender twig, about
the thickness ofa pipe-stem, to which il
was attached, could not support it much
longer, so she made it secure by .Msten
ing stout cord about Il. and passing
the end around . stout limb above. which
steadied it and made it safe. The cord
is wound several times about the limb
and the end tucked under, to prevent its
unwinding. el,ast- a~vaAae) .5
In a late number Of the Contemporary
Review, Herbert Spencer combats the
idea that inehsiety Is on the increase
He dcscrihes the time when men took
drugs to increase their desire for wine
when glasses were SO shaped that they
had to be held until emptied; when a
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