Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-01-05

Gleanings
Grand Jury duty in Arizona is rather
monotonous. Out of one hundred and
eleven indictments recently found, all but
three were for murder.
A Southwestern editor remarks: "If in
our school days the rule of three is pro-
verbally trying, how much harder, in af-
ter life, do we find the rule of one." Ho
has been married only fourteen months.
The latest London announcement is a
nose machine, by which homely noses
are pressed into the most fashionable
shape, according to the taste of the own.
cr.
Modern marriage is defined to be tho
uniting of the existence of a woman with
sharp-pointed heels and enormous CHG
non and pannier, to that of man with
hair parted in the middle ana moustache
waxed at the ends.
We venture to suggest simple plan
for the reformation of the habitual tippler,
without depriving him of his liberty; let
him, whenever he takes his walks abroad,
be conspicuously labeled, ITO be kept
dry"
The Ohio State journal has reached
the point in skepticism where it announ-
ces that hereafter we shall believe in
nothing but the Declaration of Indepen-
dcnce and Mrs. O.Leary's cow"
DR.. Mary Walker says she would like.
| above all other things, to experience the
emotions Of a man for an hour or two.
She desires to know just how they think
and feel to the end that she may be bet
ter prepared to fight them.
The State Railroad Commissioner of
Ohio thinks that trains at present run
too fast, and asks the Legislature to limit
the rate of speed on all roads to twenty
five miles an hour, exclusive of stops
The drum major who ran away from
Chickamauga, when reproached for his
cowardice, remarked: "Id rather be a
coward all my life than corpse fifteen
minutes I"
A California man requested his wife,
in ball room, to hold the baby of an
other mans wife while he danced with
! the baby's mother-but she didn't hold
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put up with.
The blonde young New York exqui-
sites who have always cultivated the
sentimental, part-in -the-middle style of
headdressing, are bringing themselves to
the serubby short cut in hair and beard
which gives Alexis his military and dis
tingue air.
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young gentlemen to have their overcoats
made with pocket in one side lined
with fur or flannel, in which a lady may
slip her hand when walking of a cold
winters evening.
Two skeletons were recently discovered
at the Hampton Court Palace, near Lon
don, which are thought to be those of
Lord Francis Villiers and Richard Gren-
vile, shot by Cromwell's order at Hamp-
ton Court the day before Charles the
First's execution.
During the trial of a civil case before
the city court of Montgomery, Ala, a
few days since, the first rebel treasury
note ever issued was introduced in evil
dence. 1t was of the denomination of fif-
ty dollars, payable in one year, and was
issued to Alex. B. Clitherall in April,
1861.
Every newsdealer in Syracuse n. Y.
has been indicted and summoned to ap-
pear for trial for exposing for sale and
selling obscene pictorial papers. This is
a step in the right direction, and it is to
be regretted that similar policy is not
adopted everywhere in reference to the
vending of indecent literature.
The prosecuting attorney of Noble Co.,
Ohio, reports that during the past
year there has not been single case of
felony in that county, and he adds that
whiskey is not permitted to be sold there
There are twenty thousand people in the
county, no liquor selling, except on the
ely, and no crimes.
A witty clergyman, accosted by an old
acquaintance by the name Of Cobb, replied:
Il don't know you, SIR" my name is
Cobb" replied the man, who was half
seas over. "Ah, SIR" said the minister,
"you have SO much corn on you that
did not see the cob"
A bank case which has excited much
interest has just been decided. About
two years ago the First National Bank
of Bennington was robbed while depos-
itor had funds on deposit as Collateral
security for notes. These bonds, among
others, were stolen, and the depositor
sued the bank for their recovery in dam.
ages. The result is a verdict in his IA
vor to the amount of s., 900 and costs.
Miss Lillian Edgarton is discoursing
before the New England societies on Cos
sip, as follows: 1. The honestly sympa-
thetic gossip. Q. The harmlessly curious
gossip. 8. The petty envious gossip
4. The calumnious gossip. The latter
class she subdivides as follows: /. The
public hall-door gossip. 9. The conf
DENTAL gossip. 8. The moral purist Cos.
sip. 4. The political gossip. 5. The
woman's rights gossip.
| One of the most remarkable cases of
death on record is that of station agent
on the Boston and Maine Railroad, who
died few days since from the bite of his
little daughter, mere child She had
been suffering for short time with diph-
liberia, and the father, for some reason
not stated, put his hand on her mouth,
when she seized and bit it with just force
enough to break the skin. The virus
from the child's teeth penetrated the
wound and was diffused through the sys-
TEN. After weeks illness, during
which time his body became much swol.
en- he died.
A Pennsylvania paper says that the
parents of Victoria Woodruff at one time
kept tavern on Chestnut ridge, in Snyder
county, Pa. Victorias mother was a
Rosanna Humel, and was born about
three miles from New Berlin. In 1886
she married Backman Claflin, a Yankee,
and after q short residence at Chestnut
Ridge moved to Ohio, where Victoria
was born. This should be dreadful
warning against crossing Vermont Yam
KEGS with Pennsylvania Dutch.
The largest chicken pie ever made in
New England, and indeed in the world,
was put in view at the St. Johns Church
(EpiscopaD Fair, at Bridgeport. Conn, ON
Wednesday night. An immense crowd
assembled to witness the unveiling. It
required over one hundred large sized
chickens, fifty pounds of flour and twenty
pounds of lard for the crust, special
pan nine feet in diameter to hold it, four
atOut men to carry md w Wallace