Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-12
GLEANINos.

the gentler sex.
A quail has been found in Florida with
ruby in its crop.
Quincy. ILL.,, wants to build the biggest
church in the world
Why is tom cat like surgeon! Be.
cause they both mew-till-late.
Utah now claims to have the best eli.
mate for consumptives
The best rule for jcwelry is said to be
"solid, plain and costly"
| Terre Haute, Ind, has large and sue.
cessful glass mandatory.
Hope, Me-, suggestive name, has cho-
sen lady Supervisor of its schools.
An asylum for Presbyterian widows is
to be established in Philadelphia.
It is said that over $120, 900 will be ex-
pended il: base ball clubs this year.
| Silk mills have been established at
Berklcy. Penn, employing 800 girls
There is no production on the earth
that pays more literally than the grape
vine.
Swiss emigrant families are congrcgat-
ing together for farming purposes in Ten
nessee.
Travellers by the Pacific Railroad go
into paroxysms On hearing Beautiful
Snow" recited.
The discovery of lot of human bones
affords New Haven the skeleton for a
sensation.
The American field is looked upon as
q perfect FL Dorado by the musical artists
OF Europe.
The time Of the Texas Republican State
Convention has been cahnged from June
II to May IA.
Ordinary engines burn ten pounds Of
coal per hour for each rated ne-horse
power acquired.
1t is estimated that the coffee crop Of
the world will fall short of laat year full
100000 tons.
The first coal mined in the United
States is said to have been dug near Rich
mond as carly as 100.
The rates of omnibus fares in London
are just about one half Of those of Boston
and New York.
An aurora, the first in thirty seven
|
fright, the other evening"
There is but one woman in the Nevada
State Prisou, and she is serving twenty
seven year term for murder.
Auburn, = little village in Maine, and
almost unknown to fame, nevertheless
turned out $4,000, 900 worth of shoes.
There is said to be young woman in
Springfield, Mass, who has subsisted on
nothing but water for many months
The Industrial Exposition building ut
Nashville, Tenn, is progressing rapidly,
and will be ready for opening on 1st of
May.
A panther lately tried to steal baby
out Of a Texas house, but two men seized
and held the beast while the babes moth
er shot him dead.
The planters in Georgia say that they
intend to plant less cotton and more grain
In future. The last cotton crop was quite
short, even less than estimated.
A certain class of fellows, as soon as
they get drunk, seem to hunt for the near
est railroad track and lie down across the
rails, regardless of coming trains
The Penn Monthly publishes an inter
esting article on the early poets Of Penn
sylvania. Those living in the period ex-
tending from 1893 to 1857 are mention
| ed
! the Japanese, having learned three
card monte, taught it to Western man
for new game. He lost two hundred
dollars and all curiosity concerning Japa-
nese games.
A man named always Smith has
been arrested for drunkenness in New
Orleans. His parents evidently nttcmp-
ted to secure y variation Of the old famil-
lar name.
| Three young Americans Of from six to
eight years Of age astonishcd the natives
by playing cut throat euchrc in a window
of the Post Office, on Saturday, in Sioux
City.
| The ancient table on which Jonathan
Edwards wrote his famous work, ION the
Will," is in Yale Theological Seminary ut
New Haven, \ late present to the institu-
tion.
The amount Of money contributed for
the relief Of the Michigan sufferers by the
fire of last October, was $462 2,166. The
value of clothing and supplies is estims-
ted at $25O,000.
The elcctrobullistic chronoscope IS the
| name of o curious little instrument used
to measure the velocity Of cannon shot,
1t is the invention Of Captain lie Bouleuge
Of the Belgian Artillery.
Inside the walls Of Paris all defacemcnt
of the late war is rapidly disappearing;
but outside there is plenty Of wreck and
ruin visible in all directions. St. Cloud
| is little better than = complete ruin.
One Of the best definitions Of inconsis.
tency was given by a Teutonic orator at
q recent town meeting near Boston, who
said: 1T is wonderful, shentlmen, how
elastic some men are in dcre brainsr'
Seats to view the recent Thanksgiving
procession in England ranged from one
to seven guineas each. A front floor in
Fleet street was offered for IS guineas.
G250, 1t 10 said, was given by contrac.
tor for the use Of q churchyard in the
Strand
The maximum money value Of human
life has been determined by an act OF the
Ohio Legislature. fixing $4,000 as the
largest sum that may he demanded from
. railway company for killing anybody
The number of deaths every year in
New England is one out of sixty eight
people; in the Gulf States, one out of
sixtythree; in the Northwestern States,
one out Of one hundred and twenty.
The new Church of the Messiah, at
Dexter. Me-, is heated by steam from the
boiler Of ono of the mills, through pipes
which are carried under ground distance
Of 400 feet, four feet below the surface, IN
a box packed with waste.
An old comedy by Marchcsc, entitled
"A Misunderstanding" was recently pro.
duced at Genoa with great success. tits
quite literary curiosity from the fact
that the letter "r" does not appear in its
text.
The Plattsburg IN. w. Republican says
arrangements have been substantially
consummated by which railroad from
Whitehall through to Rouse's Point and
Montreal, on the west side ofLake Cham.
PLAIN, is to be commenced in the spring
This road is to be built by the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, with the
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