Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-19
0LEANIN0s,

teS both the holder and behOlder.
Every woman is in the wrong until she
| cries-and then she is in tho right i'm.
mediately.
How many men there are who think
they are making themselves exceedingly
popular, when they are only making them
selves ridiculous!
A private expedition is in preparation
at Sydney, Australia, for exploring the
coast and Gf practicable) the interior New
of Guinea.
1t is curious fact that in the East a.
koAol is used by the women to color their
eyelids. In England it is applied to the
painting of noses.
A Philadelphia house will soon publish
"A Diary of q Pickpocket," written by q
lady in the trade during her Incarceration
for plying it.
They have what they call bob tailed"
street cars in St. Louis, and the Democrat
says that one of them is like wax because
it is non conductor.
Il am going to the post Office, Bob
| shall inquire for you?" "Well, yes, if
you want to; but don't think you'll find
me there"
A little girl who had undergone the
unpleasant ceremony of vaccination,
exclaimed: "Now won't have to be
baptized, will II"
A belle of Richmond, Va, imports her
stockings from Paris at $12 pair, and
crowds flock to sec them whenever she
goes walking.
A shrewed little fellow who had lust
begun to study Latin, .astonished his
master by the following translations:
"Vir, man, gin, trap; Virgin, man.
trap"
A writer, who has studied the subject,
says he wonld rather be q widower regu-
larly every two years than live a lonely,
miserable old bachelor for ninety days.
A patriotic citizen boasts that mo
people on the earth can excel the Amer
lean in the manly art ofsitting on bench
and watching eighteen men play base
ball"
A New York wedding cake weighed
forty pounds. 1t was in the form of q
three story house, with sugar bride and
groom coming out of the front door.
1HC UIItA IhtC VI massachusetts mas
| never recovered from the shock of war
1t is steadily advancing toward the mark
it had reached and fell from in 1881.
1t is stated in mitigation Of Fejee can.
| nibalism that only boys from twelve to
fourteen years old are now eaten by
educated persons; only the very lowest
class eat old men and women.
A fashionable mothers advice to a
newly married daughter: do not get in
the habit Of taking your husband with
you to evening parties. Nothing is SO
stupid as husband at party, nor SO
cverlastingly in the way
1t was brilliant Fond du Lac boy who
seeing dog with muzzle on for the
| first time exclaimed: Mamma, mamma,
bet five cents the dogs are going to
wear hoopskirts; there goes dog with
| one on his nose"
One of the happy hair who had their
heavcnmade match sanctioned on the
Goth ult., was Mortified by the officiating
and mathematical clergymen declaring
that the golden anniversary of their we'd
ding would not ouccur till 2072
A Sarcastic old bachelor says that some
women appear to starve in public and
make up for it by stuffing in private. It
is considered to be good course of treat
ment to pursue in order to bring an
obstinate husband to terms.
Says the Boston Globe: "The hand
soonest clerk in congress is Mr.. tlagg. Of
Vermont, distinguished blonde. tall and
4 ,pfr c1n H,l1 nd
manly appearance attract the ladies who
frequent the senate galleries"
Mrs. Hoss, Of California, not only
brought down two hundred and twenty
pound buck whilh out hunting recently,
but carried the hind quarters home her
SELF which gives point to the old compari-
son-"strong as hoss."'
A young lady el tered store in Wayne
county, n. Y, recently, and asked for
"long hose" The obliging clerk was
absent up stairs for some time, and
returned with couple of long handled
corn hoes, and insisted upon selling them
to her
Many ladies express great dislike for
the dolly Warden" costumes, and conf
IDENTIFY assert that they will never be seen
wearing them If the fashion lasts any
length of time, however, we would not be
too sure that they would not change their
minds.
An embryo Barnum of 9 years, in Vir-
ginia City, Nevada, painted his little
brother in the latest style Of the fierce
Sioux, and exhibited him as q captured
son Of Spotted Tail, at 25 cents ticket.
His mother visited the show and recog,
nized and reclaimed her darling.
"IIow is it my dear!" inquired =
school mistress Of = little girl. How is it
you do not understand this simple thing?"
II don't Know, indeed" she answered,
with perplexed look, but sometimes
think I've so many things to learn, that
have no time to understand"
Henry A. Wise wisely says that John
Quincy Adams was the wisest man in the
House IN his day. He knew everything
that any other member knew, and many
things of which all the rest were ignorant.
1t was this very Henry A. Wise who
speaks thus glowingly of J. Q. Adams.
that the old man eloquent, in one VI his
sharp speeches, pronounced Mr.. Other
tsise.
A paper tells how a servant girl mends
her stockings: When hole appeared in
the toe, Bridget tried a string around the
aperture above the toe, and cut of the
projecting portion. This operation was
repeated a. often as necessary, each time
pulling the stocking down little, until At
last It was nearly all cut away, when
Bridget, sewed on new legs, and thus
kept her stockings always in repair,
A Boston paper gives an account Of a
dry goods clerk. whose salary had proved
inadequate to his wants, which fact was
only revealed to his friends by the death
of his child. that he had no means to
bury. His employer came to his rescue.
and his fellow salesman made up purse
Of fifty dollars for him. Such a case Of
old fashioned, puritanical virtue is worth
recording, when the easy virtue of living
on trust is 50 common.
4 A young lady who has been suddenly
lifted from hereditary poverty to opulence
by an alliance with money and old age,
called the attention of her mother to one
of her wedding presents in the shape Of a
beautiful cluster diamond pin. The old
lady drOnned her snecta cles tn the end Of