Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
Glsanings.

that better system than homeopathy
could have been devised by h'any man.
World
A New York letter writer says that in
one Broadway business house there is not
less than nine divorced husbands, tive oi
whom are members of the firm.
The latest phase which the railroad
brakcsman has presented, is that of a ne
phew of Agassiz. He slams doors at
Terre Haute.
Daluth's Oldest inhabitant is selling
corner lots for $1,000 which cost him
$1.25 an acre eleven years ago.
A prosperous merchant has for his
motto: early to bed and early to rise;
never get tight, and advertise"
Some shrewdly malicious Republicans
are trying to persuade Greeley to make
an extensive Southern tour.
The Russian quid names wisely shake
their heads and talk about hereditary in
sanity in the Imperial family.
A fearful rumor is waited from the Wa
bash, to the effect that Dan Voorhees, is
about to come out for Grant.
A majestic elm tree, planted at Milan,
Italy, three centuries ago by the Arch
duke Ferdinand, was destroyed by the
recent inundatiOn.
You are writing out my affidavit on
| very rough paper, said client to his
attorney. "Nevcr mind" was the reply.
ut has to be filed before it comes into
court"
Tie knowing ones tell us that the only
way to get pure port wine is to go Opor-
| to, raise the grapes, press the wine put it
into casks yourself and ride on it all the
way home
Some New Haven people have been
| trying to establish ladies' reading room
in that city, but find politics engrossing
public attention SO completely that they
| have concluded to do nothing further un-
til after election.
This odd advertisement is from an
English paper: MY husband is out on a
strike He prefers that to work. He
amt any use to me. l must work to
keep the children and self His ten
shilling goes in beer. I'll swap my hus.
| band while he's on a strike for sewing
machine
| 1t is said that the soil of Ireland is
fatal to snakes. A son of Erin who visi
ted the Green Isle last summer, and re-
turned to New York with memento in
the shape of a shamrock growing in Irish
soil, tested the matter by placing a snake
within the box containing the plant
The creature died eleven months after.
| ward
Jacques Lafleur, native of New Or.
leans registered his name in that city as
a perquisite to entitle him to vote on the
goth instant. He gave his occupation as
a chimney sweep, and his age at 12s
years.
Some one wickedly says that the rea.
son why very young girls usually take
the prizes at fairs for making good bread
is because their mothers make it for
them, while the older girls think they can
manage alone, and fail miscrably
A subterranean stream two feet deep
width unknown, running at the rate OF
ten miles an hour, was discovered at Ap.
pleton, Wis, at depth of eighty feet be
low the surface, by Messrs. Johnston
Bro, while boring well.
Miss Sarah G. Lewis. of Braintree
Mass, loved her cat first and her churcl
next. She bequeathed at her death th
income of her house and s. a week to b,
applied to the care of her favorite tor
toiseshell. This novel bequest has been
carried out, until Monday, when the ca
died, and the Universalist Church sue
ceeded to the entire property.
In the last report of the Massachusett
Labor Bureau it is stated that the grea
obstacle in the way of woman's success
as wage laborer is found in the lack O
motive consequent upon her expectation
of being married The girl of fifteen o
sixteen looks to but three to five years @
wage service; and the earnings of thos
years are only expected to add to the a,
fractions that shall shorten this period
The Titusville Press says: "Titusvill
was not the birthplace of the Father q
,, his Country but we have man residin
here who slipped up on muddy crossin
this forenoon and sat down on a roll c
butter which he was carrying home, an
instead of swearing, he simply arose
! scraped the butter from his pants into tn
: paper and went on again as if nothin
had happened"
A Baptist clergyman in New York ha
such meagre salary that he has take
to making horseshoe nails, and invente
q peculiar point for the nails, which too
| so well that he has made large fortun,
1t is said that he makes better points i
this way than he ever did in his sci
f mons.
\ Pittsburgh man has received pa
ent for glass-lined bucket, which is sur
to come into general use. 1t does ava
with the disagreeable taste Of the WOO
always found in the wooden bucket
when new; beside possessing many othe
: advantages which will suggest themselve
to every one.
At a well known lunatic asylum nea
London, a patient, in order to assure tn
visiting commissioners of his sanity, CAV
them to read a certain document, allegc
to be of his own composition. The con
missioners read it, and decided that
conveyed intrinsic evidence Of the autho
being mad. Upon investigation til
composition was found to be part of
leader taken from the Daily TslegrapA.
Old Dr. Lyman Beecher it transpirc
, in some of the "reminiscences given to til
world at the silver wedding at the Ply
mouth Church, was greatly opposed t
J his sons accepting the offer of the pat
ronage of that church. I'm indianapolis,
said he, writing to the trustees, "Henr,
may some day make his mark; bu. In III
vicinity ofNew York he Win be entirel
lost sight Of and eclipsed by hundreds o
other men," 1t Is quite evident that tn
} old doctor did not overrate the abilitie
Of his children.
The following memoranda of u codici
have just been discovered: "Lct it be
plain marble slab. No Latin--no en-
hellishments. State when nominated an,
when deceased. Get Cochrane to writ,
eqitaph-his style is SO simple. White
law will distribute locks Of my hair. b
kind to Tilton-he is foolish but young
Plant me in my favoritc pumpkin arbol
with goosoberry bush for foo:stone
II G.
Now we know all about it. A learne'
Scotchman dwelling in Los Angeles, Cal
. informs us that there is chimney run
ming through the earth from the North +
the South Pole. Into this water pour
at the open polar sea, and is conveys
through the central fire and out at til
South Pole, where it divides into tw
streams, one rushing up the Atlantic an