Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-12-20
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A barrel of apples sells for $25 in San
Antonio, Texas, but becfis only two cents
per pound.
A Michigan University Professor clinch-
es his demonstrations by the query: "Is
not that SO? I'll leave it to the class?'
The press of Missouri calls for law
awarding death as the punishment for
placing any distractions on railroad
tracks.
A cotton bale received at Lowell the
other day contained stone weighing so
pounds.
Several of the soldiers at Fort Bridger
have taken Indian wives and are rearing
families
There is every probability that the dis.
tribution of the award of the Geneva tri-
bunal will occasion long debate in Con-
gress.
A man named Page asked a hotel keep
e. at Omaha what time it was. and being
told it was II o'clock, he shot himself
through the head.
A young lady at Gratiot, Mich, still a
minor, has two husbands living, to each
of whom she has been married twice
within few months
Richmond, Kentucky, has standing
bid of $50, 900 with the grounds, for the
location at that point Of the new Presby-
terian University.
A Kansas lady lately obtained di-
vOrce from and was married to her hus-
band all in week
One Of the "living skeletons is grow
ing fat and he now fears starvation be-
cause his occupation is gone.
Busy Boston has already issued new
directory containing all the changes of
residence.
| There is, it is SAID, over half million
dollars worth Of pig iron held by manu-
facturers along the Shenango valley.
A national convention for reforming
the Constitution of the United States has
been suggested. What for?
The cost of pupils at the Memphis
schools is three dollars each per month,
including all expenses.
A Justice of the Peace at Council
Bluffs fined man S195 dollars for calling
another man "old cuss Thompson"
New York is to have three more litera-
ry weeklies, and another is to be estab-
lished at Philadelphia.
The ladies complain that the present
styles of hats are exceeding homely, but
they buy them, nevertheless They would
buy a hedgehog if it had bugles on it.
A Boston brute beat his wife black and
blue the other day, and when the court
4 Oh ri 70
God, l can sell my bed and pay Johns
! fine"
"Wherc does this horse car rum" said
the old gentleman from the country to
| the bootblack "Donno," said the imp
of the blacking bottle, ''the horses runs
at the nose"
According to a statement made by the
| Paris faculty of physicians, the blood OF
the 100000 men killed by the Franco
Prussian war would have yielded iron
enough for 9,524 gun barrels
A gentleman meeting a friend who was
| wasting away with consumption, ex-
claimed, "Ah, my dear fellow, how slow
You walk" "Yes," replied the consump
tive, Il walk slow, but I'm going fast!'
"Do you think it safe, my DEAR" said
husband to his wife, "for ME to take off
flannel when it looks like Spring:" per
| haps so,' replied the wife, "but l never
saw any flannel that looks like Spring."
The Rev. Robert Collycr respectfully
| wishes that "ail whisky shops were down
in hell, chained up in the bottomless pit
for thousand years, and a new chain
ready for them at the expiration of that
| time"
A little girl came into one of our shoe
stores the other day to take shoes home
for her mother to select from sWha:
number does your mother wear, sissy"
asked the merchant ''She told me to
bring some half.past fours,' replied the
| little girl
T. Buchanan Read said of Tennyson:
| "He looks no more like poet than does
lobster if compared to goldfnch. An
gular, awkward, with great hands and
feet, and coarse hair streaming away, he
| is not the man that romantic lady would
die for
A witty son ofSt Patrick was in charge
of ferry boat. A lady passenger, being
| frightened by the waves, asked him, are
people ever lost by this boats He gave
her the encouraging reply, "Not often,
ma'am; we generally find them after by
dragging the river"
Pittsburghian philologists are puzzling
their heads to find out how a very Afri-
can fellow citizen came to be called Bar
ney Mahoney.
California butter dealers mingle bricks
with their wares. A man in San Francis.
CO bought a keg last week of very choice
butter and found in i: fifteen pounds of
bricks and granite blocks
At Manchester, England, free libraries
have proved highly successful. The num-
Der of times that persons have availed
themselves of the libraries during the
year 1912 was 2,184,5S8, against g.
112 900 the previous year. The acces.
sions amount to 1887 volumes.
An Irish woman at the west end of the
Hoosac tunnel lost her husband last
week. She brought her wedding dress
along with her mourning weeds to the
funeral at North Adams and was married
Immediately after the ''last sad rites''
were performed. No cards.
The rapid decline of agrarian crime in
Ireland is attributed to the happy in
fuence Of the Land act. In the first six
months of 1S70--two years aeo-there
were 1919 outrages in Ireland connected
with land. During tho first six months
of the present year there were but 116.
Virginia has sent Commissioners to
England to hunt up and overhaul certain
maps in the British Colonial Office, q ira
dition existing that therein may be found
the original boundary line, giving Virgin
ia five miles more territory to the west
than she now possesses.
A method adopted in Portugal for pre-
serving fish consists in removing the viz
cera and sprinkling sugar over the in
terror, keeping the fish in a. horizontal
position, so that the sugar may penetrate
as much as possible. One tablespoonful
of sugar is sufficient for five pound
fish.
La Constancia. Of Havana. asserts that
1000 soldiers will leave Spain for Cuba
about the end Of this month, and that be-
fore tho end Of the year this number viii
! be increased to $4,000. II adds, with i'll
dissuised sarcasm: "The Government