Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-12-06
Gleaniugs.

The melancholy days have come when
wives tease their husbands for new set
of flrs.
4 New York saloonkeeper advertises-
for "a boy to open oysters about fifteen
years DID,"
Humming birds are extensively used as
ornaments on the new Partisan bonnets
and hats.
Two acres of Fairhaven oysters yield q
better income than the best farm in Con-
necticut
Louisiana oranges are sold on the trees
by their producers at from s. to $40
thousand
A Cincinnati man drank himself into a
stupor, and while he slept the rats ate off
his nose.
Those people who wished the horse dis
ease ''in Halifax" are gra.ified it's got
there.
Half a dozen cases of accidents by mill
machinery were recorded last week in
Minnesota.
Truth is stranger than felton," but
Dobbs says that often depends upon who
tells it,
The force employed in numbering this
Winter in Minnesota will be larger than
ever before.
Mayor Eastman won't allow prize pack
age peddlers in the Poughkeepsie, n V,
streets.
The American oysters is pronounced,
by those who claim to know, the best in
the market.
The number Of Americans travelling
and residing in all parts Of the world is
truly astonishing.
The Boulder Col, Netcs says the yield
of potatoes in the mountains this season
is immense.
\ chemist expresses the opinion that
the so-called Arizona diamonds are color
less sapphires.
Springfield, Mass, is utilizing its ances.
tors by raising potatoes in an old Puri-
| tan graveyard.
A "varmint' has been discovered in the
ocean, near Savannah, Georgia, called
| the "sea cat"
The number of visitors of the Yosemite
this year. foos up $500, all but 800 from
outside of California.
A St Louis girl has inherited $1,000.
| 600 from her bctrothed lover, who was
an officer in the Spanish army.
The marketable value Of rough
diamonds has fallen within the past
twelve months nearly fifty per cent.
Portage Lake, Mich, is entertaining
two British nnbemen who are prospect
ing for iron and wood lands
/ The remnant Of the Seminole tribe IN
| Florida is divided into three families, of
about twenty persons each.
The Book of Travel, by the lale ex,
Secretary Seward, is to have the cnor-
nous first edition Of 1000 copies.
One of the diving skeletons is grow
Ing tat. and he now fears starvation be-
cause his occupation is gone.
A Steubenville, O., coroner has been
holding an inquest on the skeleton Of q
man drowned forty years ago.
Somebody asks the question: If a top,
cr and quart Of whisky were left to
gether. which would be drunk first?
The freight office Of the Kansas Pacific
railroad, in Lawrence, handled, 3O,000,
900 pounds Of freight in October.
Prof Moses Colt Tyler denies the state
ment that the best Greek scholar in the
University of Michigan is a woman.
The Northern Pacific railroad has pur-
chased the largest portion of the town of
Wallula, Washington Territory.
Borax, hitherto mainly procured from
foreign sources, has been found to exist
in ineXhaustible quantities in Nevada.
The refusal of her husband to wash the
dishes is said to be sufficient cause for al
Oregon woman to apply for divorce.
Veterinary surgeons acknowledge the
force of the proverb in relation 10 an in
wind, etc, since the advent OF the epiaoo-
| tic.
A Western willow would like to meet
the printer who. when she advertised for
an agent, made her appear to want "a
gent"
Professor Tyndal writes that he would
rather address the Yale boys than the
most brilliant audience that could be as
semblcd
A Californian, who made princely
fortune out of the Central Pacific rail.
way, has purchased in Paris tiara Of
diamonds for his wife, costing 175,OOO
francs.