Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-07

The Office of State printer has been
abolished in Kentucky.
Tbere are three thousand whites in
the Sandwich Islands.
Pope Plus TX lost two hundred thous-
and dollars by the recent failure of a
Brussels bank
A New York teacher drills ner scholars
in the fire escape exercise.
ST. Louis is going to have extensive
steel works
Pennsylvania has the only nickel mine
in the country.
An Indian girl raised 81 800 worth Of
broomcorn last year.
The elephant of bankrupt show sold
tor $4,000 at Selma, Ala.
Twenty inches is the average thickness
of the ice on the Maine rivers
Danbury has three men who can hold
a woman's jaw-they arc dentists.
A Memphis paper defines advertising
to be "a blister which draws the Gus
There are fifty six farmers in the Iowa
egislature-nearly one-half the whole
number.
Porcupine, cooked like hare. with
wine sauce, jugged in fat, is n new deli
cacy of diet in Rome
1t was clay pipe overturned in dish
of sawdust, which caused the Barnum
fire.
John Smith says that nobody ever
paid him much attention until he broke
out Of Jail, and then he was much sought
after.
A gentleman from Rock Island has in
formed us that it is useless to try to
break thirty inches of ice by violently
sitting down upon it, He has tried.
Excavations have recently been made
with promising results on what is be-
lieved to be the site of Troy The ruins
of a house have been discovered, the
skeleton Of a woman with ornaments of
gold. the bones of a child, and vast
number Of tiles
A man named Mitchell, of Churwell in
Yorkshire, recently lost his life in hor.
Tible manner. While in state of intoxi.
cation he tried to 60 into hut or cabin
by making his way down the chimney
A fire was burning below at the time,
and he stuck fast and was burned to
death.
Precious gems were used to tighten the
horror of tombs and we are told that the
tomb Of Edward the Confessor, in West
minister Abbey, contained eighty four
jewels of great value, and the tomb of
Thomas A. Beckett in Canterbury Cathe-
dral, was celebrated for its great wealth of
gems.
4 society for the suppression of slang
has been formed among the pupils of the
girls high school of San Francisco-
Said reporter to one of the members:
Your object is praisworthy one Do
you think you will succeed in cradica
ting conversational slang?" She answer
ed: you bet.'
The little son Of q very prominent
minister Of Baltimore said to his
father:
PA, St. Paul was Yankee"
"How do you know that, my SOM"
why sir, in the 18th verse Of the Sth
chapter Of Romans he says: For
reckon None but the Yankees say
reckon"
There has been terrific rise in prices
at Rome. None but the long pursed can
this year afford Roman winter. Fur.
nished houses are nearly double last
years prices; and apartments which
three years ago were procurable for one
hundred dollars month, now cost one
hundred and sixty
Sardines will soon be cheap. thanks to
the severe storms in Europe by which
great numbers of sardines were driven
near to the Cornish coast, enabling the
fishermen from ST Ives and Fort Isaac
to catch them with seines to the number
Of fifty thousand and sixty thousand tc
the boat. A decline in this popular arti
Gle Of food is fondly anticipated be every
body
Mr.. Hodgson of Atlanta, Georgia, has
thirteen sons. He is carriage maker
and as soon as each boy became old
enough he received mallet and was
made to learn the trade Having com
pleted that, he was sent to school anG
then 10 college, and the father de6es
the world to match his family Of young
men
Two high strung fools met In marrow
road at Newark, Vermont. the other day
and bantered each other for more thar
two hours about which should turn out
At this point the disgusted women foil
of the place turned out. summarily snak
cd the combatants by each other, ant
tlo,, -vr,,r,,h1sn,v tsu.
ways.
An Indianapolis man took his boy vi
stairs to whip him as requested by hi
step-mother, but his tender feelings pre-
vailed, and he :old the urchin to take hi
coat of. hang it up and yell Justify Will
it was whipped The boy obeyed order
but spoiled his chances for future simila
clemency by telling Of it to the Who'll
neighborhood.
The statement that the lecture engage
ment Of Edmund Yates has proved fail
ure is incorrect, the truth being that tn
English novelist has been successful
wherever he has appeared, and the Lee
turing bureau which engaged him ar
very anxious to have him continue hi
tour more widely Mr.. Yates intends
remain here till March, picking up mate
rial for "notes"
A miserable English char.woman ha
had the audacity to call ths Earl Of Wir
chelsea to court for debt, and his lordshi
treated the matter with contempt. A
execution was issued against his good
and chattcls. The officer with the wr
was resisted by legion Of aunkeys
whom he first whipped and then sued.-
But the char woman got her money afte
all.
A gentleman gave letter Of intrOdut
ton to student Of music about to Wis
Leipsic. who wished to put himself unde
the instruction Of Professor -, t;
nous teacher Of music in the latter cit,
Upon the students return home, ii
gentleman asked; "How did you liz
Professor -?" "Oh, wonderfully
He gave me fine lessons; but he is a yer
singular man. He kept praying all th
time he was teaching me-" Praying?-
Why, what do you mean: "Well, viii
I was playing, he clasped his hand
lifted his eyes to the ceiling, and kel
saying, Good Lord, what sin have cor
mitted to deserve this puniehmente'