Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-31
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The women Of Columbus, Ga, have
discarded silks and satins, and are wear.
ing the plnids and checks manufactured
in that city.
The English language is spoken by
9O,0O0,0oO persons; German by 55,OOO,-
900; Spanish by 55,0OO,O 900; and French
by 45,O00,O0O
A young Partisan advertises that he is
willing to be adopted by Prince. His
cheek is undoubtedly sufficient to fill o
royal position.
The Maine papers tell of man named
Gray in that State who has slept on q
haymow every night for the last twenty.
two years.
There is man in Pottsville, Pa, who
Prides himself on having been kicked out
OF more hotels than any man in the
United States.
The house in which Joan of Arc was
born, is falling into ruins The officials
Of the Department of the Vosges have
decided to repair it. t
The heaviest brain on record, sixty
seven ounces, was recently found in tile
skull OF Il London bricklayer, who could
neither read nor write.
The proposed extension of the Mil.
waukee and Northern road to Appleton,
Wis, would shorten the route to Chica-
60 by rail some thirty miles.
The japanese ambassadors now in
England say they will establish. u brew
cry in Japan when they return, or off
comes the head of somebody
A charge of twenty-five cents for ad-
mission to church weddings in Missouri,
furnishes fund for the young couple to
start housekeeping with
George Homer, of New York, wouldn't
pay an election bet of fifty cents, and his,
indignant friend passed a pitcbfork
through him four times
There are three pretty triplets, sisters
in Eaton, Ga, thirteen years old, and
looking SO much alike that they can't tell
1T other from which"
A Paris paper challenges the world to
produce one authentic case where per-
son has ever been buried alive 1t adds
that such stories are all bosh.
A man died recently at Pottstown, Pa,
whose liver, stomach and other internal
organs had turned to about eight gallons
Of liquid.
Denver, Col, does not allow any va.
grants in her borders 1t makes them
work, and gives them s. per day and
their board for doing it.
The superintendent Of London work.
house has been convicted Of manslaugh-
ter for refusing admission to a poor wo-
man who afterward died of neglect.
One firm in Parsons Kan, has shipped
East 1852 grouse, 1000 quail, 1920
rabbits, 1907 ducks, 593 squirrels, 727
turkeys and 1878 pounds of venison.
Spotted Tail is the man for the times.
He has disposed of four mothers.in law,
and whoops for the scalp oftho fifth. He
will lecture for $50 per night
Governor Washburn. of Massachusetts
has pardoned sixty criminals during the
last twelve months; that is more than
one week throughout the whole year!
An Arkansas artist in marble carved
sleeping lion and took it to a county fair
The award was:-"Jamcs Magill-frst
premium for beautiful bull pup in mar.
ble."
The Miners formal estimates the
consumption of coal of all kinds in the
United States in 1872 at 40.500,000 tons,
being an increase of about Sc per cent. in
eight years.
There's one thing" said a gentleman
at race, "that nobody can beat, and
that is time" Fudge" exclaimed by
stander. every drummer in the land
beats timer
The expectant Earl Of Roscommon an
inheritor Of vast Irish estates. is a poor
but honest young man named Dillon, who
nurses his hopes and his genealogy q.
Memphis, Tenn.
Bangor Me, is justly proud of the do
ings Of it's Widows Wood Society, which
kept the cold out of the houses Of lS0
poor families last winter, at an outlay of
$1.273.
The Delaware Indians live in frame
houses, wear cutaway coats and stand
up collars, fail in business, and comprom.
Use at fifty cents on the dollar, and are
getting quite civilized.
The students of the Michigan Universi-
ty concluded not to pay Henry Ward
that sum would purchase 10000 glasses
ofbeer and other brain making material.
There is no disease so fatal on the
Western border as an excessive fondness
for raw horse flesh belonging to other
people. The victim is cured the same as
dried beef-hung up TO dry.
A German physician has fitted up Q
screw propeller as a floating hospital for
patients with lung diseases, to spend the
winter III cruising between Gibraltar and
Malta.
A Modoc chiettain, known as SHACK
Nasty Jim" (modo California; being
filially 10th to leave his mother on q sick
bed when called to war. considerably
killed her before leaving.
A Kentucky editor comes ont with =
two-column editorial, under the plagiarix.
ed head Of Thou Shalt Not KILL" in
which he says "there seems to be too
much shedding Of blood in this State"
They don't die suddenly and with their
boots on at Marblehead, Mass. OF the
2lO deaths there last year, S were of per-
sons over 30 years old. II of those
between so and 80, and &c between 20
and 80.
A gaunt subject of humanity applied
for victuals. He was told he ought TO
go to work. "But can find no work."
said the beggar "Well, 90 to lecturing,
then, was the uncharitablc response.
The Japanese telegraph lines are to be
thrown open to public use, and gas 10
now used to light the streets and houses
Of Yokohama. The railroad opened
recently has met with such success that
another is soon to follow.
A rural gentleman standing over .
register in Cincinnati store attracted
general attention to himself by observing
to his wife, "Mariar, guess I'm sgoin'
to have fever, feel such hot stresks
a-runnin' up my legs"
Connecticuts msanest man belongs n
New London and keeps . lager beez
saloon. He rewarded the person who
found his pocket-book the other morning,
containing $20c, by Offering to shake him
for the drinks.
A new endeavor to make martyrdom
popular il going on in England Enthvsi-
astic Catholics now wear hair shirts, and
when habit shall deprive these Of their
discomforting potency something more
disngreeable will be invented. A shirt
made from currycombs, with the scrap.
ers inside, might answer.