Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-06-06
Gloanings.
A Hartford man lefs 100000 for
SlDDOrt of lame horses

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When does a man feel girlishs YIN
he makes his maiden speech.
A rich man in Trenton, Ind, ID
sent barrel Of -four to every poor wi
in town.
If q man stands on corner in OH
go five minutes without anything td
he is fined ten dollars.
The latest bonnet is trille hill
than freight on the railroads, and
graceful in proportion.
Uncle Sam should discard the eagle
adopt the raccoon-it has so many 7
in its tail.-[Graphic.
Country liquor dealers in Massa
setts are seuding their beer barrels
to Boston, drapcd in mourning.
Experience will teach the public rsIS
clever tricks Of the postal card, sonsll
convenience and some Of torment.
An advertiser in one of the pa
says that he has cottage to let.
tanning eight rooms and an acre Of III
A man, writing poctically of the we
er, says: "The backbone of wintel
broken, but the tail wags yet occas
ally" IN
A wife at Maysvile, KY, procurf
| divorce from her husband because he
tended the Good Templars and lefty
with II sick baby. St
An English female witness proml
| defined courtship to be docking at q
other, taking hold Of each others h4
and all that sort of thing"
4 writer divides men with regard
their laughter, into three classes, the
he, he, the no, no, ho, and the ha, ha
men-thc shallow, the gross, and then
fined.
To harmonize discordant natures,J
out of conflicting individualities tor
vclop happy home, is one of
greatest triumphs that woman
achieve.
Purse-proud individual-"Do you X
sir, that I am worth hundred thous
Il do; and I know that is all you
WORTH
| Two widows are wrangling for til
tate of defunct Baltimore policel
The one that was left in ireland whei.r
policeman came over is likely to get
best of it, -
Punch's notion of nobility is that al
of birth is commonly one whose rei
ancestor did something, and his INN
ate predecessors for many centuries,I
ing at all.
It is said that St. Louis editor
to write poetry when boy, and Ii,
reputation in that line extending ovA
area of country three miles long, =
miles wide and mile thick.
A diplomat who gives great dinneIE
Paris, it is said, always surrounds ~
guest at the place where he sits at q,
table with flowers that belong to
country of which he is native. sS
A horse car driver in Chicago gs !.
penny over to twenty different pa "
gers, to try their honesty and ninete,
them kept the money, while the
one swore that there four cents ID
we're due him III
At a recent wedding of Bavaria lie
my officer, Isl of his brother of
claimed the right to kiss the bride
responded to each smack, and WA
the least bit tired. How different
this are the pale, slckly American gi
"Hail, balmy spring. Having
the "hail'' and every ether charact.
disagreeable and unpleasant wealthy
appears that the "balmy spring" is
upon us for certain. We sincerely
that it may prove no false alarm
time.
"If you want to see what men wnj
in the way Of conformity" says a
ern philosopher, take an Europcals
for the subject of meditation. I darF|
there are 100000 Of people at
minute each wearing one Of these hf
please the rest"
People vino have sat in cold roor
winter because they only laid in a
supply Of coal for the season, being
led by the tricky muskrat who butItn |
self slight house last fall, will be 1|
fed to know that large numbers of
interesting animals have been froz'
death.
The San Francisco Chronicle, in
menting on the refusal of the autho
to arrest the defaulting treasurer oos
Mateo county, because he is persona
good fellow, says Frisco has Ii.
sense Of justice. She sent an old wi
oil eighty-tive to Jail for stealing
pounds Of barley, valued at about t}n
cents.
Nashville young lady &C. and A.
has some hesitation at remaining d
long enough to satisfy the demand {
very healthy appetite, especially u
the hotel at which she boards is I
, guests. She has purchased mag
good, strong feeder, and she sends t,
= steward for tritle for her birdn
The Terrebonne Herald draws
, picture of Louisiana poverty;
parish is so poor that no one will II
for three,foot plank to stop up tn
in the Jail made by the last inmates.l
Jail would not hold an ambitious;
more than ten minutes at time.
, stove pipe at the court house rema
q the tin shop-the cause, no money
a up"
) Some of the San FranciscaDs ar,
f ting up grand excursion to Poly
, including the Sandwich, FIJI and F
ly islands. The number of excursi:
is limited to 70, and the time to-
) months; the price for the round trip
! the Pacific coast, being fixed at So
l gold. This is rather a novel voyage
: as it will be made during the sun
!. and on the calmest of oceans, it ou4
and doubtless will be, thoroughly e
+ bic.
K A guest at the mansion-in al
? country it would be called the palaS
f the late Samuel Colt, noticed the eli
burning all over the house. Grcatk
bers unoccupied, large halls and
corridors were blazing like tho
> "You are extravagant with your
said the stranger to the butler, wh
Y showing him the house. "PerhaE
: was the reply; "but, you see, the
Q owns the gas works, and we like I.
O ronize him."
+ The following anecdote has oil
: its early youth but it still reads
John Phoenix tells the story that b
& one day leaving San Francisco b
= steamer. Everybody else was
leave of friends-but he did not kx
soul in the crowd. Ashamed Of his
Il ness, us the boat sheered off he
: out in loud voice, "Good-byG
oneltN and to his orr eat dnlinht euarluI