Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-02-21
Gleanings.

Colorado estimates that it received
at least 81 900, 900 from tourists in 1879.
There is great deal of corn re.
naming in the fields Of Kansas un-
gathered.
Wisconsin ranks as the fourth State
in the number of Indians within it's
boundaries
A newspaper is published in the South
African diamond district at the low price
of $50 year
The Galveston Ne,es rejoiees greatly
over the immense tide of immigration
now pouring into Texas.
Rain fell on 131 days in the year 1872,
according to the annual report from the
War Department Signal Service
One hundred and sixty eight persons
over 20 years old died in Providence in
the year 1872. The number in 1871 was
IG9.
The laws of Iowa no longer make any
distinction between the husband and
wife in their control over their own
property.
One OF the most promising students at
Cambridge is a Hindoo in Christ's Col.
lege, who is distinguished as a natbema.
tician.
One towel answers for twelve CUSTOM
ers in an indianapolis barber shop, and
the barber sharpens his razor on the
stoye-pipe.
1t is estimated that there are between
two and three thousand buffalo hunters
in Western Kansas, and they average
about 10 per day,
l.ampras. county, Texas, has resisted
cold snaps, but the grasshoppers have
been consuming its wheat for holiday
sport.
The curiosity Of a Maine lady was so
great that she called on a woman who
was down with the small pox, Just to see
how 1t looked"
The following notice was recently
found on the gate of New York lunatic
asylum; Jurors supplied in any QUAINT.
ty on the shortest notice"
The Methodist confesses to being lii.
tie astonished to see chow patronizing the
new school of sceptical science is to the
Don't do It. Don't advertise vour
business; it is paying out money to
accommodate other people If they
want to buy your goods, let them hun.
you up.
The delicate operation Of cutting a
man open to remove some false teeth
that he had swallowed was successfully
nGrfnrlnIl rnrnpt1y-
sylvania
Rochester has taken hold of the Sunday
question with vengeance The other
day q barber paid $l6.25 into the public
treasury for shaving a man the preceding
Sunday
\ high toned young Southern gentle.
man at Memphis recently challenged an
old farmer to mortal combat because
the latter sent him a pigs tail to make q
whistle Of
Wooden pavements are luxurious but
expensive The number of wards of
wooden pavements laid in New York
since 1860 is stated at 39l ,6SS, at a cost
of $2,264,O0O.
The knowing ones tell us that the only
way to get spurc port wine is to go to
Oporto, raise the grapes press the wine,
put it into the cask yourself. and ride on
it all the wsy home.
The Roman Catholic Mission for the
conversion of the colored population of
the South, at the head of which was tho
late DR.. Vaughn, has thus far failed to
win any great number of converts.
\ Georgia negro was ovcrpaid 500 on
q check by a bank, and he returned the
money. The local papers says this is an
other evidence that the race cannot be
civilized.
A naughty boy placed Roman candle
among the tapers in the Christmas decor
aiions Of Paris, Ky, church. When the
candles where lighted there was a stir in
the congregation.
An editor says he once partook of q
beverage so very strong that he could
not tell whether it was brandy or a torch
light procession that was going down his
throat.
The Vermont Central Railroad cannot
pay its employees; cannot buy any cars:
cannot even buy any wood, and the
State is going to sell it to the highest
bidder.
Two mice were recently caught at Bel
fast, Me, in curious manner. As in the
old fable, they crept into bottle which
lay on its side, partook SO heartily of the
seductive contents that they couldn't get
out. and were captured.
For forty years the desire to hang him
self from the cross at the top of the spirc
grew upon the bell ringer of Brixlegg
Church, in the Tyrol, and short time
ago it became irresistible, and he swung
of
A New York nabob sent his aflianced
grand piano, an India shawl, two com.
plete sets of diamonds, six dozen pairs
Of Partisan gloves, q roll of velvet, and
box for the Charity Ball, on Christmas
night.
An Old German, while on his way from
Indianapolis to Layfayette froze his nose.
While thawing the frost out of that very
necessary member he remarked. "By
tam! no understand dis ting. That car.
ry that nose forty years and he never
freezed hisself before"
This is how New London inebriatc.
astride hydrant Saturday night, explain,
ed his condition: Them pies (hic), them
ID pies" "What piess" was asked.
"Miace pies (hic)," he retorted "Cider
put in 'em (hic) without my knowledge
(hic), amt drinked anything before (hic,
for fortnight"
1t is related of a certain minister of
Maine, who was noted for his long ser
mons, with many divisions, that one day
when he was advancing among the teens,
he reached at length kind of resting
place in his discourse, when pausing to
take breath he asked the question, "And
what shall say now7" A voice from
the congregation earnestly responded.
"Say amen"
A clam merchant meeting one of his
own fraternity whose pony might be con.
sidered beautiful specimen of an equine
skeleton, demonstrated with the owner
and asked him il he ever fed him. ever
fed HIM? that's good 'un" was the re.
ply; "he's got a bushel and half Of oats
at home now, only he amt got any time
to eat 'em."
A little girl was sent to the pasture to
drive home the COW. While thus enCag-
cd, she treated herself to climbing an un-
necessary fence, from which she fell, and
was severely scratched and bruised. On
returning home, she was asked If she
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