Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-11-14
Clipped Briehets.

Bad temper bites at both ends; it makes
ones self nearly rs miserable as it does
other people.
Captain Jack left three widows, one
grown daughter, a sister and q host of
little children
A Connecticut father has christened
his daughter Glycerine. She will be good
for chapped lips.
The New Workers are getting excited
over the real or supposed sale of diseas-
ed beef in their markets.
The San Francisco Call kindly refers to
Mrs Joaquin Miller as "the ex wife ofths
moon gazcr Of the ModOcs."
A twelve year old boy in Milwaukee
has sold cat skins enough this fall to buy
his father moss agate ring.
Kellogg is growing fatter every month
she lives-or, to put finer point on it,
she improves in embonpoint.
The Memphis reporters continue TO 60
their rounds as usual, aud only one the
corps has died of the pestilencc.
Bret Harte has written dialect poem
one of his longest which will appear in
Scribner's Monthly for December.
Bull Run was farm when the famous
first la;tle was fought, but now it is vii.
lage of three hundred inhabitants.
The Boston gas company charged
citizen SIS for gas consumed at time
when ne hadn't burner in his house.
Sinct that tiger escaped from menag-
erie at Nashua, N H., Sunday night
sparkling has fallen off to almost nothing
Madame 5anaschek is said to be one
of the richest women in her profession,
and is withal very generous with her mon.
cy.
A New Yorker says Of the dead prize
fighter: John Hcenan wouldn't bite
man even to save himself from being lick
ed.
Gerrit Smith said to New York repor.
ter: $50 home sir. l won't be inter-
viewed sir. Keep away from my house
sir"
A grocer in Quincy, Ill, has donated
the city forty one dozen bad eggs to be
used in keeping lecturers beyond the city
limits.
Henry Clcws says that the extrava-
gance of women is a clew to the hard
times. That's not the only clew, Henry
Clcws.
Mllard Fillmore lives quiet unosten-
tatious life in Buffalo, and is estimated to
be worth less than seventy-five thousand
dollars
A New York letter-writer says Tennie
la; 70 10 II -
promise she couldn't keep if she died to-
morrow
Tempest tosscd-a Love Story" will
be the title of Theodore Tilton's novel. 1t
will explain why he was tossed and how
he liked it.
Gen. Sam Houston always had on his
mantcl in his parlor, written notice that
general Houston retires at 0 o clock ev-
! cry evening"
| A Grammer school teacher at Maiden,
Mass, has given to his boys and girls, ior
reading lessons the newspaper records of
| Stokes trial.
The shaker society of South Union, Ky.
has offered to adopt and educate fifty Of
the children orphaned by the recent pes
| thence in Memphis.
! Upon the marriage of Mrs. Wheat Of
! Virginia, the editor hopes that her path
may be tloury and that she may never be
thrashed by her husband
\ Leavenworth justice descended from
his desk, knocked u lawyer down, and
said as he resumed his seat: Now Mrs.
Peters, so on with your story"
Capt Jacks head has been added TO
| the attractions of the Smithsonian 1nsti
tute. 1t gives the average army officer
bad case Of the jim jams to look at it.
Epitaph on cOmosivc-Collisions
four or five she bore; the signals were in
| vain; grown old and rusted, her boiler
busted and smashed the excursion train.
Down in Cairo the police put people in
the calaboose to prevent them from get
ting robbed. 1t is so much easier to lock
up the honest men than to arrest the
rogues.
A Kansas editor who feels the financial
pinch writes column editorial thanking
somebody who sent him loaf Of bread.
| a squash, a lot of turnips and a peck Of
popcorn.
Barnum is in England making prepa-
tions to transport here the magnificent
spectacle Of London by Day and Night"
| for the use Of which he has paid $150,000
| for five years
A Roman Catholic priest who was re-
Gently married in Mexico, is writing for
| the newspapers series Of articles adyO-
| eating the abandonment of celibacy by
| the priesthood
Mrs. Blackwell believes that women
should live to ninety years. "But how
are we to know if she does!" asks the
Commercial Advertiser. Inquire Of her
husbands sister.
Just because young man in Evans
| burg coughed up gold dollar recently,
that he swallowed some time ago, the cit.
izens of that place speak boastingly of
their "coughers Of gold"
This description is from the Topeka
Kansas, Commonwealth: "The happy,
qniet. sleepy, yellow. spider-webby days
known as Indian Summer are here In
| the perfection of laziness"
In Kansas widow married young
man early in the Spring. just at planting
time. Her crops have now been gather.
ed in, and she has turned the young man
out of house and home.
Tom Allen is growing gallant. He
thinks he can whip Joe Coburn, because
he says, Joe whips his wife, and he can
whip any man that has got enough Of
the cur in him to strike women.
Fadoyer tells us Mrs. Fadovor says the
Women's Congress wouldn't touch back
| pay, but she wouldn't trust them on
question of back hair. They'd risk any
amount Of up-braiding in case of that
kind.
An unstamped letter was deposited in
the Marshall, ILL.,, post-office last week,
and underneath the address was the in.
dorscment, "let her slide, p. M, she's al
hunk; inside air one Of them post hole
keerds."
A newspaper correspondent says that
several members Of H. d. Cookies family
have been trays Of sunshine to the poor"
Andy johnson and the other depositers of
the Cookies fear that their prospect for
making raise Is all moonshine
There is farm in Franklin, Maine,
whereon every seventeen years, in tho
middle Of August, at Q O'Clock in the
morning, the man who mows drops dead
scythe in hand. Ten minutes before 8
o'clock would be good time to go over