Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-10
The Shears.

The Shears.
A. T. Stewart is his own insurance
agent. and his losses by fire do not aver
age $500 per year.
Talk about the jaws Of DEATH" ex-
claimed hen -pecked husband, "they are
no circumstance compared with the jaws
Of life"
A South Bend girl named Bcrsch stab
bed VIM. Madison the other night for
throwing an apple core at her in prayer
meeting.
According to Blackwood every man
who is not monster, mathematician,
or a real philosopher, is a slave Of some
woman or other.
Preston Powers, son of Hiram Pow.
ers. is making some busts at Boston,
with o success that indicates that he in
hcrits his fathers genius.
A preacher once got s. s. Cox pretty
badly by telling his congregation, Of
whom "Old Sunset" was one, that there
would be no sunset in heaven.
A sign in an Ohio city bearing the
words Smith Manufacturing Company"
throws some light on the query as to
where all the Smiths come from.
Mrs. Scott Siddons ran opposition to
the Shah in London recently. She drew
a fine house, and the papers Especially
the Era spoke very handsomely Of her
reading.
"Long John" Wentworth has swallow
ed every word that Woodruff uttered the
other evening in Chicago. He said, pri.
vately, that "she was devilish smart
little woman"
Brown tinted note paper is now the
fashion in London The note sheet is
cut in legal shape, and turns at the top
soon be the rage here.
A Kentucky man has been found guilty
of stealing, forgery, arson, horse stealing,
| till tapping, and attempted murder, but
he asks the public to suspend judgment
until they know more about him.
The Chicago 7smes thinks it is q great
pity that Chicago has not in force the st.
Louis social evil regulation. This would
oblige Woodruff and her party to register
themselves when they reach the city.
A Boston firm sends three thousand
| boxes Of chewing gum. equivalent to
| $50, 900 "quids," to Ohio, Indiana, Wis.
consin and Missouri The jaws which
work on this stuff are mostly feminine.
Susan B Anthony has sued the Cincin-
natl Commercial for libel for saying that
she swore. She denies that che is pro-
fame, but we would like to see her fall
over wheelbarrow-D Detroit Free Press.
A woman's belt, with one Of those
heavy buckles now worn, was the ugly
weapon with which lady in Alabama
lately thrashed and severely cut gossip
ing man who had aspersed her reputa.
tion.
Miss Sadie Craft, who was scalped by
a shaft in q mill at Beaver Falls, Penn, q
while ago. is getting along nicely The
scalp has been tanned with the hair on"
that it may be used as wig when she
RECEIVERS.
The Earl of Shaftcsbury has been visit.
ing St. Kilda and distributing Bibles, tea
and sugar among the islanders. The old
ladies say that tea after this fashion is
particularly consoling money
and without scrip.
A new mode of preparing coffee is be.
coming popular in France After roast.
ing the coffee is ground to very fine -four,
which is then slightly moistened, mixed
with twice its weight Of powdered sugar,
and pressed into tablets.
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh sailed from En-.
gland for this country last Saturday. He
will enter the lecture field with three SUBJ
iects: The Impeachment Of the House
of Brunswick" can Englishman's Views
on the Irish Question" aud "Charles l."
Lady Trevelyan, the wife of Sir Char
les Trevelyan, who died recently in Eng
land, at the age of sixty three, was the
sister of Lord Macaulay. She edited the
last volume Of his History of England.
Her son is member Of Parliament for
Harwick.
Last Friday negro was hanged in
Cairo, III. Even after the moose was ad-
justed about his neck he was gwen choice
of being launched into eternity, or resi-
ding permanently in that delightfult to IN.
Jerk dat rope" was his indignant reply
and they jeIked it.
In view Of the proposals for An eques-
trian statue Of the late Major General
Thomas, several artists of Washington
have started for Pittsburg with their
models. 1t is proposed to erect the statue
in Washington, the bronze for it having
been appropriated by Congress in the
| shane of old cannon
pretty WELL" remarked the doctors
daughter, who took an interest in her
fathers purse and profession, when some
one asked her ''how things were going:"
''Plenty of colds, some bronchitis, and q
nice little typhus fever; but father said
yesterday what we want to make things
lively is q nice little epidemic"
There is a paper church actually ex.
isting near Bergen, which can contain
| nearly one thousand persons. It is cir.
| cular within, octagonal without. The
relieves outside, and the statues within,
the roof, the ceiling, the Corinthian capi-
tails, are all of papier-mache, rendered
waterproof by saturation in vitrol, lime
water, whey, and white of egg,
When Horace Greeley visited Yosemite
he picked up in the trail horse shoe,
and hung it on the knot of an oak tree
for whoever might choose to use it. No
one took it, and in time the knot grew
over the horse shoe, and recently the
portion Of the tree containing it was cut
out and brought to San Francisco as q
mcmento Of Mr.. Greeloy's economy.
Bret Harte has more translators in
Germany than he can number ON his I'm
gers. An anonymous hand is attempt
ing his complete works, prose, and verse,
and two volumes Of this series have al
ready appeared at LEIPZIG. simultaneous.
ly with translation of selected Califor.
mia tales, by Wilhelm Hertzber, who is
distinguished for translations Of Chau.
er, Shakespeare and Tennyson.
A young lady just from Europe re.
marked to q veteran politician the other
day: ut is Of very little consequence"
she said, "what kind Of men you send
out as foreign ministers. The thing Of
real importance is, they should have the
right kind Of wives. Any man can sign
q treaty, suppose, If you tell him what
kind Of o treaty it must be. But all his
social relations with the nations to which
you send him will depend on his wife"
"The caution OF the New Englander in
giving an answer to q direct question