Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-12-05
Clipped Brieaets.
Natures tailoring potatoe patch.

Natures tailoring potatoe patch.
An air of importance-onc's first
breath.
The buckwheat is 'thc cake at prec.
ent. aka f
Gail Hamilton has her life insured fer
$4,000.
Khiva has been annexed to Russia
by stroke Of the pen.
Indiana boys blow up trees with pow.
der to shake down the nnts.
A Georgia man advertiscs that he will
be hung in any mans place for $500.
1t is estimated tina. 90 1000 plug hats
were won on the result of the Ohio elec-
ton. 1880
The cultivation of almonds has been
begun in California under favorable aus-
pices -t has
John Huber, of Memphis, arose in tie
| night to shoota dog, and fell dead of heart
disease. IA
An iron will, a silver voice, plenty of
brass, and little tin, will win golden
opinions. w I-a
An old negro woman of Duluth cures
toothache by rubbing her hand over the
| patients check.
Coffee is getting SO high priced in Geor.
gia that people arc saving persimmon
| seed to use rs a substitute
A Nashville man boasts of owning Tie
inkstand used by Gen. Jackson at the
battle of New Orleans.
A Nevada postmaster has written to
Washington to know If he can rent part
of the office for faro bank
In the difficulties with Corea, China
has decided to take part with Japan
even to the extremity Of war.
Sherburnc, VT, has neither doctor, a
lawyer, nor drinking saloon So they
have to get it at the apothecary's.
Portland, Me-, is making an effort to
suppress shaving on Sunday, which the
BARRIERS regard rs altogether unrazor-
nable.
One female clerk in the Trasury De-
partment can count 5000 notes in an
hour, and has counted 1000 in twenty
minutes
In the dictionary Of trade, whicll fate
has reserved for embarrassed manhood.
there is no such word "as fail" It is
suspension.
A bear caught in trap at Ellen, VT,
| one day last week, chewcd off his iu1-
prisoned leg, and walked away on the
other three.
An Eastern clergyman recently de-
clared that the whistling of a railroad
| engine on Sunday "snorted defiance in
the face of heaven."'
A New York thief tied lady to the
leg Of piano and then ransacked the
| house. This'is another reason why folks
shouldn't keep pianos.
The ShaksF' Society of South Union,
| Ky, has offered tooeopt and educate fif-
ty of the children orphaned by the recent
pcstilence in Memphis.
A Cincinnati man bought his wife two
thousand papers of pins the other day.
he said he'd stop her jawing about pins,
if it took his house and lot.
A Maine paper speaks Of "Miss ---
-, an unmarried maiden lady" At
least one single solitary one of those
words might have been spared
A widowed mother three sons and two
daughters were all married at the same
time in Cincinnati. They were bound to
keep it in the family.
An Anti-Knife Association has been
formed in Italy for the purpose of dis
couraging people from carrying con.
cealed weapons about them.
A Salt Lake City paper declares that
Brigham YOung's new house will be one OF
the most gorgeous and costly residences
anywhere between sunrise and sunset.
Trying to do business without adver.
tising is like winking at a pretty girl
through pair Of green goggles, You
know what your doing, but nobody else
does.
The reputation of man is like his
shadow; sometimes follows and some-
times proceeds him; it is sometimes
longer. Sometimes shorter than his natu-
| raj size
The expense Of running railroads in
Italy is enormous. Every ton of coal is
bought in England, costing $40 (gold)per
ton, and transported at an enormous cost
to Italy.
When u Missouri coroner wants lit.
tie ready money, all he has to do is to
drive his jury out to the nearest grove Of
stout limbed trees, and cut down one of
the suspected horse thieves.
Boston last year paid 81 900 for soup
for the poor, and $41,0O for refresh.
ments for the city government. At least
this is what Mrs. Livermore says, and
she wishes people not to forget it.
A photographers advertisement urges
persons about to travel by rail to come
SIT for their portraits, which may be
highly valued by their families "in q Ger.
tain event which shall be namcless"
An action was brought in the court at
Keene, N. H., the other day, against a
dentist for pulling the wrong teeth, and
resulted in q verdict Of $50, which was
something of shrinkage from the s., 900
sued for.
The Vienna Exhibition was closed
without any ceremony, but in the-pres
ence of. 100000 people, who came to
have q last look. The fog horn sounded;
the military band played the Austrian
Hymn; the crowd cheered- -and ra1l Was
over, - -. IS "a
Be careful how you excite the wrath
Of 1s-year-old boys in these belliaerent
times: They carry pistols, and are NOT
to be triacd with. At Johnstown, Pa;
lately, one of these dangerous fellows
shot servant girl for accusing him Of
"snouching pic"
"A couple Of ingenious boys at st.
Cloud, Mimi, lately amused themselves
by filling schoolmate's. mouth with
snow, and tying handkerchief round
his jaws to keep them shut, and the coso-
ner's jury. could hardly ,agree whether to
call 1t choking or drowning. . ni
A story comes from India cqualing in
horror the most fearful fable Of 0recian
mythology. A woman at Ghazpoor, has.
ing cut her infant step son in pieces,
roasted the remains. and served them for
her husbands supper. xHe discovered
finger in the dish, and delivered his wife
to the custody Of the police.
A member; of the Samouri (Japsn) ar,
istocracy has, published q, manifest, in
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