Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-11-28
Clipped Briehets.


Nan who can't rent a church pew has no
business to be pious.
1t is reported that General Butler lost
heavily by the failure of Tom Scott's
Texas Pacific construction company
Mr.. Amasa Sprague, Of the firm of A.
g. w. Sprague, has married his cousin, a
daughter Of the late Byron Spraguc.
They have unearthed another skeleton
at Pompeii. He had bag of back pay
in his hand, and makes good relic
The colored people had a tournament
in ST. Mary's county, Nd, the other day,
and crowned a queen of love and beau.
ty
A Boston merchant has been driven in
sane by the extravaganza of his wife, who
gave wine suppers costing $4,000 per
week
A western man feels aggrieved because
his bill at a New York hotel for one day
amounted to the value of eighteen BUSH
els of corn.
A Boston court has decided that if a
woman lend money to her husband she
cannot get it back. The decision will not
De new 10 many wives.
A mare, carried away from Sterling,
KY. during the war, nearly ten years
ago. lately returned to her old home "by
herself and of her own accord
Gen Ryan, the dead Cuban general,
was at one time the conductor of Our
Society, New York publication, which
he edited to death few years ago.
The explosion of kerosene lamp re-
Gently restored to speech a married wo-
| man in Kansas who had been speechless
several months When will people learn
to be careful.
Here is Madame dc Gcrardin's reply to
a passer by who asked her the whore
abouts n the School of Medicine: "You
will find it in the passage between this
world and the next.
A man in blouse-scenc in Paris, Of
course-presents bottle of perfume to
his beloved, saying: "When you smell
this you will regret that your Creator did
not make you all nose"
Carefully compiled statistics go to
prove tina: if there were no led headed
boys, life would be far less of burden
to school ma'ams, and the earth quiet.
er and more peaceful abode.
The well disposed people of Dunleith
are troubled with model fault -finder-a
man who is so mean as to quarrel with
his wife about the politics Of the newspa-
per she stuffS her hustle with.
Twelve applicants for positions as
/ = 20 nj, II, Ejizahotb NJ
dulged in such eccentric modes of SPELL
ing as "mannagery," "crocha," and "cro-
qua" 1t was a dreadful spell.
When that Albany editor got letter
enclosing a dried human ear, and con-
tanning the statement tina: that was all
that was left "of one man who wrote
against me-" he walked away OH his.
New York architects say that large
number of rich capitalists have made up
their minds to take advantage of the
present opportunity toabuild, when there
is likely to be a general decline in values.
The relatives of some of the persons
lost on the wreck of the atlantic" are
| about to end avor to establish claim
for compensation against the owners. A
test will probably shortly come before the
courts.
A philosopher remarks that there is
something peculiarly instructive III stand
ing upon a street corner in a large CITY.
and watch the men all rush around try
ing to make money, and the women all
floating around to spend it.
An Oswego paper says: "Seyenty-cne
umbrellas were stolen from the Baptist
chnrch in Oswego one rainy night last
week. This proves nothing, save that
Baptists dislike being "sprinkled" fact
which all intelligent persons knew be-
fore.
A New York paper urges economy in
living as one Of the necessities of the day,
and says that 'soup, fish, a roast, birds,
desert, and two kinds of wine make q
dinner fit for anybody" Would that
everybody had money enough to econo,
mize.
At Brattleboro, VT, last week, trunk
at the depot suddenly exploded, serious.
ly burning and injuring lady who stood
near upon her head" as an exchange
says. 1t is probable that this calamity
will teach her not to stand on her head
any more.
A French Countess seized a philoso.
pher at the supper table, and sinking her
voice to whisper, said: "While they
are cutting up the fowls, and we have
got five minutes to spare, do tell me the
history of the world, for l do want to
know it so much"
A recent English writer says that
drunkenness is an affair of climate; the
| people of all the damp and cold countries
are apt to drink more than is good for
them, and a geographer might divide
map of the world into temperate" and
Incorporate zones.
A newspaper man whom set of poll
| ticians induced to start a paper at Fort
| Dodge, Kansas, has given it up, and sus-
| pended publication with the remark: "If
another idiot attempts to start another
paper in Fort D,dge, We hope there will
be a mule handy TO kick him into the
river"
A man who came down to Leaven-
worth recently from st. Joe, to attend
tie fair, mistook the Central Market for
the Exposition, and walked around among
the wagons for two hours. He pronoun-
ced it good display, but said there was
rather more competition in hay and wood
than he had seen at any of the other
| fairs
Stewart, the dry goods duke, is in
trouble. Not financially, for he is worth
over twenty millions, but his health is
failing, and he expects to die one of these
days, and he wants to know who then
| will see that the little cash boys, working
at one dollar and half week, are fined
for sitting down between Z O'Clock A. NJ.
and p NJ.
A western reporter thus describes the
toilet of the belle at late ball. "She was
magnificent in u green calico over Grim
| olinc fully four inches larger than the
rest of her APPAREL, a white apron with red
strings, blue stockings, yellow neck
ribbon, and white cotton gloves. Her
redish hair was fastened in a pug behind,
aud well adorned with the tail feathers Of
the rooster she had for dinner.
A young gentleman in Augusta, Me-,
lately made an evening call upon young
lady. 1t was getting along toward niue
o'clock, when the young lady inquired