Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-08

SCxSSOEBs
Madame Ristori is at Brighton, Eng
land.
St. Louis policeman wear major-gener.
ais uniforms.
Provo, in the mountains of Utah, is the
last to arrest Kate Bender.
What a good newspaper editor don't
know isn't worth knowing
Postal cards can be forwarded to
second Office without additional postage.
Mark Twain has recently made visit
to the birthplace of Shakespeare.
A poor blind beggar at Dayton, Ohio,
recently had his pocket picked of about
$425.
The only free music on Boston Com
mon this summer is that Of the hurdy-
gurdies.
Omaha has now enacted an ordinance
against lottery enterprises. Rather late
in the day.
During June Portland, Me-, shipped
10000 barrels Of flour to the Canadian
provinces.
A/huJ Ako WiAoOA ACCCAtCu u LlaEa OI
diamonds and the Duche ess of Sutherland
a bracelet from the shah
An old chap at Oil City, Pa, likely to
die, has burned up $4,000, that there
need be no quarreling over his will.
A floating cannon ball is one of the
sights at Vienna 1t weighs fifty pounds
and floats in cauldron of quicksilver.
An elegant yacht has been put at the
disposal of the Rev. Hepworth, and he
is going to sail the dog days behind him
The Vicksburg physicians who are
vacclnating the negroes have to hand
cuff some of them before they will SUBJ
NIT.
Parson Brownlow never bought but
one silk hat and that he has worn thir.
teen years without paying cent for re-
pairs.
The Chicago & Alton railroad will lay
five miles of steel rail next month. com.
mencing at Petersburg and running
south.
A lady died in Charleston, few days
ago, whose husband, son, brother, and
uncle have all been Governor of South
Carolina.
The Knoxville Wing is to be resurrect.
ed, under the auspices Of the BrownloW
family, with Colonel John B. as manag-
ing editor
A Boston woman wanted to elope, but
when her husband gave her money to 90
she changed her mind-it took the 70.
nance away.
The young lady who refused to enter
rifle factory because some of the guns
had no breeches, is spending few days
in the country.
Lord Gordon is the illegitimate SOL Of
Rev. u. Hussey, rector of Hayes, in the
county of Kent, England His blue blood
is all in his eye
The late Shah of Persia only had three
hundred and sixty children. 1t was al
most impossible to get him to improve
his opportunities
A st. Louis paper says that if some of
the wells Of that city were horizontal in.
stead of perpendicular no one would know
them from sewers.
The Grand Duke Alexis has about con.
cluded his trip around the world. He
was expected to reach Katharinenberg,
Siberia, on the 10th inst
A Boston jeweler has on exhibition
what he claims as the largest diamond in
the United States. It weighs tnirty.two
carats, and has yellow tinge
A western paper explains JOAQUIN Mil
ler's frenzied style by saying that he has
three wives. Some men die under it and
some 90 crazy and write poetry.
Queen Victoria is said to have been
much annoyed at the shah's kiss. She
had only to have held up her hands and
John Brown would have bounced him.
Nilsson received as present from the
shah magnificent diamond bracelet.
Her acting and charm of manner capti-
waited him rather than her voice and per.
sonal beauty.
The Boston Post tells us that "a Ver-
mont family has lived in sixteen states,
moved thirty times in eleven years, and
has never stayed in any one place more
than eighteen months"
Mrs. Marian Walden for go years
resident of Buffalo, who died last week,
was the first lady in that city who owned
piano, which she used to play to the
wonder of the Indians.
The roof of Westminster Abbey. in
which chestnut wood was used, was ex.
examined some time ago and found to be
perfect. 1t has stood eight centuries. 1t
has, of course, been kept free from mois.
ture.
The shah bought $500 worth of
paintings when in London, but he could
not understand why picture of three
donkeys should be charged $500, when
he could buy three Of the genuine ami
mails for s25.
1t is estimated by parties who have
canvassed along the Northern Pacific
railroad thoroughly that the amount of
wheat which will be exported from that
country the coming season will foot up
$50, 900 bushels.
An Atlanta doctor advises persons
afraid of cholera to stand on their heads
for one minute three times day. He
argues that this arrests abdominal de.
preston, and would be a healthful gym.
nastic exercise at any time
A shrewd old gentleman once said to
his daughter: "Be sure, my dear, you
never marry poor man; but remember
that the poorest man in the world is one
that has money and nothing else.
WalteF Savage Landor related how he
once met Napoleon walking in the gar.
den of the Tuileries, and added, in char.
aceristic Landor style: "The fellow look.
ed at me so insolently that if had not a
lady on my arm I should have knocked
him down."
A new out doors society game called
"chivalry," which is described as a cross
between croquet and billiards, has been
introduced. The moves and pieces have
highsounding names like those belong.
ing to knight errantry. The game is
said to be beautiful and expensive.
1t Is not only in the loss Of wife that
Brigham Young is unfortunate. His Ar
iona mission has turned. out q complete
failure, and the colonists are returning.
exhausted by great suffering and privs.
tion. A new revelation is needed to prop
the waning fortunes of the President.
Geo. Alfred Townsend, in letter to
the Chicago Tribune, says: 'sIf the stu.
dents of the University Of Virginia had