Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-03
Gleanings.

without them would have small on
portunities for such enjoyment.
Gleanfngs.
A new evening paper, the Ledger, is to
pc published in ST. Louis
The hca,hen Chince is taking the place
! OF the colOrcd laboser on the. Texas rail.
| roads.
DR.. Dio Lewis says six months Of hard
labor will cure the worst case Of chronic
dyspepsia.
A newspaper is published in the dia-
mend distrct.of South Africa at the low
price Of sixty dollars a year
The gambling license of Nevada pro.
duces the State yearly about $15, 900. An
effort is being made to abolish it.
There is great demand for wood.
! choppers in the northern counties of
California at from $50 to $75 month
A Madison, n. j., poultry fancier has
a onc-leggcd gander which whips all the
dogs and other ganders in the place.
In Colorado, when a lady wears dia.
mona Jewelry to any extent, she is allud.
ed to blythe local gusher as being web
"saltcd."- -
Pixies will will be contested. of course.
He left $4,000 to a relative who had
looked for 100000 and there's the least
doubt that the old mar was insane.
There is man in Pottsril,c, Pa, who
prides himself on having been kicked ont
of more hotels than any man in the Unit
ed States
Fort Scott, Kan, is about submitting
a proposition to be voted on in which it
is proposed to donate $4,000 for the
erection of a packing house,
A family at Petersburg, Va, have had
the opportunity to enjoy the spice of life
| as served up by a variety of cooks, hav-
ing had no less than eighty-fvc during
the present year.
A California engineer predicts that in
ten years the whole country will be grid
ironcd with narrow guagc railroads.
| The ros.,1 these reads he estimates at
5,oUU per mile.
| like them kind Of folks who, if they
do once in while weigh out a pound
| with only thirteen ounces in it, are lust
as apt to make the next one weigh nine.
teen ounces
Boston boasts man who has just paid
Il debt of 5000 with interest and a hand
some bonus to man in Kentucky
though the whole sum had been forgiven
him sixteen years ago,
lay preacher in Lee, Mass, has.
during the year, written fifteen sermons,
preached ninety-ive times, Travelled 600
miles at his own expense, and usually
carried oats for his horse.
A one-armcd man in Salem lately an
piled for a divorce on the grounds that
the hand he had given his wife in mar
riage was lost, and the contract was
, therefore yeie'
The Boston Eight Hour League thinks
General Banks resolution to increase the
Presdents's salary opposed to the inter-
ests of the masses, and will forward reso-
lutions to this effect to the Massachusetts
Senators and Representatives
Fort Ontario, at Oswego, n. Y, is in
charge Of 4 surgeon and three privates.
The other day the surgeon put one of the
men into the guard-house, set another to
guarding him and put the remaining one
in charge Of the fort.
a Rhode Island factory boasts bell
600 years old. 1t was made as the in
scription declares, by Peter Least OF l.
sterdam, in 1868, and was brought to !, Is
country from the West Indies among !,
lot of refuse metal.
The officers at Fort kearney keep
4 \ Il. 4. =,
new boots. He has had such long ex-
perience in this business that he keeps
up continual volley of oaths, even in
his sleep.
4 boy only eleven years of age has just
been sent to the penitentiary for house
breaking, for a year, in McMinn county,
Tenn. He says it is the first scrape he
was ever in and when he gets out he will
behave himself
One Of the largest chains ever manu-.
factured in this country is to be made
at the Massachusetts State Prison
1t will be made Of iron two end quar-.
ter inches in diameter, and there will
be three hundred links, each of which
will weigh about fifty poands.
A man in youngstown, O., bet $50 one
bitter cold day last week that he could
walk to Warren. He spoiled $45 suit
of clotes, y *14 pair of boots. paid tloct-
er $40 to thaw his ears, and was arrested
at Warren as a suspicious character and
locked up two days in Jail He won the
bet.
Somebody wants to know why the rail
road companies don't give their passcn.
gers on their evening trains light enough
to read by? The lights now in use give
just enough light to tempt reader to
ruin his eyes, and it is wonder that the
subject has not been suggested before.
Evans, the wretched being who butch
cred girl at Northwood, N. H., is pre-.
pairing to act the role of the pious mur
derer on the gailows. He is in Jail at
Exeter, N. H., and spends his time in
studying up the bible and receiving in.
struc.ions from clergyman.
A French surgeon has now inserted
successfully into the skulls OF his dogs
watch crystals, through which he can oh
serve the processes of the canine brain,
during sleep, in digestion, when influence
ed by rage or other emotion, and in its
normal mOvementa.
1t is gratifying to learn from the CAr1s.
ttdn Obsercer that not one person in mil.
lions is buried alive. The editor saws;
1--WE have asked at cemetaries in Europe,
where bodies are kept and tested, wheth-
er any one ever revived, and tho answer
Invariably is, not one"
The New York lNatl says the law Just
passed in Kansas, giving mothers control
of their children, is capital measure,
and should be initiated in other States
Children have had control of their moth
crs so long it is time for change. We
believe in rotation in the domestic Of.
| fees.
On account Of the great money pres
sure the California mines upon which as.
sessments are due have greatly depreciat.
ed. The depreciation in tho prices dur.
ing the past month have averaged more
than 81, 100000 per day. The full extent
of the depreciation probably exceeds
$5O,OOO,OOO.
A correspondent writes to the St. Louis
Democrat that in four months journey.
ing through the mountains of Wyoming,
Utah and Colorado, the past summer. he