Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-12-26

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The first man Of nisk-Caia. l5r5
Spring water-Apfil Showers. ssgl
Lip service-tea,c and .ssucers.,
What are you going to sivsyour wife's
mother for Christmasf Il la@xA
A writer Wishes 10 know why people
Always spall tnis without the h. H., T.,
The bottom OF q well must be . shock
ing bad place, Tor even truth Il said tolie
Ehere.s 9,{sggS : / fes.. ! s3a9taisi9{i
YIN. G. a. srethe. initia's u - y6dag
lady in New Hampshirey Several young
men are anxious TO Join her.
Geo. A. Townsend keeps house in
Washington this winter, and lunches the
literati on bacon and beans. a.ttf
When Indiana young, ladies fssl their
stockings slipping down they step into .
store and ask for pair o. ..ehaxk bahas"
Love 10 1 plant with double sosf,
And OF strange elastic power;
Mems minds are divided in naming the fruit,
But kiss IL only the lowef. / soAE1f
The railroad train that il run into By
another is telcscoped; the man who is
run into by Texas OK is steeroseop-
ed. 8
The man whose hair turned white in
single night, is surpassed by the Boston
girl who lost hers completely in ono
dance. eT J
What this country needs is not anoth.
er Andrew jackson, but another Christie
pher Columbus. We want some one to
find u.s. &N3
In view ofou war prospects is is pain.
full to witness the ferociOus aspect of
those people who have paesed their forty
ninth year. .r..-g
Fifteen pounds Of dried apples IS the
minimum charge of an Iowa editor for
first class marriage notice. One with po.
etry costs more. sF,i9 #9l
A citizen Of La Crosse named Gin, has
petitioned to have his name changed be.
cause his sweetheart doesn't like it. Put
in some sugar. sxsli5 slE -lt
Now that skating has set in, care
should be taken to avoid the alr-holes. It
is surprising the amount Of moisture IN
alr-hole contains h-l -z#s .cs
Young lady-Tuesday night At the
postofice: "IfI don't get'a letter by this
| mail l want to know what he was doing
Sunday, that's all" Fta 7g SA3@
The man who can crawl around the
gsrret and find pair Of his cast of
boots, feels in these days q terrible con-
tempt for shocmakers.
Conundrum--Said boy: That chap,
yonder, is my brother, and this girl here
is his sister. and yet she Is NO relation Of
mine" Answer-thc boy lied.
"Grandma, why don't you keep ser.
want any longer!" "Weu, you aee,
child, I am getting old, and can't take
care of one as l used to, you know"
Miss Jennie Collins is going 10 give q
Christmas dinner to the working girls of
Boston at Boffln's Bower, and an right
minded butchers and bakers are going to
help her.
A Buffalo compositor made the critic
say that Charlotte Cushmsn was q 'hloat.
ed actress" instead Of . beautiful" one,
and the usual supply Of freeticke,s didn't
come around that day. 'As'''''S
The styles in ladies' dresses have now
got back as far - tho days Of Catherine
dc Medicis. At this rate we shall soon
have reached the styles prevalent In the
garden Of Eden t@i
A Danbury woman. hearing that for.
mer neighhor, who had once tried to in.
jure her, had been seen in New Haven,
inquired with burning eyes and cheeks,
"What did she have on!
Mrs. Francis NJ. Burling died in Mil.
ford, Pa, recently, aged 90. She onco
danced with George Washington. which
seemed to constitute her chief distino-
ton Peace to her ashes.
Anything in reason we are willing to
accept from Boston, but when they talk
talk Of fifty odd offers Of marriage within
year to one young woman with wood
en- leg, we really couldn't
We once saw the following inscription
over the cashiers desk in western bank:
"Took notisl Aebbe you don't peter
had loaf rount here, ven you don't got
/ some peesness, ain't it!"
A New York Herald reporter, who
went to see the police "pull" q gamblers
den, was mixed in with the faro men, ar
rested, and he served twenty-six hours in
Jail before they would believe his story.
George Eliot has been represented As
ugly as sin. Mr.. Fields, who knows her
well, describes her as beautiful rs virtue.
and her sentences are like texts -
scripture, spoken in tones that are1I
music.
We are trying to practice little DO.
mestic economy these days, but none Of
US can approach Mrs. Teachout, Of Bran
don, Vermont She has made one quid
of spruce gum do her ever since Novsm'
A young gentle kn Of Kansas City
3 sent seventy 6y cents to New York. re.
. Gently, for method Of writing without
. pen or ink. He received the following
8 inscription. in large type, on . card;
"Wtite with pencil"
!. What is that, children. asked young
pastor, exhibiting to his Sunday school q
:. magic lantern picture Of poor sinner
; clinging to q cross towering out oi
stormy waves in mid ocean. "Robinsor
Cruso" was the instant reply.
A barber in London, to attract custom
= = had on his sign picture Of Absalom, sus
. pended by his hair to the boughs Of q
. oak, and underneath these lines: "Oh Alb
n SALON., my son, my son. had you but worl
It q periwig you'd never been undoner
. Some men are born lucky, and othel
q have luck thrust upon them. We are !,
d formed that within the last year Mr.. Thl
h odore Tilton has had . large sum, O.