Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-11

Gleanings.

Gleanings
The little busy bees of the United States
produce annually $s,0O0,0OO worth Of
honey.
A bill to abolish the whipping post died
miserably in the Kentucky Legislature 4
few days since
A cog wheel railway company has been
started in Switzerland with capital Of
two millions.
Mr.. Barnum offers $175,00O for the
Bridgeport, Conn, water works. if other
citizens will contribute an equal sum.
The erection Of twenty six new build
ings was authorized by the last Congress.
Fifteen are in process Of construction.
The cotton seeds of the South, which
were once thrown away as worthless, are
visible to the naked eye
The telescope of Lord Rossc reveals
700, ,000,0 900 worlds; only 5000 of these
are visible to the naked eye.
There are only eighteen families in Lo.
gansport, Ind, who have not had wres-
tie with smallpox this winter.
Philadelphia and New York capitalists
have taken a large amount Of stock in
the LOOMS aerial telegraph project.
American cheese and American hams
are now acknowledged by high British
authority to be fully equal to the best
English.
Just to favor an Old neighbour" ex.
Io1 hnc
a Tennessee Justice Of the Peace, few
days ago
When the new postoficc in Boston is
completed, the various newspapers will
receive their exchanges direct by pneu-
matte tubes
A young gentleman named Claypool,
just come Of age, presents claim to ten
acres Of ground in the center Of the city
of Lcavenworth, Kan.
4 subscription paper is now circulat-
tion in Germany for the benefit Of Sene
fielder, the inventor Of lthography, who
is said to be in destitute circumstances.
Mrs. Emmeline Reed, formerly Of
Brooklyn, being interpreted into Italian,
signifies Signora Beatrice Amore, who
has made successful debut at Malta.
As many as thirty brokers and opcIat-
ors in Wall street are cxjournalists, hay.
ing been at different times connected
with the metropolitan press in various
capacities.
1t is noticeable fact that there has
not been single strict party vote i'll Ell
ther branch of Congress during the re-
cent session.
The Kentucky Legislature has triumph
ed over any action Of the Roman Senate
1t has passed law to fine and imprison
baggage smashers.
The tarantulas, spiders. lizards and
snakes of Mexico kill off 1000 greasers
asm for new rebellion every few weeks.
| On the Kansas Pacific railroad in 1872:
miles run by passenger engines, 75S, ,93q;
| freight, !, ,0S6, ,147; miscellaneous, $50, 1884;
making the total mileage, 2.475,270.
A coroner's jury in Missouri recently
| gave an intelligent and explanatory YER
dict, thus: I'VE find that he came to his
death from calling Bill Jackson a liar"
The British inhabitants Of the Domin-
| ion Of Canada disdain the title Of Cana
dians," which they rather contemptuous-
| ly apply to their fellow subjects of French
| descent
John Burkhart, of Virginia. is over 100
years of age. and for long time lived in
the hollow of large beach tree. Last
year he married. however, and has now
built An addition to the tree.
A model Yankee shoe factory, doing
| all the work by machinery, and turning
| out II finished shoe in seven minutes, will
| be put in operation at the Vienna Exhi-
bition by H. Fl. Bigelow, of Worcester,
Mass
A smallpox patient got into the Jail
at Jackson, Tenn, the other day, and the
iailer "lit out" SO quickly that he forgot
to lock up his bastile. When he came
back the smallpox man was gone So
| were the prisoners.
An extraordinary hen in Lewiston,
Me, cackled with admirable regularity.
but then she laid ne'er an egg. An exas-
perating irrcgularity ike this demanded
scientific attention. The hen was sacri-
| feed, and the post mortem developed the
presence Of twenty-five good eggs inside
this incomprehensiblc fowl
The Boston Journal is confident that
the idea that household work is thought
degrading in the United States, in any
general sense, or to any exceptional de-
gree, as compared with other countries,
is utterly absurd, and that, as a whole,
| the women of America stand at the very
head of the household workers Of the
world.
Mr.. Spurgcon has a weakness for ha-
ting artists and their work. Pictures, he
holds, are formidable means Of winning
souls for Satan, and does not hesitate to
pronounce against them. But even
man Of his influence overrates it if he
thinks for moment to unsettlc the uni
versal love for these lessons on canvas,
which the world, from its beginning, has
felt.
The Shelby (Ky) Courans tells Of
basket in use in that town, and still in y
good state Of preservation, which was
made in the reign of James l Of England,
more than two hundred and fifty years
ago, when Milton and Butler were boys.
and Dryden and Bunyan were were yet
unborn. The basket is made Of willow
aud covered with satin that was once
white, but has now gone into the "sear
and yellow leaf"
Every day, for the last three months, a
large flock Of English sparrows congre-
gated in the yard Of Miss Joanna Potts. in
Pottstown, Pa. At first but two or three
were seen about, but finding such liberal
ity shown, they soon informed others,
and now they can scarcely be numbered.
When the feeder appears the birds are
awake. singing songs Of gladness, some
perch on her shoulders and arms, whilc
others, too intent on their food, take no
notice of persons present. After receiv-
ing their quota, they perch on the limbs
Of trees and on the fences, and pour out
their voices of thankfulness for the
crumbs of comfort" old cheese, corn,
oats, etc, bestowed upon them.
An honest old Pennsylvania farmer
had tree on his premises he wanted cut
down. but being weak In the back, and
having dull ak, he hit upon the follow.
ing plan: Knowing the passion among
his neighbors for coon hunting he made
a coon's foot out of a potatOe, and pro.
ceeded to imprint numerous tracks to