Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-09
WHOLE NO. 4O8
Gleanings.

wich Islanders wcar-well, shirt collar,
a smile, or something of that kind.
Woman ought to do all she can to
make this world a paradise for men, as it
was all her fault he lost the other.
1t you want to be rich, give; if you
want to be poor, grasp; if you want to
be happy, deny yourself for others.
When New Jersey gallant sees mo-
squito on his sweethcart's check he n;ps
it off with his little teeth
| A number of human scalps were re.
Gently discovered in bale of rags receiv-
ed from the West by paper-mill in Pc
tersburg, Va.
| A Lynn man has invented substitute
for sole leather, which, he claims, is
cheaper in price and superior in durabil-
ity to that article.
| In recent murder case in Tennessee
the counsel for the prosecution spoke OF
the victim "lying wrapped in the solilo-
| guy of his own blood"
Mice harm the cheese, but girls charm
the he's. The same is true of their re-
spective eating of cheese and cheating of
he's.
A genius has invented double barrel
ed combined rifle and shot gun. The ri
fled barrels fit inside the others, and can
be taken out at pleasure.
A Massachusetts farmer recently ad
vertised his farm for sale, and now he is
asserting that he has fed out over hun
dred barrels of oats to the horses Of per-
sons who have come to examine it.
A Rhode Island enthusiast at an auc-
tion bought lot of furniture and then
asked the crowd to name "thc poorest
woman in town." The name was given,
and the goods were sent to her
1t is asserted that Vermont family,
living on retired road that had been
blocked with snow for several weeks,
were recently found to have been keep
ing Monday for the Sabbath.
An Atlanta house which was recon-.
mended, when sold recently, on the
ground that only male children had been
born in 1t during the past twenty years,
maintains its reputation by recent events.
Millersm has taken fresh start in
Vermont They affirm that the world
will come to an end before the close of
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day for fear Of a change in the weather
Homeopathy was introduced into Penn.
sylvania forty-four years ago, and there
are now 435 physicians of that school
practicing in the State.
Iarmoth, Me, once boasted of a citi.
zen who used to Calculate" in this way:
"Now reckon my little nag can carry
me inter Portland in just two hours; and
if want to 60 quicker, why I Jess start
n leetle airlier."
Mrs. c. II. Nash, of Columbia, Me,
having been admitted to the bar, has gone
into partnership with her husband in the
law firm Of Nash & Nash, attorneys and
counselors.
An indignant young woman in Utica
who had not received cards to friends
wedding, sent in bill for $50 for twenty
weeks board of canary, which she had
cared for during that friends winter in
that city.
Events are only the shells of ideas, and
often it is the fluent thought of ages that
is crystalized in a moment by the stroke
of pen or the point of a bayonet.-
! Chaptn.
What politics is to q man shopping is
to woman. The foresight and strategy
he wastes in campaign, she spends in
selecting colo,s and making a new suit
out of an old one.
A painter being asked to estimate the
cost of painting certain house drew
forth pencil and paper and made the fol-
| Low LA, % 4
three into five twice you can't; I'll paint
your house for $50a
A Partisan philosopher has just died
leaving the following testament: 1T is
My will that any one Of my relatives who
shall presume to shed tears at my funeral
shall be disinhcrited He who laughs
most heartily shall be sole heir
There is an anecdote Of an English jur-
or who, in a trial for murder, stood out
doggedly for acquittal against the unani-
nous opinion of his fellows, ana who con-
fessed, many years afterward, that he did
so because he was himself the murderer.
A cruel carrier-pigeon amateur" con-
demned one of his pets to convey to his
country seat the following laconic pas.
sage: Send basket of early green peas
by express train; pack the bearer of this
in with them, rs he is plump bird and
| intend to eat him with them!"
Quinine, mustard-baths and rubbing
has cured nine out of every ten cases of
cerebro- spinal meningitis in Kansas
neighborhood where there have been two
hundred people down with 1t.
a heartless bachelor gives the follow
ing toast: "Woman-the morning star
of infancy, the day star of manhood, the
evening star of old age; bless our stars,
and may they always be kept at telescop-
ic distance"
Just think" says an exchange, "of an
old bachelor retiring every night with a
hot brick at his feet and Thomas cat in
his arms" We have thought, and the
more We think the more we pity the
Thomas cat
famous French physician described
to student undergoing examination a
disease eliminating by degrees to the
most dangerous symptoms, and asked,
"What would you then prescribe or dor"
The student, after slight hesitation, re-
piled, Il should send instantly for YOU"
He got his diploma.
The dispensation that always provides
items for the newspaper man has opened
another avenue to replace that of death
by freezing, which the opening Of spring
has cat off. The substitute are the regu-
lar spring accounts of little girls who kill
themselves by over.exercise with the skip
| ping-rope.
Affected young lady seated in the rock
| ing-chair reading the Bible, exclaims,
Mother, here is a grammatical error in
the Bible" Mother, lowering her spec
tacles and approaching the reader in a
very scrutiaizing attitude, says, skill it!
kill it 1t is the very thing that has been
eating the book marks ~
A deacon who used to keep a grocery
store, having instructed the clerk, when
out of the desired article to draw the at.
tention of the customer to the next near.
est thing, was not little surprised when
his pastor called and inquired for new
mOlasses, to hear the clerk say, 1--WE have
no new molasses, but we have got some
nice new rum"
The lovers of peaches will be gratified
to learn that the report recently circulate
ed regarding the destruction of the peach
buds in New Jersey and Delaware are all
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