Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-24
Gleanings.


Gleanings.
Sam Slick's' son, Arthur Halliburton,
is Assistant Account General Of India,
and gets $4,000 year
Colorado wants State orphan asylum
and she Denver people have dog fights
and donate the proceeds.
\ convict in the Kansas State prison
has invented two churns, steam road
wagon, and several other things.
Buffalos are becoming scarce along the
line of the Kansas Pacific They are
moving toward warmer climate.
Forged drafts on the First National
Bank of Memphis, Tenn, are in circula-
tion in Philadelphia and elsewhere
In Colorado, when lady wears dia.
mond je"c!ry to any extent, she is alluded
to by the local papers as being well
''salted'
A Kentucky woman, aged 113, counts
her direct descendants, down to great
great great grandchildren, to the number
Of 1,076.
Indiana farmers band together and run
pie on which cheese factories are conduc-
ted.
The maple sugar interest of Vermont
now exceeds in magnitude the wool in.
terest, which was for long time 50
prominent.
Georgia issues invitations for ''your
company on Friday evening to a candy
yank. No persons carrying shot guns
admitted"
The discoverer Of California gold still
lives. So does the discoverer of Arizona
diamonds, but great many wish he
didn't.
Bret Harte, in his lecture on the Argo.
nauts of 40, says that stealing and ciyii-
zation came together.
Besides the immense quantity for ex-
portation, over 1,400, 100000 cigars are
annually smoked on the island Of Cuba
alone
A French chemist has discovered a
brilliant method of making diamonds by
extracting the color from other precious
stones
Business men of New York are quite
generally wearing double breasted pea
jacket fashioned coats, made of dark mix
ed cloths.
Minnesota BARRIERS have become yirtu.
Gus all of sudden, will not shave on
Sunday unless they receive ten cents ad
ditional pay.
A Titusville oil prince has papered his
house with 1O40 bonds, which are re-
lieved by handsome border of ten dol
lar greenbacks.
The women Of Columbus, Ca, have
discarded silks and satins and are wear
ing plaids and checks manufactured in
that city.
The Bessemer ship saloon is attracting
the attention of eminent European En-
gineers. This is saloon which prevents
ea-sickness.
The bone trade of Western Kansas il
growing. Many car loads are gathered
on the plains, and find ready market in
the East
The original Rothchild was pack ped.
Ter, who travelled on foot and retailed
chewing gum and hair pins to the people
Of his time.
forty failures Of business houses in AL
bany, N. Y with liabilities Of over half
u million dollars.
The Mormons are petitioning heaven
to prevent the spread Of small pox in their
lovely valley unless is is confined to the
Gentiles.
DR.. Livingstone's daughter lives very
;atIx IA Of tot ,solSr I'M
Scotland, and devotes her time to litera-
ture and the fine arts.
Men are like tea, the real strength and
goodness are not properly drawn ont of
them until they have been for short
time in hot water.
A man advertises for q competent per-
son to undertake the sale Of new medi-
cine, and adds that "it will prove highly
lucrative to the undertaken"
Coldwater, Mich, has q cheap system
of waterworks, which consists Of big
well, powerful windmill and . number
Of reservoirs. 1t works well.
The Nebraska Indians are allowed to
ride free on all trains they can jump on
while the latter is IN motion. The tribe
is being rapidly diminished.
Winter with its horrors is on US, and
the poor should be looked after As we
have previously suggested nice breast
pin can be bought for thirty cents.
A beautiful belle Of Minneapolis, MIMI,
was recently run away with by Short.
Horned hcifer, which she was driving
along the avenue, attached to n cutter.
Some workmen in Jersey City dock
found mans head the ether day, and
are now trying to find the man that lost
it, No one has claimed it so far.
Mrs Faircloth Of Mitchell county, Ca.
is lit years old, and can still skin q cat,
split kindling wood, and knit stockings
with mansard heels, with one eye open.
Prince Leopold. Of England. disdains to
advertise his nobility with the gold tas.
sci to his cap which young noblemen have
been accustomed to wear at Oxford.
Miss Lillian Edgarton doesn't want the
ballot; what she wants IL lecture en-.
gagemcnt every night in the season (Sun.
days excepted) at $100 and $3.50 per
night.
An old lady WAS admiring the beauti-
full picture called Saved Its no won
der" said she, ''that the poor child faint.
ed, after pulling that great dog out Of the
water"
Thus far this season there have been
no impediments to travel on the Union
and Central Pacific railroads, which last
winter suffered from 90 many snow EN-.
bargos. 1t Is hoped that the precautions
that have been taken during the present
year, by building long lines Of new snow
sheds and otherwise guarding agaiust Oh.
structions, win prove elective.