Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-22

Scissors.
Sporting men speak Of the Shah as
diamond flush.
A Hoar frost is said to have nipped
Buffers budding political proclivlities.
It is proposed to erect fountain in
Cincinnati to the memory of the sisters
Cary.
Vienna has sixty splendid orchestras,
each as full and perfect as that Of Theo.
dore Thomas.
1t is now fashionable in Memphis for
every young lady to have mocking-
bird and gold fish.
One Of the Davenport Brothers carries
three watches, twelve feet of chain and
wears six rings and two medals.
The Rev. Phoebe Sanford has been won
from her New Haven pulpit by the offer
Of q larger salary in Jersey City.
At church fairs in Indiana the gold
ring is placed in q bologne sausage and
the links sold at thirty cents each.
Flint Peasler, Boston prize-candy-
package man, has given bail in case
charging him with maintaining lottery.
Antoine Ravel, of the famous "Ravel
family" SO popular in America some
twenty years ago, died at Toulouse, re-
Gently.
In Boston 1t is considered unusual
when a policeman clubs harmless priso-
ner. In Chicago it is considered strange
when he don't.
A married daughter of D. Appleton,
! the head of the great publishing house
of New York city, died at Hong Kong,
China, recently.
| The postmaster at Denver is charged
with selling newspapers for seventy-five
! cents per hundred instead of delivering
them to subscribers.
European papers have lost their re.
spect for the shah, and they speak of him
as conceited ignoramus covered with
second-class diamonds.
A Vermont medium is finishing ed
win brood" under the spiritual inspira-
be ready in September.
The Rochester Chronicle wants to
know when Commodore Vanderbilt in.
tends buying the whole United States and
running it on his own plan.
Spanish stew" is announced on the bill
of fare of q fashionable up town dining
room A disagreeable man thinks It
must come from Catalonia.
In Philadelphia the Jews have eight
synagogues. and in New York twenty.
six. The census of 1870 fumber 152
synagogues in this country.
Laura D. Fair has struck balance
sheet and found it cost $11 900 to settle
Crittenden and the unpleasant complica-
tions growing out of the affair.
A Cleveland woman fell down dead the
other day, and after her husband had
been to an expense of $3.50 she came out
of the trance and went to work.
The Boston Post says it would be
great relief to meet state constable who
wasn't wearing diamond pin, received
| as q bribe from some rum seller
Mr.. George Philip Stanhope's claim
to the title of the Earl Of Chesterfield has
just been admitted by the committee Of
Privileges of the House of Lords.
The Minneapolis Tribune says; "Hap-
pier is honesty IL hickory shirt and an
oilskin cap than dissimulation in plug
hat and shirt that buttons behind"
"Hail storm snits" is the appropriate
term applied by an accomplished Dress
maker to the sppotted stuff now so much
the vogue for ladies' morning toilets.
Heated street discussion Il don't be.
lieve in spiritualism. l think this: If
man goes to hell he can't come back here;
if he goes to heaven he don't want to-
The Nevada Cinnamon working among
the mines never labor after four o'clock
p. m, having firm belief that at that
hour the angels leave earth for heaven.
M. E. L." is the last novelty in college
degrees, and it is conferred by the La
dies Seminary at Bordentown, N. ], it
signifies mistress of English Literature.
For the coming fall and winter the reg
lister Of the National Lecture Bureau,
New York, records over 100 engage
ments for Miss Kate Stanton in the West.
Boarding your mother in law may be
disagreeable, but boarding horse car
with numerous persons and bundles on
the platform and mud beneath it is worse.
In the Boston burnt district the new
buildings are twenty feet less in height
than the old. Now all the stories can be
rented and the roof reached in case of
i fire.
The sword of Tame-lane and that of
Yakoup Haveri, of bloody memory, are
on exhibition at the Vienna exposition
The former dates from the fourteenth
century.
In the Yellowstone region there is
said to exist kind Of panther called the
"amiss," much larger and more furious
animal than the ordinary puma or Cali,
fornia lion.
Miss Fannie w. Roberts, licensed
preacher, who has charge of church in
KitterN Me-, has been given authority by
the Governor and Council to solcmnize
marriages
We have heard of blue lightning, but
never witnessed red, white and blue
runaway. Such one they had in Buffa.
10 when horse hitched to barber's
pole ran away with it.
THE Prince of Wales keeps for his
children at Marlborough House what was
never kept for him, mark book in
which is noted their progress in study
and good behavior.
Sons Of widows in France are not liza.
BILE to military duty, and q woman named
Capanori, lately killed her aged husband
at JEST in order to obtain the discharge
of her son from the service
Dr. Slgl, editor of the Brenass, comic
journal published in Munich, has been
fined and sentenced to Imprisonment for
printing an acrostic referring to personal
characteristics of Prince Bismarck.
A Texas paper speaks of a lady at Dali
las who has bonnet worn by her great
grandmother 200 years ago. There must
have been some longevity among the pee.
pie as well as the bonrets Of that fami-
| ly.
The train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway which carried the Washington
steam fire engine to the Baltimore fire ac-
tually made the distance, forty miles, be.
tween the two stations in thirty.five min.
utes.
| A Titusville young man thought he
could not furnish hair oil for the whole
house, SO he put a quantity of sulphuric
acid in the bottle. A hired girl was seen
around town inquiring the price Of false
hair.
In the streets of Wooster Macs a villa