Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-28
Gleanings.

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see if there "ain't another postoffit
that town" n
\ woman has the contract for pair
all the swords turned out OF the Sp
field armory. IA
Sucking raw eggs is the favorite ann
ment with the young sports in Bio
field. Pups used to be whipped for
tricks
Ii we Can believe our exchanges, III
ly every town in the State that h
newspaper is going to have a cheese
tory.
Rhode Island is said to be owe
with mice. 1t is said there are Il
or forty there, and they are very n N
crowded b
1t is proposed to construct raj
across the Australian continent,
| Adelaide to Port Darwin, 1900 T.
long ii
Lithographic stone, hitherto obta
exclusively from Bavaria. has heen f I
in large quantities in Rockbridgc CO..,
Virginia.
A Kentucky man lately committed
| eide because he was 80 wicked
will never do to encourage that so .
thing
4 Philndelphia woman having ma
off her ninth and last daughter, mt
folded her hands and died. MY life
| is done" were her last words. :
Every woman thinks her husband
| worst in the world until she !.
pares notes with other women, when
comes to the conclusion that hers /
best.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, has
about $2,000,00O at its command II;
| result Of an investment Of $50O,O0l
the stock Of railroads twenty y
| ago.
The musicians of the Chinese Tn,
in San Francisco have been arrested
fined $50 each for making barbarous
unearthly noises.
A political orator, speaking OF q.
tain general whom he admired. /
that he was always on the field of
tie, where the bullets were thicke
"Where was that:" "In the ammun
wagon"
The Mayor of Schenectady disg
himself rs a rough" and stal
| through the streets to test the ',
ance Of the police force. He ough.|
have seat in the Kansas Senate ne
| York.
American girls need not be ashsm n
themselves as long as such advertiser
as this appear in the London La
"Wanted-A respectable and respou j
female attendant for young lady al
ted to intcmperance"
An econimical gentleman has had
crate In his sitting room furnished
II fire board on which AN artist has D
ed, with admirable skill, II blazing
which warns with the look of it, and 4
not require to be replenished.
Teacher-"Whc was the first IN
Brown (head boy)-"Washington, he
! first in war, first in" Teacher-'l
no; Adam was the frs, man." B.ov|
! "Oh! if you're talking of foreigre
s'poss he rasi"
Daniel Webster, in his last days,
10 Professor Silliman: "The law is u,
tain. and politics are utterly vain;
there is nobleness of certainty in
ence which commands my admiral
and would willingly pass the res, OF
life in studying its truths"
The editors and publishers of new
pers in Maine met the other day at
gusta, whereupon the Portland Fl
ventures to affirm that there WAS q
| gathered together "the very wisest
most virtuous little crowd of men, in
seediest Of Last years clothes, that /
met at the State capitaw
Mr.. John Cleveland, who died a 3
time since at Martha's Vineyard, Nal
chusetts, at the age of about IS yt|
never drank glass Of strong liquol
any kind in bis life-never used tob
in any form-never fired gun or p
and never caught fish with III
| and line.
There are many fruits which never Il
sweet until the frost has lain upon Il
There are many nuts that never fall |
the boughs or the forest trees till
frost has opened and ripened them.
there are many elements Of life that nj
| grow sweet and beautiful until sOr|
troubles them.
There is a religious sect living In Il
tol, W., who wash each others feel
They sit in rows, back to back, when !
perform their washing service. n
discard pork altogether. and live pri
pally on beans, brown.bread and
water trout. Saturday they keep sac
and work on Sunday. The women V
trousers, and something like the Bloc
dress.
In our latter naval history no nj
has brighter lustre than that Of
late Admiral Foote. When in Si
he invited the royal dignitaries to q
ner on his vessel Az they took q
at the table. the Admiral. ae was
custom. asked . blessing. The King
surprise, said he thought that only i
sionaries did that. True" was the
mirars reply; "hut every Christian |
missionary"
A Pittsburgh editor calls women
Suppressed sex" This Is sitting. |
idea Of suppressing Q sex that does Il
Of the work Of the world. takes equal
sition with man in literature and art,
the platform and on the stage, while .
passing him in singing. by political d
bilities, is quite as absurd rs to thinl
suppress.ng prairie FIRE with q
danna handkerchief. or extlnguish
the sun with an umbrella - Col
Age.
There is near the Boston & Lowell ,
road, In Somerville, Mass. q handse
brick house. Just discernible from
cars as they enter . cut on the road /
which has romantic HISTORY. It I,
built by rising young lawyer of Bost
who was engaged to be married.
had fully furnished the house, in ant
patton Of soon making it his home, Y
his young wife, when the cngagem
was broken of, for reasons, which
they could be related. would greatly ,
to the romance Of the story. The dis
pointed lover shut up his new house,
as It was. declaring 1t should not be on
ed as long as the would-have been br
should live. That was nearly twel
years ago: and the furnished. but unit
anted house still stands cloeed, just at
was prepared to welcome it's expec
mistress
A young Boston girl is out in an
vertisement for work. She says she