Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-10
Gleanings.

The latest definition of a gentleman is
"a man who can put on a clean collar
without being conspicuous"
To prevent the kitchen door from
creaking. you should keep servant girl
whose beau comes to see her of an even
ing.
A.larrcl of apples sells for twenty-five
dollars in San Antonio, Texas, but beefis
only two cents per pound.
Some of the Texans are killing their
cattle because "the hide will bring them
more money than the whole COW on
feet"
Boston has three churches, respective
ly 12O, 140 and $50 years old, which
have remained unaltcred since they were
built
The actual revenues of young James
Gordcn Bennett from his newspaper prop
erty are now between 5000, 900 and $780,
600 year
\ citizen Of Virginia has invented an
apparatus for melting the snow on rail
road tracks in front of the engine as fast
as it advances
At New York church weddings, IN the
evening. calcium lights are thrown upon
the bridal party as they start for their
carriages after the ceremony.
The Waeerly Magazine was burned out
at Boston, and 10000 poets are now
without an organ. A gloom is thus cast
over the continent that is appalling.
The Youngstown (Ohio) doctors have
,..1 H. 1,.to
customers, who will not be entitled to
professional services after the first of
January.
At the recent session of the Vermont
Legislature, 4 bill was introduced in the
Legislature, granting equal suffrage to
woman. for which twelve of the thirty
members voted
Woman are formed for attachment.
Their gratitude is unimpeachable Their
love is II unceasing fountain of delight
to the man who has once attained, and
knows how to deserve it.
Very recently a gentleman who had
taken up his residence there, described
Philadelp lphta as a city where "a family
can buy two fried oysters and cents
worth of kindling wood"
Profanity never did any man the least
good No man is richer, or happier, or
wiser for it, it commends no one to So
ciety, it is disgusting to people refined,
and abominable to the good
Salt Lake, with her 10000 inhabitants,
is now face to face with q winter Of hard
ship, owing to lack of fuel, The sup
ply of coal in the hands Of the dealers is
inadequate to the demand
One of the most interesting and hotly-
contested lawsuits ever witnessed in the
State has just been concluded in Michi-
gan, 1t originated from the fact that two
women claimed the same waterfall
A Connecticut town boasts of young
man SO timid that he cannot look nee-
die in the eye. Many young ladies are
troubled with similar fears whenever
they can get any one else to do their sew
ing
Oswego young ladies hold ear piercing
meetings. These meetings are not the
scenes of shrill debates, but of mutual
improvement (?) in the shape of mutual
ear r-puncturings for the wearing of ear
rings.
A young woman at Torquay, England,
was fatally shocked recently by hearing
a door slam in the next room, which she
thought was her husband shooting him.
self. She died almost instantly.
A man whose eycsight was not good,
was recommended to try glasses. He says
he went and took four at the nearest pub.
lic-house, and the result was that his sight
Wa bo
double.
The Fairbanks, scale manufacturers.
borrowed IS to make their first scale, and
are now worth $3.000,0OO. A great many
scaly individuals have made this expert.
ment, but haye still to borrow the five
that is to make their fortune
Mr.. Greeley, at his death owned but
seven of the one hundred shares Of the
New York Tribune. The largest number
of shares was held by the late financial
editor. Mr. Clark, now dead. Next to
this, Samuel Sinclair is the largest stock
holder
A little girl was lately reproved for
playing out doors with boys and inform
ell that, being seven years old, "she was
too big for that now" But with all i'm
aginable innocence, she replied: "Why,
grandma, the bigger We grow the better
we like 'em" Grandma took time to
think.
"What do you call that?" Indignantly
asked customer at q cheap restaurant,
pointing out an object that he had dis,
covered in his plate Of hash. Wrist
band, with sleeve-button attached, sir"
said the waiter briskly. "Wel, do you
! consider that proper thing for man to
find in his hash:' Good heavens, sir"
cried the waiter, "would you expect to
find ten dollarisilk umbrella in fifteen
| cent plate Of hashS"