Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
GLEANINGS,


local news. "
Jubilee Gilmore is to summer at Sara
toga, where half of his band has been en-
gagged for the season.
Anna Dickinson says she cant stand
it any longer, this newspaper lying about
her coming marriage"
The boatmcn of England as well rs Of
this country, are preparing to enjoy the
"last rows of summer"
1t is stated that Eugenic has hired
house in Paris and proposes to com.
mence housekeeping there again.
Buffalo mea. is a drug in Phillips Co.,
Kansas and the people will only conde-N
scend to accept the choicest parts as
gifts.
When Garnicr won the billiard cham
pionship in New York, tho other night,
his French friends smothercd him with
kisses.
Saloons arc closed at Long Branch on
Sunday, but bar keepers make private
and professional calls at the rooms ii
desired.
Sneak thieves who break into Chicago
lawyers offices, complain that there is
nothing to steal but dime novels and
spittoons.
The French prince imperial is in his
18th year, and has the italian look of his
ancestors-olivs complexion and deep.
black eyes.
A new secret societyin San Francisco
is, "Thc United Order Of -Cobblc-Stonc
4 a.. Sc.
the Heather Chinee." ~
Agasslz is getting up a book that willS
make the monkeys sick, who claim rela-
tionship with mankind, and handle the
ballot in few years.
In Paris the forthcoming wedding of
Miss Howland, of New York, to noble
man, is the all-absorbing theme of gossip
in fashionable society.
Everybody is disappointed at the shah.
With the exception of his diamonds, AFRO.
gance, i'll lbrceding, and homcliness, he is
no more than any Of US.
The Shah Is gazing at the naughty
sights in Paris, and sporting his million
dollar ovc:coat before the astonishcd
gaze Of the gay Parisians.
A prominent Chicago lawyer says one
or two more silver weddings irs that set
tlement will knock the town and legal
fraternity higher than q kite.
A young man who "never told lie"
| has been engaged by Barnum to describe
the interesting animal supposed to be the
Behemoth mentioned in the Scriptures.
Fame is delicate boon. When the
New York Herald prints the name Of
Longfellow it explains in parenthesis
whether it means the poet or the horse
Notwithstanding the popularity of the
postal cards, no instance has as yet come
to light where they have been used in ar
| ranging the prcliminaries Of an elopc-
ment.
| Stamford, Conn, has Building Asso =,
citation, the members of which pay So a
week, and as G,st rs house is built draw
lots to determine who shai, be the pos
| SCISSOR.
| Joaquin Miller no longer soils his coat
collars with his long hair; he wears it in
a wad on the top of his head He has
also discarded high.top boots for dress
parties
Marshall, Mich, is the home of Miss
| Doty Bates, who writes beautiful little
poemlets for the Christian Union, and
can make digcstible doughnuts, which is
far better.
A beautiful specimen of coral, over a
foot in diameter, was dug out of trench
at Midd!etown, Conn, the other day. 1t
| will ornament the muscam at Wesleyan
University.
The Maysvillc (Kentucky) Bulletin an
nounccs Sunday School picnic, and
"truly hopes that for once our citizens
will leave their bowie knives and revol-
vers at home,
Jealous lovers in Omaha, when their
adorcd one is being married to another
fellow, vent their passion by sneaking in
the back door and licking the insides of
the wedding cake.
steady tide of travel has set in the
direction of Switzerland, and the indica-
tions are that the season Of '73 will be
memorable among guides and hotel pro-
prictors thereabouts.
Henry Probasco, the antiquarian, is
going to erect and give to Cincinnati
colossal Art Hall, filled with collections
of gems, antiquities, pictures, books, etc.
! He is now absent in Europe perfecting
his plans.
| And now the Socialists claim that the
moon, instead of being SO ''cold, chaste,
and pallid" is in reality red hot-so much
so that no living thing known to our
world can live thereon. This also knocks
| tho Green choose theory
A western traveller suggests a new
sleeping car regulation, which shall pro-
hibit portcrs from extracting passengers
we'll polished boots from under his pillow
and charging twenty-five cents for setting
them on the floor in front of his bunk
Miss Hosmer's monument to Miss Fal-s
coner, young English lady who died in
Rome, has been placed in the Church of
ST.. Andrea Della Frattc, in that city, and
is the only sculpture by an American ar,
tist to be found in any of the Italian
churches.
A Graphic poet has poemlet in re-
cent issue of that publication, entitled
"Babbling of Green Fields" We had
heretofore supposed that the little brooks
and streams monopolized the "babbling"
business, but then if green fields can bab-
BILE let 'em bab.
A man who was in college with the
late Mansfield T. Walworth says that he
received stab from him once when try
ing to separate him from another student
with whom he was fighting. The knife
inflicted a flesh wound, but narrowly
missed vital part
A Memphis girl was married the other
day, and Immediately sold her piano,
bought sewing machine, and made her
husband suit of clothes and herself two
calico dresses, and now fourteen young
men are seeking the hand of her .unmar-
ried sister.
''Sue" Sanford and E. S. Getchell, the
two women who started the literary pa
per called Once Week, in Lewiston,
Maine, about three months ago, which pa
per had obtained quite an extensive cir
culation. have absconded mulcting many
subscribers who paid in advance. The
type, &c, is under attachment.
Two women were executed in Naples
by the axe. few days ago. The deed.
was done by masked exccutioner, whoS
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