Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-03-13

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He who is thrown upon the cold chari-
! ty of the world falls upon rock.
A successful agriculturist puts it thus !:
"One touch Of manure makes the whole
crop spin."
| Yellow River, Arkansas, has resolved
that the great need Of this town is about
forty women"
Rows of perpendicular trimmings on
basques will be conspicuous feature on
spring costumes.
| fan of1ense come out of the Truth,
better it is that the offensc come, than
the truth be concealed. Heroine
Those who are forced to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to be-
stow individual happiness. [Blcssington.
Toll, feel think, hope. A man is sure
to dream enough before he dies without
making arrangements for the purpose.
Sterling.
An old raid in Massachusetts, has
twenty eight pet rabbits, and with these
for pets, and hot brick for comfort, she
manages to get on very nicely.
A man was boasting that he had been
married for twenty years and had never
given his wife cross word. Those who
know him say he didn't dare to.
There is on exhibition in New York
piece Of lace five yards long and quar-
ter Of yard wide, 80 soft and fine that
it can easily be drawn through finger
ring.
Experimental philosopby-asking a
young lady to mary you. Natural phil
losophy-lookng Indifferent and saying
you were only in fun when she refuses
you.
1t is pronounced an ominous sign when
a man who has been married scarcely
twelve months begins to betray an
abnormal interest in the causes of lock-
jaw.
1t is impossible that anything so natu-
raj, SO necessary, and SO universal as
Death, should ever have been designed
by Providence as an evil to mankind.
[Swift.
A Saratoga belle who couldn't support
herself six months ago, can now throw
an eight pound flat iron at her husband,
and hit him every time He says his
second wife shall never use health lift
The President of Cornell University
says that, as rule, the young women at
that institution average ten per cent.
better on their papers than the young
men. Does he mean curl papers, or
which =?
n iS u.ha h,1I;po ,1:,
ped beyond recovery by some rough wind
that we are the most disposed to picture
to ourselves what flowers they might
have borne, if they had flourished. [Chas.
Dickens.
Lilly-Make your new paper cambria
silk dress with skirt, waist and sleeves.
Some parties omit the waist, some the
sleeves, and others the skirt but if you
have stuff enough you should have them
ell, We think.
There is no change in the style of
wearing the hair. In the spring, how
ever, it is said, style so novel and start
ling will be introduced that each particu-
lar hair on fashionable woman's head
will stand on end with surprise. That
wouldn't be nice, after all.
The following sweet dispatch passed
over the wires to Maine girl the other
night: "To--: Your life is rich
boquet ofhappiness, yourself the sweetest
flower Ifnorthern winds whisper South
ern wishes, how happy you must be.
Good night. Happy dreams, sweet love.
Frank"
While man is stringing harp, he
tries the strings, not for music but for
construction. When it is finished it shall
be played for melodies. God is fashion.
ing the human heart for future joy. He
only sounds a string here and there to
see how far his work has progressed.
[Beecher
When young man sits down on a
slippery pavement, with such violence as
to barely escape swallowing the roof of
his mouth, there is nothing that will SO
powerfully prompt him to give indica.
tions OF having done it on purpose, as
the satisfaction depicted in the sweet
face at the window opposite.-Brooklyn
Argus.
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in
this world-a kind Of hedgehog forgive.
ness, shot out like quills Men take one
who has offended and set him down be-
fore the blow.pipe of their Indignation
and scorch him, and burn his fault with
him when they have kneaded him suffi.
ciently with their fiery fists, then-they
forgive him.
The Lord deliver me says society
critic, from both the chirruping little
simpleton and silent, ox.eyed belle of
fashion, who rolls her we'll trained ''orbs''
to the opposite side of the crowded room
and in reply to every suggestion, fash
ions her cranelike neck into the shape Of
an irritating interrogation mark and
whines out-"y-es"
A gentleman invited the Rev. Mr. NJ
to ride, and thought he would improve
the opportunity 70: little serious con.
vel sation. II sometimes think there's
something wanting in my life" "Yes,"
interrupted NJ, "you want something
that will get up and git, and dust them
ON the road better than this old plug
that you are holding the lines over
now"
All homes unfortunately are not happy;
but all homes are sacred-sacred to their
own occupants, sacred against the inter-
ference Of all outsiders, sacred against
the prying eyes Of curious scandal hunt
ers, and sacred against the wicked
tongues Of tattlers. And yet there are
many who do not regard this sancity,