Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

English trOtters never founder.
Nickel-plated cEoquet sets are now used.
Florence and wife, actors, are at Ems,
Prussia.
According to the Earl Of Shaftesbnry,
Bismarck IS Of Jewish extraction.
Bierssadt will spend the summer sketch
ing in the White Mountains. 7@
Dr. Mary Walker denies that young
Treasury clerk recognizes her as his dong
lost father.
Boston sent 600 books to Iceland by
DR.. Hayes as a gift at her thousanth celc-
bration.
Tight-lacing is again coming into fash
ion. This is good news for short-armcd
lovers.
A wine-grower in California has Just
completed cellar capable of storing &c.
500 gallons.
Three hundred and fifty-fiv thousand
dollars will pay the public debt Of the
Sandwich Islands
A new novel by George Sand, entitled
Ma SGur Jeanne is meetiog with con-
siderable success in Paris.
In the Paris Figaro the estate Isles"
are located somewhere on the Atlantic
coast. opposite Long Branch. 5
Clara Barton, the Florence Nieheen-
gale of America, has been seriously i'll in
Columbia Hospital, Washington
Four ministers were recently expelled
from the Church of Scotland by the Gen-
eral Assembly for drunkenness and disor.
derly conduct.
A grape-shot probably fired during tho
revolution, was found the other day in the
heart of tree twenty inches in dame
ter, in Vermont, near the spot where an
old fort stood. ,-.tss
Jules Janin wrote anywhere and any
how in cabs, in the cars, "amid the hub
bub of thc-green-room of every theatre,
pinching and kissing the pretty ballet
girls between the beginning and end Of
sentence"
A juno bug flying around in dark par.
lor, blew against a young lady's face with
such force rs to become hopelessly entan-
gled in her beau's mustache.
A little boy in St. Cloud. a few days
ago, undertook to see if he could lift him
self by hanging on a mules tail. The doc
tor thinks he may recover. n
A young lady at the post-office got to
putting Oh ars yesterday about stamps.
The clerk gave her some green ones. She
asked him if he didn't have any pink
her stationery was pink, and she wanted
stamps to match. ,sT
" You ought to acquire the faculty of
being at home in the best society, = said
fashionable aunt to an honest nephew II
manage that easily enough" replied the
nephew, by staying at home with my
wife.
The remark of little S-ycar old on
Monday was in accordance with the wish
of many people. Mother" he said, ~
wish l was built like hen-coop ont Of
laths, then the breeze could blow right
through me-"
The popular phrase too thin" is from
Shakespeare. See Henry VIII, act ",
scene 4: "Iou are ever good in sudden
concentrations, Bishop of Winchester,
but know l come mott hear such batteries
now, and in my presence they are toe
fhia." 6 T w rr}1u39
A certain ho'el on the sea-shore sdver>
tises that it has valuable and peculiar
features terms, $2l pcr week" This is
very significant announcement, and
doubtless fully appreciated by NH who
have been there. Peculiar features" il
q good name for them.
A woman of 43 drowned her ycarling
grandchild in the Thames at London, to
revenge herself upon her son-m-laW; and
the jury, in her recent conviction, gave
the verdict I" Guilty, but recommended
to mercy on account of her age" She was
sentenced to death, but the recommcnda-
ton goes to the Home Secretary,
The time was when Brigham Young
was wont to descant eloquently on the
sinfulness Of silk dresses. Yet now 10
has Q card in the Salt Lake newspapers,
telling the sisters who wish to raisc silk
that he has forty ounces of silkwOf1n eggs
and any quantity Of mulberry trees, and
they are welcome to help themselves to
both. s....-'....e...
A correspondent Of the Sci nttfe Assr-
ican says that the worst toothaeae og Hea.
ralgia coming from the teeth may - -
SHY and speedily cured By the apps
of small bit Of clean cotton saturaao& n
a strong solutioa Of ammonia TO he DE-
fective tooth. Eomceinles tlae AnRA1pAer
Is prompted to momsuary nesvuukisneh-
ter by the application, bnt the psia has
disappeared. ssm