Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18
WHOLE NO. 493
G1sanings.
Half heart is no heart.
III will never spoke well.
Truth is Gods daughter.

What God hates, we must hate.
Content is more than kingdom.
The envious eat their own hearts
He that is too secure is never safe.
The tongue is not steel, but it cuts.
There is no sunshine without shadow.
Not abundance, but content gives true
ease.
Striped hose are not in style for fire en-
gines.
Tares grow in the same furrow as the
wheat. u..-..
5 Prosperity and vanity often lodge to-
gethcr
Bribery is sin, both in the giver and the
receiver
The metal of a bell is best known by
its sound.
Loving kindness is a noble life-belt in
a rough sea.
Slandcr leaves slur, even if it be Who'll
ly disproved.
Liars have short wings, their flight shall
soon be over
One hour in the morning is worth two
in the evening.
The Prophet is failing He cannot ex-
pect to B Young forever.
A Boston clergyman defines hell as "a
place of eternal uncasiness.'
Tight-lacing is again coming into fash
ion This is good news for short-arme
lovers.
y man in Cincinnati advertises for a
situation: "Work is not so much of an
object as good wages"
Josh Billings says he don't care how
much people talk, if they would only say
it in IA few words.
The grave of Thomas Paine, near New
Rochelle n. Y. is said to be almost entire
ly obiterated
Upon reaching the age Of l6, the aver
age Italian youth is called upon to elect
whether he will join the clergy or the
brigands.
One-half of the territory OF Massachu-
sets, comprising one hundred and seven
ty-eight towns and cities, lies within
forty eight miles of Boston,
A tribe of Usage Indians has been re-
duced to bobtailed pony, crosseyed
squaw, and a Government agent who is
gradually stealing the squaw blind
1t is stated that among persons Of eigh-
teen and under, the proportion of the illit-
crate is smaller in San Francisco than in
any other large city in the Union.
\ four-year old child in Tuscarora Pa,
has actually died of drunkenness. Its
besotted mother fed itwith whisky until
after weeks of steady intoxication it died.
man being about to marry his fifth
wife, a lady asked his daughter who was
going to perform the ceremony. Il don't
know" she replied, but l suppose our
minister, as he usually marries father"
An Indiana paper reports the following
as the form of marriage in a town in that
State: Join your right hands. Do you
want one another" They both answer
''yes.') "Well, then, have one another
You're man and wife"
When young lady notices YOUR shirt
button hanging by a single thread on the
ragged edge of the buttonhole, and calls
your attention to it, don't wait for another
hint like that, as you may never get it.
The winter style Of hat for gentlemen is
na5p with c,ch ct;tf orou-n +b,+ 10
goes home intoxicated and is struck on
the head with poker, he merely thinks
he grazed the hall lamp as he was pass
ing.
At the Paris Morgue there was recently
exposed for identification the body of
young woman so wondrously beautiful,
that the authorities caused model to be
taken of her. She was seen to throw her.
self into the river
Mr. David Linton, of Cincinnati, who
has just given $4,000 to the y. NJ. G. As
sociation of that city, for new building,
six months before gave 100000 to the
Cincinnati Bethel, and $50, 900 for the or
namenting of public square
Nineteen years ago Tennessee father
refused to let his young daughter 20 to o
candy pull, and she disappeared The
other day she returned, lifted eleven chill
dren out of the wagon, and entered the
house and took off her things as coolly rs
if she hadn't been gone over day
The Brooklyn Argue says: A gentle
man sat down at table in an Oshkosh
restaurant, the other day, and called for
"a bill of particulars" Brooklyn, by
thunder" roared the bystanders. in a gust
of moral indignation, as they shot him
through the doorway with the velocity of
a Remington rifle ball
Three trays and an ace" said one Of
the Oldest inhabitants, as he stepped up to
the stamp window at the post office, and
laid down a tencent piece of currency
The clerk at the window didn't see it."
until he inserted his copy of Hoyle. Then
he dealt out three threc-cent and one
cent stamp. The oldest inhabitant passed
silently out
Two Confederate soldiers were talking
together, when one asked the other
sWhere was you durin' the war;" The
other rerlied, II was twenty-four months
in the army, sir" 'Iaas, wall, where
was YOU endurin' that times" 81 was
twenty three months in the hospital
and where were you endurin' the other
month"; 81 was looking for the hos
pital."
At a recent wedding according to a re-
mort "the jellies upOn the bridal supper
tables were pure amber masses Of CULVER
ing translucence, catching the wine-col-
ored prisms Of perfumed light. and holding
them in tremulous mirrors Of rosy beauty"
That's enough to send man off to pro-
pose to the ugliest woman he knows, on
The bare chance Of having such things as
that for supper.
A doctor went out West to practice his
profession. An old friend met him on
he street one day, and asked him how he
was succeeding in his business. First
rate!' he replied; "1've had one case
Well, and what was that'" ut was
BIRTH" said the doctor "How did you
succeed with that?" "Well, the old wo-
man died, and the child died; but, by the
grace of God, I will save the old man
vet"
Twenty-Five thousand dollars will be Of
fered for the dead body of the man who
wrote the following poem:
iii was lokle editor.
Wouldn't have time!
Wouldn't print cussed word
For lessen a = line
I'D get my grub and ticker free,