Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-14
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Varieties.

a bad habit to get int "A coat that is
not paid for.
The hest method of constructing a dam
Without an N.
Was there ever a man under 25 who
could walk by Il bllekipg-brush without
looking 4. his boots :
Haven't I right to be slucy. if [
please." asked young lady of an old
bachelor. Yes, if you please, but not if
You diSplease, was the answer
It's rather remarkable that while sevc--
al thousand feet are required to make one
rood. Il single foot, properly applied, is
often sufficient TO make one civil.
All bachelors are not entirely lost 10
the refinement of sentiment, for the fol-
lowing toast was lately given by one Of
them at a public dinner: The ladies,
sweet -hriirs in the glrden of life
An old clergyman, spying Il boy creep
ing through Il fence. exclaimed: "What!
crawling through fence? Pigs do that"
Yes, retorted the hoy, and old hogs
go along the street
A St Louis paper had a two-column ac-
count of Il hotel Of that city. The bed
bugs, after reading it over carefully, hell
a meeting and denounced the paper for
not mentioning them.
Patrick said the priest, how much hay
did you steal? Well, | may as we'll con-
fess to your reverence for the whole stack,
for I'm going after the balance of it to
night.
An officer in the Washington Navy
Yard announces that he has an old and
reliable bunion which ne is desirous to
exchange / a more modern sort Of bar
emeter that will not get so excited at eve
ry little shower that comes up.
The difference in natures was well il
Illustrated nj the Boston Depot Two sis
tcrs met, 0, my dear sister, said one eX-
hausteeily, rs they embraced You've
been eating onions, said the other, calm
l. and fearvssiy
\ riols soul giving expression to his
devotional feelings, in short speech in
church. said: Il shall never cease to
love and revere the name of my dear Sa-
viour, nor can | ever forget how His
name looks in the Bible, as it is there
spelled ,I-c-a-s-o-u-s."
There is u good boy in Lisbon, if we
may believe the Lewiston JcurRal. who,
when lie found his aged mothers Bible
WAS Of too fine print for her failins eye
sight sold the book and bought base
ball bat and four sticks of chewing cam
ly.
Will" p youthful couple were being
ioiaed in wcdlock in a Justices court i'll
/ New York, the damsel rather astonisheda
/ numhor Of spectators by suddenly break
out with, Il want to know whether we are
70 keep house or hoard before going into
this thia,e."
A little gir! in the infant GLASS of
Brooklyn Sunday school appreciated bet
ter the difference between being goot
for choice and necessity than many elders.
! At the el use of 4 recent session the teach
II said to her: "Beckic, my dear, you
We're very good little girl to-day. -
.'Ycs'm. couldn't help bein' good. I
got tiff neck, the youthful Beckie re-
! piled, with perfect seriousness,
A female writer FOR one Of the senti-
mental papers, speaking of afinities, oh
/ serves that a woman now and then meets
! I man 10 WnOm She cakl Uutniuiiy say
! On the barren shores of time, U my
I Scul's kinsman | have found in thee my
pearl of great price and there is nothing
more precious out of Heaven" l have
no dou'i that this is the case, and while
would not mar the sweet poetic beauty OF
he picture thus summoned up, my ex-
| perienee teaches me that the women who
,egin bg talking in this sugary manner
ire usually prone to throw skillets and
lat-irons 1t their souls kinsmcn" after
marriage, and to gruwl at the pearl r
sreat price" because he comes to bed
his fest cold.