Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-11
G1eanings.

Strained sweetness Kissing through
veil.
A crying shamc-Our ncighbors Young
one.
Preferred creditors are those who do
not dun
The pound Of hcsh-Making tough
steak tender
'Thc cause of woman sutfraeer--Scar-
city of husbands
Chicago has sixty banks, but some of
'em do their business after sunset.
The Boston transcript speaks about
"'eriai filth" That's nothing to the
Brooklyn variety.
Talking of oarsmen, John Paul says it's
great thing nowadays TO be "a gentle
man and sculler"
a spectacular drama, founded on Web
sicr's Dictionary, unabridged is in course
OF preparation.
This is sad A Louisiana minister saws
he won't change his shirt till this Bcechcr
business is settled.
AT Jewels Hartford reception, the
Horse Guards were appropriately preceded
BY Colts Band
An Eastern debating society is irving
to settle which is the hardest to keep. a
diary or an umbrella
Say no more about Europe. She is ta-
king care of Joaquin Miller, Josie Mans
field, Genet, and two American baseball
clubs.
A d&rkey's instructions for putting on
{. coat were, ''Fust de right arm, den de
lef', and den give one general conwul-
sion"
One good trait in Brooklyn young Ia
dies is, that they don't dare to sass"
their parents much before the age of thir-
teen or fourteen years.
y New Hampshire woman, when dy-
ing made her husband swear on the Bible
that he would never marry woman with
sharp nose.
Junius Henri Browne calls the dead
the silent majority.n That is a very fine
thought, and now let Iunius stop parting
his name in the middle.
When Il young man who parts his hair
in the middle goes down on an orange
peel, nobody seems to care whether he
gets up again or not
y Boston court has decided that if :,
woman lends money to her husband she
cannot get it back The decision will
not be new to many wives.
A., sc l..
tional. There are thousands of Young
men who do not know how To- spell, and
yet they are not worth S250,0u
There are now four competitors for the
title of Nathan murderer These parties
should be hung upon their own confess
ion and give others chance.
An honest old farmer on being inform
ed the other day that one Of his neighbors
owed him "A grudge, growled out: No
matter; he never pays anything
Nothing appeals more to the sympathies
OF a kind-hearted person than the specta-
Gle Of starved dog, sitting on the ragged
edge of anxiety waiting for bone.
Thou rainest in this BOSOM, was the
remark of 4 Lothario, when his fair one
threw basin of water over him for sea
ter-wauling" under her chamber window.
\ minister who said that the grass,hon-
pers were a plague sent to punish the
GrangcrS, is coming east to find another
pulpit. They couldn't believe him.
What small boy does not envy the
nerve of the portly maa who enters
church, takes out hig handkerchief, and
deliberately blows his nose three times
before sitting down
\ gentleman who landed from an Erie
express train attracted universal attention
by the magniticence of his diamond breast
pin He was supposed to be a hackman
from Niagara Falls.
With sardonic grin. Wix poured some
mucilege into his empty hair-oi bottle.
yesterday, and this morning the hair of
one OF the servant girls was stuck so tight
that she could net shut her mouth.
Little Johnnie is dead hut before his
spirit was waited to the angels, he re-
qucsted that watermelon vine might be
allowed TO wander at will over his green
St''NN ''t''s ~ III W NuIuIIlG ~ luluTc
generations.
Write me while l am away" SAID
Jones to Mrs. Jones, after an atfectionate
goodbye. "Treacherous man." medita-
ted the lady. Not one letter does he
get. He wants to sell them to one of
those Western papers
If the old man will insist on taking a
smoke after going to bed at night. the
sooner the house is insured for twice its
value the more complacent will be the
feelings of the relatives who stand by
when the tiremen hunt among the ruins
for his bones. s.-Detroi Free Pr ss
Mrs. Nibbard suggested. in the Chicago
Woman's Convention, that the danger of
wearing corSetS be obviated by the ladies
having their husbands rub them after talk
ing off the garments aforesaid The idea
is Il good one. We have sent Mrs Vib-
bard's husband Il ream of sand-pape
Mark Twain says that since he has be-
come Director in an accidental insurance
company, the Hartford, accidents have
assumed kindlier aspect. | look upon
Il cripple now with atfectionate interest,
rs an advertisement. To me there is
charm about a railroad collision that is
unspeakable"
This is specimen of Cincinnati poet
ry:
She saw him on his bright, blue steed
busting down the road,
And pit pat, and pit Il pat
Her little heartfelt goed;>
And soft she sohbered to herself
Though swift his PAGES be,
He cannot kite so fast but what
My heart keeps up with he
One of the least tlattering tributes ever
paid to a rising young artist, has been
paid to Il Cincinnati dauber by Il Western
critic: ''He possesses some merit as an
artist, but it is hard to say whether it lies
not tell his cows from his ships, except
when they have their tails exalted, when
the absence of spars betrays their charac-
ter. Even then they may be mistaken
for schooncrs scudding under bare poles!"
An erring husband, who had exhausted
all explanations for late hours, and had
no apology ready, recently slipped into
the house about one o'clock very soft
ly, denuded himself gently, and began
rocking the cradle by the bedside, as if he
had been awakened out of Il sound sleep
by infantile cries. He had rocked away
for five minutes, when Mary Jane, who
had silently observed the whole maneu-