Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-21

extracted from them
One Hubert Smith, the author of d
book entitled Tent Life with Gypsies in
Norway, has married IA gsply girl, wkU
figures as heroine in the book named
1ll-cxecuted countcrfcits of the latest
issues of the fifty and ten cent currency
are in circulation; ingenious enough to be
taken by the unwary, bat not enduring,
very close inspection.
An eccentric old EngIishman, with
very large amount of live stock to care
for, was troubled about names for his
cattle and named twenty-four of his cows
with the letters of the alphabet.
Off Atlantic City few days ago Capt.
Yates of the yacht Emma, while hauling
in blue fish caught a shark which swal-
lowed the smaller prize. Ii was man.
eater, seven feet and half in length.
There is talk of starting society for
the improvement of wife killing. The
methods at present employed are certainly
of the most blr5arous nature.
In Paris piintings pay better than writ
ing There are forty pa;n ers there who
make at least $50, 900 Y ar. Not five
literary men anywhere hayc SO great I'M
income
Colorado is the place for speculation.
\ fellow escaped from the poor house
there recently, and made 81 300 in land
operations before they could catch him
again.
In order to keep hired girl in Colora>
do it is necessary to provide horse and
buggy for her to attend grange meetings
with, and piano for recreation.
Those graceful little hanging pockets
worn by the ladies now are lust the
thing. Jones says he picked note out
of one anl learned that Smith had the
start of him, which saved him the humil-
iation of being rejected
/ In the paper published by the inmates
OF the Hartford Insane Asylum, mention
was made of lady's fan SO large that
she could not wave it. but Was forced to
wave her head
] Caution to Young Men-Because YOU
flnd young lady playing the piano in the
parlor, it is no sign that her mother IL
not at the corner grocery running in debt
for peck of potatoes.
The government offers for sale at auc-
ton seven of the single turret monitors
and five iron-clad vessels Two of them
the Shawnee and Wassuc-are to be
sold at the Charleston yard.
4 The Crown Prince and Princess of
Germany are very unpretending in dress
and appearance. Serious and plain, with
dark clothes, they move about as though
they meant business"
The first photographer has opened his
saloon in Truckee, New, and has been
shot by miner, who insisted upon hav-
ing his picture taken by lamplight, as he
was going away early in the morning.
a l2-year-old Dubuque girl went from
one ice cream slloon to another, telling,
, each proprietor after she had finished
that she had lost her money She fooled
three ice cream men before being detect
ed.
An officer i'll the Washington NAVY
Yard announces that he has an old relia-
bic bunion which he desires to exchange
for more modern sort of barometer that
will not get so excited at every little
shower that comes up.
Miss Moore of PENNSYLVANIA. challen-
ges any man in her State to walk "a match.
Most men find it difficult to walk crack
especially when they have taken a drop
too muchl, but walking match we inn
aglnc would be even more difficult.
Patti is described as wearing a wonder
full array of diamonds in III Trovatore."
In one scene she has coronet. necklace.
girdle. bands rings. a diamond bird and
butterfly for the hair, and diamond
bouquet for the bosom. No wonder that
she is said 10 glitter from head to foot"
Salt Lake has been victimized by u
Snowman Who announced that he would
cause human boly to appear and dis
appear before the audience" He appear
ed, got their money. and disappeared.
He filled the programme
Mast this week pictures General Sher-
man flogging an unhappy Indian, and the
picture reminds one of George Francis
Trains beautiful poem:
Lo. the poor Indian. whose uututored mind
Buttons before aud leaves all bare behind.
During the war of 1870 IA German pain
ter having nothing else to do, frcscoed his,
own dining room. \ dealer coming.
there one day was so charmed that he
gave HIM $4,000 thalers for the work of
his leisure hours, and the panels contain
ing the coveted paintings were carefully
removed.
1e Gigldmpz, a comic paper published.
in Cincinnati, has Il capital sketch of
donkey at a cross roads. where there is.
4 sgn-post with Imitation" pointing one.
way and Contraction another. The
donkey. with the label of ''Dcmocratic'
on his neck, to which is Il string. drawing.
after him narrow wooden platform des-
ignatcd as Liberal" stands in doubt
which road to take, and the pelting rain.
does not seem to hasten the decision.
Parepa-Rosa has been heard from, if a
message purporting to come from her in
Il spiritual paper is to be believed She
sends the message to her dear husband,
and says: MY husband will know me by
reminding him of my jumping at the,
great Peace Jubilee of 1869, in this city,
when the cannons echoed the Anvil Cho-
rus" In order that the medium" may
know her, she is to come singing, II know
that my Redeemer liveth.'
The proprietor of the stone quarry near
the Rawland Mills, n. Y, found singu-
lar pctrifc:tion imbedded in the solid
rock. 1t was hr; k III in pieces by the
blast which disturbed its long repose, but
when plac ID in order it is about three
feet in length. The head is round and
about the size of dessert plate, while the.
body assumes proportions similar to a liz
ard, with dart-like tail. In the center
of the body it expands into disk about
the size of the head.
An old gentleman at the Glen House,
who came to spend fortnight with
some nephews and nieces, thus defames
Boston: The first day they took him to
Mount Washington, and he was satisfied,
though somewhat sore. and the next day
they whirled him off to the Glen Ellis
Falls. On the next day. when they were
making up party for the ascent Of Wild
Cat Mountain, including probable visit
to Tuckcrnan's Kavine. the old gentle
man gave up, and said, soiemnly, ''Boys,
these White Mountains are far too bus
Ting for me, and / think to-day of going
back to the quiet retirement of Boston,
Not while one human heart beats will
the tales of woman's devotion to the OBJ
jeets of her affection cease to be told.
In the absence of our poet we will attempt
to note in sober prose, though with pro-
found emotion, an instance of this devO-
ton in the Chicago fire. A woman with