Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-06-19
Varieties.
Iowa has 62, 900 Spiritualists.
King Kofiee has 1898 wives.
England has 3, ,423, ,6Sl maids.

England has B, ABB ,6Sl maids
Queen Emma weighs BOO pounds.
England is building % war vessels.
Iowa boasts of a dozen newspapers con-
ducted by lady editors.
Are babies kidnapped when they are
''cribbcd."
: Letting off sleep" is little boys def
milton of snoring.
A health that is very rarely drunk
The public health
The coughing hoss" is the Indian name
for locomotive.
Denver, Col, did business to the amount
of $15, ,0Oo, 600 last year.
India rubber trees have been found on
the ST. Johns river in Florida
How Patrick proposes to get over his
single blcssedness- proposing to Bridge
it,
Beauty and bashfulness are often united
yet the lovelicst maiden is admired for her :
, check.
Sniirkins looked at the painting Of a pig
and pleasantly asked: "Who is that pig
ment for:"
\ schoolboy's aspirations-''I wish
were fountain that l might be always
playing
What Sodom was to Lots wife, SO are
the back brcadtEs of one woman's dress
to another woman.
How natural it IL for man when he
makes Il mistake, to korrect it by kussing
somebody else for it.-Josh Billings.
Woman is like ivy-the more you are
ruined the closer she clings to you. An
old bachelor adds Ivy is like woman
the closer she sticks to you the more
you are ruined"
\ man from Placerville, Cal, when ask
ed by Saratoga waiter what he would
have for breakfast, replied; "Well, l
rather guess I'll flop my lip over chicL-
en-"
The elements" of quarrel-lratc par
ty to bus driver: why don't you at
tend to my hai?" bus driver, with
pulling team" "'Cause l had my
hands full of rein
Och" said lovc-sick Hibernian,
"what IL recreation it is to be dying Of
love. 1t sets the heart aching SO delicate
ly that there's no taking II wink of sleep
for the pleasure of the pain"
\ New York firm have in their store =
piece of lace five yards long. worth 81 ,2OO
Il yard, which Il man could crowd into his
watch fob or pockct-book.
\ Cincinnati professor has demOnstra-
ted that Il man feels just as satisfied after
lunching on Il raw turnip alone us If he
had feastcd at kings table.
The press law of Japan prohibits news
papers from discussing the laws, attack
ing the Government, or publishing any
articles of an evil tendency. The penal
ties vary from the chain gang to being
burned alive
Lynch law is probably based on the
spirit of an old saying When despera-
does abound, honest people surrender to
their leaders IN "ynch," and then they
take an IL" and make Il code called
Lynch Law "
1t was an unfortunate idea, making the
new ten-cent scrip SO much like the fifty
/ cent scrip. 1t is no pleasant sensation, af-
ter hurrying home from store, and all
the WAY being under the impression that
YOU have beaten somebody out of forty
dents, to find that you have the right
change after all.
William NJ Evarts, in a recent speech
to the Lotus Club, told of Il Yankee school
master who undertook to make cOmpul.
sorv poets of his scholars, and was Oblig-
ed to listen to this eifusion of one of them:
Oh hopeful Jove lend us thine aid,
To help us wrctchcd scholars;
We've h red Il fool to teach this school,
And pay him fifty dollars.
: "Nothing," said an impatient husband
, "rcminds me so much of Balaam and his
;. ass rs two women stopping in church and
obstructing the way, to indulge in their
everlasting talk" But you forget, my
dear" returned the wife, meekly. THAT il
was the angel who stopped the way, and
Balaam and his ass who complained Of it.
A little fellow the other day was en-
dcavoring to excite II playmatc's admira-
ton for his older sisters beauty. "lsnt
. she handsome?' he asked. Eyes, pretty
handsome" "But isn't she very hand
somcy" We'll, some very" which is y
distinction rs is distinction. Such u
nicely of discrimination in the over-tutor-
cu lillilu VI y Noutlis NouiA h"'S AOutse
EXPIRE ssion in the "lIub. ."-NeU York
World.
A Baltimore woman a few days ago
took to the Register of Wills in that city
will made by her husband, which she
desired to file for probate. "When did
he die." inquired the sympathetic clerk.
"Why, bless YOU" responded the woman
"hc amt dead yet. but he gave me that
[pointing to the win, and he drinks a
TART of liquor every day, and guess,
continued she with a laugh, hell play
: out in about three months" The officer
had no more to say, but filed away the
, will.
SIR HENRY Thomson, the great advo-
cate of cremation, is to takca pleasure
I tour through the United States.: Creml-
ton innovations will he in order All
, cities visitcl are to furnish, from among
the nualbcr nov 81 anxious to organize
societies, two of three persons that ~
willing to demonstrate the practical Y
i.y OF the cheap funeral process by
NY permitting = ii eoaics to be W
to ,.shed.