Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-01-30
A Little Of Everything.

A man in Cornish, Me-, has developed
an appetite for dirt.
A circuit court-the longest way home
from spelling school.
A New York correspondent says that
plenty of men can be found in that city
who will perjure themselves for $40.
"Obey your mothers, go to Sunday
School, and look out for air-holes," is an
injunction of the st. Louis Republican.
"Do you call this trunke" growled a
detective porters ''It only needs light
ming rod to be mistaken for a boarding
house."
An eX-chaplain is going to write a
"History ct the Work of Grace ir the
Army of Tennessee" 1t Is likely to be
an easy job.
A queer old gentleman being asked
what he would have for dinner replied:
"An appetite, good company, something
to eat and napkin"
1t is noteworthy that just 40 years af
tez Caleb Cushing published his "Remi
ncscences of SPAN" he was appointed U.
8. Minister to Madrid.
mo, l thank you, never smoke" was
the courteous reply of slumbering Or
thodox deacon, as be gently pushed away
the contribution box.
Dealers in clothing in Iowa, it is said,
would be delighted to have the Legisla-
ture meet every winter, and see the one
term principle adopted.
The obituary notices in I'm eastern pa
per contain the touching intelligence that
the deceased had accumulated little
money and ten children"
A Sing Sing convict has fallen heir to
100000. This will enable him to ply his
vocation on a grander scale as railroad
director or something of that sort
The members of the Minneapolis city
government, we are informed by the To-
cal prints, spend Sunday in playing FIVE
cent ante, drinking cool beer the while.
"IIave you Blasted Hopes?i' asked
young lady of librarian with his hand
kerchief tied over his jaw. mo ma am"
said he, "it's only a blasted toothache"
A Chicago lawyer told jury that he
seemed to see band of white-robed
angels lowering about the head of his
client who was up for horse stealing
The jury brought in verdict of gull.
ty.
Jack, who is at boarding school in the
country, writes home: "Please send me
good trap to catch wood chuck, and
piece of carpet for me to say my prayers
on.
n, of hall yv-1,s ,sc1--
ing about the room, ran his head against
a lady. He began to apologize. Not
word, sir" cried she It's not hard enough
to hurt anybody"
The St. Louis Christian Adrocdte has
no ear for music, and complains that
church choir is sacriligeous when the
line 1--WE are going home to die no more
is rendered "We're going home to Dinah
More, to Dinah More, to Dinah More"
We pass every day through all the
changes of human experience. We are
children in the morning. with their fresh
young bodies and feelings; we are mid
deaged at noon, having seen an end of
all perfection; we are old and weary and
worn out at night.
A mill has recently been started in
| England in which -four is made by crush
ing the grain by small ip-hammers, in.
stead of grinding it, 1t is claimed that a
pounding mill costing 1000, willproduce
as much flour in the same time as
grinding mill worth $1,000.
| The total number of deaths in New
York City for tie last year was little
over $4,000, some 5000 less than it was
for 1872. Supposing the population to
be 100000, the death rate is 90 to 1000,
a high rate compared with the smaller
cities and country districts.
A matter of fact blacksmith, disputing
the other day with friend respecting
some point Of photography, was referred
! by him to Webster's Dictionary. "Web-
sterw exclaimed he. ,"Webster must have
been a great fool Why, he actually
spells Flip with PHI and for ruff be
says no UGH"
An old man in New York committed
| suicide q day or two ago, who was ac-
customed to work all day at sign paint
ing, and devoted his nights to debating
to his private secretary" a spectacle
peddler, chapters, inspired, rs he claimed,
of work revising the constitution of the
United States.
A hundred thousand workingmen and
women are said to be in England await.
ing the report Of Joseph Arch, who has
been in this country examining our insti.
tutions, our laws, our modes of life, ere
he advises his countrymen to immigrate,
to find the privileges that are denied them
in their own land.
The tower to be erected by the centen-
nial exposition building is to be 1000
feet in the air, Of ciruclar iron; 150 feet
| at the base, and 80 at the top, with
spiral staircase for the use of any one
who is foolish enough to attempt to walk
up, and an elevator for those who are
| willing to risk a ride.
An old gentleman of eighty, four hay
ing taken to the alter a young damsel of
sixteen. the clergyman saidto him: "You
will find the font at the other end Of the
church" "What do want with the
font:" asked the old gentleman. II beg
your pardon" said the clerical wit, II
thought you had brought the child to
be christened."
The flashing of lights in the upper
windows Of building in Rochester. the
other night, led passers by to raise the
alarm of fire. The doors were burst
open and lodge of Ancient Druids were
found in solemn c0nclave, and the indi.
viduals who had thus rashly ventured
within the sacred precincts were warned
not to repeat their experiment.
A curious mode of fish.hatching is
said to be followed in China. Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge the fisherman places Ger
tain quantity in an empty hens egg,
which is sealed up with wax and put un.
der sitting hen. After some days they
break the egg and empty the fry into wa.
ter well warmed by the sun, and there
nurse them until they are sufficiently
strong to be turned into lake or river.
A. writer to the Medical Times and
Gazette refers 10 the fatigue of the limbs
produced after long railway journey as
due mainly to the trembling motion Of
the floor under the feet, and states that,
having suffered considerably from the
abuse, he was induced to try the expert.
nent of using the well known air cushion
as footstoOl. This answered so well
that he has never travelled without using
one in this way, and has found the effect
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