Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-09-04

Varieties.
Avoid school teachers, says q man of
the world, for they are always beginning
to learn what you have forgotten.
A reporters education is not now cor.
sidered complete unless he has made q
balloon ascension and been down in
diving bell.
A Galveston paper says that Texas Wilt
produce this year between 5OO,OOO and
GOV, 900 bales of cotton. This is better
than gold mines.
The Swiss Government directs that tel
egraphic messages shall be measured by
the time consumed in their transmission
instead of the number of words.
A short hair switch fastened to the
throat-latch will brush away the flies from
the neck and chin. Try it.-Syracuss
Journal. The idea is not bit nice.
A Turkish bath is to be established in
San Francisco at q cost of over 100000,
rivalling in splendor any edifice on tho
Pacific coast The style of architecture
will be Oriental.
Fifteen hundred persons are employed
at Key West in making cigars. More
than half of them are Cubans. This in
dustry has raised the place to one of the
most prosperous communities in tie
South.
The ruby mines of Upper Burmah are
worked solely by the king. who picks ou.
the best stones and sells the rest-hilnsclfr
He is said to possess hundred of the fin
est water. No foreigner is allowed to
visit the mines.
Some great men live in Troy, N. Y,
incognito. James Buchanan was bitten
there the other day by a dog belonging to
julius Caesar (colored). Upon what
meats doth C9sar's canine feed, that he
hath grown so fierce.'
When they want to find out in the
country if girl is courted or not, an old
lady steps in and remarks: Il say! there
ain't no one sick in this here house or
nothin', is theres seen light burnin'
nigh into 12 o'clock last night, but don't
smell no comphire nor nothin ro..a:id"
An attempt to arrest, at Corfu, sever
1tllian fugitivcs from justice that they
might be returned to Italy, in accordance
J
with the Greek Government, provoked an
insurrection that required to be suppress
ed by the military.
A letter signed "a Priest" has been re.
ceived by the Secretary of the Treasury.
inclosing 800 note on the Tenth Ma
tional Bank of New York The writer
of the letter states that the money was re-
ceived by him at the confessional AS con
science money due the United States.
The folly of sticking to one beverage is
exemplitied by the following paragraph:
A snake at least fifteen feet long, and
from four to five inches thick, was killed
near Reading Pa, few nights ago by
young man, who had fearful struggle
with it. The next day search for the
body was made, but in vain. The same
snake has been seen in that vicinity for
the past twenty or twenty-five years
John Brougham has written a drama,
founded on Charles Dickens story Of
Little Dorrit," for Miss Jennie Wallace,
one of the Wallace sisters. The dramat-
ization is the result of long and close
study. Mr. Brougham said, on its com
pletion: "My writing days are nearly over.
1t has been my pride to make Little Dor
rit' the best play have ever written, and
am almost positive have succeeded"
The house at Kissingen occupied by
Prince Bism rex, is dis: inguished by scv.
en- bombs, which it received from the
Prussians i'll 1866, and which were left
immured in it. A peasant of the cnvirons
to whom the Prince, incognito, showed
the proper way Of moving meadows, has,
since the thing got abroad, refused large
sums offered for the scythe with which
the Chancellor exemplificd his practical
knowledge Of farming.
The literary career of George Elliot has
reachedit present renown by her steady
perseverance, Her first novel brought
her only $500 She sold the "Mill on the
Floss" for IS 900, and 'Romola" brought
$4,000 1t is not known what is the
definite sum she has realized from her
latest novel, "Middlemarch," but it is es-
timated to be much larger than any that
have preceded 1t.
In the post mortem examination of .
man 73 years Of age, Professor klob, of
Vienna, lately found all the muscles of
the body studded with thousands of tri-
china, mostly calcifed, but some still
alive The man died of marsamus- He
had not left Vienna for ten years, but had
previously spent some time in Germany.
DR.. klob believes that the invasion of tri-
chinp must have occurred at least fifteen
or twenty years ago.
Fifty merchants of Havana have enter
ed into an agreement to charge one per
cent above the regular rates on all ship
ments and consignments or disbursements
on behalf of vessels, and IN all freights
obtained, or moneys collected therefor;
and one-quarter Of one per cent. on all
bills of exchange negotiated on commits
sion, from and after this date, the pro-
ceeds of such extra charges to be paid to
the government as contribution toward
its maintenance.
A wcll-known but modest ink-slinger,
the correspondent Of Boston paper, WAS
sent over in carriage to interview
prominent Brooklyn lawyer last evening.
As he drove up to the house fifteen or
twenty reporters rushed for the carriage
door, peeped in the windows, attempted
to interview the driver, and displayed re-
markable enterprise in general. Note
books in hand they formed in single file
as he al:ghted, and prepared for some new
disclosures. Imagine their discontinue
at discovering that the new arrival was
''the noblest Roman of them all"
The following is told BY the Ukia Dis
patch of July 1S: "Our attention waa
called one day this week to the singular
fact that little bug Or fly is now busily
at work trying to eat up the iron pillars
supporting the portico of our court house /.
The insect is no more than half as large
as the common house fly, and yet, in
some instances, it has actually bored its
way into the solid iron, the chips being
elected in iron dust from the place Of ita
entrance. No serious harm can result
from this energetic little worker, how.
ever, unless their numbers are multiplied
into thousands, or perhaps even haA
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