Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-19

Gleanings.
Spring suits. NO it don't.
Always safe bet-the alphabet.
Bacheloric exclamation-"A lassn
Maidenly exclamation-''AE men,
A certain sign of enterprise is TO adver-
tise.
Crooked chirography is no sign of
genius
The highest types of civilizaton-th
printers types.
Home stretch-The stretch across the
maternal knee
Why is hen immortal? Because her
sun (son) never sets.
What is better than promising young
man? A paying one.
Never scare off a fly with a club when
a feather will do as we'll
Which is the most popular of the Uni
ted States? Matrimony
The worst kind of education-To be
Drought up by pOnccman.
1t is far better to be sometimes deceived
than to be always suspicious.
The chief end of most mems lives IL to
earn ) meals day, and eat them.
The best protection against other peo-
pies ill-manners are ones own good man
ners.
Things that aint honest are the only
things against which ridicule haz emmy
power.
than 20 bring up boy to play on the ac-
cordeon.
Judge Walsh, Judge of Brooklyn, has
decided that a woman has no right to open
her husbands letters.
Heat generates motion. So the boy
found who accidentally sat down on
piece of lighted punk.
Four carrier pigeons were recently sold
in London for an aggregate sum of $375,
one of the four bringing $3.50.
n suspicious wife, upon being asked
where her husband was, replied that
she was very much afraid he was mics
ing.
The best part of beauty is that which
no painting can express; it is the soul
beneath, which speaketh through the
eyes.
Sunday school teacher-'Next Sunday
we will have the Death of Noses"
/ nrariova6 bn J;J J;o o%
| last"
/ A lady correspondent says ''the young
men of Baltimore are the dullest the flat
/ test and most Whoa, there. steady
/ now.
1t is said that Brigham Young is about
| to call a mass meeting of all his children,
so that they may be introduced to each
other.
/ The Tichborne claimants wife refuses
TO pay taxes assessed against Mrs Orton,
but willingly pays any amount as Lady
! Tichborne.
! The man who is kind and polite to his
mother-in-law has reached Eicksburg, and
is an object of general curiosity to the
people there.
Says Miss Kellogg: "a young girl in
her training TO become singer must make
covenant with her eyes and not look up
on a man." Sho.
4 boy who has lost the use of both legs
and one arm wants to obtain employment
| in New York so that he can assist his
poor widowed mother.
! The Alta California says: IF the Span
| iards would only send over for few of
our hard-shell Democrats they could soon
put down the Bourbon.
At forty years OF age man looks back
over his life and wonders what he did it
for, and then looks wistfully toward the
future. and keeps on doing it.
Heaven bless YOU said John Henry,
lit was the prettiest fight you ever saw.
She punched away at the ivory keys like
mad, and the piano forte nobly'
A little boy asked lady who made her
teeth. My Creator" she replied. We'll"
said the youngster, "Dr. made my
mas, and they beat yourn clean out O.
sight
w Hat tlIC sui Is W tuC ItltkcTlak WOTiN,
the printing press is to the universe of IN
tellect. Its rays quicken virtue into
luxurious growth and wilt vice into utter
nothingness.
A Scotchman 50 years old was recently
natualized in Kaysville, Utah. When ask
ed if he intended to obey the laws, he re-
piled that lit isna worth while tae dae
otherwise moo"
If you would add lustre to your accom-
plishments, study modest behavior. To
excel in everything valuable is great; but
to be above conceit on account of ones
accomplishments is greater.
A Milwaukee man hid in a public door
way and jumped out and kissed his wife.
She didn't whoop and yell, as he expected,
but replied: Don't be SO bold, mister
folks around here know mer'
The man who perpetrated the following
(beyond all doubt bachelor) died soon
after:
Mature impartial in her ends
When she made man the strongest,
In Justice, then. TO make amends,
Made woman's tongue the longest"
There was never u hero in this world,
there was never anybody that the human
race conceived of as royal, who had not
suffered tor others, who had not given
himself in some sense for his fellow
men.
Pretty bad under foot to-day" said one
citizen to another, as they met in the
street. "Yes, but it's fine overhe d." re-
sponded the other. True enough" said
the first; but then very few are going
that way"
A plain marble slab has been placed on
Locust Hill, in Greenwood Cemetery, to
mark temporarily the grave of Horace
Greeley. 1t bears the simple inscription:
Horace Greeley; born Feb. g. 1911;
died Nov 30. 1872
My son." said a mother to her little
fouryear-Old boy, "who above all others
will you wish to see when you pass into
the spirit worlds' "Goliah!" shouted the
child, with joyous anticipation, UNLESS"
he quickly added, "there's bigger fellow
there
An old bachelor says: When remem-
Der all the girls I've met together, l feel
like rooster in the fall exposed to every
weather! l feel like one who treads alone
some barn-yard all deserted, whose oats
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