Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-08
w HOLE NO. 1876.
Gleanings.

Free grace brings heart Joy.
Restless is the activity Of malice.
Betray no trust, divulge no secret.
Trif1es often lead to serious results.
Crooked hearts make crooked music.
Gods apparent delays are always wise.
Sefishness turns honey into wormwood
The first step to greatness is to be hon.
est.
Hope is heavens balm for present sor-
row.
Nothing is more noisy than an empty
drum.
We must believe to see, not see to be-
licye
Teachers of youth belong to the true
peeragc.
The best of the wicked are dangerous
company.
Never marry but with love, nor love
without reason
A perfectly natural man is generally
perfectly honest one.
A laugh is worth hundred groans in
any market Charles Lamb.
An Ohio jockey furnishes horses with
false teeth to conceal their age.
The old-fashioned women's crusade-A
boys head and fine-toothed comb.
Second Adventists now say January /,
1891. Thoughtful editors will put it in
their diaries.
He went back on his own true love, be-
cause she ate onions, and the jury gave
her $4,000 damages.
In the Paris Figaro the Staten Isles"
are located somewhere OH the Atlantic
coast, opposite Long Branch.
Toast at a railway dinner: "Our moth
ers, industrious tenders, though they Of
ten misplaced the switch
The wave on which many poor fcl-
low has been carried away is the wave of
a laceedged cambria handkerchief.
A father in Wisconsin offered his son
five dollars to take a dose of castor oil,
{
boy.
Don Piatt says shrewdly: "Hu1nor is
to newspaper what tail is to kite
very absurd, but very necessary to its as
cension."
y Toledo woman muzzled her husband
! to keep him from kissing the chamber
| maid. Is it really necessary this time Of
/ the year:
\ Down East clergyman recently lost
! two pairs Of rubbers wrapped up in CIV
Gus poster He is careful to state that the
poster was second hand
An unsophistcated person once declin.
ed plate of macaroni soup with the re-
mark that they couldn't palm off any bill
ed pipe-stems on him."
The people OF Toulouse must be hard
set. A writer speaking of the city says:
ut is large town, containing 10000 in
habitants built entirely Of brick"
A lady recently applied to fire lnsur-
ance company for a position as agent
When asked what her qualifications were,
she touched her unblushing cheek
A little boy was asked about the story
of Joseph, and if he knew what wrong
his brethren did in disposing of him,
when he replied, II suppose they sold him
too cheap"
4 Delaware man, arrested for murder,
proved that on that night, and at the hour
of the murder he was at home mauling
his wife, and this fact saved him. A
word to the wise is, and so forth
a greenhorn sat long time very atten-
lively musing upon cane-bottom chair.
At length he said, II wonder what fellow
took the trouble to find all them ar holes
and put straws around en-
Detroit Free Press: \ Virginia sher-
if asked murderer if he wanted to make
speech and the man replied: Guess
not; ii looks like rain. and don't want
to get wet go on with the hanging
An interesting little boy, tmid when
left alone in Il dark room was overheard
recently by his mother TO say in his lone
illness. "Oh, Lord, don't let any one hurt
me- and I'll 90 10 church next Sunday,
and rive Il some money
| We find the following item in an Hi
nois paper: Mr.. . who has been
in retirement for few weeks after mar
\ rling and hurying three sisters, came up
smilingly to the altar again yesterday,
having begun on Il new family"
An Irish post hoy having driven a gen.
/ tleman long stage during torrents of
rim, the gentleman civiily said TO him,
! Paddy, are you not very wet.' AR.
rah don't care about being very wet,
but plAze Your honor, I'm very dry :"
/ 4 Hartford man keeps Il spade close by
! his kitchen door, and whenever Il tramp
/ comes along and hegs for dinner he is
requested 10 earn ii by digging four feet
/ square in The garden, but the tramp inva-
riably refuses to pay this price
DO Yen understand the English Ian.
guase>" said Mclean county man the
other day, addressing Il lightning-rod
agent. Il do" replied the agent Then
I'll be -- if ! want any of your
rods" The lightning-rod man somewhat
electroted, drove on.
The acme has been reached in the pa
lhos of titles by a music publisher who
has produced Il touching piece of new
sick under the pathetic name of Mother,
Bring My Little Kitten" We propose
getting out as Il companion piece, Dad
dy, Have you Drowned the Puppies?"
i Give us the peripatetic circus IN. nager
for sensational novelties in advertising.
His latest exploit of prominence has been
to announce that up in Wisconsin, his
mammoth, golden, Scmiramisian band
wagon ran over and killed BLACK Eagle.
the last chief of the once powerful Iro-
quois tribe"
"Phebe Couzins doesn't dress like her
brothers of the bar" says the Chicago
Tribune, by way OF commencing an item
That's undoubtedly true; she dresses by
putting on her clothes over her head,
while they don't. and. what's more they
can't. But what business is it of the
| Tribunes, anyhow.
What thing fame is This is the way
/ in which one of our French contempora-
ries, the Messenger, describes that little
difficulty ut Bunker's Hill; "On the 18th
of June 1115, the American volunteers,
commanded by General Artemus Ward
attacked and thoroughly beat the British
troops near Charlestown, in Massachu-
SettS."
The Troy Times saws: "Recentlv ot a