Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-03
WHOLE NO. $50.



A Lake Village On. H. child lately died
of eating match heads.
Meridian, Ct, has "postmistrix, &C.
cording to her recorder.
Beecher hopes that Moody and Sankey
may not become proud"
Salvani has taken unto himself second
wife, an English woman.
A Ga pound cucumber will represent
Arkansas at the Centennial.
Balzac says that Partisan ladies have
genius for graceful walking.
Haydn wrote SO much music that few
musicians ever heard it all.
Sweden don't need to send abroad for
cattle; she has her Stock holm.
John Bright has declared that in mental
power girls are not inferior to boys.
The Eastman (Ga.) Court House bell
was lately stolen and hung on COW.
Napoleon's sword taken at Sedan, was
secretly returned to his son by Bismarck.
Better be the cat in the poor mans fam
lily than mutton pie at kings ban
quet.
Mountains of isinglass, worth dollar
pound, is the newest Black Hills attrsc-
ton.
Who says it's hard times? Two sets OF
trip'ets were born in a Vermont town last
week.
Col. VIM. NJ. Grosvenor has become
connected with the Financier OF New
York
Madam Diiohn, head Of the 4.best cou-
Quoted boarding house in Paris, " is dead.
Pence 10 her ashes.
Most men take conviction from an adj
persary as children do physic: with 8
Struggle and shndder.
1t is hard for boy to have no sister,
bnt those who have sisters say there are
harder things than that
An apple tree grated for greetings, in
Sandwich, N. ", Is producing 8 frNit
half sweet and half sour.
To a liberal mind povertyis stimulant,
meanness a refrigerant, selhshness An opl
ate and iugvatitude a poison.
Gen. Fitz Henry Warren is at ihe Re
tYeat M Hartford. i'll with a mental disease
which is considered inCurable.
The man who has single idea and pur.
sues it with passion will nearly always
meet with triumphant success.
Mr. W. ". Corcoyan, Of Washington,
is said to be contemplating the erection Of
a studio building for the artists of the
city.
Prof. Everett has declined to leave Har-
ward College for the pastorshiP of the
Unitarian Church at Charleston, Mass
chusetts.
The best building in Iceland is the jsn.
And vet il has never contained prisoner,
though ii has been erected for = good ma.
ny years.
There are many who are quite indifer.
ent as to the condition Of the icner gar.
ments, as long as the outside is unexcep-
tionaoIe-
just as a fellow was passing pretty
girl ON the street the other day, fy lit
on his nose and wink was the conss-
quence.
A long epitaph in Vermont town con-
cludes with the following brag: "Stature,
about s feet; weight, 2OO pounds; Death
has no terrors."
Admiral Porter contemplates foreign
trip in order to inspect personally the i'm
nroyements in torpedoes and torpedo boats
Of foreign navles.
A Hartford paper advises yonng ladies
to carry revolvers. If 50, they should be
Of the "pull.back" sort, with false hair
trigger, of course.
Tell Me, Mary, How to Woo Thee" 10
the title Of new ditty. Give her PAIR
Of diamond earrings. and a tortoise shell
comb for her back hair.
But Why do they Call it autopsee?" she
asked. Because they take off the top OF
the head to see into it," was the answer
And she was satisfied.
little girl in Ypsilanti Mich, des-
cribes the coming on OF an ague chill by
saying that 'rhe cold streaks we're playing
tag down my back"
The new Odd Fellows HALL, in Law.
renee, Mass, cost $lOO,OO0. 1t will &C.
c0modate three lodges, and is said to be
the finest in the State.
Bears are still troublesome in Oxford
county, Nc One of them chased trades
man home the other night, and second
was detected robbing garden.
The new State Constitution of Nebraska
contains provision that the United States
Senators for that State shall hereafter be
elected by direct vote Of the people.
WHATS in names" Mrs. Happy
Miner. of Groton. Conn, recently COM
mitted suicide by drowning, while de.
ranged from the effects Of family troub.
les.
Reform moves and nights will event
uaIly be respected. The Vigilance Com
mittee of Cedar Falls, Iowa, bave in
charge a woman suspected of horse steal
ing
A boy (unknown) the other day set FIRE
TO a bundle OF straw which policeman
was carrying on his back in Troy, and
the man was severely burned, though net
fatally.
Brennan, a canal driver who was burn
ed in barn recently, at Smiths Basin,
N. Y, could speak seven languages, and
besides was ven;riloquist of no mean
ability.
A Nebraska doctor furnished an escsp-
ed soldier with piece Of buffalo hide
and made his head as good as new The
only trouble with the hair is that it sheds
twice year.
Religious intelligence in the Memphis
(Tenn.) appeal: Her matchless and
perfect figure was model, and never
shown to SO much advantage Is when abe
knelt for baptism"
1t is remarkable year for rattlesuakes
in South Carolina. The Columbia Herald
has never heard of so many in that region
before For q novelty, they get into the
stables and bite the mules.
A lawyer of vancebury, KY, arrested
for breach of the peace the other day, and
taken before the Mayor, proved to His
Honor's utter dismay that he was not
Mayor at all, never having given bond or
qualified himself legally. The Mayor
surrendered