Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
WHOLE NO. 49S.
Gleanings.


Nictoras crown contains 2,1s6 jewels.
Tom Thumbs fortune is estimated at
100000.
A bad style of arithmetic-Division
among families
Why should the male sex avoid the let
ter az Because it makes men mean.
How to discourage the Perquisite Sys-
tem-Never buy anything of anybody.
Mothersin in-law are not heavenly bodies,
but they sometimes eclipse the honey
| moon
A vinegar-hearted old bachelor says he
always looks under the head of mar
riages" for the news of the weak
Keep 'em alive, boyl keep 'em alive.'
said an old physician to his young brother
practitioner. Dead men pay no bills, you
know"
Powers, the sculptor, has nearly com
pleted his bust of Whittier, and will send
it to Boston from Rome during the present
month.
A Detroit servant girl has remained in
a family thirty-one years, rather than in
cur the trouble and expense of raising one
/ for herself
Isabella Of Spain wants about two mil
lions and a half for pocket-money, and is
willing to sell her diamonds for that
amount of dollars
4 That farmer understood human nature
who said: "1f you want your boy to stay
at home, don't bear too hard on the grind
stone when he turns the crank
I The San Francisco Board of Brokers
consists of but eighty members, and the
! number cannot be increased \ seat was
recently sold for 10000
John Henry, whose first (and only born
has just been to toy-shop, says: TWAS
"a tin trumpet that knocked the stutfin' out
of the walls of Jericho, and mighty good
reason, too"
/ Mr.. Corcoran's promised gift to Column
bia College, Washington, d. c., is $780,
! 600. This sum is to be paid on condition
that the friends of the university raise an
additional 100000.
/ According to British authority, the
maiden name of Henry NJ. Stanley, who
was found by Dr. Livingstone while
prowling around the woods of Central
Africa, is Howell Jones
4 \ widower, who had never quarrelled
with his wife, said the last day of his
marriage was as happy as the first. An
other widower said the last day Of his
marriage was the happiest
/ y romantic young lady, whose father
refused to rent an Italian villa on the
banks of Lake Como as summer resi-
dence, has threatened to go West and mar
ry a California highwayman.
"A home without children is like Hea-
ven without angels" says prominent di-
vine. We just want him to get out of
bed four times Il night for a month, to
keep the baby's legs covered up.
/ The hair-brush which cost dollar last
week, and which is now only tit for kind
ling wood, had bristles that came from
the Mexican plant called ystle, wretched
substitute for the genuine irritant
Washington hack-drivers survey Alex
ander II. Stephens with undisguised dis
/ SuSt NY lhNC btSlI u JOD III
his funeral for six years, and thAI now
conclude that he is going to 1--we al
/ ways.
The miseries of life begin to Cypress US
as soon rs we leave our cradles Here's
Troy boy, for instance. asking his mother,
after a shad dinner, where did God find
all of the bones to make the first shad
with:'
Who says gambling does not pay the
banker: NJ, Dupressoir. former lessee of
the gambling tables at Baden Baden, Of
fers the Spanish government 25,00o, 600
francs tor permission to establish gaming
tables in the principal cities.
Julia Ward Howe informs us that 1.-THE
financial incompetence of men in general
is becoming every day more evident to the
world at large" 1t is especially evident
in the morning. when their wives have
gone through their pockets overnight
Milwaukee Nens: The best of Chris
tians occasionally have rags to SELL and it
grieves us to state, also, that the best of
Christians will sometimes roll an old flat
iron up in a ragged shirt and chuck it
down in the bag just to give it more bal
last
a father in consoling his daughter, who
had lost her husband, said: IL don't
wonder you grieve for him, my child, YOU
will never find his equal" II don't know
as can responded the sobbing widow,
'but I'll do my best" The father felt com
forted.
The scatioding around the Vendome
Column is being removed. The monu-
mcnt has been reconstructed in every par
ticular except the statue. This has been
ordered. 1t has been determined to put
Napoleon in Roman costume, which was
the model adopted by Napoleon III.
Helen Nj. Cooke writes that ''kisses on
her brow are the richest diadem wo-
mans soul aspires to-" And vet, fell
low who kisses young lady on her brow
while her rosy lips are making motions
ike patent clothes wringer is not the
man for the position.
DR.. Samuel W. Francis says that the
liquid injected hypodermically by the
mosquito contains the principle of qui
nine, and was sent by Providence as an
antluOtc 10 lne lever WHICH arises from
marshy and mosquito-infested districts. =
The doctor may be right, but we'd rather
run the risk of fever, and take the quinine
in different form.
\ gentleman took the following tele-
gram to the telegraph office: Mrs. j.
Brown, Liverpool street:--l announce with
grief the death of Uncle James Come
quickly to read will. l believe we are his
heirs John Black" The clerk, having
counted the words, said: There are two
words too many, sir" "All right; you
may strike out with grief" was the re-
ply.
| WHEN VIZ HAVE CREMATION.
have another wife long to treat
(Wthout which wife my joy would be complete)
To fires crematory. until see
Five pounds Of ashes-all that's left Of she.
Then on spot remote from worldly din
I'd dig hole and dump her cinders in.
Thither, perchance, when fades days garneh light
And drowsy murmurs soothe the ear Of night
Till silence like \ benedicti0n fits
From bower to bower and on the pigsty sits,
Some friend might stray with soul more fond than
mine.
And DER her train the wild cucumber vine.
-Caicag0 Times.
George Francis Train, who has been
strangely silent for some time past, favors
newspaper men with his views in the fol-
lowing 'jerky" style. There is some little
. common sense in what he says: "Epigram
only wins. Long stories tire the listener.