Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-26
WHOLE NO. 53S.
A capital skylight the moon.


be wrecked
A kidnapping Catching young
goat asleep.
Colleges of Farmacy-Agricultural ins--
titutes.
Are not curtain lectures species of lay
preaching?
A man too strictly economical becomes
an economiser.
Academy of Design-A young lady's
| boarding school.
Atlanta has Hammock in its city hall.
| 1t is the mayor.
The man who teaches penmanship
should do what is write:
The only man not spoiled by being
| lionized was the Prophet Daniel.
A pauper's son ought to make good
| balloonist, for he is heir o'naught.
A good temperance work Removing
the bars at the mouth Of the Mississippi.
What does the grocer do with all his
things before he sells them? Gives them
| IA weigh.
Seeing is not believing. There are :
many men you can see yet can not be-
lieve.
If man is bald-headed and can play
base viol, he is most sure to get an en-
gagement in an orchestra
Florance Marryatt's latest novel is call
ed Fighting in the Air" 1t is mos
quito battle, no one cares who whips
| Photographers are very cool SOFT of
people. They expect you to sit quiet
and allow them TO get head OF you.
Bystander: Keep the lid on, old man,
or you will make it weak Milkman
No fear; reckoned on rain, and brought
it out over proof.
Parson Murray says the military rifle is
d fearful implement. 1T shoots as
| cross-eyed man looks-the Lord only
| knows where"
The memoirs. of Gath illustrate how
Il boy can become great bv adhcring to
the trGth. The pen is mightier than the
little hatchet.
!
didn't take him long to find out that the
orakemen owned all the railroads and the
clerks, all the hotels
Dr.. Hall says a person should go to
sleep with his face to the wall. Bates
says: s'pose that's the healthy way
but it's mighty unsociable.
A noble Omaha mastitf has saved the
lives of three children within month
past, and bitten fourteen men who have
called to sell patent clothes bars
Autumn poets are requested to write on
on both sides of the page one printer
can then work while the other commits
uicide
it is reported that new tail is grow
ing out ON Il Connecticut dog that had
been deprived of its joy-indictor There
is evidently a Danbury wag in the tale.
In the case of man who died of
having had all his teeth knocked out
with hatchet, an Alabama jury return
ed Il verdict of death from accidental
cause
Man with his hands in his pockets):
/
john" Other man with hands in other
pockets; ''Saw one t'other day, but
didn't like to ask, COS they might "a said
yes
Slang is both strong and weak. Its
strength consists in the ability to express
in it, sharp and nervous and full, the
idea intended to be conveyed Its weak
ness Is in the fact that it is the language
of the unreiined, the uneducated the low
A Paris writer is Wondering what be-
! come of all the lost children of Paris.
He says; The newspapers record their
disappearance almost daily. Two quart
ers ought to be we'll looked after, espec-
tally rs their operations are now very
active-the sausage-making machines and
the school of medicine
Amos Wilcox has been arrested in
Cleveland for swindling He has ad-
vertised extensively "Allen's new seven
shooter; price 81 So" Orders have roll
ed in upon HIM in large numbers, and the
parties making remittances would receive
in return, IA small toy-shooter worth about
ten cents, capable of discharging seven
small shot at once.
| A washerwoman knocks at the door
of one of the rooms in South. A we'll.
known rs man is quietly keeping chair
down, and the following dialogue takes
place: Female-"Do you want any wash
ing done?' '75 with dignitylE"I am
tutor, madam" Female-"Oh! of course,
then, YOU won't have any done"
A Detroitcr was called on as u witness
IN Case before one of the Justices latelyl
and when the Oath was administered he
raised both hands and said: Il shall
spoke nodding what amt drew if ever l
hope to die SO quick as {. minute" He
was so earnest and solemn that the law
yers let him alone.
An Englishnpn was boasting to Yam
kee that they had book in the British
Museum which was once owned by Cicero
"Oh, that amt nothin'," retorted the Yam
kee, lin the museum in Bosting they've
got the lead-pencil that Noah used to
check off the animals that went into the
ark"
4 correspondent inquiries "How can
| prevent my little boy from wearing out
the knees of his pants:" We only know
tulce Suie ways, LOU can XIII the DOy
or you can make his pants without any
knees; or perhaps the best way would be
to get some other little boy about the
same size, to wear the knees out, if YOU
have such objections to your own boys
dolngit
A lady came into>the postofiice yester.
day and stopped before the picture of Mr..
Tilton. on the wall, apparently highly
pleased. After few minutes of enraptur-
ed contemplation. she exclaimed enthu-
siastically well wonder if he's
really coming here. I'd like mighty we'll
to see him., And addressing bystand.
er, lis 1t for women too"
A little five-year-old friend, who was al.
ways allowed to choose the prettiest kit.
ten for his pet and playmate before the
other nurselings were drowned, was tax
ea to his mothers sick room the other
morning to see two tiny, new, twin bab-
les. He looked reflectively from one to
the other for minute or two, then pok-
ing his chubby finger into the cheek of
the plumpest baby, he said, decidedly,
"Save this One."
The other day Vicksburg negro was
drawing big dog around the street by a
strap and citizen inquired: "Is that