Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-10-08
Gleanings.

1t must make a prisoner raven mad ~
be called Jail bird.
Economy is beginning to prevail again.
AT funeral. Saturday, nine men appeared
with unblacked bootheels.
Contentment is said to be better than
riches, but the latter is good enough for Je
writer Whitehall Times.
How much is metre?" asks q Cleve.
land paper. Wait till the gas man comes
around-he'l give you liberal figures.
If young ladies wish to get stout they
should eat their food slowly. Haste doesl
not make waist in such cases.-De/
Neaos. :,
An Ohio boy swallowed four or five OF
the wheels of an eight-day clock, and nc
has kept the whole family running" ever
since the event
1t was not exactly bank failure in San
Francisco the other day 1t was the col
lapse of an inflated gambling-house.- = Gin,
cinnati Commercial
Mancuvering mosquitoes multiply mar
velously, mcditating mischief; malicious
LiOoiultOo maui
munching masters and misses.
When they catch Delaware man gatlls-
ering peaches at midnight, they preserve
whatever good traits he has in him by
shooting half pint of salt into his
legs.
If we had cheap telegraph rates person
living in Detroit could, for fifteen cents,
telegraph his motherin-law in New York
not to come--famlly got the small
poX.
An Indiana man said to a Bible agent:
'1'm Christian, but I'll be blamed If /
don't have to grit my teeth when the Ohio
river is op level with the top of my
corn"
When New York newspaper calls
John Morrissey thief, and word comes
that John has entered the front door, the
rush for the fiS escape beats the retreat
from Bull Run
"What object do you now see:" asked
the doctor. The young man hesitated for
few moments, and then replied: 1T
appears like a jackass, doctor, but rath-
er think it is your shadow"
The Marshall Messenger regretfully re-
marks: Zone by one the old pioneers of
our country pass away" Upon which the
Norristown Herald remarks: but this is
not SO sad as if they were to pass away
two by two, or three by three"
There are some confding people left in
Troy. An apple woman in that city will
trust an alderman over Sunday for fifty
five cents worth of truit, but it may
be added that she's around mighty early
Monday morning.
Il lived with him nineteen years. says
an Indiana applicant for divorce, "and all
the clothes he ever bought me was
bunch of hair-pins and a toothbrush. y
You can see by this what a hard time she
had to keep well dressed
y Somerset young woman, seventy
eight years of age, became tired Of life,
the other day, and hung herself to a bed
post with corset. We always thought
corsets were unhealthy especially when
worn about the neck-Noryistoe Her.
dld
\ too much married Mormon in Salt
Lake City had his clothes torn off him by
a swarm of Jealous wives, the other day,
who then turned him into the street.
While prowling around the house, trying
to get in, he was collared by police
officer, who took him for an insane
man
Hartford, Conn, has some very queer
horses. One animal will not drink a drop
of water on Sunday. Another takes
nap every Sunday morning after breakfast,
and does not doze on any other day. Still
another likes to chew tobacco, and will
masticate paper of tine-cut with evident
relish.
One Brutus W. Liski, of New Haven,
has been busy robbing his sweetheart and
her mother, and is now in Jail. An ex.
change blames him for not calling himself
IL Count. If he had the parents would
have pardoned him, and the girl marrying
him would have clung to and fed and
clothed him as long as he wished.
has refused to sell the British Government
one of his big guns. In reply tn a request
for one, lie said he was willing to con-
tract for the arming of as many forts and
ships rs England wanted, al home or
abroad, but he must decline to part with
specimens for experimental purposes"
Parson Brownlow advises the young
men of Tennessee to go to work, and con-
sequently many of them who formerly
spent but fifteen minutes day before
their looking glasses, now spend at least
three quarters of an Brooklyn ar
gas.
Noting the present of silver cup to
brother journalist, Western editor says:
He needs no cup He can drink from
any vessel that contains liquor, whether
the neck of a bottle, the mouth of pickle
jar, the spile of Il keg, or bung of bar
rel"
John Henry had u guest to dinner the
other day, and during pause in the con-
versation the snfdnt terrible spoke up
Il wish was you" "Do you, little boys
And why do you wish you were me."
"Cos, you don't get your ears pinched
when you eat vittles with your knife"
a Wyoming jury, composed of seven
men and five women, were shut up for
two days and two nights and yet they
couldn't agree. 1t is said that if they had
remained out for seventeen years there
would have been no verdict, as the five
women talked the seven men deaf the first
six hours. Brooklyn Argus.
Because he can no longer live among
people who recognize "a difference be-
tween political and business integrity"
Sam Bard will shake the dust of Atlanta
from his feet and suspend his fiddle in
Montgomery.
The question is again agitated, "Shall
women be permitted to pass the hat in
our churches?' Granted that it is her
right, but we must protest. 1t is in some
measure financial question. We are
giving two-thirdS of our salary to the
churches now, and does a generous pub
lie want us to starve to odeath?-RocAester
Democrat
1t is seldom easy to see the hidden ben-
efaction in that which is an apparent
atfliction. A boy who was "confounding"
the mosquito was told by his pastor that
doubles the insects are made with .
good end in view," when the young scamp
replied, Il can't see it, whether it is in
view or not. At any rate, don't like the
end feel"
A tramping printer on the route be-
tween New York and Newburgh, is &C