Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-02
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! The first me- citing house ii butchers
shop.
Anger is not appeased by anger but by
gentlencss
How 10 raise beets-take hold of the
tops and pull.
| Reticence may not be considered sound
sense but it is good sense.
"Short calls are best" as the fly said
when he alighted on the stove.
One day of a virtuous mans life is of
more worth than thousand years of sin.
! II is very easy to say. Take things as
they come. But suppose they don't oliie?
| Very good. but rather too pointed" as
| the fish said when it swallowed the bait
| True nobility of soul is no, from ones
parentagc. hut of a virtuous and nosle
mind
In some of the new styles there is no
change. Poor relatives are cut the same
as last year.
The man that repays injury and wrath
! by wrath, wanders ever further in the
mazes of error,
A little peppermint is better than bran
dy when there is any trouble with your
true inwardncss." .s7~-.. Iss.if $3.50
| A clergyman removing from one city to
another marked large tox containing
his sermons: Keep dry" They did.
A touching obituary: He knew the
value of an editors time and never tres
enI Il, - L..
! Glasgow proposes TO erect IA monument
in honor of Livingston. :50.0O0 WAS
raised for the purpose at the first meet
ing.
The IIiberniap race is naturally high
tempered one," says an exchange. And
that's why they're called lre-ish, We sup
pose.
"a soft answer turneth away WRATH
but we lose our patience with people
who are continually asking soft ques-
tions
A Wisconsin man reported that he
couldn't find word in the dictionary,
because the blasted book hacn't got an
index.
When poor man steals IA loaf of bread
for his family it's plain theft, but when
rich man cribs anything, it's simply yclept
a-mania.
Josh Billings says: II am fully catis-
fed that honesty haz no pedigree; thare iz
just az mutch ov it amung the lower az
the higher orders"
"What station do you call this:" said
man as he crawled out of the debris of
railroad smash-up. "Devas- tation,' re-
piled the condu, tor.
AS ii man elevated on mountain sur
veys in calmness the plains below, SO does
the virtuous man behold without envy the
actions of sinful multitude.
A Scotch divine recently praying, said:
80 Lord give unto us neither poverty or
riches" and pausing solemnly Il moment,
he added, especially poverty"
How dreary seems each hour,
AS it slowly, slowly goes,
To the man who sits in anguish
With "a boil upon his nose!
The young man who resolved to com.
nit suicide because his sweetheart married
an undertaken, owes his life to the second
sober thought that he might be furnishing
his rival a job.
AS Lavender the other day at dinner,
gazed intently into his plate, he remarked:
"Onlv Il woman's hair, It's very sentimen.
tal no doubt, but somehow il gets away
with my appetite"
Where a woman says Mrs. Parting.
ton, has been married with Il congealinE
heart, and one that heats desponding 10
her own, she will never want to enter the
maritime state again"
The good man goes not upon enmity.
but rewards with kindness the very being
who Injuries him-like rs the sandal wood
tree while II is being fclled impair to the
axe its aromatic flavor,
Two medical societies met in Portland
the ether day. A carload of grave-stones
also arrived during the day. 1t is no:
often that the external fitness of things
sticks out in this manner.
In reply to young writer who wished
to know (which magazine will give inc
the highest position quickest" a cotempo-
rary advises "a powder magazine, if you
contribute fiery article"
The latest Pittsburg (Pa.) toy is a light
ming rod wagon with an insurance agent
perched in the rear. When the child is
tired of it, it can be blown up with gun.
power. and plcases him and his papa
too.
\ rural New England morallst says
Give your son good education and
settled purpose in life, and when he is
I1f hO ~, 60 k,D of
grocery stove and crack his finger
jo nts.
A charitable gentleman in an Eastern
city keeps pair of dogs chained at his
front door, so that poor people who stop
to 'get bite" can be accommodated with
out taking the trouble to 60 into the
house
The boss thief of Europe was the ex-
Prince Demetrius Tschwtschawadze. He
was the foe OF all proof-readers, and the
dread of all interviewcrs; but nobody
ever called him any harder name than
himself.
MANY children are raised with the bot
tie, but many more deserve to be raised
with the boot" remarked u Young gentle
man, On discovering that his landlady's
hopeful had been shaving the cat with his
new razor.
He lives in Rhinebeck now-lOS years
of aye, can thread u needle at arms length
with woolen yarn, slept with Noah when
boy, played marbles with Pharoah, and
turned the grind-stone for G. w. to sharp
ell his little cherry cutter.
Gerrit Smith left property valued at
Sl,OO0,000 BY provision of the will,
$40, 900 is to be devoted to charitable pur-
poses, and of the remainder his wife has
one-half the other half to be divided be-
tween son and daughter.
Seasonable Rector-"Ah, we shall be
comfortable this morning, Grizzlies; sec
you've got the temperature up nicely
Sixty, | declared" Clerk-"Yes, sir; l
allus have trouble to get that thing up.
l took and warmed it only jest this
mint"
A man out West who married widow
has invented device to cure her of
externally" praising her former husbsnd.
Whenever she begins to descant on his
noble qualities, this ingenious No Q mere
ly says: Poor dear man; how wish he
had not died!"