Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-10-01
WHOLE NO. $50.
Gleanings.

the bier at last
Pirates generally charge all ship 70
worth for boarding it.
How to get a very early crop-have
your hair cut ut 5 A. NJ.
Most people are like eggs-too full OF
themselves to hold anything else.
We suppose there is quite as hrs
amount of craft upon the land as therA !,
upon the water.
How to make the largest census report
with the smallest number of people is the
study of the age.
Can you spell donkey with one letter."
asked silly young man Of a bright girL'
eyes, she answered, 'U." Z.
Contentment is said to be better thar
riches, but the latter is good enOux
| for We writer - Whitehall Times. :
/ A Rochester paper suggests to NJ,
Frost, who is languishing in the Jail of
that city, that he had better thaw out. :
"Pa, what can do unless you get me u
riding habit up here in the country?"-
"Get IN the habit of walking, my dear
How to turn riding coat into q walk
ing one-hang it up in the passage, tax
ing good care to leave the street door
open.
1t is now in order for some newspapers
to come forward and predict winter
which will freeze the heels of lawn Of {
nament.
did my mustache trouble your" said
Blobbs to his sweetheart. NO, | only
felt a little down in the mouth" was the
answer.
No paper has any more right to leave
the sc" off of envelope" than leave the
same oft of take" or "bake "-Detrois
Free Press. e
Venice, the beautiful Venice, is not on.
ly romantic, but late visitors say that the
city smells worse than the Chicago River
in its best days.
Oh, yes! Editors, printers and others
Clipped in for monument to Greeley, and
the mon-But where is the moneys Who
took charge of it?
We do not think it so very extraordi.
nary that Nebuchadnezzar lived ON grass
We know of hundreds upon hundreds :.
who live upon the turf.
Budd Doble earnestly moves that Gold
smith Maid, who is now in her twentieth
year, be allowed farewell benefit and re-
tirement to private life.
1t must make woman feel mean to
take poison, write two or three farewell
letters, upbraid her husband, and then be
saved by stomach pump.
The latest mineral discovery of New.
buryport, Mass, is that of s., 900 rough
diamond within the city limits but how
it got there they don't tell us.
A Chicago doctor says that mustard
plaster will cure broken heart in TWEEN.
ty-four hours by the watch, but the world
will prefer to cling to sentiment.
From the Tecumseh (Neb) CAsef1ain:
MIR. Moses Stocking, the sheep king of
Saunders county, has been invited to de-
liver the address at the State Fair"
"Haye you suit or clothes here to tit
large body of water:' No, but we can
sell you needle and thread to sew pos
tato patch on the pants or a tired dog"
Mrs. Cook, of Green Bay, went without
food for four days rather than build
fire as her husband commanded her to,
but hunger finally set Mrs Cook to cook
ing.
what branches of learning have you
been pursuing at school to day." said
fat To
slr but birch branch has been pursuing
me-"
No more grain, big bowed, long
end sashes, If you please, says Mime. Mod
lSte, but instead wear u narrow ribbon
around your waist with lot Of streamer,
at the side.
The demand for one little word, Just
one little word, from Mr. Kelley of motor
fame, continues pressing, Dut he is as 81
lent astthe woman with the worst bonnet
at garden party.
An lrishman, giving his testimony in
one of our courts Il few days since in
riot case, said: BE jabers, the first man
! saw coming at me when | got up was
two brickbats"
At Silverton, in the San Juan mines,
Col, boy thirteen years of age, named
William accidently shot and killed his
mother with 4 shotgun which he had
taken up to shoot ahawk.
A man in the Omaha Jail is noted for
histine penmanship; but the Jail is mightier
than the pen, and he will have to do his
'stretch," Notwithstanding talents which
might be useful on the outside.
The Arabs are wont to say III your
ncignbor has been to Mecca" which is q
proof of great sanctity, "lOck your stable"
If he has been twice, which renders him
| perfect, "sell out and move away"
1t is stated that over $3OO,O0O are due
Albany physicians by patients in that
city. A Troy surgeon asserts that during
the past ten years ne has gratuitously
treated in the single department of frac-
lures alone ! 900 cases.
DR.. johnson once dined with Scottish
lady who had hodgepodge for dinner
After the Doctor had tasted it, she asked
him if it was good. ut is good for hogs,
ma a'am,' said the doctor. Then pray,
said the lady, "let me help you to some
more"
\ boy recently found pocket book and
returned it to its owner, who gave him 3
gve-cent piece. The boy looked ut the
coin an instant, and then handing it re-
luctantly back, audibly sighed rs he said:
Il can't change it."
\ negro being asked what he was in
Jail for, said it was for borrowing money.
But" said the questioner, ''they don't
put people in Jail for borrowing money"
Yes" said the darkey, "but had to
knock de man down free times before he
would lend it to me-"
Happy bIidegroom-mOre money, mad
am, more money! have you forgotten that
my money has bought everything that
you possess - the very dress that you
stand in? Fair bride--No, sir; nor have
forgotten that your money has bought
what stands in it.
The Ya'e Recorder relates that once,
when u party of students had inveigled
Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller,
into close, small room, which they were
vigorously filling with tobacco smoke, he,
in mild way, remarked: Gentlemen,
your speaker amt ham,"