Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-17

Be silent when a fool talks.


If you would know the valr
lar try to borrow one. -
An hour of triumph comes at
those who watch and wait.
Pleasures are like poppies spreas
seize the flower its bloom is shed.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1, As
10 o., and is worth $322, ,566 in COIN (
Law is a trade in which the lawyer I|
the oysters and leave the c. ?
shells.
SYSTEMATIC your business and kt>
eye on little expenses. Small leaks SIM!
great ships. q -
The man who had will of his
got On finely until he found his wife
won't of her own.
Advice which, like the snow, So
falls, dwells the longer upon, and EnA
the deeper into, the mind. kT
Horace Mann says: You need not Z :.
all the truth, unless to those who have q
right to know all. But let all you tep
the truth.
When Adam got tired of namin
descendants, and when he got about
through, he said 'let's quit and call II
rest Smith,"
"Quadruplex telegraphy'-that is, the
art of sending four messages, two in eacll
direction, simultaneously, by means "a
one wire-has been accomplished on TIA
Madras Railway Telegraph.
"Now let us talk about you'd
affairs" said a sharp Connecticut gil..
young fellow after he had proposed maS
riage to her in a long address filled wi
expressions of passionate love.
A wicked boy, upon whose shouldg
his mother was expressing her resenY II
with both slippers, felt too proud Il
and kept up his courage by repeatir
himself. 1.-TWO soles that beat as one
Mrs. Amy Riggs advertises in ID
paper that she is able to whip eithe 8;
of the two women she saw walki1 =
her husbands arm few nights befdo. Ii
What an Amy woman she musA
Ell?
''Do you think it would be safe for me
to cross this pasture?" asked man the
other day. "Well," replied one of the
maids of the farm, 1.-THE old bull doesn't
like red very much; but if you will cnt Il
your nose think he won't attack you.sA
A young man in Indiana went on,
drowned himself because a sensible
man told him he was 'too young q "o,l
ry." 81 am not too young to die, maf
rate" was the last bleat this mo- tanlE
uttered And he was right; it was nv
time. H
The finest timber in the world is founV
enne paper. Some of the pine trees a
ten feet in diameter, and so tall that q
man working at the butt can't hear tlA'
man who is choppirg the top up into cord
wood. a
The time for man to stand firmly by
Jobs example Is when he washes his face
with homemade soap and begins to paw
around over the chairs with his eyes shut.
inquiring for the towel, quick, and is told
that the towel is in the drawer, but the
keys are lost.
Thare IL create menny rules to maka
married life comfortable but the golda
one is this: Go slow, and give each othej |
haff of the road. This rule il az simpl{
and easy az milking a COW on the right
side, and will be found usephul az lie %
avoid hot journals and dri axles.-yoes
Billings.
"Win Your Honor please charge tb7
| jury" asked all Arkansas lawyer at the
conclusion of horse thief trial. II willa
replied his Honor; "the court charges eacE
juryman onc dollar for drinks, and siS
dollars extra to the one who used the
day of the session.
| Ambition, that high and glorious pas
sion which makes such havoc among the
sons OF men. arises from proud desire
of honor and distinction; and when the
splendid trappings in which it is usually
caparisoned are removed, 1t will be found
to consist of the mean materials of envy.
| pride and covetousness.-BG
| Clear and round dealing is the honor Of
mans nature, and q mixture of falsehood
is like alloy in coin of gold and silver
which may make the metal work the bet
ter, but it embaseth it; for these windings
and crooked courses arc the gnings- of the
serpent, which moves basely upon the
belly and not upon the fect.-Bacon
"What beats good cup of coffee!I
said Mrs. Spilkins to her husband, thu
other morning at the breakfast table. HI
gave it up. Two cups of coffee, she
said. "What beats good wifes" quer
led Spilkins. She gave it up. 1.-TWO
good wives" said Spllkins; and then she
got mad and sulked, nobody knows why
A Danbury couple have q nice little
daughter of some five summers. A lady
visitor observed to the mother, "What :
pretty child you have She must be Z
great comfort to YOU" "She is, indeed,
said the fond mother. "When I'm mad
Mt John don't have to speak to him. Sh,
calls him to his meals, and tells him te
get the coal and other things that want
She's real handy"
A Southbridge, Mass, man, eighty
slight" came in contact with a tree. A.
quick as thought he raised his hat, begged
pardon, and passed on. Three othel
trees having met him in this upceremoni
GUS manner, be doffed his chapeau, ant
placed it under his arm, backed up agains
the fence in apparent meditation. 4
| friend passing at the time inquired wha
he was doing. He replied. II am wait,n,
for the procession to pass"
Scene at a wedding breakfast. Com
pany all seated about the table. A paus.
in the general conversation. Happy hus
band to his wife's seven.year old sister, Al
the other end Of the room: Well, Julie
You have new brother now" Julie
Yes; but mother said to papa, the Other
day, that she was afraid you would neveI
amount to much, but it seemed to bd
Sarah's last chance" Intense silence for
moment, followed by q rapid play OF
knives and forks.
Dickens wrote: There Is nothing. nc
nothing, beautiful and good that dies and
is forgotten. An infant, prattling child
dying in its cradle, will live again, in tho
better thoughts of those who love il, and
play its part, though its body be burned
to ashes or drowned in the deepest sea-
There is not an angel added to the host Of
heaven but does its blessed work ON earth
in those that loved 1t here. Dead. O. Il
the good deeds of human creatures could
be traced to their source, how beautiful
could even death appear; for how much
charity, mercy and purified affection would