Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-02
WHOLE NO. 565.
Gleanings.
A hasty man never wants woe.

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and went to sleep.
Triles light as hair are eagerly SEIZE
upon by baldheaded man.
There is more happiness in reducing
| our wants than in gratifying them.
Deep thinkers-visitors in coal mine,
thinking if they will get out NSliye.
Now that we have the bright silver in
circulation, let no one go to Stocking" it
up.
gathering together q handful of thorns to
sit upon.
The flower born to rise unseen is the
flour which rises in the baking pan dur
ing the night.
The New York Tribune does not like
the name of Writ Skies for consul to
Florence, Italy.
A physician advises against spring veg.
etables. He says that green coloring is
apt to be poisonous.
The saying excuse haste and bad
pen has been attributed to a pig who
ran away from home.
The New York people VOW to let Dom
Pedro alone when he returns to that city.
This will suit the Dom.
Mind your own affairs; let all the errors
you see in others management suggest
correction in your own.
Where ten men will cheerfully lay down
their lives for woman, only one will
carry her a scuttle of coal.
Question before Shenandoah colored
debating society: (Which is the most
usefulest. gun or q dog?"
The pedestrian, Weston, is about :o
show the teetering Parisians, how to
walk, square footed and toes out.
DR.. Hall says that, if you cross your
great toes at an angle OF thirty-six degrees,
you will not have the nightmare.
Only one of the Massachusetts, gold
mines is now in operation, and that one
is not by any means Big Bonanza.
Bayard Taylor informs public in sus-
pense that he will occupy but twenty
minutes in reading his Centennial poem.
A grandson of Uncas, the great Mohi-
can chief, is in jail in Norwich for in
dulging in fire water to an unlimited ex.
tent.
Nothing ought to be easier than to wait
when we cannot 60 forward, or to make
our final resolve when we have no alter
native. ~
The breed of calves is said to have i'm
proved; but most of us would prefer
Aaron's yellow one to any heard of since
his time.
The wife of Abraham Melvil, of Weare,
N. Y, by far the wealthiest person in
town, has sued for divorce, on the plea
of insufficient provision"
We love peace, but not at any price
There is peace more destructive to the
manhood of living man than war is to his
material body. Chains are worse than
DEATH
Take a company of boys chasing but
terf1ies, put long-tailed coats on the boys,
and turn the butterflies into guineas, and
you have beautiful panorama of the
world.
The two daughters of General Schenck,
who were left in London, sailed for home
on the 9th of May. They have been alb
sent five years, and desire to visit relatives
in Ohio.
A young man being asked what he con-
sidered his qualifications for q certain
position were, replied: The three P's-
Patience. Pluck and Perseverance. The
three Ps will win
A Harrisburg man who boasted he'd
never seen the horse that could throw
him, was landed in druggists show
window about five minutes afterward,
amid chorus of There's alight in tho
window for you"
Among the packages of fractional cur
rency recently received at Washington for
exchange for silver, was one from New
York bank, containing $25, 900 that had
never been taken out of the original pack
age, all entirely new.
When once a concealment or deceit has
been practiced in matters where all should
be fair and open as day, confidence can
never be restored, any more than you can
restore the white bloom to the grape or
pulm that you once pressed in your hand.
Perfect cleanliness should be the
rule in all stables, pens and Sheds
Filth is the most frequent cause Of
disease. Too much warmth is not
healthful. Pure air, dry beds and
clean skins keep well-fed animals in
sleek condition.
A man in Nebraska, who dropped two
cents worth of mail matter in the post
Office box, and had to pay six cents to do
it, went over and stood by one of the
windows and said: May Hannibal Ham,
lin, of Maine, have the bilious collie, the
ague, the gout, the ]sundice, corn, bum
ions, boils, and the buckwheat scratches
from this day noon for the next fifty years
to come"
"Well, my son." said Detroit father u
his eight-yeaI-old son the other night,
"what have you done to day that may be
set down as q good deed!" "Gave a
poor boy five cents" replied the hopeful.
"Ah, ah! that was charity, and charity is
always right. He was an orphan boy.
was hes" II didn't stop to ask" replied
the boy; 81 gave him the money for
licking a boy who upset my dinner
basket"
"Hair gettin little thin, sir" said the
barber. Young man." said John Henry,
looking down upon HIM from the height
Of solemn experience: "young man;
when you are married, you will never 81.
lude in that thoughtless manner to domes.
tic Affections. No, don't apologize. My
feelings are blunted. But is there moi
some mysterious unguent-some soft, Sc
ductive cempound-that makes the hair
more slippery to the grasp:"
Do not be above your business, No mat
ter what that may be. but strive to be the
best in that line. He that turns up his
nose at his work quarrels with his bread
and butter. He is poor smith who
quarrels with his own sparks; there's nc
shame about any honest calling; don't be
afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty
Of soap to be had. You cannot get horsv
if you are frightened at bees, nor plant
corn if you are afraid of getting mud On
your boots Above all, avoid laziness. -
There is plenty to do in this world fol
every pair of hands placed in it, and We
J must SO work that the world will be rich
er because of our having lived in it.
An Illinois farmer says: "My cattl,