Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-03
WHOLE NO. 552.
Gleanings.

Like barbed hook, prejudice enters
mans mind with greater ease than it can
be taken out.
The man who carries a cane for orna-
ment and not use generally carries head
of the same sort
A Virginia woman recently died from
fright at seeing her husbands coattail
set On fire by a hot stove.
! A Rochester paper calls him cold
Tice," and the Professor is measuring
off good sized earthquake for that little
| town.
One thing is certain, we can never have
easy times, as a nation, so long as our
five-cent men persist in smoking fifteen
cent cigars.
Be careful in tearing down old houses;
$4,000 worth of gold and silver coins were
found the other day in an old mansion in
Jersey City.
Brigham Young denies that every one
OF his wives jumps for closet when he
is heard wiping his feet on the doorstep.
He says love rules his household.
Robert Toombs says that he has no
uoubt that tobacco shortens some mems
lives. He said so just after seeing negro
crushed by hogshead of tobacco.
Bismarck says the German journalists
care too apt to draw on their imagina-
tions for sensational articles" 1t is for
tunate that the evil is confined to Germa-
ny.
What's the use of trying to cultivate
facial expressions? When the dynamite
fiend lay dead he looked the image of
''some steady German philosopher"
John Pancake, who got rich in Neva-
da, has come home to New Jersey and
changed his name to Brown. Correct.
A pancake is always brown after it is re
turned
New York has troubadour who wears
white kid gloves and sings under ladies
windows O. nights Some evening some
yellow house dog will have a meal of
nice soft veal.
A San Francisco man recently offered
to exhibit headless hen. 1t was found
upon investigation that the apparent mon
strosity had been produced by the most
diaboical and cruel operation.
1t is proper during leap year for young
ladies to loaf around church doors an
steps, and spit all around, and talk abou
how pretty the blushing young men look
as they modestly go in,
A London physician has caused some
alarm by delivering lecture On the pros
pect of temperance of the plague
which ragged on the Continent and in !.
England in 1865. The lancet says n
alarm on the subject is unnecessary. j
A New York dentist says that tooth
brushes make business for the dentists.
If people would let their teeth alone, he
says, there wouldn't be repairing enough
to keep one dentist busy.
While Legislatures 90 on framing laws
concerning the tramp nuisance, the thrift
ty granger loses no time, but buys brin-
die bull-pup and trains him If there is
anything tramp despises it is a brindle
bullpup.
Quiz who took a trip in tie country
yesterday, remarked, after night of seri-
Gus contemplation. "How closely far
mer, who has big load to pull, resem-
bles locomotive. He puffs, and blows,
and gets up his team"
A Boston paper SAYS: Centennial
woolen checked cloths with the figures
16 woven in each square are now being
worked up at some of the larger clothing
houses of this city. Some of the fashions
of the centennial year are likely to be
wonderful, if not fearful"
A town in Kentucky recently had a
trin No
citement girl wrote the following note
to her lover: Deer Jon I take mi pen
in hand to tell you that you hadn't better
eat no more poark fur l don't wun tu
marry man who has got worms into
him yures till deth Jane"
Those Kentucky papers do we'll enough
once in while. Here, for instance, is
the Licingston Era remarking: How
often have we seen the blooming maiden,
upon whose face smiles dance like sun
beams upon The bosom of the sea- and
whose life gave promise of happiness un-
alloyed and hope unrequited, sitting with
a huge ward of gum in her mouth, and
her beautiful chin rising and falling like
a wave upon the ocean"
An important decision has Just been
rendered in a New York court. A prop
erty owner had brought suit to restrain q
street railway company from clearing
their track of snow in such a manner
that the accumulation was piled up in the
cutters before his residence, impairing his
rightful access to the street. The court
decided in favor of the complainant and
expressed the opinion that the street-car
company should be compelled to cart the
snow away when it became an obstruction
TO travel.
Father Mclaughlin, of St. Aloysus
Catholic Church, Pottstown, Pa, hearing
that some of the females of his congrega-
ton were given to flirting ON the street,
disguised himself and went out to try It,
He drew out his handkerchief, and, wa~--
ing it, soon had the pleasure of receiving
a number of flirting signals in return
Then under the light of gas-lamp he re-
vealed himself TO some of the girls, caus-
ing them to flee from the wrath which
they did not escape in his Sunday sermon
He thinks he will be able to break the
members of his congregation of flirting
During the five years ending December,
1875, says the New York Times, there
were PSI homicides committed in the city
of New York Some of them were pre-
meditated, many of them were unpro-
vokcd, and Il large majority we've utterly
without pallation. Nevertheless, out of
all this appalling number of man-killers,
the perpetrators who suffered death wcrc--
only seven. Only twenty-four were sent
to prison for life. And reviewing this
dreadful list. we discover that more than
onefourth of the criminals were never
brought to trial at all. Some of them
escaped, and never were followed up and
arr ested A few have ended their own
worthless lives after they had committed
crime, and more evaded detection. These
are i'll hiding to this day Possibly some
of them, variously disguised, return to
their old haunts and live securely, in the
belief that "thc thing has blown over"
The caution manifested by insurance
companies in paying losses is frequently
i'll sharp contrast with the zeal exhibited
in inducing parties to insure; but it is
probablya sharper contrast in New Hamp-
shire than anywhere else, unless the Bos-
ton Neus shamelessly misreprssents that
State in a story it tells OF Concord.
There was fire insurance company
| tharo few yoars ouo savS tho Ne,,s