Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-07-14
WHOLE NO. 571.
GIeaniags.

sultlng linn.
Pluck will carry man where palace
car will not
The man who volunteers to pay bor-
rowed money acts as surprise party.
Young man your bride must be won be-
fere marriage; but you must both be one
afterward.
A Boston Sunday school informs the
public by circular that it will soon cele-
brate its "annual anniversary"
Don't moralize to man who is ON his
back. Help him up. see him on his feet,
and then give him advice and means.
A goulmand says: "To enjoy stuffed
turkey thoroughly, there should be only
two present--yourself and the turkey"
The Philadelphia pickpoekets says that
they never knew people to hold to their
wallets the way they do this centennial
year.
The new Centennial handkerchief is
small American flag This would seem
to involve direct blow at the stars and
stripes.
John Smith, hod-carrier of Boston
died lately. At the last moment he NUT
tered: "Telegraph that another Boston
man is gone"
1t is proposed to amend the Constitu-
tion of Connecticut by adding section
making nine members of a jury competent
to render verdict.
The wool exhibit of Australia is sub
| nf i,,ta fn hnf
eigners. The wool product Of Australia
annually is estimated at over 800, 900 900.
An English doctor says that strong.
passionate love will bring on heart dis
ease, and it stands US all in hand to love
mildly and with good deal OF lethargy-
When the dealer informed her that his
Ice was gathered the winter before last.
she wouldn't give him her order. She
SAID he couldn't palm off his stale ice On
her.
Enjoy the flowers in your pathway;
but do not spend too much of your pill
grim time and strength, too many OF your
precious sunlit hours, to stoop and gather
them.
Mr.. Chadwick, member of parliament
for Macclesfield, has presented the bor-
ough with building for a free library
costing $4,000 and 1000 volumes of
books.
The gentle snap of the frolicsome revof-
yer is becoming quite promiscuous, and
the gentle buzz of the bullet rivals that of
the bee that bumbleth and the mosquito
that hummeth.-DaeLas (7er.) Coumer-
ctal.
A Connecticut paper wishes Ralph
Waldo Emerson would open small gro
Gerry store in its neighborhood. The
editor read one of the philosophers say
ings that "Men should trust each other
. more"
Take this wise lesson: Aspire to the
higher places, and leave those you now
have for other beginners. Aspire, but re-
member that you shall win them only by
present content, and by doing faithfully
what you now have in hand.
The cavalry branch of the army Of
Greece numbers eleven men, nine horses,
one old omnibus from New York, and a
buck board for the colonel The horses
are now beng shod and the cavalry placed
on war footing Detroit Free Press.
A pupil in an Eastern High School was
asked to explain the line:
And she laid on the water a SPELL
"Well," he answered, 81 don't know.
unless it means that she laid down on the
water little while"
PA" said little Jimmie, Il came very
near getting to the head of my class to-
day "How was that my son?' "Why,
big word came all the way down to me,
and, if l only could have spelled it, /
would have gone clear up"
1t is remarked that the modest deport-
ment of real wise men, when contrasted to
the assuming air of the young and igno-
rant, may be compared to the difference of
wheat which while its ear is empty holds
up its head proudly, but as it is filled with
grain, bends modestly down, and with
draws from observation.-J. Beaumont.
Nitric acid has hardly received fair play
} heretofore and has been especially III
treated by the spelling bee managers. A
German says that when "bcnzoylnaph-
tylamid is treated with nitric acid two
isomeric monthly benzoylnaphtylamid are
formed, one yielding monononamidobenz-
onaphtylamide and the other adydroben-
zodiamidonanhalenamsw
A new amusement has been inaugurated
in the wilds of Maine Ladies and gen.
tlemen desirous of excitement sail down
the numbering rivers on q raft, taking
all the falls and mill dams that come in
the way as special enhveners. A party
of Bangor Adventures amused themselves
in this way few days ago, making
trip down the Penobscot. There was a
clergyman in the party, who found the
excursion more enticing than croquet.
A man named Langley recently went to
St. Mary's Bay goose-huntlng. Seeing a
moose on the opposite shore, he fired, and
at the same time a porpoise leaped from
the water, and the bullet killed both it and
the moose The porpoise f1oated to the
shore, and the hunter used it as a raft to
paddle across to the moose. There he
found that the bullet, after killing the
moose had gone into hollow tree, in
which was store of wild honey, which
was flowing through the hole made by the
bullet. Reaching for what he thought
was q stick to plug up the hole. he caught
rabbit by the leg. Rather startled, he
threw it violently from him and struck a
covey of eighteen partridges, killing them
all.
| 81 had n cold once, said Mrs Nickles-
by, 81 think it was in the year 1917; let
: me see, four and five are nine,-and, yes,
5 1S17-that thought l should never get
rid of; actually and seriously, that
thought l never should get rid of it.
8 was only cured at last by remedy that
8 don't know whether you ever happened
= = to hear of, Mrs. Pluck You have gal
lon of water as hot as you can possibly
}, bear it, with pound of salt and sixpen'
= 'orth Of the finest bran, and sit with your
head in it for twenty minutes every night
: just before going to bed; at least, l don't
! mean your head-your feet. 1t is most
! extraordinary cure. l used it for the first
= time, rccollect, the day after Christmas
|, Day, and by the middle of April follow
1 ing the cold was gone. 1t seems quite a
: miracle when you come to think of it, for
! l had it ever since the beginning OF Sep
r tember"
+ Mr.. A. Douglas, an English settler in
: the Cape Colony, South Africa, COM
!, menced experiments about eight years
ago with six ostrlches. He has now
about 800 on hand, having sold eighty
I five Each bird eats about twenty pounds