Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
WHOLE NO. 54S.
GIeanings.
The onion came from Egypt.

Gleanings.
The onion came from Egypt.
Celery came from Germany.
Gossiping and lying are twin sisters.
Cheap drapcry-the curtains of the
night
A firt is a fool who delights in fooling
fools.
He who hath most of heart knows most
of sorrow.
A Western settler-the contents of a
six-stooter.
The cheapest lawyer-keeping ones
own counsel.
Those standing high have many blasts
to shake them.
A depraved punster says he shall smoke
if he chews too.
Death is black camel that kneels be-
fore every door.
Retiring early at night Will surely short
en- mans days.
''Self-made men" are very apt to wor-
ship their maker.
Time is money, and many people pay
their debts with it.
/ With some, work is not so much an OBJ
jcct as good wages.
The secret of fashion is to surprise,
never to disappoint.
Almost the best rule of oaes life is to
be worthy of ones self.
Defect in manners is usually the def
cheney of fine perceptions.
Habit is cable, woven thread by thread
until it cannot be broken.
Partial culture runs to the ornate; su
prcme culture to simplicity.
Mans greatest enemy is the wineglass;
woman's, the looking glass.
Who smells best? He who knows most,
or he who has the most nose
A moments effort in controlling passion
may often prevent days of sorrow.
What is that, the fewer there are to
guard it, the safer it is? A secret:
but that of the tongue perhaps never.
Take away ambition and vanity, and
where will be your heroes and PATRIOTS"
The rose has Its thorns, the diamond its
specks and every human being his fail
4 ings.
Why is lovely young lady like
hinge ? Because she is something to
adore.
The exeesscs of youth are drafts upon
old age, payable, with interest, forty years
from date.
"Thcre's pair of natural slippers"
said an old fisherman, pointing to a cou
pie of eels.
A dressmaker's-a apprentice speaks of her
cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks
are cut bias.
He who receives favor should never
forget it; he who gives one should never
remember it.
Why is a wafer like Cupid? Because
it is the go-between which forms mutual
attachments.
The gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor the sinful man perfected
without adversely.
Why are pianos the noblest of manu-
factured articles? Because they are grand,
upright and square.
The one thing needful for the perfect
enjoyment of love is confidence same
with hash and sausages.
The sweat of the human brow dissolves
the bars by which nature holds her treas
urcs from human hands.
We sometimes meet an original gentle
man, who, if manners had not existed,
would have invented them.
Prejudice and elfsufliciency naturally
proceed from inexperience of the world
and ignorance of mankind
Although mosquitoes are born of poor
parents, they have in their veins some of
the best blood in the country.
\ baby in Milwaukee, Wis, has been
christened Zero" in honor of the cold
Sunday upon which he was born.
What is that which occurs once in
minute, twice in moment, and not once
in a hundred years? The letter NJ.
Keep them alive boys" said an old
physician to some young doctors; keep
them alive, dead men pay no bills
Kind words are Jewels beyond price,
powerful to heal the wounded heart, and
to make the weighed-down spirit glad.
What cord is that which is full of knots
which no one can unite, and IN which no
one can tie another? A cord of wood
A printer, who was hard of hearing, at
a spelling match asked the captain to
Write the hanged word down so fellow
can tell what It's"
A Chicago deputy Sheriff was refused
free admission to a Chicago theatre BY
way of revenge he impanelled the mana
ger on petit jury.
False friends are like our shadows,
keeping close to us while we walk IN the
sunshine, but leaving US the instant we
cross into the shade
The question is often discussed whether
the savages enjoy life. We suppose they
do, as they always seem anxious to take
ii when they geta chance.
| Hannah Moore said to Horace Walpoe:
IF | wanted to punish an enemy it should
be by fastening on him the trouble of con-
stantly hating somebody"
Prejudice turks in hidden corners of all
minds over which knowledge has not shed
its penetrating light aud prejudice is the
natural foe of magnanimity.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks that it
is impossible to make the modern hired
girl funny on the stage The subject is
too solemn to be tritied with
A man addicted to snoring remarked to
his bed fellow in the morning that he
slept like top" II know it," SAID the
other like humming top"
The noblest productions of people are
its best men, They are its praise and
| prosperity. Every one takes pride in
them, and in some sort partakes of their
gifts.
An Irishman with heavy bundle on
his shoulder riding on the front end of a
horse car, was asked why he did not set
his bundle on the platform. He replied;
"Be jabers, the horses have enough to
drar already I'll carry the hundIe