Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Gleanings.

Lavender says his wife is always ready
to tell her rage.
There is not more unsafe place to hide
than behind lie.
Mankind are as often good from interest
as from principle.
Iowa was admitted to the Union as a
State Dec 28, 1846.
Poverty has never yet been known to
have ruined any man.
Mr. Disraeli attained his 10th year and
Mr.. Gladstone his Goth, last week.
Precepts are the rules by which we
ought to square our lives Seneca.
Van Buren, county has an antedluvian
colored citizen, who is 112 years old
To he wise we have got to learn some.
thing and forget something every day.
Praise like gold and diamonds. owes
its value only to It's scarcity.-J,hnxon.
The man who viii, sit still and let YOU
pity him will sit still and let you abuse
him.
Railroad lines in Iowa have increased
from 800 miles to 3,765 miles, within ten
years.
Experience teaches US one thing more
certainly than any other, and that is how
little we know
There is many man possessed of
enough to make HIM perfectly happy, if
he only knew it.
We seldom see person who can't ad-
wise some one else to do thing better
than they can do it themselves.
He who has never been in a tight spot
and got out OF it without any help. has
missed one of the great luxuries of life.
Why is a newspaper like tooth-brushs
Because every person should have one of
his own, and not borrow his neighbor's.
Sidney Smith has said: We should ac-
custom the mind to keep the best compa-
ny, by introducing it only 10 the best
books.
great many nen-some comparative
ly small men now-if put in the right po-
sition, would be I.uthers and Columbuses
Ghapin.
When his wife discovered hottie of it
in his coat-tail pocket he said it was So
zodont. She said it was all right, "Sozo-
don't take too much of it."
If a man has right to be proud of any
thing, it is of good action done as it
ought to be, without any base interest
lurking at the bottom of it.
Ottumwa came near having a lamp post
sociable. recently. A negro insulted q
white woman, and the citizens were with
difficulty restrained from lynching him
An auctioneer exclaimed: "Why, real
ly, ladies and gentlemen, am giving
these things away" Are you:" said an
old lady present, Well, I'll thank you
for that silver pitcher YOU have in your
hand "
verdant policeman. from an interior
town, chased Babcock fire extinguishe.
through the streets of Keokuk, the other
night thinking It free coffee lunch on
wheels
the true way to bring a child up is to
make them love virtue from choice. not
from fear; whatever child does from
fear he will cease to do the first good
chance he can get.
"Have you seen my black faced ante
lope, inquired Mr.. Leoscope, who had
collection of animals, of his friend, Bottle
jack. NO, haven't Whom did your
blackfaoed aunt elope with?"
An Indiana man bet ten dollars that he
could ride the fy-wh el of sawmill, and
as his widow paid the bet she remarked:
William was a kind husband, but he
didn't know much about fiy-wheels."
Blackhawk county, Iowa, had the spirit
of cupidianism to largely developed ex-
tent last year, 241 marriage licenses hav-
ing been issued, the ages of the matrima-
NAL candidates ranging from Il to 20.
Dubuque young man who extended
his call until after o'clock, was invited
by the young lady's mother TO stay all
night and have breakfast in the morning
with the family. The invitation was &C.
cepted
\ party of sixteen ladies were bathing
IN group at Long Branch the other day,
and II Boston drug clerk who stood near
! declares that the paint and powder turned
the water bright orange color for a con-
siderable distance around.
Iowa does not intend to be left out IN
contests of Importance or of political in
! terest. 1t is said to be ''nip-and tuck"
between eX-Postmastcr General Reagan
| Of Texas, and l.. L. Ainsworth. of Iowa,
which has the honor of being the ugliest
man in Copuracc
woman of Fremont county, so wears
OF age, has been suffering for years with
what has been pronounced to be Il cancer
but which, on being operated upon recent
", proved to be an enlargement caused
ny hve pms and three needles which she
had swallowed at different times, and
which had worked to the same point.
\ Paris journal states thar a lady in
Paris is introducing new fashion with
regard TO furniture, She is having all
her chairs, sofas, and even her carriages.
stuffed With aromatic herbs, which fill the
air with en- agreeable but not too power.
full perfume. The fashion is derived from
the Eastern nations, and prevails exten.
sively over a considerable part of Asia.
The young man who wants to know if
il is improper for him to offer a ung la
dy his arm when walking with her, is in
formed that it is not at all improper. But
IL would be the height OF impoiteness to
oi!er her your foot. or chew of tobacco,
ora rum punch, or dried Goldfish, or s.
baoy's cradle, or another girls likeness.
we beg OF you not to do any of those
things, AS you might seriously offend
her.
The grateful citizens of Green Bay.
Michigan, have presented Mr.. Jackson, OF
that place, with silver-headed cane for
having refrained from kicking his wife
out of bed during u married life of seven
years. As nobody has presented Mrs. J i.
with sllver-headed ap,stick, il is pre-
sumed that the fatal facility with winch
she handles Lcr heels has caused jackson
to bite the floor more than once within the
time named
In his lecture in Kenosha, on ''The Girl
You Love-" brother Huntly says: He
should love her and let his love for her be
known. If 4 woman is loved she wants
1t to be known to the world" Unless the
girl is dumb, and has lost both hands by
= Kerosene explosion, she is apt to relieve
the young man of all trouble in giving his
proposal publicity. especially if there is
another girl who had tried to get him