Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-09-29
Gleanings.

The Mormans have been in Utah twen
ty nine years.
After ALL it's Crooks ill-Terry the In.
dians are afraid Of.
Potato-bugs go out regularly on the
New York ocean steamers.
1t must be sweet to die as the Califor-
nian did-crushed under ton of honey
Don't aim your pop" bottles this way;
the cork of one popped mans eye out
in England the other day.
The fall time approaches and the pen
sive house-hy has little more to look for
ward to.
4 thief in Evansville, Ind, stole the
contribution box out of a church. He ey-
identity went there to prey.
Mrs. Partington concurs in Bishop
Whipples pacific policy toward the Indi-
ans. She says she'd drive em right into
it and drown em all.
Children pass for half fare on the Tole-
do street railroads, but they didn't until a
German mother walloped a conductor
most to death.
Mary Clemmer persists in thinking that
the American Congressman is an expecto-
rant biped who is incapable of compre-
hending the uses of cuspador.
1t is getting to be the fashion for New
York papers to have badly misspelled and
extremely touching letters from individu-
ais signing themselves "a Tramp"
A little girl was asked what was the
meaning of the word happy. She repli-
ed: ut is to feel as if you wanted to give
up all your things to your little sister,"
Among the varieties of tramp now per-
turbing the rural housewives mind in
Central New York, is one who walks
quietly into the house and commences
tediously long prayer.
The partisan epithet "mugwumps" has
appeared in New England. The mug
wump is small demagogue. The word
is combination of English and Pequot.
The most self sacrificing man in the
world is not he who offers to die for the
woman he loves. 1t is the man who,
without q murmur, loans his silver tooth
pick to a stranger at the dinner table
The rights of women, also their lefts,
begin to shine. A young woman was OBJ
served Saturday, having her "low-cut ties"
polished by public bootblack, on prom
inent thoroughfare.
A professor was expostulating with
student for his idleness, when the latter
said, ats of no use; l was cut out for a
loafer," "Well" declared the professor,
surveying the student critically, who
ever cut you out, understood his busi-
ness"
A widow at Marthas Vineyard is try
ing to make an honest penny out of the
house i'll which her husband was killed
by lightning. For twenty-five cents, the
visitor is shown shattered bedstead, bro
ken mirrors, and a photograph of the man
| taken after death.
Mr.. Emerson says: Mature is an un-
surpassed mechanic" But until Nature
can wash up and get on her coat and get
out of the factory, before the first stroke
of twelve o'clock has died away, she has
no business working by the day around
here.
An American backwoods minister hav-
ing alluded to an anchor in his discourse,
described its use in the following lucid
manner: "An anchor is large iron IN
strument that sailors carry to sea with
them, and when storm arises, they take
it on shore and fasten it to tree, and
that holds the ship still till the storm
blows over"
"See that poor little haby" said one
lady to another standing in front of a
store window the other day. Its cruel
Hindoo mother is setting it afloat on the
Ganges in accordance with Pagan Gus
TOM" "Oh, how can she be SO heartless?'
They were discussing picture of the find
ing of the infant Moses by Pharaoh's
daughter.
Suppose, Belle said poor but hon.
est Chicago youth to Prairie avenue girl
one day, suppose that young man
loved you dearly-very dearly-but was
afraid to ask you to marry him; maybe
because he was very timid or felt too
poor, or something; what would you
think of such "a case?" "Think?" an
swered the girl, Immediately, "why, If he
was poor. should think he was doing
just right In keeping still about it." The
question was dropped right there.-Chi-
il cago Tribune.