Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
WHOLE NO. 557.


Poor breadmakers- average doughmes-
tics.
Miss-apprehension-arrestlng a female
pickpocket.
A man can borrow trouble without Civ
ing security.
Though her own, yet won't own it--a
womans age.
What keeps Lent The longest and best?
An umbrella.
Jokes are like nuts: The drier they are
the better they crack.
Every cloud has silver lining
Red Cloud His lining is copper-colored
There is cottonwood tree at Texas
Bend, Mo, which possesses a glrt Of 40
feet.
The ball of truth rolls right on, and
bad men fall like ten-pins in bowling
alley.
We would give five dollars to know
how the penny cakes of fresh maple sugar
get fyspecked.
o. the folly of expecting lasting felicity
! in a vale of tears, or paradise in ruined
ld.-[Gotthold
1t is said that the Chinese excel in play
ing billiards They are accustomed to
the queue, you know,
SpIurgy people are the rockets of So
ciety. They go up with whizzle and
come down with fizzle.
The extreme height of misery is small
boy with new pair of rubber boots, and
no mud or slush in reach.
The eggs of sole and turbot are to be
imported from England and hatched on
the coast of Massachusetts,
A London court has decided that an
actor is not laborcr. Of course not
he's no work and all play"
We believe that Gods power is with
out limit; why should we not believe the
same of his mercy?-[ Bovee.
John W. Crippen, of Potter county,
Pa, aged II years, weighs 218 pounds,
and Is six feet three inches tall.
A new and prolific source of rubber
supply has been discovered in Burmah, in
the shape of creeping plant of the dog
bane species.
"Science, says DR.. Holmes, is good
piece of furniture for man to have in an
upper chamber, provided he has common
sense on the ground floor"
And now cometh Maggie Ford. of
Washington county, Iowa, with the boss
quilt, which she has pieced with her own
hands. 1t contains IL, 140 pieces.
A man has been sentenced to a months
Imprisonment at hard labor in Enniskillen,
Ireland, for stealing sticks valued at one
penny from Lord Belmore's estate.
A breed of dogs without tails has been
discovered in America, and how the mis-
chievous boys there utilize tin kettles and
fruit cans, we cannot pretend to say.
When an Oshkosh couple were caught
mauling each other the other day their ex-
cuse was that they were training for a
sham battle of Lexington for the Fourth
of July.
Colossal statues of Hendrick Hudson,
Robert Fulton, and Prof. Morse are to be
placed upon the piers of the new railroad
bridge across the Hudson River at Pough-
keepsie.
The street cars in Constantinople are
never overcrowded. AS soon as they get
too heavy, the fellows who draw them
stop, sit down, cross their legs, and take
a smoke.
There is something elongating in coun-
try air. Country boys in England aver
age an inch and a quarter more in height
and seven pounds more in weight than
city boys.
While an Iowa woman was struggling in
the water and likely to be drowned, her
husband yelled out: New bonnet -
swim for life" and she kicked out and
safely reached shore.
A Missouri lawyer successfully defend
ed a highwayman, but charged him an
exorbitant fee. The highwayman paid it
without murmur, stopped his counsel
on his way home at night and recovered
the cash.
The Fort Dodge Qowa) Times says that
Mrs. d. A. Dodd, of Humboldt county,
has lately presented her liege lord with
another heir, the twenty-sixth in eighteen
years. Of the twenty. six, fourteen are
twins And yet they have none to spare.
A lady on the West Side found her
tongue entirely paralyzed last week-the
result, it is believed. of playing the har.
monicum. The opinion seems to be gain
ing ground that a harmonicum is of more
real value in family than stalled OK
Noruich Bulletin.
1t takes four things to make a athorough
gentleman. You must be gentleman in
your principles, gentleman in your tastes,
a gentleman in your person and gentle
man in your manners. No man who
does not combine these qualities can Justly
be termed a true gentleman.
A remarkable event took place in Egypt
on New Years Day. Mohamedan lunar
year died on December 31st for all civil
cases, and by decree of tie Khedive the
Gregorian calendar was adopted as the
authorized guide in the dealings OF life
for Moslem and Christian alike.
The Liverpool Post says: "While some
workmen of Dundee were the other day
engaged in cutting up large log of Que
bee yellow pine they laid open several
sections of wasp's nest. The nest being
near the centre of the tree, the insects,
several thousands in number, must have
been inclosed for upward of a hundred
years.
In France they take chicken feathers
whose harsh stems have rendered them
useless, chip the plume part from the
stems with SCISSORS, and put the plumes
in bag, which, when full, is closed and
kneeded with the hands, so that the feath-
ers are felted together, forming down
of unbroken fabric and great lightness,
which sell in Paris for two dollars a
pound.
A curious story comes from Ovingten,
Maine, where "a citizen made a squash
grow to a great size last season, by cutting
off the vine about six feet from the squash
and inserting the end into pan into
which fresh milk was daily poured. 1t
absorbed about two quarts of milk daily,
and gained pound a day in weight. ~
This, says an exchange, as we take it.
calls for proof. Show us the pan and q
sample of the milk.
An old gentleman, with white hair. at.
tended the Moody and Sankey meetings
at the New York Hippodromc lately, and
for want of better seat, took place at
! the renorters, table Tho ra,>orto-s -.