Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-12-08
WHOLE NO. 592.
Gleanings.

Squirrel-lock fur is used to line capes
and cloaks. The fur is inexpensive, yet
durable.
Tho Minneapolis street Car company
has issued halffare tickets for school
children.
Emory Cobb's short-horn bull, Nine
tecnth Duke of Airdrie, valued at $50, 900,
died at Kankakee, Ill.,, a few weeks ago.
A California horseman recently accom-
plished the feat, at Los Angeles, of riding
100miles in four hours and forty min
utes
4 farmer of New Hampshire says it
costs sixty cents per bushel to raise corn
in that State, and yet he says it pays to
raise corn.
Scarlet fever prevails in Chicago TO an
alarming and increasing extent The
Board of Health reports forty deaths
last week.
One hundred convicts in the Indiana
State prison south will be employed here
after in the manufacture of small kitchen
hardware.
No Boston girl is admitted to cultiva-
ted society in that city until she has writ
ten at least one poem on the Immortality
of the Soul.
An awful calm has settled over Phila
delphia, and her citizens feel as though
the world has stopped revolving since the
Centennial expired.
In Newburyport, Mass, a sovereign vo-
ted Ior the first time in tifty-five years
He was sailor, and his business had
kept him from the polls.
Trees, and especially evergreens, if
rightly arranged. add largely to the value
and comfort of farm and dwelling, and
they cost but little, except time to grow
A lawyer of Grand Rapids, Mich, col
lected a bill of 500 by garnisheeing the
holders of stakes put up on the result of
the Presidential election.
The thickest armor-plate for vessels yet
produced has just been rolled in Sheffield
by Messrs. John Brown & Co. 1t is
twenty four inches thick.
Henry Ward Beecher says: An impu-
dent clerk can do almost as much injury
to his store as the neglect of the proprie-
tor to advertise his stock.
A drove of $4,000 horned cattle was re-
Gently driven from Texas to Kansas BY
700 drivers. The outfit alone cost $50
600 and the herd brought 1920 600
A young lady of Green Bay, Wis,
found Il husband by walking off the abut-
ment of bridge into the river In 9TH
er words she is to marry the young MIN
who saved her from drowning.
Of fourteen schoolgirls whose NAMES
appear in a paper printed at Minneapolis,
one is Carrie, another is frankie, another
an Addie, another a Minnie, another Ju-
ME, another Hattie, another Susie, an
other Nettie and two are Nellles.
SILVER 20-cent pieces, mllled in imitation
of quarters, can be detected from the
fact that the eagle looks to the right, while
ON the quarters its head is always pointed
to the left
A Milwaukee wife says that before maT
riage it was My darling angel Lucy, hea
ven above knows the depths of my loue
for you," but after marriage she found
bottom very quickly.
Somebody remarks that young ladies
look upon boy as a nuisance until he is
pas: the age of 16. when he generally
doubles up in value each year, until, like
a meerschaum pipe, he is priceless.
Here is the model verdict of coroner's
Jury We do believe, after due inquiries.
and according to our best knowledge, that
we do not know how, when ana where
said infant came to its death"
Men, says Adam Smith, are naturally
unsentimental A man will scoop the
bottom out of an egg without thinking
that the mother of that egg Is perhaps a
hundred miles away in the rain.
1t is positively stated that millions of
gallons of California wine are taken to
France and Germany, manufactured by
adulteration into French wines, and
} brought back to the United States for
sale.
| A convention OF the whip manufactu-
rers of the country has made an advance
in prices of thirty per cent on common
goods and fifty per cent on fine goods, ne
cessitated by the advance in whalebone.
The London Spectator says that the
practice of boarding money prevails to a
large extent among the poorer classes IN
England, especially in the rural districts,
as we'll as to limited degree among &C.
centric and old fashioned people Of better
circumstances.
With the exception Of the pyramid Of
Cheops, the spire of the Strasburg Cathe-
dral, 464 feet in height, has hitherto been
the most elevated building in the world.
1t has now been exceeded by the lately
, completed spire OF the Rouen Cathedral,
which is 494 feet high.
An industrious watchdog at North Ray
, ham, Mass, took the hydrophobia, killed
a hundred fowls, put to death number
of cats, and bit eight other dogs. The
dead-animal man is preparing touching
| account of the tragedy, which he hopes
d, the s. P. c. A. will publish.
Loring Pasha, the American officer who,
it is presumed, lost his life on the second
disastrous Egyptian expedition into Alb
, vssinla, was Gen W. w. Loring, former
+ ly an officer of the United States army,
+ and afterward Confederate Major Cen
, eral At the close of the rebellion he ac-
cepted service with the Khedive of Egypt,
Persons buying butter in the pals, so
common now, are tcld upon inquiry, with
the sellers blandest smile, that ''there's
no charge for the pail" If, after it is
empty, however. it happens to be weigh.
, ed, the buyer finds that he has paid fifty
: cents a pound for cheap tin, heavy iron
, handle and liberal amount of solder
Boston Bulletin.
= Hamlet plunged his sword through the
arras i'll Bristol. England, the other even
, ing and Polonius fell seemingly dead up
on the stage, whereupon gentleman
started up In a high state of indignation,
t and, exclaiming aloud, 'It most dis
e graceful that all these people can sit qui-
etly here and see an aged person deliber-
= ately murdered" bounded frantically out
:. of the theater.
| There was a boy in Martinez, Cal, the
other day, who doubted if the other boys
gun would carry shot as far as $50 yards,
! and challenged proof by posting himself
= as target at that distance for the other
> to shoot at. The doctor had several Of
the leaden pellets to excavate from below
his cpidermis, and he is presumed to have
been convinced that the gun will carry
8 $50 rods.
Oregon bears off the palm for grain at
> the Centennial 1t has sample of oats
8 yielding SO bushels to the acre, and with
5 stalks eight feet high; rye 81 bushels to
=, | Tho ooro, u,boot SO huoholo ord ov>r;, n