Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-25
WHOLE NO. 551.
Cleaning.

partridge.
Hooking a dress is not a dishonest
practice
Those who know most Of sorrow speak
of it least.
Soft hearts often harden, but soft heads
never change,
A circular saw-A proverb that goes
the round Of society.
The man WHO pays for his clothes is
the best dressed man.
The streets cars Of Constantiuoplc carry
dogs as well as Turks.
The men who always tell good stories
generally tell old ones.
The publc'5 cool question What's The
prospect for the ice crop
A well-balanccd man appears always
the same with both sides.
Don Carlos has issued the ambiguous
edict to his followers: ''Navarrc give
up"
A man at Bingham n y, cured him
self Of consumption by chewing oak
bark
why is grain Of sand in the eye like
schoolmaster's cane= Because it hurts the
pupil.
Il puts a man on his metal to say that
what he calls self possession is only
brass.
There is 10 grief great or sudden
4 enough to make a bald-headcd man tear
his hair.
a flock of sheep composed OF all
''wethcrs" may be said to resemble our
| climate.
1t is said that every profound thinker
is smoker. Keep your eye out for
smokers.
"Tn let you off easy this time" as
/ the horse said as he threw his driver in
to the mud.
China asks for 1000 square feet OH the
/ Centennial grounds. China always had
weakness for square feet.
Woman is an interesting hook. but NOT
always an open one; she's volume thai
is sometimes tightly clasped.
So, Madam you ycarn to be an III
ventor, do you? Go and invent pocket,
so that you needn't carry your pocket
book in your hand.
An old mald in Reading married
tramp because rs she said, he smelled
/ Just like an Italian count whom She lad
once met and loved
A Baltimore lady wouldn't buy after
tumblng goods over for an hOur, and
when tie shopkeeper scIwled at her she
! had him horsewhiped and then arrested
/ No man ever got married without some
body called him fool-Bac5moad En-
/ qnirer. Yes, and nine cases cut of ten it
is his own wife that does it.-BrooTgn
/ ArgUs.
The wonderful man in Detroit who
4 puzzles the doctors by being able to make
his heart shift sides, can rest assured that
he will be beautifully cut up as soon as
/ he dies
go out young man; sizes not here,'
said e Pennsylvania preacher last Sunday,
in the midst of his sermon, to young
man who was standing hesitatingly II the
doorway.
\ Brunswick man has begun his win
ter's economy by cutting off his boot legs
and having them footed and giving the
other part of the boots to his wife 10 serve
her for shoes.
I Dr. Hall says that might air is very
bad, and if people will keep on breath
ing after dark they do it at their own risk,
and have nobody but themselves to blame
for the consequences.
\ Buffalo man dreamed that he was
going over the Falls, and he had his wife
by the throat when he woke up Next
night she had a dream and broke his nose
as she struck at an Indian.
/ Seventeen dollars worth of dishes dis
appeared from the eyes of q Richmond
family in three weeks, and the hired girl
could remember breaking nothing but the
ax-handle and the back gate.
The Virginia City Enterprise thinks
that girls who study Latin and Greek and
botany and all that, and then marry poor
men, are certain to make good mothers
and bring up their children right
( As old Mr.. -- heaved the last scut-
tie of four tons of coal into his cellar, he
was heard to remark IF they had been
boys instead of girls, it wouldn't have
been thus One ton would last all Win
ter"
\ Detroit boy paid Ills visits to one Of
the union schools, the other day, as q
scholar, and, rs he came home at night,
his mother inquired; Well, Henry,
how do you like going to sehooly" "Bul-
I ly," he rerlied in an excited voice. II
saw four boys licked, one girl got her ear
pulled, and big scholar burned his el.
bow on the stove. dent want to miss
day
y man i'll Kilkenny, all alive and well,
recently saw a statement of his own
death in a newspaper He wrote to the
editor: Sir: | notice Il few errors in
the obituary of myself which appeared
in your paper of Wednesday last was
born in Dublin, not Cork, and my retire
ment from business in 1850 was not ow-
/ ing to ill-health, hut to little trouble l
had in connection with a horse. The
cause of my death was not smallpox.
| Please make corrections
Emerson. the English chemist shows
that it is not for the purpose OF cleaning
and pluming their wings and bodies that
| flies stroke them With their feet, but that
they thereby collect n quantity of micro
scopic insects, upon which they feed by
means of their prohosCis These insects
are scraped from the. wings, and can be
separately examined. He further proves
that myriads of healthy flies, covered
with lice, float through impure and fptid
air; while in localities where the air is
fresh and pure only n few emaciated ones
are seen, and those quite free from insects.
Accordingly, wherever there is corruption
and the living germ Of disease, there
tlouriShes their enemies and dcstroyers,
and these are our despiSed house,tlies.
The Bangor Wig has this report from
Orono, Me: Some four years ago Mrs.
B., living in that part Of Marsh Island
now known as Webster, visited her neigh
bor Mrs. p, one afternoon for n social
chat, and was ushered into the parlor by
the attendant TO await the arrival Of Mrs.
F., who soon made her appearance, The
ladies conversed very pleasantly for few
minutes, when suddenly novel sight at
tracted their attention, and on stepping to
the mantle, they discovered that eleven
mice had, during the preceding cold day,
| coiled themselves up on the chimney and