Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-05
WHOLE NO. sci.
G1eanings.

When is it right to take one in? When
it rains
If silver Is drug why not physic the
poor with it?
A Jackson Tenn. mother is eleven and
a half years old.
In San Francisco there Is one divorce
to three marriges.
A Tear which troubles Uncle Sam-the
Mexican frontier.
The ugliest "cratur" on earth-the era
tur of Mt. Vesuvius.
| A dignified answer to a beggar girl is:
"Go, walf, from me-"
"Let no single man escape" is the leap
year motto of the ladies.
If men would set good examples they
migt hatch better habits.
Punch says that this year women pro-
poses, but God disposes.
Something which everybody sees but
cannot tell how it looks-trouble.
What are they which, though always
drunk, are never intoxicated? Toasts.
Many lady in Washington has come to
want-come to want diamond earrings.
Honesty has nothing to fear Dis
honesty should be made to fear all things.
"What shall we do with our Chinese
populatlon?" is the que-uestion in San
Fran cisco
Scranton, Pa, had haunted piano
until the top was raised and {. rat allowed
to jump out.
Fifteen ounces and less to the pound,
avoirdupois, is one of the leading abomi.
nations of the age.
A frog weighing $50 pounds was ex-
hibited in Nashville the other day. 1t
was railroad frog.
The fashion in dress-coats has not
changed much in five years. The only
difference is in details.
1t used to be considered "poor doings"
to smoke five cent cigar. Railroad con-
ductors smoke them now.
A paper published at Rome, N. Y,
has discovered that the children of the
present generation don't have as much
collie as children used to, but it lasts
longer.
A "Homc for Aged Couples" where
man and wife will not be separated in
their old age, has been established in
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Pittsburgh Commercial man con-
soles himself with the reflection that eff
knee breeches come in fashion the biggest
calf will look best
A man named Peters, eighty-four years
old, dropped dead, the other day, at Men
don, VT, from excitement at seeing o
fight between two men.
Mr. Marrowfat threw out a fine though
at the table last evening. He remarked
that a man with much honesty about him
i'm these times must feel good deal like
tying it up in a rag for safety.
1t is bad sign to see q man who has
been married but twelve months gloomlly
pacing his chamber, with his hands ner-
vously thrust into his coat-tail pockets,
and mu:tering to himself: "The world is
too much governed.
luC bClIOll ITcC TCSS LIDS Wis. "A
Pennsylvania girl worth $500, 900, says
leap year be hanged. If any man wants
her and her money, he has got to come
courting around and hang over the gate
and sing something soft under her Win
dow
A pretty little Ohio schoolmarm tried
to whip one of her pupils, boy fifteen,
the other day, but when she commenced
operations he cody threw his arms around
her neck and gave her a hearty kiss.
She went straight back to her desk, and
her face was "just as red"
The season is already coming over the
hill, when modest man who prefere the
quiet of private life is so persistently i'm
portuned by his "many friends from all
parts of the district" that he is forced to
abandon home and friends to announce
himself candidate for office.
She waltzed like Juno at the hop;
vowed the question pould pop; and as
her partner tended her a seat, my throb-
ing heart with anxious care did beat
tripped besisidc my lovly charm; bowed,
and gently touched her arm. Engaged
for nexts" l said, 'my darling Kate?"
go way" she said, "Yo ou hit my vaccin-
ate. ."-Bingham Republican.
The second night after her first husband
five hours, waiting for the cats to begin
fighting in the back yard. She said
''This thing of going to sleep without
quarrel of some kind is so new that can
not stand it! Let me alone till they be-
gin, then can doze off gently"
"This is nice late hour to be coming
home, SIR" remarked Mrs. Spilkins, from
the head of the stairs as LeanGer let him.
self in with a night-key at l A. NJ
"C'rect again." mumbled Leander, hang
ing his hat on the gas-burner, "but you
mus member, lovely, if is nice late hour,
this's nice late case, you know"
No mockery in this world sounds to me
so hollow as that of being told 10 culti-
vate happiness. Happinessis is not potato
to be planted in a mold and titled with
manure. Happiness is a glory shining
far down upon us from Heaven. She is
a divine dew, which the soul feels drop
ping upon it from the amaranth bloom
and golden fruitage of Paradise. Char
lotte Bronte.
The American Fish Culturist Associa-
ton intend to make remarkable exhibi-
ton at the Centennial. 1t will embrace
not only live, iced and stuffed fish, whales,
seals, porpuses, turtles, frogs, alligators,
crabs, Holsters, corals, sponges, alga and
other marine creatures, but prepared fish
and roes, dried, salted and smoked, pick
led or corned, and also oils, spermaceti,
gelatine, isinglass, glue, leather, shell and
whaleoone.
The Ballard (Ky) Neus has an item
which will amuse the scientists. The
News says; "Our old friend, c. C. Ter
rill, has always contended that persim-
mon trees come from grub worms. We
do not know how this is, but friend
brought US o grub worm with perslm-
mon sprout growing out of its mouth -
The sprout is two and half inches long.
and the grub worm, although in perfect
state of preservation, is dead, or apparent.
ly So"
In Adams fall
We sin-ned ALL"
At Belknaps tumble
| We all must grumble;
Ali i'll the act,
And sad the fact.
Twas woman's wiles
| Caused both their guilesf
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