Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-27
Gleanings.

Many words to short story is as water
added to soup.
What is that which is heightened by
being cut at both ends? A ditch.
They fine physicians in brooklyn for
omitting to report contagious cases.
There is plenty OF game in the Black
Hills. 'Seven-up" and ''poker'' predom-
mate.
Everybody is thanking Minnesota for
putting an end to the career of that Miss
ouri gang of robbers.
A Blind tramp was restored to sight at
Erie, Pa, by Il thorough washing admin
istered at the alms-house.
There is pleasure enough in this life to
make us wish to live and pain enough to-
reconcile us to death.
Some people keep their tongues going
so fast that their heads don't get chance
to put in thought edgewise.
There are now some 5000 unclaimed
and lost trunks at the Pennsylvania Rail
road depot, Philadelphia.
Mosquitoes are getting nipped them
selves 1t is frost that is doing this emf
nently satisfactory thing.
A number of Peruvian mummies were
sold at auction, in Mey York city, the
other day, for fifty cents each.
An odd marriage has just taken place
in Jersey City. A Clergymaress, who
was also the mother of the bride, Official
ed.
An Indian child learns to write legibly
in seven MONTHS which is more than is
accomplished in lifetime by many
whites.
Says tie London Fun: ITO what
length may widow go when she desires
a new parent for her children? She may
go one step-father.
There is nothing more truly insinuating
and dlfferential than the wagging Of lit
tie dogs tail in the presence of a big dog
with bone.
Mister, say, don't suppose you
don't know of nobody what don't want
to hire nobody to do nothing, don't you?"
IC aHsNSl was, ASs. L NoA
1T is easier for camel to 60 through
the knee of an idol than for rich man
to enter heaven" is the Interpretation
which colored preacher gave to the
Scriptures.
A teacher asked one of his pupils who
sat at the extreme end of the bench
where the sun struck with full force near
ly all the afternoon, what business he'd
like to follow when he grew up to be q
man. "Well," said the lad: Pop wants
me to be a lawyer; but l guess if I've
to sit IN the sun all my life, I'd rather
drive an ice-cart."
A widowers' club has been formed in
Milford, Massachusetts. The platform
declares (1) that tobacco smoke is the
best known preventive of ennui, mosqui-
toes, and kindred Affections; (3) that real
comfort in this life is to have things han
dy; (3) that washerwomen are mans
greatest evil. Membership in the wild
overs club is limited to gentlemen of
average moral character whose wives arc
out of town.
Grace Greenwood says that English
gentlemen and ladies are fast regaining
the arts of beauty and grace in dress lost
century or so ago, under the monstrous
wigs and waistcoats of the Georges, and
the hoops, hair-cushions and steelribbcd
corsets of the Carolines and Charlottes.
/ hold that an English gentleman of to
day. at the opera or dinner party, is the
best dressed man in the world. Next to
him comes the American and then the
Frenchman."
The "pianista" is new invention, an
automatic arrangement by means of which
you grind tunes out of piano with
crank, all the same as the hand-organ.-
The chief excellence Of this arrangement
is that it does away with the intolerable
two years chant of "one.nan, two-wan,
three-yan, four-ran, one-nan' two-wan,"
ETC., ad lib., which, in the regular course
OF affairs, precedes real playing and
makes life outside of deaf and dumb
| asylum a very weary burden EscAangs.