Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-11
Gleanings.

'boned" turkey?
The new evening dresses are made in
the Princesse shape
Prof. Tice predicts dry summer,
and advises farmers to plow deep.
The safest way is to eulogize person
you don't know.
A county Jail out West has sign over
the gate "God Bless Our Home"
When is a candle like tombstone?
When it is put up for a late husband.
Grasshoppers al numerous in Colorado,
and threaten general destruction to the
crops.
A baby, says q recent French writer,
is an angel whose wings decrease as It's
legs increase.
State of suffering-Ill.- Washington
Herald. A fatherly State-Pa.--N0rrss-
torn Herald.
The New York Herald speaks of the
troublesome silver coins" Must be the
Eastern climate.
Williamsburgh, N. Y, town with
1000 Spitz dogs,is conducting massacre
of those dangerous pets.
Complaints of Mormon propagandists
in Buncombe County, n. c., are MADE 10
the Governor of the State.
A late book is entitled "Half Hours
with insects" What a lively hai1-hour
one can have with bee!
Can the clap of May" and the 'lap OF
spriug." alluded to in articles OF THIS sea
son of the year, be considered as belong
ing to the lapse of time?
One of the conductors on a Boston
street railway is divinity student, who
took the position for few months IN or
der to study human nature.
A Philadelphia paper ezpressess@
opinion that there ought to -Ps standlhg
advertisement in all the city papers for
new supply of live merchants.
1t takes large amount of affection to
make good Mormon father. Not every
heart is large enough to hold the love of
sixteen wives and sixty-four children.
One-sixth the population of Mercer
County, Pa. have signed the temperance
pledge. In the oil region of Mexican
County the same state of affairs exists.
An advertisement in Boston newspa-
per is as follows: ''Wanted-A young
man in the dry goods trade; to be partly
outdoors and partly behind the counter"
A happy Chicago maiden affirms that
by placing lover in the rays of a blue
| glass window he can be made to propose
at one sitting She has tried and proved
/ it herself.
| California is shipping large quantities
! of honey to Great Britain, and promises
that, if the demand increases, she can
supply any required amount of the deli
cacy.
a punster was once thrust into a closet,
with the threat that he would not be re-
leased until he made pun. Almost in
simultaneously he exclaimed, 80, pun the
door,"
Capt Burnaby was asked by his Tur
| conan guide which an Englishman loves
best, his horse or his wife. But the auth
or answered automatically: THAT de-
pends on the woman"
! Those were merry old days when it
was accounted the proper thing for
gentleman who took snuff from a young
lady's snuff-box Immediately to exclaim,
with bow: "I-kis-s you"
Copy of al advertisement hung up in
Cheyenne hotel; Wantid-Passenger
on the black hill Dead wod. feare Is
dolers each 80 lbs Bagge. start as soon
as We hav passengers anofe.
When Londen medical journal wants
to describe healthy man, it simply says:
Clean tongue, good appetite, slow pulse,
cool skin, clear head, steady hand, good
walking power and light, refreshing
sleep"
The Boston papers tell of love-sick
girl who married against her fathers
wishes and went home after the first con-
jugal tiff Kill the prodlgal," exclaimed
the old gent, "the calf has returned"
"Oh, yes" said an old lady, "the mod
ern cook-stove is a great invention, and
when my boy James gets through his
studies in practical engineering, SO he can
come and run it, I'll buy one of EN-: but
not afoye.."
California newspapers allege that, from
unexplained causes, that State, and San
| Francisco IN particular, furnishes a great
er number of cases of paralysis than any
other similar region in the country, if not
the world.
This was Robert Stephenson's remark
to the man who used to bother him about
perpetual motion: "If you will take
yourself up by the waistband of your
! breeches and carry yourself round the
room, | will consider the matter"
Mr.. Carlyle says that young men
should be shut up in barrels and kept
somewhere out of sight until they have
passed their twenty fifth year, because it
is about this time that they "attain to
their maximum of detestability."
A novelty from Paris is crepe lisse
tie, embroidered and having scollops at
the edge, bordered most effectively with
very small peacock's feathers, which form
a pleasing contrast with the dead whiteot
the rest of the scarf. z6aG
Come to Detroit if you would be happy !,
A man earning a salary of sixty dollars
per month pays scventy-two dollars peS
month for board for himself and wife,
and she is allowed ninety dollars to get
new clothes for Easter.-Detroit Free
Press. -
A man swearing the peace against
three of his sons, thus concludes his affi-
davit; "And the deponent further saith
that the only one of his children who
showed.him any real tilial affection was
his youngest son, Larry, for he never
struck him when he was down."
A Newcastle man at London restau-
rant called for the bill, paid it, and was leav-
ing, when the waiter suggested that the
amount did not include the waiter. "Ah, "
said the man from the North, "but .
didn't eat the waiter"
A woman recently entered a store in
Connecticut and sat down in front of an
iron safe to warm her feet. After sitting
some 20 or 80 minutes she remarked that
she "never did like them kind of stoves
they don't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas-burners don't
Commodore Vanderbilt's will has been
admitted to probate at Bennington, in vir-
tue of mortgage of $500, 900 he held on
the Harlem Extension Railroad. 1t is
said that the foes will more than nav the