Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-02
WHOLE NO. 6O4.


Gleanings.
Wilmington, Del, has a bigger school
board than New York City.
The average woman won't allow the
census taker to 'ave-'er-age.
WHY'S gold like the Prodlgal Son. Be-
cause it's returning to par.
Rhode Island owes $2,0OO,O ,O0O which
Is as much debt to the square inch as any
of the States can boast.
The Arizona Legislature is running
through divorce bills by the wholesale,
and it is called divorce Legislature"
A statue to Robert Fulton's memory
would be an appropriate expression Of
esteem.
Only one person IN ten is Rhode Island
is engaged IN agriculture; fifty six cut OF
every hundred are engaged in manfactur.
ing.
The Philadelphia Times tells of bar
Der who advertises ''silent shaves," and
whse shop is, in consequence, crowded
from morning until night.
King Kaiakaua, though not sporting
character, is doing all he can to promote
races in the Sandwich Islands. He has
appointed commission "to increase the
Hawaiian race"
Little girls disturbed an old man in San
Francisco by playing on balcony close
to his room, which was in fourth story.
He ran out, caught one of them, and
threw her over the railing. She was
killed.
The bill repeating the law against the
intermarriage of whites and blacks in
Rhode Island passed second time the
General Assembly of the State, Wednes'
day, by vote of thirty-seven to twenty
eight.
The Count de Paris finds it hard work
to make history that suits sensitive Amer
leans. They all want 70 punctuate his
great works, and rub out his criticisms OF
themselves and his praise of everybody
else.
Drinking men are always iioerai,"
says an exchange Just so. We've al
ways found them inclined to Bacchus in
any measure where public spirit was re
quired.
The residents of Woodbine, Harrison
county, Iowa. have been holding indigna-
ton meetings because a farmer there
keeps nineteen dogs. which he aliews 10
run at large.
Even the potato bugs become unusally
cute in New England. They have win
tered there safely in the ground, few
inches below tue frost and are looking
plump and vigorous.
A negro of Bozeman. NJ T., drank
pint Of coal oil with suicidal intent, the
other day. An enetic converted him into
a petroleum we'll, with a flowing capacity
of four barrels day.
It is. estimated that during the New
Years holidays 100000 worth OF toys
were sold in Paris Toys of all kinds
came to Paris from various parts OF
France, and from other countries
Bad luck attended Robert Hayden. OF
Pulaski, KY In one week his house was
burned. his wife eloped. his son died,
and finally, he got under an orer-hang-
ing rock just in time to be crushed to
death by its fall.
A new beer saloon game is called
Centennial base ball practice" The
player throws balls at the head OF an ef-
figy fifteen PAGES distant, losing five cents
for every miss and getting a glass of beer
for every hit.
! An exhibition of historical costumes Of
great intrest has been formed at Bordeaux,
| including those OF the celebrated dwarf
of King Of Poland, the court habit OF
Voltaire, jewelled dress of Louis XVI,
and the red robe of Cardinal de Richelieu.
Mr. Habbertons temperance story,
THE Barton Experiment" had sale OF
| 10000 copies in two weeks, and second
| 10, 700 is rapidly disappearing. The au-
! thor is said to be a man about thirty-tive
or forty, of medium height, dark eyes,
and dark complexion
! Twenty-Five of the statues Of the old
Hotel de Willie in Paris, have been restor-
ed, and will be placed on the new edifice.
They include those of Button, De Tully,
Mansard, Debrun, Voltaire, and Vincent
de Paul Fourteen, which were too much
injured for restoration, will be replaced
by new.
A Kansas City girl resolved to kill her
self because her step-mother bought .
dress for her that she did not like; and
her mode of suicide was as comical as her
grievance She ate large quantity of
mixed blue paint, which made her very
sick but did not kill her.
Following on the heels of the water
cure, the electro-cure, the earth cure. the
lifting-cure, the sun-cure, etc, Della
ware farmer has established "hoe-cure."
He furnishes the corn, and it costs the in
valid nothing to hold office in the farma-
cy. Hoe We Disconsolate," is over the
door, and when there is nothing left to do
it is sign o-cure."
Mr.. Frank Dillon is the first English
artist who ever visited Japan for the sole
purpose of painting the people and the
country as he saw them. He has been
there eighteen months, and is now return
ing to England with large number of
finished sketches. which are looked for
ward TO with considerable interest
DR.. Beebe, of Chicago. will feel badly
now the other doctors have met and SHE'D
Il resolution at him for publishing the fact
that he has found the sulpho -carbelated
soda a prevention and cure of scarlet fe-
yer and diphtheria. He ought to have
kept the matter secret and made money
out of it. Strange how indiscreet even
doctors will sometimes be.
"You will observe from this word
patsr," said schoolmaster to his pupil,
''the great flexibllity of the Latin language.
pafer is a father; and here we have patr.
tus, an uncle: and propatrwus, a great.
uncle on the fathers side Can you make
any such change in our languages pa.er,
patruus. propatruus-father; is there any
way you can change father into uncle in
England?" =" / don't think of any," replied
young hopeful. ''unless you can get him to
marry your aunt"
Professor IN Political Economy-"Mr
F., will you please mention, from your
own experience, some Of those articles
where prices are increased by the revenue
tax, while the wages of the producer
} remains the same-some commodity With
which you are familiars" Mr.. F. I'm a
moment Of ungarded insp,ration( Lilo
uors." Professor-"That is correct, SIR