Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-05
WHOLE NO. 500.
Gleantngs.

One hundred thousand cans OF tomatoes
were packed last season at San Jose, Cal.
The voyage of the Discovery and the
Alert makes the 134th expedition to the
frozen regions since the day of Cabot.
Some Cincinnati proprietors of retail
dry goods stores have the lady clerks
searched before they leave for the day.
4 young gentleman from the country be-
ing asked at a restaurant what he wished
for dinner, replied, Something to eat
and a napkin
"Stcer & Turner is the firm name Of
an organ-building copartnership in West
field, Mass The partners ought to have
been boat builders.
A Job lot of Maine islands, sixty-two
in number, were auctioned off at Rock
land the other day The whole of them
only bought 81 800.
. During the past twenty years the
British Government has added GIT ships
to its navy 1t has sold 10, broken up
1875, and 8 have been lost.
Col. J. A. Mcdonald, Captain of the
The United States, has been appointed
Solicitor General for Scotland.
The population of Peru is decreasing
heii less than 100000. The decrease
is attributed 10 earthquakes, diseases.civil
war and brandy, especially the latter.
A leading florist in New York says that
in the past twenty years he has cut $780,
600 violets, ,16O 600 tea roses, ,450, 900
tube roses, and has made 912 600 button
hole bouquets
A belated citizen, from whom police
man was trying to rescue a lamp post
few mornings ago, violently resisted the
endcavor eXcliming 'Lemnt' .one I'm
Oil J hold II tn fort
A Cincinnati girl of 10, but only four
feet 'ligh, complains to the police that
children Of lesser age ana larger proper
tions roll her in the mud and pull the
feathers out of her hat.
Last week Hartford clergyman on
rising from his pillow in the morning,
exclaimed, . How well have slept :
How well feel !" He then fell back
and died almost instantly.
Very neat and elegant are the paper
collars that you can now buy with
picture of George Washington on each
corner. Martha is supposed to be on
behind sewing, on the button.
The Grecian bend has finally disappeared
from public eyes. The las, specimen was
seen about a month ago, in the case of a
boy who had eaten the whole Of stolen
watermelon. He had it bad.
A lady and gentleman created a fensa
tion in Quincy, the other day, by riding
through the streets mounted on one horse,
he before and she behind. They were
from Hannibal; on their wedding tour.
4 The table of life Is abundantly sup
piled If we don't eat so fast it will
taste better; if we don't eat too much We
shall be better nourished; if we don't
snatch there will be enough tor all C
/ G. ADtes.
A member of "a club objected to The
publication of the list of meeting nights
of the club, . BECAUSE" said he, if its
published we married men will have TO
account for the otf-nights." The motion
to publish was lost
The silver springs just discovered III
Oregon are remarkable. The waters are
impregnated with liquid silver so that all
iron bar lioats on the surface. 4 hunter
recently rowed across one Of them :,id
found $15 worth of precious metal in the
baskct-work of his canoe.
Circumstances alter cases, you know,
old eli
ent, the other day. Very true, sir.
agreed the farmer; and cases alter cir
cumstances, as weel. For, man, l mind
when We were young and had but few
cases, your circumstances were not 50,
Draw"
Mary Miller, shop-lifter. who is men
toned as having eluded the detectives
in hundred cities" has Just been arrest
ed in Detroit along with her son, who
personatcd country merchant, while his
mother was " lifting" whatever she
could reach. When captured she was
loaded with plunder.
Wm. A. Jones, foreman of the COM
poSing-room of the New Orleans Times.
died last week Just before his death he
became conscious for y moment. and. in
that gleanl, dwelling upon the habit OF
his life, he suddenly exclaimed: The
ads ire all right sherman; lock up the
forms and lets go to press
George Eliot says that Young mans
eyes open To the world when he Is in love.
This i, not always 50 Usually it Is
when he has gone away from home and
his washing sent out for the first time,
tiniS among it when it is returned an odd
stocking with two red stripes about the
top. and long enough TO button around
his neck.
While all England was agog with the
Turkc- R,lSstn difficulty, London cler
gyman wrote TO an evening paper thus :;
This morning MAJ ried, in nv church.
Il man and woman bearing the names of
Thomas Turk and Jane Russ. Very like
ly the match will end sooner or later in
trouble, and make the coincidence more
perfect
They turn the Jim jams into good
account in Nelson, La. A snake appear
ed to one of the citizens of that town not
long since. but when he strove to kill the
reptile the latter crept away to his hole,
or seemed 10 90 so. Il he 1rlenuS OF Inc
unfortunate dug up the dirt where he al
legged that the snake had disappeared, and
found jar containing $400 in silver and
gold.
OVERRIDING Ir.-BuhTul Spooner ION
his honeymoon): Larry, my wife and
have both noticed that the townspeople
stare at lis very hard. hope you haven't
been telling anybody that We are newly
married" Larry (the faithful factotuml:
"Me tell EN-, sor? Is is likely Old go
agin my express ordhers? Why, whinev
er anybody thryed TO pump me, sor, Oivc
towld em you wasn't married at all"
One day Bill had company to dine with
HIM; and his wife, wishing William to
; appear well, quietly admonished him to
be careful what he said. All went wei;
till Bill got his potatoes well mashed.
when he said: Dolly, parse the grease" "
why, William, says his wife, "you
should call it gravy" Wall, says Bill,
guess if get it on your table-cloth it
would be grease The guests shouted
Two persons were once dlsputing SO
loudly on the subject of religion that they
awoke big dog which had been sleeping
on the hearth before them, and he forth