Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-04-13
WHOLE NO. 61O.
Gleanings.

A female pauper at indianapolis keeps
eighteen dogs.
When are two AMI two not four:
When they are twenty-five.
A suggestion to charity tea-parties--
BLESSED Bo hea that helpeth the poor"
Every man should own dog. If he
is IA quiet man, yellow dog would GER
tainly be the best.
When you see two men arm in arm,
you may be sure that one Of them is So
ber-- ~ T. Herald.
TIE official organ of the German En-.
pire publishes the population of Germany
as now AZ, 727 7,620.
The King of Sweden and Don AlfonZo
are the only soverelgns in Europe who
are Of French descent.
There is now a temporary wooden
bridge at Ashtabula, and in the Spring
stone arch will take its place.
Snow shoe excursionists are having
good times and excellent luck hunting
among the Adirondack Mountains.
MIR. Charles Blanc, of Paris, has discover
ed mole of giving plaster the consist.
ency of marble, and of bronzing it.
In the legislation to prevent fires in
theaters it should be carefully provided
that none of the company shall be sticks.
The Court of AK, France, has Just set
aside the will of a lady on the ground
that she was II believer in Spiritualism.
All, parson, wish | could carry my
gold with me-" SAID dying man to his
pastor. 1T might melt" was the con-
solng answer.
In the brokers prayer meeting the 9th.
er day, in New y srk one sensible man
prayed that they ali might mean what
they said.
Choose the course which you adopt.
with delibcration; but when you have
adopted it, then persevere il it viii frm-
ness.-Bias,
The Red Sea is rapidly changing color,
and some day folks will go out to see 8
Red Sea and see a sea unlike the sea they
expected to sec.
Rev Widow Van Cott wishes all the
galleries in churches would burn up. SO
! as no longer TO give refuge to meeting
disturbing sinners.
A little California girl wanted the doc.
tor to yaccinate her pet white dog, be-
cause she did not want its complexion
| spoiled by the smallpox.
A Vermont mother remarked "Yes,
wantmv daughter to study rhetoric. for
she can't fry pan cakes now without
smoking all the house up
! Don't say this IS not pleasant world to
live in, rs there are Cos varieties of d3lls.
With this variety to choose from, every
one should be happy.
| Some slanderer asserts that paper-mak-
ers are the greatest magicians of the age,
inasmuch rs they transform beggars' rags
into sheets for editors to lie on.
| Every man is said to have at least one
chance to acquire wealth In the case Of
Il newspaper man, this opportunity comes
on the Goth of February every year, ex-
cept leap year.
| The color fever Is running SO high that
men insist upon drinking their whiskey
| only out of blue-bottomed glasses, while
the ladies will wear none if they cannot
/ have blue sashes
a blue glass chimney on the parlor
| lamp will bring young man up to the
point of proposing to a cross eyed maid
Ell with store teeth, III three Sunday eve
nings.
ID ff,h No tp,x-r ,,,N
land that pays 81, 900 for the support Of
/ its dogs and only $4,000 to all its minis.
ters." Such people should be left to do
their own barking
Bald-headed gentleman in the parquet
TO young lady in the dress circle, during
an affecting passage in the play: Il re-
spect your emotion, maam. but you are
shedding tears on my head"
MAMA" said the old lady's daughter,
don't you think that modern table is out
of place in that ancient picture?" "Oh,
la, no, They had modern tables in them
days as well as now"
The exports of American hardware to
England are constantly increasing. One
local house has just sent out an invoice
of twenty cases. and the shipments of
this single firm average two cases a week.
A half a hog to every man, woman and
child in the country is the allotment of
| the pork crop of the United States for
1876. If any one wants our half for five
dollars, let him forward US the money by
mail.
4 Colorado cat lived alternately in
three families in a neighoorhood. She
had four kittens, and as soon as they
were able to take care of themselves, she
carried one TO each of her former resi-
dcnccs and left 1t, retaining two with her.
self.
The rebuilding of the Tuilleries and its
transformation into n museum, have
been decided upon by the French govern
ment The prospects of the Paris Expo.
sition of 1873 are looked upon as gloomy
in presence of the existing European com.
plcations.
Be civil and oblging to all, dutiful
where God and nature command YOU:
friend to hut one, and that friendship
keep sacred, as the greatest tie upon earth,
and be sure to ground it upon virtue, for
no other is either happy or lasting.
\ very poor man, with u large family
to support recently presented an order at
Il store in Grovcton, n. II for one col.
lars worth of goods, which he took up
as follows: One plug tobacco, forty
cents; matches, ten; pack playing cards,
twenty-five; tea, to balance, twenty-five.
Baroness Burdett Coutts appeals to Eng.
lish ladies, calling attention to the stag
nant condition of the ribbon manufac.
ture, and urging them to substitute rib.
bon for feather decorations in ladies' bon.
nets, thus preventing the cruel extinction
of several species OF beautiful plumaged
birds
A singular suicide recently occurred in
Drowana, Australia. A Greek, who had
become insane by poverty and bad luck,
poured quantity of melted lead down
his throat. He died after many hours of
torture, and after death lump of lead,
nearly half Il pound in weight, was taken
from his stomach.
Vegetarians snore less than beef eaters
says some hard pushed advocate of the
doctrine of turnip and oaten grits. But
If he has got to get up O nights and ,Su~
around on tiptoe in his stocking feet in
such mean way to get such poor argu-