Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-11
FACT AND FANCY.

NJ Rivcrside, Cai.
In New York women make ~ cents
day crocheting shawls.
It Is estimated that there are 1,10o,1 1877
cattle on the Montana ranges.
The world moves. II probably finds
it cheaper to move than pay rent
One swallow doesn't make asummer,
put Il it is of the right stuff it win mako
a fall.
Peach and almond trees are already
In blossom on Yale county, Califor-
MIA ranch.
II Is said that moro than q thousand
New Ycrkers are already booked to
sail for Europe.
sawdust burned to the windward
saved many Florida orange groves from
the biting frost.
Many noble .clms have been borne
down by masses of leo in Massachusetts,
since New Years.
At the reservation near Cotton, CAL,
the Indians have raised moro grain this
year than ever before.
New York Mrs. Gnmdy says that
digestion visits" are the ones you mako
In return for dinner party.
There are ninety-two claimants for
the estate of tho deceased California
millionaire, Thomas ii. Blythe.
A demented woman recently walked
from Mojave to Los Angeles, Cal, .
distance of ono hundred miles.
Fogg atlirms that billiards resemble
matrimony, inasmuch NJ kisses and
scratches are common to both.
A young man at Santa Barbara CAL,
was arrested and fined for practicing on
tho clarionet In his own apartments.
The trouble with tho Oldest inhablt.
ant Is that he had no thermometer when
all things no remembers used to hap
pen.
In Arizona the cottonwoods are with.
out foliage for about six weeks In the
year. They will soon be putting out new
leaves.
Fifteen men went out to hunt rabbits
In Modoc county, California, recently.
and in short time killed $50 OF tho lit
tie animals.
During January there were iifty-nlne
deaths in Salt Lake City-twelvo from
lung diseases. eleven from diphtheria.
and ten from old ago.
A pair of pet deer OF the West Indian
species are passing tho cold weather
hcalthfully Mt Woodbridge, Conn. but
their fawns do not live.
Tho Indians at Tulalip, Idaho, are
doing quite business In the cordwood
line, furnishing about eighty cords per
week to passing steamers.
As mirror OF the soul" the eye has
lost its claim. The play Of the neigh
boring muscles pictures the character
Of the man, says The Lancet
The Indians of New Mexico are very
thrifty and economical, When blood
hounds are sent in pursuit Of them they
shoot the dogs and eat them.
A man witha wooden leg is to be en-
WED these cold days, Hc never expert
onccs the misery of having both feet
feel M II they were Jumps Of ice.
A Sewing machine which is held In
the hand and worked like pair Of
SCISSORS" is made at Bridgeport, Conn,
the factory employing seventy-fve peo-
ple.
A southern paper states that northern
capitalists propose to utilize the frozen
Florida oranges by making wine Of
them, for which purpose the frost has
not injured them.
When a society writer says lady Is
apparently" thirty years Of age, II in
dicates that his conscience has not been
yet toughened up to the required stand
ard Of mendacity.
In Zululand woman Is rated ut ton
cows. This may look unreasonable to
the civilized world, but it must be re-
membered that cows in Zululand run
wild and have little or no value.
Many Of the Maori girls are really
very pretty; but the comeliest Of them
are not able to resist the temptation Of
a short pipe filed with the very strong
est tobacco, and at this "dhudeen" they
are perpetually putting.
Diphtheria Is said TO have followed
the smallpox at Montreal. One report
says there are one thousand cases in the
city, and that the disease Is terribly
prevalent in Quebec. Toronto. st. John,
N. b., Halifax, N. s., and other Cana
dian cities.
An Indian boy is confined in dark
! prison on tho Yakima reservation, Wash
ington territory, and fed on bread and
water for stabbing half-brced in the
hip, during quarrel Indian judges
passed the sentence and the agent ap-
proved 1t.
OF car-horse that died in Sacra-
mento, Cal, short time ago, it is told
that he was so well acquainted with
some of the regular patrons of the road
that when they were aboard the car he
would stop IN front of their residences
to let them Off
A man in Richmond, Va, has built
house by most singular mode of indus
try For many years past he has picked
up from the streets one brick ut n time,
and year ago he had accumulated
sufficient number of bricks to build him
a small house in the suburbs.
At meeting of vine growers, held
short time ago ut Fresno, Cal, a pro-
test was entered against the boycotting
of Chinese. This arose from no SYM
patty with the Mongolians. Their la
Dor is just now simply indispensable in
the vinegrowing districts Of the state.
The Faithists are building settle
ment near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
One building now under way is l00x270
feet and contains torty-eight rooms. Tho
chief of the colony, j. b. Newbrough.
says that at least 100000 will be ex-
pended there during the coming sum-
mer.
Lilly Macallister Lawton, regent OF
the Mount Vernon association, is as
| sartad m haye "the smallest and most