Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-02-25
HERE AND THERE.


Paul.
The latest fashionable notion in Bos-
ton Is linguistic, and everybody Ia stu
dying Italian.
The colorcd people of Georgia owr
600, 900 acres Of and and pay taxes ON
about $40, 000, 900 Of property.
New York congressman say that
there Is good prospect for getting an
appropriation Of $4,000, 900 for the en-
largement of the Erie canal.
When young Jenklnson told his
father he'd only been out on little lark.
the old gentleman muttered that Tho
guessed there was more swallows than
lark"
French wit; In police court. "What
are your means of cXistenceP demands
the Justice OF u tramp who has been
brought before him. ~ very good
stomach"
The talk of the day. Mrs. Al hear
that the Montmackingtons are goingto
spend the winter in Paris" Mrs. b.
Indeed! You surprise me! When were
they bittcnp"
The Mormon delegate Caine, says that
Cannon and Taylor, the two fugitive
polygamsts, are hidden so securely In
Utah that they can't bc arrested by the
federal authorities,
They don't wait for leap year In ia
pan, but II u young woman Is In want OF
ahusband she places an empty flower
pot on the roof Of the front portico M
pre-nuptial emblem.
As an evidence that flats are making
their way In the estimation OF the public,
an entertaining publisher abroad lras Is
sued two cards; God Bless Our
Home" and God Bless Our Flat"
DIR. Carlos Finlay of Havana, per-
forms incubation for yellow fever
through mosquitoes, who are permitted
first to sting people sick with fever and
then turned loose on healthy persons.
Daniel G. Sperry, the South Windsor,
Conn, man who predicted he would
die Dec. 10, and ordered his coffin, is
still hale and hearty. His wife threat
ened to pitch the coffin into the street
The triumph OF mind over muscle il
powerfully portrayed in beer garden
In Cincinnati, where they keep puny
cripple for bounccr, on the principle
that nobody would care TO resist any
thing so helpless.
Last week San Francisco experienced
one of the soverest storms known In the
history of the city. The tide was at the
time closing up the mouth of the sewers.
and an immense overflow resulted
which put number of streets under
water.
Tho editor OF an Oroville, Cal, paper
says Of lawyer In his town; "All we
ask is fair play. We will shoot with
him at ten PAGES whenever he desires
IT," II h suggested that this bcllieosc
editor might be prosecuted for issuinga
challenge,
Stka has a newspaper called The
Aidskan. Among the advertisers are
three lawyers, n goodly number OF
saloon-kcepers and restauratcurs, a
butcher, and two brewers, one Of whom
offers his beer exclusively for medicinal.
mechanical. and scientific purposes.
According to Prof. Hartley, who has
been investigating the chemical nature
of the Examinations OF that wonderful
copy Of the gospel, the book Of Kells,
written by Irish monks about tho year
800, the pigments were identical with
those used by the ancient Egyptians.
A large old-fashioncd clock at Green
Cove, Fla, which has kept time one
hundred years, on being SGT back to
standard time refused TO run regularly.
Finally il was SGT forward 10 sun time,
when IL returned to its senses and has
run regularly every since. This must
have been the original grandfather
clock OF lyric fame. ..
"A leading Chinese merchant in San
Francisco gives the names Of the Chin
csc Six companies and the number Of
Cinnamon In California In round
rs follows: Ming Yung
company, 10000 Cinnamon; Tung Wo.
33, 900; Sum Yup, $4,000; Kong Chow.
10000; Hop Wo, $4,000; Yen Wo,
$1,000, total, 253,0O0.
"Sir." said Capt. Thompson, United
States army, II understand that the
people in the east are denouncing Gen.
Crook because, with l,lOO men in the
field, he does not at once crush the fif-
ty-hve--for the hostiles number no
more than that-Indians that are doing
all this numbering and stealing. Why,
sir, that Is as difficult TO do MS 1t Is TO
kill California flea with y sledge-ham-
mer.
According to The Bulletin Of the Go
ographical society Of Marseilles, which
Is good authority, there are only 100000
Jews in America. Making allowance
for women and children, there are prob
ably not more than 10000 men, Yet
these 10000 men control more than half
Of the dry goods, clothing, boot and
shoe manufacturing and banking bust
ness done in America. In fact, there Ii
no line OF business, excepting agriculture,
that the Jews are not largely represent
ed in.
A startling novelty in roses was that
introduced by Pedro da Costa, Portu-
gese rose-grower, under the name of
Lusiadas. II was a pale yellow, spot
ted with red, and was awarded certif-
Gates of MERIT by several French horti-
cultural societies, and now it is claimed
by those who have investigated that the
red spots were painted upon It. In the
meantime Pedro has pocketed $4,000
francs from the sale of his novelty,
while he stoutly denies the painting.
A sable son of Africa, accompanied
by smiling daughter of his race,
entered the .ofiice Of o justice of the
peace at Coweta, Ga, the other day,
and thus addressed him: us you der
edge what is to marry peoplep WAL,
.el yer Use got de license and l got so
,ents left. !" The Judge said: my fee
S IS for performing ceremony" yes.
ar, ledge, but den l thought get
married as fur as der 80 cents 'ud go,
md next SADLY I'll have de mainder
md gifts yer ter finish der job" The
udge declined to proceed until the
whole amount was forthcoming.
A famous organization in Philadel-
,hia is the Glover club. which is noted
or its gastronomic triumphs, and the
brightness of its members. At recent
east, the table was formed in the shape
If four-leaf clover with tree of green
Using through it and branching out in
uxuriant foliage at the ceiling. The
,ill of fare was printed on cards cut af-
er mammoth clover leaf, and the
French rolls were made in the same i'm
lge. Before the mutton was served,
our walters marched around the room
holding high above their heads a platter
a roast of mutton uncarved.
With sleeps head at one end, and a
great bunch of wool at the other end OF