Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-11-04
FACT AND FANCY.

The hotels of Boston are crowded
this season with transient boardors.
Philadelphia claims that one-tifth Of
its population is enrolled in its Sunday
schools,
A correspondent wants to know II tho
detached notes in music ought not to DO
called coupons
Atlanta, Ga, prison authorities are
thinking of using the whip on jail-birds
who steadily refuse to work.
Newport men. says Mrs. Grundy,
seem to wear as many rings on their
hands rs their fingers will hold.
A steam laundry belonging to w, ID.
Wilson at Los Angeles, Cal, was do
stroyed by fire on tho 18th. Loss so, 800.
A seven foot snake that had just
swallowed two largo rabbits was killed
few days ago on Anastatia island,
Florida.
Tho following is said to be q now pal
indromc, recently discovered by The
LoVcH (Mass,) Courier mo. 1t is OPP
position"
Fifteen thousand scalskins were UNI
loaded from four sealing-ycssols that
recently arrived at Victoria, British
Columbia.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase Of $1,000 acres Of land
in Teham1 county, California, for graz
purposes.
Summer Boarder-I have heard that
silk tasscls grow on your cornp Farm.
err Yes, miss. regular gros-grain silk.
IL Is, too.
A Dickson county, Tennessee, farmer
recently killed an owl that measured
four feet and nine inches from tip to
tip of wings.
There are sevonty-hvo banking In
stitutions in New York city whose con-
dition is so encouraging that only two
are below par.
"How can you give me such dirty
napkin rs thatP' beg pardon, sir; got
folded the wrong way, sir. There. sir.
how's that nowP"
il IL said that u "mule can not bray
II brick be tied to his tail" Yes, but
what becomes OF tho man who On.
ginoors the brickP
In u Belgian pigeon race that took
place n while ago the winning bird COM
pletcd $40 miles ut an average speed of
1.lSl yards per minute.
The people of Bakeriield, Cal, were
so well satisfied with the recent
adjournment Of the state legislature
that they fired n salute of one hundred
guns.
The Philadelphia North american re-
fcrs to the Niagara Whirlpool rs the ian
griest bit of water in tho world" It
certainly has had enough to make it
angry lately.
"And then. gentlemen of the jury, |
must appeal to your sense OF justice.
You must remember that you arc twelve
strong, welIfed men, opposed to this
one miserable. puny defendant"
Miss Della Anderson. handsome
young girl of Youngstown, o.. recent
ly ran away with strolling band OF
Kickapoo Indians, who were engaged
in selling medicine in that vicinity.
At MERGED, Cal, u harvester driving
wheel struck bowlder, producing
sparks which set fire to tho standing
grain aud 240 acres of wheat, $50 acres
of grass, and 100 acres OF stubble were
burned.
A section-boss on tho Canadian
branch Of tho Grand Trunk railway af-
firms that squirrels crossing tho track
at Potrolia abs olutely blocked the road,
and hand-car running into them kill
cd sixty-four.
Gentleman (outside the polo grounds)
Sonny, is there game going on in
sidep Small Boy--Ycssir. Gentleman
Are you certainP l don't hear any
bowls. or boots, or Kisses. Small Boy
OATS cause Sullivan's empirin' do
game.
Visitor regarding the babylon.
what dear little duck Of child! He
resembles you both, indeed he does.
He's got his, mothers handsome eyes
and his fathers hair. Father (who Is
bald -headed)- think he must have;
haven't.
A young man was attacked by pack
of wolves one night last week near Sun
flower, Miss, and the next morning he
was found dead, his body being torn
and lacerated in u terrible manner.
The body of six wolves that he had kill
ed before he died were lying beside
him.
A convict in the jail at Athens. Ca,
stripped the iron hoops from his cell
tub, made them into saw-blades, sawed
through an iron bar an inch square,
making hole in the window fourteen
inches square, soapcd his naked body,
and thus slipped through it, and was
then detected by the sheriff. He said
that he had to get out of his dark cell
A Key West, Fla, newspaper as
joke nominated Gen. Abe Sawyer fol-
mayor. The general, who stands q
inches high and weighs 2s3 pounds
writes to the paper full-sized letter.
in which he says: "lf the people o.
Key West would elect me mayor
would be nobody's tool, and l would
show the people what a good mayor
would do.
Four men were killed by the prema-
ture explosion of blast Sept ! on G
w. Hunts contract on the Cascade
division of the Northern Pacific. They
were Joseph Scavonio, an Italian
Andrew Kropp, Bavarian. II. Jon,
dorf, German. and John Ruiz, q
Swiss. The remains were given re-
spectacle burial by Mr.. Hunt, in the
cemetery at Ellensburg, Oregon.
A young man out of work began ped
ding lead pencils about Norristown,
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