Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-02-11

EARL GRANVILLE is now the SENIOR
knight of the order Of the Carter.
Mrs. BRowNLow, the famous par.
sons's widow, is still living at Knoxville.
Tenn.
PIERRE LoRrLLARD will sail for Eng
land in few days to attend tho English
races.
Mn. GLADsToNE's election expenses
amounted to IS, He was returned
free of expense to himself.
The London Times is valued at $685.
100000; Standard, sl0,OOo,O 900; Mesos.
e6,0oO,0 900; Telegraph, S5,000,00o.
MIR. LABoUCHERE says that exclusive
Of personal expenses and the returning
officers charges, the election at North.
ampton cost him the modest sum OF
1896.
Mr.. PAUL FENIMoRE COOPER, son Of
the novelist, has been chosen by the
trustees of the state library at Albany
TO finish the work of compiling and
editing the Clinton manuscripts.
CAPT. RICHARD w, MEADE, who has
charge of the dispatch-boat Dolphin on
her ocean trial trip, is the officer who
commanded the naval battalion during
the valuable service which it rendered
in fighting the rioters in New York city
In the summer of 1868.
PRINCE ADoLPH, Of Lippe Schaum-
berg, has just celebrated the twenty
ifth anniversary of his accession to a
petty German principally of exactly
212, square miles area, with a popula-
ton of 33,13S, but all the same Adolph
has private property to the amount of
$50, 100000
JOSEPH BARNEY, ono Of the foremost
Of English musicians, began as church
chorister. He was with Sir Arthur
Sullivan, in 1854, member of the
Royal Academy of Music. Mr.. Barnby
is the leading conductor and organizer
of oratorios. and is himself a composer
Of fine music
LEOPOLD is one of the most demo-
cratic of kings. He saunters about
Brussels in the most leisurely way, and
is as familiar figure ON the Rue Royale
as President Grant used to be on Penn
sylvania avenue. He is fully six feet
tall, and has an angular form and an
awkward manner.
ERNST CURTIUs, who stands without
peer as a student of Greek history, is
the most robust of all the distinguished
German professors, though already past
the biblical limit of life. He is patri-
clan of the quaint old town of Lubbock,
his clearly cut features and intellectual
forehead bearing testimony to this fact.
WILLIAM EwART GLADSTONE is three
years older than M. Grevy and one year
older than the pope, and he is stronger
and far more active than either. Bis
marck is six years younger than the
Englishman, who is eleven years
younger than the kaiser, and carries ten
less years than Won Moltke. Tough old
men, all of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA did kindly act re-
Gently, when,as she was driving through
Windsor, she observed cab-horse fall
down. An outrider was sent to make
inquiries, and, on learning the nature of
the accident, her majesty caused an in
timation to be conveyed to the lament
ing owner that he should be presented
with another horse from the royal sta
bles.
GAMBETTA said after no had been
about eighteen months at the Petit
Bourbon: There's nothing that is
so soon exhausted as capacity for any
sort of material enjoyment. have got
so thoroughly to see this as to wonder
how any fairly rich man can want to be
a millionaire. The pleasures arising
from the heart and intellect are inf
mite, and the more you taste them the
more your capacity to enjoy them in
creases."
MINISTER 8. S. Cox announces in
letter to friend in New York that he
has begun an historical work on the
Ottoman invasion of Europe. He ex-
poets to obtain full access to all the
Turkish archives and libraries. If Mr..
Cox is successful in this he win be able
to do great service to historical litera-
ture, rs the Greek and Armenian man.
uscripts in Constantinople have for
many centuries been inaccessible to
scholars.
An excellent gastronomic reform has
been started in Paris, People there
have begun to find out that the dinner
table is no longer "the feast of reason
and the flow of soul' it was formerly.
This decline is attributed to the menu,
which is too abundant, and makes the
dinner last too long. Even gourmet,
become tired and weary before it is hall
over. 1t has been decided, therefore,
by the leaders of fashion to restrict the
bill of fare to four piats, which ought tc
be enough for the most gluttonous.
DIR. KOCH, the discoverer of the COM
ma bacillus, is below medium stature
and is much bent in figure. He has
thin hair, full beard, and deeply sunk.
en- eyes, entirely obseured behind prom.
inent glasses. He PAGES backward and
forward steadily as he speaks, knitting
his brows as he utters the slowly flow.
ing works which contain mines of truth
and the results of years of ardent inves.
tigation. Probably no other man of 40
has enriched science to the same extent;
yet from his looks few would guess 1t.
The following anecdote is told about
the composer of the Queen of Sheoa:"
At fashionable dinner party Gold.
mark is introduced to a pretty young
lady from the country. 1t appears ia
him that she does not seern sIlfficieptly