Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-22
FACT AND FANCY.

Peach trees ~ years old still bear
profusely at Levyville, Ga,
Arrests for unlawful cohabitation are
still daily made in Utah.
There is one officer to every five men
in the United States navy.
Nevada's fishing inhibition begins in
April and ends with September.
Three-card monte-men still have con-
siderable success in Vermont.
There are twenty-five thousand more
men than women in Philadelphia.
A colored woman edits an influential
paper published in Petersburg, Va.
One hundred and fifty Of the 1865 col
leges in this country publish papers.
In the freshman class at Yale col
lege there are thirty colored students.
Timothy-grass seven feet ten inches
in length is grown in Napa valley, CAL
ifornia.
Louisville, KY, street fakirs sell
what they are pleased to call sneeze-
less snuff
The catch of shad in the Connecticut
river this season is reported very I'M
satisfactory.
There is said to be more undevelop-
ed land in the state Of Maine than in
any western state.
The settling of buildings at Virginia
City, New, creates alarm among some
of the residents.
The camp at West Point this year
will be named Hancock" in honor of
the deceased general.
The girls at Vassar college are said to
be SO modest that they will not work
on improper fractions.
Birds are playing havoc with the
apricot crop in Santa Barbara, Cal,
eating the fruit as fast as it ripens.
At Conneaut, o., there is an exem-
plary organization of young boys whose
motto is "Politeness and Kindness"
According to New York medical
journal one-half the adult men in Amer
lea living in our cities are bald-headed.
The prince of Wales has conferred
on Sir John Macdonald, premier of
Canada, an exceedingly handsome
Masonic jewel
1t is expected that Mr.. Domingo
Cana, now Gillian minister to Brazil,
will be appointed minister to the
United States.
A resident of Amador county, Cali
fornia, has applied for patent on a
process for making butter by boiling
the cream.
One trucker in Alachua county,
Florida, got % cents from New York
last week as the total returns for six
crates Of beans.
Deep-sea fishing is being successful.
ly practiced with travis off the Column
bia river. As high as ton of fish are
taken ut one haul.
A physician recently testified that
two boys were poisoned by wearing
suits of brown cloth the dust from
which was poisonous.
Two men in Tallapoosa county
Alabama, cut each others Threats anC
died simultaneously one day last weel
during political quarrel.
Extreme cold weather has proven
bad on the strawberry crop in the neigh
borhood of Kalamazoo. Celery, how
ever, is abundant, as usual.
The experiments on the wear of COIN
begun in 1888 have been continued b,
the chemist and assayer of the British
mint but arc not yet completed
A New York journal says of recen
bride that .'she is descended direct,
and collaterally from very distinguish
ed people, but principally from he
grandfather.
A recently-discovered tombstone nea
} Princess Anna, Md, bears these words
Capt. John Blainey. born in Charles
town, New England, Jan. 8, 1854; die
Jan. 5, 1715."
Anybody that knows anything be
fore it happens is called reporter.
was the definition written on the slat
of an s-yearold boy in one of on
schools the other day.
: Most of the hair that is made up i
7 this country into bangs, braids, an
twists, comes from Europe, German
D and Switzerland sending thousands c
pounds of it every year.
1t was a German critic who remark
: ed that sin order TO prove the absur
irregularities of English pronunciatio
it will suffice to state that the wor
: Boz is pronounced Dickens"
, A beer war is going on at Rome, Ga,
: and one retailer advertises it at l cen
= glass. Most consumers, however
, have for some time been buying it b
, the keg. owing to the low rates pre-
. vailing.
Two women, aged 104 and II year.
respectively, were recently arrested &
; Louisville, KY, for fighting. The eide:
one held her own for some time, BIT
the youth of the other finally triumphe
and 104 was knocked out.
Mrs. Charlotte Weld Fowler, WI
died in Hamonassett, Conn, recent
at the age of SO, was famous local al
= tiquarian and genealogist. At the ag
of sc she wrote and published the hi
4, tory of the Weld family, covering Il
period from 1888 to 1873.
This is the way an intelligent jury
Los Angeles, Cal, put in their verdi'
. in trial brought for disorderly col
;. duct: 1--WE, the jury, find the defenc
ants, John Doe Lafarts and Josephin
: Lafarts, not guilty. We also ask TIL
the jury be paid their fees"
:. Tho three largest rattlesnakes eve
seen in the northern part of Pennsylv;
}. mia were killed recently nearShshequi,
h One measured six feet ten inches, IL
second six feet eight inches, and Il
third five feet nine inches. They ha
altogether forty-two rattles.
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