Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-08
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An advertisement for proof-reader
In London brought 750 applicants for
the position.
Opera chorus singers can have their
lives insured without medical examina.
ton, They do not die.
Minister McLain's dinner parties at
the legation in Paris are described as
those of q "iine old Baltimore opicure,"
Mrs. Mackay is no longer friendly
disposed toward the Parisians, from
whose delightful city she absents her.
self quite pomtedly
In China the flesh OF rats. dried and
sailed. is deemed an excellent hair-re-
storer, and is eaten by women who de-
tect any symptoms Of incipient bald
ness,
There Is at present no jewish temple
In the whole of Syria, One Is to be built
at Gratz with the proceeds Of u lottery
which the government has just author
lied
This is n free country-~free for ono
class of foreign laborers to drive out
and murder another class who are OBJ
noxious to them And yet this is not
why it is called free country,
did you stop in Philadelphia"
asked the colonel OF the major, who
had just returned TO New Haven after
western trip. NO" was the answer,
81 had my nap before got there"
Prof. Oscar Schmidt, the great 20
ologist, is dead at Strusburg, aged 81
years, lie was the first to discover In
Goelhc's writings that poets affinity
with the later teachings of Darwin.
lie was persistent little boy who
told his mother, who thought he was
too young TO wear trousers, that ho
would be willing to 80 without pockets
ii he could only wear something that
had legs
The Roumauian chambers have voted
In favor of the plan for the fortitica-
ton of Bucharest. Tho works are TO
be finished in 1890, and tho preliminary
cost of building Is 70 DO covered by
nm issue of 6,OOO, 600 francs rentc.
A London correspondent, describing
metropolitan uctor, says he ''sweot-
ems" his performances by earnest
touches of pathos, delicatcly ''attun-
ed TO what Is possible in u iarcical ''at-
mosphcre" A worry remarkable actor.
evidently.
Nine, Christine Nilsson believes that
her voice and popularity win hold out
until June, 1887, when she declares
she will retire aud settle down TO enjoy
her old age in the beautiful new house
she has lately built and furnished at
Kcnsington.
Gen. Hancock was the only honorary
member Of the Pickwick club, of New
| Orleans. On one occasion the club
wanted to give the general a reception,
and, in order to make him thor guest,
suspended the rules for the once and
| elected him member.
, OF the ncwly-ereatcd English peers
| II may DC remarked that Charles Henry
| Mills Is Il rich banker, Henry Alsopp
| is famous rs brewer, and Edmund
| Beckett il banker and ecclesiastical
architect, and was the designer Of the
great clock on the house Of parliament.
Mr.. Arnold Morley, the new whip OF
the liberals in the house OF commons, Is
ayoung aud singularly handsome man.
He is lawyer and has worked as dill
gently at that profession rs though he
were poor and friendless Instead of tho
| son of man whose income Is 81, 000,-
600 year.
Tho proprietors Of the Ostrau Kar-
win mines in Silesia have offered.
through the minister Of agriculture, a
prize Of 1000 ducats to anyone who
shall discover method for extracting
coal from pits without occasioning ac-
cidents by explosion Of iire-damp or
combustion of coal-dust.
Connecticut has these living ex-gov-
ernors; Chauncey +. Cleveland, who
was governor in 1912, and is 80 years
old; William r. Minor, Alexander ii.
Holly. Joseph X. Hawley, James II.
English, Charles II. Ingersoll, Charles
Is. Andrews, Hobart Is. Bigelow, and
Thomas M. Waller.
"Old ryhmes" are now manufactured
in every enterprising newspaper Office
and they are verified quite as often as
the "old rhymes" made century ago.
Here's one, for instance, that may be-
depended upon: IF in June, July,
and August no rain there be, A very
dry summer you'll surely see. !"
In the competitive examinations Of
China poetry is essential for official
candidates, each man being required to
write poem of twelve lines, attaining
certain standard Of excellence. Any
student who fails in his rhymes is con-
sidered incapable Of governing a
prison or province, or OF holding any
other state Office.
Gluck was asked why the words Of
Orestcs, Tranquility once more reigns
in my heart" were accompanied by
such feverish figures Of the double
BASES and volins, in evident contradic-
ton of the words. He replied: Don't
you see the man lies? How can tran
guilty be in his heart when he has just
murdered his motherp'
A Russian traveller, who recently
fought his way through Mongolia and
Thibet with seventeen soldiers and as
s'stants, would make hero for Il ro-
! nance. He spent $4,000 rubles killed
400 people who barred his way, gave
Russian names to a number Of Chinese
towns, and raised enthusiasm for the
white czar by showing his portrait tc
| enraptured crowds.
John b. Cough, it is claimed, has
, spoken in behalf of temperance to more
than nine million Of people and travel
, ed over 500, 900 miles in meeting his APP
pontments. A friend recently spoke
of him rs '.first pauper burying bis
mother in Potter's field, then an actor