Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-30
FACT AND FANCY.


NC.
A memorial history Of the Jews In
America is proposed, TO DO issued in
1892.
Nova Scotia ships thousands Of BAR
rels of apples to New York city every
week.
Enough people bave gone into Kansas
within year to found CITY the size
of Baltimore.
A new ahsurditv is toput craps bow
on the collar of pet dog whose owner
is in mourning,
A girl employed in a Neenah (Wis,)
paper mill found two 500 bills sowed
up in an old corset,
IF ve hundred tall ladies' to wear rub.
Der cloaks us an advertisement arc
wanted in New York.
Visitors are excluded from Windsor
Palace now, nor are any more photo
graphs allowed to DO taken.
The woman suffrage bill which pass
cd the Vermont house by large ma
jorty was defeated in the senate.
What we want is not to see ourselves
as others see us. We want to have
others see us as we see ourselves,
A negro murderer In Texas eludod
the boodhounds that were put ON his
track by rubb ngh boots W, tn tobacco.
Base ball has been introduced into
the Pittsburgh Insane Asylum for tho
physical and mental Improvement of tho
inmates.
II IL said that several colored families
are about to emigrate from York coun-
ty, S. c., to Liberia, where earthquakes
arc unknown.
During the hol days Paris is to have
doll show, with dolls from every cline
and nat on in distinctive dress, aud
tabeaux OF historical scenes, with dolls
~ performers.
Walter Mcdonald saw large eagle
in the woods near Decatur, Ho threw
u stone at it and struck IL on the head.
The great bird fell to the ground aud
was captured.
Philadelphia men are said to be so
homely that they had to take COM
positc photograph of sixteen prominent
citizens in order to got respectable
looking mayor.
A dishonest jowelry peddler was
mobbed at Ann Arbor, Mich. He took
refuge in hotel, and the fire depart
ment was called out to dispense the
| crowd with cold water.
Snowshoe clubs are organizing In
Northern Michigan. and $1,000 worth
| of flannel uniforms have been ordered
from one tailor alone. Atoboggan slide
will also be built at Marquette.
A silver dollar weighs very nearly an
ounce, hence any letter not heavier than
a dollar can 20 for single two-cent
stamp. Five niokels and small copper
/ cent VIII also give an ounce.
In lecture at the Royal Institute,
| London, Professor Oliver Ledge has en-
deavorcd to show that electricity might
be employed to clear the upper atmos-
phcre of great cities of dust and smoke.
"Ah. said conceited young par
son, II have just been preaching to a
congregation of asses" "Thcn that
was the reason YOU called them beloved
brethren" replied a strong-mindcd
lady.
Among the most interesting discov-
cries recently made at Pompeii is that
/ the Romans used metallic pens. These
pens are of bronze, and shaped and
split in the center just like the modern
steel pen.
"Now, johnny, You remember that
Lots wife was changed to n pillar of
salt because she turned and looked back.
Why d d she turn and look backP'
"Oh. s'pose some other woman pass
ed her with new dress on.
The sourest vinegar Is now manufac-
tured from apples in twenty-four hours.
The process consists in tax ng the juice
from the apple and running it over
soured corncobs, and at the end OF n
day the purest cider vinegar is the re-
suit
In 1870 the village OF Durham N c.,
contained $50 inhabitants. Now II has
$500 and 1000 or3, 900 just outside the
boundaries The valuation has risen
from $4,000 to s. 500 900. Tobacco,
cotton and wooden factories account for
this.
A well-instructed Boston 4-year-old
said to his mother at breakfast the
other morning, boiled eggs being on
the bill OF fare: Mamma, unshell my
egg" Then apparently tn mixing he
had not been sufficiently polite, added;
'For Jesus sake. amen"
Unquenchable fire is eating its way
through hundreds of acres Of coal In
Westmoreland county, Pa, the flames
having been started some time ago in
the shaft of the II. c. Fricke Coke CON-
pany. BY reason of the tire some SOC
men are out of work, and the Coke
company is losing 50, 400 day.
| A small boy on his first appearance
in a parish school at Rochester, N. T.,
was asked if he knew the Lord $
Prayer He replied that he had never
heard Of it, whcreupon an urchin ut
his side. with friendly desire to excuse
his ignorance. said to the teacher;
..Please, ma am, he's stranger from
Pennsylvania
Look here, Deacon Snafflebit, said
the householder, II want a plain word
with you. Last Saturday you traded
me mare that isn't worth $50 for that
gray colt Id just put 5000 into" so
did, SO l did," groaned the deacon,
regretting that he hadn't insisted on
something to boot, so saith the proverb
of Solomon, ths wise. The wealth OF
the sinner is laid up for the just
One of the partners In an Indiana
grist-m,ll which had been closed up by
the sher # was explaining to New