Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-04
FACTS AND FANClES.

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National house have been justices of the
peace.
New York state utilities about $40, 900
ayear from selling the ice privileges on
her canals. E.
San Francisco stood first last month
in the export of barley and wheat, and
third in flour.
Over seven million brick will be re-
quired for the great works to be con
structed on Breaker island at Troy,
NY.
North Carolina prohibitionists have
declared that they will support no can
didates of the old parties unless they ia
vor prohibition.
Quite a sensation was caused in
Sacramento, Cal, millinery shop the
other day by stray mule, which enter
ed the place and, leisurely walking the
full length of the floor, lay down ON the
porch to repose,
Fourteen examinations were held
during the year by the Brooklyn civil
Sol fiSSJ eLJ NhlCu 1sltt uD-
peared, and of whom 445 passed to the
eligible list. Of this latter number 143
were appointed to places in the civil,
service.
A strange animal was recently killed
in Washington territory. 1t appears
to belong to the wolf family, only for
its large size, measuring three feet
high at the shoulders, and seven feet
from nose to tail, and its beauty of skin,
which is snow white and jet black, in
termingled with gray.
An enterprising Pittsburgh woman
is about to start an escort bureau in
Washington, Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia, where young ladies with
out beaux can secure escorts for the
theatre by paying $25. She is allowed
% choose from an album face to her
taste, and the young man pays all the
expenses.
A little girl was sent by mother on
an GRAND to the house of a lady friend,
who appeared at the door in person.
When the little girl returned home the
mother asked: "Was Mrs. M-in?"
II don't know, mamma" was the re-
ply. II guess it was the hired girl that
came to the door, cause she didn't have
any bangs"
A Madison, Fla, farmer has raised
potato the description of which is al
most as good as the traditional snake
story. In size it is not larger than a
mans finger, and assumes the shape of
snake in coil, With the head, or part
joining the stem, erect, as if ready for
strike, while the other end is entirely
enwrapped in the coil.
A party of Indians were hunting in
Humboldt county, California, when the
late Stt4r"' came on, and an aged Indian
nan.G1SAS,S@.. " b" became exhausted. Al
is the usual custom of Indians in such
cases, bob" was left to take care of
himself. He picked a clear spot near
the trail, stuck stick in the ground,
hung his hat on it and laid down and
died.
Next Easter falls on the latest date on
which it possibly can occur, April 20,
under the rule of the Council of Nice,
which DEGREES that Easter shall be OBJ
served on the Sunday after the full
moon following March p. Its earliest
possible date is March %. 1t is 1872
years since Easter day has been so late.
1t will not again fall on that day until
1913. Ash Wednesday will fall this
year on March 10.
A swindler has reaped quite harvest
in New York and Brooklyn from the sale
of dry goods and fancy articles, which
he told buyers, ''sort of confidentially,"
had been struggled into the country.
Many persons jumped at the idea of
being let into good thing" and IN
vested much money in the articles,
which are in reality of domestic manu-
facture. The little scheme generally
brought the seller from two to five times
the value of his wares.
Miss Wilson, who has been Miss
Chamberlain rival abroad, is blonde,
tall and stately in person, with regular
features, and the air that people call
"aristocratic." She came naturally by
her personal attractions through her
mother, Miss Train, whose portrait,
painted by Porter before he became
fashionable, preserves the features of
one of the most beautiful women the
Hub has known.
What a farmer needs in this world
to be successful" remarked Deacon
Hayseed, ''is a good wife. Then he's
all right. My wife could git up in the
mornin at o'clock, milk fifteen cows,
feed six horses, git breakfast for twenty
hands, an be all ready for a days work
afore 6 o'clock. That's what call
good wife" doesn't she do it now,
deacon?" he asked. 20, no." he repli-
ed, wiping away tear, "she's dead"
Order rug of an Indian villager and
twenty-five years seven months and ten
days come back for it and, if Bhissess-
war Gam has been right pert all the
time, he hands you your rag. You look
it over and find serious delinquencies in
the upper left hand corner. You re-
monstrate. "Great Sahb," replies
Bhissesswar, my ancestor of century
and half ago did that. Go kick him."
At the middle you find by inquiry that
you are still several generations re-
moved. All this particular man is re-
sponsible for is about the final inch.
You pay him for the whole rug and that
is his inheritance. Then he starts an
other rug for the benefit of his posterty.
AS to the silver wedding and the gold
en- wedding, most of us know about
those anniversaries; but here now is
something new in the same pleasing
line-a bit about crown-diamond we'd
ding. The crown-diamond anniver-
sary is the sixty-fifth, and such an an
niversary was observed . short time
ago at Maebuell, in the island of Alsen.
Having COMPLETED their siXty-fifth year