Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-14
FACT AND FANCY.

In some parts OF California gold Il
extracted from the ore by electricity.
Eleven organ-g grinders arrived at
Jacksonville, Fla, in one day recently.
BY street attention to business Ital-
ian ehestnut-peddlers make $l.so per
day.
Prohibition tickets were nominated
in thirty Pennsylvania counties this
year.
Oculists think another half century
will 500 all Americans wearing spec.
tacler.
An Elmore, Vt, man. AZ year old,
is reported to have eioped with .
girl Is.
Now York is manufacturing canes
as big as baseball bats to keep the
dudes from blowing away.
There arc over three thousand
Knights of Labor in Seattle and Taco
ma, Washington territory.
White quail are among the curiosi-
ties of the animal kingdom to be found
at Pinal, Arizona territory.
Two Mormon miss onaries are
preaching in tho upper part of Pick
ems county, South Carolina.
An Ausnsta, Me-, lady has become
locally noted for possessing head of
hair that is nearly five feet long.
There are said to be more job print.
ing Offices ID Atlanta, Ca. than in any
other city Of its size in the south.
The Connecticut fish commissioners
have received applications for 1851
heres of oyster ground since July /.
Flour Is selling for $1.75 per one
hundred pounds OF first. class quality
at various-intoror points in Oregon.
NERVOUS Girl" wants to know how
to cure Il tickling sensation about the
face. Get him to shave of his mus.
tache.
The authorities of Paramount park,
Philadelphia, respectfully but firmly
decline the iufliction OF Cogswell
fountain.
Hawks have congregated by the
hundreds to destroy the nice which
have been invading the fields near
Tulare. Cal.
grading new street railroad at
Los Angeles, Cal, recently, blast was
fired which loosened five thousand
tons of earth. ID
Al Emmettville, Idaho, work has
been commenced on ditch that is to
furnish water for irrigating 100000
acres OF land. Vi
The fcolored people of Mississippi
propose.to erect at Vicksburg a $780,
900 monument to commemorate their
emancipation.
A Germantown Reformed m MISTER
of Springtown, Pa, was lately dis
missed by his church tor "ianaticsm
and Method sm."
The tizcns of Toronto arc said to
hope that when the next census is
taken that city will have moro inhabit-
ants.than Montreal.
A Rutland, VT, paper has figured
out that it costs $4,000 per year to
keep the boards of the male population
of the town in order.
England's highest med cal authority
on dyspepsia, DR.. Fothergill, recon-
mends milk pudding and stewed
fruits for dyspeptic and goity people.
Nineteen hotels and restaurants in
Portland, Oregon, have recently dis
charged their Chinese help. and are
now employing none bat white hands.
Many kindergarten teachers agree
that the first choice among colors of
all children under years OF age is
yellow. This admits OF few oxcep-
tons.
A Rockland, Me-, sportsman was
out cunning the other day, and mis-
taking his deg, little fellow with
bushy tail, for a fox, filled him with
shot. ~:
Ham Toy, = Sacramento Chinaman.
Aho was arraigned on charge of
striking a woman with Ratchet,
pleaded rs Il justification that she was
his wife.
Easter of next year falls on st.
Marks day, April 25, its latest posi-
BILE date. The last time this occurred
was in 1886 (old stylc), and it will not
occur again until 1913.
A fashion authority states that slow.
neeked dresses will be dropped at the
opera this season. The time is fast
approaching when the opera will be
no place for respectable people to
frequent.
A young woman who wants to
be teacher in Danvlle, Va, is
) .vouchcd for by the local paper as
''past tho giggling age but as mot
too old to be very agreeable COM
panion.
Some years ago a gentleman stop
ping in Cohas,ct, Mass. placed a coup.
10 OF goldfish in the pond on Cohasset
common. Recently the pond has been
drained and cleansel, and thousands
of goldfish were taken out.
AS tho. holding of the winter carnival
at Montreal is an imposs bility this sea-
son, owing TO the prevalence of small
pox, many prom nent citizens of To-
ronto are making strong effort to
have the attraction held there.
A couple of owls have been caught
in Churchill county, Nevada, which
have hair on their faces like monkey
and eyes and eyebrows like human
being, The body of ono Is speckled
like a trout, and that OF tho other is
yellow.
Mr. Cable, the southern novelist,
gives in his adhesion to woman suff-
rage by saying: IF our mothers are
not tit to vote. they ought to stop
bearn sons" BY this brilliant logic,
as our fathers don't bear sons. they
will be deprived Of the right Of voting.
/. A Boston man in England has been
examining the original charter map
of Massachusetts, and finds that the
lttle rockcr is,et called Middle Rrews-
ter, OIL Boston harbor, lies outside Of
the boundary, and was never claimed