Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-05-20

Mr. GLADsToNE's Grafton over his
home-rule bill contained 24,T0O words.
HENRY GEORGE, the writer on eco
nomical topics, has become his own
publisher.
JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN's portrait, by
Hughes, of London, will shortly adorn
the Grosvenor gallery.
QUEEN VICTORIA will visit Liverpool
on the 18th of May. Her last visit to
that city was made thirty-five years ago.
PROF. MICHAEL EUGENE CHEyREUL,
of the celebrated Gobelin works, will
soon celebrate his one hundredth birth
day.
A YOUNGER brother of the famous
marquis of Queensberry has just arrived
in San Francisco from the Sandwich
islands.
JOHN c. CARR, of West Newbury,
Mass, having for tifty-two years served
as town clerk, now absolutely refuses
reelection.
Ex-SECRETARY HAMILTON FISH is
generally pointed out to English earls
and people as one of our finest Ameri-
can gentlemen.
MATTHEW ARNoLD's purpose in
coming to America is said by The Lon
don World to be that he may ''seek
summer repose."
Miss ROSE KINGSLEY, the daughter
of Charles Kingsley, is to become one
OF the editors of new English maya
zine for young people.
SENATOR SABIN and wife have per-
manently taken into their family the
two little orphan girls of the late Dele
gate Raymond, of Dakota.
CONGRESSMAN HANBACK, of Kansas,
in addition to being a prominent men,
Der of the Order of Elks, has cultivat-
ed tenor voice and shining bald head.
Gov. ROBINSON thinks of settling in
Boston after his term of Office expires
He has definitely determined to with
draw from politics aud devote hilsself
to the practice of law
JOHN KELLY, who went to warm
retreat before the cold weather set in,
is to leave New York for cool retreat
before the warm weather sets in. Mr..
Kelly seems to be confirmed invalid.
The authorities at Venice have dis
covered that ex-Commander Sandri, of
the arsenal, to keep up supply of
small change, has been in the habit of
selling important state documents as
waste paper.
PROF. WILLIAMS, of the chair of COM
parative philology, at Oxford, is to be
knighted at an early day. and the an
nouncement of this fact has created dis
satisfaction among the friends of Prof.
Max Muller.
PHILLIPS BROOKS, of Boston, when
rector of a church in Philadelphia
some years ago, received so many pairs
of slippers from his devoted young lady
parishioners that he was popularity
called the clerical centipede.
DIR. CARL PETERS stated recently at |
the meeting of the Berlin Society for |
German Colonization that the territory |
now owned by the German East Afri- |
can society measured about thirty |
thousand German square miles.
DURING the war Mrs. Terry, of North |
Adams, Mass, nursed back to life a |
stranger who was Frustrated with fe- |
yer. The man, who was a brother of |
Senator Stanford, of California, died |
recently, leaving hep $1,000.
FRANK r. STOCKTON dictates his fun
ny stories and novels to his wife, who |
acts as his amanuensis, and in this wav,
by working only three hours day, he
did Mrs. Nulr' in ten months, besides |
debating nine magazine articles.
The high prices recently paid for
older paintings by Knaus and other
German artists have apparently had an
influence in making some of them rate
their work as high as possible. For
his latest picture, representing the
Ilazza d'Erbe, in Vernoka, Mcneil
wants 100000.
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DURING the recent difficulty between
Bulgaria and Servia, Gabdan Effendi
was the envoy from Turkey to the Bull
garian government. He wears false
nose. When he set out from Sophia for
Constantinople the Bulgarian authori-
ties gave him passport, upon which
the words, "a pasteboard nose" was
written under the head. Particular
marks" The Turk Immediately COM
planned bitterly to Prince Alexander of
the rudencss of his employees. The
prince apologized with g smile, and
made the diplomatj5t a present of a
snuff-box for consolation.
Miss LOUISA M. ALCoTT has written
a note concerning her father, as fol-
lows: 'My father, l am happy to re-
port, is very well for one in his condi-
ton and at his age. He has never re-
covered the use of his right arm, and
only partially the use of his right leg.
He can walk little with help, and goes
to drive occasionally; but the exertion
will soon be too great, | fear His loss
of speech is the saddest part of his in
trinity, and it is pathetic to see one
who was so unusually gifted in CONVEX
sation unable to express even his wants
in words. His mind is still bright, and
he enjoys the visits of friends, under
standing all they say, though smiles
and gestures and few phrases are all
he has to offerin return He often saws
he is tired and wants to go. but, like a
true philosopher, bears the inevitable as
brayely and sweetly as he has borne All