Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-11-08
FACT AND FANCY.

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The beet sugar crop In California this year
i: great success
Two saipa recently loaded -four at Rich
Lao4d. Va, Tor Brazil.
/ flJy4s ruined oyas haii u the cotton crop
-.la- the a.faaaaL ..ysT.
ne 6tc., wygas L. Slta..yu. Pa, make
100 tons Of slvy4 J-s Gay,
4 private bunk 10 Chicago IA.!a1 last week,
VIII HAbI tes o. SLOJ3v3I
there is d revival Of iu.cge-. b.. 40 Old gold
miaes Of rorsaerg Alabama.
Tue IIsco1erI OF anunuerg. JU4Q ..Yer has
ccen made at WA.IeVille, \. {.
The latest co,ubine is on stca! rails. -.4 tn-
aides this country aud Europe.
Another attack on suakinl b. the rebels
las been repealed BIZ the British.
The Navajo Indian sQuaws OF saALe Fc
AXE the best blankets IN tie world.
A man at sayn Rock, Conn, owns 500,
20 acres vi grazing land in New Mexico
farmer ia Bucks county, Pa, has raised
900 bushels Of potatoes gu l6 acres this
auasou.
The large4t iron ore mines IN Warren
county, \. D., &.e exhausted and have been
Closed up
i man was sca!dcd to death IN The hot
sGr'ugs at Hot Springs New, in which ne was
taxing a bath.
IEc River Rhoue, france, oycrfowed lie
banks last week, causing immense damage
Several lives were lost
GREET restitution Is reported among the
people IN Ramsey county, Oak, by reason of
the failure of the crops.
The attempt to bring logs from Nova
Scotia to New York IN rats has been aban.
dUncd, 1t not having paid.
Nearly all the bulbs in this country
come from Harlem Holland, where 10000
acres are used for their growth.
The past season has been poor one for the
Labrador fishermen, aud their condition and
that Of their families Is piiuble
In Salem county y j., there are four per-
Sons living within 80 feet OF each other
who,e combined ages are 3S4 years.
The bridge across tine Firth of Forth ia the
last wonder in the world. twill b: s, !6j feet
long. with two spans OF 40 feet each.
Two large sugar reGneries In Williamsburg,
n. Y, we're closed by the Sugar Trust las
week, throwing 1909 men out of work
The farmers In the seml-arid belt In Kan
sas, Nebraska and Dakota are turning tLeit
attention to sorghum, with profitable results,
And Association Of Iron and Nail Mana.
facurers hes Dissolved aud hereafter each
firm will individually settle the wages ques.
ton.
The farmers Of North Jersey are feeding
their hogs upon apples, owing to the large
quantities of that fruit for which there is no
market
Miss Jennie Smith guessed there were 4 1920
beans In jar IN a druggists window In Du.
buque, and 10! she hit the exact number and
got a silk dress. Send in your offers of mar
rlage ut once.
What makes so many crooked nosesi Well,
man who has given the subject close study
says that It's blowing them with twist of
the right hand.
Coffee county, Ala, was named before
single kernel of coffee had ever been carried
into it, but the people lived in hopes. Now
they wonder that they did not name 1t
ChIcory county.
Among the questions asked at an examna
ton Of school teachers at Green Bay was;
"Why does a blackberry grow on a bush"
That's busIness-Why! Wig not have ZEN
grow in the ground!
Philadelphia Ia prosecuting q contractor
who stole curbstones, and there Is hope that
the thief who stole the four walls OF cellar
may yet get his just deserts.
Out OF so females who went into business
for themselves last year-opening stores and
shops-6s3 made dead business failures inside
of seven months. They're all angels, but
they are not all business men.
A., - i,,fr eli. for
bidding the public to use their bridges for
lynchlug purposes 1t delays trains and
makes trouble and trees ought to lie set out
and preserved for this purpose.
Biughamton man sat In restaurant
where another man was eating linburger
cheese, and 1t mace him so mad that he hit
him with chair, and nearly killed HIM. The
popular verd ct is: ale orter'
The Hon. Simon Cameron was once called
fool and advised 10 30 and soak his head. 1t
was In old days when he predicted that rail.
road passengers would yet be carried at a
speed of thir.v.hve miles an hour.
What curious ideas some people have. At a
prize fight in New York city one Of the con
tesianis called out: "Pm gentleman, am
and l want to be treated as SUCH Webster
must have been awfuly mistaken.
There is no question but Bozzaris had a
band Of /, 200 men, aud that he cheered his
band but how much better II he had passed
around the lager and told them to drink their
I'll and then 20 In and win! Cheers are cheap
things
''Wbat Is the writer's crampi" asked Pitts.
burg paper. You work for six months on a
manuscript, send 1t off aud have 1t rejected
five or six times, figure on 1t to buy your win
ter's fuel, and you will find out all about
cramps.
woman may forgive the man who slurs
the red hair of her children, but the man who
smokers when u woman falls fat on the side
!. walk might as well hope to dam the Missis
= sippi with bags Of straw as to receive her good
opinlon.
y Capt. Andrews was bound 10 cross the At
= lantic In a dory or lose his life. The frs,
storm which hit him scared him aboard OF q
steamer so fast that he forgot to take his con-
8 ceit with him. The Atlantic has no use for
r such chaps.
There is man in Hamilton county, o.,
y who has run for a county office twenty -one
!, successive times and been defeated every time,
" He says It begins to look a little blue and that
five or six more defeats will lead him to pause
o and reflect.
g Four young men at Honesdale, Pa, loved
@ the same girl, and met and fought to see who
Il should marry her. After theS had BACKED
each others ewes and skinned each Others
noses, she shook the crowd and married Q
tailor who Is afraid OF COW.
Nature sometimes makes fool OF herself.
She had a water spout burst IN Bourbon
e county, Ky., the other day IN neighborhood
= where they had over 5000 barrels Of whisky
o stored up. and nobody cared TO see drop oil
water for the next five years.
II will kill any man In this room for ter
centsp exclaimed Pete Hammil. as he enter
ed a saloon In Deadwood, but the Grove
i turned loose and shot Peter full OF holes fol
;. nothing at all. A liberal spirit lie seldom
n properly rewarded in these cold days.
n Tie attempt TO organize a grave.stone trus
has failed. A graveston isn't something
u you have 10 run right out aud buy and hav