Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-07
FACT AND FANCY.


Burdette will settle 10 Los Angeles when be
Is well enough of.
Boston is to have a new Public Library At
a cost OF $l,i6o 0Ol.
In Wisconsin 81 wears OF faithful work Gu
titles man to pension.
The Peep Ia the name Of u paper recently
| started at West Point Ma
Watermelons are In the markat In Florida
! and peaches are rpenIng rapidly
1t Is said that a New York modlste has paid
| $4,000 Tor a house gu Fifth avenue,
There are ESQ licensed saloons In Mis-
souri, or this number st. Louis supports l..
| $50
A huge bear attacked aud killed q full
| grown COW In Lake County, Florida re-
| Gently.
The Prince Of Wales Is talking OF visiting
| the United States next year Ia company with
! the Duke OF Sutherland.
The heaviest locomotive In the world BE-.
longs TO the Canadian Pacific railroad.
Weight, i6O. 900 pounds
Coy. Waterman, Of California, has a gold
mine In San Diego county that Is now paying
| him net profit OF $500 q dav
|
| glish thoroughbred horse that belonged TO
her husband. She is a Ane rider.
Mr.. Gladstone received an honorarium Of
| 100 guinens for the manuscript Of tho last
brief essay with which he favored an Ameri-
can magazine,
| A Rochester, Pa, widow has brought suit
for sl00, 900 damages against the wcalthlest
man OF the place, because he called At tho
| house four tunes within q year and will not
marry her
Napoleon at - commanded the army al
| Italy At 10 he was not only one OF the most
nlustrIous generals OF all time, but one ofthe
greatest iawgIvers OF the world. Al ~ he
saw Waterloo,
The great Leo \ was pope at IS; having
finished his academic training, he took the
| office OF cardinal At lS-only ~ iuontbs
Younger than was Charles Fox when he en-
| tered parliament.
The first woman preacher In this country
wns Rev. Antolnette Brown Blackwell, who
was minister OF an ohio Congregational
church a5 years ago, She now llves IN ELIZA
botb n, j., aud IL n Unitarian
There Is nothing like fashionable popular.
~. Over II dozen cablcgrams Of congratula-
tion were sent from New York TO Paris tho
day after the announcement Of u charming
widows engagement tos French nobleman.
senator Reagan, OF Texas, has bought q
| house IN Washington, This makes ~ soma
| tors out OF ~ who own the houses In which
they live In 1850 only four Senators kept
house, aud not one lived IN n house OF his
| own.
George Jacob Hoslyokc, the English re.
former, Ia over 10 years old, aud his friends
mean that his Old age shalt DO passed In peace
aud dignity They are making up for him
fund with which to purchase for him an au-
nuity
| Mrs Kari Strakosch Miss Clara Louise
Kellogg has been III for about month with
whooping cough, which has caused her 10
abandon the concert tour she had planned for
this spring. Tho cough Is severe ana CT
trcrncly troublesome.
| In Death Valley, Arizona, there are th"u-
sands Of acres covered With deposit OF boras
two feet thick aud near by Immense quaint
tcs OF salt, limo Rni soda The loo ,ity Ia
30 feet below the level Of the sea, and Is evil
IDENTIFY the bed Of u dred'up sea.
| A Jerusalem correspondent whites that the
Holy CITY Is fast becoming again the city OF
| the JtNh III looD 'H'iC Nuic NV "''N '"""
5000 Jews there; now there arc more than
30 COO Recent Russian prosecutions have led
thousands TO make their homes there.
Queen Victoria 10 said to have been so lib
crai during her recent trip abroad as to excite
much comment amoig those around her. At
Charlottenburg she gave golden snuif boxes,
diamonds, etc, to u half dozen princcs, prn'
cesses, and generals, and rave liberal tips TO
all the servants
Kit Carson's old partner, Dick Woottou,
who, among other notable deeds, once drove
H. coo sheep 1900 miles overland to CalIfor-
mia, aud made $40, 900 by tho operation, and
who is now ~ years old, has just had his sight
restored, by an operation by a Chicago sur
geon, after eight years OF blindness.
Mrs. Octave Pavy, widow OF the scientist
who pcrlshed IN the Greedy Arctic expedition,
has Just returned TO Cleveland, o., from Eu-
rope, where she spent a year for the good OF
her health. She Ia engaged IN import ant lit
erary work. In June she will return TO Eu'
rope, and after visiting all the principal
cities on business viii settle In London ut the
head Of literary and journalistic oiiirc,
tx. Governor Samuel 7. Hauser, Of Mon.
tana. Ia said to be one OF the jollest poltti'
clans aud mllI0naircy In Washington. His
life reads like romance. Many years og"he
started out u poor boy, with nothing tut
muck energy and well balanced mind. Ike
Piyarro he dreamed that there was an III
Dorado, and he found IL Ia Montana. There
we're few men IN the territory that could throw
the Iasso, ride aud shoot better than cold
headed, daring Young liauser.
Miss Linda Gilbert, the philantbropIst, has
In fifteen years established % libraries 10
PRISONS in different states, procured employ
ment for G, 600 cx- convIcts. 400 OF which num-
Der she established IN business In a small
way. Not 10 per cent. Of them have turned
out unsatisfactory. She Is now trying to
secure 300 or 400 acres OF land near New
York to establish a farm, hepnerr, facilities
for light manufacturing work, n Laundry, ETC.,
which will give a home and employ ment to
both men aud women OF this unfortunate
class.
I According to q German paper iron may be
freed from mgr aimed rust in this manner:
Immerse the article In a nearly saturated So
, luton Of chloride Of tin, even II much eaten
into The duration OF the immersion Will de-
pend upon the thicker or thinner film of rust!
i in most cases, however, twelve to twenty
: four hours will suffice. The solution OF chlor-
I ide OF tin must not contain TOO great au ex-
cess OF acid, otherwise IL will attack the iron
n itself. After the articles have been removed
: from the bath they should first be washed In
4 water and then with ammonia, aud be dried
e as quickly as possible.
1t Is q singular, and as yet unexplained,
I, fact that iu certain species OF vegetable
l growth there are found 4 variety OF stones
supposed to be formed and deposited In their
tissues from the precious and calcareous
Juices circulating IN their organisms Thus
in the bamboo q round stone Ia found at tho
Joints OF the cane called "tabasheer"
Another curiosity Of the sort is the 'cocoanut
i stone" found In the endosperm Of the cocoa
, nut In Java and other East indian islands.
2 DIR. Klmmins describes 1t as pure carbonate
/. | Of lime. IL Is sometimes round, sometimes
pear. shaped, while the appearance is that OF
q white pearl without much luster Some OF
4 the stones are as large as cherries and as
. hard as feldspsr or opal They are very
4 rare aud are regarded Is precious stouss By
the Orientals, and as chsrns against disease
or evil spirits by the natives stones OF this
, kind are sometim found In the ponicgran-