Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

| IHE tomb OF " Il. H. JalucS, tn0
solitary horscman. at Venice, is In a
state of great dilapidation.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal asserts
that Nathaniel Hawthorne spelled his
last name "Hathorn" when he was in
Bowdoin College.
HERBERT SPENCER is now living ut
Brighton and his health is so poor
that he receives no callers. Ho Is writ.
ing an autobiography.
Seymour, Conn, last Sunday, at the
age of ninety, was the oldest practicing
physician in the Nutmeg State.
IT is said that Governor-elect Jack.
son, OF Maryland, has promised his
salary of $4,000 year to his wife for
pin money. As he s immensely wealthy
he can well afford to do this.
SAM JONES, the revivalist had the
audacity to say before a Boston audi.
ence that he did not believe in couture
with a big &C." And Boston now
believes in Jones with a small Il"
Mrs. L. NJ. BARRY. tho general In
vestigator Of woman's labor, Is In Bal
timore, Md. urging tho oystsr-shuck.
ers of the gentlcr sex In that locality to
form an assembly Of the Knights Of
Labor.
CHARLES DICKENS the younger says
that if he were to take up his residence
in America he would make his home
on Commonwealth avenue, Boston. He
considers Bostonians but little different
from English people.
PROF. ANTON Won WERNER Is at
work on painting which represe nts
Emperor William at 80 surrounded by
his family. The picture was ordered
by the German colony in England, and
is to be presented to Queen Victoria,
MIR. FREDERICK II. RINDGEs' gifts Of
city hall and an industrial school for
boys TO the city of Cambridge. Mass.
in addition to site for q high school
and public library, bring his benefac-
tions to that city up to nearly $500. 900.
Mrs. ROBERT T. LINCOLN keeps a
scrap-book in VIII CHI she preserves all
the newspaper and magazine articles
which appear concerning her immortal
father-in-law. She wants to make a
historian of her little son and have him
write biography Of Abraham Lincoln
the Great.
HERR TUxEN. the Danish painter.
has received commission from Queen
Victoria for large painting, contain
ing the portraits of Her Majesty's Roy
al guests during the jubilee. Tho
scene of the picture is St. Georges
Hall at Windsor Castle. and there will
be nearly six portraits.
THE irreprcssiblc Mrs, Weldon, was
conspicuoss attendant on the five
hundredth performance Of Faust" in
Paris, and sent as her tribute 10 M.
Gounod a wreath of bay leaves with the
flags Of England and France tied with
lavender and pink ribbons, the old COL
ors of the Gounod choir.
On pleasant mornings Gen. sherdan's
four children accompany him to hia
Office at the War Department, Wash
ington. The quartet of little girls wear
scarlet dresses. wraps and hats. and
thus dressed alike in costume as
striking as it is becoming they torn a
most interesting escort to the famous
| warrior.
A VERY ridiculous custom has been
the recipient of hard blow at the
hands of the sophomore class of Colum-
bia college by its refusal to take part in
any rush" this fall for the reason
that 1.-THE only object of the upper
classmen to melting the two lower
classes to engage in such scrimmages
is for the pleasure of witnessing q fool:
ish and ridiculous struggle"
SIR RICHARD BURTON, OF England,
the well-known traveller. at the ago Of
sixty-fve finds himself a physical
wreck. 1t is strange that he has
made so good fight against old sge.
He has been a tremendous worker and
an untring student all his life. His
learning is vast and varied. His rath-
on improper translation Of the tiara:
ban Nights" has paid h m about $4a
900.
PHE serious attack OF malapial feVel
with which Congressman William d.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, has been
suffering is the direct result Of over.
york, He has taken no rest since the
adjournment Of Congress last March,
He spent the spring in the South trayel.
ling from place to place and speaking
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but' his recovery will probably be very
slow.
IT Is said that the Archduke John OF
Austria has for some timo been living
in London under strict incognito Re.
Gently he wished to join the Jockey
club without breaking the incognito,
and two eminent members of the club.
acting as bis sponsors, asked the
stewards to .tadmit a gentleman OF
exalted rank" without compelling him
10 disclose his real name. The APP.
plication was refused. aud THO arphduke
is still outside the club.
THE cartridges introduced into
Oregon six years ago have multiplied
so greatly, thanks to the law passed for.
bidding the shooting Of them for ten
years, that hunter would have but lit
tle tFouble In securing a liberal number
of them in an hour or two There are