Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-22
CURRENT EVENTS,

The Colorado potato.buS Is destroying the
potato crop OF Montana.
A c nciunau secret society provides poor
girls with pretty dresses.
A French vineyard which was first titled In
The twelfth century IL to he soli.
There are thirty nine million acres Of unsuY
veyed government land In Nevada.
The flesh Of . rattlesnake when cooked 10
as white as milk and very delicate.
Twenty-thrce out of thirty eight states In
he union have democratic governors.
Out In Montana they call taking up church
collection 'colsring the stray Doodle"
Tho rule excluding divorced persons from
Queen Vic.oria's court has been made void.
Badgers are doing a great deal OF damage
10 tho graves In the cemetery At San Monia,
Cal
Two Baltimore lawyers settled q case
with their fists In the court room day or two
ago.
The Corcan government Is adopting west
rrn ideas, and has contracted for three iron
steamers
New York Sidewalk pciltllers have organized
aunion and instituted boycott sgainst ped
ding by wagon.
The edrlwclss, the famous flower Of the
Alps, has been found on Mount Rainier, Wash
ington territory.
New York theater has commenced the use
OF cooling inachinc for the benefit OF Its
pcrsp!ring patrons.
The Alaska mission authorities have deter.
N ned TO allow no language to be spoken BY
In Indian r,I,,iia b,,t he To- IIsh
The New York Legislature has passed a bill
providing for the purchase Of $500, 900 worth
II new tangled patent ballot-boIcs,
Probahly the smallest man In tho country 10
iees Whittier, Of Plymouth, Pa He Is 81
'ears, weighs s. pounds, and is 30 inches
nigh.
Three young men obtained license to marry
he same girl at Blue Springs, Fla, last week,
md the third succeeded In capturing the
orzc.
Sixteen tons OF l;corice root, cut and bailIed
Is ready for shipment from the ranch OF Isaac
Leal. Sacramento valley, California, who has
made quite success Of It's culture.
One Of the sensations Of Wall street on
Thursday was the sale Of ex-PrcsidcRt J. +.
Simmons scat in the tock-crchangc for SCI.
UT Scar AS nc Gould have sold il for
s34, 900
Mrs Eliza Fagundas fell from a second.
story windo. in Philadelphia ono day last
week, and received injuries from which she
died the next day. Mrs. Fagundas was 80
years old.
New York Judge recently decided that .
tenants lease covers the outside walls of the
building as we'll rs the inside, and that he
has a right to use the former for advertising
purposes.
Three chamelcons are kept as pts By q
fashionable widow of Philadelphia. They arc
confined in gilded cage when they are not
plnyfully running up and down their nils
trcss' arms.
The hottest day San Francisco experienced
siaee the signal service was established there
was on May %, when the temperature rose to
800 degrees. The hottest day before that
was In 1872, when 05S dcdrecs was reached.
Gen. Pope says, In The North American
Hecs~, that during our evil war the most
tremcn Ions convulsIon that Is recorded In
history, New England produced neither .
great soldier nor q statesman Of commanding
Influence"
new trade FOR women In Albany Is that OF
''nelghbOrhood darner." The woman who
follow 1t has for her customers q dozen or
| twenty households, each OF which she visits
weekly, and spends a few hours 10 doing up
t.e fah.Ili larpng and mcndIng
A vivid idea OF the crowd that Il ekpec: ca
In London on Jubilee day NAV b. obtained
from the fact, stated Ia a special cable dis.
patch, that shops and private houses are Iro-
tccting Themselves by bsrricndcs, IS they d d
during the riots a short time ago
Texas ne rro was recently struck BY light
ming and killed In his pockets we're found
two horseshoe magnets, two copper cents that
had melted together, nickel that was partly
| tAe.tel and stuck to his watch, and the nickel
rim AROUND his money purse was also melted
| In a saloon at Carson, New, on. day last
week, a remarkable water drinking contest
took place. The wager wa. $50, tn. man who
won /, drank eleven large glasses OF cold wa
ter and was none the worse for II. The other
fellow drank nine glasses and became III.
At a recent service In Trinity church, Pitts
bursh, a baby just big enough to sand alone
stood on a scat and crowed, and laughed and
pi;attfteG, and fsppeJ her hands, and no one
objected for no ono vas listV he'd, The
congregation were deaf mutrs, AMI the con.
ycrsatlon was conducted in the sign Ian
gussc.
The Imtr. publication that progRosti-
Gated the weather two years In sdvance, Is
pC2' thing OF the past. The eIlitUr pathetic
KY feiiiafks In the yale4ictGry number that
those who did not consider him q weather
gucsser thought he was a crank, and as his
time is worth $40 per dar he doesn't propose
: To vast 1t upon lot OF idiots.
Ahc b.te.t fgshiopable crazs In England 10
saidto be amateur drcssm liking, 10 which Gu
tbusiasi, wakes so warm that rooms are Open
ed in public building to exhibit the dresses
! E44e BY amateurs, some Of wh',m are very
Itch, fashionable women, and lsiIes Of title.
Original designs are INTRODUCED and prizes
arc awarded to successful competitors.
Same NJ the Buffalo sign painters have hard
times with '&c.n and Etc" Orc sign reads,
'GrocerIes, provisions, and &C." Another has
it "Ste-" Still other forms arr land Etc."
~ soforth, EXC" and "Rt Ceter&." One
man, who believes In giving his customers
their choice from large stock. hangs out the
sign, 'Dry Goods, Et Cetera, Etc, &C."
IN Buffa'o. y. Y, one day recently. q small
boy dsernea.j members Of the Toronto Base
Ball club growi over q recent defea. and Ls
remarked: "Ycs that's right. kick, but you
can't get over II. When you play base ball
-ou don't have England at your back, do youi
lts ali light an the fish business, but when Il
comes to baseball xc'Ee got YIN, end d9q't
you FORGET inn
The State Teachers Association Of West
Virginia will h"il It's annual session. In Charles
ton on the 9Th, 9th and 1th OF July. Many
prominent national cdu 'ato-s will be present.
and very enjoyablc and profitable time Is
contemplated. The teachers are going to
take an excursion at this time % some point
sj iHtc;e.t to be selected after they assemble
Tosslbiy 10 aaPWqtR says, h.
IN the strawberry regions d New Jersey .
cigar box Is nailed on tree clnss to the road.
side IN front Of every farm house. lis plaa-
ed there to receive the latest quotations for
fruit. These quotations arc tclegrap Pied from
the leading cities three times a day, and are
distributed by messengers mounted on b.
yycles The fruItgrowcr determines by the
! quotations @ueihGg be VII ;hiP his days pick
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