Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-07-04
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

| by the Dutch in 1850.
The British flag has been hoisted over
| the Suwarrow islands,
Bone-sotting cannot BIO said to have been
practised scientifically until 1920.
A Philadelphia opicure says that musk. rat
rncat tastes better than any sirloin,
The Caledonian monarchy is said to have
boon founded by Fergus I. about $50 Il. @.
Tho Aztocs were the ruling tribe In Next
co at the time OF the Spanish invasion in
1919,
The ballot reform bill passed by the New
York legislature was vetoed by the gov
ernor.
Blankets are said TO have been first made
at Bristol, England, In tho fourteenth cen
| fury, by Thomas Blanket.
| II Is understood some of tho weary wait.
Ing applicants for cousulships will BIO re-
| lieved OF their suspense soon.
Show mo man who rides velocipode
| or bicycle and III show you case of spinal
cymplaint" says DIR, Agnew
Tho vicinity OF Black Rock, u short dis
lance below Buffalo, was tho scene Of stir
| ring events In the war OF lsl2-l5.
A notice In southern newspaper Of tho
| marriage or Mr. Ryon and Miss Rock has
the headline Ryanitock familiar sound.
II il the opinion OF all those who have
come In contact with Corporal Tanner that
his manners have been sadly neglected.
Tho war records show that almost 900
union soldiers deserted during tho war,
while nj were caught tried and executed.
Tho sheriff at Troy, N. ", put a prisoner
In charge OF his trotting horse, and tho
prisoner naturally trotted OF with tho AMI.
NAL
They ara making fun Of Buffalo Judge
| for calling q double -barrelcd shot gun u
"two shooter" It's all In English IN sho
spoke,
] Tho steamer City of Paris made tho trip
I from Queenstown TO Sandy Hook in days,
~ hours and minutes, tho quickest trip on
record
Celery Is said TO have boon introduced
from France into England in 1854, From
England II later found It's way 20 this
country,
| The reduction In tho number of saloons
In Allegheny county, Pa, has resulted In a
| reduction IN the amount of cheese sold In
that county.
Conflicts have occurred at Gretna La,
opposite New Orleans, between tho whites
and tho negroes. Some property was do
| strOyed by fire.
| Every week or two some American falls
heir 10 $4,000 Of English money, but
somehow you never hear Of tho money
being paid over.
| Only one person out OF every C0,OO0 of
the population dies In his ped when asleep,
and there Is little excuse for lying awake
md worrying about IL.
| Always deduct about forty years from
tho ago of u veteran claiming to no 10 years
old, Medical science has no record OF per.
son In this country beyond lO2 years.
Boston school teachers have slapped,
slashod and pounded until the parents of
pupils arc rising up in Indignation and de-
handing that tho practice be stopped.
A Nuremberg manufacturer has invented
pencies In blue, black and brown for writ
| Ing on the human skin. They are for uso In
anatomical and clinical demonstration.
| In Niagara county, N. Y, farms sold at
800 por aero fifteen years ago, They can
now be bought ut from $40 to $50, and al.
most every ono in tho county Is for sale.
Sea lions arc 80 Plentiful on the coast OF
California this year rs TO be n nuisance, es-
pecially to fishermen, while their barking
aggravatos tho farmer for two miles inland.
The John Hopkins Hospital, at Baltimore,
| Md, tho largest, most richly endowed and
completely equipped institution OF the kind
In tho world, was formally opened last
| week.
The late Crown Prince Rudolph OF Aus
| trla had an annual income OF 100000 and
| his palaces and country places cost him
| nothing, yet he left debts amounting TO 81,
| 100000.
The new dressed meat company. formed
| 10 fight the Chicago dressed meat monopoly,
and recently partially disorganized through
the efforts of Armour, has again entered
| the field
II has been found that tho best thing to
dispense u mob is cold water Get out an
engine and put on full stream, and your
mob Is no sooner wet down than IL scatters
| TO dry up,
Tho door. knob has improved 200 per cent
! In looks In tho last ten years, and II now
stands American genius In hand To bring
tho gate hinges 10 tho front and mako 1t o
thing OF beauty.
Three hundred and twenty-five sheep
were killed In one county in Tennessee In
one week by dogs, but tho owners had to
make the best OF il. The dogs were there
before the sheep came.
Cheese Is mentioned by Aristotle about
$50 B. G. 1t is supposed that cheesemak-
ing was introduced into England about the
beginning OF tho Christian era, having
been learned from the Romans.
Two years ago, donkey died at Gro.
marty that was known to be ut least 100
years old. ID could be traced back TO the
year 1779, when, ut an unknown age, 1t came
into the hands of the then Ross Of Gro
marty, and it lived in the Same family,
| ''hale and hearty until q kick from horse
ended Its career
There is a cradle In New York that has
rocked over 1000 babies. 1t began TO rock
nineteen years ago, when the Sisters OF
Charity started little founding hospital
ON Twelfth street, New work. with s. In
tho treasury Sister Irene was at the
head of it, as she is still, wonderful, frail
little woman, whose genius and devotion
will always be remembered by those who
have once beheld her among the babies
whom she had saved and succored.
The whipping of criminals Is again pro-
posed in Parliament. Fifty strokes for an
adult offender and twenty five for boy Is
the limit, though sentence may provide
for several whippings. The offences for
which grown-up people may be logged,
under the bill include the discharge OF
arms, etc, to iniure or alarm the queen,
robbery, assault with intent TO rob, bur
rlary, etc, where the offender is armed
with any dangerous or offensive weapon,
garroting, etc.
Several years ago an artist OF Dresden
persuaded q loclzsmith there TO give up his
trade and become an artists model IL was
a GOOD thing for the locksmith, who is now
the famous muscle man OF Dresden"
whose magnifcently developed body makes
him probably the most renowned model in
the world In order TO preserve for future
artists an exact duplicate OF his extraordi-
nary figure the director of the Royal Saxon
poyzellanfabric at Nielsen recently in
yited him there that a cast from life might
he taken of the upper part Of his body. 1t
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