Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-07
WINGED MissILEa

George Scott, Of Dubuque, wasted hil
substance and brought himself to poverty
and crime by giving too freely to chart
lies.
In preaching against extravaganza q west
ern minister looked straight at Mrs. Hirau
Corver, who had on SIP bonnet, and sh
tainted dead away.
A boy in Brooklyn school yelled 'ire!s
lust to see what his teacher would do. HS
found out. She licked him until he had u
take weeks vacation.
The proposed East River tunnel between
New York city and Long Island, it is
stated, will be four and a.half miles long
and will cost IS, oO0, 900.
Five years ago good specimen Of mum.
my could be obtained in Alexandria for 81
The price has now advanced to SIS, with 81
extra for real old veteran.
1t is stated that the first woman's mission.
ary society ever organized was organized in
Natchez, Miss, in 1884, and collected that
year $500 to educate young Choctaw
woman.
A runaway locomotive on the Burlington
road jumped the track only 100 feet from 9
passenger train and thus prevented terri.
BILE smash-up. The company should only
buy that kind.
The household of the emperor of China is
10 consist Of 500 persons, including 30 fam
bearers, 80 umbrella bearers 30 physicians
and surgeons, 70 astroligers, Z chief cooks,
and SO priests.
The Catholic pilgrimage from New York
10. Rome and the holy land leaves Feb 81 on
one of the steamers of the Hamburg line.
Its itinerary is so constructed that holy week
will be spent in Jerusalem.
The Rochester Democrat says that Jew
eler Of New York city has just finished for
fashionable lady of that city pair of gar
ter buckles that are valued at $500. Wen
believe it when we see 'em.
The young mems Christian associations of
Chicago district, comprising the counties Of
Grundy, McHenry, Lake, Cook, Du Page.
WILL Kankakee, Kane, ana Kendall, will
hold their annual conference at Aurora
Feb. $40.
MIR. Spurgeon fell down marble staircase
shortly after reaching the sunny side Of
France and broke himself up badly, but it is
now announced that he is getting better and
will be in his pulpit again about the middle
Of February.
New York finds that it has saloon for
svery twenty-three men who drink in such
places, and the World observes that there
must be an enormous profit in the business
10 enable the owners to keep their heads
above bankruptcy.
Thirty years ago insanity was almost un-
known among the southern negroes, but
now the number thus affected in North
Carolina alone is estimated at 1000, and the
asylum for their treatment at Goldsboro has
Just been enlarged.
The French have invented a submarine
boat which can dive beneath the keel Of an
iron clad, and by means of special appara-
tus fasten explosive cartridges to the side Of
the vessel, and afterward explode the cart
ridges by electricity.
At Willows, Cal, flock of wild geese
settled down on forty-acre field of grain
and picked it clean in two hours. The num-
Der of birds was estimated at 100. 1t was
. fine opportunity for Michigan sports
man to nave killed goose.
Miss Ida Newman, young lady well
known In Providence (R. L. charitable Cir
cles, has recently married a Chinese laun-
dryman, greatly against the wishes of her
friends The city missionary society has
expelled the young woman.
Jake Boner, New Orleans stonecutter,
was informed by messenger the other day
that son had been born TO him. He began
10 dance on the scaffold and the result was
fall and broken neck. Sons must be .
rare article in New Orleans.
tracted attention as one of the foremost
leaders in the mission movement in English
universities, has allied himself with Gen.
Booth of the Salvation army and will lead
In an aggressive movement in China.
In southern Russia and the Caucasus the
women smoke almost as universally as the
men. A newspaper correspondent writes:
II have had, two or three times, nicely
dressed ladies step up to me in railroad
station or on the platform and beg of me .
light"
Cardinal Manning has prepared an exhaus-
tive paper on the American pubiic-school
system which will appear soon, and will be
published simultaneously in Europe and
America. The cardinal is strongly in favor
of parental as opposed to public-school con-
troll OF pupils.
A person convicted Of any crime in China,
except that of numbering one of the royal
family, can hire substitute to take the
punishment, even if it is death. The rate
Of pay of these substitutes has lately ad-
vanced about 20 per cent and the cause is
laid to the English.
The postmaster general liz communica-
ton to congress points out the fact that I'M
der the present laws railways are not COM
! PEELED to carry the mails, and suggests the
Importance Gs amending the laws SO as to
make that service obligatory on the part of
the railway companies.
How close heathendom is coming to our
doors is seen in the news that q ChinesL
temple has just been completed in New York
at cost of Sos, 900, and an idol has been en-
throned therein. The Standard pronounces
this on par with such superstitions as
philosophy" christian science" and
'.fsith healing"