Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-24
WINGED MISSILES.

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M. Eiffel makes 5000 day out Of his
lower.
/ Senator Evarts returns home with his
eyesight entirely restored.
The law of Sweden compels you to eat
while you drink Intoxicating liquor.
Three things should never be cut-an
oyster, lettuce or a considerate editor.
Postal cards were first used here in 1872
Now there are 100, 900 per year used.
! Marshall Field is rated the wealthiest
man in Chicago, with fortune amount
Ing to s25,oO0,0oo.
Mrs. Henry S. Kimball, of West Phila-
delphia, is receiving the credit Of original.
/ Ing Memorial Day.
| The Woman's National Press Association
I intends TO erect statue to Mrs. II. b.
Hayes, in Washington.
| DIR. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, is en-
| gagged to be married to Miss Eva Sars, a
well known Norwegian singer
john Wanamaker is said 10 carry the
heaviest life insurance in the United
| States, 1t amounts to 81, 10000
| Oliver Wendell Holmes recently remark
/
old man as sleep to ono who is tired.
"Aunty" Kell, who claimed to be ITO
! years old, died in Atlanta few days ago.
She leaves daughter 20 years of age.
You often hear people use the term ''as
silent as the grave" But the grave is net
always silent. A solemn preacher, for in
stance.
An Austrian railway official has invent
cd portable telephone for speaking from a
railway train at any point stopping to the
nearest station.
There is a western railroad haunted by
! the ghosts of flagmen who have been run
over and killed. Being dead their spirits
flag, naturally.
When family at Berlin cannot pay rent
they can go to the "City Shelter" a big
building where they are fed and kept till
work is obtained
Edward Bellamy, the novilist, is des-
cribed as u slender, rather good looking
man, whose appearance does not suggest
anything Literary"
An electric spark has been photographed
by means Of special camera, in which the
sensitive plate rotated at, it is said, $500
rcNolutioHS per Minute.
In Belgium bakers, milkmen and huck-
sters make dogs draw their carts. The
animal works under the cart between the
wheels. Some sell for $45.
A most patient research has revealed the
fact that our language can boast Of no less
than S37 different terms, all of which ex-
press the state of being in love-
rha Em,,ire Of Ionon no n1O Olo ;,boh
itants who are slowly but surely adopting
Western customs in dress as well as in civ
ilization and methods of research.
The Chicago Tribune advertises for
twelve healthy boy babies. 1t wants to
rear them in absolute seclusion and iguo-
rance for jury on tho Cronin case.
The Philadelphia electricity exhibit at
the centennial exposition in 1876 was very
small To day S3J00O0,030 is invested in
the 100000 lamps and 100 railways.
They must have some very heavy winds
in Boston" Mr.. F.. Indeed they do.'
Mrs. F.: 'There is an item in the paper
about safe being blown open there"
Mrs James Clark arrived few days ago
in Shamokin, Pa, from England. She is
likely one of the oldest persons who ever
crossed the ocean, being born in 1888
Andrew Lang has most marvellous pow
er of mental concentration in his work, ana
always writes in his dining room undis-
turbed by the family conversation around
him.
There is a report that the principle of tho
new smokeless powder is to be applied to
cigarettes-but as the smolxeless powder is
Gni IN lo
reliable.
There is huge vine at Haugsdorf, in
Lower Austria 1t is nine years old and
bears no less than 1000 punches of grapes,
which are expected TO yield four hectolitres
of wine
The wedding trousseau of the empress of
China filled 600 boxes, each of which took
two men to carry. The emperor two other
wives were able to pack their apparel into
zoo boxes.
Lord Brassey's London house is lighted
by electric lamps inclosed in seas bells of
the greatest beauty. whose transparency
sheds glowing refulgence over the whole
apartment
Probably the longest word in the German
language is in the last edition of the official
Journal of commissions. Here it is: ''Mett.
Gmidomethlathylm ethy lbenzy ldiamidophen
ylcarbinol.'
Wife (who never let's her husband forget
that she is doing the housework): MY
poor hands have been working ever since
I've been married" Husband: II know
your poor tongue has"
Nova Scotia is remarkable for the num-
mn 80 old IL hn, L.,
tation of centenarians than any other coun-
try, there being one to every l9,OOJ inhabi-
tants, while England has only one in every
E0h,0J0.
A large number of famous,,men were once
book agents. Among them were George
Washington, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Jay
Gould, eX,President Hayes, Daniel Web
ster Gen. Grant, Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Prince Bismarck.
volt means tho inducing caused by an
electrical current, bearing the same rela-
ton to electricity that points pressure to
the square inch" does to steam or ''head" to
water. "Ohm" is the unit of resistance by
wire or other conductor to the passage Of
an electric current.
Few persons, if any, now living, will
again date document without using 80"
1t now stands on the extreme right-lSS9.
Next year it will take second place-1S90,
where it will remain ten years. It. will
then move into third place--1900, and there
will rest century.
Hcnry Bach is the name Of hunter who
recently made remarkable shot on
Beaver River in the Adirondacks He
saw two deer standing in the water no
more than ten yards apart He fired and
his bullet passed. through the first deer
and inflicted a mortal wound on the second
\ boy in Maryland found small snake
having two perfectly developed heads
When teisod, it will strike viciously,
sometimes with both heads and sometimes
with one. Each is perfectly independent
OF the other AMI is attached to tho body
about three quarters of an inch back on the
ne *.
a London statistician figures that 50, 900
Americans have landed In England this
summer, the expenses across averaging
more than 500 each, and that upon the
lowest calculation they have circulated
S2l 900, 00) in Europe on railways and at
hotels, without counting the money spent
in purchases.
An eccentric bibliomaniac, who died re-