Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-03-14
LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.
In 1856 Japan had Az earthquakes.


Tho police department of Boston costs the
city Si2500o0 per year, and yet Boston milk
Is adulterated.
II is said that church pews have averaged
10 per cent higher this year all over the conn.
try in the re renting.
Mrs Cleveland danced the other night for
the first time in four years, She went
through quadrillo as easy as an old shoe.
An Ohio woman says that picked peaches
are tho first step in u downward career
Most any one can stand bushe Of the down.
ward.
PclSin weekly newspaper has Just flu.
ished serial story which contained 2,0i0
chapters, You get the worth OF your money
In China
horse named "i,ob Ingersoll'' has boon
ruled OIL all the California race courses. flo
didn't seem TO believe in anything except
boiling
A single shad produces 100000 eggs, and z
only about 5000 are Matched naturally. by
the artificial method 5000 are successfully
Matched
Tho Now Orleans picayune has come TO
the.concuson that "a limited liability act
prevents man from paying more debts
thnn SUIT shis convenience"
Indiana alone has SiS natural gas wells,
and tho prediction that large portion of
the state win ultimately sink many feet is
soaring the HOLSTERS bald headed
or the 3i3 swans on the Thames i1S be
longs TO the Crown, ninety four TO the Vint.
nors' company and seventy ono TO the Dy-
ers company, There In regular keeper.
When IL Ia ono minute after O'Clock. IL
Is past s, When II IN thirty minutes aftor s II
Ia only hnif past s, llore is another
dicovory TO make the world pause and feel
sad
There are explosives which have seventy
times more power than gunpowdor, aud yet
II IN only now and then that man seats him
solf ON u keg OF powder TO enjoy quiet.
smoke
An Ohio farmer mortgaged his farm TO get
his wife some diamond earrings aud she
lost ono Of them In the suds tho very first
wash day and attempted 20 hang herself In
the barn
A rich man In Portland, o. got drunk tho
other day aud bought thirty.six collins for
himself leaving only about ton moro In
the town. The rich are always taking these
advantages "'s ~, .-s.- % '----- N
Italy can't have the cruiser Vesuvius---
not II the newspaper fraternity have TO bny
her with shake purse and use her for an
excursion boat All tho good things should
he kept at homo.
Boston is to have u thirteen story bust.
ness block, II It over gets ON fire thcilafnes
are to start in the third story, whcro9tho :
engines can reach them. Tho architect has
provided for that
A mushroom described by physician Of
Portland, Ore, IA having sprung up In
single night near his doorstep, measured
twonty'four inches In circumference and
weighed y pounds.
Miss Amelia Wadsworth, of Springfield,
having publicly lectured ON marriage rs Il
failure, u newspaper man went 10 work and
proved that she had been engaged aud Tilted
three different times
Despite the fact that women lace, wear
thin shoes and expose their health In dozen
other ways tho average Of longevity OF tho
female sex is increasing 1t is doubtless
due TO their obstnacy
Peter Johnson, a coored resident OF Cairo,
was going TO swallow ten fishhooks In public
on wager OF s., but the law stepped In aud
prevented him. IL was decided that the tish-
ing season had not yet begun.
The cherry wood cradle In which Mrs.
Ruth lSvil of Williugford, CT, was rocked
when baby has been made into coffin for
that good lady, who at seventy four hears
Death knocking little way off.
Aluminium is coming into use as mate
rial for dental plates, II is light, has
neither odor nor taste, is not affected by
al. a.
costs about one sixth as much IA silver.
Tho hangman at Fort Smith, who has
sprung the trap ON about seventy mon, says
that II the condemned will only behave him.
self and follow directions, he can make his
death us painless as turning over in bed.
An English ship which recently entered
Vera CUz had seven OF its crew laid up
with broken bones, The mate had been
practicng on them for week or two, and
he was astonished that any complaint should
BIO made
An Italian newspaper warns Italians
against immigrating TO this country, saying
that Americans have no respect for them.
That Is not true. An Italian laborcr or
hand organ grinder is respected for what
there Is in him.
In Finland A man OF evil repute died, and
II was found that he had bequeathed all his
landed property and possessions TO the
divil. The lawyers are in great anxiety
about the matter.
The United States government receipts
during the month OF January were unusually
large, aggregating S3i, 272,0 900, while the dis
bursements during the same period amount
cd TO only SlI6ls,O00, leaving an excess OF
receipts ofsl6 ,654,O0o.
A medical journal states that new expert
ments have changed old theories upon the
best methods of treating frost bites. A
physician froze sixty dogs into a condition
of completely suspended animation; twenty
Of these were treated by the usual
method OF gradual reconsideration in cold
room, and of these fourteen persisted twenty
were treated In warm apartment, and
eight of these died; whiic of the remaining
twenty, which were put at once into "a hot
BATH all recovered
A San Francisco lady was recently showing
10 her friends "a very handsome ring her hus-
band had given her. IL was an oval of dia-
monds, with three pretty little Opaque, blu
ish white stones in the centre. Nobody
could tell what those stones were, and every
body was curious to know. She did rot
know herself. They insisted on his telling.
swell, my dear, these are the first little
teeth cut by our three little children !
saved them one by one and there they arcp
A traveller in Norway says that the horses
In that country have very sensible way Of
taking their food, which perhaps might be
benefcially followed here. They have
bucket of water put down beside their al
lowance of hay. 1t is interesting to see with
what relish they take sip of one and
mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes
only moistening their mouth, as rational
being would do while eating dinner Of such
dry food. A broken inded horse is scarce
ly ever seen in Norway, and the question is
II the mode of feeding has not something TO
do with the preservation Of the animals
respiratory organs.
The average natural age Of the oak Is
from 800 to 1900 years; OF the elm $50 TO
800 years; the maple COO to SEQ years; the
yew tree, largest OF all, $500 to 1900 years;
tho cedar 500; linden, 1900, and cypress,
$50. There are trees now standing believed