Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-12-26
CURRENT EVENTS

land on June for the Dominion.
James @. Blaine has leased his cottage a
Bar HARDER to Elliott +. Shepard the new
editor OF the New York MAJ and Express.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Prof.
Maria Mitchell and T. B. Aldrich will b
among the summer residents Of Lynn, Mass.
Queen Victoria Travelled through Europe
with so much luggage that II took an hour to
transfer IL from the train to the boat at Flush
Ing.
Senator Butler, OF South Carolina, 10 . di.
rect descendant Of the Dukes OF Ormond, oil
Ireland, aud he is entitled to bear coat Of
arms.
A monumental statute OF Lord Beacons.
field L. to erected at Maidstone, which place
he represented in Parliament more than fifty
years ago.
in Baltimore II is proposed to put letter
boxes on the street care. This will bring .
Ietter 70 the postoffice from any part Of the
city In = half an hour.
Haruke Empress Of japan, will visit
America hext winter. travelling in state with
. dozen maids OF honor, numberless officials.
and every incident Of luxury.
The Methodists now In confer ence In New
York have incurred an expense Of not less
than 600, 900 for their months occupation of
The Metropolitan 0pera.h house.
Thirty women make . living by speculat
Ing In the open Board OF Trade In Chicago
and half that number do business through
commission firms on tho regular board.
Charles Dickens's nurse Mary Weller Glib.
son, was buried on April IS She was gener-
ally regarded as the prototype Of Mary, the
pretty housemaid in the Pickwick papers
A man at Anoka, MINI, who was expected
10 die for weeks past from the effects OF a sill
yer dollar that he had swallowed, began to
improve lately and is now reported all right.
The United States Fish commission ia ex-
perimenting with shsd culture as far south
as Atlanta. Three million eggs will DO hatch
cd and distributed 1t the streams of that
state.
The Sweetwater dam just completed at San
Diego Cal, at a cost Of $500, 0O0 is said to be
twenty feet higher than any dam In the Unit.
cd statoa 1t is 90 feet from It's base to ito
crest
Mrs. Ella d. Bentley, Of Donaldsonvllle, Is
vice president OF the Louisiana Press associs-
ton She is scarcely 30, is a clever writer and
. popular among her associates throughout
the state
Alta religious meeting In Portland, Me-,
an EnglIsbman led the services. aFrenchman
offered prayer, an IrIshman conducted the
singing and q Russian was the leading
speaker.
A new theory Is that shaving the beard, II
long continued, tends to weaken the hair OF
| the head and Cause 1t to fall ont The increas
Ing number Of bald heads has to be accounted
| Tor In some way or other.
Reform 10 the watchword at Harvard. The
police have seized all tie liquors in one Of
the college clubs, and now comes the'facuiy
and dismisses several students who were
caught in their rooms playing poker.
Sheet-steel Is now appropriated on both
| ndes BY olectro-deposition and used as sheet
copper. The sheet il decsrbonized steel, aud
,ne Of the copper sides Is timed. The now
material is manufactured at Pittsburg, Penn.
A life size marble bust of GarIbaldi, with
q marble pedestal about four feet high, has
been received at Washington aud placed In
hall Of the upper lobby Of the senate. 10
vas presented by American citiEenso OF Italian
birth.
DIOubou nVWaTu AuNt0o5 EsssSth SohSHV
| 10 follow in the footsteps Of Michigan Unives.
sity. and establish courses On the art OF dfa.
matte writing. Prof. Alfred Hennequln Is
teaching the Ann Arbor students to write
plays.
Edison, the electrician, has purchased
CSC, 900 worth Of real estate In the neighbor.
hood OF West Orange. N. j., and will erect
upon this property the works Of the edison
Photograph Company" The building will
cost about $4,000
Queen Olgo Of Greece 10 most charming
woman, and 10 much beloved by her subjects.
Her chief pleasure lies in spinning silk and
attending to household duties. She can
make q last years bonnet look like . new one
by few hours work.
James McMullIn, Of Ballard county, E,.,
was . friend and companion Of Dsvy Crock
1T, and went on many . bear hunt with the
famous pioneer. McMullln 10 now liz Year,
old, having been born In the year Of the De.
elsration OF Independence.
The most valuable orchid at the New York
exhibition is the L,elis Bells, worth more than
81, 900 1t 10 hybrid orchid that could DO
placed In an overcoat pocket but as there are
less than half dozen plants Of the kind In
sIistence II Is rare and valuable.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes q good deal Of
her poetry while sitting in rocking chair
with pad OF paper In her lap. Very often,
too, her black cat perches itself on the back
Of the chair and gazes gravely down at Its
mistress while her work is progressing
Professor Schmidt, Of Gatz University. has
alt upon the plan Of cutting OF pieces Of
living sponge and planting them In suitable
place In the sea, ~ II they were willow twigs.
IN this way he has succeeded at the end OF
three years In producing 4, 200 sponges at . cost
81 as
A Boston notion In church work 10 called .
House Committee, and its members scatter
themselves among the congregation. Each
one Is responsible for tho FIVE pews In front
Of him, to whose occupants he speaks and
shows the attentions which will make them
feel at home.
A Montreal lady ordered . cloak from q
TAILOR and refused to pay for It on tho ground
Of misnt Tho tailor has brought suit TO re.
cover the price OF the cloak, and claims that
10 did at until the lady put on an immense
hustle. The court will have to decide the re-
Iulatiou size OF . hustle.
Col. VIM. Preston johnson, Of New Or
leans the son Of Albert Sydney johnson, the
shakesperean scholar and president Of Tu.
arc university, denounces the Donnelly
:ipher. He has some interesting theories OF
bis own about the Bard OF Avon, but they are
al based on profound admiration,
An electric surface railway has been pat.
snted by Mr.. John A. Enos, Of Boston. Mass.
It is Of that lass In which storage batteriei
ere used, aud the invention relates more par,
tlcularly to the connections for taking the
current from the conductors along the line
Tor charging the storage batteries, and also
70 the driving mechanism for propelling the
ear.
Some phenomenal fortunes have been made
OF late years In the Pennsylvania oil ields
That OF William Phillips, Of Newcastle, for In
itanee, which amounts to $4,000, 900, has al
been made since 1879. Yandegrlft OF Pitts
ko.x h.. taI.n e. nnl mn o,,t - AZ III ala.