Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-03
MINOR MENTION.

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The Emerald Isle seems to be taking on
reddish hue IN honor OF John L. Sullivan.
A western editor announces the suspension
OF bis paper under the head Blowing out th,
! Cas-"
! An ingenious cigar manufacturer is MAXIM
excellent imported Havana cigars out OF pa
per.
Congressman Tracy has rented bis residenc,
! at Albany TO State Senator j. Sloat Fassett
for the winter.
Scientific tests In Hungary show that corr
will produce the largest yield Of milk, while
sorghum produces milk OF the richest quality,
Representative John NJ. Glover authorizes
the announcement to be made that he 10 Q
candidate for Governo: Of Missouri on an an
ti-ring platform.
The Boston Transcript speaks OF Governor
Foraker Of Ohio as the end man Of politics.
This Is doubtless because he playcs on tht
bones Of dead issues.
The Chicago jailer who refused the lamI
used by August Spies to Nina Van Zandl
doubtless reasoned that the girl had no use
for It. being so extremely light-headed as she
is.
Togild the dome of the State House 10 Boston
cost Massachusetts 500 during Banks Gov.
ernorship. The color has gradually changed,
and demand will soon be made to renew the
gold
Dubuque, Ia, has man who asserts that he
is the devil, and there are some who are In.
cliDed to believe him; but, as he has no horns
and no tall, the police have locked him up as
an impostor.
Farmers In Wiltshire, England, have been
obliged by hard times to reduce the wages Of
their laborers from one to two shillings q
week, 80 that now eight shlllings q week Il
the usual wage.
All the Territorial Governors of Wisconsin
are dead. Nelson Dewy. the first State Gov
crnor, is still living, as are also Q Governors
Farwell, Solomon, Lewis, Fairchild, Taylor
and Ludington.
Col. John A. Joyce could not stand the rare
fled air Of Colorado. He recently went to
Leadville to edit a newspaper but lie has re-
turned to Georgetown, ID. G., with severe
cold on his lungs.
Quite curiosity in the shape of twin
orange is on exhibition at Anthony, Fla. 1t
was found in Mr.. strlpland's grove. Many
of the kind before.
Little Marshall P. Wilder says that he 10
constantly mistaken for Josef Holman, the
musical marvel. He wishes the public to un-
derstand that the NJ. p. In his name does not
stand for Musical Prodity."
Among the candidates for the Mexican mis-
sion are Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin; Gen. p.
M. b. Young, Of Georgia, and Judge Temp
klns, OF Atlanta. They are all proof against
the rarefed air of high attitudes.
The wife of President Diaz Of Mexico has
established In the City of Mexico n large
Friendly Home Of the Workingwoman" at
which small children will be cared for during
the day while their mothers are at work.
The Oldest two trees in the world are sup
posed to be one in Calaveras county, Califor.
min, which is bel eyed to be 2,5jj years old
the cypress Of Somma, in Lombardy, Italy,
which is 1,9ll years old. planted b. q. AZ.
The big summer hotel Brighton, at Brgh.
ton beach, on Long Island, has had its
foundations washed out by the ocean sweep
Ing inland, and will have to be removed
inland to save 1t from complete destruction.
Lord Tenneyson receives an income of from
$4,000 10 S25, GOO year from the sale of his
books but not a cent Of 1t comes from an
American publisher, despite the fact that his
poetry is nearly as popular here as in En-
gland.
King Kalakaua, Of the Sandwich Islands,
has had his salary reduced, and will have to
confne his poker ventures to the harmless
game known as t'panuy ante.n Protection to
the ''lnfant industry" of klngship is played
out at Honolulu.
At recent entertainment in Philadelphia
admission was not by ticket but by vegetable,
each person being required to hand over to
the door keeper potato or some other yege-
table product The net proceeds were dis
tributed among the poor
A society for the promotion of reform In
burlals has just been Incorporated at Cleve-
land, Ohio, Its purpose is to provide fupeI
ais for its members, rich and poor alike. at a
minimum of cost by avoiding the excessive
chargers Of undertakers.
Hermann, the prestidgitator, has been
looking for ghosts all his life. He has never
found one, and is sceptcal as to their exist
ence. He is now on his way to St. Louis,
where he owns some properly. They say
spirits can be found In that city.
Thursday was donation day at the Phila-
delphia home for aged aud inlrm co!ored
pcrgona. A colored clergyman who 10 III
tears of age opened the ceremonies on that
day with prayer. His name is Jehn Gibson
and he was born in Virginia ia February, I'LL
Dorothy Whitney, who Was ONCE person
age of national fame, has been somewhat neg.
leeted by the press OF late She has not al.
lowed this fact to dcpress her, however.
Monday she reached the mature age Of ten
m9nths and celebrated the occasion by CUT
ting her tenth TOOTH
A man who has just been released from the
Nebraska state prison, where he has served a
term, has sued the lawyer who defended him
in the trial that resulted in his conviction
The ex-conv.ct claims that the COMPLETION was
Fhe result Of the lawyers malpractice, and he
wants $4,000 damages. 80 i
Two United States revenue officers recently
tried to arrest smugglur who was bringing 4
load Of GIN from New Brunswick into Maine
The smuggler ran TO the woods but before he |
started he pulled cord which opened the gin |
casks and nearly all Of the liquor ran out BE-
fore the officers could shut 1t oil.
New England is deeply interested In the
rumors about the solvency of some Of the
western farm mortgage companies The loan
companies of Boston alone hold 81 0o1 western |
farm mortgages, on which $4,000, 900 Is out.
standing. And the insurance companies OF |
Hartford hold mortgages on western farms to |
the amount of S7o,00o,O00,
A large Fa4lt with walls OF stone and filed |
with skeletons of human beings has been dis. |
covered In an Indian mound which overlooks |
the Missouri river from hill near Jefferson |
City, Mo. The skeletons are thought to be the |
remains OF the ancient mound builders, al |
though Eho remarkable state of preservation
IN which they are found would indicate that !
they are OF more recent date.
Aunt Hattie North, who recently died in
Troy Kan, was thought by those who knew
her best to be fully III years DID, She was
colored woman and remembered living In St.
Louis when the city was French trading post
with very few houses, She often related in.
eidcnts that occurred full century ago and
as she never knew how to read 1t was thought