Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-05-16
WINGED MISSILES.

Extensive experiments In steel making
are to be made in Birmingham, Ala.
Five OF tho seven members Of the Yer
mont Supreme court were born in 1888.
4 r. Il. Barnum has given Jumbo's skeleton
10 the New York Museum of Natural His
tory.
ploy 300 hands, is TO be started at Haw-
thorne, Fla
A Mississippi company has received an
order for 4O,OO0,OO0 wooden butter dishes
from St Louis house
Keely, of motor notoriety, thinks he has
discovered the missing link to make his
mysterious machine operative.
A papal rcscript will be issued giving the
new Catholic university at Washington q
monopoly Of the superior education Of the
clergy in America.
The collectors of customs in Nova Scotia
have received orders to issue licenses to
American fishermen under the naodus vi0endi
up to the end Of this year.
A shortage of $4,000 has been found in the
accounts of Martin II. Goldswortny, manag
or of the Standard Oil company for the Lake
Superior region. He is now at Toronto,
Ont.
The New York Knights OF Labor have
asked Secretary Window TO prevent the
landing of silk weavers alleged to be on
their way, under contract, from Switzer
land.
The Kentucky court OF appeals has just
decided that the property which a woman
has bought and paid for with money earned
| by herself is liable for the debts of her
husband.
The American Sugar Refinery Of San
Francisco has raised the prices of all grades
Of their sugars one-quarter Of cent per
pound, and the California refinery made o
raise Of one-eighths cent per pound.
Residents of Hyde Park, part of Scran-
ton, Pa, are greatly alarmed; the mine I'M
derneath the town having sunk for the
second time. The cave-in is over the CEN
trail and business portion of the town.
The acquittal of engineer Major of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, ends the Mud Run dsas-
ter trials, the three persons accused having
all been acquitted, and the record standing
that nobody was to blame for the loss of
Sixty-one lives.
The tall female hat now so agitates
tho minds of the male frequenters of tho
London pits that it is proposed that the pit
should be divided like Quaker meeting
house, the men sitting on one side and the
women on the other.
| A masculine beauty show is being arrang-
ed at Vienna, of which women will be the
judges, and prizes will be awarded to the
handsomest man, the man with the finest
mustache, the man with the biggest nose,
and the man with the largest bald head.
The employees in the machine shops of
the Pennsylvania railroad company at AL
toopa, Pa, have been notified that nine
hours would be considered q days work
hereafter, with half holiday on Satur-
days. This will affect about four thousand
men.
1t is reported that a sensation has been
caused at Ottawa, Ont, by the issue OF
President Harrison's proclamation declaring
Behring's Sea closed sea. The action of
the United States government proved a
complete surprise to the members of the
Dominion government
| A New York burglar got into genuine
pickle the other day. Officers discovered
that some one was feloniously at work in
butcher shop, but after they had entered
could not find the man until they looked In
pork barrel, whore they discovered him
up to his neck in brine.
Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make
good living off of the baby. 1--WE just
gets i'm christened," explains the man, 'in
all the towns we passes, and then, you see,
parson makes US all comfortable wiz sum-
mat to eat and money for beds. On days
orful bad we has TO do IN twice.
Secretary of State Blaine has received
report from the consul Of the
United States at Colon stating that work
along the Panama Canal has entirely ceased,
and that the West India negroes are return
Ing to their homes; up to March Is fully five
thousand of the latter had already left.
Two attempts have been made to burn
| Colon.
A firm of great genius has offered tho
British government an immense sum for
the use of the national postage stamp for
advertising purposes. The advertisement
Is to be printed on the back of the stamp
before the gum is put on, so that the pur-
chaser of every stamp must sec the an
nouncement before he moistens the gum.
This is an Australian idea.
The bagging trust or pool, which caused
| O good deal of excitement and excited much
opposition on the part of cotton planters,
and others last year, and which expired by
limitation last December, it is announced
has practically been organized, and will be
run or managed by the same parties as be-
fore 1t is not believed that prices will be
pushed up so high as before.
Four years ago boy and girl of York,
Pa. each years old, asked a gentleman to
marry them. To humor them he read
something out of an almanac aud told them
they were united. The boys family moved
to Baltimore, but he still writes to his dear
wife" In his last letter he says: 81 don't
know whether you would know me now or
not because am wearing long pants"
Seventeen cities of the United States
| last year produced more than 80, 900, 900 bar
rels of beer and it is probable that as much
or more was manufactured elsewhere in the
country, giving more than a barrel for
every man, woman and child in the coun
try. The drinking, however, is not equally
divided and there are many children who
do not begin to drink as much as barrel
year.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is
sued an order directing all clerks in the Of
flee of the first assistant postmaster gener
al and such as may be required in the other
bureaus Of the department, until otherwise
directed, to begin work at 80 a. m, instead
of a. m, as heretofore, and remain at
their desks until 6 p IA, instead Of four
o'clock. The clerks in the dead letter Of
fee are also required to work now in
arrears If that division is brought up.
Since the 4th of March the presidents
mail has been very heavy, aggregating from
six TO seven hundred letters daily. and on
some days running as high as a thousand.
President Clevcland's letters rarely exceed
cd three hundred day. Many of the com
munications sent to President Harrison
are intended for other persons, several Of
whom are utterly unknown to him, the
correspondents probably thinking that
letters addressed to the care Of the presi
dent will undoubtedly reach their destina-
| ton.
The secretary of war has prescribed
regulations governing the issue of arms
for military instruction at colleges, under
which each college or university where an