Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-07-04
LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.

claims 10 nave paid Sj,OU Ior postaSe
stamps last year.
Enough bones to fill cart were found in
fox's den In Birmingham, Chester
county, Pa, recently.
The effect of the electric light on the
Eiifel tower is to illuminate all Paris In
manner unprecedented.
Some friend of tho institute OF New
York has made gift Of $4,000 to the er
dowment fund of Rutgers college.
In the Sydney courts it has been deci"sd
that no Sunday newspaper can sue for ad
vertisements, the contract being illegal.
An Orlando, Fla, policeman shot and
wounded dog, when the canine's compan'
ion pitched into the officer and drove him tc
fight.
Two large apple trees now in full bloom
are growing from the roof Of a building OF
! the farm Of George Newhart, Lehigh coun
ty, Pa
OF the seventeen pickpoCkets 50 far ar
rested at the Paris Exposition none is Eng
lish. They are Italians, Germans ant
! Americans.
| Week before last the Isle of Man wa
visited by wonderful thunderstorm. Thu
| lightning was of leautiful rose color ant
| most incessant.
Cigarettes of tea, lately introduced il
England, have been followed by those mad,
Of a mixture of herbs, which seem to b,
received with favor.
| II. II. s., OF Pennington, Me-, suggest:
tho violet as a national flower because OF
its typical Coor, the blue OF our national
fng, and because of its abundance.
A Toung lady living in Chester Valley,
] a., was promised that if she would take
charge Of a public school three young men,
| each twenty years of age, would enter her
class
A woman living near Freehold, n j.,
nearly eighty years old, claims sho has
Travelled but once on the cars, never saw
steamboat, and was never more than TWEEN
ty miles from home.
The largest family in Arkansas IL
that of w. ID. Green and wife, Of Muir
igersboro, Pile county. They were mar
ried in 1885 and have had twenty three
children, eighteen of whom are living.
Major w. p. Smith, an agel druggist at
IIalsey, Oregon, started for the foothills on
n collecting tour. He lost his way and for
nearly a week wandered in the mountains.
He was nearly starved to dclth when
found.
In clearing an old swamp at Pleas mt
Valley, Ind, recently, what appeared 10 DC
stone book was uncovered. Close ipspec.
ton showed it to be II family Bible, bear
ing the date of 1913, plainly lotterol 1t is
now solid limestone
Something described as o petrifed snake
h., "a, ,,lo
at Ohioyille, ". Va. The piece was about
as thick as Il mans wrist and twelve inches
lonS. 1t IS supposed 10 be part OF tho re-
mains of a reptile at lea3t tea feet in
length.
That was sad Journey which old man
John MCGEE took from New Castle, Pa, t.
Columbia, Gal. His son Samuel went to
California two years ago, when just from
college, TO make his fortune. His father
has just gone out to see him hanged for
murder.
Eliza Jane Starr, an Oakland, Cal, widow,
has petitioned the Supreme Court to in.
crease her allowance of pin money Her
husband used to give her s 800 per month,
and she is now only receiving $l,0O, which
she claims is not sufficient for her incident
al expenses.
A Russian navy officer has invented a
method Of searching the sea or coast by
night, which does not reveal the position of
the ship. A mortar fires q b:oyant shr!l
containing a compound which iynitcs on
feaching the water aud lights up the sur,
rounding area.
George Petra while cutting peat on the
, Island of Burray, Oakney, found some
curious and valuable silver coins and ornl.
ncnts. There were twenty-five armlets
and bangles and twenty-five mock rim Is
OF silver wire, rope pattern. The coins are
! Of the eleventh century
Irwin LGei.la!r rode into Arcadia, Fla,
with an incorrigiblo mustang, which lie
sold to a negro cheap, on thc grounl that il
was too lazy to suit him. During the day
every darScy in Arcadia was thrown from
the mastnnys back, and Irwin hung
around just to see the fun"
A handsome white woman WIS found
recently living with a Chilaman in San
| FRANCISCO Her little daughter by white
husband, was Eitl hcE and had been
taught to call the Mon yolaG papa" AQ.
other daughter, fifteen years OF age,
lives with another Chin lman.
One afternoon, whle Ne,l;o Slwtelle, of
Smthfeld, Me. was sleeping on lounge
pet Cat of the family throw aero her
1 uecl1 an adder which measured three feet
In ieagt,.. STE threw it on the floor, where
it showed fight, so as to keop her a prison
or until a neiGhhor arrived and killc it.
A metallurgist gives as q reason why
steel will not weld as readily rs wrought
,r4R that it is no. partially composed OF
cinder, as seems 10 lie the case with
wrought iron, which assists IN lorming ;
tus i5a alloy with the scale Of oxilatiop
formed on the surface Of tho iron in the
furnace.
Between $4,000 and 10000 children arr
lost in London every year, although nj! o
them arc found and restored to their pa
rents by the aid of the Metropolitan police
o Between 100 and $50 adults arc missin!
| yearly in London aud about fifty dead bod
D ies are not clai ned or identified after bein:
. iohnq.
" A fisherman at Wintt"cp, Ne, tells thai
G he caught o pickerel through the ice "a
Lake Maranocooll last January and fount
in its stomach Il roll Of updigestcd bani
bills amounting ts $500 He thinks th
, money was lost by q sporting man who's
y boat was upset on the lake shore more thai
u year ago.
Il A genius somewhat resembling Adam
/ Deioau has turned up at Cape Girardeau
n Mo. lie las sued the estate of John r
q Hit, for s, J0Q for writing b2ok for tn
j., do easei, entitle L: "rhe Doctrines Of Elet
e. ton" Hit was ! wealthy old crank wit
: no education, and an absorbing desire 70
d literary distinction.
II Captain Morris, OF the British schooner
e Galena, which arrived at Charleston, s. c
:, Srem New York recently reports that whc
" of Frying l'a4 shoals, carrier pigeo
{ flew on L9arl. On ono leg yas puhbe
o papd witt ssSy' stamped on it" No Hesst
d was IL sight Of the time. The pigeon wa
IA brought TO Ghaeiesiaa.
d The most eastern point in ths Unite
= states is Quoddy Head, Me-; the mos
a northern is Point Barrows, Alaska; IT,
most western is Alton Island, and tn
fns.st southern is Key West Workin
u from Lhese feug points, many will be SUI
S prised Mheri' they locate Tho geographic