Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-06-06
LIVELY TURNS OF rHoUoHI


More mortgages are being paid in Omahs
han filed-a good sign.
Leavenworth claims mule IS years old.
snd he has never been Ill day.
Henry George is getting really for q three
ylonths' tourin Great Britain and ireland.
Two cypress trees cut near the Wehiva,
Fla, single mills produced $4,000 shin.
giles.
Michigan salt wells have yielded .
grand total of 40, ls9, 1913 barrels Of salt since
1859.
Lord Wolseley has been undergoing an
attack Of fever. He is now ON tho road to
recovery.
The horse of doctor at Dover Mo. though
u years old, is strong and lively and Der
forms good service.
Whatever may be the case with his Ian
Suage Senator aiddlebarger seems to DO al
ways elevated, remarks the World.
A full blooded negro testified In q rich
Irish brogue before Brooklyn court the
ether day. He was born in Ireland.
The Browning Club of Philadelphia 10
said to have the largest membership Of any
James Chamberlain Morford, the last Nom
Der of the Old Defenders Association of
Baltimore, Md, is dead. lie was born in
1875.
Miss Francis Willard says that, in the
interests of the living, cremation is the
nost unobjecticnable way to dispose Of the
dead.
In tf mt EnA -
Maryland oyster beds were "Raked with
Cannon" something novel in the way Of
oyster rakes.
The "Oolong wave" Is not q new wrinkle
h doing up the hair. 1t is the latest designa-
ZION in Washington for the greatly abused
afternoon tea.
A Mexican sorccress has predicted that
Mexico will conquer the United States in
1890, and some of the Mexican papers say
she is infalliblc.
Little Lizzie Rollins, born in Marine, Cass
rounty, Iowa, last week, has six grandmoth-
srs, the Oldest, her q eat great grandmother,
being ninety seven.
The idea of zinc pads under a draught
horses collar was Original with an Eng
lshman, and he sold his knowledge to q Yam
kee for glass of beer.
Jane Golden, daughter OF the famous
Richard Golden, says that there are moro
than lG,0C0 members in the women's lib
sral associations OF England.
Annotto is a vegetable Oil which has boon
used by the dairymen to give to winter but
ter the rich color of the summer produo
when the cows arc grass-fed.
The almost incredible statement is made
by the Electrical Review that Honolulu has
more telephones in use in proportion TO her
population than any other city.
One firm in New York supplies electrical
power to $50 different manufacturers, some
Of them ten miles from the dynamo. This
has rcp.a ed 101 steam engines.
Rev. Henry White of the Savoy chapel,
London, states that out of 1000 couples
which he sisted to Join together only one
pair had found marriage failure.
Repro sentative Henry Cabot Lodge is
about through with the second and final
volume of the life Of George Washington
for the American Statesmen series,
A curious local name for plant is John
go-to bed at,nooa," applied in England to
and closes just before twelve o'clock.
The type-writing industry has developed
into great business. There are $4,000 in.
struments sold every year, and pretty type,
writer's are to be numbered by the thou
sands.
A bullet fired into Tennessee negro
struck him in the right arm, ran up to the
shoulder, passed down to the left side
twisted around two ribs and dropped at his
Ieet.
Moses Bradshaw, OF Claiborne county
Tenn, celebrated his Tooth birthday ami
| versary, last Weoit, Ivy ridiHg fifty miles or
horseback. He made the journey on 4
wager.
One of the natural curiosities at Antelop<
| Creek in the Butte Creek Valley, about &
mile from th5 residence of W. J. Bray, is q
cave which contains superior ice all the
| year round.
A Towering plant has never been found
within the Antartic circle, but in the Artit
region are 1G3 kinds of flowers but thcir
rolors are not So bright ar varied as those Of
warmer regions.
| When Mr.. Gladstone was in Birmingham
lie received Ccblc sCrIwl from Carolina
| Newman, who wrote that he was very Ill
but s2nt him his blessing. Mr.. Gladstone
was much affected by TIE i9:iaent
| Mt BLACK, one Of the publishers Of tn,
| "Encyc 'Oppdia Pr.tann;ca," is quoted say
| ing tn at, OF the entire 5000 copies con
itituting the ninth elton Bf that work, NJ
less than 40, 00J have CONG ta this country.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the Tory leader
and Henry LabouchCre, tue Radical lcud
en- arc said to be more together than ar
| sny other two men in the house OF commons
And both are inveteratc cigarette smokers
A Milan news paper, the Secolo, is pub
fishing the Bib,e in 2l0 h tlfpenny parts o
eight pages each and 900 wood cuts. Thi
Is the first enterprise of the kind in Italy
and it has already achieved enormous sue
cess.
Richard Watsou GilaoF, . litor OF the Ger
fury, announced two years ago that tn
most prominent woman among America
writer's was Ain lie Rives, but that sh
would eventually fall victim 10 he
friends.
The house on Seminary Ridge occupie
by Gen. Lee as his headquarters during tn
battle Of Gettysburg has been sald by E.
ward Mcpherson, executor Of the Thaddeu
Stevens estate, to resident Of Get;ysbur
for $40.
Friday, July /, 1926, marks the day tina
Gen. Lafayette was welcomed to Bosto
and Toasted by the F'reemasons and citizen:
hnd attended at tho laying Of the corner
stone of Bunker Hill Monument, erected
perpetuate the remembrance of the defent
ers of the rights and liberties of America.
1t 10 no wonder that foreigners conside
the English Language 80 difficult to maste
when we think Of the great change that
sinsle letter makes In the pronunciation {
Of It. The letter changes lover into Glove
d makes a crow crowd, X makes eye
keyed, g changes son into song, tran!
forms pear into pearl, s changes a he
into shoe, makes bough bought " make
omen into women.
, The Indians on the islands Of Oldtowl
Maine, have a novel way Of bridging II
Penobscot in the fall, after the ice prevent
, the running of ferry boats. The water b
Ing sc syift in the channels Oh eaeh sida
the island that it would not frdeze early II
, were not aided, they obtain huge cake I
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