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

pcE udy.
A Georgia man has a red bat which he
captured q few days ago.
A real estate agent at Tacoma, w. T..
claims to have paid $500 for postage
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
Eiffel tower is to illuminate all Paris In a
manner unprecedented.
Some friend of tho institute Of New
York has made gift of s15,020 TO the er
dowment fund of Rutgers college.
In the Sydney courts it has been deci1sd
that no Sunday newspaper can sue for ad.
vertisements, the contract being illegal
An Orlando, Fla, policeman shot and
wounded Il dog, when the CANNES 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 building or
| the farm of George Newhart Lehigh coun
ty, Pa.
OF the seventeen pickpockots 50 far ar
rested at the Paris Exposition none is Eng
fish. They are Italians, Germans anc
J Americans.
Week before last the Isle of Man wa.
/ visited by a wonderful thunderstorm. Thu
! lightn .ng was of Leautiful rose color ant
! most incessant
Cigarettes of tea, lately introduced IL
! England, have been followed by those mad,
of IA mixture of herbs, which seem to b,
received with favor.
II. II. s., Of Pennington, Me-, suggest:
the violet as a national flower, because OF
! its typical co,or, the blue OF orr national
| fng, and because of its abundance.
A Houng lady living i'll 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 she has
| Travelled but once on the cars, never saw a
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
| lcersboro, Pile county. They were mar
ried in 1885 and have had twenty three
children, eighteen of whom are living.
MAJOR w. p. Smith, an agcl druggist at
| fIalscy, Oregon, started for the foothills on
Il collecting tour. He lost his way, and for
nearly a week wandered in the mountains.
He was nearly starved to delth when
found.
In clearing an old swamp at Pleas ant
Valley, Ind, recently, what appeared TO be
| q stone book was uncovered. Close ipspec.
ton showed it to be II family Bible, bear
ing III: date of 1913, plainly letterel. 1t is
now solid limestone.
Something described as petrifed snake
was uncarthcd by Il farmer while blowing
at Ohioville, ". Va. The piece was about
as thick as u mans wrist and twelve inches
long. 1t IS supposed 10 be part of the ro.
mains of reptile at leajt tea feet in
length,
That was sad Journey which old mau
John MCGEE took from New Castle, Pa, t.
Columbia, Cal. His son Samuel went &c
California two years ago, when just from
college, to make his fortune. His father
has just gone out to see him hanged fol-
murder
Eliza Jane Starr, an Oakland, Cal, widow
1
crease her allowance of pin money. Hci
husband used to give her S 800 per month
and she is now only rcc3iviny Sl,0O, which
she claims is not sufficient for her incident
al expenses.
A Russian navy officer has invented
meUhod Of searching the sea or coast by
night, which does not reveal the position o.
the ship. A mortar fires h.oyant sh0!
containing compound which iynitcs OF
reaching the water and lights up the sur
rounding area.
George Potria, while cutting peat on the
Island of Burray, Oakney, found sonlG
curious and valuable silver coins and ornl
ncnts. There were twenty -fve armlet
. and bangles and twenty-five neck rim :
of silver wire, rope pattern. The coins are
Of the eleventh century.
Irwin LGeitla!r rode into Arcadia, Fla.
with an incOrrigiblo mustang, which h,
sold to n negro cheap, on th1 grounl that i
, was too lazy to suit him. During the dal
every darScy in Arcadia was thrown iron
the mustangs back, and Irwin 'hun:
around just to see the fun"
, A handsome white woman WIS fount
recently living with Chinaman in San
, ftaaciScQ. Her little daughter, by whit
husband, was EitA her, and had bee
: taught to call tho Mon EoliaG ''plpa," Au
, other daughter, fifteen years OF age
lives with another Chin ,man.
! One afternoon, wAile Nc,lo Slwtello, o
: Smithfeld, Me, was sleeping on loung,
j., a pet cat of the family throw aero he
= ! geek an adder which measured three fee
IA, ,rr+. - hn r,yha
= it showed fight. so as to k63p her a prison
y or until u neigh,Or arrived and killc it.
A metallurgist gives as a reason VIII
steel will not weld as readily rs wrougt
{ jrqA that it is no. partially composer o
! rinder, as seems to te the case wit
wrought iroR which assists in forming
. tus DE alloy with the scale Of oxilatio
Il formed on the surface Of tho iron in tn
!. furnace.
Between $1,000 and 10000 children al
/ lost in London every year, although al. I
l., them arc found and restored to their pt
+ rents by the aid of the Metro politan polic'
q Between 120 and $50 adults are missir
II yearly il London aud about fifty dead boz
q les are not clai ned or identified after beir
= iohnq.
x "A HSHeEUlal hJ w InJIlsLlt, N-G., IeilS ll'
G he carght o pickerel through the ice
" Lake Marano cook last january and four
in its a.omach Il roll OF undigestcd bar
| bills amounting ta 800, He thinks Il
:, money was lost by sporting man who
y boat was upset on the lake shore more Thu
u year ago.
d genius somewhat resembling Ada
u Deioau has turned up at Cape Girardea
N Mo. lie las sued the estate of John
q Hit, for 1900 for Eriti4ga b9ok for &
deceased, entitled: "The Doctrines Of Eie
-" tion." Hit was y wealthy old crank wi
/ no education, and an absorbing desire +
III literary distinction.
N Captain Morris, OF the British schoone
.e Galena, which arrived at Charleston, s.
Srem New York recently reports that VIII
of Frying Paa shoals, carrier pige
'e flew on Eoarl. On ono leg YES uuhb
10 bapd witt 1917 stamped on it" No Xes'
I'd was IN sight OF the time. The pigeon "
=, brought TO Chagiesisa.
I'd The most eastern point in the Unit
~ states is Quoddy Head, Me; the mt
a northern is Point Barrows Alaska; t