Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-07-25
WINGED MISSILES.


A Bristol, r. l., rubber factory employs
5000 workers.
1 There are 5000 women doctors in the
: United States.
4 The tunnel under the Hudson river Is TO
= be 5000 feet long.
, At Pittston, Pa, 5000 miners lost an
eight months strike.
The rumor thav Secretary Blaine will re.
sign is denied by him,
Peace prevails in Samoa and tho native
troops have disbanded.
Quitman, Ga. with $500 people leads the
world in fruit shipping.
English fakirs paint sparrows yellow
and sell them for canaries.
Two officials of Newport, KY, have been
arrested for embezzlement
Some OF the Panama Canal laborers have
lately starved to death at Colon.
On so cents per week men and women
marry and raise families in India.
Immense damage was caused at Hong
Kong, China, recently, by storms
Up to this date 400 monuments have been
erected on the Gettysburg battle field
The ST. Andrea, Belgium, coal pit is 3,OSi
feet deep, the deepest hole in tho world.
A German peasant has been detected in
tapping telegraph wire to cure his rheuma.
tism.
An English syndicate is negotiating for
the purchase Of all the distillcrics in Ken.
lucky.
a volcanic eruption on the Island of Oshi.
ma, Japan, destroyed more than half tho
houses.
A bill TO CIRCULATE the sale Of horsefiesh
for human food" is before the English Par
Lament.
Fully one third of the United States is
deficient in moisture for the ordinary &C.
real crops.
The spring of 1889 has had the largest
rainfall of any year since the signal office
was established.
The difference between Bolivia and the
Argentine Republic over the boundary
line has been adjusted.
Reports TO the general land office show
that 26 applications for town sites have
been made in Oklahoma
Investigation by tho Rhode Island legis-
laturc reveals wholesale election bribery
in one of the legislative districts.
i An East Saginaw family that is support
cd by public charity scraped together
enough 10 pay the tax on a So dog.
| Over 1000 houses were destroyed by fire
in Japanese town lately, and about 49,
| 900 people were rendered homeless.
A housewife at Grdley. Cal, while dress
ing a chicken for dinner, found in its crop
a diamond which was sold for SlS5.
1t is reported that Secretary Blaine has
opened negotiations with Great Britain for
The settlement of the Canadian fisheries
md Behring Sea questions.
Tho tension between Germany and
| Swift erland has been increased by the ar.
| 'est at Zurich of two travelling German
| book sellers against whom false informa-
lion had been given by Socialists.
Japan has an honorary order called 'Thc
Rising Sum-" and Corea, in her jealousy,
has created one called THE Setting Moon"
Those fellows will fool with the heavens
until we shall have bad weather the whole
year through.
A Cincinnati father fixed the big rocking
cSair in the parlor to upset If greater
weight than l40 pounds rested in it. On the
first night afterwards his daughter got
broken shoulder and her young man had
bis nose skinned.
81 have seen great deal Of what they
call faith cure" said a New York dentist,
but have yet to hear Of a person who
succeeded in curing the jumping tooth ache
in any such fashion" Few people can get
up enough faith for that.
A boss carpenter in Boston won't keep a
man in his employ who does not whistle,
and he wont keep one who does not whistle
lively airs. He says that men work &C
cordng to the measure Of what they whis-
tie, and he is right about it.
"Men drink from habit" says DR. Nc
Gosh. IF could get twenty liquor drink.
ers to stop and turn to butter-milk or gin
ger ale for month, they would form
new habit Not one whisky drinl1er In
fifty likes the taste of the stuff
A broom facory man in Duluth laid off
his thirteen single men and informed each
one that he could not return to work until
he was married. Eleven of them married
within a fortnight, and inside of six weeks
there was five applications for divorce.
Nineteen people out of twenty" says
Chicago doctor, speak about this or that
food or drink being healthy. No food is
healthy. Various things may be unwhoe-
some, but no food can give health. The
idea is to know what won't injure the sys-
| tenn"
The genius who had an invention to send
packages from New York to Boston in six
| minutes has disappeared, owing his board
| ing house Sl4, of course. Any one can af
| ford TO get upan idea for three or four
| weeks board, ard it is a wonder that more
| are not heard Of.
The crew of Baltimore vessel charged
with mutiny exhibited black eyes, broken
noses, broken fingers, body bruises and
other injuries as excuses, and stated that
not man rebelied until each one had been
| knocked down from fifteen 10 twenty
times, while the food was not fit for dogs.
Under the present police rules in Russia
an officer can enter any house at any hour
on the excuse that 'he suspects a SUSPECT
Gus person may have entered there TO talk
sedition." He can arrest the whole family,
keep them in prison a year, and then
turn them loose without the slightest
apology.
They tell of a Judge in Bennington, Vt,
who having spoken Of buying a safe, was
interviewed by two rival agents. each OF
whom had so much TO say in favor of his
own particular safe that the Judge was
quite at a loss to decide which TO buy. In
a happy moment he thought of Burglar
Price, whom he had himself sentenced, and
| going to the Jail he obtained this expert safe
breakers opinion, and then gave the order
| The commercial travellers OF this country
now number over 80, 900, and reach in their
| iourneyings every town and hamlet in this