Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-06-12

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Spiritualists claim membership of So
900 in Boston.
The Champion pug of England weighs
but five poun is.
Australia is sen ling thousand hogs
heads OF vino to Amsterdam.
Liverpool goes down to the seas. It has
the largest tonnage of any city in the
world.
A serious feeling has come over Gouuod.
He writes nothing now b2t religious
music.
A Japanese princess is in Berlin studying
the management ofhospitals and charitable
institutions.
The Indians ct Syracuse, N. Y. have
started good ;empllrs' lodge with eighty
five members.
Beethoven said: at is one thing to give
ourselves up to reflection and another to
yield to inspiration.
It is reported from Vermont that tho
whole section about thu lakes aud ponds is
studded with ice houses.
Only one diversity in Switzerland-th
University of Basle-refuses to admit wo-
men to its medical teaching.
The largest perfecs diamond in the world
is the Imperial, owned by a syndicate in
Paris. 1t is valued at 100000.
The fashionable dogs of the fashionable
people Of New York are now provided with
bouquets when they appear in public.
A new mineral oil lubricant having the
consistency of butter and with apprecia-
BILE odor is being extensively used in
France.
Louise Albema, the French artist, wears
male attire and is very much of dandy.
She has ability, but is exceedingly singular
in all her ways,
A trout fourteen inches long fell from a
cloud into the yard of Mr.. ID Iniel at Tam
pa, Fla, day or two ago 1t was still
alive when picked up.
A pcnniless Scotch immigrant accident
ally stumbled upon rich brother in New
York the other day whom he had not seen
for thirty-seven years.
A young lady nineteen years OF age
named Cyrena A. Boyd died at Sacra-
mento, Cal, of blood poisoning caused by
having her ears pierced.
The divorce statistics recently published
made a very bad showing for the district
of Columbia, the ratio of divorce to mar
riage being one to twenty.
Mrs. Holland, who died in Virginia last
week, had been a member of one church
for over eighty years. She lacked but one
year of being centenarian.
A German has invented an apparatus for
forcing sidewise the swell in front OF fast
going ships by means of 5 team jets from a
nozzel under the wa CIR at the bow.
A new mcgaphone has been placed on the
market in England, by which the human
voice can be so magniiisd that it may be
heard at q distance of several miles.
The new German military rifle has a
range Of $500 yards, and will shoot through
the bodies Of six men standing one behind
the other at a distance of seven PAGES.
DIR. Helen L. Webster of Lynn, Mass,
who fills chair at Vassar, is one Of three
Americans who have received the degree OF
Phi. d. from the University OF Zurich.
The railroads get pretty good fec out Of
Uncle Sam for carrying the mails. The
aggregate sum paid for this service by the
government is 40 million dollars year.
Some German doctors say King William
has not more than ten years of sanity be-
fore him. Ill fares the people when they
are governed by the whims of a mad ruler
Each member of congress gets about
five thousand envelopes full of seeds every
year, and the bill Uncle Sam pays fol
them amounts to about one hundred thous
and dollars.
The popular fad in Washington nova
days is tho study OF the language and litera,
ture of Spain, which was given great
impstus by the Sc 3sions of the Pan Ameri
can congress.
Miss Belle Smith, recently appoin tod
resident physician at the woman's PRISON
in Sherborn, Mass, is but twcnty-three
years old. She has been practicng medi
cine for two years.
King Oscar of Sweden has given up poet
ry as not becoming in o ruler and ha
turned his attention to military themes
Some men think it is the business OF state
authority to prepare for war.
The largest greenback extant is wortl
$4,000, and there is only one such note il
existence. OF s., 00) notes there are seven
and when you come down to the ordinary
every day $1,000 note, "there's millions il
it"
curiosity revealed at Holy Hill nea
Daytona, Fla, was the Matching out of
couple OF chicks by a cat from eggs left il
the nest by hen that had got tired o
waiting for th,m to do as had the Other
eggs