Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-16

the problem of reducing cost OF steam
engine work 20 per cent.
Cathedral glass is to be made at Findlay,
Ohio, A large glass factory is TO be re-
moved to Sheffield, Ala.
The Gar has learned diversion that
will save him from ennui. He has become
interested in American poker.
The coal miners in the anthracite region
are unable to get ahead. There are moro
diggers than there is work for.
Boston is both cultured and modest.
Puck says In this city lovers take off their
spccks that they may not see each other
There arc soue drugs which are said to
be worth 1000 bottle, and the druggists
say they don't make much on them either.
The King of Siam is very enterprising
man and doesn't care for expenses. He
has Just taken unto himself twenty new
wives.
The Russian government gets about
thirty.six hundred pounds of pure gold
every year from the mines Of eastern ST.
IBERIA.
The National Wool Growers have effeceed
the strongest possible organization, and
now feel that their industry cannot be
damaged.
Gounod has promised TO write a mass for
the opening of the new organ at ST. Peters.
Four thousand singers will take part in the
ceremonies.
Margaret Deand has not been so great
success in her picture as in her novel,
John Ward, Preacher" which has reach
ed its fftieth thousand.
A highly electrical young man in
Alliance, Ohio has only to rub his fingers,
when small coin and other metallic valua-
bles stick to them as If by magic.
Down in Georgia cotton mill operatives
do eleven hours work, as it requires ono
hour per day longer to do a days work
there than it does in Northern mills.
Frank Crone, a rich merchant Of Erie.
County Ohio was married the other day
to his sisters granddaughter, The groom
is sixty.five and the bride twenty-four.
A plague of monkeys affiicts Taniore, in
Southern India The creatures do SO much
mischief than an Official monkey catcher
receives rupee for each monkey captured,
Somebody figures out that 8, 0O0, 900 peo-
pie walk about London's streets daily, aud
that in SO doing they wear away ton OF
leather particles from their boots and
! shoes.
Robert Conner has on his farm at larry
town and in his city stables in New York
nearly sixty Of the notable turf performers
Of their DAY and for which he paid nearly
s500,0J0
A Chambersburg, Pa, youth thought he
ought to try some of his girls cooking be-
fore marriage. He ate u dinner which she
prepared with her own hands and hasn't
been to see her since.
The business interest OF the country are
not suffering Every branch of trade and
manufacture is booming; yet there are
tens of thousands who arc barely able to
live on their low wages.
Talmage is not wiser than his generation.
In Pompei he paid $40 d piece for medal
lions His wife has informed him that the
same articles could be bought at the curios
in Brooklyn for IS cents apiece
TO be a Hoosier these daysis an honor. In
population and wealth Indiana claims to be
the sixth state in the union and the first in
educational facilities. OF course officially
speaking the state leads all others.
A family at West Bethel Me, consists
of couple OF eiGhtyhve and eighty years
oil age respectively, who live alone and do
most their work. But they do not lack for
music or excitement-they keep fifteen pet
| cats.
Thirteen mills are turning out 80 tons of
wood pulp daily. 1t requires machinery of
300 horse power TO run these mills. When
all the wood pulp mills now building are
completed, 1000 cords Of wood will be turn.
ed into paper daily.
Within the next ten years some OF the
grandest pieces OF engineering ever con-
ceived will be started. Bridges will be
commenced which il talked of now would
be regarded as chimerical. Houses Is to ~
stories high will be built.
In discussing lager beer German critic
insists that there is in the German vocabu-
larry no such word as lager, which he be-
lieves to be purely Viennese expression.
There is also very little lager abouta great
deal of beer that is put out
Soap bubbles blown with newly general
cd hydrogen gas have been found TO act "a
electrical condensers, the liquid of which,
when broken, exhibited negative charge.
1t is suggested that this fact explains the
socalled fire balls sometimes seen during
thunderstorms
4 New Yorker says: "Men marry their
secretaries and typewriters so often in the
business world of New York that there is
now no novelty at all about the perform.
ance. have known dozens Of such cases.
In our house alone four men have married
typewritcrs or women clerks IN the past
twelve months"
A peculiarly shaped rock was picked ~
by workmen on the foundation of a building
near Morgantown. w. Va. It almest ex,
actly resembles moccasined foot, and for
time it was supposed to be the petrified
pedal extremity OF some giant Indian who
chased buffaloes and tomahawked his enc.
mics in prehistoric ages.
A young lady OF Carlisle Pa, has receiy.
ed a bill amounting TO over 800 that tells a
little history. The bill came from a Tilted
man, and in it she is charged with twenty,
two yards OF silk dress goods, two gold
bracelets worth $40, one diamond ring a
hat and several other items. The above
named articles were presents from him.
The press OF Italy is discussing the
question of capital punishment which Is az
present Illegal, confinement at hard labor
for life being the maximum punishment be-
slowed by the Italian laws. 1t is contended
by many influential papers that a return to
death sentences is necessary in view Of the
great increase in murder since the existing
avs went into operation.
The Lewiston Journal says the women
who bought paper of needles when she
was married and set up housekeeping, and
forty years after had used only half OF
them, may have been a relative Of an
Aroostools man who moved TO Massachu-
sets while ago. He sent back the other
day for his cap, which Is forty four years
/ old, and which he had left behind. He
said he felt lonesome without It.