Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-15
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

4 a 0ne-ieggcd man IN u LOUISVILLE nOSplta
. claims to have once been tho husband o
/, Belle Starr, the female outlaw
The sultan Of Morocco has thirty. seven
, wives. His domestic affairs are more
Troublesome than his foreign relations.
, The prince of Nagles. heir apparent t.
the throne in Italy, will spend the coming
summer in q tour of tho European courts
looking for vito.
II is said tn at the nat lral gas OF Indiana
has been the means of bringing into that
state more thin SD0J0,00J ia capital and
fully 1000 mechanics
The use OF saccharinr in France has
been restricted as its antisceptic nature,
when used in large qu IN titles retards diges.
ton, ncutralizing the gastric juice.
Eight brewers in Cork, Ireland, have
each amassed fortune of q million dollars.
Their product is consumed glass by glass.
Little by little tho golden pile arises.
A crown Of pure gold, studded with a
thousand brilliants, formerly worn by
Malay sultan,, WAS sold at auction at
Singapore a short time since. Its value
was estimated at SEQ o.
Tho Bulgarian government proposes to
adopt the Georgian calendar instead of the
old style Greek calendar still used in
Russia and some two weeks out of agree
ment with the rest of tbs world.
A horse fell into an abandoned shaft at
Silver Fork, Nov, on Jan. 10 and lived
nineteen days without food or drink
When rescued the animal was able to walk,
and in a few hours was able to move about
all right
The largest tree ia the world is reported
to have been recently found in California
measuring li6 feet in circumference at a
distance OF six feet from the ground. This
would give a diameter OF about sixty feet
at that point
General Boulanger Is growing weary Of
| his retirement on the sic OF Jersey. But
no one cares much where he is. He has
ceased to be distur bing factor in the
| politics of Franco and is no longer an in.
teresting figure.
When p. T. Barnum said farewell to
well known English circus manager the
latter remarked: ~ shall meet again in
heaven, my dear Barnum." The American
looked thoughtful for moment, and then
said: YES, II you are there
Humor has had an illustration In the
south. A minister announced to his con.
gregatlon one Sunday that on the next Sun
| day he would preach on Looking Back
ward" a large audience assembled TO
hear him when he discussed to the people
On Lots wife.
The intelligence of animals became one
OF the subjects of discussion at
| little dinner party. An enthusiastic ad-
vocate Of tho dog was asked: do you
mean to tell us that there arc some dogs
with more sense than their masters can
boast off "Certtinly; have one"
In cemetery near Detroit are the graves
of three husbands of the lme woman all
in row. A suggestive feature of the
group is the headstones. The first depart
ed received very handsome and expensive
stone, the second exhibits u considerable
reduction, and the third Is o very cheap
affair. :
DR.. Francis H. Brown, of Boston, has de
vised plan by which six deaf persons who
formerly heard nothing of the sermon now
hardly mss word OF it when they attend
church. A loud sound. receiver stands near
the preacher, and branch speaking tubes
run, by way OF tho fioo:, from it TO each of
the deaf persons.
George L Newton, wholesale grocer,
VI IOO9lOI, piOsll- " pay OOHu HhObs',
New York drummer 500 if he stopped
drinking and smoking for one year. Lam
kota carried out the agreement, but the
grocer refused 10 pay. The drummer sued
him, and the superior court ordered New
man. TO pay 500 and costs.
An amateur vloloncello had the honor to
play before Rossini "The Great Master
said our man ten years afterward, twas
so enchanted with my playing that he
interrupted in the m ode of n cantabile
and came and gave me Il kiss on the fore
head. Since then, to preserve the illus
trous imprint, | have never washed my
ia e.n
1t is SAID that the French government
has just given to the government of Russia
the secret of its new smokeess powder,
and that the Russians are about TO begin
in the manufacture of it upon large scale,
using imported worlmen and being care
full to exclude Germans AMI Jews from the
factories. Tho basis of the powder is said
to be sulphuric ether.
Sam Jones seems to have been more often
sive down in Texas than usual Perhaps
he thought the people down there required
something ruder than elsewhere At Tyler
he said dancing girls look like tadpOles
and fashionable girls look no more like
God Almighty's women than q Chinaman
looks like salt mine" He is always an
ardent seeker after notoriety.
The German emperor having issued an
order suppressing the rse of all French
words in the postal service, the car has
antagonized it ~ circular which declares
that all letters, kilograms and packages
sent abroad must Ge addressed in French,
and the Russian authorities will not lie
responsible for the transmission of any
mail matter that is not addressed in that
language.
The dagger with which Ravaillac assas
sinated Henry ~. of France has been
found by Berlin antiquary. lie bought
curious thick cane ftom peasant and on
examination the stick proved to be hollow
and 10 contain an ancient poniard and tiny
SNUFF box. in the latter was paper stating
that the owner of the stick had carried off
the historical dagger from the Paris Palais
de Justice in 49,
Shakespeare is vel ap1reci tel By the
higher educated natives in India, and last
year large number OF his plays wore pub
lished In the vernacular. "As You Lilo
1t" and ''Tho Ninte:'s Tale were trans
IaGeu INTO 1afnlI anu j elegu LOT SIduF"S,
"The Tanning of tho Shrew' came out In
the Puniab aul Hamlet" "Much Ado
About Nothing ana ''Thc Comedy OF Er.
rors" were great favorities in tn, north
west provinces
". ID. DAIMLER. an old coioreI man who
lives in Oraneeburg County, South Caro-
lima, goes every year to the graveyard
where Lis former master and mistress lie
buried and cleans off the graves. In speak-
ing OF the matter he said: 81 caro- for
those who once cared for me- These white
folks | belonged TO lie ore God broke the
bonds of slavery, unl, since God has taken
them first and left m, behind, go every
year and clean off their er~ves."
Scott Kettle librarian of tho Royal
Geographical Society, says that re- koning
the whole territory whore British influence
is paramount, the dominion includes about
ten million square miles or very nearly
one fifth of the total land surface of the
globe. This shows tho British empire to
be nearly three times the size Of Europe
and only about million acres less than