Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-07-10
AROUND THE WORLD.


| health
The flesh of the sturgeon makes up tho
bulk of "the smoked halibur in the
market.
Florence nightingale is 20 years old.
She is less powerful but more popular than
the queen.
A Howell, Miss. boy, fourteen years Of
age, has been sentenced to prison for
horse stealing.
The hens of Kansas are an industrious
set Car loads Of Kansas eggs have been
shipped to California.
tits 1000 miles across Russia. A Cos.
sack, Captain d. Pjeshkoff, is making the
distance on horseback.
A Pennsyvanan has just eloped with
his mother in law. There is no accounting
for taste in matrimony.
Spartans burg, Pa, man eats his me lis
In Erie county and sleeps in Crawford
county, all in the same house.
A Gainesville boy seventeen years old,
ate forty eight bananas in an hour on u
wager and then wanted more
Elk Empress Eugene is preparing for
publication memorial volume of the
letters of her husband and sou.
The Indianapolis News has inscribed on
its banner: "All public machines should
be made to yield public revenue"
A method for soldering tin cans by cleo.
tricity has recently been devised and it
bids fair to be quite generally used
The Milwaukee Journal has noticel thIs
the weaknesses of youth become the faults
of middle life and the blight OF Old age
BE careful how you call for soup. A New
York paper says: "ln great many hotels
the printed name for hot water is con-
somme."
This is the centennial year of cotton
spinning in the United States. Tho South
proposes to commemorate the event in some
suitable manner
Color is not always bar to public busi-
ness. At Nashua, n. H., mulatJ0 girl
has charge of the telegraph office; and
she is efficient.
Information gathered in London is sa d
to show that cats catch diphthera from
human patients and carry the discas) to
healthy persons.
Wanamlliers 5, youngest child il a daugh-
ter OF fourteen, a bright and clever school
cir whe is a good musician and an accom-
plshed hUrsewoman.
The Episcopal convention OF Ohio his
decided to remove all restrictions upon
women voting at parish meetings and
holding Office in the church.
1t is said that Mr.. Howels' minute vivi-
sections of women have not made him a
favoriUe with the other sox They object
to his Photographic realism.
DR.. Lyman Abbott is quoted "a saying
that he considers d. Phillips Brooks by
far the foremost preacher in America.
That is generally admitted.
Stanley may have improved his fortunes
while he was away from civilization, but
he seems to have ruined his temper His
store OF patience is very low.
The Milwaukee journal says "weak men
often succeed when stronger ones fail ~
,ourting aggre ssive opposition" Tho slick
citizen is general y man of policy.
Some one is translating all OF Haw.
thornes works into Italian He can go
unabashed into any language. He has IN
literature the saving grace of good style.
Russia is getting cheap help BY import
ing Persian laborers. The trouble is the
Persian gentleman is not much of work.
err being a nomad in his normal condition.
An exchange says: "The st. Louis wo
man uses her feet when she appl Iuds in a
theatre. The result of this is that every
theatre in town has to have new floor
laid once year"
Although s. years of age, Isaac Nc
LeIlan, who was at college with LonSfel-
low at Hawthorne, and who wrot, the
Poems of the RoI and Cum" never misses
an opportunity TO fish.
Asplrants should know that rs rule,
office does not pay. And often it Is OF few
days and full of trouble. Still, in the
Anglo Saxon race. the desire to attend tc
9th ar peoples business is very great
Coningsby Disraeli, at the next general
election, will be candidate for a seat in
the house Of commons He is said to be an
energetic studious and able young man.
His ancestors had habit of being able.
A girl named Amelia Waterworth, en-
ployed by Mrs. Davidson OF Durdas, Ont +,
was &C used of ste ling s. She at first
denied the charge, but after taking dose
O, rough on rats comics sed and then died.
After three weeks CT hard labor on a
supposed silver mine at Pleasautville, Pa,
an expert, who was called from Philaael-
phia, decided that there was no indication
OF anything of value except line bed oil
clay.
Represent alive Burrows is one Of the
finest looking men in congress-. He is &
feet inches tall, weighing over 200 pounds
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corner Of the vast cham Der in which tho
house sits.
There is a great demand for metal fur.
niture in Australia, not only for household
use, but in places Of business, school
houses. etc The demand is caused by the
ravages OF the white ant, which eats al
kinds of wood.
The great window for the hall in Mr..
Jefferson's house at Blzzari's Bay is Low
to be seen in Boston. 1t shows southern
swamp scene, drawn by MIR. Jefferson him
self and executed in mosaic. The window
measures l0x7 feet
An Australian musician has invented &
trombone that is played by steam, It's
God Save the Queen" can be heard dis
lance Of four miles. He had hard luck with
it, however, for the people OF his own town
drove him out as a nuisance.
An editors eve is great part of his
stock in trade. The city editor Of the
Philadelphia Bulletin had an eye injured
in street railroad jumbo. The jury
awarded him damages against the road for
$1,000, from which it appears that the sver.
age man does not properly estimate the
eli yht of the hodyp
Last November young girl was locked
up in the jail at Sudbury, Pa, on &C oun
of be ng an important witness in case, as
it was feared she would not otherwise Il
on hand when wanted. The case was dis
posed Of, but the girls Imprisonment wa:
forgotten until she had been Illegally dc
tanned for four months.
The Indians of northern British Column
bia '.bury their dead by han ing them Il
large trees. The Siwash tribe had 300 o.
their ancestors hung up in this manner, and
when hunters set the forest oa.fire the
bodies, dried By years OF exposure, burnet
like tar barrels. The Italians are terribly
exciAed and threaten vengence
1t 10 xsd that Prince George Of Wales