Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-07-24
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.
| The tortoise shell as an ornameut for the
hair is doomed in England. Amber will
take its place.
| The Terre Haute Express says: "You
can easily FL the public eve II you only
save the DUST
| The man who undertakes to drown his
| iilemma b. drinking both horns generally
lakes sad mistake
The st. Loaf, Trader says: Those who
get through.the worll by making the worst
! OF 1t work for poor pay"
Akron, o., b s pious citizen who has
read the Bible throash eighty-seven times.
He is great in an argument
The man who knows it all and wants to
| tell it Is nigh onto" rs bad q, the man
who has always heard it before.
Asia and Alaska were probably united
at one time. They are nav at the esrest
point only forty. five miles apart
Jonah's gourl has been matched. Hop
vinss in the state of Washington grow
thirteen inches in fourteen hours.
Age and wealth are doing their work in
the cfrete east. smoking jackets for
ladies arc IN vogue in hat section.
The woman who haunts tho bargain
counter all week picking up things she will
never need thinks she is economical.
A society has Teen organized in New
York to prevent people from being buried
alive. No such society is needed ia ST.
Louis.
A cynical editor OF the Burlington says
"with go many young men love is
matter OF losing the head rather than the
heart"
A thief WHO robbed houss at Wilkes.
barre, Pa, took a bath and arrayed hi a.
self clean In linen and fresh suit before
he left.
Southern California is going into the or.
ange business more extensively than ever.
The people there import their small trees
from Cuba.
There ore about thousand elk killed In
Oregon and ashinSton every year, the
ant,ers from most OF which are sent TO
England for ornaments
Nile. dAlbe, niece OF ex Empress
Eugenie, received wedding gifts valued
at | m lion dollars, She is worth her
millions-:Ien e these gifts.
Charles Pratt is the richest MN in
Brooklyn. His wealth Is estimated at 10
millions He founded the Pratt institute
and is lber i in many ways,
The Italians Of Chicago propose to raise
q statue of Garlbllii in ons OF the parks
there, to cost not lass than $500 They
lovs to honor tao Old liberato".
Mime. Gers or h IS determined TO try
the lyric stage once more. She will be seen
first in London. Her friends claim that
size has found her voice again.
The Russian government will put on the
wherever it thinks it needful for self
preservation. II will forbid Jews to pub
lish or ed political newspapers.
Cincinnati has lively appetite for tur-
ties and devours about 1000 Of them every
year. As gourm md Cincinnati has
become tho Baltimore of the west
Queen Victoria as provided against the
emergency OF being left without help She
has taught all OF her daughters and grand
dau hters the art OF making bread.
1t is hard to provide against the ravages
o. time. The doms o. ST. Peters at Rome
has ceen cracking for some time and the
assure is becoming a!nrmingly wide.
The Atlantic processes 10 discover a
ETONiHg IINGlSHIC IOE Tue SbhSblIutAVu III
this country, though the way in which
some men abuse theirs doesn't show it,
The government at Washington has got
to be large concern. It employs 90 com
posuors md ninety pressmen. Printing
the census will be big and almost end
less job.
Cincinnati has begun TO crusade against
the sale of Lou siani lottery tickets in
that tate. IL thinks the Gulf state has no
right TO carry away from the state so IN my
buckeye dollars.
George Fraucis Twaii was born talkcr
and has cultivated the tendency. He has
de .ermtnei to leIture on his trip aroun
the world Neither friends nor ridi ;ul,
can is5uade him.
The Atchison Glohe says: "Next TO a
father fGdiuS man who Is good enough
to marry his daughter, the most impossbl
thing is for mother to find girl WHO is
good enough for her son."
The baggage oil returning European
tourists is thoroughly searched at New
York now for dutiable articles, and the re.
sut has b.en II large incre Use in the
amount OF duties collected.
Tennyson recently recited "The Charge
OF the Light Brigade into a phone raph
TIL Il is a considerable concession from u
man who has made point all his lif, OF
prete ding to h tie notoriety.
Tho prin of ales has a princely in
come From the Duchy of Cornwall alone
his yearly revenue is $4,000 That's only
one source Of his fortune But the royal
spendthrift is in debt all the time
a lively opposition to Chinese immigra
tion has sprung up in Mexico. The miners
and other iaborers fear the ,omp,titiou Of
the pistail wearers, and the local news
papers are actively backing them.
When tho Off err WIS mourning over tho
trials and troubles of his Office his friend
asked: "Well, why don't you resignr
10 which tho officer Indignantly replied,
mo, sir never; what do you think 1 am
hers for"
II is in order now for Bs,lamy to say that
he does not r.ad German and that he never
heard Of Mr.. Hebel. A London writer
says Looking Backward wa, taken from
book by Bsbel entitled woman, Present
and Future"
DR.. Ga ling, the inventor OF the Calling
gun, is going to give the world something
better than missile OF destruction. He is
the inventor of an ice machine which he
claims will mako ice at one half OF tho
present cost.
Governor Campbell OF Ohio is said 10
have acquire large interest in the brew
cries at Springfield, that state. The gov
error Is reported to have the great fortune
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