Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-08-07
WINGED MISSILES

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Boston Courier: There is no class Of
people who die faster than those who live
fast
Young woman at Madison, Ind, bsing
frightened. screamed loudly, dislocating
her jaw.
A colored man at Albany, Ca, has served
no less than twenty. one terms In jail for
fighting.
A medical scientist says AS rule wo-
men need about nino- tenths Of the nourish-
ment requisite for men.
They seem 10 be honest folks In Boston.
Only one book out OF 10000 in the public
library fails to be returned.
Mrs Hough'on, real estate dealer at
Spokane Falls, Wash. is said to havo
mado s250,000 in four years.
Puck: The youth VINO wakes up as fresh
as a daisy is likely to 60 to bed very tired
II he keeps up his freshness all day.
Robert L. Stevenson's letter in defense
Of Father DImiens is considered one OF
the best literary efforts Of his life.
A well known colored fiddler at Annapo-
lis, Md, dreamed that he had only one day
more to live, and died accordingly.
Scotch capitalists are ready to invest
&, 000, 900 at Glasgow Va, if their geolog-
ical expert gives a favorable report
Utica Herald The old continental re-
joiced to see Hessian fly, but the western
wheat. raiser is not an old continental.
Business and singing often go together.
w. II. Duane, the hymn writer, Is tho
manager OF an iron foundry in Cincinnati
Max Muller says that soma of the ma
tives Of India need fear no comparison
with the best men and women Of Europe.
A counterfeit dime heavily plated with
pure silver on a body OF German silver
has appeared in Goshen, Ind. 1t is dated
1885,
Yankee Blade: A man whose wifes good
looks were the only anchor for his love
says: "She is a thing Of beauty, and jaw
forever"
Haverhill, Mass, is 250 years old and
Just celebrated the event in good style,
People who read Whittier viii recall the
old town.
Atchison Globe: Some men are wor hless
so many times during the day that they
haven't time to feel ashamed us often as it
is necessary.
The largest contingent of recruits ever
demanded by the Russian war office, go,
600, was fixed for the next enrolment by
the latest ukase
A new lion hunter has arisen VI succeed
the late Bombonncl in Algeria, name / Cat
tier, who invites not cny men but women
TO come and hunt.
The Vineland grape crop this year VIII
be an almost entire failure whore few
f,.,,it n
and yielding heavily.
A magpie that has Just died in Meridcn,
Conn, could call all the members OF its
owners family by name and was quite
fluent conversationalist.
improvements are constantly coming
around. Electroplating with platinum
promises to be among the accomplished
thing Of the near future.
1t is said that the l2-year. old daughter OF
Colonel T. w. Higgiuson is unusually
bright. The father recently said OF her,
81 study TO keep her ignorant"
The largest sheep ranch in the world is
in the counties of Webb and Dimmit, in
Texas. 1t contains upward of 100000 acres
and yearly pastures 100000 sheep
j. d. Rockefeller has just given 100000
to the Baptists' general education society.
He is quito bonanza to that denomina-
ton. His gifts are frequent and large.
Two boys who wandered from the town
OF Thorne N. NJ, into the mountains werc
killed and eaten by bears. A third boy
escaped and told the fate OF his companions.
Miss Lottie bod, the English lady lawn
tennis champion, advises ladies who would
excel at lawn tennis not to pay too much,
and TO carefully eschew garden party ten
mis-.
Gluttons have to pay for their rashness
in abusing the system. The man who ate
twenty six eggs in Atlanta, on wager, be-
came sick and died. Nature will take its
revenges.
A bigamist under arrest In Akron, Ohio,
is said to have no less than seven wives.
They live in various parts OF the country,
and he has married them all within the
past ten years
Senator Evart5 has four establishments,
one at Montpelier, VT, one at Washington
and one at New York; and now he has
bought and fitted up a log cabin near
Mount Vernon.
A key to Browning's poetry will be pub
lished in London. In Chicago they don't
need any such help. There the children
have put aside their primers and taken up
their Brownings.
The center of New Guinea has just been
reached by an explorer. i he world has
been hard to find out and it still has many
unexp!ored corners. There is still room
for the explorer.
The mineral called turfa, or brazolina,
-, Dahs f,,pp oh
an oil ak TO petroleum, paraffiue suita-
BILE for the manufacture OF candles and
good lubricating oil.
jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's twenty
years term of enlistment from England
is about to expire, and his friends are rails
ing money to send him back and keep him
there the rest of his life.
The invention of smokeless powder has
been followed by acountsr-invention in the
shape of smoke rocket" to be used 10
screen the advance of body of troops. 1t
has been tried with success.
A "fossil forest has been discovered in
Scotland. Thirty or forty fossil trunks
have already been laid bare, most OF which
are gray freestone. One OF tue trunks is
at least two feet in diameter.
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the government to complete the history OF
| the war. While each volume costs nomi-
pally $1,000 il is said the real cost will be
not less than $500 per volume.
According TO recent figures the people OF
this country are longer lived than those OF
Europe In this country Is persons out Of
every 1000 die each year in England tho
average is 90 and in Germany IS.
"Jane Eyre" still has its hold upon the
public. A New York firm will bring out
finely illustrated two volume issue of the
old standard. There are few better selling
books among thos, back OF moiern date.
A new element named "Jamaria," is said
to have been dis ovcred in the crater OF an
extinct volcano in Damaraland. II is
reported to have an atomic weight OF only
0.5, or half that OF hydrogen, and, therefore,
II Is the lightest known substance