Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-09-11
WINGED MISSILES

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| England.
| The coins Of Siam are made Of porcelain
those Of Japan are principally of iron.
| Heligoland has a national debt of a10
The revenue is between f8, 900 and $4,000.
A failure Of the potato crop is threatened
in ireland, and famine will follow If it hap
pens.
A hunter of Chepallis, Wash, recently
killed cougar which measured feet
inches in length.
A large sturgeon, with a chain fre feet
/ long attached to it, has been caught of the
coast Of Oregon.
In Bradford county, Florida, is hollow
stump from which comes a noise similar to
that Of boiling kettle.
A pair of shoes for a Georgia negro
weighed four pounds and five ounces. They
were numbered fifteen.
In clearing up the postoffice at Astoria,
Oregon, recently, package of letters
mailed in 1887 was found.
A Louisville physician a few days ago
married his sixth wife, He is eighty-one
and she is forty years old.
He is cruel cynic who declares that
people who eat the most at summer hotels
are those who are said to be invalids.
A Portsmouth, Ohio, man has well-de-
veloped apple growing on an ordinary
grapevine, the result of skillful grating.
The famous Physic Garden in Chelsea,
England, whose preservation is now a
matter of discussion, has 10000 different
herbs and plants.
A negro baby, three months old, down in
Hopkinsville, KY, can talk. 1t somewhat
lessons ones wonder, however, when we
add that it is girl baby.
Three boys, aged six, seven and eight
years, respectively, brothers, were arrest
cd in Scranton, Pa, on Wednesday for
robbing store the night previous.
The natural bridge of Virginia has not
been sold to Northern capitalists, as re-
ported. 1t is held in trust for the benefit
of the family of Colonel III. G. Parsons.
A suit for the recovery of money paid for
pianoforte in a neighboring city revealed
the fact that the handsome looking rose
wood case was of cheap wood, veneered.
At an equality of age the male is general
ly heavier than the female, except toward
the age of twelve, when the average
weight in both sexes is about the same.
Farmers in outlying sections of northern
New Jersey report superiority of rabbits
this year. That game has not been so
plentiful before in fifteen years, they say.
Lincoln, Me-, has blind man who is a
clever croquet player. He plays by infor-
nation as to direction and by measuring
the distance by walking to the object ball.
The fashion for young New Workers is to
go to London to have the wedding cere-
mony, where it will be convenient for
dukes and countesses to run in and honor
them.
A West Virginian of Gilmer County
veneered a black oak log with walnut bark
and sold it to confiding Cincinnatian as
genuine black walnut log and got $lO6
for it.
A negro who was caught robbing the till
of merchant at Arredendo, Fla, was
given fifty lashes by the colored people
residing in the neighborhood and then set
at liberty.
A unique horticultural exhibition held in
England is devoted to CARNATIONS and
ferns. One large tent is filled with the
button-hole caranation, and the air is
heavy with perfume.
Domestic servants are so scarce in Mont
real that women in want of help are said to
visit the Jail with view to engaging young
women to work for them at the close of
their terms of Imprisonment.
A triplet steer team is one of the curios-
tiles to be seen at Old Orchard. The steers
are hitched to vehicle resembling those
used in the chariot races in circuses, and 10
cents pays for short ride in this novel
turnout.
A vessel has left San Francisco to secure
81, 100000 that lies at the bottom of the
Pacific in the wreck of the Inflated Brother
Jonathan, which was lost many years ago
on the coast, somewhere in the vicinity OF
Crescent City.
The effect of gum-chewing has been
studied carefully by an expert. In gum
chewing the masseter muscles which move
the jaw are abnormally developed and the
fatty substance which produces fair, plump
checks is deteriorated
Parasols made of the best linden wood
manufactured by Finnish peasants in the
suburbs of Viborg, are in fashion in tho
Russian summer resorts along lines of the
Russo-Finnish railroads. They are light,
elegant and very cheap.
A writer upon birds says that in the
fields and groves there are many old maids
and bachelors who apparently never had
any inducements to marry. There is no
doubt that the rivalry in bird courtship is
extremely keen, and the choice is delib-
crate one.
Jane Jones died recently at Clynnog,
near Carnaryon, Wales, in her one hundred
and second year. Her husband died three
months before her, aged niuety-eight, and
two years ago they celebrated their dia-
mond wedding, having completed seventy
five years of married life
A good deal of interest has been excited
at the antipodes by the appearance after
twenty-soven years of submersion, of the
wreck of the British warship Orpheus, the
singular loss Of which, with nearly 200
hands, caused such connection at the be-
ginning of the last Maori war.
The newspapers are now trying to find
tilS Eldu WHO SpCnJ Tue lnOSU Gays III feDel
prisons during the late war. So far as
heard from yet, E. w. Ware, of Bangor, is
ahead, he having suffered 800 days in
Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh,
Goldsboro and Greensboro prisons.
Leigham Court, Streatham, near London,
sixty-six acres, has just been
sold for 900, 900. 1t was for many years the
of the late M. J. Trcdwell, rail
way contractor, who began life as navy
His widow still preserves the pick and
shovel with which he worked as laborer
The illuminated fountains which created
such Juror at the Paris exhibition last
year are to be lighted nightly hereafter,
and are already bringing crowds to the
Champ de Mars. They are now the joint
of the first English company and
an Edison company.
An Auburn, Me-, business man was sur
prised the other day to see an old customer
come into his store and pay him bill, with
interest, which was contracted forty years
ago, when he was doing business in anoth-
er town. 1t was small bill, and the one
to whom it was due had forgotten all about