Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-24
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

II was discovered at q banquet in New
York city, which William Lloyd Garrison
attended that mona of the negro walters had
heard the name bafore.
The Boston Tran script says: HSilence is
golden; but it is the other mans silence
that is meant" That is true. Carlyle was
always preaching silence, and yet he was
forever screeching at the top Of his voice.
Richard Stahl has had considerable
matrimonial experience. He has been mar
ried three times, divorced twice sued for
alimony once. He is going to market his
experience, and is composing welding
march"
Ralph Disraeli, a brother of Lord Bea-
constield, has retired at the age Of eighty,
after fifty years Of public service, from the
office OF deputy clerk of the parllaments,
TO which he was appointed by Lord Bea.
consfield
1t has been asserted that chewing wool
en- toothpicks sometimes produces small
ulcers In the mouth, and that even tho
stomach has been similarly affected by the
action of the small particles Of wood de-
tached by chewing.
The discovery OF uranium at the Union
Mines, Cornwall, WAS announced several
months ago This is believed to be the on
ly known lode of that metal in the world,
as it has previously been found only in
pockets and patches.
The postmaster of Owosso Mich, has
been 50 pestered by local dudes gossiping
with his pretty clerks that he has placed
over each window printed card which
reads: "This window for p. o. business
only; not for visiting"
AT Brlenn, Austria, burglars havo cir
cumventsd the use OF iron shutters for
store windows by cutting a hole in the
glass through the little round hole left in
the shutter for ventilation, and the fl ,hing
for the valuables inside with hook and
line
Jean Hosmer, the once brilliant actress
who died in obscurity the other day, was q
great admirer of J. Wilkes Booth as an
actor. She said no was a better actor than
his brother Edwin and more like his father
in fire and vigor, but he did not possess
the grace and refinement of his brother.
Count Herbert Bismarck, during his So
iurn in the Orient, learned a new proyerb,
which he repeated in recent speech
"There are three things with which no
man should play-the fire, because it can
burn him; the viper, because it can sting
him; woman, because she can love him.
An advertisement was printed in New
York paper calling for bank burglar,
first class, must have done time and be
well up in nitroylycerine and other
modern explosives" to call at Ills Broad
way at 3 p. m. One was found who filled
the bill He was wanted by theatrical
troupe.
Edwin Booth has sent check. for g, 0oe
to the Vincent Hospital at Boston, an In.
stitution for the relief of working women
and girls, established under the patronage
OF Trinity church as memorial Of the late
Mrs. J. II. Vincent, for many years an
esteemed and accomplished actress OF the
Boston Museum company.
From the wallet of a murderer, robbor
and burglar recently captured in New York
was taken slip OF paper on which was
written: "Keep good company or none"
"Honssty is the best policy" "Drink
leads to ruin" "lIonor thy father and thy
mother" "Civility costs nothing" "D5
not mock at sacred things"
The use OF nitro glycerine In cases oil
emergency instead of alcohol Is recon.
mended by an English physician. A drop
on the tongue rouses fainting man, and II
may restore life in the case Of apparent
death, as from drowning. 1t has quickly
relieved headache, heart pains and
asthma and strengthened weak pulse 10
fevers.