Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-04-10
supEREicIAL suRurY.

TIE law prohibiting tho use Of stores OF
furnaces in passenger cars goes into effect
In Maryland May |.
United States Senator George, of Missis.
sippi, has sworn never to wear dress suit
or ride in o carriage.
General Butler is said TO be able to quote
the bible moro freely and accurately than
almost any man in public life in Washing.
ton.
IN Paris there is skating rink formed
OF real leo on circular basin of water arti-
fcally cooled by pipes containing ammonia
gas.
Rev J. M. Savage reduces nationalism
to this proposition: "You support me and
! will support you, and we shall both DO
rich"
During the last five months $50 patients
have been treated at the Pasteur institute
in Paris and not q single death has oc-
CURED.
Squire Massie Bearly, who lives OF Aber
doen, Ky, has tied the marriage knot for
4,016 runaway couples in nineteen years.
His fees have ranged from ''Thank ye' TO
S5O.
Ex-King Milan Of Scrvia is living in
grand style in Paris. IIo recently sub
scribcd 500 to tho fund for the relief Of
wounded soldiers 1t is easy to be liberal
on borrowed money.
"The Biography and Letters Of Sarah
Bernhard, lSSElSS9," by an old and we'll
known military officer, is soon to appear in
Paris. The book is to contain o preface
written by u man now dead.
Mrs. Shaw. the famous whistler, says
she is not going to marry Duke Dipomar.
She has been very successful profes.
s.onally in England and has no desire to
wed titled pauper of any nationality.
1t is expected that the Manchester Eng
land) ship canal will DO completed before
tho time stipulated, the end of 1891. WORK
goes on night and day, 1900 men and
ninety six steam navies being employed.
1t is reported from Rome that the pope,
during tho illness OF his brother, Cardinal
Peccl, broke his vow not to leave the vati-
can during the reign of the house of Savoy.
and visited his brother at the Barbarini
Palace
The statue Of Rev. Mr.. Beocher, which
Is to be placed in Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
is now being cast in bronze 1t is to be of
colossal proportions, nine feet high, and re-
presenting the great preacher in soft felt
hat and cape.
John d. Rockefeller's wealth is estimat.
ed at 35,0J0,O0l. He devOtes two hours
daily-from until 0 o'clock In the morn
ing-to the examin ion Of the pile OF let.
tiers addressed to him, soliciting money for
various purposes.
Mrs. Longman, widow of the late Thomas
LoDgmau, died in London in her seventy
fifth year. She was the last of the genera
ton of the house that published for Scott,
Southey, Coleridge, Moore, Campbell,
Mackenzie and MacAulay.
VIII Carleton, the poet is getting stout
lie lives in Brooklyn, and acknowledges
being forty-five. His success has been
sudden, yet, while tho critics give him a
wide berth, he gets fancy prices for his
verses, and his future work is already con-
tracted for.
The government of ST. Domingo, which
claims to have the only original bones of
Columbus, is DESTROYS of forwarding them
to the United States for use in 1892, provid-
cd there be given in return for them $1,000
cash down ami % per cent OF the receipts
On public exhibition of the same
Because the Prophet Mohammed has been
represented upon the Paris stage the mo-
hammedans of some Of the Indian provinces
have been forbidden 10 attend theatrical
performances of any nature whatever under
penalty of heavy fines for the first two Of
lenses and accommodation for the third.
A second consignment OF nina tons Of
mummiiied cats from the great Egyptian
cat cemetery has been sold at auction at
Liverpool. The bulk Of it brought 60 lis
I'D per ton, but some single pieces went for
fancy prices such as 4Ds 6i for head and
IS 81 for perfect body without the head.