Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-06-12
AUDUBON AUDUBON co, IOWA THURSDAY,

Japan is cut,hing on to civlliac' meth
DDS. A tea trust has been for 81 in
Toxic
A society paper remarks that rive in
the shade is the proper Temperature for
court,hip.n
Australia has enterel the field of silver
production, and in tho last year turned out
500 900 ounces n week.
Delaware can't harmonic in politics, but
it can show chicken with four legs, four
wings and two heads.
Tho Atchison Globe says "There may
b pleasures in being poor but it takes a
very ri Ii man to see thsm.n
There are about II million virgo workers
in tho United States. 1t is estimated that
IN lliJn of these belong to labor organiza-
TONS
Emerson gives this definitions; "Insane
PERSONS are those who hold fast to one
thought and do not flow with the current
OF nature"
Scotchmen blnqueting in London are
now entertained with music of the real
northern bagpipes, played into u phono-
graph and sent TO London By express.
A Maine girl, threo and half years Of
age recently travelled from Michigan to
her home in Thomaston unattended She
attracted more attention than circus.
An Aroostook. Me, couple were married
last week whose combined ages wsro
twenty. nine years. the bride being fourteen
and the bridegroo n oae year her senior.
Chinatown in San Francisco has joss
house which cost $4,000. his nation is
becoming "a sort of pantheon where all tho
gods may find believers and worshipers
Vermont is not much of land for agri-
culture. According to official reports there
are 5000 abandoned farms in that state
Marble and ice are the chief products Of the
state
Senator Stanford, although the breeder
of some of the most famous horses in tho
world, and the owner of large number Of
them, has rarely in recent years attended q
| horse race.
Anything in Philadelphia from the west
| is regarded as an attraction. Just now a
pair of wolverines in the Zoo of that city
gives the people an ind ,finite amount of
| satisfaction.
| General Sheridan is to have IA monument
| in Chicago There used to be some talk of
monument to General Grant in New Y orlI,
| but the mercernary metropolis takes nc
further interest in the matter.
An English naval officer has invented a
pneumonia line-throwjng gun, very light
| and portable, which fires hollow shell
bearing the cord to wrecked vessel or in
to burning building on dry land.
The days of grandeur have departed from
the river steamboats,. There are no longer
thronging crowds, gambling, dancing,
music and all those things which made
steamboating great few years ago.
Birds are unusually numerous in many
parts Of Maine this season and hitherto un-
known visitors have appeared among the
songsters in some towns. Union has a
white crow and white barn swallow.
The Gable Street Railway Company, OF
| Kansas City, reports that over 1900 articles
have been oarelessly left on tho cars by
passengers since Jan. l, and that taking
| care OF such packages has grown into a
| business.
A new red glass has been recently pro-
duced in Germany. Besides It's use fol
the manufacture of bottles, gobletS, and
vases of various kinds, it is applicable in
photography and in chemists an opticians
| laboratories.
The net profits of the Louisiana lottery
have been about Sj,000,0O0 per year. And
yet men supposed to be endowed with com.
mon sense send money to that gigantic
swindle monthly with the expectation oil
capturing fortune.
A farmer at Ipswich, Mass, while plow-
ing turned up an Indian idol of solid stone
in the shape of a serpent 1t is thirty
inches in length and Of dark co or. 1t is
to be deposited in the Essex Institute col
lection at Salsm, Mass
A new disinfectant has made its appear.
auce under the name Of Thiocamph. 1t is
a combination of camphor with sulphurous
acid, contain ng over sixty times its volum2
of sulphurous acid gas, which, upon its
exposure in warm room, is gradually
evolved.
Miss Bessie Bole of San Francisco, il
twenty and beautiful little blond will
dark brown eyes and pretty tiyura. Sh,
is practical horseshoer and would open
shop were it not for the opposition OF hel
family She learned horseshoeing in al
industrial school.
The United States is without doubt
nation of coffee drinkers. Tn, import
from South America amount 10 over 535,
000,00J pounds annually, of which 60 pc
cent comes from Brazil. The second larg
est shipper TO this market is Venezuela,
per cent.