Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-18
Items of Interest.


bicycle.
The finest diamond cutting in the
world is done at Boston, Mass.
California's yield of quicksilver since
1873 has amounted to $40, 100000.
An elevated railroad is to be built
along Market street, Philadelphia.
1t is proposed to establish mail
service on the street cars in st. Louis.
Russia has just borrowed another
500. 900, 600 for the extension of rail
ways.
Kansas farmers planted 100000
acres more of wheat last fall than the
year before.
st. Pancreas railway station, London.
covers ten acres. 1t was built nearly
twenty-five years ago.
1t has been estimated that 23,O0O,o 600
bushels of oysters are opened annually
in the United States
An aerolite exactly the shape of Il
human foot is reported to have fallen
from the sky at Macon, Ga.
In London, what they call an
american bazaar is a fair for charity
at which only secondhand goods are
sold.
The fastest train in Ireland is the
American mail" from Dublin to Cork
los miles, made in 3 hours, 20 min
uteS.
1t costs the taxpayers of Canada a
million dollars year to keep up the re-
gal court of the encouragement at OF
tawa.
Nearly 1900, 900 packages of seeds
were distributed by the agricultural de-
partment among members of Congress
last year.
During an oil boom in Vanceburg,
Kentucky, 700 acres of land sold for
$4,000. The same tract was sold the
other day for Si69.
A queer fish has been caught off the
South Carolina coast. 1t has a large
horn on the top of ITS head, and weighs
over 500 pounds.
Lake Maggiore, in Switzerland, has
water of different colors. In its north
ern branch the color is green, and in
the southern deep blue.
During the past few years, crime has
decreased to such an extent in England
that over 81 ,OO0, 900 year less is spent
upon prisons than was the case ten
years ago.
There are twelve streets in Amster-
dam on which no horse is ever allowed
to be driven, either to draw hearse or
fire engine. They are kept as clean as
floors.
1t is practice of the Navajo Indians
to stretch lariat of horsehair about
their tents at night, such barrier
proving entirely effective to keep out
snakes, tarantulas and centipedes.
An English Judge sentenced woman
to five minutes to Jail for having mar
ried man without obtainging divorce
from n former husband. This stands
as the shortest sentence on record.
The period of "a generation" has
been heightened; it used to be thirty
wears, and later was increased to
thirty-four Now the average term of
human life has increased in the last
fifty years from thirty-four to forty
two years.
In Southern Oregon there is a forest
16 900 miles in extent, with an esti-
mated amount of mercantile timber Of
400, 0OO, 900, 900 feet. At ten dollars per
l,OOO 1eet tne proceeus WOulu pay our
national debt twice over.
At the famous charge of the Light
Brigade at Balaklava, immortalized by
Tennyson, Lord Cardigan took 673 men
into action and lost in killed and
wounded PAT men, or SO and fraction
per cent But in one engagement in
our civil war Hawkins zouavcs ninth
New York; lost 81 per cent. or nearly
double that of the Light Brigade.
A queer combination of ''twos' IS
presented in the case of prisoner sent
to the Ohio Penitentiary, recently. He
was arrested February 22, lay in jail .
months, was convicted and sentenced
for years for stealing 2 horses, being
received at tho penitentiary April 20,
and his serial number Is s,2,a2s, and he
had 2 fits on the second night after his
srriyal.