Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-01-08
WINGED MISSILES.

WINGED MISSILES.
Arthur Orton, the British claimant, alias
Tichborne, IL now employed as waiter In
o big drinking saloon in Birmingham. !.
There used TO be female base ball teams,
but MS yet there have been no foot bah
teams competed entirely Of the gentle
sex.
New York City has been suffering from
an epidemic Of "moths" and thieves. Tho
moths viii pass away but the thieves will
remain. :;
The Kansas soap weed may have rival
right at home. A Yankee has discovered
that corn makes q soap OF frst-class
quality
Sir Edwin Arnold is man OF unbound
cd hospitality and gives hearty welcome
to any fellow countryman In his beautiful
Japanese homo.
John Ruskin says: 1.-THE good book Of
the hour, then, is simply the pleasant talk
OF same person whom you cannot converse
with, printed for you"
Stanley has become q member Of tho
English society for psychical research.
than in Darkest Africa"
4 San Diego county (Call horticulturist
Is going TO graft the many live oaks on his
place with chastnuts, which he has learned
will succeed well on oak trees,
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts, who lives
now In Spencer house, London, is said to
receive as many offers of marriage Is any
widow in the British metropolis.
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, wife of the
Standard oil millionaire, is one Of the most
modest and unpretentious of women. She
Is active In good works of many kinds. !
George w. Colby, who was in the Salem
custom house with Nathaniel Hawthorne,
lied recently. Whoever was with Haw-
thorn secured fame II not immortality.
Familiarity with leprosy has made Sand.
eich Islanders so careless that they some-
imes allow school teachers suspected Of
he loathsome disease to ply their vocation.
General Lee once refused 100000 and
royalty to write southern history of the
war. He did not think 1t proper TO write
and publish anything on the subject during
his lifetime.
A tunnel between Scotland ana ireland
is one OF the projects discussed by engin.
GERS. 1t would be thirty miles long and
would cost 40 millions. In these days all
things are possible
The period Of "a generation" has been
heightened. II used to be 30 years. Now
a scientist says the mean term of human
life has increased in the last fifty years
from "a to AZ years.
The joker wrote: "Those hardy per-
petual ANIMALS, tho summer resort girls"
and the afiable compositor set it up,
Those homely, perpetual animals, tho
summer resort girls
Some years ago Lady Assiugton philan-
thropically sent twenty-four British fami.
lies TO the cape TO found an improved COL
ony. She bought land for them, but tho
result was failure. The men would not
work.
1t takes %, 900 bonnets year to cover
the heads Of the female soldiers in the
Salvation Army. The army has property
amounting to more than 3 million dollars
in the various countries where 1t is estab-
lished.
The water system of the Amazon affords
not less than $4,000 miles of free naviga-
ton within the great Brazilian territory
That beats the navigation system of the
Missouri, but 1t is not 50 important to this
section.
A life of ease does not satisfy some rich
girls, Miss Mabella Young Low, Harlem,
N. Y, girl and college graduate, has pur-
fha Oh n "A mill
and energies to the cultivation of roses and
mushrooms.
Ghosts are never ghosts when they are
so unfortunate as to be captured. a sup
posed ghost, which haunted the vicinity Of
the Episcopal church at Baton Rouge, La,
las been captured, and proved TO be a de-
mented negro woman.
Senator Voorhees,, who IN his youthful
days used TO say a negro never wrote q
poem nor carved a statue, may now read
Louis Janvier Haytian negro, has re.
Gently published in Paris novel which is
SAID 10 show considerable ability.
A very extensive domestic industry In
Russia u"usists in the manufacture OF
spoons which are made TO tho extent of 80
million annually, mostly Of birch. The
poor of that land are happy If they can get
something to eat even in wooden spoons.
So far as ID known. tea 0utranks coffee
as beverage by many centuries. Accord
ing to Chinese legend, the virtues of tea
were discovered by the mythical Emperor
Ginning, 2737 B. c., TO whom all agricul-
tured and medicinal knowledge is traced
Won Moltkc married an English girl,
Mary Burt. His love and tenderness for
her while she lived were among -ae noble
traits for which his oountrymen love and
admire him. Now the old man spends au
hour each day In meditation beside her
tomb.
The hunting costume for women is Of
such clerical stamp that when lady was
thrown lately in Ireland n countryman
rushed up with the remark: 'If your
reverence viii just kape along the bank a
bit there is handy rail you might climb
over" -. .
Old Geronimo's son, little chap Of six
years, is an important figure on the SOUTH
western frontier. He chews tobacco like
a man. swears like pirate and can take
his horu of whisky with the toughest.
Altogether he is as vicious little fellow
as a boy can be.
Does literature payl Zoia can answer;
"Yes, ii has paid me-" Twenty-Five years
ago he was clerk esteeming himself pass
ing rich on a salary of eighty francs a
month. Now he is practically millionaire,
all made by painting in a realistic manner
the underslde of life.
In England they give their foot ball play
ers SIS 70 $50 a week regular salary with
81, 900 bonus at the end of the season if their
conducs las been creditable. The plan OF
putting premium up for good conduct has
wholesome effect Tho plan might be
tried on base ball players.
Water is penetrating, but you cannot
quench thirst by bathing. Berlin physi
clans have demonstrated that water canno,
reach the blood vessels by absorption
through the skin Patients kept In baths
for several weeks had the same degree Of
thirst as under ordinary conditions.
Friedrich Wilhelm, the little crown
prince Of Germany, Is handsome boy Of
seven, who is every inch Hohenzolleru.
He wants his own way as much as any boy