Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-04-02
WINGED MISSILES.

Bacon wrote: "Nature is not conquered
except by obedience,
Labor is restless. In 1890 there were
1000 strikes in tho world.
Philadelphia has eighty five shoe factor
rs. Manufacturing is the basis of the old
'ity's prosperity.
II is reported that white servants are
'apidly replacing colored help in the towns
If southwestern Georgia.
The Boston Herald says: "Ths latest
ashton is to have parlor rug m lde of the
'lin of tho cat on your ba k yarl fen:e.
The English factories are forming a
,alicO syndicate and the cost of the staple
lress is likely to advance.
Henry Ward Beecher used to say
Every man consents to slavery who does
lOt exhaust himself to prevent it.
Two convicts have died in the Concord,
Mass, rcformatory from drinking alco-
loline, preparation used in the shoe
shop.
Probably Prussia will never get out of
iebt. She now owes 81 $50, 000, 900. Wars
and a standing army are expensive inGtitu-
lions.
No man has accomplished" perpetual
notion, but mlu in St Petersburg has
made a watch that will run for forty five
lays
Albuquerque, n. NJ, has large surplus
IF unmarried young men, and an influx OF
New England girls would be gladly well
,omed.
Betting on the rainfall has been carried
20 such an extent in India that the Bonn
Day government has passed an act for
bidding it.
Some idea of the size of London may be
aad when it is said that New York, Paris
and Berlin all together have not SO large
IN area as London.
A witness in a contested will case at
Philadelphia said the tcstator was not a
hard drinker, as he only took twenty five
Or thirty drinks a day"
1t is said that in Paris twice as many
,rimes are committed by persons between
the ages of fifteen and twenty rs by those
between twenty and forty.
High play in country houses has be-
come subject Of discussion in England,
though the houses where high stakes are
the rule are said to be very few.
Out of money collected by her own per.
Ional efforts Mrs Carrie Steele, o colored
woman, has built, Furnished and paid for q
,olored orphan asylum in Georgia.
Virginia, North Carolina and tennessee
raise an average of 2,9IO, 900 bushels OF
peanuts year. The annual value of the
crop averaged So, 5000. 900 for the last four
years.
General Lew WALLACE, the author OF
Ben Hur," says he can cure rheumatism
In one night without fail with poultice oil
mustard and garlic applied to the soles OF
the feet.
In England the old four-posted bedstead
is the pride of tho nation but tho iron OF
brass bedstead is fast becoming universal
The English beds are the largest beds il
the world.
Tho greater quantity of hair from
which wigs are made for England's judges
lawyers and clergymen comes from China,
where it is cut from the heads of beggars
! criminals and the dead.
Gath says Sherman was the poet o
the war; and when the general started or
his march to the sea Lincoln said: wv
know where Sherman went in at, but W.
can't tell where he will come out at
There are reports from Poland of fires
plottings against the car and tho secre
/ police are said to he adopting measures O
( brutal severity to find out the chief cor
spirators, arresting for that purpose tn
wives and daughters of suspects, who ar
subjected to horrible tortures to max
them divulge their secrets.
Some idea of the energy of Lightning
may be had from the following: lit In
been calculated that the electro -moiit
force OF n holt of lightning is about 4 :
million volts. the current about II mills"
ampercS aud tho time to lpc one iwci.
thousandth part of n second In such Irc
there is an energy Of , billion 40 mill
watts, or 3 2sI.l h p"