Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-12
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San Francisco had collection of 500 littl'
deities
An expert says that the easiest way tc
clean rubber shoes of any kind is to rub
them with vaseline.
No Heligolander under sixteen years OF
age is allowed to go to a public house,
dancing saloon or theater.
This is an age when the luxuries can be
had cheaply. Typewriters are now sold
for 81 and fountain pens for ten cents.
Here is consistency for you. The pro.
prietor of Philadelphia cigar store has
posted sign in his place forbidding smok.
ing.
The chief of police in Chicago is a re-
former. He wants more light in the city,
and says that light is great preventive Of
crime.
People are never satisfied with their
position. The fool in King Lear says: Il
had rather be any kind of thing than a
fcol!n
Helena, Mont, boasts that it is the
wealthicst city in the union of its popula-
ton. 1t contains %, 600 people and has 80
millions.
Philadelphia has blue book, but many
of the most fashionable people do not
appear in it, having made a point not to
be included.
Fiji is beginning to cultivate tobacco,
the enterprise being assisted by the con-
cession of government land to the planters
on easy terms.
Air ships move, but they seldom reach
the point where distance lends enchant-
ment to the view" They are short dis
TANGO Birds
The emperor of Germany has been reck-
less but he has turned around and from
being spendthrift he has become a man
of rigid economy.
Five hundred applications have been
made to the department of the interior of
Toronto for the privilege of boring for OF!
in the Kootenay country.
The German cavalry will try the horse
shoe made of compressed paper. 1t is
thought they will be better than the old
iron ones so long in vogue
Time makes many queer changes. The
printing press which Voltaire set up in
Fernay TO demolish Christianity is now
used to print Bibles in Geneva.
Henry S. Ives, the young Napoleon of
finance, is gradually rolling together
another fortune. Some men rise again,
when they are built that way.
The Mormons may go when they have to
or want to. Any way they are said to be
busily engaged on the sly in buying all the
land they can down in Old Mexico
Crackers ought to be cheap. The great
cracker companies of the East are at war
with the companies of the West But com.
The Chinese have no straight streets or
walls. They have a theory that tho devil
travels in straight lines and they want TO
give him as little encouragement as posi-
BILE.
4 number of wealthy New York ladies
propose to establish n sort of club house
which will receive women at all hours Of
the night and keep them as long as they
behave with propriety.
The Augusta GA Chronicle says Gen
eral Lee never executed a spy He used
to say: Poor fellows we have got them,
and they can't do us any harm. What is
the use of killing them'"
Tolstoi says: Every kind of oppression
of man by man rests on the possibility
which man has of taking another mans
life and, by keeping threatening attitude,
compelling his obedience"
One who has looked over the statistics of
accidents say they show that about - per
cent of all railway accidents in the United
States arising from derailments are caused
by defective frogs and switches.
Canister shot viii not be used in the
French army in future. The shells are
filed with an explosive made of chrysolite
and n substance kept secret, and every
battery has seventy-fve rounds of these
proiectiles.
Co.'S, " the Chinese dog that has for
many years been the travelling companion
OF the Prince of Wales is old and infirm.
The prince has retired him "Goss' has
been good dog. Has the prince been
good man.