Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-12

Five hundred applications have been
made to the department of the interior of
Toronto for the privilege of boring for oil
In the Kootenay country.
Tho 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.
Henry s. Ives, the young Napoleon of
finance, is gradually rolling together
another fortune Some men rise again,
when they are built that way.
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.
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
bination will soon end competition.
Italy is In a sad state. In the land Of
the Caesars there are 5000 beggars for
every man owning $1,000, and seventeen
criminals to every 1000 inhabitants.
The Chinese have no straight streets or
walls, They have theory that the devil
travels in straight lines and they want to
give him as little encouragement as posi-
BILE
A number of wealthy New York ladies
propose TO establish a 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 Ca Chronicle says Gen
eral Lee never executed q 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 themr'
Tolstoi says: Every kind Of oppression
of man by man rests on the possibility
which a man has of taking another mans
life and, by keeping threatening attitude,
compelling his obedience"
II is denied that Sara Bcrnhardt has to
be hypnotized before going through the
! sleep-walking scene in Macbeth. She has
n will sufficient to bend herself to all the
requirements Of her business.
! The cultivation of oysters along New
Hampshire's short coast line is about to be
attempted by the state fish commission.
/ The water may prove to DO more bountiful
to the state than has tho land.
! Ono who has looked over the statistics of
accidents say they show that about 10 per
cent of all railway accidents in the United
| States arising from derailments are caused
/ By defective frogs and switches.
! Canister shot will not be used in the
/ French army in future. The shells are
I filed with an explosive made Of chry solite
I and substance kept secret, and every
/ battery has seventy-five rounds of these
projectiles.
! ''Goss," the Chinese dog that has for
many years been the travelling companion
/ of the Prince of Wales is old and inflrm
The prince has retired him. ''Goss' has
been a good dog Has the prince been a
! good man,
! Ifmachinery was only everlasting young
man at GAINESVILLE, o., would have solved
the perpetual motion problem. He has
/ perfected an electric motor which, when
! started and the circuit shut off, will go till
I il wears out.
I They tell you Of geraniums in California
/ that grow SO tall that you have to go up
1 into the window OF the second story to
1 gather the flowers. And woman In
4 Michigan has goranium four feet aDA
! five inches high.