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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

An express engine consumes ten gallons
of water per mile.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
Free,
by Tail,
to
Ladies

ladies' calendar. Contains not a word o.
Objectionable matter, and is crowded from
cover to cover with information which ever,
r,..r,,,,, ,.r,m,,r or Old Shnmld hncnme familiar
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

The right kind of martyrdom lets some.
BODY else advertise it.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

.HansOD's Magic corn SaIye.'
Warranted to cure, or money refunded. ASK
gcur druggist for it. Price 10 cents.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
The Only One Ever Printed--Can
You Find the Word?

There is baby at Heppner, Ore, which
weighs less than a pound
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

sure way to find an old friend is to or
Ter spring chicken at u restaurant.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

Too many people are electric lights at
prayer meeting and tallow dips at home.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
Adams Adxantaoa.

Roluley-There is one satisfaction Adam
had as gardener
Surface-What was that!
HE didn't have neighbors who raised
hons -
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

The coffee palaces at Melbourne are the
finest in the W ORD
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
EGucatioHnl.
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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

The STOPPING bicycle rider may be sup
POSED to beson pleasure bent.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
A Bill.

1t is provefb that the world
Owes every man a living;
But be, of course, cannot expect
TO find it easily giving.
Some hustle around collect the debt,
While others, like fiat,
Suppose at once the bill is bad,
And let il 90 at that
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

Every square mile of the sea contains
- 90 600 fish of various kinds,
! no foreign trade of China last year ag
ycgeted $50 0oo.000
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

Before you get into too big a hurry to
get rich, sit down a minute and watch fly
that has got stuck fast in the honey.
1t doesn't take bit of meanuess out of
rascal to polish him.
There is never any heavenly music in a
gloomy heart.
A woman conceals what she does not
know
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

Mrs. w,usIow'o soo.nlng-yrup, FOR Chill,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
Rau Nlaw Stud Earn,

The glories of the jardiniere know nc
limit
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-09
PROPOSALS FOR ORDNANCE SUP

PROPOSALS FOR ORDNANCE SUP
PLIES.-San Antonio Arsenal, San An
tonic, Texas, June Is, 1S92.-Sealed pro-
this Arsenal until 10 o'clock A. NJ, on
MONDAY, JULY IS, 1892, for furnishing
Rope, Forage, Iron, Leather, Lumber
Fuel, Tools, Paints, Oils, &C., during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. Printed
lists OF supplemented, with ful instruc-
tions, stipulations, &C, can be had on APP
plication to Major G. E. BUTTON, Ord
nance Department, U. s. A, Command
ing. 6-20-4t 7-15 2t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-09
No. 474S.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
WASHINGTON. JUNE 2, 1892.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 2, 1872. J
Whereas, evidence presented to the
undersigned, it has been made to appear
that the Fifth National Rank Of San An
tonic. in the City of San Antonio, in the
County of Bexar and State of Texas, has
complied with all the provisions of the
statutes of the United States, required to
be complied with before an association
shall be authorized to commence the bust
ness of banking. Now therefore. |, Ro-
bert NJ. Nixon, Deputy and Acting Comp
troller of the Currency, do hereby certify
that The Fifth National Bank of San
Antonio, in the city of San Antonio, in
the County of Bexar and State of Texas,
is authorized to commence the business
of banking as provided in Section Fifty
one hundred and sixty nine of the re-
viSed Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness
H. 81 my hand and seal of Office this
I'd day of June, 1892.
(Signed) r. NJ. Nixon,
Deputy and Acting Comptroller Of, the
Currency.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-09
SPECIAL BARGAIN FOR SALE.

Five room frame house, 2 galleries,
good sidewalk to street cars, large lot
and stable. Property rents for $1,000
per month. Terms, $3.50 cash; balance
payable at $1,000 per month, 9per
cent. JOHN #. HAMBLEToN & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-09

If an Indian had appeared In their midst
1t could not hGUe surprised them more.
Sure enough, when the sun was about
three hours high the captains watchful
eyes saw moving spot on the prairie
away to the southwark A shifting
brown mass that rose ON the ridges and
descended again into the valleys, like a
boat at sea coming in with the roll of
the tide, constantly growing larger and
coming nearer.
The field glass soon resolved the mass
into mounted Indians on the gallop, fly
ing over the prairie almost with the
speed of the wind. A few more miles
and the war paint could be seen upon
their faces as they were upturned to the
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
BEHIND THE FooTLIeHTs.

Jean de Reszke will sing this season at
Monte Carlo.
Don Quixote" is the story the latest an
nouncement declares Verdi is setting to
music.
Eugene Field and George W. Cable will
give series of joint readings in the larger
cities during the present season.
A new operetta by Audran and Bou-
cheron entitled "Sainte Freya," recently
produced at the Bouffes Parisiens, was
anything but success.
Stuart Robson is meeting with SO much
success in "She Stoops to Conquer and
'"The Henrietta" that he will not appear
in any other plays this season.
Anton Seidl is reported as having recent
ly refused a salary of $4,000 year offered
him in connection with position as con
ductor in Buda-Pesth. He prefers "Amer.
lea and American citizenship"
woman composer of France, has just COM
pleted her opera, La Montague Noire,'
and Director Bertrand, of the Paris Grand
Opera, has accepted the work and promises
1t an early production this season at the
famous house.
Gus c. Klingner, an actor living in Chi
cago, and Charles P. Seavers, of New Ha.
ven, a jockey by profession, have just fin
ished melodrama in five acts entitled
"a Day at the Race Course" Washing
ton park, at the time of the American
Derby, is the scene of the action, and the
writers have endeavored to tell the story
of a Jockeys life
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FIN, FEATHER AND FUR.

A full grown elephant is capable of .ar
rying load of two tons.
Bees never store honey in the light be
cause honey SO exposed granulates and i.
thus useless to the bees.
Puget sound oysters are sometimes rs
much as 2115 feet long and twenty to TWEEN
ty-fve inches broad, and weigh, exclusive
of shell, from forty to sixty pounds.
Cape Colony is the natural habitat of tn.
largest known species of earthworm II i.
soft, scaleless thing, between six and
seven feet long, and much resembles our
common angleworm.
Elizabeth City, n c., has a wonderful
freak OF nature, it is claimed, in tie shaoe
of live calf with bulldogs head. 1t is
further stated that the entire head has all
the formations of the bulldog.
In each wing Of an ostrich twenty-six X
long white plumes grow to maturity in
eight months. In the male these are pure
white, while those of the female shade to
ecru or gray. The short feathers are
plucked for tips, and each wing furnishes
seventy-five of these.
The obtaining Of tortoise shell involves
intense cruelty to the tortoise. The crea-
ture IS fastened to the ground and Gov
cred round the shell with leaves and grass
which are set alight. The heat f,.rces the
scales OF the shell to separate, ami they a,r
then cut off with knife. The reptile /,
then released to grow fresh scales.
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WAYsIDE eLEANINes.

A blast fired in quarry at Graniteville
NO., recently dislodged 100000 cubic feet
, OF stone, all in one solid mass.
The Michigan lumbermen carry cedar
knots in their pockets as a cure and also
as preventive of rheumatism.
A hotel with 6,124 rooms is reported to be
the latest creation among Chicago's enter
prises auxiliary to the Worlds fair.
While in Maine one can visit Norway,
Sweden, Mexico and Peru, and postoffice
has been named in Knox county for Turkey.
In Great Britain it is illegal now to en-
ploy girls under eighteen in shops for
more than seventy-four hours week, and
shopkeepers who disobey the law are liable
to be fined.
The largest volcano in the world is at
Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands. The
crater is twenty miles in diameter, and the
stream of lava flowing from it is fifty
miles long and in places four miles wide
Three-quarters of second is the time
occupied by the fall of the knife in the
guillotine. The knife is weighted by l2O
pounds of lead, falls nine feet and cuts
through flesh and bone as easily as through
bar Of soap.
The word ''pig," as applied to iron, is a
mere play on the word ''sow." When iron
is melted it runs into channel called a
ssow," the lateral branches of which are
called the pigs" Here the iron cools, and
is called pig iron"
In some of the rugs from the orient the
knots of the threads are so fine that they
cannot be seen by the eve No machinery
has been introduced there yet for making
rugs or carpets, each tuft or knot being
tied by deft fingers.
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EXPOSITION ECHOES.

Mrs. Langtry will send to the Chicago
exposition doll three feet high, specially
modelled to resemble her in face and figure.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs is arranging for federation exhibit;
also for day among the literary congresses.
The monster telescope which is to be one
Of the great attractions of the " orifdi s fair
at Paris in 1900 will be of about the same
dimensions as the Column Vendome
The Columbian shield, which is being
made in London for the Chicago exposi-
tion, is of silver, with panels in high relief
representing scenes in connection with the
discovery of America by Columbus
A pampas plume palace will be placed
in the California building by Mrs. Har-
riet w. r. Strong, of Whittier, Cal.
Everything about it, including the decora-
tions and furnishing, is to be made of
pampas, to represent this industry, which
Employs more than 1000 men, women and
children.
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PEN. cHIsEL AND BRUSH.

There is a rumor that General Lew Wal
lace intends to write book on Mexico.
Hiss Kate Field does not like desk work.
Give her a big, soft, easy chair, a quiet
but cheerful corner and good knee pad
and she will pour ont copy as if it were no
trouble.
Aubrey de We're, the Irish poet, has been
mentioned as a possible wearer of the lau-
reate's crown. Mr.. de We're, who is now
seventy-eight years old, is recluse living
near Adare, Limerick.
William Morton Payne, who has been
for the past four years the literary editor
of the Chicago Evening Journal, has be-
come associate editor of the Chicago Dial,
to which he has been contributor for
nearly ten years.
William Ordway Partridge, the famous
sculptor, has gone to Paris to complete the
statues of Shakespeare for Chicago and
Alexander Hamilton for the Hamilton as
sociation of Brooklyn. He will be absent
above five months.
Rosa Bonheur is still hard at work not
withstanding her advanced age. She has
just finished three small pictures-a cattle
piece. a study of sleeping lioness and an
exquisite flock of Pyrenean sheep with
their shepherd.
Robert Browning was apparently aware
of the obscurity of some of his work, for
he says of "Ferishtah's Fancies" in a
characteristic letter, 81 hope and believe
that one or two careful readings of the
poem will make it's sense clear enough"
Renan had the odd fashion in working
of piling around him every imaginable
book of reference before he began to write.
He would sit with hundreds of huge vol
umes open around him, volumes destined
to remain open for weeks, the servants be-
ing forbidden to touch them with hand or
duster
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FEMININE FANCIES.

Ella Knowles has been elected attorney
general of Montana.
| Mrs. Frank Leslie has repudiated her
Wilde name along with her husband.
Miss Anna Haydn Webster, the advocate
of Greek art in modern dress and manner,
has gone abroad to spend a year in Greece.
J Mrs. Mckee is to remain at the White
House presiding in her mothers stead.
Russell Harrison and wife will also live
there.
Sallie McAllister, a colored woman of
Springfield, KY, is believed to be the larg-
est woman now living. She measures 361
inches lover three feet) around the arm,
and weighs 632 pounds.
Mr.. John Sherwood in late lecture in
New York remarked that gossiping and
backbiting, two growing bad tendencies of
modern society, had unfortunately taken
firm hold in that city.
Miss Eschard, of Ohio, who is an active
real estate agent and land owner, is as
wealthy as she is busy, and pays the Iarg-
est amount of taxes of any woman in the
country or perhaps in the world.
The only Turkish poetess living is be-
lieved to be Osman Pasha's daughter. She
is young matron of twenty-eight and
lives in white marble palace overlooking
the blue Bosphorus, where she dimes from
service of gold in wonderful conserve
tory.
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THE JEWEL cAsKET.
cry sort of pin has seed pearls.

Every sort of pin has seed pearls.
There are penholders of pierced work
Mary Stuart cups in gold wire with
pearls are new.
Elephant tusks are used for vases and
cups mounted in silver.
Fish knives and forks have the upper
edges Of the knives engraved.
A round clock was recently seen in the
center of the back of Louis XVI sofa.
Pearl and ivory handles seem to prevail.
The ivory handles are plain. with carved
ends.
Special spoons for serving are new. They
have deep rounding bowls, with broad in
stead of pointed ends
Among the new colored bronze trifles are
oriental figures, such as palm tree, with
girl and jug at the base.
Baskets of silver in rustic shapes and
initiating straw, with ribbons and bow
knot handles, are among things new.
Silver strainers are now cup shaped, with
a f1aring base that supports them on the
article which is to receive contents strained.
A great deal Of old Dutch silver is now
shown. Funnel shaped vases, supported
by carved garlands, are among the pretty
trifes.
Some women wear two back combs at
different angles, which indicates that the
fashion is in even higher favor, and each
week shows some new design in these
pretty and useful ornaments.-Jewelers
HirculoP
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GONE WEATHER PROPHETS.

II moles cast up hills, rain.
II rats and mice be restless, rain,
II cats back their bodies and wash their
faces, rain.
If porpoises and whales sport about
ships, hurricane.
Ii cattle leave off feeding and chase each
pther around the pasture, rain.
If foxes and dogs howl and bark more
than usual; if dogs grow sleepy and dull,
rain.
If sheep, rams ana goats spring around
In the meadows ane fight more than usual.
expect rain.
If fish bite moe readily and gambol near
the surface o. ponds and streams, then
look out for rain.
If the ga-den spiders break and destroy
their webs and creep away, expect rain or
showery weather.
If horses stretch out their necks and
Tiff the air and assemble in the corner of
field with their heads to leeward, rain.
If many gnats are seen in the spring. ex-
pecf fine autumn; if gnats fly in compact
bodies in the beams Of the setting sun, there
Will be fine weather
II spiders in spinning their webs make
che termination filaments long, we may, in
proportion to their length, conclude that
Ehe weather will be serene and continue 80
eor ten or twelve days.
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WHIP AND SPUR.

When at speed Nancy Hanks, 2:c4, strides
Io1f feet.
The PAGER blue Sign, a:oS114. was sold f9r
f125 as 2-year old.
There are twelve gray trotters and PAGERS
in the 2:1O list, six Of each.
Mystic park, Boston, has held hve sue
cessful meetings this year.
"a colt cannot get too fat" says Charles
Marvin, "before he is 2 years old
w. White, the proprietor OF the Two
Minute Stock farm, was elected TO congress
at the last election.
Irncle lack Hook. the renowned Ken
tucky driver and trainer, died at Parls'
Ky, of pneumonia recently, aged seventy
years.
The first race run in New England was
scored Sept. /, 1901, in a park belonging To
Joel HERMAN. The track was IL miles
north of Haverhill bridge, near Boston.
Both Robert Bonner and c. ]. Hamlin
are opposed az rule to firing. They be-
lieye that rest, with blistering and feet
levelinp. will do more toward removing
Iameness than the most skillful use OF the
TeunOI lTOH.
One of the earliest trottlng races that
took place in Chicago was won Dy i4iuy
Jane, Sept. %, 1S47, beating General ray
ior and Jack Rossiter. Henry uraVes
owned the winner and is still living in the
Garden City.
Says Budd Doble: "If horses could speak
if many of the youngsters OF today could
do so-they could tell of willing spirits and
inadequate physical powers. The best
horses of the future will not as rule be
descended from premature but mature
wonders"
by next season we may expect horses
to trot on rubber tracks, wearing rubber
shoes and hitched to rubber tired sulkies.
By that time also many rubbers will be
full fedged drivers and the rubber combl-
nation will be complete. Rubber track
rubber shoes-rubber driver. Then will
come the rub" says Turf, Field and Farm.
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INTERESTING FACTS.
There are counterfeit almonds.

There are counterfeit almonds.
Nickel steel does not corrode 10 salt
water.
The best champagne corks cost about
seven cents each.
The marriages Of minors are per cent. Of
the whole number.
There are more than 100000 houses in
the city of London.
Theoretically sealed wine TASKS have
been found in Pompeii.
The oldest Egyptian monuments show
that the saw was in use at least 1000 years
B. C.
St. Augustine, Fla, New York, and Sa-
lem, Mass, are the only three cities in the
United States that are older than Boston
If you put halfpenny in your box, and
add thereto by doubling the amount every
week after the first for fifty-two weeks, at
the end of the year the money box Gf large
enough) will contain e9, 3S2 499, ,223 ,6Ss los.
71<d
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POWDER AND BALL.

During the Franco-German war of 1901
250000 victims were slain on the two sides.
The British admiralty has decided not to
build any more guns weighing over fifty
tons.
Herculile, the new French explosive, is
so powerful that half pound of it in re-
cent test displaced a stone weighing thirty
tons.
The Duke of Cambridge, as commander
in chief of the British army, has issued a
circular prohibiting commanding officers
from Using profanity in addressing their
men.
1t is said that President Carnot intends
to establish new military order of merit
which will be conferred on such officers as
are debarred from obtaining the cross Of
the Legion of Honor.
The German army has a swimming
school for troops, where every one must
learn to swim. The best swimmers are
able to cross stream of several hundred
yards width, even when carrying their
clothing, rifle and ammunition.
For firing dynamite or other high explo-
sives in shell and from an ordinary gun
it is proposed to substitute for the cum
brous machinery necessary to furnish the
compressed air for driving the projectile a
shell containing highly compressed air in
its rear portion.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
One Good Eve.

Lawyer-Are you sure, sir, that the moon
was shining at the timer Remember, you
are on oath.
Witness-Yes, sir; am perfectly sure
the moon was shining at the time.
Every good. Now tell the jury If you
have not been for years troubled with de
fective vision"
Gentlemen of the jury, I have beer
blind in one eye for many years, but car
see well enough with the other to read
with perfect ease this promissory note fol
$64 75 which l hold in my hand. 1t was
given me sixteen years ago by that lawyer
there, and 1 can see the back of it well
enough to be perfectly sure that there isn't
an Endorsement to the extent of single
cent. Yes, sir, Pm entirely willing tc
stand aside, if that's all you want tc
know."-Chicago Tribune.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
Driven to Bay.

Little Juanito sat up in his cot in the
middle of the night: 'Ma, I'm SO thirstyp
"Come, child, be still and go to sleep; you
are not thirsty-not youF'
Juanito (after pause)-But, ma. / must
have glass of water, Pm so thirstyl
"If you don't go to sleep this minute, I'll
come with the rodp'
To which the young hero replied, "All
right, ma; if you're getting up to thrash
me, you might bring glass of water with
Youp'-Epoca.
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We Need Them All.

Bring out the seersucker vest. the alpacs
coat,
And from last winters resting place the seal
skin gloves now tote.
Bring out those undershirts Of gauze, AND
heavy fannels, too;
Bring out the linen duster that the Zephyrt
may blow through.
Bring out the fur lined ulster and the light
coat made for fall,
And wooden socks and cotton socks-we'l
need them one and all.
The winters here; bring OUT the thick, and
don't forget the thin,
For those climatic changes soon will get their
fine work in.
-Clnthier and Eurnisher.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
LIGHT AND AIRY.
The Fin de Steele Girl.


swhat do you know, oh, maiden fair2"
.Oh, know much" she made reply;
VI know of Homer and Moliere:
lean make poetry If try,
Or send sonatas with crash
Out of my three legged parlor grand;
Play Wagner with terrific dash,
And Home, Sweet Home with my left
hand;
Also can /, whenever please,
Variegate the general din,
Removing with dispatch and ease
Concertos from my violin:
know talking, dancing, Kant,
Zoology and how to box,
And the name of every plant;
The solstiees and equinox.
The only things do not know,
Are how to cook and how to sew"
Chicago News-Record.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
His Reason why.

"You sit on your horse like butcher"
said pert young officer, who happened to
be of royal blood, to a veteran general who
was somewhat bent from age.
"It is highly probable" responded the
old warrior, with grim smile. sit is be-
cause all. my life I've been leading calves
like you to the slaughter. ."-Texas Siftings.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
Her TTse of the Franchise.

ssWere you allowed to vote" said he
As through the sheltered lane they strnyed
"What would you vote for-answer me-
Protection or free trader
The gentle maiden hung her head,
While to her cheek the color flew;
II would not care to VOTE" she said;
I'D rather pair with YOU"
Cape Cod Item.
Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
A Natural Seuuel.

Man of the House-It strikes me that
I've seen your face before.
Stranger-Yes, you have. sold you a
cookbook year ago.
"What are you selling now?"
"a sure cure for dyspepsia. Only fifty
cents, "-BrooklVn Life