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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
MISSING LINKS,

Spectacles were first used In the lat
ter part of the thirteenth century.
The rare operation of amputation at
the hip was recently performed at Gin
cinnati.
The first crop of tea grown In Natal
was in the year 1881 To-day Natal
tea is common.
At the age of 70 Darwin declared that
n cigaret rested him more after hard
labor than all else.
Sixteen pints of the Juice or sap which
makes india rubber are frequently
taken from one tree.
At the Bon Marche CHEAP markeO.
Paris, last year. 662 persons were ar
rested for kleptomania.
The climatic limit to the cultivation
of wheat is not so much the cold OF
winter as the heat OF summer.
In the Bank of England sixty folio
volumes or ledgers are filed daily with
writing In keeping the accounts.
The deepest well on our Atlantic
coast is that at the silk works near
Northampton, Mass; depth, 3,70O feet.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by she California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered. .a-..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
ONLY a BUNCH OF vloLErs.
But 1t Brought Happiness to Little

But 1t Brought Happiness to Little
Cripple and Moisture to Many Eyes.
Seated in the corner of Broadway
car was frail, little crippled boy, evil
denly an intense sufferer from spinal
disease. His head and the upper part
of his body were enclosed in a net
work of steel and leather, and an iron
brace was tightly strapped to the side
of one of his legs. Poverty, too, seemed
to be his misfortune. His clothing
was of cheap material and bore the
stamp of home make, and in every I'm
ger of the black cotton gloves worn by
his 15-year-old sister, who accompa-
MED him, there was a hole Her dress
was patched in several places, and her
hat was thin, straw affair, trimmed
with band of faded red ribbon; but
withal she was wondrous neat and
clean. At Twenty-third street a hand
somely dressed young woman boarded
the car and dropped into seat direct
ly opposite the pair. Tucked in the
folds of her coat was a big bunch Of
fresh, double violets, tied with long
purple ribbon and their fragrant odor
at once pervaded the car. The little boy
caught the scent and at once his great
brown eyes were thrown upon the
flowers. Then he whispered something
to his sister, who blushed and told him
to wait awhile. Turning his attention
again to the violets the lad gazed upon
them until his eyes grew bright and
round, and every few moments he
would draw an extra long breath, as
if to take in all of the sweet perfume
he could. Soon every one in the for
ward part of the car was watching him.
From the look of admiration there grew
in those brown eyes an expression of
longing so earnest and deep that it
made the heart thrill with sympathy,
says the New York Herald
The young woman, with charming
emotions, glanced uneasily at the boy
at intervals, and soon the power of
those eyes and the soul they revealed
overcame her. With a quick tug she
drew the violets from her coat, and,
with tear springing to her eye, handed
them to the boy, purple ribbon and all.
Before the child recovered from his
great joy she sought the platform and
was gone.
Nearly all the men sitting near by
suddenly resumed interest in their
newspapers and some coughed. The
women looked straight ahead through
the glass, beyond the sidewalk, and
much further than the obstructing
show windows and doorways. 1t was
not an earthly view that pictured itself
to them; their vision was turned toward
their hearts into the tiny corner where
fondest of all hopes and sweetest of
sad memories were treasured.
The boy-well, do l need to tell you
of his happiness? And sister? Poor
sister? she felt so ashamed. But what
could she do?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
NANSEN'S TALENTED WIFE.
Has Been Singing in Concerts While Hel
Husband Sought the Pole.

Has Been Singing in Concerts While Her
Husband Sought the Pole.
Frau Eva Nansen, the explorers
wife, is a born singer. She has been
singing in Copenhagen this winter,
and always gives several concerts here,
which are considered events and eager
~ attended. Even the king never
misses one when he is in town. A very
shy woman, almost inaccessible to for
eigners, she throws her whole soul into
her art, and when she steps upon the
stage seems to lose sight of her audi
erce completely and to see straight
into the mountains and green forests
as she losses back her head and rises to
the very spirit of the song, her face
glowing with strong excitement. But
even were she less an artist. think
her concerts would still be crowded,
from the desire that every one feels to
testify all possible sympathy and in
terest in the young wife whose courage
and whose trials are so great. One
looks at her fine, strong, brave face and
thinks, as she must so often be think
ing, of the terrible risks of those arctic
deserts where her husband, for years
beyond the chance of any communica-
ton, is at best making his perilous
WAY
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23

The Princess Marie of Greece, who
would possibly have been the czarine
of Russia had it not been for the strict
rules of the Greek church against the
marriage of first cousins, is passionate
ly fond of yachting, and can handle
her own boat with all the skill Of an old
salt This taste she doubtless inherits
from her mother, who actually passed
the examinations for sailing MASTER
certificate, and was rewarded for her
success by the late car with the dig
nifty of admiral Of the Russian fleet.
She is the only petticoated admiral in
the world.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
THE PITTsBURo WOMAN.
And She Knows How to Heap Goals of
Fire on Anothor's Head.


Fire on Anothor's Head.
I went to the theater Tuesday night
with Pittsburg woman, says a writer
in Washington Post. Near us there sat
a striking-looking woman, with mass
of crinkly, blonde hair, scrap of
French bonnet and dream of an
opera cloak. My companion called my
attention to her.
There's Pittsburg woman" she
said, land if anybody knows how to
heap Goals of fire on another woman's
head, she does. You know she was not
always rich. When she first came to
Pittsburg there were people who could
not forget that, and some of the old fam
lilies snubbed her. The woman who has
the Goals of fire on her head now is one
of them. Well, money had it's way, of
course, and the newly rich was received
after while. One year she was in Lon
don having the sort of time the rich
American always has in London, when
she heard that in Manchester there was
a Pittsburg boy very i'll with consump-
ton. He had come to England in her
husbands employ-her husband is the
man who made money in the air-brake.
you know-and his mother was tha
woman who, of all Pittsburg, had done
most snubbing. And, do you know, this
woman simply took the next train for
Manchester, and for weeks she scarcely
left that boys side, doing for him every
thing his mother could have done. He
died, and he died with his hand in hers.
1t must have been a glorious revenge
to the woman who had been snubbed,
but, do you know, don't believe wom-
an who could do that would even think
of the revenge Of it."
And | don't either.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
All Born In April.

An illustrious company of foreign
dignitaries celebrate their birthdays
during the present month. Bismarck
started on April l. The king of Den
mark was rs on April 8; the king of the
Belgians Coon April 8; the king of
Roumania Sc on April 20, and the shah
will be 81 on April "a. The sovereigns
born in April include also several Ger
man minor potentates.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
Terms Dsed Change.

Accommodation Paper.-Notes or
bills not representing an actual sale or
trade transaction, but merely drawn to
be discounted for the benefit of drawer,
acceptor or indorsers, or all combined.
Balance of Trade-Difference in value
between total imports and exports of
a country. Ballooning.-To work up
a stock far beyond its intrinsic worth
by favorable stories or fictitious sales
Bear.-One who strives to depress
the price of stocks, ETC., and for this
reason "goes short" Buying Long
Buying in expectation of rise.
Breadstuffs.-Any kind of grain, corn
or meal. 81
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
MOUNTED POLICEMAN'S FEAT.
Since the Philadelphia Officers Work on


Wheels They DO Queer Things.
Officer Hancock, of the twenty eighth
police district, was patroling his beat
the other day on his bicycle when he es-
pied a crowd of small boys on a huge
pile of new lumber. The alarm was
given that "cop" was coming, and
the boys made general rush to get
away. The movement upset the lumber
pile, and the long timbers slid down
toward the center of the street. They
made a natural gangway up to the top,
and Hancock, who had good gait on,
rode his way clear to the top. He land
ed in the soft clay on the other side,
never losing his seat. The affrighted
boys scattered in all directions, COM
pletely dumfounded by the police
mans remarkable feat. They keep
away from that section now, for they
say Hancock has wings on his bike"
Philadelphia Examiner.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
PUFF FRITTERS.
Formulation of Cifies.

J. G. /. wants to know the names of
the ten largest cities in the world &C
cording to population. The following
is the list according to the best author
ity: London, 4,231, 431; Paris, 2,447,-
957; Chicago, 1850, APO; New York, l.
,739; Canton, 100000; Berlin, l.
1924; Toxic Japan, 1889, 6S4;
Vienna, 1,364,54s; Philadelphia, 1,142,-
S53; Brooklyn, 957 .103.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23

DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 10th, 1895.-On
May 4th, 1895, just six days ago, / lost my
farm barn and all of the contents thereof
by fire, same being situated in Madison
county. was fortunate enough to hold a
policy in the Hawkeye Insurance Company
am to-day in receipt of payment thereof,
and fully recommend the said company to
my nelghbors and friends or anyone who
may be DESTROYS of procuring insurance
upon their property l.. r. GRIMES.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
NIilestones on the Road

That leads TO nea4tn are marked III Tue memory
Oh Lnose VINO, at regular stage anu PERSIST
= entity, nave Leen conveyed tanner ny Hostel
terS stomach Buffers, Il potent auXlllary OF
nature III her efforts to throw on the YOKE or
disease. MaIarlaI, kinney, rheumatic ana BILL
lous trouble, constipation and nervousness
take their departure Mnen this DenlgnanL med
lcIne ID resorleu 10 Tor their eradication.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
She Gave Thanks.

He (earnestly)-And now that we are
engaged Ethel, will you pray for me'
She-Oh. no, George. I've been praying
for you for the last eight years. But now
that I've got you, III thank the Lord for
you. l really think / ought to.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23

A Milwaukee woman no is a religious
fanatic has been travelling about the
country setting fire to church buildings of
her own denomination.
Oberlin college, Ohio, was the first in the
United States that admitted female
students.
Albert Durer gave the world prophecy
of future wood engraving in 1927.
Twenty lives lie between the emperor of
Germany and the British throne.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
Half Rates.

Railway CO. will viii sell tickets at one fare for
the round trip, to points in Texas. Lake
Charles, La, and Eddy and Roswell, N.
NJ, tickets good returning twenty days
from date OF sale. For further informa-
ton address HI. A. Cherrier, 3l6 Marquette
Bldg, Chicago, Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
DOMESTIC HINTS.
BRoILED PORK CHOPS

bhOlLED Iohh SliofS
Cut not quite so thick as mutton
chops and broil over brisk fire; turn
them frequently and cook dark brown.
When ready to serve sprinkle upon
them little powdered sage.
PIE CRUST.
Rub we'll together one-half cup of
lard and one pint of flour and water
enough to make dough not too Stiff
roll out and spread with butter, fold
in the opposite direction; roll out again.
being careful not 10 squeeze the butter
out.
CORN ERITTERs
Take two cups of canned corn, and
three eggs well beaten. II tablespoon
full of milk. enough flour to mako
the batter just drop from spoon, then
fry in boiling lard.
SOFT CANDY.
One pound good brown sugar, three
tablespoonful of water; while boiling
add one quarter of q pound of butter.
Boil it until thick and ropv, then take
it from the fire and stir it until it grains,
While stirring add some nuts; then
pour it upon buttered plates and let it
cool.
DOUGHNUTS
One cup of sugar. three cups of
flour. piece of butter the size of an
egg. one cup of milk. two eggs. one
half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoon
full of mace. Mix together, roll out,
cut in shape to fry in hot lard
VINEGAR PUDDING.
Three pints of hot water, one cup of
vinegar (unless very strong), one cup
of sugar, season with nutmeg or CHINA
mon. Let it boil. then add slices of hop
yeast bread. Set in the oven and let
it bake about ten minutes. TO be serv-
ed as soon as taken from the oven, with
either sauce or cream.
BARBECUED PORK.
Heat pan hot put in the pork with
out water. sprinkle with flour, salt and
pepper set on very hot oven. Turn
on the pan until crusted over. then
haste frequently with batter. Cook
three hours. when done pour over n
half-teacup of walnut catchup and
same of cider. Serve with fried ap-
ples.
WHIPPED CREAM HE.
Line deep tin with moderately
rich crust Bake in quick oven. then
spread it with any soft jam or jelly
and on this pour teacupful of crea M
beaten or whipped to stiff foam. then
sweeten and flavor to taste. The cream
will beat more easily If very cold at
first. More jell y can be spread on the
top of the cream, or servo it with out,
as preferred. ...
OATMEAL GEMS.
Soak n cup of oatmeal over night IN
one cup of water. In the morning
. take one cup of flour and mix dry with
two teaspoonfuIs of baking powder and
little salt. Mix in oatmeal and wet
with sweet milk 10 stiff batter.
Drop into gem pans and bake immedi-
ately.
PUFF FRITTERS.
To one pint of milk put eight spoon
fuls of flour, mixing we'll together.
Grease pan well, and in it scald the
batter, stirring all the time that 1t is
upon the fire. When removed and
cold, add fourteen eggs well beaten.
Mix all together until perfectly smooth,
beat until light. and drop from spoon
into boiling lard. like other frtters.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
A Remarkable Feat.

Joseph Alexander of Newburg, N. Y,
was 81 years of age last January, but is
in full possession of all his faculties.
Last month in heart shaped design
on a sheet of paper 21ax2 inches, he
drew circle the size of ten cent
piece. With pen he wrote the Lords
Prayer within the circle, and the whole
of the 103d Psalm in the heart
shaped space. When in Washington
recently he wrote on piece of paper
the size of a postal card matter con-
tanning 12,400 letters, besides the
Lords prayer in each of the four cor
ners. This remarkable piece of work
for such an old man has been placed
in the Smithsonian Institution,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23

The candle-power of light may be
approximately calculated by compar-
ing the shadow cast by a rod in the
light of a standard candle, with the
shadow cast by the light to be tested.
BY moving the latter toward or away
from the rod, point will be reached
at which the shadow cast by both
lights will be of the same intensity.
The intensities of the two lights are
directly proportional to the squares of
their distances from the shadows; for
example, suppose the light to be tested
is three times the distance of the can
die it's Illuminating power is nine times
as great.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-23
If the Baby is Cutting Teeth

The man who deserves riches can be rich
without them.
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WHIPPED CREAM HE.
OATMEAL GEMS.

Soak n cup of oatmeal over night IN
one cup of water. In the morning
take one cup of flour and mix dry with
two teaspoonfuIs of baking powder and
a little salt Mix in oatmeal and wet
with sweet milk 10 a stiff batter.
Drop into gem pans and bake immedi-
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
What Re Wanted for a Vacant Lot,

What Re Wanted for a Vacant Lot,
One of the most eccentric characters
II Washington Is Joe Willard. He is
very wealthy, but parsimonious to such,
q degree that tho walls of his Office are
papered with newspapers for the sake
Of economy. He owns some very valua,
BILE properties. among them o vacant lot
on the corner Of Fourteenth and r.
streets. This lot John r. Mclean haa,
been very anxious to purchase, and he
made several inorectual efforts to nes
sotiats a deal with Willard. The other
day he made this proposition to him:
II will clear OF that lot at my own
expense. level it smooth, and cover It
all over with silver dollars. Then you
q pick up the dollars and I will takoi
the lot"
Tho price thus offered was fabulous.
far beyond q reasonable value. No
piece of real estate In Washington was
over sold at half such q figure. Eighty
n silver dollars may be laid within
the space Of one square foot The lot
In question measures about sixty feet
by 100.
Old Joe Willard by no means jumped,
ut the proposition. He cooked his eye
slyly at Mclean and said:
"Will you put the dollars on sdger
That terminated negotiations
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
swindline Chioaso,s Rioh Men.

Many are the schemes invented by I'M
scrupulous persons to obtain money,
from rich men, who are known to be,
generoua, under the guiss Of charity
SO great has this nuisance become in.
Chicago that . detective agency has
been established for the purpose Of
looking into such cases to see IL the ap-,
plicants or the institution they claim to,
be subscribing for Is worthy Of 1t. This.
agency saved the rich men Of Chicago
about 100000 last year. Some Of the
schemes for obtaining money = GER
talnly novel One Of them Ia for Q per-
son 10 rent . vacant lot, dump O load of
stone on the ground, and then go
around to soms Of the phllanthropio
citizens and solicit money for q charita-
bic institution which he says u to be
built upon tho land. It Is a clever swim
die and has been successful in moro in.
stances than one.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
Eptoe Books.

The miniature prayer books and other
toy volumes In which our great-srand-
mothers delighted have returned to
favor. Some Of the new prayer books
measure two and . half By ono and
three-quarter inches. Nevertheless tho
portions Of the service most used arc
printed In what is known ~ aSate typo
and are readily read without . glass.
These dainty little books are usually
bound in white morocco. tipped with
gold or silver. and cost I'll upward.
They are sometimes suspended from q
chain attached to . finger ring, 70 that
they may bs carried In this way. Tho
little dictionary, which contains 10000
words, 10 even timer than the PRAYER
book. tn print can only be read BY .
msynifyins glass. which IL convenient
~ framed in the cover. It measures
three-quarters Of an inch by one and
one-eighth. The glass magnifes the
type until it IL about the same size as
the ordinary nonpareu type of q news
paper.-New York Tribune.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
The Nicaragua Canal.

The project of the Nicaragua Canal has
been debated in the u. s. Senate very
vigorously. One thing should be remem-
,bered about that climate, 1t is death to al
most every foreigner who goes there. and
that the Panama Railroad cost a life for
every tie. What an Idea of pains and
aches is in this sentence. 1t is mostly due
to carelessness. Every laborer provided
with st. Jacobs Oil would be armed
against these troubles. Mems muscles
there are cramped with rheumatic pain
do its best work. The fearful malady is
very much like the %break-bone fever in
certain parts of America.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
Poor Indeedl

The prospect of rollef from drastic cathar-
tics for persons troubled with constipation
is poor indeed. True they act upon the
bowels. but this they do with violence. and
their operation tends to weaken tho intes-
tines. and is prejudiclal to the stomach. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is an ensctual lax
alive, but 1t neither grlpcs nor enfeebles.
Furthermore, 1t promotes digestion and q
regular action Of the liver aud the kidneys.
1t is IN efficient barrier against and remedy
for malarlal complaints and rheumatism.
and IL Of great beneat to the weak, nervous
and aged. As a medicinal stimulant it can
not BIO surpassed. Physlcians cordially rec
ommend 1t. INT its professional Endorsement
Is fully borne out by popular experience.
Appetite and sleep are both improved by
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
Cheap Land i'm the west.

A witness in court at Dubuque in
Jected some politics into the answers
of a cross-questioner, and expressed
the feelings of n good many Democrats
Throughout the country. The name Of
the witness was Ward, and this is the
account of the incident:
"Mr. Ward, did l understand you to
say that land is not worth as much now
as 1T was two years ago?"
"Yes, sir; that's what 1 said"
"Will you please tell the court why
1t is not worth as much now us two
years ago?"
"Well, since Cleveland was elected
the price Of land and everything else
has gone to the devil"
This answer brought down the house,
and Democrats and Republicans alike
in the court grew red in the face trying
to keep from laughing outright.
care you a Republican, Mr.. Ward?"
mo, sir; but if things keep on the
way they are now 1 don't think 1t will
be long before 1 will be one."-Siouy
City Journal.