Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-04
WORTH KNOWING.

A Kansas soldier, in letter home,
tells how General Otis came along
one evening, and when the men had
stopped firing for a minute, said:
Well, boys, how are you coming" On
ly a few of the men knew him, and
one of them said: All right, pard,
how's yourseIf? Another of the boys
that knew General Otis told him to
shut up; that the man was General
Otis. The general overheard him, and
said: That's all right; pard is as good
as general tonight
Strangers sometimes mildly wonder
what newspapers or sheets of blank
paper are tied on the windows or bal
comics of certain houses for. A sheet
of paper thus arranged is a sign mean
ing that there are rooms to rent in the
house on which it is displayed, and is
Just as significant in it's import as
three golden balls over a pawnbroker's
shop are in other countries.-MeXican
Herald.
Il am sorry" said the magazine ed
itor courteously but we are not &C
cepting any short stories now" But
the scene of this story" said the con-
| fident contributor, "is laid in place
| that nobody ever heard of, and is writ
ten in a language that no one can UNI
derstand." Then why didn't you say
so before?" exclaimed the magazine
editor, as he grasped it eagerly--Lite.
A girl with an osprey plume went
| into a drug store, and, somehow her
| feather caught fire from the cigar
| lighter flame. The soda fountain
clerk grabbed up settler bottle,
aimed a stream of settler at the hlaz-
| ing hat, hit the girl in the ear, man
in the eye, knocked off the hat, and
didn't put out the fire in spite of all
his efforts.-New York Journal.
Count Sergius Tolstoi, the second
! son of Count Leo Tolstoi, who has
thrown in his lot with the Doukho-
bortsi is now located in Winnipeg.
where the most important of the set
Elements is situated The count is
looked upon as a kind of leader, and
he has so far realized his role as to
set his fellows an example of uncom-
planning fortitude.
Senator Plat Of New York, has al
ways been a careful keeper Of scrap
books. Upon the declaration of hostil-
tiles between Spain and the United
States his efforts and those of his sew
eral secretaries were redoabled, and he
is now believed to own one of the best
contemporary histories of the Spanish
war eXtant.
The tube of a twelve-inch gun
which is used in some warships, has
fifty spiral grooves inside, which cause
the shot to revolve at a rate of sew
enty-five times a second as it rushes
through the air.
Yawns are excited by improper
aeration of the blood, and are akin
I'd the unconscious, tired sigh. Both
are evidence of mental fatigue, and
sometimes are symptoms of brain dis.
ease.
"And that, then" said Mrs. Wagg:
sighfully, putting down the paper from
which she had been reading of the
canned meat controversy, sis wha
they mean by funeral meats. Judge
Among the sights of Pekin in thu
autumn months are thousands o
camels. They come from the interior
of Asia and take back the caravan tie;
and other freight. ..
The Corriere della Sera of Milan
has story of two peasants wht
caught in their nets in two weeks 43,
200 small birds, which they sold at L
cents a dozen.
Khartoum will be reached by tn
railroad by November next, barrinl
accidents. The railroad is now fit.
miles south of the Atbara river.
, The Lancet, in statement of tn
number of doctors in Great Britain
| holding British degrees gives the to
i tai of practitioners as 24.994.