Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
The Sahara desert is almost as
large as the United States.
The president and his party re-
turn to Washington this week.


The town of Orsen, Sweden, is
without taxes. The revenues are
derived from forest reservation.
eyes, Tommy, it is quite possible
that there are people in the moon"
''But uncle, what becomes of them
when there isn't any moon?"
He couldn't understand the trick,
He felt just like clown, sasssa
You see, the girl first took him up
And then she turned him down.
When Dutch maid servant
wishes to go to dance and has no
beau, she hires one for the occasion.
A beau with an umbrella receives
double pay.
The pipe smoked by the Shah of
Persia on state occasions is set with
diamonds, rubies and emeralds of
the costliest and is said to be worth
five hundred thousand dollars.
Glass bricks are very popular in
Germany. They possess the advan-
tage of being acid proof and Of
harboring no disease germs. They
are translucent but not transparent.
Let him laugh, with his lips athrill;
Oh, do not nag him with "Do ks
still!'
Let him laugh. for he can not be
A lad very long in the land of glee.
FREDDY, you shouldn't laugh out
loud in the schoolroom," said the
teacher.
Il didn't mean to-" apologized
Freddy, II was smiling when all of
a sudden the smile busted"
The Amazon river is more than
hundred miles wide at it's mouth.
Ocean Steamers can go thousand
miles inland on Its waters and it is
navigable for large river steamers
more than two thousand miles,
What is the moral lof the following
rhyme?
''Only can of kerosene;
Only servant, but oh! how green;
Only match and bit of wood;
Only the spot where the girl once
stood'
Five neices of King Edward have
married rulers or prospective rulers
of countries. They are the Czarina
of Russia, the queen of Spain, the
Grown Princess of Roumania, the
Grown Princess of Greece, and the
Princess Margaret of Connaught
who will be queen of Sweden.
We starve each other for loves
caress,
We take but do not give;
1t seems so easy some soul to
bless
But we dole love grudgingly less
aud less,
Till 'tis bitter and hard to live.
A bed of anthracite coal has been
opened at Lattimer, Pennsylvania,
which is believed to be the largest
in the world. 1t is solid bed, one
thousand three hundred feet wide
and thirty feet in thickness extend
ing six miles. 1t is estimated that
with an output of 500 tons day it
will take two hundred and fifty years
to exhaust the bed.
A law has been passed in Missouri
to encourage the bestowal of names
to the farms. 1t provides that the
county clerk shall upon the receipt
of fee of one dollar, issue certifi-
cate showing the location of the
farm and giving the owner the
privilege of selecting any name for
the farm which has not been regis
tered by some other farmer.
''Now, boys" said the teacher, "if
l stood on my head the blood would
run into it and I would turn red IN
the face"
"Yes, SIR" said the boys. '.Then
why is it when stand in the usual
position the blood doesn't run into
my feet?"
A little fellow shouted, "Cause
your feet ai'nt empty"
Just across the Potomac from
Washington the government has a
willow experiment farm, and it has
demonstrated that as high grade
basket willow can be raised in the
United States as is produced in Eur
ope The government sends free
cuttings and directions for raising
the basket willow to all who wish to
embark in the industry and it seems