Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-19

Women swallow at one mouthful the
he that fatters, and drink drop by
drop truth that is bitter.-Diderot.
There are beautiful flowers that are
lovable.-Hovelle.
Marriage is a lottery in which men
stake their liberty and women their
Mime. de Rieux.
There are some very pretty women
who don't understand the law of the
road with regard to handsome faces.
Nature and custom agree in conceed-
ing to all males the right of at least
two distinct looks at every comedy
female countenance, without any in
fraction of courtesy or the sentimen.
of expenditures.
Bishop Potter says he believes in
the new woman"
Fire Chief Croker led the fighting
OF big fire in New Fork one night
recently in evening dress, including
pumps and silk hat. He was dressed
for a dinner when the alarm was
given.
A woman is more Influenced by
what she divines than by what she is
told.-De Lenclos.
A woman who is guided by the head
and not by the heart is a social pesti.
lence.-Balzac
A woman without laugh in her is
the greatest bore in existence.-Thack-
cray.
Beauty is the first gift Nature gives
to woman, and the first she takes from
her.-Mere.
China has apoligized to Japan, thus
earning the contempt of a lot of would
be war correspondents.
The south has recently had what is
called IAN orderly lynching." Still,
the,lynchee probably failed to enjoy it.
There is nothing a man of good
sense breads in wife so much as her
having more sense than himself
Fielding.
The Chronic Kicker is thoroughly
convinced that April will more than
make up for the bad weather we are
not having in March.
Male firmness Is very often obstin-
acy. Women have always something
better, worth all qualities. They have
tact.-Lord Beaconsfeld.
that stretch from ocean to ocean. He,
too, probably regards 1t as foolish to
go on with the Panama Canal.
Evelyn is going to sue for divorce
on the ground that Harry was insane
when he married her. There are
women who would hate to set up a
plea of that kind.
Pugilist Jeffries has declined an
offer of $4,000 to appear in boxing
contest Apparently there is at least
one man in the world who knows
when he has had enough.
A big diamond firm which failed the
other day blames it's trouble on "the
public's craze for automobiles" The
old saying may, therefore, be changed
TO stick to me and you'll ride in an
automobile"
A New York burglar, as part Of
his loot, carried off 200 neckties. His
arrest and conviction quickly followed,
and now he is extremely sorry be-
cause not even one of the neckties
matches his suit of stripes.
An octopus measuring ten feet six
inches in length, while being killed
at Tooradin, Victoria, twined ten
tacle so firmly around the foot of one
of its captor that the membrane had
to be cut to free the man.
China imagines that her sovereignty
has been restored in Manchuria, yet it
is fact that the South Manchurian
Railway refuses to carry Chinese
mails unless they are sent through the
Japanese post-ofice, and international
rates paid on what is considered to be
inIa
A horse led at the funeral of a
cavalry officer is relic of the custom
when a charger was sacrificed at the
grave, an officer led the horse from
behind the bier to the brink Of the
grave, and it was there slain and
thrown In upon the coffin. The last
occurrence of this kind took place at
Treves, Germany, In 1881.
In years long past the German was
considered the greatest smoker on
earth. He is so no longer. The Bel.
gian smokes e.21 pounds of tobacco
yearly; the inhabitants of the United
States, $40 pounds; while the Ger
mans share is only 3.44 pounds. The
Englishmen is really most mod
crate smoker; 1875 pounds last him a
year.
There Is trouble in tonsorial firm
in New Orleans. In the barber-shop
this Information is Displayed "Notis
The partnership heretofore subsit'
ing betwixt me and Moses Jones in
the barber profession is dissolution.
lied. Persons who owe money must
pay to the subscriber. Them what
She firm owes are referred to Moses
Jones'"
A patient and ingenious Italian, a
resident of Rome, has constructed a
tiny boat formed of single pearl
Its sail is of beaten gold, studded
with diamonds, and its headlight, car.
ried at the prov, is a perfect ruby
An emerald serves as its rudder, and
its stand is a slab of ivory. 1t weighs
less than half an ounce, and it's price
is said to be $4,000.
Belgian hares imported into the Ar.
gentine Republic have multiplied al
an astonishing rate. Some fifty OF
these hares were introduced into the
country, and they have now spread to
such an extent as to be found at a
distance of five hundred miles from
the spot where they were first turned
out, and have increased so prodigious
ly that ten hunters have been known
10 kill one thousand in day.