Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-12-23
happenings

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| The cultivated forests of Prussia
yield the government over twenty
four million dollars year.
| A triangular tract Of land with 70
feet frontage on main street in Kansas
City sold recently for $4,000.
There are three times as many Bud6-
hists, Brahmans, Mohammedans and
Pagans in the world as there are Chris
tians.
| A new house has just been compile
ted at Shefford, England and it is said
to be the first one built there in fifty
years.
The Government of Guatemala has
placed bronze bust of Robert Fulton
in one of the parks of the city of Guat-
emala.
| A milkman of Pittsfeld, Massachu-
sets recently delivered bottle of
milk to customer which contained
two inch minnow.
Attorney General Byers has filed q
suit at Council Bluffs to determine
whether the state of iowa has free til
tie to lake and river beds.
Foresters say that while young oak
tree grows three feet an elm tree grows
eight feet and three inches and will
low nine feet three inches.
Senator Cummins' speech before the
Marquette club in Chicago which he
delivered early.in November is to be
printed as senate document.
In proportion to the population
more people get their living from the
sea in Norway than in any other coun-
try. Great Britain comes next.
George Swan, station master at the
Rock Island station at Des Moines
has completed his fftieth year of SER
vice with the Rock Island company.
He is 70years old.
A canal has just been completed in
Arkansas near Arkansas City, 65 feet
wide, IA feet deep and nine miles long.
1t drains about 100000 acres of land
contiguous to the city.
According to the report of the Uni
ted States geological survey during
the year 1908 the United States contri-
buted more than half of the worlds
total production of copper.
A New York man is said to have
eaten 60 buckwheat cakes and two
pounds of sausage at one meal, finish
ing with the remark that if he had
been hungry he would have done bet
ter.
Moore Bros. of Iowa City found q
pearl, which weighed 101 grains, in a
clam while fishing. They sold it for
$240. 1t has been sent to Paris and it
is estimated that its actual worth is
$4,000.
Since oil was found in the Philip
pine Islands, elk oil Development
companies have been formed. Many
other companies have been formed to
develop the mineral resources of the
island.
The farms in China, where cotton
is the principal product are usually of
from five to seven acres. The work is
done by hand and the whole family
assists in its cultivation often working
IL hours day.
The hull of cotton is used in China
for fertilizing purposes. By mistake
we were made to use the word s'exper-
mental in the Journal last week in
stead OF "fertilizing which makes the
assertion obscure and meaningless.
/ The American consul at Marking,
China reports that the cost of living
is increasing rapidly in the orient.
In China foreigners pay twice as much
rent for their houses and $50 percent
more for rice than they paid ten years
ago.
The more ferocious animals of the
London Geological gardens have their
claws cut periodically. Formerly it
was formidable as we'll as expensive
task but of late the work has been
greatly facilitated by chloroforming
the animals.
A contract was recently made by q
Chicago coal company to furnish hard
coal for certain ward school of the
city for So u per ton. We, who live
west of the Mississippi, wonder if the
81 which we have to pay over and
above the price in Chicago, is absorbed
by the railroads for transportation
charges.
The effigy of General Lew Wallace
author of Ben Hur ia marble, will be
unveiled in the Hall of Fame in the
capital at Washington, D. G. January