Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-12-09

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Ninety-five counties In Kansas have
students at the State University.
There are los counties in the state.
Daniel Wedge, a railroad conductor
of streator, ILL, recently sold q white
Orpington hen toa Philadelphia fam
cier for $500.
Georgia is completing more than
ten miles of good roads a day. The
state has 1850 convicts at work in 1906
counties vut of 149.
Lewis Palm, a Wisconsin farmer re-
Gently brought 1000 plants of the Lin
gon berry from Sweden. They are
similar to our nativs blaeberry with a
fine flavor, though a little smaller.
A mushroom which weighed so lbs.
and which sprang up and reached this,
enormous size within 4S hours is re-
ported near Pittsburg by one of the
professors in the Carnegie school.
Cinnamon believe that a mans food
affects his disposition. If he eats
rabbit stew he is as mild hammered
as q bunny, but if he is fed on roast
wild cat he absorbs ferocity with the
meat.
Senator Cummins has a Filipino.
boy in his employ. The youth is
working his way through college an
Washington. He is taking ~aftcourse Inv
engineering and obtained employ
ment of Senator Cummins.
Lanai, one of the Hawaiian group
OF islands was sold recently to q
Honolulu company. 1t has an area
of about $50 square miles which the
company intends to devote to agricul-
ture chiefly cotton. The purchase
price was 1926, 900.
Thirteen carloads of fish have beer
placed in the waters of Iowa this sea-
son.. The estimated number of fish
being 100000. In distributing them
the fish car, Hawkeye, travelled $500.
miles, 1t has been on the road con-
tinuously since Oct. LIST.
In Switzerland, q direct vote of the
citizens, at their own option, in city,.
state or nation, may enact or reject
any law, and the courts are forbidden,
to interfere. When the nation makes
up its mind to do a thing that thing
is straightway done and the legisla:-
tors, courts, capitalists, lawyers and
Lobbyists adjust themselves as best.
they may.
The best ear of corn and the best
ten ears of corn which the world has
produced as shown at the Omaha Elk
position were shown by Indian far-
mers. The best bushel ofcorn in the.
world was also produced by an Indi-
and farmer. This is the third success
sive year that Indiana has taken the
first prize for the best ten ears of corn.
The third winning gives the trophy to-
Indiana permanently.
The officials of the Federal railway
in Switzerland have passed q bylaw.
whereby all hats measuring more than
twenty inches in diameter are classed
as "wheels;" and charged for at the
same rate as bicycles. They are also
to be packed and consigned to the
baggage car. Each official is provi-
ded with q tape measure, and empow-
cred to measure any hat which ap-
pears to him to exceed the limit.
While clearing a houee of the rub
bish left by a tenant Henry Williams.
an East Des Moines real estate man,
recently found q copy of a Virginia
newspaper published the day after the
death Of George Washington. 1t is
dated December Is, 1899. On the
front page is the account of the life.
and death of George Washington
margined in black.
One of the advertisements announ.
ces the arrival of a ''parcel of strong
wenches to be sold at public auction"
The paper is so old and fragile that
MI. Williams has had it framed and
locked in an air tight Vault
Mrs. A. d. Winship of Racine,
Wis, who is IS years old is attending
the Ohio State University, in Column
bus, and by her diligence puts many
of the younger students to shame. She
recently entered the college as a fresh
man.
Mrs. Winship has attended the sum-
mer school at Columbus the last two
summers, largely reviewing the COM
mon branches.
Il am not going to leave the college
till I am 80 years DID," she said. "I
feel as young as q girland why should
I not complete my education? In my
girlhood we did not have the advan-
tages that girls have now, though I
had anna educatioD evan in those