Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-11-18
happenings

tlue industry,
Nitrogen iodine is 80 sensitive that
the touch of q tly's foot would explode
it.
In some parts of Nigeria farming is
made Improbable by the raids of ba-
boons.
Asa rule two productive acres of
land are required for the support of
each inhabitant of . country.
During the first seven months of
this year over seventy thousand peo-
pie left Great Britain for Canada.
In China person who is rescued
from drowning is compelled TO sup
port his rescuer for the remainder of
his life.
In England, the post Office depart
ment must give it's consent before
wireless telegraph apparatus can be
installed.
The st. Johns river in Florida is
the only navigable river in the coun.
try that flows in northerly direction
into an ocean.
One of the flour mills in Minneapo-
lis turns out between seventeen thou
sand and eighteen Thousand barrels of
flour each day.
The Ida Grove school directors have
ordered sanitary drinking cups. The
cups are the same as the fountains in
use in Sac City schools.
A burglar was convicted recently in
Prussia on the evidence of teeth marks
in an apple which he had bitten
while engaged in the burglary.
There are three women among the
nominees for the next Norwegian par
lament. One was chosen by the lib
erals and two by the socialists.
In Routt Co. Colorado, oats raised
without irrigation yielded from go to
80 bushels to the acre this year and
have been selling at from $l.75 50
per hundred pounds.
A regiment of one thousand men
could readily find shelter under sin
gle banyan tree. In India there is
one of these trees which has four hun
dred main trunks and over eight thou
sand smaller ones.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma although
blind was an interested spectator of
the flights of the Wright brothers.
flying machine near Washington. He
complained that he could not watch
flights as we'll as q game of ball.
The largest room i'd the world un-
der single roof and unbroken by pill
lars is in st; Petersburg. A whole
battalion of soldiers can completely
maneuver in it and it is used for mill
tary displays. BY night 10000 wax
tapers give tia beautiful appearance.
1t is $40 feet long by $50 feet in breadl h
The roof is single arch of iron.
The Cullinan diamond as found
weighed over one and one-third lbs.
1t was by far the largest diamond in
the world. 1t was presented to King
Edward by the South African colonies
after the Boer war. 1t is not only the
largest diamond known put it Ia abso-
lutely flawless and of the finest blue
white color. It's brillianoy is dazzling.
In Essen, Prussia is the largest ba
kerry in the world. 1t is vast build
ing in which seventy workmen, div1-
ded in two shifts. work night and
day. A gigantic screw turns a knead-
ing trough which is always kept go
ing. Ten sacks of flour of two hun
dred pounds each are put into it with
some water at each filling; Two hun
dred and thirty sacks of two hundred
pounds each are baked each day which
makes about forty thousand of bread
There are thirty-six double ovens anG
the workmen who watch over the bak
ing of the bread earn from eight to ter
cents an hour.
Much has been written of the come
which will soon be visible in the hea
vens. To those VINO fear collision
when it approaches the earth and eros
SEES its orbit 1t may be interesting Il
learn that the.earth has passed through
the train of at least one comet withou
affect. Various facts prove comets ar,
composed of gaseous material far ligh
er than our atmosphere onatis come
which appeared in 1858 was an objec
ofgreat beauty in the evening SIX.
for many weeks. Atone time it GOV
cred the bright star Arcturus withou
hiding him from view or even dim.
ming his luster. The fact is, the mat
ter of which comets are composed is O
SO light material that it cannot evel
enter our atmosphere.
Germany cultivates forests as sh
does any other crop, keeping then
free from nnderbrush and decaye'
logs and limbs. The trees are marke
tod hafnra tho aue of decay and ever