Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-17
happenings

Only 51a per cent of the total area
of the world is tillable
TIE earth will pass through the tail
of Halley's comet on May 10th.
Blood oranges are colored by the
use of a hypodermic syringe and some
dye.
The miaing industry of Korea gives
employment. directly snd Indirectly,
to 5000 persons.
An old Jersey farmer, ninety years
old, walked 81 miles following his dog
while hunting.
Mrs. O P Belmont gave away two
thousand Ills to poor children dur
ing the Christmas holidays.
There are churches In various lparts
of England, where, on certain days of
the year, couples can be married with
out any fee
One of most remarkable sights
in America ia the attendance of mo-
theirs with children in their arms in
Che Philadelphia night schools.
The United States has more dairy
COWS than any other country in the
world; move horses; more mules;
more hogs. and Except British India)
more cattle.
James Lewis, an hotel porter was
held for trial in Kenosha, Wis, on
the charge of numbering cat. Under
the Wisconsin law he may be sent to
prison for two years.
According to the report of the head
factory Inspector to the General AS
sembly, there are more than five thou
sand children employed In the mills,
factories and stores of Rhode Island.
Oscar Krause, who is seven feet tall.
was arrested recently for deserving his
wife and thrashing his father-in- law.
Krause was married two years ago to
Miss Annie Bradford, who is only
nfGy lDCne6 In lelgnG,
Queen Eleanor of Bulgaria has won
the hearts of her people by her devo-
ton to the sick and unfortunate. She
has founded home for the blind and
another for the deaf. The king loves
pomp and show but the queen cares
nothing for court functions. Nursing
has always been her favorlte pastime-
1t is asserted that Boston has 75, 900
homeless women who live in lodging
houses. This city is said to have
poorer Accommodations for industrial
women than auy other city in the
United States. New York has ten mo-
dern hotels and flat houses for women
who receive less than ten dollars q
week.
The Oldest writer of American
church music now living Is Luther O.
Emerson of Hyde Park, Massachu.
sett. Among his compositions are
"Gnide Me, oh, Thou Great Jehovah, y
1--WE are Coming, Father Abraham, /"
and Sessions which he played re-
Gently at revival in Boston although
he is ninety years old. He is an ac-
compliehed orgapist.
A man in Belfast agreed to marry 9
spinster if she cou d raise $500. She
succeeded in getting only $500 and
the man, farmer, called it off, al
though he had ordered the clergyman
to be on hand to marry them. The
spinster sued him for breach. of pro-
mise, but the judge said that the pro-
mise to marry was conditional and
the condition had not been fulfilled.
DR.. Sophie Herzog, of Texas is said
to be the only woman railroad surgeon
in the world She is native of Aus.
tria, came to this country in 1886, stu.
died medicine and surgery and fol
nine years after graduation practiced
medicine in New York. Soon after
moving to Texas her work as sur
geon attracted the attention of the ST.
Louis, Brownsville, and Mexican rail
road, and she was appointed surgeon
for the road.
Mrs. Margaret Barnes, q Massachu
setts woman of independent means
and an invalid, has chosen the poor
house of Canton as her home, paying
her board there as other people do q
hotels. She says that she finds ther'
all the attention and comforts of ,
modern hotel, but that her interest il
the inmates was one of the most i'm
portant reasons for ner choice o
homes. Everyone of them has a lifi
story that is unusual, and the romance
pathos sad even humor, that is bound
up in them is fascinating and is /,
source of endless diversion to her.
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