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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14

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Lake Superior is the largest of the
Great Lakes. 1t is 800 miles long.
AT New Orleans there is no tide. At
Eastport Maine, there is ten feet.
In Vienna, Austria there is res
taurant that has never closed it's door
night or day for 165 years.
Wireless stations are being estab-
lished in Venzuela and they are US
ing American apparatus.
Not more than per cent of the ma
tives of British India can read and
write their own language.
Since coffee labels have been requir-
ed to tell the truth there is only one
pound of Mocha coffee sold where
there were so pounds sold before.
Jim's Chowder House in Los Ange-
les, California has been open night
and day ever since it started, twenty
five years ago, and has no key to its
door.
In France an unmarried woman is
not allowed to put money in the bank
or have check book. A married wo-
wan or widow can bank any amount
OF money which she May possess.
The Iowa supreme court has ruled
that county treasurer can step in
and assess property, bonds, credits of
anything assessable, even thengh the
county assessor has Intentionally fail
ed to levy an assessment.
Hamburg, Germany has erected an
eating house of paper. Its walls are
composed of double layer of PAPER
stretched on frames and impregnated
with fire and water proof solution.
Roofs and walls are fastened together
with bolts and hinges and the entire
structure may be taken apart and put
together again. The dining room ac-
commodities $50 people. The total
cost was $780,
One hundred years ago there was
not a single city in the world that
numbered million inhabitants. Great
cities could not exist then as they
were obliged to depend on the region
of country Immediately surrounding
them for sustenance. Science has ena
bled them to draw their supplies from
the remotest quarters of the earth and
in this generation there is no limit to
the size to which city may grow.
The Des Moines Political Eq uality
Club has originated Mems Suffrage
Il Vs,h hi oL n ~ 4
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14

Whose grass did K. G. MOI
How many eggs did New Orleans,
La?
How much does Cleveland, or
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14

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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14

81 wonder whose husbands.
Over five thousand elephants
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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
DROWNING" AS A LIVING.

A remarkable association of youth
full professional drowners and life
saving heroes has been discovered by
the Paris police. The number of boys
who have fallen into the river and
been rescued by their companions has
grown to such an extent in the st.
Louis district that the local magis-
trate ordered that the boys on the
embankment should be watched. AS
a result 13-year-old Louis Berbaud was
seen to let himself drop cautiously in
to the water, and the next instant two
of his comrades sprang heroically aft
er him and brough him to land. Ber-
baud played his part to perfection.
and, feigning Illness, was transported
to the salvage station. One of his
gallant rescuers remained with him,
while the other FASTENED away, as it
was afterwards ascertained, to give
the news to the newspapers in order
to obtain reward. Berbaud and his
friends afterwards made a full con-
fession. Their association had a
number of members, they said, but
they refused to give the names. They
had found the profession a paying, one
as the heroes were nearly always
recompensed, and they always Loyalty
shared their profits.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
WOMAN COBBLER OF MAINE

Mrs. Abbie Foster, tifty-three years
old of South Paris, is the only woman
cobbler in Maine. and by her twenty
wears hard work at the bench has
earned every dollar of the purchase
price of one of the prettiest village
homes in the state. She sold her
property to a young man of South
Paris and when he was unable TO
meet the requirements of the mort
gage. instead of the usual method OF
foreclosing and causing him to lose
the money he had paid towards the
estSts. Mrs. Foster took back the
nroperty. without resorting to law.
and allowing that the improvements
he had made were sufficient for the
rent paid him back dollar for dollar
the investment he had made. Local
business men held up their hands at
such a transaction but Mrs. Foster
onIy smiled and said, do unto 9TH
ers" and continued her labors of tap
ping a pair Sf shoes. Busy from sun
rise until sunset every week day at
her bench. Mrs. Foster does every
sort of repair work to shoes, tapping
sewing patches, Strengthening the
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
MET DEATH N SLEEP
SFocNMEN CRUSHED TO DEATH
IN COLLISION AND THEIR
BODIES BURNED.
Tour Men Were Killed OUTRIGHT
While Two Managed to Crawl
From Twisted Mass of Steel
and Iron, Terribly Injured.

MonteVideo, Minn.-Four stockmen
from Montana and South Dakota were
Killed, two injured so seriously that
there is slight chance OF their recov.
cry and an engineer and fireman had
~ crippled when section four of the
chicago, Milwaukee C St. Paul east
pound passenger, No. 6, from Butte,
MONT crashed into the rear end of
Stock train as it was endeavoring to
BACK IN on the siding to let the pas
'engers by, a mile west of here. on
Sunday
Engineer Tat Parker and Fireman
otlckler of the passenger saw the tail
hghts OF the stock caboose and Jump
cd IN time to save their lives. Both
were injured. Six stockmen coming
east with the train load of cattle,
We're asleep in the caboose when the
passenger bore down upon it and four
were killed outright. Two, George
Rahsoldt and William Downing, man
aged to crawl through the mass of
steel and iron, more dead than alive
and are frightfully burned and in
lured. They are not expected to live.
The force of the impact shattered the
2aboose, deraild the two cars of catue
ahead of it and toppled the engine of
the passenger over sidewalks acorss
the track on top of the wreckage.
Fire started and the bodies of the
four dead men were burned. Two cars
Of cattle were also burned before the
ire department from the city got to
he scene. Box cars on nearby tracks
were licked up by the flames, and in
order to save the. passenger coaches
hey were uncoupled and pushed back
by passengers and members of the
train crew. Late Sunday afternoon
the charred remains Of the men burn
I'd to death were recovered.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
ON VERGE or REVOLUTION
Wild Scene in the French Chamber of
Deputies During Debate on Recent
Railroad Strike.

Paris.-The debate on the railway
strike, in which the government has
been bitterly attacked in the chamber
OF deputies, by the Socialists. took
new and dramatic turn Saturday
night. During the session, which was
not only the most violent in the his
tory of the French parliament, but
rivaled in disorder and turbulence the
sessions of the national convention
under the French revolution, Premier
BRAND himself was the pivot on
which the drama turned, and the
general verdict is that certain govern
ment victory has been changed into
possible defeat.
Smarting under the repeated at
lacks of NJ. Juares. the leader of the
Socialists, and others, the premier
leaped to his feet and, defending the
cabinets suppression of the strike as
a revolutionary outbreak, exclaimed:
''If the actual laws had been insult
ftcient, we would not have hesitated
to resort even to illegality for the pur-
pose of preserving the fatherland"
An uproar followed these words.
The Socialists jumped up and were
joined by a number of Radicals. Witt
shouts Of anger they moved toward
the tribune, crying, Resign. Dictator,
resign"
Desks were banked and the cham.
Der was perfect bedlam with the
noise of shouts and cheers. One SO.
cialist tried to fight his way to the
tribune to strike BRAND.
Throughout it all the premier stood
calm and dignifed, and for three-qlDlr
ters of an hour waited patiently, but
Vainly, to make himself heard. Final
~, NJ. Brisson, president of the cham
Der, amid cries and imprecations from
the Socialists, adjourned the debate.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Those Dear Woman.

when my husband won't buy me
what l want" confides the first WON
an, Il cry. Then he will agree that !
may have it, just to get me to stop
crying"
Il have a better plan than that"
says the second woman. When my
husband thinks l shouldn't have a new
hat or dress, l smile. That works
better than tears in my case"
But" sweetly says the first WON.
an, my husband thinks l am so pref.
ty when smile that he will not do
anything to get me to stop"
After thinking the matter over that
evening the second woman concludes
that the first is a hateful thing.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
REVOLUTION IN URAGUAY.
Several Skirmishes Have Taken Place
and Situation is Serious.

ana situation is oefiouS.
Montevideo, Uraguay.-The revolu-
tionary movement is taking on a seri-
)us aspect. There are now 10000
armed reVolutionists who are gradual
ly being concentrated. Several Skin
mishes nave taken place, but the cas-
ualties have been suppressed.
Dr. A. Bachini, the -oreign minister,
recently issued a manifesto declaring
that the government was unable to
prevent the revolution from spread
ing, because, outside of the capital,
the sympathies of the people were en-
tirely with the revolutionists. 1t was
partly because of the influence of
this manifesto that President Villa
man requested Bachinis resignation.
The opposition papers predict that
President Willaman will be forced to
resign and they prophesy the hasty re,
turn of eX-President Jose Battle y
Ordonez. The government is keeping
the true situation from becoming pub
lie generally by aid of the censorship,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
In Plain EnnIisf1.

"Woodman, Spare That Tree" is a
highly idealized version of an attempt
at applied conservation. The principal
character comes upon a man who Is
chopping down tree, and says to
him:
Don't cut down that tree"
"What?" asks the lumberman.
''You let that tree alone l knew it
when was a little boy. / used to
play mumblepeg under it and have a
sentimental attachment for it, so
would kindly request that you let it
stand as it is"
do you own this timberland?"
''No. but T.
We'll, don't pull any of that Clifford
Pinchot talk around here, young fell
Ter. The big road for yours, seer"
Which shows us that conservation
and conversation are entirely different
propositions.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Hickory Supply Running Short.

hington.-Warning that the
original supply of hickory, the best
American fuel wood and the most diff
fcult to replace in case of American
hardwoods, is approaching exnaus-
ton, is given in bulletin of the de-
partment of agriculture compiled by
Anthony T. Bolsen. forest assistant,
and ]. A. Newlin, engineer in timber
tests. 1t shows that virgin hickory is
disappearing rapidly, and that there
are no foreign sources which can be
tlrawn upon when the home supply is
exhausted.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

When sister got her hobble skirt
The family assembled;
Papa's remarks were very curt;
With high disdain he trembled.
Aunt Julia shifted and raised her hands,
Grandmother almost tainted
And said: BE seen in that? My iandsI
I'd rather that she painted"
Then mother shook her head and sighed
And said: "Disgraceful surely!
It isn't fifteen inches wide,
Besides. 1t fits you poorly.
No child of mine shall walk the street
In such bold invention
Why, lookI It calls your-well, your
To every one's attention.
Then each took turns while sister stood
And heard how they condemned It;
They said the style was far from good
o, how they hawed and hemned It'll
When they were through then sister took
An album from the table
And showed them in that olden book
Such things-believe me, Mabel!
First, grandma in her widespread hoops
The style of 1885,
When Greeian bends and soulful droops
Were thought to be quite nifty.
Then with a smile that seemed to say:
Once more I'm glad to fool you,''
A pull-back costume, tight and gay,
She showed on good Aunt Julia.
Dear mother rose to seize the book
And they had quite a tussle,
But sister held it and cried: Look
Here's mother with her bustle''
Then father in spring-bottom pants!
My sisters wise selections
VI fathers, grandma's. mas and aunt's
Old styles hushed their objections.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Expect iced to be Resurrected.

Bristol, Tenn-Curious as to what
had become of the body of DR.. Teed,
who announced before his death a
year ago that he would rise from his
tomb and become the Messiah of the
Koreshans, two members of the cult,
according to Henry D. Silverfriend, at
tempted to unseal the tomb, but be-
fore this was accomplished both We're
deprived of their reason and died be-
fore they could be removed to an asy-
lum
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
HALF CAT AND HALF RABBIT

W. H. Kisinger of Truemans, Pa.
Is the owner of most peculiar ami
NAL. 1t was born of cat mother, but
has the body, legs and tail of a rab-
bit, with the head of cat. 1t runs
like a rabbit, by jumping up and kick
ing with its hind feet 1t has cat claws
on its hind feet, but has both rabbit
and cat claws on its front feet. She
has had three filters of kittens, but
none resembling her. She is sitting
up most of the time, and stands up
and walks around, when looking for
anything that alarms her She catches
mice, frogs and bats. When neces-
sary she can jump six feet in the air
and catch bat with her mouth.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
HAS EEARD NINE FEET LONG.

Nine feet and two inches of beard
that's what Hans Langseth of
Mooreton, N. D., boasts. 1t was 81
years ago that Mr.. Langseth declared
a boycott on the barber craft. That
makes an average growth of three
inches a year. The beard is not
straight and stringy, but has beau
tfful wave. Sometimes Mr. Langseth
carries it draped over his shoulder.
In cold weather it makes perfect
mufflsr. and during the summer he
uses it as a screen to keep off the
glare of the sun.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
HE HAS TOO MUCH NOSE.

Surgeons at the Cincinnati City hos
pital believe that John Lehray, a
cooper, who applied for treatment re-
Gently. has the largest nose in the
world The ponderous nasal appen.
dage is six and three-quarter inches
long and three and a half inches wide.
1t hangs over the lips and interferes
when he eats or talks. Lehray is suf.
fering from elephantiasis of the nose,
and the physicians have decided that
the organ will require to be ampu-
tated-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
TOE USED FOR THUMB" PRINT

A problem that confronted the Off
Gals of Californian bank was solved
and, at the same time, Identification
methods were given a new twist when
Hindu squatted down on the floor
kicked off his shoe and used the great
toe of his right foot for stamping an
impression on the deposit slip. The
Hindu signatures all look alike to
bank cashiers, who use thumb i'm
prints as an additional means of iden-
tification in cases where depositors
hail from the far east. But this sys-
TEN could not be followed out in the
present because the would-be depos.
itor's hands, which had been scalded,
were tied up in bandages.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
ENGLISH AVIATOR WINS.
Grahame-White Takes Both Cup and
Money in Aviation Contest.

New York.-CIaude E. Grahame
White, flying for the Royal Aero club
of the United Kingdom, lifted the Cor
don Bennett International speed
trophy from the custody of America
on Saturday, in the fastest time ever
covered for the full distance of 100
kilometers (62,14 miles,, around a
five-kilometer course. His average
speed was a fraction better than 81
miles an hour and his fastest lap was
2 minutes 55.77 seconds, but the cap,
tain of the French team, Alfred LIE
Blanc, flying in a similar machine, a
10O-horsepower Bleriot monoplane,
was making each lap on an average
of twenty seconds faster than Ora
hame-White, and would have won the
cup if he had not met with disas.
trous accident in his last lap, when he
had the race seemingly we'll in hand.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

are only four other known specimens
of the vaisseau a mat in existence,
namely: One In the royal collection
at Windsor castle with a grosbleu
ground dated 1885, one in the Wallace
collection, with a grosbleu ground;
one with a Rose du Barry ground
dated 1852 in Baron Rothschild's col
lection; and the one in the possession
of ]. Pierpont Morgan. Mr.. Morgan's
vaisseau a mat was formerly in the,
Earl of Coventry's collection; it is one
with a Rose du Barry and green
ground dated 1859.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

hington.-Charging fraudulent
efforts upon the part of the individual
enumerators to pad the census re-
turns for Minneapolis to the extent OF
4,668 names, Census Director Durand
has announced the corrected popula.
ton of that city to be 301, 408. The
announced figure is a gain of almost
40 per cent over the population OF
1900, which was 202,71S.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
QUEER LIGHTNING FRANKS

During a thunderstorm in Brock
ton, Mass, a bolt of lightning entered
a bedroom on the second floor of
house in which Edward Bolles was
sitting. The lightning ripped up the
bed clothing, burned the mattress and
knocked the footboard through a win
dow. A gold watch chain which was
attached to a vest he was wearing
was melted and his watch spirited
away and has not been found, al
though a thorough search of the house
and grounds has been made, A part
of the roof of the house was lifted
from it's fastenings and tipped on
edge. Bed clothing and curtains in
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
STEAMERS STRANGE CARGO,

The strangest cargo that a purser
ever had on a manifest was brought
into New York the other day on Ward
line steamship. It was a consignment
of 80 five-foot bags of dried flies. The
flies were shipped by a Santa Cruz
firm to Germany where they are used
as chicken food
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
DOGS GO TO A FUNERAL.

Following a hearse conveying the
body of an old dog fancier named
George Laceby Of Remington, Lon
don tEngD, to footing cemetery
were three bull terriers, which had
belonged to the old man, The an<
mails were dressed in proper funeral
style and wore crepe bows. and on
their cloth coats were written: Fol
lowing our master to his last resting
place
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
His Misfortunes.

But why are you incarcerated
here?" asks the sympathetic lady Of
the prisoner.
"Ah, madam, | had four wives Ifv.
ing, and was wooing lady who was
to be my fifth, when No. exposed
me-"
Wretch! So you are being pun
ished for bigamy?"
NO, lady. l am being kept here
until l can satisfy a judgment for
breach of promise obtained by the
prospective No. g.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Ernch Wheat Crop Short.

Washington.-The shortage in the
crop of French grown wheat this year
is estimated in report to the United
States government by Consul Hunter
Sharp of Lyons, at 85,000,000 bushels
He adds that the French are looking
to Argentina with the hope that the
large crop there will lower the price
of wheat throughout the world.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

The tide of immigration Is sweiilns'
but the vigilance against undesira6ies
Is also increasing. Official reports
show that u much larger number than
usual failed to pass the test during the
last few months. There is no inten-
ton to keep out the worthy. the indus
trious. and the law-abiding, but the
government is exercising eommenda-
Bile care to exclude the other sorts
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Case Amazes Doctors.

Detroit-Johnnie Green, II years
old, who has a hole straight through
his head from temple to temple, be.
hind the eyeballs, made by a bullet
fred by his chum, while they were
playing Indian, is alive and con.
scious. His amazed physicians say he
NAV rapOypr
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

heels, etc. Not long ago she tapped
six pairs of shoes in a single strenu-
Gus day Mrs. Foster has been cob
bling shoes more or less for the last
twenty years. When her husband
died twelve years ago she put out
her single and set up business for
herself. She never takes a vacation
and works every day except Sundays
and holidays
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

Old Sevres at it's best is wonderfully
beautiful, although some connoisseurs
would not give bit of blue and white
china for the richest example of
French craftsmanship. Nevertheless,
fortunes are paid for fine Sevres. At
a recent auction held in London Jo-
seph Duveen closed the bidding for a
"vaisseau a mat" with a $4,000 bid.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

The mint officials have just discov-
cred that the citizens of the United
States don't seem to be able to keep
any of the 81, 100000 coined annually
in gold. So they are going to stop
coming 1t.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

The fact that the oyster season Is
,pep is notified by the news item that
A Pennsylvania woman found 5000
pearl in an oyster which she was as
simiIating n New York. This Is cal
rulated to increase the feminine de-
mand for oysters, and may entail the
further drain on the family purse OF
trims to New York
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

Manila.-The committee OF Ameri'
can business men representing the
chamber Of commerce on the Pacific
coast arrived here from Canton on
Sunday. Hey VIII remain until Wed
resday. IIcy sal for the United
States on the Manchuria, November &.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
More Times Suspects.

Acapulco, Mexico.-Five men who
put into this port in a power boat
from San Francisco were arrested
and are being held pending investiga-
ton into their possible connection
with the Los ANGELES Times disaster.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

From the depths of the sea new
island has added itself to the Aleutian
group. Uncle Sam should hurry up
with a more definite government for
Alaska, which is twice as large as
Texas and still growing.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
College Destroyed by Fire.

Jackson, Miss.-FOr the second time
in it's history, Belhaven college, one
of the oldest female colleges in this
state, was destroyed by fire on Satur.
day. Loss, $4,000.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Football PLAYER Lands Job.

Washington,-The postmaster gen
eral has appointed as a post office in
spector Walter 4, Sommers of New
York, who was formerly captain of
the George Washington university
football team.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04

A court has decided that platonic at
lection for a married woman does not
Justify gifts of silk hose and lingerie
not even in these ultra-modern times.
Stick to Browning and essays on
friendship, and the lady will be safe In
a divorce suit.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Draft Horses Burned.

Chicago.-One hundred expensive
draft horses were killed, number OF
workmen had narrow escapes and
considerable property damage result
ed late Sunday, when a large steam
nine burst in a barn at the Union
stock wards.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Two of a Kind.

Must be something wrong with the
organ bellows" whispered the man to
his wife at church
'What?" she asked.
"The organ bellows he repeated.
Hump! So does the trump who Ia
trying to sing soprano"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
Steamer Lest. Crew Saved,

New Orleans.-The steamer Crown
Prince of the Prince line, from Santos
to New Orleans with cargo of cot.
fee, was wrecked off the western
coast of Cuba on October IS. Her
crew of thirty-fOur men and four pas.
sengers were rescued.