Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-01-13
happenings OH
William Jennings Bryan is in Pau

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The only self-suppoEting territory
of the United States is Alaska.
A single salt works in Brazil Gov
ers an area of almost "a square miles.
Schools in Des Moines have sly
teachers or an advance of "a over
last year .
At Scotland Yard, London, last year
9,140 criminals We're traced by Their
finger prints.
Theodore Roosevelt has discovered
new animal in Africa. Its name is
otocjuon vergatus. 1t is fox.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. has been
made foreman of the grand jury in
New York to investigate the white
slave traffic.
Lumber coming through the ports
of Los Angeles during year amounts
to 7O0,OO0,OOO feet. Half of it is used
in Los Angeles.
Senator Gore says the new tariff
law enables one man to get without
earning what another man earns
without getting.
The government offers $1,000 a yea.
to graduates of agricultural schools
who will teach the Indians on the
reservations how to farm.
Several engineering corps are in
the field in Chill employed by the gov
eminent to study the different meth
DDS and systems of irrigation.
Six hundred are enrolled for the
short course at Ames. A number of
these are boys and girls under IL
years of age. One is man past 80.
Four girl strikers in New York who
were fined $25 last week paid their
fines in pennies. 1t took the entire
court over half an hour to count them,
The high cost of living is agitating
the President and officials at Wash
ington Think how it must agitate
the poor editor! Your subscription.
etc.
A Philadelphia heiress to $4,000
900 eloped with waiter, 40 years old
and bald. Yes stree! We congratu-
late her on not getting a worthless no.
bleman.
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, founder
of the D. A. Rs, died very suddenly
one day last week. Her home was in
New York. She died from apoplexy.
at the age of 10.
Madison Square Garden, designed
by the late Stanford White and erect
ed at cost of $3,OOO,0OO, has been
sold and will be replaced by mod
ern office building.
1t costs $50 to reach the Pacific
coast from New York, $33 from Chi
cago, $25 from Missouri river points
$1,000 from New Orleans, and $26.25
from Galveston, Texas.
According to official reports crime
has doubled in France in the pasf
year. Sociologists claim the cause
be the increasing use Of alcohol and
poor educational facilities.
A woman of Rockford. Illinois, is
suing her husband for divorce on tie
grounds of uncleanliness. He is a
nveryman and absolutely refuses to
come in contact with water.
Rev. Father Bandini, Catholic
priest beloved by Catholics and Prot
estants alike, is the only candidate
for mayor in the village of Tontitown,
Ark. He will be elected in spite Of
his own protests.
Ex-Empress Marie Charlotte, widow
Of Macmillan of Mexico, and sister
OF the late King Leopold, who has
been insane for some time, is rapidly
growing worse. Because of her condi :
ton she has not yet been informed of
her brothers death.
The Prince Regent of China has
recommended the doing away with
the pigtail turnout the Empire. H.
has ordered that at his court recep-
lions hair shall be short and Amer
lean clothes be worn
Chicago University will soon have
laboratory valued at $l,000,000. All
of the money is to be furnished by
the president of the board of trustees
who was the doner of the present
laboratory of the university.
There is an academy of manners
in China which regulates etiquette
throughout the empire. The aged
are treated with great Difference. A
Chinese philosopher says there is au
ounce of wisdom at the root of every
gray hair.
An eleven year old boy of Streater,
ILL.,, put his six year old brother in u
sack and sold him as old rags to g.
junk firm. The little fellow only
brought IL cents. The boys were