Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-24
| Happenings

l 0f1clal language
| In Mexico house rents have double
in the last ten years.
The first record OF Halley's comet
was in the year 240 b. C.
4 Tea is better as we'll as more benefi-
cial if made with hard water.
/ On the eastern coast of Ireland rain
falls about POS days in the year.
In New England many OF the aban-
doned farms are being used rent free.
In monetary value London is worth
two and half times as much as Paris
1t is said by specialists in anatomy
that people hear better with their
mouths opens.
1t is stated that DR.. frederick Cook
and wife are on their way back from
South America.
Mr.. Taft has finished his first year
as President and no doubt feels that
he has earned his salary.
Statistics show that the average life
of tradesmen is not much more than
two-thirds thatsof farmers.
Il Insurance authorities tell US that an
average of $1,000 houses are destroyed
by fire in the United States.
i T.. r. Smith, an Illinois farmer, re.
Gently marketed hog that weighed
$40 pounds and brought 1880
Il More than three million dollars
worth of dairy cheese was sold in the
| New York wholesale market last year
Alligator flesh is much eaten in In
die and some other tropical countries.
When boiled 1t tastes very much like
veal.
| The pike is better provided with
teeth than any other living creature.
1t has teeth all over the upper and
lower jaws.
St. Louis has concrete building 81
It. high, which is entirely without
windows. Skylights in the roof give
the necessary light.
The lower classes in Mexico do not
use bread. They live chiefly on beans,
rice. corn, cheap cuts of meat, coffee,
t2rtillas and peppers.
Abe party lash frightens nobody
this year. The country wants men
who think for themsel YES, study ques-
tions on their merits and follow their
own convictions.
The government maintains fleet
of 30 steamboats, and spends 100000.
q year to Keep the rivers of the coun-
try free from snags and other impedi-
ments to navigation.
A. Minnesota man has invented q
putty knife with reservoir in the
handle from which putty can be
squeezed by pressing q button. 1t is
for use by GLACIERS as q time saver.
A good authority on horses says
that gray horses live longest and that
roans come nexti in order. Black horses
seldom live over 20 years and creams
rarely live to be more than Is yre. old.
4 New York City manufactures more
fur goods than al. the other cities to-
gether. About nine thousand persons
are employed in the industry and lie
output for the last year is valued at
s4l, 400. 900.
Thomas x. Lsughlin, brother-in-
law ofPre.ident Taft, who killed him
self recently, left by will all his estate
to his wife. He is said to have had
property to the amount of twenty mil
lion dollars.
There are II states in the Union
whose combined business does not
equal that of the New York postoffice
which is more than the combined
postoffice business of Philadelphia
aud Chicago.
John Phipps of Shenandoah, Iowa
and Eli Phipps OF Oklahoma (twins)
celebrated their 9Sth birthday on St.
Valentines Day. Eli came to visit
John and they celebrated the day to-
gether. They we're born in Virginia in
1912.
Jerry Faust, an employee of the
Southern Pacific Railroad last week
received letter which was mailed to
him 50 years ago. The letter was writ
ten to him by his stepmother and
mailed July 2, 1875. His stepmother
has been dead fifteen years.
The experiment station at st. An
thony Park has developed corn suit
able for planting in northern Mime
sofa. The variety is white Cap Vel
low Dent and in the neighborhood CT
Crookston, Tenstrike, Grand Rapids,
Carlton and Wadena last year yielded
from % to 30 bushels of shelled corr
per acre.