Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10

The use of leather shoes of foreign
type is rapidly extending in Japan.
In Greenland women who wish to
add to their charms paint their faces
blue.
| Detroit. people have organized a
club to furnish assistance to paroled
prisoners.
Nearly two hundred million people
in India are dependent on agriculture
for their living.
| Happiness is contagious disease,
the germs of which should be spread
throughout the world.
More than one million cat skins are
used yearly in the manufacture of
fashionable fur garments.
There is hill $50 feet high in the
Swedish province of Smaland which
consists entirely. of iron ore.
Meerschaum when freehly mined is
80 soft that it may be used for soap,
giving plentiful cleansing lather.
= One of the leading industries of
Holland is the manufacture of oleo.
margarine and other artificial buffers.
Nome Alaska, the most northerly
town in America, is one of the best
lighted towns in the world. 1t uses
electricity.
In Germany station for generat-
ing electric power is in tn e process of
construction which will use peat en-.
tirely for fuel.
A woman is living in Wood Green,
England who is los years old. Not
withstanding her great age she can
read without glasses.
Twenty of ostrich feathers RECENTLY
arrived at New York on the Mauritan-
la. They are valued at more than five
hundred Thousand dollars.
In Italy reinforced concrete boats
have proven 80 successful that five
vessels, each of 12O tons or larger.
have been built for the navy.
A trolley car left the track in Nash-
vile Tennessee and struck line of tell
ephone poles. 1t did not stop until
go of the poles were lying fiat.
Although there lie dutv of 40 nor
cent barrel on apples, large quanti-
ties of them from Oregon, Washing
ton and other states are consumed ia
Canada.
In quicksilver mine in Asia Minor
were found recently the skeletons of
so men. Geoligist say they were the
victims Of tragedy which must have
occurred more than 5000 years.
A bill has been introduced in the
Japanese diet at Toxic providing that
no foreigner may own land in Japan
unless he is a native of country
which permits Japanese to own land
within it's borders.
The report of the Iowa railway COM
mission shows that express companies
Of the state made enormous profits
during the year ending June 9, 1909
One company paid dividend of so
per cent on Its capital stock.
Professor Osler's theory that mans
best work is done before he is forty
and that at sixty he should retire is
completely refuted by Confuctus, the
great philosopher who said: "Until a
man is thirty he is like the ivy or the
vine, with no inherent strength; at
forty he is bare tree; at fifty he puts
forth leaves: at seventy fruit.
The silk train is run as special. It
is reserved for the costliest of all
freight-raw silk. It's lading is worth
Fortunes million and half, per-
haps two millions of dollars. The silk
train runs on no schedule except that
of the graatest speed consistent with
safety. II limited gets in the way
the limited must fret on side track
while the silk train whirls past.
Within the last two years national
range has been purchased for the &C
commodation of q herd of bison. 1t
cantains 1851 acres which is about
20 square miles and can support 1900
bison, 500 antelope, 100 deer and 100
elk, all of which will in time be found
there. The forestry bureau enclosed
it with twenty-one miles of wire fence
The range lies in Montana and ia said
to be abundantly supplied with rich
grass, pure water and winter shelter.
In q cob-webbed corner of the attic
of the house Of representatives in
Washington. d. c., and covered with
dust, yellow and falling to pieces with
age, were found recently letters and
documents of the early days of our
republic which are of the greatest his
toric value. Among them are letters
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