Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-31
Happenings

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The University of Calcutta has
10000 students.
The harry eagle of Brazil feeds ex-
clusively on monkeys.
Eighty-seven percent of the Can
adiar farmers own their farms.
English ia spoken by nearly 80 per-
cent Of the worlds Inhabitants.
| In the streets of Paris. Berlin and
Moscow coot ed food is sold from auto
mobiles
In England 500 people die of hunger
each year, 100 of whom are inhabi-
tants of London.
DULY about one married couple out
of every thousand lives to celebrate
its golden wedding
| The eggs of wild birds are smaller
than those of the same species of
birds when domesticated.
1t is estimated that one hundred
million tons of fertilizing matter is
brought down by the river Mile from
it's source every year.
Although we have the most fertile
soil and most favorable climate In the
world, the United States produe es less
whent an acre than England, Ger
many or Holland.
Some eggs brought by Sir Charles
Ball from China which were laid for
ty years ago, we're served recently at
breakfast of the members of the
Council of the Royal Geological Socie-
ty of Ireland at Dublin.
New snuffboxes have been installed
in the United States senate. The old
snuffboxes which have been displaced
had been in use for over fifty years.
They are tackled on the wall, one on
either side of the vice presidents dais.
Many of the senators help themselves
to the contents.
The Hoang-ho, the yellow river of
China ia probably the most destruc-
tive river on the earth. In one flood
it killed about 100000 persons. It
cut new channel to the sea through
hundreds of miles of densely popula-
ted country and swept away more
than a thousand villages.
| Miss Nettie Lang owns and mana
ges an automobile station In Chicago
She has been in the business more
thantwo years and personally inspect
each car before it ia allowed to leave
the garage. Then she employees only
men as drivers. She is reported to be
in favor Of having women learn the
business as q means of earning liv-
ing.
On Easter HALEY g comet passed be-
hind the sun and from that time until
May 18th will be seen in the morning,
rising earlier each morning until May
10th when it begins to rise little la
ter. After May 18th the comet will be
seen in the evening and gradually re-
cedes into space. 1t can be seen thro
telescope as late as August but again
in the morning.
! County Superintendent G. W. Slime
of York county, Pa. has planned to
conduct spelling matches throughout
the county during the next school
year. He has prepared book of 5000
practical words which he will use in
these spelling contests and prizes will
be awarded to the successful spoilers.
He is doing this in order that the pu-
pills may become more efficient in or
typography.
One of the students at Harvard is q
married man As years old. who is tax
ing up his schooling where he left off
many years ago. David Waldo Field
is the students name. He is q mill
lionaire president of seven corpora
tions and has shoe factory that en-
ploys more than 1000 men, yet with
all the financial responsibility that all
this entails he is devoting himself to
the acquiring of an education.
The officers and men of the torpedo
boats of the navy have headgear,
which was specially devised for their
use. It is in the nature of hood and
affords protection for the eyes and
shields the ears 80 that the hearing
may not be impaired. When tor.
pedo boat is moving at full speed the
wind cuts the eyes SO that it is posi-