Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-01-06
|! happenings

The state university did not reopen
shortage.
| Over 1000 people of London every
year who are arrested by the police
are identified by their finger-prints.
Wild goats have multiplied until
they have become so plentiful that
they are now killed as pests in Ha-
wal
An average of thirteen persons 8
day are run down and killed in the
country while using the railroad for
footpath.
In 1882 Rudolph johnson bought
200 acres of land near Lake City for
fonr dollars an acre. He recently sold
it for 500 an acre.
PEOPLE do not kiss in Japan even
the mothers do not kiss their children.
though they may press their lips to-
the forehead of very young baby.
The Japanese hotels furnish fresh
tooth brushes every morning free to.
every guest. The brush is of wood
shaped like apencil, and frayed to q
fluffy brush of fiber at the large end.
A New York travelling salesman
says sit is an easy matter to distingu-
ish Eastern girls from their skaters in
the west. Western girls chew gum in.
the streets but Eastern girls do not
have this habit. If gum chewing is in
dulgedfin at all it is in the privacy of
the house but it is no uncommon
thing to!see girls in the Western cities,
promenade the streets with their Jaws
keeping thine with the movement of
their feet. This would be considered
vulgar In the East.
Ell. w. Byers who has announced
himself as candidate for the election
to congresstfrom the Ninth district is
serving hisisecond term as Attorney
General. He was born in 1856. He
worked on farm from his fifteenth to-
bis twentieth year, taught.school from
his twentieth to his twenty-fifth year,
clerked in q store until he was thirty
and was admitted to the bar in 1888.
He was elected to the house of repre-
sentatives in 1893 and was reelected
in 1885 and sgain in 1899.
1t ia said that the Usage Indians are
the richest race of people on earth
The Osages live in Oklahoma and in
shrewdness can give come of Ameri-
cas- financiers valuable lessons. Each
Indian OWNS $40 acres of land worth
$500 an acre, not counting the miner
ais that may be discovered. They
own all the oil, gas, zinc, lead and
other minerals that may be discover
ed. There are now over 800 oil wells
and their pasture rentals last year
brought in nearly $150OOO. At Was
hington the Government has on depos-
it to their credit So, 10000 and as there
remain but 1926 of the Indians it is q
problem yet unsolved how they will
utilize their vast wealth.
Iowa is one Of the leading pearl but
ton producing states, twenty factories
being located within it's borders. Mug
catine alone turns out about 900 tons
of pearl buttons each year. The mus
sci shells of which the buttons are
made are found in the streams of Iowa
and Illinois, no less than 5000 men be-
ing engaged in the Mussel hunting
industry in Illinois alone. Five years
ago only 81 to S. per ton was paid for
the shells. The price has advanced un
til now the best grades realize from $40
to $l2 per ton. Occasionally she'll
contains pearl and Illinois is now
the mecca of pearl buyers from Euro.
peau countries as we'll as those from
outside states of the union. Agents
from jewelry dealers of Paris have
spent the entire season there, and
their purchases aggregate immense
sums. 1t is estimated that the output
of pearls and shells in Illinois for 1909
will nearly if not quite reach the en-
ormus sum of four million dollars.
A wood mine has been in operation
in New Jersey, within two or three
hours of New York, for more than q
hundred years. The mine is at Dennis
vile, in the swampy region of South
New Jersey and the timber mined 10
cedar. 1t ia supposed to be prehistor-
ic forest for no such cedar grows any
where on this continent today. Logs
have been mined from it more than
six feet in diameter. They have dell
cate flesh colored wood and those that
were alive when they fell have
the same pungent odor Of our common
red cedar. Those that were dead when
they fell are odorless. Logs lie in heaps
or layers and it is not known how
many layers there are as the miners
have not yet reached the bottom.
Eight miles west of these mines cedars
of the same variety have been found