Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-01-20
happenings

one dollar quart.
The greater part of Holland is feet
below the level OF the sea-
More than 1000 persons in Chicago
were married On Thanksgiving Day
The German army is using paper
kettles which are said to be OF Japa-
nese invention.
Frederick III. Weyerhaeuser, the
lumber king, is q German and came
to this country in 1852
A Massachusettes man worth $40,
100000. has kept it all hidden from
taxation except 100000.
Duluth, at the head of Lake Super
ior, has the greatest mineral tonnage
of any port in the world.
The cost of mailing the magazines
of the United States last year was
$64,O00,O0O. more than they paid the
government.
When it comes to repentance there
does not seem to be great deal of
difference between divorcing in haste
ann marrying in haste.
The jungle fowls of Australia build
their nests in great mounds Is feet
high and $50 feet in diameter, compos-
ed of leaves and twigs.
More than S6O,O00,O0O. worth of
American merchandise was carried by
rail across the isthmuses Of Panama
and Tehauntepec in the year 1909.
King Edward recently received four
first prizes for his exhibits at the
cattle shows. His Majesty is not
landlord but tenant farmer and pays
q large sum for rent each year.
When George Osborne, jeweler of
New Haven. Conn, took apart an old
clock, which had been brought to him
for repairs, he found $3.50. in green
backs tucked away in the back of it.
In Berlin letters can now be auto
matically registered by an automatic
penny-in-the-slot machine which is
placed in the post offices. The ma
chine stamps theletters and saves the
sender from waiting.
Among the fruit exhibited at the re-
cent Land and Irrigation Show was
an apple from Idaho Weighing 3711a
ounces. Another prizing.winnine
exhibit was the showing of fine apples
grown on an orchard only three years
old.
1t is possible to go forty miles in
straight line without leaving New
York City. If the streets of the city
were placed end to end they would
reach to San Fransieco and several
hundred miles out into the Pacific
Ocean.
1t is repor ed that farmer near
Clear Lake, la. has rented some land
on which to raise sugar beets next
year for which he has agreed to pay
rental of $l7. per acres. Nearly 1000
tons OF beets were raised on 80 acres
this year and the price paid was SIS.
par ton.
In Kansas, quail and other birds
are dying of starvation. The ground
has been covered with snow and ice
for Xix weeks and the birds are unable
to find anything to eat. The governor
of the state has issued proclamation
calling on the people to scatter grain
for the birds to eat.
AS result of equal suffrage in Nor
way Miss Anna Ragstad. formerly
school teacher of Christians, has been
made member of the house of depu-
ties. She is the first woman who has
been numbered among its members
and her work will be watched with
great deal of interest.
The emperor Of Japan gave an au-
dience recently to Rev. Francis E.
CLARK, founder of the Christian En-
deavor Society. DR.. Clark was pre-
sented to the emperor by Ambassador
O'Brien. He is the first person who
has been received by the emperor be-
cause of his prominence in Christian
work.
A large New York dry goods store
has opened a department for the sale
of goods made by the blind. A great
variety OF staple articles are made by
these unfortunate people. The depart
ment bids fair to be permanent sue
cess and if it stands the, test it will
afford many blind workers the means
of maintaining themselves in comfort
by their own labor.
Missouri farmers claim that rock
roads add value of ten dollars per
acre at least to the value of the farms
along which they pass. One man is
quoted as saying that he would pay
$40. per acre more for land on q rock
road than for land on dirt road be-
cause the produce can be marketed
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