Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-07
Happenings

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Dentists say that damp weather in-
creases their business fifty percent.
Women can vote in the states of
Wyoming. Colorado, U tab and Idaho
More than seventy thousand men
are employed on the fishing feet of
Canada.
Experiments are being made in Gu
ba in manufacturing paper from sugar
cane fibre. The paper is high grade
and cheaper than it could be made
from wood pulp.
Mahogany is q radid growing tim
Der. The site of town ia Southern
Nigeria, which was destroyed sixty
years ago, is covered with forest
containing mahogany trees, some of
which are more than ten feet in dia-
meter.
One of the big Brazilian railroads
has decided to send four of It's mechan-
les to the United States every six
and put them at work in some
of our big railroad shops, so that they
may become familiar with American
Charles Hinterberger of Cincinnati,
Ohio so years old and single, died
After his death the coro-
uer came across the following note:
Rats in this house and continued
pains from rheumatism drove me to
this, so forgive me. Goodbye to all.
Charlie"
-Four tons of eggs were treated with
carbolic acid in Boston by Govern
ment Inspectors last week. They
were intended for use by bakers in
cakes and pies but the inspector pro-
nounced them unfit for use and they
will be sent ty them to tanning es-
Establishments.
Mrs. Lucy Roberts of Flandreau, s.
D., islOl years old. She ls remark
ably we'll preserved. hears distinctly,
walks without assistance of any kind.
reads q great deal and writes many
letters. She weighs only rs pounds
but has good appetite. She does
much needlework and each year sends
exhibits to the state fair.
Mrs. Harry Horner, rural mail car
rier from Atchison, Kansas, notified
the farmers along her route that she
would refuse to deliver mail to them
until the roads over which she has to
travel are placed in good condition.
Needless to say the farmers are drag
ging the roads, not caring to be de-
prived of daily mail service.
A fragment of tablet, which was
excavated from the lowest strata of
the ruins of the temple library of Nip
pur by the expedition sent out by the
University of Pennsylvania in 1899,
has just been deciphered. It is OF un-
baked clay and bears an account of
the deluge described in the bible and
agrees with the narrative of Genesis.
1t is believed to be of the period 2lOO
B. c.
Relic hunters have been breaking
into the church, where President Taft
wOrships in Washington. It has been
twice necessary during the last year to
rebuild the Presidents pew, and it is
not safe to leave the hymn books in
the rack or the cushion on the seat
after the chief executive has attended
service. So many hooks and cushions
have been carried away that officials
ofthe church now take everything
that is movable from the pew as soon
as the President finishes his devotions.
On the theory that the possession of
q check book will be of great value to
women in teaching them business
like methods, woman's bank has
been opened in London. All the Off
GERS are women and women custorner re-
only are admitted. No man may be q
deposition. The only man permitted
on the premises is a messenger and
one of his functions is to keep other
men away. The bank opened with
between four hundred and five hun
dred clients.
In the face of fire peril which
would have striken an ordinary crowd
with panic, six hundred convicts at
the penitentiary at Pittsburgh sat
quietly through their Sunday after
noon services. While they were sing
ing the hymns fire was raging in
the hosiery factory of the prison not
fifty feet from the chapel. The war
den was in the chapel with his men
when the fire broke out. He selected
halt dozen to help the city firemeu
fight the blaze aud then returned to
the services in the chapel. After an
hour the fire was extinguished.
The following prdinance WAS passed
by the city council of Chicago recent