Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-17
Happenings

In the churches of Mexico the ladies
are served with chocolate.
In Germany about twenty thousand
foxes are slaughtered every year.
The gospel is preached In thirty diff.
ferent languages in the united States
In marching the regulation step of
the British army, it is 100 to the min
ute.
One hundred and sixty-one varie-
ties of rice are known in China and
Japan.
Gas lighting is becoming popular
In Japan and ten new companies are
to be floated.
| Chilli sends more than 100000 tons
OF saltpeter yearly to Germany for fer
tilizing purposes.
farmers associations exist all over
Europe for the handling Of farm pro-
ductsicommercially.
Daniel Wedge, a railroad conductor
of Streator, ILL.,, recently sold White
Orpington hen for $500.
In India, Australian horses are pre-
ferred to all others. They sell in Cal
cutta at from $34O to S365.
Samuel Berry of Waterloo, So years
old has just gone to Montana where
he has taken government claim.
1t has been officially announced that
the Glidden automobile tour will start
from Cincinnati about the middle of
June.
People in the country want the city,
while the city man wants the farm
and there you are. It takes smart
man to be contented.
Mrs. T. F. Beal, rural mail carrier
in California, goes over her route of Is
miles in an automobile which she has
bought with her own earnings.
| A Minnesota man has been granted
q patent on cash register that carries
q phonograph to announce the figures
indicated when it's keys are pressed.
i A IL hose power electric motor,
driven by a lighting current and con-
nected with an air pump, is new
convenience for Initiating automobile
| tires.
j All the government land in the state
of Iowa has been disposed of and the
books of the last federal land Office
were last week given into the custody
Of the secretary of state.
yaIt has been said that the high price
of. living has made it necessary to
have Easter early while the men have
a little cash left with which to pur-
chase An Easter bonnet.
Greece has ben producing too many
currants to make the industry profit
able and 25 of the vines are to be des-
troyed. The government will reim-
butse the owners for their loss.
| The surgeon who performed the op-
eration on King Leopold few days
before he died has sent in bill for
twenty thousand dollars for the SER
Il vice. The operation is said to have
lasted only ten minutes.
| Easter is always the first Sunday
after the full moon. which happens
upon or next after the twenty-first
day of March. So this year we have
our Easter on Sunday, March 9th. 1t
may be as early as March 22ud and as
late as April 25th.
II have no vote,' said the woman
suffrage lecturer, "but my groom has.
have great respect for his know
ledge of the stables, but Pm sure that
# i were to go to him and say, John,
will you exercise the franchise? he
would reply, "Please, mum, which
horse be that"
i An Iowa shipper bought drove of
hogs six weeks ago at S7.S5. On &C
count of the scarcity of cars he was
obliged to keep them. While waiting
for an opportunity to get to market
sAASy G0AAO0 my PONAuS pCA ACAO'
Last week they were shipped to Chi
cago and brought SOTO. In this case
railroad delinquency paid.
| Levi Chubbuck, special agent for
the department of agriculture, has
just returned from Alaska, where he
spent the entire summer of 1909 MAX
ing reconnaissance of agricultural
lands that may be surveyed for home
steading. He reports that from tide
water northward there are thousands
ofsquare miles of a very high quality
Of nutritious wild grass of luxurious
growth, some of it standing six and
seven feet high, which is of good
keeping quality when cured. Oats
and barley are being successfully
grown, timothy tlourishes, and the
the root crop is of high excellence
He found many fine farms and a