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

There are 96,162 employees in New
York City working on women's cloth
ing.
The frenzied financier uses the lit
tie suckers as bait to catch the big
ones.
England has over 600 women doc
tors, of which about 200 practice in
London.
A discarded automobile tire is said
to make good life preserver. It's
buoy ancy is sufficient to keep several
persons afioat.
The Salvation Army is working in
torty-nine different countries. Nearly
14,0O0 paid officers are giving their en-
tire time to thework.
The sea kale used as food in China
comes largely from the coast OF Sagha-
lien, where the leaves average foot
in width and As feet in length.
In Canada those who are intending
to follow the profession of teaching re-
ceive special course of training at
the expense of the government.
In the eleventh century, during the
rule of King Canute, there was law
prohibiting English parents from
selling their children to the Irish for
slaves.
The housewives of Canada are COM
planning that help in the kitchen
costs SO month, whereas until re-
Gently S. q month was considered a
good wage.
Alta town in Tennessee, robins are
reported as being sold at ten cents a
dozen. An exchange says 1.-The man
who would kill and eat robin ought
to have q volume of spring poetry
crammed down his throat"
In the recent parliamentary election
in Victoria, Australia, women cast
more than 80 percent of all the ballots
polled. This was the first election in
which women were allowed to vote
for members of the State Parliament.
A bulletin has just been issued,
stating the King of Slams intention
to visit the United States sometime in
1912. The visit will cost the King a
million dollars as he is always sur.
rounded by all the oriental splendor of
his court in his travels.
Mrs. M. E. Read has Just celebrated
the 25tb anniversary of her services as
passenger agent at Ardmore on the
Pennsylvania railroad. Her duties
have been performed in such salts
factory manner that the company has
seen fit TO retain her services.
One of the grocers Of Paris was
found guilty of violating the pure
food requirements recently. He Of
fered for sale, eggs of three kinds, de-
scribed as "fresh," "Newlatd," and
"todays" but as they had all been
imported from Russia he was fined
500.
More than $4,000 sheep were sheared
within few miles of Chicago during
the month of February and notwitk-
standing the extreme cold weather
did not seem to mind losing their
warm covering. 1t is said that if the
sheep do not get wet they do not suf-
fer from the cold.
No other nation in the world can
show anything like SO great an in
come from the soil as the United
States. During the summer and fall
just past there came up out Of the
ground fourteen million dollars a day
for period of 120 days, in corn alone;
and in all farm products twenty-four
million dollars day for the whole
365 days of the year. The Secretary
of Agriculture says: The value of the
farm products is now 80 Incompetent
sively large that it has become merely
a row of figures"
Discoveries in the coal mines of CEN
trail France have furnished conclusive
evidence that the air and soil in the
age when the carboniferous plants
whose remains constitute the coal
beds of today, were alive and flourish.
ing, were animated by the presence of
flies, grasshoppers, cockroacbes, dra-
con flies, spiders, locusts and scores
of other species which exist at the
present time. But the insects of those
times attained gigantic size, some of
the dragon flies measuring two feet
from tip to tip of their expanded
wings. The remains of these insects
have been preserved in almost perfect
condition in the strata of coal and
rock.
A new and successful method of
treating infectious diseases has been
discovered. It has been found that
dead germs put to route their living
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