Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-21
Happenings

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The penalty for refusal to give GEN.
sus information to the enumerator is
o fine not exceeding $500.
The amount of carbon exhaled from
q mans lungs each day, if it could be
solidified, would equal that in half .
ton of coal
In Germany workingmen with fam
lilies who have an income of five dol
lars a week, are able to buy an occa-
sional book.
Cocus is the hardest wood known.
Ebony comes next. Cocus is much
used for making flutes and similar
musical instruments. ~
Recent experiments have proved
conclusively that coal dust will ex
plode from contact with the arc of an
electric currents or naked flame
A bill has been passedsby the house
and Senate requiring railroad com.
panies to make reports of accidents on
their lines to the interstate commerce
commission.
Fifteen women have been elected
to the new parliament of Finland
The previous parliament was the first
to which women were eligible and had
nineteen among its members.
Young hens give the most eggs, and
the same is true of ducks, but geese
do not reach their prime in this res
pect until about twenty years of age.
This may be . surprise to many but it
is true, nevertheless.
Mark Twain, the humorist, returned
from Bermuda last week where he has
been for several months in search of
health. He is suffering from an affec-
ton of the heart aud the change of
climate gave him little if any benefit.
The water in Lake Van, in Asiatic
Turkey, is so strongly impregnated
with potash that the residents! along
the chores used it to wash clothing
without the use of soap. The lake is
60 miles long by 20 to 80 miles wide.
Miss Margaret Lennon, principal Of
the Mckinley school in st. Paul,
Minnesota has class in good man
mere, which has an average attendance
of nearly q thousand pupils. It is
said to be the first if not the only good
manners class in the world.
The following are the names of some
of the streets of the city of Canton,
China: Benevolence, Peace, Bright
Cloud, Longevity, Early Bestowed
Blessings, Everlasting Love, One
Hundred Grandsons, Refreshing
Breezes, Ninefold Brightness, and
there are many others equally as odd.
Rev. b. 6. Beeman, pastor of the
Baptist Church in Waterloo, gave an
interesting address Sunday night, in
his church, to q large audience, on the
subject OF poor seed corn. He urged
the farmers to test their seed corn and
demonstrated his suggestions by dis
playing organization box in the pull
pit.
| A conductor on an extra train heard
a rooster growing one night recently.
As the way bills did not show that
chickens we're part of his freight, he
made an investigation. He found a
game cock which wac cumming q
ride on the brakerods of the caboose
The conductor captured him and hal
him on exhibition as hobo rooster.
Lava streams flowing from volca.
noes cool fast on the surface, but re
tain heat wonderfully under the so
lid crust which forms on the top. II
1887 Mt. Etna threw ont lava which
was still steaming in 1880, and ..lava
from Vesuvius has been very hot il
the middle of the mase, while lichen,
we've growing on the surface sever
years after it flowed from the vOlcan,
4 President Hughitt has decreed tina
Sunday shall be day of rest for tn,
employees of the Chicago and North
western railroad. The last two Sun
days net q ton of "dead freight" wa
moved over the Northwestern lines
and between 10000 and 10000 opera
ting employees were given q perfec
rest. Except in times of bushes
emergency this course will be tollowe,
in the future. fs 81
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, has d
fered free trip to Washington as
prize to the boy or girl under sixteel
years of age who raises the largea
crop of corn on an acre of ground
Each contestant must do all the worl
without help. Already the senate
has received between three thousan,
and four thousand entries, whic
shows the intAreat of the vOuno folk