Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-02

A. Hagstrom a conservator at Hoor,
has found that q great number of
birds of prey, such as hawks, eagles,
owls. which he has received for mount
ing. must have been smitten by some
kind of pest. A cancerous disease has
penetrated the bones until they look
as though they were half rotten. The
wing bones and the claws seem to be
most affected. The result is that the
bones are very brittle and can be
broken by the least blow. In some
off. Such birds were exceedingly
lean, and many of them had not been
shot. They had become so feeble that
they could be picked up, and some OF
them had actually starved to death be-
cause they were too weak to pursue
and hold their natural prey. Mr..
hagstrom never noticed anything like
this until lately.
The Germans are getting more and
more interested in the Baltic exposi-
ton. which will take place in Malmo
next year. A certain amount Of space
was bel aside for the Germans, but so
many exhibitors have been booked
that the space will have to be en-
larged
The government has formally re-
futed the rumor that the government
is contemplating a monopolization Of
the coffee trade.
A number of years ago a farmers
wife in st. Nikolai parish, Soderman-
land. struck something queer while
digging potatoes. There was some
thing that "glittered like herring
scales" in the sun. She picked up
the objects. and found that they were
silver coins. She also noticed a metal
wire sticking out of the ground. She
took hold of this and pulled, and a
bunch Of silver rings of different sizes
came out of the ground. She had no
idea of the value of the rings, and
she hung them up on a nail In her
house. In the course OF time many
people looked at the curiosity. Finally
the matter was brought to the no
tice Of a national antiquarian, and
he lost no time In going to the place
and buying the find for the national
museum. The find dates from the vik.
ing age.
A dugout which is thousand years
old is still in use in the Kala river,
near South Landeryd. Two of them
were found imbedded in the dirt not
long ago. They were both made of
trunks of oak trees. One of them is
perfectly sound. 1t is about ten feet
long and two and half feet wide. 1t
is now used every day in crossing the
river. The other is decayed at one
end so that 1t cannot be used.
A young couple, both of them school
teachers, we're recently married on the
summit of Mount Luossavara, In the
extreme north. The intention was to
use the summit OF Nuolja, which is
| much higher than Luossavara; but the
trip to that mountaia would have been
too expensive, and SO the shorter
mountain with the longer name got
the honor. Rev. Edqvist officiated. Aft.
er the wedding coffee was served to
the invited guests at the top Of the
mountain.
This is the way Skanska Aftonbladet
rabidly conservative daily, sizes up
the different members of the Swedish
cabinet: THE weak and vacillating at
titude of the minister of foreign af
fairs, the arrogant behavior of the
minister of ecclesiastical affairs to-
wards everything but the public
schools, the levity and lack of ex
pert knowledge of the minister OF
finance. the fiasco of the minister OF
civil affairs in the railway and other
matters, the leniency of the minister
of justice, the cynicism of Premier
| Staaff. and the lamentable minister OF
marine-indeed, this is a collection
OF councillors around the king which
inspires US with confidence" But
What gals the conservatives more
than anything else Is the fact that the
present cabinet represents the great
mass OF the Swedish people fairly
well. To an outsider it also looks as
though 1t is doing the people good
service. The main grievances of the
conservatives are that the present ad
rinistratlon is too hard on the liquor
franc and too stingy as to the de
lenses.