The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-04-12
GENERAL AND, PARTICULAR.

| land Is new religious sect called " Con
prehensionists." Like all other pious boo
| les, their idea is to unite all men In on
church--and that their own. yy,a ly,ay
Buffalo has park fever. With Niagar
only about twenty-five miles away, wha
more do the Buffalo herds WANT Goa
| island is quite as accessible to thatcity a
tSonrf Park fsto cnicago.-Catedgo Sourna
InsPhiladelpfia, last year, i3,49s, ,s99, As
GALLONS of water were used in adp1teratin
milk and getting up steam at the Ledge
Office 10 publish the obituaries df di:
tipguished citizens above eighty years O
age.
Il The British mercantile marine consists @
thirgy-seven thousand vessels, representing
sixty million tons. OF theseg four milliOl
tons are steamers; and altogether the Eng
lish have more ships than all other nation
combined. h'''" g."
A new building material in the shape o
pure sandstone Of a negative gray color
and free from lime, iron, and ether deleter
fous clements, has been discovered on th'
kenkakee river, and Chicago Is delighted
withit. G3f ~ ts uE.. lliW. : I'll
Folks very Often '.just step in to sym
pathiZe with you Bit" when the Truth o
the matter is they simply itiean to CRAFTY
an idle curiosity as to" how mnch you art
hurt, when, and ,hshere, and how, ant
4 A rich London musical amateur gives
splendid private parties, at which the bes
professionals, perform, but he invites only
the sound" We find they do more thar
that, they absorb a very great deal Of cash
quite unnecessarily sometimes. u i.fHf
Gsp.J of ar,,ar,t,,- Aae I,,o,,' ;o1 T..
France on a telegraphic line OF which the
two termini are 800 Kilometres distant from
each other; the velocity of transmission Is
the same as Hughes apparatus forty dis
patches per heurl the results are said to be
satisfactory in all respects. a.
A double line of telegraph is at present
being constructed across the Andes. Thirty
miles vt this line which will pass over the
sn0w,coyered COrdlleras, will be construc.
ted of two cOpper-sheat1ed cables. It is
expected that the line will be completed
early this spring. i.cl H.,
e The, effect of the new drink-whisky
made from the thistle, the rea,, Scotch thing
therefere-iS said to be 'penetrating and
the sensation being the same
as if Jews harp in full tune WAS attached
to evciy nerve, and lew wereplsying dis
eofdant tunes sgainst each sther IN the
drunkards Intervals. '-'e-
In Greece the men and not the women de.
vote their lives to dress, and fG0mpIAln OF
'tnOthing to wear.p They spend au their
money In the purchase Of fise clothes, and
all their time IN piaklpg and adOrning
themselves The wvnien, on the contrary,
devote very little attention to the all I'm
Portant subject, and seem devoid of vanity.
Boswell once asked johnson II there were
no possible circumstances under which sui
eide would be justiiiahle. "No." was the
rely. well .m".sajd,. .S4SRfli ,risaae"ne"was
certsin would be found out 81 '.Why,
Lhen," said Johnson, SIN that case let him
20 TO some country where he is not known,
md not to the devil, where he Is known"
A firm In ShsIl'eld, England has just s,lc-
,eeded in rolling the largest armOr plates
ever made. The plates are intended TO pro-
Get the turrets OF the great war shin De-
which is being built at Ports
mouth. Each plate weighs twenty-four
.Ons, and measures 20fct in length, . feet
N breadth, and inches In thickness.
A new safe has been invented which makes
.hings very unpleasant for burglars. The
walls are filed with guDpowder in such
manner that the blows OF sledge or the
,utting Of a chisel IN the attempt to rob the
,uter crust, annihilate the burglar, and
cave the,centehts OF the safe pninjured.
A Paris correspondent tells of ono lady In
be city, during the siege OF the Prusslans,
Who was so overcome by her appetite as to
at her beloved lap dog. Alter 4 hearty
neal she looked down at the little heap of
zones: tears fell from her eyes. Poor
1jOu"" she exclaimed, "hoW he would
lave epjoyed thcmv'
A sensible shoemaker, who made prince
Y fortune by the tale OF an extensively ad
ertised shoe-striDg of his own invention,
srote shis stanzi, which now adorns his
rest:
II you sre wise and wish to rise,
then pi'rh right in and advertise. -
II you are rot. then sit down, Eot,
And let your business go to pot.
One Oi the choruscs II is proposed to hsve
ung at the Boston Jubilee Is The noble bass
ria and chorus "Posseuti Nun,t, ~ from Mo-
arts 'Iauserflote," with Moore's words,
Almighty God" The solo passage viii
e borne by five thousand bass voices, and
he chorus by the full choral forre of twenty
full instrumental ELECTS also be-
lg introduced,
A California editor extempo-aneously
xpcls the following paragraph from his sys-
ERA " A patriotic gentleman In Los Au-
eles has lcssened the government Z xpentll-
lrcs nincfy-s dollars per annum by mar
wing soliier's widcw and thus stoppin.-
er pension. Let every unmarried patriot
l the land initiate his glorious example ar d
nsh to armso iy .5~
A traveller was once r:aking pedestrIan
'ur OF the Alps, when suddenly, In mar
Dw path, he came face to face with a large
rown bear. lie drew revolver and was
bout to fire, when, to bis ans cement. the
ear cried out, "DOB't fire." It turned !
ut that the pretended bear was a man en-
loyed by some guides, who sent him out
ressed In bear-skin when they had a tim |
traveller to escort.
Syracuse is tho home of yeritab,e
rOdigy, In shape Of a young man who hos.
,sses the power Of singing two parts of a |
ine ut the same time. His nsmeis Wesley |
rneid, and he Is member of the Syraeuse |
niversity. A correspondent of the Stnvd. |
I'd says he astenished recent CATHERINE
clergymen by singing clearly and |
xeetly the bass and soprano Of .OM
.undred."
-Four young gentlemen Of Dubuque nro.
ose to start from that city for Cuba, or, the
peninR Of navigation, in a boat twenty.
We feet In length and six feet beam. to Re
1sent fur years They intend to Law ms
'ock Of proT TslonS sufiicient to- last six
lonths. and will go from Dubuque direct
the Gulf OF Mexico. Keeping close to
le coast; thew will sail around the Gulf To
le shores Of Florida. thence to Havana.
Everything in nature indulges i'm am1se-
lent OF some kind. The lightninys pIav.
he winds whistle, the thunders roll! tbe
low flies. the rills and cascades sing and
snce' the waves Leap, the; fields smile, the
mes creep and run, the buds shoot and