The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-03-20
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

In the Island of Java the deficiency i
the crop will. this year, be %, 600 tons.tt
T Brazil crop will fall short some 20 600 ton,
the Ceylon will fall shert nearly 10 600 tons
It is thus estimated that the coffee crop {
the world will fall short of last year full
100, 900 tons.
1t Is affirmed by geOlogists that the easter
shore OF the United States is sinking int
the ocean at the rate of about one-sixth q
an inch per annum. or sixteen inches ever
hundred years. The island of New Yor
goes under at the rate of seventeen inche
per century.
The first test case in the Treasury ID .part
ment under the civil service rules OF appoint
meut to office is the appointment to fill tn
office of Controller of Currency. The ap
pointment Of the present incumbent expire
very shortly, and the appointments is open t,
persons of both sexes.
| The physician in charge Of the drunkards
department of Blackwell's Island SAYS tha
milk or eggs are antid otes for LIQUOR poisons
and those who must drink liquor should mix
milk or eggs with their ''poisOn," which will
take effect on those article instead Of the
tOper's stomach.
A curious petition has been addressed by
the clergy of Alsace to the Emperor of Ger.
many. Divested ofits verbiage, it amounts
simply to this Give US unlimited control
of church and school, and promote our
worldly interests in every way, and we will
desist from telling our parishioners to hope
for reincorporation with France.
The Manufacturer Reri.p states that a
fluid called Liqueur Bernhard is sold in
Paris to dyers and scourers for removing
grease spots, etc., composed OF three ounces
of beet marrow, one and half ounces of
potash, and quart Of water. 1t has bat a
faint OdOr. but is not applicable to delicate
colors on account of the potash in 1t.
The India Gasette says that the aggregate
number Of deaths b. wild beasts, through
out the provinces OF Madras, Bombay, Ben
gal, the Northwestern provinces, Punjaub,
Dude, Cetral provinces, Courge, Hydera. lad
and British Burmah, for three years,
amounts to ,554. The deaths from snake
bites over the same area number % G6l
making total Of IS, ,2lS.
Western farmers find that the partridge is
a great destroyer Of the chinch bug, which
is so injurious to wheat fields, and are be-
ginning to protect them from the fowler.
One farmer says he has hundreds of tame
partridges about his place, and his wheat
crops ere unusually abundant, while in
mits great ravages. He feeds the birds in
winter.
The Supreme Court of the United States
lately decided, in the case of Trobelcock VS..
Wilson, error to Iowa, that note specify.
ing payment to be made in gold or silver,
must be paid in those commodities, not
the Legal Tender Greenback
law; it being held that that could only be
applied to debts made payable in money,
without specifying the kind that should be
used.
The French Journal Ofieisl says that the
gold production Ia rapidly increasing In the
French colony Of Guiasa, in South America.
The annual product has enlarged from 25,-
Jf4 francs in lS5G, to 6S5 .6i3 francs in 1871
ed to over ten millions of francs. Gold min
ing industry in Guiana pays an annual tax
Of about twenty cents per acre, and an ex-
port duty OF four per cent upon bullion.
This industry promises to attract to those
tropical regions numerous and energetic
population.
A much more liberal spirit IS getting
abroad in our colleges. Several salutary al
terations are proposed at Yale, and we OBJ.
serve that number of important changes
are announced in the course of study at
Amherst. Mathematics Is to be optional
after the first year, and parallel courses in
mOiern languages and natural science are
to be so arranged that either can be pursued
at the will of the student. Every change
that makes education more directly prepara-
tory for practical life Is good, and training
in the direction of the natural talents and
tastes Of the student is the more efficient.