The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-15
Current Items.

Current Items
CHICAGO is now pronounced the finest
city in America.
NEARLY 100000 sewing machines are
annually sold in this country.
A KANSAS woman sent sixty-foul
kinds of jelly to the State Fair. !,
TIE value of farms in Massachusetts
has decreased 81 ,0O0, 900 in two years.
THE Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
rents for $3.50, 600 year: and its profits
are $350,0OO.
The experiment of lighting ocean
steamers with gas has been made with
great success. The gas was manufac-
tured as it was needed, and no other
light is used upon the vessels so sup
plled, lls.ssl,..a -.-. a..I,
In noting the claim that lager beer is
not intoxicating, the Cincinnati Gazette
says: can analysis of one specimen
made a year ago for this paper showed
6,l90 per cent. of alcohol; another
specimen 6,l52 per cent, and third
5,63l."
The Pail Mall Gazette says that of all
the mistakes people commit, the worst
is the one Of hurrying into new houses
before they are thoroughly dry. 1t is
the damp wallis and slowly drying plaster
which make the undertaken the next
man sought after the house agent.
DR. Do LEWIS leaks wisdom as fol
lows Have right good talk, with q
funny anecdote or two, and half DOZEN
hearty laughs, with each meal. This
eating alone at restaurant and shovel
ing in the provender in solemn silence
will give dyspepsia TO an ostrich"
ONE result of the late Franco Prussian
war was to add fresh impetus to the
popularity of champagne as a drink.
When the Germans overran the cham
payne districts Of France, they found
the wine 30 delicious that, now they
have got back to Germany, they cannot
do without it. Champagne is in more
demand than ever.
Few realize the immense Importance
of louisiana fibers. The stock of the
banana can be converted into paper,
and may be made valuable for that pur.
pose. The century plant, or aloe, the
palmetto leaf, stock and all, okra stock
and fiber, cotton stalks, cane bagasse,
several wild grasses, wild cane, or reed
cane and ramie, all make good paper
stock. Louisiana could load fleets of
vessels with these materials.
The Council Bluffs Republican says
AT the low price OF corn, and the price
it is likely to bring the coming winter,
it will undoubtedly be cheaper for fuel
than coal or wood. We have heard per.
sons who have tried the experiment say
that corn, at % cents per bushel of u
pounds, was cheaper than soft coal at
81 per ton. 1t makes very hot fire,
is easily lighted, will last as long as soft
coal, and is much cleaner to use.
The Missouri Republican has changed
its form from folio to quarto, and
brings out its first issue with sixteen
pages. 1t is printed on a Walter press
the same which is now used by the Lon.
don Times. The type impression made
10y this machine is not so distinct and
readable as that of the Hoe press, but
this defect Is counterbalanced by the
fSct that it prints both sides of the sheet
at once. The Republican,, in its new
form, presents q remarkably fine appear.
ance, and its prosperity is attested by
thirty four columns OF adv ertisements.
A NEW theory, in opposition to the
old belief that the odor of cut flowers
in close rooms was injurious to those
occupying them, has been advanced by
writer in Nature, who says that sll such
fragrant plants rs mint, clover, laven-
der, lemon and cherry laurel develop 9
large quantity of ozone when in contact
with atmospheric oxygen in light. 1t
has been recommended that strong.
smelling flowers shall be planted around
dwelling houses situated in marshy dis
,ricts that they overcome the malaria
by the influence of their perfume. So
alter all, flowers, instead of being ex-
cluded from the sick-room, ought to be
left there as disinfectant.