The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-03-06
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GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.
ring the past eighteen years fifty-foul
have blown up on the western rivers
& 1888 people.
q New York Assembly adopted a pre-,
] to the New York city charter prohibi
appropriations to sectarian schools.
tty years ago nearly the whole of Ohio
dense forest; now a resolution is in
iced in the Ohio Legislature TO encour
he cultivation of forests.
pdon is wonderful city. Every eight
ties, day and night, one person dies;
five minutes, one, is born; 500. 00(
been added to the population since 1851.
! world in itself.
e oldest wood In existence That bears
harks of human labor, is found in two
EN- statues, a little larger than life,
were found by NJ. Belzoni on opening
f the toombs Of Thebes. The only de-
parts r the e~ye-sOckets.
E London Times says the English race
~keriorating, and thus gives tine reason
Bad air is dwarfing our population,
ing u navy encouraging our enc
imp0verishing wi blood as a nation,
1aliZing our creed as q church, and
Lying our perfectly shameful preten-
to ''the enthusiasm of humanity"
e stes mship Republic. from Liverpool,
e Sth, encountered a furious hurricane,
lntainous sea lasting f~orty-eight hours,
liz which all the boats excepting one
washed overheard, and considerable
&c done to the upper part of the steam
|Mr. Williams, the second officer. was
X by a fearful sea and seriously injured.
colony of English sparrows has recent
tpeaTed in Rockland, Maine. They are
5ed t. Rave emigrated from BostonCom-
where they were driven off by the but
birds and sparrow hawks. How these
: creatures got to II ,ckland is some
of q mystery, as that towns 80 miles
Boston.
Re Able Moigno, in his scientific journal
(honde, relates his personal experience
h concrete formed of fine wrought and
iron filings and Portland cement. He
that a cement made thus is hard
(gh to resist any attempts to fracture it.
e states that the iron filings are to re-
the SAID ususliy pus into the mixture,
Fesume that the relative quantities are
J similar.
lie Gaulois relates a story which will
|tbly be read with greater surprise in
and than it has been in Paris. 1t
d that during the worst period of the i'll
(of the Prince of Wales some merchants
Ipedical men proposed TO al insurance
to effecta policy upon the life of the
be, and the transaction was arranged.
premium amounted to over $40 900, but
mount payable in a fatal event would
reached milliens. "Who knows"
the GauIois, perhaps all the English
! done the same. That would explain
anxiety for news respecting the
Se's condition"
ring the recentillness of his royal high
| the Prince of Wales, q W Unknown
ion physician ordered his servant to 90
4 night to the gate at Marlborough
Ee and wait until the midnight bulletin
posted. Oh one occasion the servant
his temper at having to wait in the cold,
bald he wished the Prince was dead.
words were scarcely out of his mouth
he he was set upon by the mob, and was
|altreated that on his return to his mas
house he had scarcely a stitch of cloth
eft upon his back.
lady in Virginia was recently bitten by
Elesnake, and the inner bark of a syca-
D tree, an old traditional Indian remedy
bis kind OF venom, was bound about
wound, and effected a cure in q very
2 time. When the bandage ofsycamore
was removed, on its inner surface was
perfect picture of the snake, coiled ready
be spring. So perfect was the likeness
ft is said If one had seen the bark ban
lying open on the roadside he would
thought that a RATHER had coiled upon
! one of his dreadful springs.
proposition is on foot to connect the
of Fundy with the st. Lawrence river
leans of q canal twelve miles long. The
difficulty in the way Is the difference
teen the tides OF the respective waters
Inference Of some forty or fifty feet. II
fought, however, that engineering skill
overcome this obstacle. Such a canal
enough and broad enough for the pas
|of ships, would be of immense value to
Ada, as 1t would shorten, BY hundreds of
3, the route of vessels bound to Amer.
ports and the West Indies, and save
! from the great risks of q voyage down
Gulf OF st. Lawrence and along the
! OF Nova Scotia.
rumors to which the presence of the
atif1c party detailed TO observe the re-
solar eclipse on the Malabar coast gave
among the natives were very amusing.
I 1t was reported that q part of the sun
about to fall, and the wise men had
: to the east to prevent it. Then, when
notwithstanding instruments were
nted on the tort, they thought there
p war, and the Englishmen were en-
ers going to put the fort in order to
ent q landing. This was siren gthened
1e tact that their steamer practiced at a
et while lyipg at anchor. This theerv
place to q flood about to descend, and
al the Europeans were coming to the
ground to escape it.
is rough work that poiishes. Look at
pebbles on the shere! Far inland.
fe some arm of the sea thrusts itself
into the bosom Of the land, and x
ping into q salt loch, lies girdled by the
ntains, sheltered from the storms that
re the deep, the pebbles are rough, NOT
ftful; angular. nor rounded. IL ia
q long white breakers roar, and the rat
I single is rolled about the strand. inst
eobles are rounded and polished. AZ
1ture, as In art, 80 In grace; 1t Is rough
ment that gives souls, as well as stone
iustre. The more the diamond is cut'
brighter 1t sparkles; and in what seems
dealing, there God has no end In view
% perfect his peoples craces.
: recent discovery, oxygen gas can be
need 1t about the same cost as HYDRO.
the result OF which has been the intro
On ~ Europe Of 9 new, cheap, and e.
1rnsung agent, called the hydro
common hydrogen ID highly csrbu-
g 4 mixed In The burner. with oxv-
~ ~ proportion Of about two of tie
70 one Of the latter, which burma
2 pure white fame, far superior TO the
asFy con gas, both in purity and inten-