The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-05
Current Items.

TIE smoking of cigarettes is particu
larly injurious to the eyes.
MIXED schools tblack and whitel in
Boston, are success.
EMIGRATION of our fashionables to
Europe was never greater than .,
present.
CHRIsr's Hospital, London, has been
sold for a railroad depot, bringing
$3,OOO,O0O.
A 100000 TUNNEL is to be con.
structed under the Mississippi, at Mem
phis.
THE Albany State Library contains the
papers on which Major Andre was con-
victed as spy.
THs debt of the city of New Yerk, a.
shown by Comptroller Green's latest
bulletin, is $l04, SIS, ,953.O6.
WEsrFIELD, Mass, employs 526 per-
sons, and hundreds of women who work
at home, in the manufacture of whips.
They produce 2l1, 900 whips every
month.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade has
been presented with the window cast
ings of the cabin in Indiana where
President Lincoln lived, and which he
made with his own hands.
New HAxPsHIRE has fifly.four savings
banks, with aggregate deposits of nearly
$25, 100000.
MASSACHUSETTS is turning to account
its unfinished Hoosac tunnel by max
ing up excursion parties TO 60 and look
into the big hole. A band of music
and all the materials for q nice dancing
party are taken along.
The Witness, the only religious daily
in New York, has received 5000 from
some sympathetic Christian.
THE management of the Erie railway
has issued an order prohibiting the sale
of liquor in the restaurants along the
line of the road.
Col. SINPKINs, a Florida engineer, es-
Inmates the value of timber that can be
made available by the opening of the
Choctowhatchie river, in that State, at
fr, m $4,000, 600 to $l44, ,0OO, 600, accord
ing to the distance it can be profitably
hauled.
The winner in the idiotic Bostonian
pedestrian match against time took lees
than six hours rest out of four days and
eight hours a performance which, as
its principal injurious effect would prob
ably fall upon the brain, is not likely to
do any harm to either him or his COM
petitor.
The barkeepers of La Crosse, Wis,
conformity present their compliments to
the mothers, wives, daughters, and Sis
ters of that community, and beg to say
Ra jse sess ne fss Sa%s g haS S5 %as hs Ghs ie
tives to whom they do not wish liquor
to be sold their desires shall be strictly
carried out. tr.
EVERY week the Patent Office is
plagued to give letters patent on new
plow. i'it.,"ii
The number of periodical publications
in the United States is 6,432; 9S5 are
monthly.
ONE hundred books on chemistry
have been sent to Yeddo from New
Haven.
A LAWRENCE, Mass, machine makes
seventy.nine miles of wall paper a day.
THE total revenue derived by the
Government from brewers was $37, ,3O6,-
500, from the close of 1862 to the close
of 1870. i-f g4tHa
DUvALL COUNTY, Fla, with . popula-
ton of less than 1900, has, during the
last forty two months, had fifty-two hom-
icides and suicidal deaths, and thirty
two fatal accidents. Only one murderer
has been hung.
ONE hundred Norwegians sailed from
New York on June Is, to be present at
the celebration Of the 1,OOOth anniver-
sary of the existence of the United
Kingdom. The event will take place at
Hangesund on July Is.
A NIAGARA FALLS correspondent has
spent some time in classifying the arri-
walls for last season, which numbered
4I,975; New York heads the list with
A,97S; Illinois shows ,490; the British
Provinces, 1865; Europe, LOO; the
Orient, los, and Africa, 4.
THE Board of Audit of New York
City has before it newspaper claims for
city and county advertising amounting
to nearly $2,OOO,0OO. During the period
of a little over two years TO which most
of these claims apply, there has already
been paid on account of advertising
about S2,75O,OO0. The amount of the
legal appropriations hardly covered one
eighth Of the actual expenditure.
NUMEROUS young women Of Boston
are to be prepared for freshmen under