The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-17
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ERRORS viii sup through a crack,
while truth will get stuck in the door
way.
Ten thousand two hundred and fifty
books have been copyrighted in this
country since New Year.
A MAN in Griffin, Ga, was bitten by a
snake seventeen years ago, and is still
drinking whisky to cure it.
A HAwKINsvILLE GA merchant has
received box of umbrellas, shipped to
him from New York in 1869.
THE south wall of the Grand canon OF
the Arkansas, Just above Canon City,
COL, is ], ZOO feet perpendicular.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Beet Sugar
Factory this year will make 5000 bar
rels of sugar, valued at over 5000, coo.
A SPEECH of the Due de Broglie, at
recent banquet, seems to point to an
early restoration of the French mon
archy.
A TEN-yEAR- OLD French girl burned
her fathers house because he had
whipped her for not knowing her cate
chism.
HIpPopHAGY is on the increase IN
France, and culinary artistes are cudgel-
ing their wits to invent new styles of
serving it up.
CONSIDERABLE alarm prevails in En-
gland over the steady decline in horse
fesh-not the wasting away in fatness,
but the falling off in numbers.
STOKES is outrivaled by prisoner in
one of the county iails of Pennsylvania,
who has been waiting for Governor to
sign his death-warrant since 1850.
A BRooKLYN man has invented lite
preserver, which consists simply Of two
sleeves of India-rubber, to be drawn on
over the arms and then inflated by blow
ing in them.
THE artificial butter made in New
York is becoming very popular, and the
producers have been so successful that
they announce quarterly dividend to
stockholders. A manufactoly is seen to
be established at New Haven.
AT local election in California, the
other day, a majority of the votes were
cast for woman for constable. The
Judges refused to count them, however;
and she didn't get the Office. But it is
claimed that under the language OF the
California Constitution, she was eligible
to the office, and can secure it by man
damus from the courts.
THE official returns of the hospitals
of Paris show that of the $4,000
births in the city during the past year,
1896 were illegitimate. The pro-
portion of illegitirlates to the number
of inhabitants is not qiiite ND to that of
Vienna, which has 5000 for 1,0o0,O00
inhabitants, while the population OF
Paris is nearly 2,000,O00.
THE construction of the breakwater
at Alexandria involves the labor of over
two thousand Arabs, assisted by a dozen
| locomotives, several hundred trucks,
forty other steam ngines, both station
airy and moving, dozen lighters, six
steamers, and an immense floating steam
derrick. The breakwater is composed OF
blocks of concrete, each of which weighs
twenty tons, and it will consume in all
about 81, COO of these blocks.
ONE of the healthy regulations of the
English railways is that no one shall at
tempt to get on or dismount from train
in motion. A man named Arthur Baynes
was recently fined so for attempting to
get into q car after the train had started,
S25 for assaulting the guard who lad ar
rested him, $l5 for tearing the said
guards coat, and $40 more for costs.
He thinks it would have been cheaper to
wait for the next train.
THE number of stars visible to the
naked eye in the entire circuit OF the
heavens has been usually estimated at
about 5000. An ordinary opera-glass
will exhibit something like ten times
that number. A comparatively small
telescope easily shows 100000; while
there are telescopes in existence with
which, th,re is reason to believe, moi
fewer than q, 100000 stars are visible
And yet, when all of these are seen and
numbered, the eye will have visited bu
mere speck in the illimitable bounds
of space.
/ FRENCH WAX INDEMNITY.
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