The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-29

NEW ORLEANS manufactures 10, ,000,-
600 cigars yearly. ss't-7:sr
The fish-hook trade has been wonder
fully lively of late. 5. a-,.
NINE cities of us will have industrial
exhibitions this fail. ~
A MILTON, N. Y, firm builds 1000
wheelbarrows week. j.. r
A CARLOAD of Chinese emigran ,,ar-
rived in Chicago last week.
THE Indians of British Columbia are
fond of broiled white man.
The San Francisco mint is turning
out s., 900, 600 in gold coin every month.
THRTY-sIx pages is the least bit of a
love-letter that will be accepted by the
Nashville belle.
Iowa, besides grain-growing capac-
ity equal to the whole Of England and
Wales, has 10000 square miles Of coal
fields.
THE vintage of the Australian vine
yards is estimated at 500, 900 gallons !;
that of California for 1872 was 4, 600, 900
gallons.
THE editor of Nevada newspaper
gives notice that hereafter he cannot be
bribed with Eve cent cigar 10 write q
five dollar puff. &
FARMERS oranges have been estab-
ished at Kensington and Hampton,
Conn, and others are to Immediately
follow iii different parts of the State.
THE whole number of deaths in this
country during the year 1870, from all
causes, was about 50O,0 OF these
Lightning caused 202, and sun-stroke
397.
DURING recent spell Of weather -
at Walla Walla, Oregon, the ther-
mometer remained steadily at 100 de-
grees in the shade for seven successive
days.
BosroN has Il Modoc baseball club.
The players dress in variety of fantas-
tic uniforms" presenting very
langhable appearance, and play strong
game. I'D
THE work of rebuilding the burnt dis
trict # Baltimore has been fairly be-
gun, but the papers are still urging
the opportunity Of making the site a
city park.
BY very unfortunate oversight
everything relating to the important
subject of mortality statistics is entirely
omitted from the new compendium of
the census.
A WEALTHY and eccentric citizen OF
New York committed suicide the other
day. He willed his head to physician
for dissection, and the balance OF his
body to his brother-in-law.
The young women who will study ut
Michigan University during the next
college year number 8S, of whom 0 will
study law, 81 will study medicine, and
42 will pursue the academic course.
THE Oshkosh Northwestern learns
that prairie chickens are very plenty
this season, more SO than in several
years in some localities. The probabil.
tiles are that ducks will be extraordi.
narily plentiful.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, has seven daily
papers, and the Dispatch, claiming 49,.
OoO circulation, comedies to the Gazette
$500; Post, $500; Commercial, $500
Chronicle, 5000; Leader, $500, and
Telegraph, 4,SOO.
The photographers recently in con
vention in Buffalo spent the greater par
of their time in discussing the question
1 whether photographer could be called
an artist, and finally, by close vote
they decided that he could.
IT is noted that the Germans in Ten
nessee have, without exception, escaped
the clutches of the cholera. They as
cribe the fact to the use of lager beel
instead of whisky and brandy, and not ,
few say they owe safety to onions.
THE Emperor of Russia has, for some
years, says London letter, been sup
posed to be suffering from softening O
the brain, though, of late, there seem'
to be suspicion that his malady is akil
to that which carried off the Emperol
Napoleon.
| The lightning struck nineteen time
within a radius of mile in Brattleboro
VT. during a recent thunder storm
while the usual number of strokes for
single shower is said to be three or four
and seven is the largest number pre-
viously reported.
! A CORRESPONDENT in New Yorl
paper suggests national boarding
house in Washington for the accommo
dation of members OF Congress, wher
thew could draw rations the same as sol
diers. He says that by this plan thei
salaries could be reduced to abont s, 80
year.