The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

MCMAHON has suspended twenty
journals.
THE Italian budget shows deficiency
of nearly $4,000, 900 francs.
THE average life of a Jew exceeds
that of a Christian five years.
The German navy consists of but
forty-two ships, carrying BOT guns.
JAPAN has some trees five centuries
old that produce tea worth five dollars a
pound.
IT is generally conceded that Speaker
Blaine will be reelected without serious
opposition.
SANDUsKY, Ohio, has machine that
beheads and dresses from sixty to ninety
fish per minute.
Much of the business of the dead
letter Office arises from letters from
which the stamps have become de-
tached.
Col. JOHN HARPER and Fletcher
Harper, with five sons of the original
firm, compose the present house of Har-
per Il Bros.
GEN. SHERMAN's report, which is
nearly complete, shows that our army is
down to twenty-five regiments, embrac-
ing about Is, 900 men.
A BABY in New Bedford has won I'M
mortal renown by swallowing thirty
seven buttons -four of them brass), an
iron ,bi,,a d, r,olJ ,l,a-o
button, and thimble.
PRoFANE swearing is abominable.
Vulgar language is disgusting. Loud
laughter is impolitic. Inquisitiveness
is offensive. Tattling is mean. Telling
falsehood is contemplate. Ignorance
is disgraceful. Laziness is shameful.
Avoid all the above vices, and aim at
usefulness.
A YOrSG German from Baltimore was
arrested at the Executive Mansion, in
Washington, the other day, while en-
deavoring to see the President in order
to obtain from him Sl5, 900, 900, which
he claimed the President owed him. He
was put on the train for Baltimore, be-
ing evidently lunatic.
SAYS the London Court Journal
THE habit of hourishing manufactur-
ers, brewers, bankers, and iron-masters
purchasing Scottish estates, is demoraliz-
ing Scotland. All the old hereditary
chieftains are disappearing ss totally as
the English yeomen, and the clansmen
are being disinherited of their rights in
the soil. "
THE second thought is often the best.
The Michigan Constitutional Conven-
tion has not only reconsidered its re-
cent refusal to make women eligible to
school offices, but it has also rendered
her eligible to positions as registrars
of deeds, notaries public, and to such
other Offices as the Legislature may see
fit to designate.
Ex.PREsIDENT FILLMORE, and four
surviving members of his old Cabinet
Conrad, of Louisiana, Secretary of War;
Hall, of New York, Postmaster General;
Graham, of North Carolina, Secretary
of the Navy; and Stewart, of Virginia,
Secretary OF the Interior-are expected
to visit Washington this winter for
friendly reunion.
- hh-' All i-iholay io"d,
the week after his wife's death, and his
neighbors gave him deafening chari-
vari. The bridegroom finally appeared
at 4 window and administered scath-
ing rsbuke to the crowd, in this manner
Amt you ashamed of yourselves to be
making n noise about my house, when q
funeral took place here but four days
ago?'
PURITAN was a name first applied in |
1904, to English Non-conformists. They |
were class of individuals who wished |
for wider separation from the Roman
Catholic Church, than the Established |
Church of England seemed to afford |
them. They professed to follow the
pure Word of God, in opposition to
human constitutions, and |
other authorities. They were very for
mai and precise in their manners, singu-
lar i'll their forms of legislation, and
rigid in the observance of their prin-
ciples.