The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-31
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THERE is girl in Minnesota without
any legs who offers $4,000 to any man
who will marry her. @
|, FEMALES are now largely employed as
clerks in drug stores throughout En-
gland, and are said to prove very COM
petent in the compounding of medicines.
A PHYSICIAN of Naples has transfused
blood from the carotid artery of lamb
into the veins of a lady exhausted by
hemorrhage by means of gum elastic
tube. u. ..s 8.
SOME idea of the mining activity in
Nevada may be formed from the fact
that the United States Mint at Carson
is coming about million dollars a
month. .
A LADY in Montpelier, VT, has large
picture of Ruth and Boaz," worked in
worsted, in which there are 1920
stitches. 1t took eight months to do
the work.
GA MAN who can marry and does not
ought to be damned" is what the Rev.
]. E. Wicks, of San Diego, Cal, is re-
ported to have said in sermon on
marriage. r.. .
WITHIN the Y years last past New
Orleans and the South have suffered
thirty-fve epidemics from yellow fever.
The disease shows q marked decline
since 1855.
CHLoRoFoRM has lately been used as
an anesthetic on patient during a
journey, so that the i'll effects, which
otherwise could not havc been borne,
might not be felt.
THE New York Times thinks sit
would not be an exaggerated estimate
to say that forty OR fifty millions of
greenbacks lie boarded in the negro
cabins of the South"
EBONY weighs SO pounds to the cubic
foot Ggnum vitae the same hickory,
50 pounds 4; birch, IS pounds; beech,
40 pounds; yellow pine, SO pounds ;
white pine, 25 pounds cork, Is pounds.
SOME enthusiastic friend of the Cen
tennial Celebration proposes that at
noon on July 4, 1876, all the bells, can
mons, locomotive whistles, organs, trum-
pets, drums, and other musical ins!ru-
ments in the United States "burst forth
in sounds of JOY and praise" p"
DIR. SAMUEL JOHNSON wrote IN ITSI
"The fate of the balloon / do not much
lament to make new balloons is to
repeat the Jest again. We now know a
method of mounting into the air, and l
think we are not likely to know more. "
And who, since some recent events, is
going to call DIR. johnson liar?
EpINBUssH, with no obvious trade, no
manufacturers, no active commercial
! life of any kind, and deserted by the
aristocracy, is yet growing and pros
porous city, with very high degree Of
middle class comfort, and an unusually
high level of culture and refinement. 1t
| is eight hours from London; in 1903 a
coach ran once a month. and was two
weeks on the road.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, occu-
pies the most costly and elegant Of the
new residences at Washington, and it is
probable that Jones, his colleague, who
is a millionaire and fond of display, will
not allow Stewart to outshine him.
Thus the biggest splurge in the capital
will be made by the smallest Tin popu,
tion) and least important State in the
/ Union.
The growth of private banking-houses
! in America bears close relation to the
rise of similar firms in Europe. Most
of our really solid bankers have been
British, French, and Germans, who, fol
some reason, combine responsibility and
penuriousness in about equal degrees.
Shylock is still the truest type Of money
lenders. You want Sood-nature and
the liberal hand least of all where you
keep your deposits.