The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS
THERE are forty-five Oranges in Cali
fornia.
JOAQUIN MILLER wears his trowsers
outside his boots.
WESTON has come to the surface again
this time at Utica.
NEW ENGLAND nail makers have stop
ped their works for a rise in prices.
An asparagus gourmand says it is
healthy, tonic, and a cathartic. Medi-
cal men will take notice.
HELMBoLD, the buchu man, is re-
trievins his fortunes by shipping pota-
toes from Berlin to London.
DELMARRE, the owner of Boiard, the
winner of the "Grand Prix de Paris, I"
won over 1,000, 600 francs on the race.
+ The Directors of the proposed Hud-
son river bridge, at Fort Clinton, have
secured loan of $S,OOO,OOO, and will
Immediately commence work.
CHARLES O'CoNoR asked mulatto
boy, who was witness in the Walworth
case, "Did he give you cross look ?"
To which the lad replied, "Not half 80
cross as you do now"
A MAN in Philadelphia first inspected
all the vacant slabs at the Morgue, and
then coolly walked to the dock and
jumped to watery death. He had the
slab he preferred. M
A NEGRO GIRL in South Carolina ate
poisoned crow, was thrown into convul-
sions, fell into the fire, was badly burn
ed, had a leg amputated in consequence,
and is now convalescent.
JOSEPH PERRY, the perjured witness
in the Jumel case, aged 81, has been
sentenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary. He was offered $l0O, 600 for false
swearing, but received only $500.
D Or the forty-nine persons who have
died in Philadelphia within six months,
having lived to or beyond the age of 80
years, thirteen were men and thirty-six.
women. Three of the latter lived to
be over 100. a'N .t'si'
JEFFERSON DAVIS was in st. Louis re-
Gently, and received many calls at the
Planters House. He had not been in
ST. Louis since 1885, in which year he
resigned from the army, married
daughter of Gen. Zach. Taylor, and set
tied on Mississippi plantation.
A BALTIMORE clergyman writes to
friend concerning the frequency of fires
in b ston as follows elm the rapid
whirl of events, the motion of the uni
verse becoming accelerated, the hub is
evidently over-heated by friction hence
the numerous confngrations."
GREAT BRITAIN and her dependencies
are by far the largest dealers with the
Flowery Kingdom. The entire foreign
trade of China, exports and imports, in
1871, is valued at $3.50, 100000. OF this
Great Britain and her colonies accounted
for sl9S, ,00O, 900, or eight-ninths of the
whole amount, while the United States
account for but a little over $1S, 600, 900,
or about one-half the value of the Chinese |
trade with British India.
The "block system" of working rail
ways, by which trains are kept apart |
upon the same line of rails by certain
and invariable interval of space, instead
of by sn uncertain and variable interval |
of time, finds favor in England on lines
having heavy traffic. 1t is used on rail- |
ways having an aggregate length Of 4, 900
miles, and, it is claimed, prevents rail
road accidents, of which fifty six per
cent. are the result of collisions.
The Russian Government declares the
women students who have recently been
the Swiss universities in con- I
siderable numbers are politicians, revo-
radicals, and inclined to free
love, and that after the first of January,
1874, such women viii not be admitted
OH their return to Russia to any exami-
nation, educational establishment, or ap-
pointment of any kind under the control
Of the Government.