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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
THE CONCORD BOY.

1t is said there is boy in Concord,
N. H., who can repeat the mnltiplica-
ton table backward, and he is only 8
years old We know that boy. We
lived next door to that boy when we
were boy, and it is not SO long ago
but that we remember him distinctly.
He always went to bed at s o'clock, and
had slight cough. He brushed his
hair back of his ears, and carried a store
handkerchief, and when he played mar
bles it was to win. He always got home
from school before we did, and en-
ployed the interval in detailing to his
mother the betting" the boy next door
was getting. And, indeed, we were get
ting it, but there was no special interest
in it for other folks. He was the model
boy the boy our parents used to point
to, and speak of in tones of mingled adj
miration and regret, while unfittirg us
for sitting on anything harder than a
poultice. He never ran away from
school, nor stole money, but used to
throw mud on old people, when they
weren't looking, and unselfshly throw
the credit on us. And then to see that
boy come around into our yard with
lam on his bread. That was the last
feather-that was the climax to all the
sorrows our young heart knew. We
could have willingly forgiven everything
else, but that jam upset us. 1t went
right down into our heart of hearts, and
rankles there yet. 1t sent us into the
house bawling for jam, and getting it,
but not on our bread. We remember
that with ghastly distinctness.--Dan-
bury Nc"s.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
VARIETIES.

ALLthings are systematized nowadays.
Even every milk train has its cow
catcher.
THERE is nothing so effective in bring
ing man up to hescratch as healthy.
high-spirited flea.
"WHERE is parts unknown" asks
CORE podent of the Danbury Neps. To
which Bailey answers very truthfully,
"Where they don't advertise"
Two pairs of stairs are necessary to
every newspaper Office in North Caro-
lina-one for the editor to 60 down as
the caller comes up the other.
ANEW ORLEANS juryman was asked
by the Judge if he ever read the papers.
He replied, eyes, your honor; but If
you'll let me go this time I'll never do
SO any more"
OYER can't stuff that ere down this
chicken" from young lady in Indiana,
meant that she did not credit her
teachers statement that the sun is
larger than the earth.
Troy, n. Y, has a baby with four
teeth in its nose. That child was cut
out for reporter. Think of the amount
of nosing around man could do with
such fiinty organ as that !!
HERE is the latest description of a
kiss: "'Twas night. A real warm
couple stood in the pale, cold moon
beams. Their lips touched, and there
was sound like COW hauling her hoof
out of the mud"
The near-sighted hen that ate saw
dust, supposing it to be corn meal, then
went and laid nest full of bureau
knobs, sat on them three weeks, and
matched out a complete set of parlor
urniture, was pretty f air hen.
erred" said young man, walking
up Cortlandt street the other day, after
listening to his wonderful story, edo
you know why you are like harp struck
by lightning?" "No," says Fred, 81
give it up" because harp struck
by lightning IS blasted lyre."
A CROWD of quarrelsome people were
dispersed from the front of residence
in a very singular and sudden manner
one night. A stranger visiting the
family slipped into the crowd unper-
ceiyed, and extending an inverted hat
that he was making mis-
collection. Two minutes later
he stood there alone, with not single
member of the turbulent mass to be
seen in any direction.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
ANATOMY OF THE FOOT.

A Swiss philosopher has taken up
subject which has too long been neglect
ed by the manufacturers of boots and
shoes, viz a: the anatomical necessities
of the foot for better support. Many
sufferer from corns, bunions, and all the
ills that toes are heir to can trace his
sorrows to careless and inhuman
bootmaker. 1t is the rarest thing in
the world to get perfectly fitting boot
one which, on first acquaintance, does
not tear the skin off the tender portion
of the. heel, create ulcers upon the in
step, or so compress the nail of the big
toe rs to render disease a probable re-
suit. In measuring foot, says wise
man, the first thing to be considered is
the place of the great toe. Upon this
toe the whole weight of the body turns
at every step in natural foot. 1t is,
therefore, in a straight line with the
heel. A central line drawn from the
point of the great toe to the middle of
its root would pass exactly to the mid
die of the heel. Very few persons can
boast of big toe which does not, from
the unskilled making of stupid boot
maker, or series of the same, turn in
ward. No last or model Of foot SO
misshapen should ever be made the ex-
act size Cf such foot. There are many
sufferers, who in their agony have
heaped upon the whole boot-making
fraternity Il shower of interiections,
who will hail this addition to the SCI
ence of comfort with feelin. of Joy and
gladness.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
JOHN BROWN DEFIES THE :" TRUN-
DERER''

JOHN BROWN DEFIES THE '.TRUN-
DERER.'
The celebrated "John Brown" is
again on the tapis. The Queen, who is
at present staying in the Highlands, re-
Gently set out with the Princess Beatrice
and others of the royal family to visit
the well-known historic Pass of Glen
coe. Out of Difference to the wishes of
the Queen, the cloud of reporters kept
we'll out of sight. The Times CORE
spondent, however, who was also en-
gagged to do little sketching for an il
Illustrated paper, had happened to wan
der along on the neighboring heights
alone. Unwittingly, lie got upon knoll
which commanded view of the royal
party at a distance of 200 or 800 yards.
1t was few minutes ere he became
aware of his position, but the moment
he did so he withdrew from the spot.
As he was descending, he was met by
the redouEtable John Brown, whose
eagle eye had at once "speered" him.
"Wull We be ceavil eneuch, sir, to geet
ont O. that ?" said this worthy. Nettled
by this demand, and jealous for the
honor of the paper that he represented,
the blood of the Times correspondent
rose at once. Trusting that the magic
name at his command would strike ter
ror into the heart of, or, at least, en-
force civility even upon John Brown,
the Times representative named his
paper. The undaunted John replied,
81 don't care that for the Times, or any
other paper" swapping his fingers con-
temptuously, "and I'll fight ye eef ye
dinna gang!" Brown is upward of six
feet, and the breadth of his shoulders
and length of his arms are indicative of
great strength. The reporter of the
Times is also a very muscular man; so
a trial of battle appeared imminent,
when, fortunately, peacemaker came
on the scene, restored harmony, and
spared some scandal to the royal party.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
SAD RESULT OF LEAVI SO4l
LYING iROT-NU LOOSE

SAD RESULT OF LEA WING SO4I
LYING AROUND LOOSE.
A Danbnry woman bought box o.
soap and took it home. What followed
is thus related by the Nems: Subse.
quently, being engaged in baking, she
lost sight of the affair. In the mean.
time, the child looked over the box, and
finding the contents to be unusually at.
tractlve, undertook to eat them, but
failing in this, used them as blocks for
laying out townships, erecting towers,
and performing variety of other sngi-
neering feats. Pretty soon it fell to
knocking thom down with its hand, and
then to kicking them around with its
foot, and when this amusement lost its
attraction, it suddenly set mp q dread
full howl of agony, and started for the
kitchen. 1t was about this time that
the man of the house, who had been
abed up stairs, came down stairs in
pants and shirt, to get some shaving
water. When within four steps of the
bottom, he stepped on something which
Immediately disappeared with astonish-
ing celerity, and deposited him on the
floor below without the aid of the other
teps. He got up on his feet at once,
and looked about for the cause of the
accident. 1t was cake of that soap.
He picked it up, and with won 'erful
presence of mind, hurled it through the
glass of the first window. Then he
gathered up the shaving cup and brush,
aud went into the room. He went into
it Just as anyman would who had missed
four steps in coming down stairs and
lighting on another cake Just as he was
about to kick the door shut, that leg
shot away SO violently as to hurt the
roof of his mouth, and he came down on
one knee, with his head against the bu-
reau. The top of his scalp was some
what bruised, and one drawer was with
out its complement of knobs, and he
had bitten a piece from the tip of his
tongue, although no one would have
suspected that last by the flow of con-
versation that followed rs he bounded
to his feet. The appearance of his wife,
with her face depicting emotions of the
liveliest alarm, was welcomed rs prov
idential escape-valve for the wrath boil
ing within him, but he found his rage
turning to astonishment rs she suddenly
changed her motion, and dashed toward
him with her head down and uttering n
hysterical scream. As the instinct of
self-preservation is the loudest, he i'm
mediately proceeded to move out Of the
way of his sliding spouse, when he ell
cOuntered another cake of soap, and was
twisted completely around, and hurled
headlong against the center table, and
Immediately across her line of march
What became of her or the center table
in the crash that followed he cannot
tell. He remembers when striking the
table of seeing some twenty-five new
planets, with pyrotechnic display in
the background, and thinks he must
have heard q million fre-crackers go off
under . barrel. When he came to, he
was abed in q darkened room, with two
persons whispering in a corner, and the
air thorougly impregnated with flavor
of castor oil.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07

PrERMoNT, little village in New
Hampshire, in sight of the Connecticut
river, reports miracle which certainly
entities the town to pilgrimage. The
wife of Rev. Moses Sherman, the local
Methodist preacher, who is a woman
about 35 years, has been "ailing for
10 years, and bed-ridden for one, but
one night, not long since, she prayed
for relief, and suddenly got it. The
devils all went out of her, her strength
returned, and she has been a well wo-
man from that time. She believes the
Savior visited her, personally, and the
town is much excited over the miracu-
lous cure.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07

the people from the exactions of mo-
nopolies.
The third, fifth, sixth and seventh
resolutions were unanimously adopted,
but the fourth was lost.
Resolutions were also adopted urging
the Importance of speedy legislation on
the transportation question, and recon-
mending Farmers Associations to fur
nish the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission with information G. which to
prosecute suits.
At the evening session, the only bust
ness of any general Importance was the
passage of two resolutions, one advising
the farmers to hold back their live stock
products until tLey could get fair
PRICES per hundred on hogs being
considered a fair price; the other recon-
mending other States to improve upon
the Railroad law of Illinois after
which the Convention adjourned sine
die.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07

head in the door. "'Pears to me that
lawyers making long spell of it," says
she. "Ben't you almost tired O waitin
for him, Mr.. Stringer?"
81 guess we've settled it pretty much
without the lawyer" says John, rising
"and that is the condition 1 had to pro-
pose, Mary Ann-to take you and the
meadow land together ~
And he did.-Harper's Weekly.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

GRAssHoPPER showers are frequent in
Texas.
GREAT BRITAIN had II, ,435 accidental
deaths last year.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN has gone to
Europe with his family.
INDIANA has just redeemed State
bank bill issued in 1910.
ONE clergyman in Hartford, Conn. :,
has married ], 400 couples.
A louisville (Pa. man ate a peck
OF raw tomatoes at one sitting the other
day.
A YOUNG lady at Grafton, Ohio, has
made one paper of pins last her eleven
years.
MIR. MEAcHAM, the Peace Commits
sioner, has been lecturing about the
Modocs.
The shrinkage in railway stocks
and bonds since the beginning of the
financial stringency is estimated at
$500, 100000.
DURING the month of September there
were thirty-six railway accidents in En-
gland, five of them attended by loss of
life, and all causing injuries more or
less serious.
In Paris the old sardine boxes are
gathered mp by rag-pickers and sold to
builders, who fill them with mortar and
use them in the construction of cheap
dwelling houses.
IT IS now announced, on the authority
of that eminent physician, that it is
not healthy to rise before s o'clock in
the morning. This applies only to men.
Wives rise at seven and start the fire, as
heretofore.
Mr.. HARVEY, the Russian traveller,
tells us that the beauty of Circassian
women exists only in the Imagination
of poets and romancers. He says they
lack nearly all the things which go to
make up beauty.
c. c. FULToN, editor of the Baiti-
more american, says that, during
nearly five months sojourn in Prussia,
Austria, and France, he never encoun-
tered anyone laboring under the effect
of intoxicating liquors, not even suffi-
ciently exhilarated to be noisy.
AMONG the members of the Wyo-
ming Legislature are "Black Jack
Bill" Prairie Joe," "Slim Sam
Shaw" and "Grizzly Graham" The
Speaker will also have to recognize "the
gentleman from Hen Foot Claim" and
the gentleman from Buffalo Horn
Corners.
ANNA DICKINSON, in the course of
recent lecture in New York, delicately
advocated the propriety of the abolition
of the side-saddle Its use, she insisted,
is injurious both to horse and rider,
while the practice of riding astride she
has found, by her own experience, to
be safer and better in every way.
VIRGINIA has the oldest lunatic asy-
lum in America, which is also the Oldest |
institution of the kind in the world,
with single exception. 1t is at Will
iamsburg, the seat of William and Mary
College, and was opened for the recep-
tion of patients a hundred years ago,
namely, on the 10Th of October, 1913.
MISSISSIPPI comes from two Indian |
words, missi, great (or michi, as some |
tribes pronounced it,, and sipi, river.
Michigan was ut first called Michigami,
from michi, great, and gaD,j, lake.
Kentucky means in the Indian tongue |
the long river, and Ohio means beauti-
full. Alabama is named from an Indian
tribe, and was originally written Alba
mon by the French settlers.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
LICONICS For THE LADIES.

WHEN widow resumes corscts sEe
evidently solaced.
LADIES who light up we'll at night
Those who have lantern-jaws.
"DIRDIE is what a young husband
fondly calls his wifc-bccause she is
always associated in his mind with
bill.
An abse nt-minded man kissed his pc
kitten and slapped his wife. The mice
in that house have had good time ever
since.
IT is said that the Louisville authori-
ties find it moro speedy cure TO send
married drrmkards horae instead of to
the lookup.
Ho, MUG-GrS, ho, mug-gin, from
furrin' shohore, y is the way fair young
lady of Brooklyn renders the words of
popular song.
An old lady in st. townsville scrubbed
her floor until she fell through into the
cellar. Luckily the inhabitants are not
all so in dust-riously inclined.
"SHE died of a. corset" is the inserip-
tion on a tombstone in Stenday, Prussia.
A woman at our elbow says she probably
died corset couldn't be helped.
Mrs. HILL, who shot her husband at
Worcester, Mass, did it in unique
way, with all the accompaniments of a
fashionable life. She was walking be-
side him, and asked him to take her
parasol for her. He took it, and she
then, after putting her hand in her
pocket to get the pistol, asked him to
let her kiss him. He consented. She
put her aims about him, and put bull
let in his left lung. His recovery is
doubted. Her equanimity is pictur-
esquely perfect.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
ELEGI ON A BROTHER.
BY THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH.

BY THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Somewhere in the graveyard that / know,
here the Strawberries under the chestuuts grow,
They have laid him; and his sisters set
his grave the flowers their tears have wet;
And above his grave, while write, the song
OF the matin robin leaps sweet and strong
From the leafy dark of the chostnut-trce;
And many a murmuring honey-bce
the strawberry-blosscms in the grass;
Stoops by his grave and Will not pass;
And in the little hollow beneath
The slope of the silent field of death,
The cow-bells tinkle soft and sweet
And the cattle go by with homeTarl feet,
And the squirrel barks from the shelteriEg limb,
At the harmless noises not meant for him;
And Nature unto her loving heart
Has taken cur darlipg's mortal part,
Tenderly, that he may be,
Like the song of the robin in the tree,
he blossoms, the grass, the reeds by the shore,
part of Summer evermore.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
4 WISE DECISION.

Fume and fury! have cause
To tear about and break the laws.
Bat on the whole, I'd better not;
"Little pots are soon hot"
Little souls Sights discover;
Big souls pass 'em over.
Big souls bear their trouble;
Latte sonls sizz and bubble.
Little souls oft ferment;
Big souls are content.
Big souls tumble slowly
Little souls-roly poly.
Big souls, like as not,
When it's fitting, do get hot.
But "little pots all grandeur spoil
I'll think bit before l boil!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07

A LADY wishes to know why, since the
invention of needle-gun women can't
fight as we'll as men.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07

IFcom the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 81
The Farmers Convention, before its
final adjournment Thursday evening,
passed the following resolution, prac-
tical Endorsement of which is now
sought in the National Board of Trade ::
I've demand the construction of railroads
and the improvement Of water communica-
tons between the interior and seaboard. the
same to be owned and operated by the general
Government, for the purpose Of affording
cheap and ample transportation. and to pro-
tect the people from the exactions of monopo-
lies"
1t should be stated, in justice to the
Convention and the class it represented,
that the resolution was declared adopted
on rira roco vote, although the noes
appeared about as numerous rs the
ayes.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-07
NESNERI/TNT A ETIL.

The power of the human eye as exer-
cised by woman over man is doubtless ir-
resistible, but when a man imagines
that his own eye can exert the same in
fuence over the lower creation, and
that he has only to gaze fxedly on a
wild beast to subduc its ferocity, he oc-
casionally miscalculates his chances.
Thus, a professor in Vermont, who was
firm believer in the power of the hui
man eye, realized the truth of the doc
trine to his sorrow. Determined to con-
vince the skeptics of its truth, he Sc
lected ferocious bull, who WAS the
terror of the neighborhood, as the OBJ
iect of his experiment. The result was
not altogether successful. Surrounded
by retinue of Gisbelevers, the scien-
tific gentleman sauntered into the pas
ture where the thoughtful bull was
peacefully grazing. He fixed upon the
bull his eagle eye, but the bull quailed
not, neitherdid it retire in melodramatic
order, but the last thing seen of that
professor was his archaeological form
tossed twenty-seven feet into the air
and coming down on the other side of
the fence. His physical injuries were
slight, but his faith in scientific mes
merism as illustrated in bulls has been
greatly weakened.
An inventor has demonstrated that it
in not necessary to groove rlf1e-barrel
along its whole length in order to get
good results in shooting. About four
inches at the muzzle are grooved-all
the rest is smooth, by which the initial
velocity of the bullet is much greater
than in barrel grooved from breech
to rnuzzle, and the flight of the bullet
is more direct, or, as shooters say, it
has a fiatter trajectory. 1t is found In
practice that the few inches OF growing
at the muzzle are quite sufficient to set
the bullet spinning.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-02-12

1t Is with pleasure we publish the following
just tribute to Hon. 4. C. IIarmer, Of the Fifth
Congressional district Of Pennsylvania. lie
Is one Of the most efficient members Of the
Committee on the District Of Columbia, and
real friend to her interests. The article
comes from the pen Of one Of the oldest news
paper men In the country, who Is the able
Washington correspondent OF tho Sunday Re
public, Of Philadelphia.
ave do not recollect In all OF our expenencl
OF sixteen years at the national capital Of any
young member having made such a mark In Con-
gress a. the gentleman from the Fifth district.
He has acquired power with the member fs and the
Departments that members have failed to do In
be attributed to his great determination, will and
unceasing energy, with his suayity OF manner,
by which he makes every one feel az home In his
presence. Then besides, he has ability, but does
not claim TO have the culture OF a Chesterfield or
pOasess the ability or statesmanship Of a Glad
he claim the elOquence Of 4 Burke or a Clay, for
he has no pretenslOns TO speech-mAking. He Ia
emphatCally awOTking member, ever at his post,
ever faithful, which brings about the results
which demonstrate to the public his power AZ a
Representative. No man stands higher with the
DEPARTMENTS Of the Administration than Hon.
Alfred G.. Ilarmer. lie has made this position
for himself, by application, determination and
will. lie has entered upon noble CareeI, which
makes him one OF the most valuable Represent
atlves OF the House. lie Is modest and unas-
suming In his manner, yet ever vigant In behalf
Of the Interests OF his with the couT-
age TO defend them In any emergency. such a
Representative cannot fall TO make his mark,
and to do honor to himself as well as his people.
We predict brilliant future for Mr.. Harmcr."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-02-12

Rev. Dr. J. T. Newman, Chaplain to the
scuatc Of the United States, left this city this
morning for Concord, n. H., where he Is en-
gagged to lecture; intending to return the
latter part Of the week to all similar en-
gagemcnt here.
Speaking of this distinguished divine re-
minds us Of the near approach Of the session
Of the Baltimore Conference, to which he be-
longs, and we take occasion to express the
hope that he will net be removed from this
city. II appears to be the universal wish that
he should continue here; that the interests Of
Mcthodism require IL; and, In fact, public
sentiment seems to demand II. Ills pastoratc
at the Metropolitan VI. Z. church for three
years was grand success. and his labors
during the present year, though he has not
had charge of any church as its munster,
have, nevertheless, as we learn, been un
abated, here aud elsewhere.
Again we repeat the hope that Washington
will still have the benefit Of his presence and
labor, and that the authorities OF the Churcl
will yield to the wishes of the people, ant
appoint him to some suitable place In thit
most important field Of Methodism.