The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
HIS name is "Nasr-ud-deen Chah
Kadjar." Shah
The champion billiardist of Indi-
ana is a boy of II.
COLORADO TERRITORY is big enough
to make thirteen States as large as Mas
sachusetts.
The annual contest between the west
ern farmers and the Canada thistle has
commenced.
Why was the elephant the last animal
to enter the ark? Because he had to
carry his wi trunk.
SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling - Wealth
and Wonders Of the BonndieSs Vest" There
is much sure money in it See advertisement
The New Hampshire Agricultural AS
ISOLATION offers upwards of $4,000 in
premiums at it's annual fare. A silver
service is to be given to the handsomest
baby exhibited under n year of age,
the judges being the Governor, five ex-
Governors, and two Judges.
THE Paducah Ktntuckian says /: "An
effort will be made soon to organize n
company to construct the Chicago and
Paducah narrow-gauge railroad, to be
built between those two points, and
eventually extend from Paducah TO the
heart of the cotton growing States"
CoNcgRSISG Wise's balloon project, the
Scientific american says To us the
probabilities of his success appear to be
little better than those of an individual
who, in an open boat. without sail or
oars, should attempt to float across the
Atlantic upon the surface of the Gulf
stream"
AN angler on Trout Lake, Ontario,
lately had his hat blown away, and while
rowing hard TO recover it was surprised
to see it spinning acros the water ut n
tremendous rate. On oyertaking it lie
found that a large trout had taken an
artificial fly affixed to the hat, but the
line broke before the trout could be Sc
cured.
NOTWITHSTANDING the assertions of
the Alaska Fur-Seal Company that their
monopoly is not profitable, Mr.. Bendell,
who has long resided in the Arctic Ter
ritory, declares that the seasons catch
of seal is worth 81, 900, 900, and of this
the 300 Aleuts who do the catching
for the company, receive only S4O,-
600.
EDWIN BoorH is 80 years old, Maggie
Mitchell 80, Lolita 30, l.. 2. Barrett 35,
Frank Chanfrau 81, John Z. Owens 81,
John Brougham So, Lester Wallack So,
Boucicault So, Mrs. Chanfrau so, Miss
Nelson 30, Joe Jefferson As, Anges
Ethel 81, Clara Morris 80, Mrs. Bowers
60, E. A. Sothern 40, John Collins 70,
Ben De Bar So.
THE paralytic stroke received recently
by Vice President Wilson is more serious
than it was first thought to be. 1t is on
the right side, impairs the hearing, and
disfigures the face. Physicians say that
absolute rest for a year or so will be es-
sential to his recovery. 1t is hoped,
however, that he will be able to preside
in the Senate next winter.
The Persian Shah, Nasr-u deem, came
to the throne in 1S48, youth of sixteen.
The Spectator says that Anglo-P Persian
opinion about him is that he has, when
not bothered to talk French, considera-
bic capacity. He rules over four
millions of subjects, in n country twice
as large as France, and SO poorly civil
lied that lack of roads alone sometimes
occasions famine IN one district while
abundance of food exists in the next.
CHIcAGoANs, it would seem, are liberal
patrons of the drama. The receipts of
McVicker's Theater, for the past season
of ten months, averaged the snug
figure of $1,000 per week, or 81, 900 for
each performance. No place of amuse-
ment in the country, it is said, has
ever taken MI equal amount of money
within the same length of time. Chi
cago not only paid $500. 900 to this single
establishment in less than a year, but
also supported three other places of
amusement, all of which had fairly pros
porous seasons.
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