The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
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ENGLAND spends s64, 600. 900 a yea,
for tobacco.
A RECENT census gives Japan a popu.
lation of SO, OOO,O
THE Congressional library boasts OF
seven miles of books.
In the British Treasury the sold
style" in dates still prevails.
QUEEN VICTORIA has nine children
and twenty-one grandchildren.
A TERRE HAUTE Judge fined a man
for keeping a dog that barked all night.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has preached
at Plymouth Church over twenty-five
years.
A MISSISSIPPI postmistress has dis
charged her husband from a clerkship
for negligence.
THE Professionals in France number
less than one million out of ~thirty-six
millions of people.
Triton, Ia, has a pink Jail !; the pris-
oners are forced to own that their sur
roundings are rose-colored.
THERE is an inebriate in Chicago who
has signed the pledge eighty-seven
times. Try again, old fellow.
THE number of people who died in
Philadelphia last year would have made
a procession a mile long, marching ten
abreast.
GEORGE WASHINGTON has been done
up in Japanese forty-four volumes /;
portrait, with heavy mustache; cane,
and terrier dog.
The number Of church edifices in this
country in 1870 was 63,0S2, against 49,
O61 in 1850, which is an increase of
about rs per cent. in twenty years.
PETER VAN DYKE, who died in New
Hampshire, worth $40, 600 in cash, re-
quested in his will that nc one should
shuttle and shed crocodile tears at his
funeral, but cover him owe and then
hurry home to fight over his money"
THE inhabitants of Berlin have been
assassinating one another at an extraor-
binary rate. Murders, up to a short
time ago, we're daily reported, the first
question asked when friends met being,
Whose throat was found cut this
morning?
ArAUanTER of r. ". Porter. residing
near Monmouth, ILL.,, while making her
bed the other day, discovered a rattle
snake comfortably coiled mp between
the sheets. Immediately after the peo-
pie of Monmouth thought the law
against steam whistles had been vio-
lated.
FIVE children at a birth This was
successfully accomplished recently by
Mrs. J. Winthrop, of Howard City,
Mich. Three of the youngsters are in
tended to wear pants, and two Of them
p~etticoats. "Great Heaven !" exclaim-
ed the father, on viewing this addition
to his family, "and business SO dull !"
THE fossil Saurian lately unearthed
in Dakota, at Fort Randall, measures
Is feet in length, and if perfect would
measure 90 feet. 1t is miscellaneously
made up, with paddles like the whale,
a crocodile's head and jaws, conical
teeth, and enormous eye-holes. 1t was
probably a devourer of fish and reptiles.
THE constructor Of the great Suez Ca
nal, M. Lesseps, proposes to build a
railroad. from Orenburg, Russia, to
Beshawur, India, q distance of two
thousand five hundred miles. In case
of war between Great Britain and Rus
STA the possessions of the former in In
dia would, to a certain extent, be at the
mercy of the latter.
THE Chicago Times calls the Council
Chamfrr Of that city a devils den,"
and says Chicago is ruled by "the
worst, most ~disgraceful hummer regime
vel known in its history" The Jour
nal says the city is ruled by a slow,
coarse, drunken rabble." The other
papers are equally severe in their con-
domination of the Getty Fathers" I'm
happy Chicago!
GENERAL BEAUREGARD has tried the
"tireless engine" ON the New Orleans
street railroad of which he is President