The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-17
BRIEF MENTION.

HI AstOrS own LOU houses In New
York.
KANSAS CITY mosquitoes e steel
gaffs on their hind legs this season.
"GRAssHoPPER prices" is what they
say in Iowa when they neal cheap.
FALL RIVER, Mass, with about 3d.
600 inhabitants, has 900 places ia which
ardent beverages are sold.
The Bank of England never reissues
its notes. As they come in they are
laid aside, kept seven years and then
burned.
THEY have q toad at Barton which
stands under a leaky beer-barrel and
catches the drops as they fall, getting
gloriously drunk.
SETH GREEN. the pisciculturist, has
had returned to him by n shad, a gold
watch-Eey, which was marked with his
name, and which he lost overheard
some years ago.
A KIM Missouri husband wheeled his
crippled wife three miles the other day
that she might cheerfully gaze upon a
funeral procession. 1t was "the first
which she had had the pleasure of see
ing for seven years"
Or over 1000, 600 trees planted along
the line of the St. Paul and Pacific
railroad, less than 3 per cent. have
failed, and the rest are doing well.
The prairie farmers along the lines are
following the companies example.
The receipts of the French railways
during the first three months of this
year were 81, 1888, 600 less than during
the corresponding time in 1873. The
diminution is proof Of the dullness of
general business in that country.
LEDRU RoLLIS, in his remarks in the
French Assembly, told the Royalists
that a monarchy of divine right was i'm
possible in France, and told the I'm
perialists that the empire was entirely
inclosed between Waterloo and Sedan.
LUKECHAPMAN, of Collinsville, Conn,
has the old fiint-lock musket with which
Gen. Putnam killed the wolf in the den
at Pomfret. Prof. Hitchcock has tried
i'll vain to get it for the cabinet at Am
herst College, and Barnum for his show.
PROF. LOOMS, of Yale College, has
published the results of his examina-
ton of the Meteorological Tables, which
have been carefully preserved at Yale
College for 96 consecutive years. The
last six months carry the palm. No
vember of 1873 and April of 1874 prov
ing the coolest months of their names.
An exemplary female in Waynesburg,
Pa, is well under way in her forty
eighth perusal Of the Bible from
Genesis to Revelations !; which gives
her intimate enemies occasion to remark
that if she had given attention to the
previous forty-seven readings she would
have known it by heart by this time.
EVANSVILLE proposes to erect a monu
ment over the grave of Mrs. Lincoln,
the mother of the late President, and a
committee is already negotiating for
the timber Of a log cabin, all of which
was hewed by Mr.. Lincoln when he was
but 16 years old. The design is to have
the timber made into canes and sold to
add to the funds of the association.
A NEW YORK paper has gone to guess
ing about the money expended in sum-
mer iaunts by the inhabitants of the
cities of the United States. 1t estimates
that 800, 900 people make such journeys
annually, and that each one expends an
average of S25 a week for board for the
season of ten weeks, and $50 each for
travelling expenses. The aggregate is
$50, 600, 900 which annual pleasure
seekers distribute among the landlords,
landladies and railroads of the country.
AS A Louisville funeral was on its
way to the cemetery, a hog, with a face
as solemn as the foremost mourners in
the procession, took his place in the
line and proceeded with the cortege to
the tomb. His devotion to the dead
apparently went further than did those
of any of the other attendants, for he
not only went to the grave, but insisted
on getting into it. He did get part