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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-16


Lighthouses simplify navigation and
lessen its dangers, thus encouraging
commerce by preventing the shipwrecks
that increase the cost Of transportation.
But it is not alone for their economy
that they are valuable. They protect
the lives of u sailors, and were estab-
lished, first of all, with that noble pur-
pose. Less than one hundred years ago
there were only e~ighty-four light,ho S
in the United States. Tonight, as you
sit by the W indow watching the lamp
lighter hurrying through the d~arkening
streets at sunset, five hundred and
ninety one beacons twinkle on the coast
from the st. Croix river, on the bound
aries OF Maine, to the Rio Grande, on
the Gulf CT Mexico, and cover q dis
lance of over 1000 miles on the Atlantic
coast, 1900 miles more on the Pacific
coast, 5000 miles on the great Northern
lakes, and 700 miles on the inland
rivers. There is scarcely a square foot
or the margin Of the sea throughout
the 5000 miles of Atlantic coast that is
not Illuminated by lighthouse rays,
and, in clear weather, the mariner pass
ing out of sight of one light Immediate
ly gains another.
If all these lights were alike they
would lead to disastrous mistakes, and
instead of guiding they would confuse.
Accordingly, they are divided into six
kinds. The first-order lights are in
tended to give warning of the approach
of land, and are supplied with the best
apparatus, visible at the greatest dis
lance; the second order lights are of
the next best quality, not SO powerful
as the first, and they mark capes and
approaches to bays and sounds the
third-order lights are inferior to either
of the above, and point bays that are
very wide and intricate, like the Della
ware bay ; the fourth, fifth and sixth
order lights are usually simple Ian
terms, marking the shoals, wharves and
other prominent points in smaller bays
and rivers.
They are also distinguished more ex-
actly in another way. In some instances
the lights are white and fixed i'll others
they are white and revolve at stated in
of which the mariner is in
in other instances they are red
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-16
THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Smelling Peas.

Smelling Peas.
Passing by the kitchen,
Through an open door
Iespy three children
Sitting on the floor.
Through the open window
Comes the morning breeze,
tanning them SO gently,
While they shell the peas.
Little eye. sre busy,
Little fingers, too,
Picking all the peas ont
Soon as brought to view.
They are free and happy
As birds upon the trees,
laughing, talking, singing,
While they shell the peas.
Bahy's dish has in it
Nsught but pods It's true,
But she's just as busy,
And a. happy, too.
They must learn to labor,
Little ones like these
Shoald have some employment;
Let them shell the peas.
p at early morning,
BY the break Of day,
81 their work done early,
They'll have time to play.
Children are so happy
When they try to please;
They do much TO help us
While they shell the peas.
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HOW TO CATCH 4 BEAU.
By PAUL ~rEMPLEroy.

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TIE MIXED POETIC STYLE.

TIE MIXED POETIC STYLE.
The first exhibitions of poetic genius
are generally rather striking. An editor
gives a few specimen verses of q poem
which he cruelty rejected
al hau q dreme;
thort l was alone, alone;
oh, it did SEINE
So sad away from home, from home.
my he'd upon my hand
Ilent, l lent:
Mi ise upon the sand
bent, l bent.
81 thors of other days;
And things, and things;
OF happy, childish place,
And strings, and strings"
This is neither SO bold in conception
o SO affecting in its conclusion as the
following:
"Poor Jonathan Snow
Away did go
All on the ragen name,
With other males
All for to ketch wales
* mere come back agen.
The wind bloc hi,
The bi!lers tost
All hands were lost,
And he was one,
Aspritely lad,
Nigh e."
A method by which persons with
short memories may sing songs which
have been partly forgotten, and also
supply rhymes, is suggested by the
following
"oA. If I had 4 lunty tum lumty tum too
In the land Of the olive and fy,
would sing Of the lumti tum lumti 70 You
And play on the tLingumy-jig.
" And If in the iuInty tum battle l fall,
Atunti tum's all that / crave
Oh, bury me deep in the what-you-ray-call.
And plant t~hiuGumbobs over my grave
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brown ; but if it's to be simple blue
green, OF red cotton, they can g,
white.
Before the dress goes on, our bool
must have its "head- bands" That's
little band across the top, Just inside 0
the back of the book, and it hides tn,
place where the cover turns over. It il
put there to make a neat finish and il
expensive books it is quite gorgeous
being made of cardboard worked owe,
with silk.
The leather, paper, or cloth-which
ever is used-is then cut to the proper
shape and covered with glue, for this
book of ours don't button or hook it:
clothes it just CLUES them on, and
saves trouble.
The glue being spread evenly owe,
the leather. it is carefully pressed
on the mill-board sides, the edges
turned over, and the end papers glued
down to hide the rough edges.
Now the dress is fairly on, and it is
bound up between boards to dry.
But it isn't yet done. Who would be
satisfied with a nice book dressed in the
most elegant Of morocco, with not an
ornament to its back? Absurd isn't
it, girls?
There's one good thing about its
trimmings-it don't take a poor sewing
girl a week to ornament their one dress.
BY no means It's just stamped on at
one blow, by a hot brass stamp, in a big
stamping machine. If the trimmings
are to be gilt, they first have a coat of
olive oil and gold leaf, and when the
stamp comes down it stamps the figure,
and presses the gold-leaf down SO tight
it can't get OFF. The rest is brushed off,
and the beautiful new book is ready for
your library.
Don't you love a new book? Isn't
the delicious smell OF it more delightful
than altar of roses? Not because the
smell is sweet, but because it is sug-
gestive. 1t makes you think of the nice
times you've had with books and expect
to have with this.
You remember l told you about the
old-fashioned illuminated books made
by the monks, and SO valuable that only
the very rich could own them. 1 didn't
tell you about their binding. That was
almost as wonderful as the book. They
We're bound IN gold and silver, velve.
and SATIN covers for their books, and
very beautiful they were.
I'm glad hat has gone ont of fash
ion, though, for l shouldn't like to en-
broider covers to all the books / want.
would you?
Books for work, such as law books
and students books, were bound IN
heavy board. They were so heavy that
if you let one fall you might break your
leg.-Uarper'S Bazar.
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The good people of Berrien county,
Mich, who are exercised over the in
scription on a free-thinker's tomb in
their midst, should read an epitaph on
a tombstone in Thompson, Conn. 1t
runs Here lies the body of Jona-
than Richardson, who never sacrificed
his reason at the altar of superstition's
god, and who never believed that Jonah
swallowed the whale"
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BRIEF MENTION.

Or forty-nine railroads in Illinois only
seven pay dividends.
The largest of the Egyptian pyramids
is feet high.
AWAITING the custom of some Amer.
can politician or railroad man, in the
window OF a jewelers. store on the Rue
de la PAX, Paris, is q breastpin made
from a single diamond and priced
500, coo.
ABOUT Is, 700 letters were posted in
England last year without any address
whatever, and nearly 500 Of them con-
tanned money. Yet people wonder that
publishers refuse to hold themselves re-
sponsible for cash sent to them by mail,
unregistered
IL that delightful game known as
baseball hot balls are served up with a
n~eatness and dispatchmuch commended
by surgeons, but of ali the queer acct
dents that have come OF the game.
Pittsburgh presents the quecrest. \
pitcher was ~endeavoring to give a forci-
bic twist to the ball, and in the effort
broke his arm short off above the elbow.
The fracture WAS so severe that the
bones protruded through the skin.
Though a fact, the statement reminds
one of the story Of a mans lifting him
self up by his own boo.-straps.
THERE are 72S, DOC, 900 gallons of beer
consumed annually in England. In
Germany the number Of gallons con-
sumed is Jag, 00O, 900 of beer and ILL.,
800, 600 Of wine. Frenchmen drink
every year 81, SOC, 600 gallons of beer
and 600, 900, 600 of wine. In the United
States the annual consumption of beer
is 297, 000, 900 gallons, %, 000, 900 Of
wine, and -, 00G, 600 of distilled spirits.
The value of all this liquor represents
s., 900, 600, 900, and the amount Of CAPT
tai invested in its production amounts
81, 000, 000, 600 more.
IT is n curious fact that Paris, with
all its love Of music and a~musements,
and its crowd of foreigners, cannot sup
port an Opera-at least the state is al
ways called upon TO furnish subsidies
III aid OF the Italian and French operas,
the Opera Comiqne, and the Lyrique
when it plays. But ven with subsi-
dies, which have been cut down since
the fall of the Empire. the business is
not always a paying one. Thus, in
1869, the receipts of the I~taliens reached
l, 200, 600 francs, but the expenditures
exceeded them by over 1900 francs.
The singers cost zoe, 900 francs, the
dancers 337, 600 francs, the orchestra
1000 francs. and the other persons
employed in the house 16S, 900 francs.
QUALITY OF FLESH OF FO WIS.
The principal points by which to dis
the quality of the flesh in a fowl
are the color of the feet and TIE kind of
skin. The yellow foot generally indi-
Gates q fowl with tough flesh, heavy
bones, and yellow fat. 1t is very rare
hat this color does not show itself in
he skin. However, it does not exclude
certain qualities of the flesh in the pure
descendant of the exotic races, Cochin
China and Brahma Pootra. With the
exception of the yellow and green,
which can never be recommended, all
,ther %colors, from black to white, are
indications of excellent flesh.
When the skin, and above all that of
he sides and breast, is of a fine tissue.
.lelicate and easily extended, also hav-
ng a rosy-pearled color, one may be
that the flesh is good, and will
atten rapidly.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-16

THEY have universal suffrage in Italy
upon the condition that the voter pays
seven dollars and a half for the privi-
lege. Only one-ifth of the people
consider their vote worth the aforesaid
sum.
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E

VARIETIES.
A MAN named his best hen "Mac-
duff" because he wanted her to "lay
on"
LIFE is made up of little things, and
in New Jersey they're chiefly mosquito
bites.
NOTHING SO much destroys a mans
peace of mind as to hear a woman
express an intention to give him a piece
of hers.
An Iowa circus drew a big crowd by
advertising that Schuyler Colfax would
enter the ring On a bet Of $500 that he
could ride the trick mule.
"1M not much for shtump spakin',"
declared a candidate at Dubuque, "but
for honesty and capacity and integrity,
l bate the divil-so l d."
A F~RENcHMAN having heard the word
press made use of to signify persuasion
as press that gentleman to take
something to eat-took occasion, one
evening, at a party, to use a term
which he thought Synonymous, and
begged a fellow to squeeze a young lady
to sing.
A VETERAN observer says that a little
humbug enters into the composition of
almost everybody. Is it positively GER
tain that our nearest anddearest friends
would be quite so near and dear to usif
they did not humbug us occasionally,
and SO, to some extent, become hum
bugs themselves?
The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear,
And no men ever sing;
The clearest skies are those
Tha: farthest OF appear
To birds of strongest wing;
The dearest loves are those
That no man can come near
With his best following.
A BEGGAR posted himself at the door
of an English chancery court, and kept
saying, "a penny, please sir! Only a
penny, sir, before you go in" And for
what, my man ?" inquired an old coun-
try gentleman. because, sir, the
chances are that you will not have
one when you come out"
"WHAT do you sell those fowls for 2"
inquired a person of a man attempting
to dispose of some chickens of a ques-
tionable appearance. 81 sell them for
profits" was the answer. "Thank you
for the information hat they are
prophets" responded the querist, 81
took them to be patriarchs."
IT didn't rain for some time in q
Western town, and when the floods did
descend the editor said After many
days of arid desiccation the vapory cap
tains marshaled their laundering
hosts and poured out upon scorching
humanity and the thoroughly incinera-
ted vegetation a few inches of "aqua
pluvialls."
WHICH Is BEST:
The world is dark and dreary,
When we make it SO;
This world is bright and cheerful,
When We take 1t SO.
Our friends are cold and distant
Whene'er We doubt them;
Our friends are true and loving
Whenever We trust them.
Ist best to live in the dark,
Doubling, day by day,
Or live in the light Of love,
Trusting, day by day?
The good people of Berrien county,
who are exercised over the in
scription on a free-thinker's tomb in
their midst, should read an epitaph on
4 tombstone in Thompson, Conn. 1t
runs Here lies the body of Jona-
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4 FIRE-EATING GENERAL.


An amusing anecdote is told of a
well-known French General. who played
a conspicuous part in a cavalry charge.
The gallant warrior had been severely
wounded on that occasion, having re-
ceived a sabre-cut on the head and a
bullet in his left thigh. Such an al
lowance might have satisfied q man of
quiet tastes, but was far from sufficient
for the tire.eating General. In relating
the charge, which he did at every din
ner-party, he was in the habit of throw
ing III half-a-dozen bayonet thrusts,
and a couple of strap splinters from n
shell, and he invariable appealed for
confederation of his narrative to an aid
de-camp who had ridden by his side.
On N occasion, having imbibed more
than his usual allowance of Al Chateau
Yquem, he drew n more than usually
startling picture of his riddled and per-
forated condition. A cannon-ball had
hliicu HIS HOiSt, II uOZtH SaDeIS Hiu ut-
seconded at once on his head, n couple
of lances had passed through each of
his arms, and all the bullets and bayo-
nets of Germany seemed to have given
each other a rendezvous in his body.
"You remember it well, don't you'll"
he added, turning to his aid-de-camp.
The well-trained subaltern had suffered
long in silence. The bayonets, bullets,
~lances, etc, he had got usd to by long
practice, but the cannon-ball was the
last straw that broke the camel's back.
"No, General, 1 don't remember it
how could you expect me to? You
know Is well as L do that the very can
non-ball that killed your horse struck
he breast-plate of a cuirassier behind
us, and then bounded back and took
my head OFF"
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The Modoc tribe has dwindled down
to AS.
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WHICH Is $

The world is dark and dreary,
When we make it So;
This world is bright and cheerful,
When We take 1t 80.
Our friends are cold and distant
Whenever We doubt them;
Our friends are true and loving
Whenever We trust them.
Ist best to live in the dark,
Doubling, day by day,
Or live in the light of love,
Trusting, day by day?
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ICELAND WOMEN.

In regard the m Of Iceland
have obtained completer equality than
their sisters in Continental Europe.
They receive exactly the same educa-
ton rs the men do. There are no
schools in the island, naturally, as fam
lies live almost a dozen miles apart,
and instruction is therefore given by
the father to his sons and daughters
alike and together, the priest-where
there IS a priest-sometimes adding q
little Latin or Danish. Thus the girl
learns al her parents can teach her and
is as good an arithmetician, and as
familiar with the Sagas as her brothers.
Accomplishments, of course, are pretty
well out Of the question painting, not
only from the difficulty Of procuring
materials, but because there is really
nothing to paint dancing, because you
can seldom gather a sufficiently large
party, and have no rooms big enough;
instrumental music, on accoun. OF the
im~possibility of transporting a piano
owe rocks and boys on the back of a
pony. Nevertheless, We found in a re-
mote house Ga good wood house, by the
way, upon the coast, where we were
Hospitality entertained for n day and a
not only a piano, but several
young ladies who could play excellently
on it, and a guitar, accompanying them
selves to songs in four or five languages
the Swedish, as We thought, the pret-
TEST OF all.-Co,nhW Magazine.
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The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear,
And no men ever sing;
The clearest skies are those
Tha: farthest of. appear
To birds of strongest wing;
The dearest loves are those
That no man can come near
With his best following.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-19

SUDDEN DEArH.-Mrs. Anna Martin,
an old colored lady died very suddenly
at the residence of her son, Horny Boyd,
who lives on Tenth street, yesterday af-
ternoon. She had been sick for some
VINE, but for two weeks past had been
steadily improving and was thought to be
almost woll, At about three o clock YES
terdsy afternoon she asked her little
grandson to got her pipe for her. The
little follow did rs requested and return
ing in few minutes found the old lady
sitting in her chair in an insensiblo con-
a"'on' lie called to Mrs, Boyd, but be-
zorro she go, to tho old lady she had
bresthed her last, She is supposed to
have died of hoart disease.
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MUSIC.

G. G. Bodon, Director of Conservatory
of Music, and Teacher of Vocal, Organ
and Piano Music Instruction given in
all stringcd and wind instruments. Ele-
mentory principles, thorough bass har-
mony and counter point, Unprecedented
Inducements offered. Those wishing to
secure his services will please apply At
tho Conservatory of Music corner Of
Twelfth street and Washington avenue
Pianos tuned and repaired,
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FURNITURRAT AUCTION.

i will 81 on Mo,day morning, Juno
END at and u o'tock at the residence
OF Mrs. Vandcverer on Ninth street,
between Washlngtor avenue and Walnut
street, bodsnads, wardrobe, washstands,
confer table, ono pa'lor sot, chairs, tables,
carpets, mirrors, on, extension table, o
full dining loom sot, dishes, glassware,
cooking steve, kitchen furniture and
many otherarticles used in keeping house.
Every Saturday snd Monday nighta al
my sales room, dry goods, notions, boots
and shoes. AT priv,,e sale one soda foun-
tain.
Louis III. IYERs, Aucuonocr
SJ.b-lB-1t
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NOTIFYING THEM.-Chief of Police
McHale yesterday notified tho owners and
agents of Il number of houses In tho lower
part of tho city occupied by women of
bad reputation, that unless they (tho bad
women) were compelled to "move' within
reasonable timo, they (the owners OF
agents of the property would boprosocut-
cd as provided in the ordinance published
in yesterday mornings BULLETIN. This is
move in the right direction, and If the
ordinance is strictly enforced it viii rid
the city of lcwd women quicker than any
other course that could be adopted
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-19

WILLIAMSON COUNTY. From Il gentle
man from Williamson County, who ar
rived in the city yesterday, wo learn that
the Russell-Bulliner murderers are below
cd to have ned the country, and that tho
people living in the neghborhocd
where so much shooting and killing pro-
vailed short time ago, no longer feel
afraid OF being waylsid and shot whom
they havo occasion to 60 from home.
1t is to be hoped that the disparadoes,
than whom worse lot of men never liv-
ed, have loft tho country never to return.
Williamson County will not regret their
departure.
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DR.. SCHESCRs PLMosIc SYkUP, SEA
WEED Tonic, AND MANDRAKE PILL.-
These medicines han undoubtedly per-
formed moro cares Consumption than
any other remedy kIown to the Amori-
can public. They are compounded OF
vegetable ingredients, nd contain moth
ing which can BIO njurous to the human
constitution. Other remedies advertised
as cures for Consumption, probably con-
tain opium, which is O somewhat danger
Gus drug in all cases, and l. taken freely
by consumptive patients, Unjust do great
injury; for its tendency is % coniino the
morbid msttor in the system, which, of
course, must make cure impossible.
Schencks Pumonic Syrup is warranted
not to contain u particle Of opium; 1t is
composed Of powerful but harmless herbs,
which act on tho lungs, liver, stomach,
and blood, al thus correct all morbid
secretions, Al oxpol all the diseased mat
ter from the )ody. These are the only
means by Which consumption can lie
curod, and asjchcnck's Pulmonic Syrup,
Sea Weed T0ic, and Mandrake Pills arc
the only meQcines which operate in this
way, tits ob'ous they are the only gem
uino cure fr Pulmonary Consumption
Each bottle # this invaluable medicine is
accompanied by full directions Dr.
Schenck is Professionally at his principal
office, corne Sixth and Arch streets
Philadelphia, every Monday, where all
letters for adVce must be addressed.
AZ Il h-eOI a.,
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NOTICE.

To enabla all wishing TO attend the
laying OF the corner stone of the new Gus.
tom house and pos, office at Chicago,
June oath, 10 do 80 at reduced rates,
we will sell excursion tickets to Chicago
and return for $lA o. viii issue tickets
for ali passenger tsins leaving Cairo
on the 25i. Tickets good to return until
the 18th JAMES JOHNSON, Agent.
gl.C.lJ.4t
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New DEsTIsr.-Dr. j. j. Jennelle,
DR.. q. Il. Douglas successor, has takon
charge of his office on Eighth street and
is prepared TO wait upon all who may re-
quiro his services. Tho ,oothless he will
tooth, and those who have teeth no will
make toothless, IL desired. Give him o
ali
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LEATHER. Too.--The Sun is mistaken
in regard to the mayors proclamation
with regard to muzzling dogs, The may
or docs not say that leather muzzles will
not do. Either leather or wire will do,
60 the dog is muzzled.
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JOE lREAM pARLOR.

Il. B. Ellie AT tho Arlington house,
hereby announces that he has opened an
leo cream par Or ut tho Arlington house
for the acco nmodation Of the pnbhc.
Families supplied All orders promptly
attended 10. l-5-l7-t
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MAsoNs.-A large number of promi-
nent colored masons arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon to attend the session
of the grand lodge, which commences iss
session here to-duY.
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ALL the day boarders in the city can
be- accommodated al .h" =. ~ -lns
hotel, with iirst-class board at second class
rates. 79-4.lo-tf
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The BEsT.-Wm. Ludwig, harness
maker, corner of Ell ht street and Com.
mercial evenue, has tho best supply Of
harness, saddles, brides, etc, in Southern
Illinois, and sells them as cheap as the
cheapest. 23:5-3l-lf