The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-06-26
BRIEF MENTION.

CALIFORNIA exempts editors from jury
duty.
THE wine crop of the United States is
90. 900, 600 gallons.
A FRENCH engineer has invented a
marine locomotive.
RocHEFoRr says that the American
hotels are the best in the world.
EIGHrY-THREE theaters in this coun-
try have been destroyed by fire.
A NAN in Atchisen, Kan, has just
taken his tenth wife-a very remarkable
old fellow.
LEISURE is sweet to those who have
earned it but b%urdensome to those who
get it for nothing.
In Paterson, n. j., there are twenty
FIVE establishments with an aggregate
capital of $4,000 600 engaged in the
manufacture of silk.
You've gentlemen having weddingpres-
ents to make will be interested in the
fact that alligators can be bought at
Perry, Ga, for 81 apiece.
THE University of London has de-
cided, by a vote SO to Is, that sit is
desirable that women should be per-
mitted to take degrees in the Univer-
sity.
NEW YORK spends annually $9,000,-
900 on newspapers, 81, ZOO, 900 on thea
tiers. 50, 600, 900 for religious purposes.
and $50, OO0, 600 on liquor and liquor es-
adjustments.
ABOUT 60, 600, 900 bushels of grain of
all kinds, corn, rye and barley, were
used in the manufacture of whisky,
ale, beer, ETC., last year. The total
product was about 1900, 600, 900
bushels.
The Reform Government of New
York City has added eleven millions
of dollars to the city's debt in about
two years and a half. The people
are now anxious to reform the re-
formers.
The only paper in New York which
got a reporter into the White House at
the Grant wedding was the Herald.
And its reporter disguised himself as a
colored waiter, and assisted the caterer
at the breakfast.
The new vest has a deep pocket
which completely hides a cigar, SO that
the man who asks you for L" the mate to
that" can neve bring a blush to your
face by discovering it after You have
told him, 81 haven't another; a fellow
just gave me this"
An English chemist, officially en-
ployed to detect adulteration, reported
forty faulty samples out of a hundred
and seventy. Arrowroot was mixed
with starch, coffee with chicory, milk
with water, mustard with flour and
turmeric, vinegar with sulphuric acid
and oil of vitriol.
Mr.. JAMES T. FIELDS says, in II of
his lectures, that the extravagant indo-
lent man, who, having overspent his in
come, is sumptuously living on the
principal, is like Heine's monkey, who
was found one day h~ilariously seated
by the fire and cooking his own tail in a
copper-kettle for dinner.
SOMETHING new for the children is a
box Of wooden figures, painted to repre-
sent acrobats, which can be put to-
gether in sections, like blocks, to form
groups suggestive of a frst-class circus
performance. The wooden men go
through the ground and lofty-tumbling
business almost as large as life and
quite as natural.
THE American doctrine is that "the
property of the State shall educate the
children of the State" Hence such
men as Stewart and Aston, with their
hundreds of millions of property and
no children in the public schools, pay
and do it cheeIfully-the school taxes
that educate the sons and daughters of
thousands Of poor laborers who have no
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