The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-31
BRIEF MENTION.


THE river Thames is crossed by sew
enteen bridges.
KING JOHN signed the Magma Charta
$50 years ago.
THE area of London consists of 100
square miles.
PARIS has 6,523 lunatics in her asy-
lums, against 1882 in 1872.
B%ULL-FIGHrs are now prohibited very
generally throughout the States of Mex
leo.
EDWIN BOOTH will play no more for a
year, overwork having made him an
invalid.
The declared value of elephants
teeth imported in England in 1873 is
2 900, 900 in 1872 the value was ST.
zoe, 600.
In 1860 the population of Indianap-
oils was Is, 900 it is now estimated at
10000. ~
NEW ENGLAND has i'm circulation
s24. % for each inhabitanf the West
ern States have 500.
A MAN in Lehigh, Pa, has a beard
four feet three inches long, and a
woman in Boston has q Beard six fest.
long-it is her husband. v
ALONG with this hot weather comes
the announcement that the genial pro-
prietor of the Telegraph Hotel, Sitka,
will take boarders for the season at the
rate of twenty dollars a month, finding
Overcoats.
The Palace Hotel, now in @y606Hss
of erection in San Francisco, will absorb
16, 0OO, 900 of brick, and SIS tons of cast
and wrought iron.
ONE Of the medicine houses of New
York devotes $780, 900 a year to adver-
Using. This splendid outlay produces
a magnificent income, the firm last year
sailing down 5000, 900 profits.
AND small blame to them. California
young men wear their s~tove-pipes in
the theaters in revenge for the ladies
bonnets.
SAN FRANCISCO now pays women
teachers in the public schools the same
salaries as men. Civilization is getting
to be decent as well as shrewd..
IT begins to look now as though pub.
lie opinion will soon bring tire. Indians
to a point where they must accept the
alternative of civilization or extermina-
ton.
A PROMINENT physician has o observed
that when a man is lying his pulse will
beat with greater rapidity than usual.
That may be the case with some per-
sons, but if it is caused by extra exer-
ton, then there are those whose pulse
would beat strongest when telling the
truth.
In Connecticut a WORKOUT field was
fifty years ago planted with timber. The
field has yielded ten cords per year and
fencing for the farm for twenty years
past, and last year, when cleared, pro-
duced fifty cords per acre. !
JOSH BILLINGS: "After severil years
NV refecktion, l have come to the kon-
cousion that the three most difikult
things in life are: l. Csrryin' an arm
full of 1--we cells up a steep hill without
spillin; an eel ; 2. Aktin as a referee at
a dog fight without getting mad /; 8.
Editln' a newspaper"
HRATHRNIsM is in a state of fermenta-
ton such as was never before known ;
and all the signs of the times go to show
that in any year, indeed at any mo-
ment, We may hear of whole nations,
under al influence like that of the day
of Pentecost, renouncing organism and
coming out on the side of truth.
The Pension bill specially concerning
soldiers who have lost both an arm and
a leg failed in the Senate. The one in
creasing the pensions of those who have
lost either m or the other, passed.
Under this, any soldier who is disabled
by the loss of u limb or limbs may at
tain al increase by ~inclosing his present
to the Commissioner of Pen
sions in Washington. j
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