The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-12-04
BRIEF MENTION.

Marie JOfcnOn.
ENGLAND paid s1O, 900, 900 last year
for her foreign eggs.
THE school population of Kansas has
doubled in five years.
THE Japanese and Chinese have only
five notes in their gamut.
The Canadian potato crop is far above
the average this year.
PHILADELPHIA merchants won't allow
their clerks to sit down.
NINE Sunday newspapers are now
published in Philadelphia.
VERDI is mad because some of his
music has been played at a circus.
A GEORGIA editor has been indicted
for playing poker, two cents ante.
BARNUM is making a collection of Chi
namen for the Congress of Nations.
BEEF is only three cents per pound
in Oregon, while collins are 800
apiece.
DoyALpsoN still adheres to his diet
of balloona sausages.-Phtladetphia
Herald.
HAND-oRGAN grinders and chest
nut-peddlers make five dollars per day in
Chicago.
A MINNESOTA man makes the winter
seem short by giving his note payable
in the spring.
The name of Florence Nightingale
admits of the following anagram: "Flit
on, cheering angel"
THE coinage of the United States
Mint for the past year is greater than
for any year since 1852.
A DRAMATIC f~euilletonist says that
Ohenbach's forthcoming opera bouffe
will present many nu-ditties.
"HUMBUG," once said the satirical
Pope, sis the grand winner of all
things, and the great conqueror OF
men !"
.JoHY L. GLEN, the drummer-boy of
Chickamauga, has been promoted from
a Second to a First Lieutenancy in the
regular army.
yIRGIsIA has sent %, 900 pounds Of
chestnuts north this season in one con-
signment-the largest single exporta-
ton ever made.
The Cleveland LCader is probably
lying when it says 1.-The editor of the
Toledo Democrat don't wear his name
on paper, and no wonder. It's Alfred
Is. Jazes."
LORD MAJOR STONE, of London, is
said to lie fourteen stone eight pounds
in weight, and very fourteen-eight
person he is to achieve such a high po-
sition.- World.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING, Capt.
Vivian, Col. Stracey, Viscount Coke
and the Earl OF Mayo are making up a
shooting party in London to go to Afri-
ca "for large game"
"PETE," said a customer in q barber
shop, after waiting some time, "why
don't you hurry when a gentleman
wants a shave?' 81 always do" said
Pete with barbarous ambiguity.
A BAsHFUL young clergyman recently
rising to preach for the first time, made
a terrible mix of it, and announced his
text in this wise "And Immediately
the cock wept and Peter went out and
crew bitterly"
THE .HpiSh Messenger condemns
Gov. Talbot, of Massachusetts,, for
coupling Christianity, in his proclama-
ton, with the observance of thanksgiv-
ing, thus disregarding the feelings Of
the Israelites.
TIE brave talk by people not en-
ployed in banks. as to what they would
have done if they had been in the place
of the Milford cashier, reminds q
Lowell cashier of the message from a
landlord in Ireland to his agent "Tell
the tenants that no threats TO shoot You
will intimidate me in the least"
THE size and cost of the Potter Pal
mer Hotel in Chicago are duly set forth
in the following figures: Value of
ground, 81, 900, 900; cost of building, S.
600, 600; furnishing, 800, 900 length on
State street, 254 feet ; length on Monroe
street, $50 /; length ON Wabash avenue,
131 feet !; distance from State street to