The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-03-20
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IN"ha-Nb SPChuo To1,Voo3Ooo u yCal
for tobacco.
EDWIN BooTH's income is said to be
49, 900 a year.
The twelve Rothschilds are worth
about 81, OOO, OOO,O 900.
Four hundred vibrations a minute is
rs much as a bees wing can do.
THERE are only about a quarter of a
million schOol-teachers in this country.
THE Siamese twins, it appears, are
now allowed to rest either in peace or
pieces.
Mrs. VAN CoTT claims to have con
verted over II, 900 souls during her six
years of labor.
HENRI RoCHEFoRT, Once the cOmmun-
list idol, is now but one of 2,577 exiles in
New Caledonia.
WILL S. HAYS, the musical composer
and editor, is a iourneyman job printer
in Louisville, Ky.
BRAZIL is showing her enterprise in
undertaking to lay an ocean cable from
Rio Janeiro to st. Thomas.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, has recov-
cred sufficiently to give a dinner party,
but had to be carried to the table.
An English poultry dealer has been
discovered adulterating turkeys by
stufiing their breasts with fat pork.
One person killed and four injured
every wOrking-day in the year is a pref
ty good record for American railways.
The production of the precious me-
tails throughout the world last year is
estimated to have been worth S219,-
600, OOO.
THE fortune OF the late Baron Meyer
de Rothschild amounts to only SIS. OO0,-
600, which is much less than the gener-
al estimate.
VICTOR HUGO is to have his new novel
of "Ninety-three" translated into the
languages, but is so patriotic as to ex-
clude German.
Miss JULIA SMITH, of Glastonbury.
cow-fame, has translated the Bible from
Latin, Hebrew, and Greek no less han
five times. She may be considered to
have got the cream out.
GERgIrT SMITH has made an uncondi-
tional gift of $1,000 to Hamilton Col
lege. Like Peter Cooper, he distrib-
utes his wealth during his life, that he
may see its good fruits.
TRINITY CHURCH, New York, is about
beginning a practical temperance move
mcnt, its trustees having resolved that
hereafter none of its property shall be
leased for the sale of liquor.
The Spaniard pronounced the ante
mOrteDp verdict on the Spanish Repub-
lie when he told Kate Field that Caste
lar was Il fine man and a great orator,
but he cou!d not make 4 coat without
cloth.
SANTA anna, who is seventy-six years
old, is going to Mexico to spend his re-
manning days in the land of his birth
and early glories. He n he returns
under President Lerdo's proclamation
of amnesty, but is firmly resolved to
take no part in Mexican politics.
An Ohio mathematician has discov-
cred that one man dies from the use of
alcohol every seven minutes, and that
those who have died from its effects
during the last fifty years would bridge
the American continent from ocean to
ocean, allowing three feet to each body.
\ PARIS correspondent of the Pal
MAI Ga=ettc tells this singular story of
the supervision of the French press !: In
the days of the Empire Il fiery editor of
the South was summoned before the
correctional police, and was fined for
an article written by Il person whose
name he refused TO reveal till the court
had pronounced It's sentence. The YER
dict delivered, the editor betrayed the
name OF the guilty panty. 1t was that of
the Emperor
THE TICHBOENE ROMANCE.