The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-23
BRIEF MENTION.

ONE-sIxTH of Americas population
can't read.
SILK factories in New Jersey employ
1000 girls.
THERE are Ill women in the Albany
Peniteutiary.
EIGHT hundred London cab drivers
abstain totally.
THE highest temperature ever OBJ
served at sea was Sc.
A HINT to a Massachusetts, politician
the longest pole gets the purse, Sim
MONS.
THE Vermont Supreme Court has de-
cided that a citizen cannot refuse to
testify for whom he voted.
A DEPTH of 4,O55 fathoms, nearly five
and one-third miles, was found in the
Pacific off the coast Of Japan.
A FARMER of South Bend, Ind, has
over 200 swarms of bees and sehs nearly
1000 pounds of honey per year.
The furniture in Northumberland
House, London, which is being torn
! down, was valued at 81, 800, 900.
IT is estimated that three million dol
lars worth OF grain have been de-
stroyed by locusts in Southwestern
Minnesota.
THERE were more than Coz, 600 dog
licenses issued to the British public
last year, which is an increase of 40, 600
over the previous year.
THE New Jersey State Prison, at
Trenton, turns ont over 1900 shoes a
day, 500 of the male convicts being en-
ployed in the business.
A SAN Francisco paper says 4 spring
has been discovered in California, the
water of which removes grease spots
from cloth. That is probably n I've.
Two FIRES have lately taken place in
lnS ljouuou IoStOL4Cc anu otatioutIs
department from the spontaneous COM
bustion of the oiled paper used in the
telegraph department.
THERE was something lovely about
them, even in death. 1t was on a Kan
sas prairie, and they lay side by side,
Toms thumb in Jacks left eye, and
Jacks revolver pushed into Toms right
ear. They had fit it out.
A CHINESE cure for hydrophobia is
to give the patient a decoction of the
leaves of stramonium, in doses large
enough TO keep him delirious for twenty
four hours. 1t IS said that the hydro
phobic symptoms disappear on the ap-
p~earance of the delirium, and do not
return.
4 WONDERFUL story comes from Japan,
to the effect that many tracts of land
at Iseneuria have been laid waste by a
volcano in that district vomiting fire,
cinders and smoke high in the air. An
extraordinary phenomenon had also &C.
Cured. From n plain in the volcanic
region there arose, in a brief time, three
mountains, one of which covered an
area of two and a half square miles, and
was 1,S00 feet Eigh, the others being
considerably smaller. a tract O. land
also rose from the ocean at an adjacent
point on the coast.
FoRD's THEATER at Washington has
recently been troubled sorely by a chap
who set up a fertilizer factory near by,
and Ford asked for his suppression.
The enterprisiDg chap responds IN
court that the theater is an immoral in
stitution, and proposes to fight it out
on that line. The New York Tribune
in stating the case remarks that "no-
body has a right to undertake the pro-
motion Of virtue by creating a bad
smell"-a sentiment which somebody
should have preached in Brooklyn a
year or more ago.
THE largest mine ventilator in the
world is Il Guibal fan, As feet in diane,
ter, II feet face, at the Usworth col
liery,' near Newcastle-ou-Tyne. This
fan runs abouu IS revolutions er min.
ute, and is said to circulate from geo,
600 to go, 900 cubic feet of air per min
ute. 1t is driven by two first motion
engines, 30-inch diameter cylinders,
three feet stroke. The upcast shaft if
~ feet in diameter, and 600 feet deep,
Tie workings in three seams are ven