The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-29
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is exciting, and very properly, too, the
attention of Eastern influences.
QUEEN VICTORIA carried OFF the first
prize for pigs and Herefordshire heifers
at the Christmas cattle show In London.
A DULUTH girl bet she could step
over two chairs placed side by side. 1t
took three doctors 10 get her thigh-bone
into place.
THE Maryland Fish Commissioner
are stocking all their rivers with young
salmon, Matched from eggs conveyed
by rail from California.
THE Dey of Algiers is not the clark
est day." which the poet tells us will
pass away if We live ill tomorrow"
1t is a very reigny day, however.
IT has been ascersained that the
American wild rice makes first rate pa
per. white, tough and flexible; audit is
estimated that 100, 600 tons CT this ma
terial can be obtained from the Cana
dian lakes alone, each year.
THE greatest coal mine Of the age
has been found in Skagit Valley, Wy
Oming. 1t is an extensive field, where
coal can be obtained to an unlimited
extent, on the surface, without going TO
the usual expense of underground tun-
neling.
The European governments which
have taken such extraordinary measures
to keep the Colorado beetles cut of
their d~ominions, only prove what we
have always said-that the s~ristocrats
of Europe hold the big bugs Of Amer
lea in contempt.
4 STATISTICAL report iust published
states that there are ut present 123, 600
establishments III France
which give employment to 1,S00, 600
workers. The department OF the Seine
! yields in value nearly 800. eco, 600, or
one-fiitn Of the total annual production
OF the entire country.
From Florida comes :he story of
Della Jones, a ~full-biooded re9ress,
forty years Of age. Sle :eil desperately
in love with a young white man, 4 car
penter, and realizing the fact THAI he
could never be anything 10 her she
turned her property into cash (S7,2J0).
left it TO him by will, and then weat of
and drowned herself.
A DUBLIN cabman has made his ap-
p~earance in q police court for having,
while under the influence of whisky,
driven his cab, with five women III it,
into the canal. The cool water appeare
to have revived q part of his senses, but
his only regret to the constable who
came to his rescue was "Save the
mare, never mind the women" Two
of the latter are not expected TO survive
the shock and fright.
PETROLEUM springs have been dis
covered on the Luneburg Heaths, in
Northern Germany. The petroleum is
obtained by simple borings, and at
some spots, as the village of Weitz, the
sand is saturated with rock oil. In
clearness, purity, and specific weight,
the Luneberg is said to be identical
with American petroleum, and to be,
moreover, almost entirely without
smell of any kind.
CERTAIN bare exposures of the female
person, called poses plaStiques. On the
stage IN London, arc just nov 1aIoiu5
the wrath of the citizens of ~respecta-
bility. The "censor" is requested to
dress the young ladies a little bit more.
There is a differentiation between the
London baroness mixed with idiotic
dumbness. and the voluptuousness OF
the trans-continental ballet which does
not consist of showing the lower ex-
tremities, but in artistic dancing with
them.
MARQUIS NoAILLzs, French Ambas:a'
dor at Rome, has taken up his residence
in the Farnese Palace the handsomest
piece of palatial architecture in the city,
and filed with the celebrated fresco
paintings OF the Caracei. The palace
belonged to the ex-Kingof Naples, who.
as q pretender, was compelled to desert
it and leave Italy, but he receives rent
for it. Some of the Marquis ancestors
are said to have resided in the Farnese
and to have protected Calico wheI
he was hard pushed.