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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-26

BLIND man-"Ah, Mr.. Evins, / amt
heerd you pass this some time !; | fear'd
you wos laid up with yur roomeytiz."
Mr.. Evins-"Worse nor that, john
worse o that. The wife went an
fa,md me a job o wark.'
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Arsenic Eaters.

| At meeting Of German natural philosc-
pliers in Vienna, DR.. Knapp introduced
two arsenic eaters from Styria the one ate
80 grammes of yellow sulphuret of arsenic
and the other 40 grammes of arsenic
acid in sight of the assembly. In his lee
ture ON the arsenic eaters DR. Knapp said,
among other things: g It is difficult to
give any certain particulars as to the in
crease in number among arsenic eaters. /
have convinced myself that there exist
many of them in Upper Styria, and also in
Middle styria; very many stable boys,
estlers, wood-cutters, and foresters are
known to me as arsenic eaters; even the
female sex is addicted to the practice.
Many began already at seventeen or eigil-
teen years of age to take arsenic, and con-
tinue9 it to a great age. Most arsenic
eaters keep the matter secret, SO that il. is
impossible to give accurate statistics.
They ali assign as their motive for indul-
ging in the habit that it prevents illness;
furthers their wish to look rosy and heal
thy; that it is remedy against the difficult
ty Of breathing, and assists the digestion of
indigestible food. A poaeher in Upper
Styria, who made experiments in my pres
ence of eating arsenic, told me he had ac-
quited courage by the habit. The appear
ance of the arsenic eaters in all cases
known to me is healthy and robust. I
think onlyrobust persons can become ac-
customed to the practice. Some of them
attain great age Thus in Zeiring I saw
a charcoal burner. upward of 10, still strong
and hearty, who, I was told, had taken ar
senie for more than forty years. 4 heard,
too, of a channels hunter Of 81, who had
long been used TO eat arsenic. Il never OBJ
served an arsenic, cachezy in those addicted
to the habit. 1t certainly happened once
that such an arsenic eater Ga leather-dl'es-
sefs apprentice in Ligist, 1869, while
intoxicated took too much; thereby poison
ing himself severely. According to his
own account he lad taken piece as large
as bean. He entirely recovered, however
and ate arsenic afterward, but more care
fully. AS far as my observations extend,
white arsenicY namely arsenic acid,
As. O3 talso called flowers of
aTsenic1, and the yellow arsenic, AS. So,
1lofpidieiItf, are taken, ana tndb II q Cry
state, alone. or on bread The dose is of
course very small at first, and IS gradually
increased: the largest quantity eaten in my
presence by the poacIler in Zeiring being
fourteen grammes A certain Matthew
sehober, in Ligist, ate seven aud one-half
gramnes before me on the 18th of April,
1865. The intervals, too, at which arsenic
Is taken vary every fortnight, every week
or twice or three times a week. But all
doubt as to the existence Of aIsenie-eateIs
is now removed by the present expert
Inenfs.
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Sarcasm Typog raphic.

An exasperatcd and sarcastic " "black-
smith " who sets type in Cairo, writes
6 Who ever heard of an editor making an
error during his whole editorial career? No
one. The merchant swears at the printer /;
SO does the occasional correspondent hum
bug, who writes about the people, SOW
ereignty,' commonwealth burden of
taxes, tyranny &c. $50 does that cheerful
hieroglyphical prodigy, and associated press
agent; and those intolerable frauds, the
poetess and poet Of the city the man whose
friends desire that he should be mayor !:
the individual who received benefit and
stuffed watcl. for his brilliant talents, and
in his card Of thanks used the glittering
commonplace, the .antiquated and exces-
sively vain prononn e. thusf;' in fact, the
printer gets bounced on all sides. The
printer, who rummages after unintelligible
piece of metal, who cerrects ON an average
fifteen villainous errors an hour in common
words, such as traveller, jailer hypocrisy,
fulfill, holiday, gauge, separate, alleged.
fetid, Judgment skillful, counselor, empan-
el, and many other simple ones, and makes
probably one blunaer in five thousand
words, is frequently asked to step down and
out, No wonder he feels savage, and
drinks whiskey and beer, and talks about
the ignorance of the aristocrats, the middle
classes, and all other classes"
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The sultan's Extravaganza.

- s & 3 Ef 43s s4.s 3 8. -ts
Turkey has been borrowing money in
Europe, and some of her loans have been
guaranteed by France and England. Neatly
all the money has been wasted o very little
has gone for the Construction of railways,
but most oft had been put into palaces,
diamonds for the women of the seraglio,
ships Of war, mosques, and the like, and
every day there thousands Of pounds wasted
on senseless displays.
81 Here is a specimen case. They built an
imperial palace known as the Palace
Tshiragan, when they had palaces enough
for dozen Sultans. The Sultan moved
into the building when finished-it cost
es, 00O,o00 sterling, Or about so, ,0Oo, 900 in
gold and he lived there just two days.
Then he moved out because he had an .ln-
pleasant dream, and the place will never
again be occupied. It stands idle, empty,
and beautiful on the banks Of the Bosphor-
us, and will stand thus Till destroyed.
A couple of years ago the Sultan com
manded that conservatory should be erect
ed in his garden. Glass and other materials
were ordered from Europe, and hundreds
Of men were set at work. It was finished
at cost of over 81 ,oOO, 900, and his Majesty
went to see it. The old idiot wish to
be respectful, as he is a Sultan-was not in
q good temper for some reason, and deter
mined net to be pleased. He raised his
languid eyes to the roof Of the building and
then turned away. a,sss'''
:. don't like i, be- said destroy it p
And before night every piece Of glass was
broken, and the beautiful conservatory was
leyelled, Colonel z. N. Eror IN I Back
sheesh
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POETRY.

In response to numerous requests we republish the
following poem which appeared in our issue of octo-
Ter 18th. 1t from the pen of James g. Clark.GD.
Leona, the hour draws nigh,
The hour we've waited so long
For the angels to open door through the sky,
TIL at my spirit may break from lis prison and try
Its voice in an infinite song
just now, as the slumbers of night,
Came DER me with peace giving breath,
The curtain, halfIifted, revealed to my sight
Those windows which look ON the kingdom of light
That borders the river of death.
Ard vision fell solemn and sweet
Bringing CLEANS of morning lit land
| saw the white shore which he pale waters beat,
And beard the low ull they broke at their feet
Who waIkesi on the beautiful strand.
And wondered why spirits could cling
To their clay with struggle and sigh.
When life's purple autumn is better than spring.
And the soul flies away like sparrow to sing,
In climate where leaves never die.
Leona come close to my bed,
And lay your dear hand ON my brow;
The same touch that thrilled in days that fled
And raised the last roses of youth from the dead
Can brighten the brief moments ro W.
We have lived from the cold world apart,
And your trust was too generous and true,
For their hate to oerthrow when the slanderers dart
Was ranking deep in my desolate heart,
was dearer than ever to you.
thank the great Father for this,
That our love is not lavished in vain
Each germ in the future will bloss ON to bliss,
And the forms that we love and the los that kiss
rinE Of = o5o rs main
By the light of this faith am taught
That my labor is only begun
In the strength of this hope have struggled and ou ght
With the lie Eiops of wrong ill my armor has caught
The geam of Eoernitys sun.
Leona. look forth and behold,
From headland, from hillside a1d deep,
The day-king sunenders his barne4s OF gold
The twilight advances thl ough woodland and wold
And tie dews are beginn ng to weep.
The moons silver hair lies urcurled,
Down the bro. d-breasied mountains away;
The sunsets red glory again shall be farled
On the walls of The west DER the plains the world
And shall rise IN limitless day
Oh come not in tears to my tomb,
Nor plant with frail flowers the sod
There is rest among roses to sweet for its gloom,
And life where the lilies eternay bloom.
In the balm breathing gardens OF God.
Yet deeply those memories burn
Which bind me to you and to earth,
And sometimes have thought my being would yearn
In the boHeIs of the beautiful home, to return
And visit the home of its birth.
'Twoud even be pleasant to stay
And walk by your side to the last;
But the land breeze of heaven is beg ming to play
Lifeshadows are meeting Eternity's Cay,
And its tumut is hushed in the past.
Leona. goodbye should the grief
That is gathering now, ever be
Too dark for your faith you will long for relief
And remember the journey, though lonesome isbIief
Ger lowland and river to me.
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Our Oldest Vessel.


The Boston Adoertiser says that the bark
Draco is the Oldest vessel in the United
States She was built at Duxbury by Reub-
en- and Charles Drew n~1S24, and is now
over ffty-one yeers Old. The Draco was
built in the most thorough manner and Of
the best materials, pasture oak, and if no
accident occurs may it live as long in the
future as she has in the past. She is PSI
tons register. double deck, originally brig,
bat altered into a bark in 1884. She was
first employed in freighting business then
sold to P. and c. Flint & Co., for the South
American trade next she passed to Samuel
Bridge, Joseph Knowles and e. Tucker Os
borne for the Australian trade, and was
finally sold to Mr.. ]. Bourne, Jr. of New
Bedford for a whaler, and has long been en-
gagged in that business. The Draco was
well known in Boston forty years ago, and
was a favorite vessel with all her owners,
as she was always fortunate in making
profitable voyages for them. In 1886 the
.Draco in voyage from Valparaiso to
Swansea, Wales, loaded heavily with car
igoof copper ore, passed through the straits
of Magellan, The only vessel of any consid-
cradle size that ever made the passage be-
fore that time or since. S.
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How Long New York Editors Live.

~ 9refs f,ss s}9 --. A.*zsn asss5 3
d The New York correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette says, in q recent letter:
s 4 small number of cur editors have died
in early or middle life, William Leggett,
formerly of the Fleming Post, was thirty
seven; VIM. L. Stone, of the Commercial
Aduertizer, and Henry J. Raymond were
each fiftyztYo Lookson the other hand at
such of the departed al. Charles King, of
the american, NJ. NJ. Noah, of the Euenang
Star, (both defunct9; Gerard Hallock,, for
merly of the Journal Of Commerce James
Brooks, formerly of the Express, and James
Gordon Bennett, .Sr., all of whom reached
old age, Bennett being seYenty-six. Gree
ley, at sixty-two, fell a victim to, excessive
anxiety and domestic misfortune. Webb,
formerly of the Courier, is nearly fourscore
and Bryant has passed that unusual extent
Of life. eThurlow Weedsis another instance.
Turning to the religious. press, here are.
Eeecher and Bowen, both past sixty; Oliver
johnson is about the same. age Jonathan
LeaVitt was nearly four score at the time
of his death, and Irenaus Prime, of the
Observer, Is still IN active service. though
past seventy. i repeat | cannot recall q
case Of suicide among this class, and if
there be any such on record / shall be viii
ling to- stand corrected. i mention this
particular feature as identified with that
condition Of mind which is more occupied
with the cares Of others than It's own. If.
any one desires to escape from those evil
Influences Of which / have spoken. let him
keep busy, and as much as possible labor
for the veal of others. azs1s
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The race announced to come off at the
Fair Grounds yesterday was witnessed by
less than dozen people The match was
made between two Texas ponies, for $50 a
side, and two horses. 1t was question of
endurance on the horses part and an act of
cruel punishment on the part of the riders.
The animals, by agreement, were to walk,
trot or run for twelve hours, the one MAX
ing the most miles at the end of that time
to be declared winner. The horses entered
were named Red Lad and Wild Bill.
An even start was effected, Wild Bill
rushed to the front, and in the first ten
miles was one mile ahead. In this position
they continued until the thiitieth mile was
reached, when Wild Bill was found to be
two miles ahead.
In the succeeding ten miles Red Lad
gained mile, when the wild Texan took a
rest. He was rubbed down and given
bottle of sherry, which he swallowed with
relish akin to his name. The delay thus
caused put the bloody youth one mile to the
front, still reaching for the final string, He
kept increasing the day Light between him
self and the untamed William until the
forty eighth mile was scored, when Wild
Bill threw up his tail and refused to move.
He had made his forty-fifth mile. Time,
five hours and thirty minutes.
For downright cruelty to animals this
.'takes the rag off the busb," and calls
loudly for the interference of Bergh. If
the noble Texas steeds had been run the
five hours o'er the broad prairie, after
stock, as they have been trained, with such
rests as Of necessity occur, it would have
been all well and good; but to punish the
poor brutes with forty-tige and foity-eight
consecutive runs around mile course,
without rest, is too bad. Bergh, come to
Texas; you are wanted. - Houston 7ete-
graph.
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g Ninety and Nine. .

Rev. DIR. Cuyler says that the history Of
the song which Mr.. sanksy sings 50 often,
{" The Ninety and Nine, " is curious. It
originally appeared in the corner of an
American newspaper, from the pen of Miss
E. G. Clephane. When Nj. sankey was
among the Scottish Highlands he tried to
find some hymn peculiarly suited to the
pastoral tastes Of his auditors, who were
mainly shepherds. He discovered these
lines in the Rock, an English evangelical
paper. He then adopted to them a wild
plaintive air, and they soon sung themselves
into the hearts not only or rustic Highland
ers, but Of lords and ladies in fastidions
London.
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A DECK OF CARDS.

fThe following curous lines were picked up on
Montgomery street. San Francisco ten years ago. by
Captain Fl. A. Cooley. of the Edinbnrg silver
mine and are sent for publication. The author g
unknown, but the production is well worthy of pres
ervation.-Lyon County Tinaes.)
The ACE aone-fhat mighty wondrous He,
To whom Creation bows in awe the knee;
The Two. the TestamenGs-0ld and New
THREE is the Trinity-stumbng block to Jew;
The Holy LvangelisIs shadowed in the Four;
The were Virgins watching at the Masters door;
In Six DAYS this wond GUS world was made,
The SEVENTH all to rest were bade;
EIGHT within the Ark-rnen and women mated
NINE lepers were cleansed by HIM the Pharisees
hated;
TBS commands to Moses on the Mount were given,
With mighty thunde1ings from the vault of Heaven ;
*The KNAvE comes next in gaudy vest
The QUEEN of Sheba next in rich garments dressed :
The KIEG-The mighty rler OF the world.
Who from high Heaven Satan hurled: 7
The cards all connsed7total ffsy-two,
This for the year in weeks viii do
To count the days the spGts must added be,
Three hundred and sixtyfour count correct and you
will see.
The DIAMOND is the riches we should shun,
The HEARTS remind of duties done;
The CLUB is st-ife-a mighty, raging fire.
The SPADE is death-the good mans great desire.
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INSTINCT OR REASON.
Some Curious Stories of Brute sagacity.

a gentleman in Milwaukee, whose char
acter forbids the supposition that he would
fabricate story, tells me that one winter
he stood upon wharf near one of the huge
elevators Of that city, which serve as domi-
Giles for an innumerahle multitude of rats.
rat was running across the ice on the
river, and a dog on the wharf seeing it,
gave chase, and was overtaking it SO rap
idly that it seemed almost certain he would
catch it before it could reach the bank.
When opposite the elevator the rat gave
peculiar squeal, and thousands of rats came
out of the elevator, sprang upon the ice and
attacked the dog, literally covering him.
and very soon killed him.
Another gentleman, the proprietor of
mill in the nelghborhood, told me that his
mill was much infested with rats, and he
consequently kept large cat; but still the
rats increased in number, and for the pur-
pose of killing some Of them he determined
to lure them into place where they could
not escape, and to set the cat upon them.
To accomplish this he left the door and
windows Of his Office open, first strewing
the door-sill and the floor with grain. Soon
hundreds of rats were in the room, and
when the gentleman saw through the win-
dow that the tioor was covered with them,
he stealthily went around and closed the
door. Then, taking up the cat in his arms
he put her in through the open window.
Upon seeing their enemy the rats, retreated
to the sides of the room, facing inwards;
the cat made no hostile demonstrations, but
quietly sat in. the middle Of the room sur
veying them for a few seconds Suddenly,
esteeming discretion to be the better part
of valor,. she sprang through the window
again and escaped. The gentleman thought
it sse Of cowardice; but in few min
utes the cat returned followed by six other
cats, and all sprang, one after another, into
the Office through the open window. The |
squealing of rats that ensued was "cau- |
tion to rodents
4
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Collins Says Crook Meditates q Winter
Campaign Against the Sioux.

Charley Collins, of the 6ious City Times,
writes letter to his paper from Washing
ton, and maps out winter campaign
against the Dakota Sioux in the following
words
For some months it has been a matter
of the widest conjecture as to what the
large pack-trains of Mexican jacks were be.
ing organized for at and in the neighbor-
hood of Cheyenne. Several hundred pack
jacks have for weeks been centered in the
neighborhood of Fort Russell and no per-
sor, not even the officer in command of the
post, was let into the secret use to which
they were to be put. The writer Of this
knows whereof he speaks, and the follow
ing are the facts The post or military
camp in the Black Hillsis to be moved out
Gen. Crook, commander of the department
of the Platte has for some time past propll-
esied and looked forward to an Indian war
in the event the commissioners appointed to
treat for the Black Hills failed in their
mission with the Indians. The General is
an old Indian fighter and means business.
He proposes to make a winters campaign
against the Indians, which is the only man
ner in which they can be successfully pun
ished. He viii have no wagons of COM
missary stores. The pack-train is to ac-
company the cavalry to carry their supplies
while pursuing the Indians. As soon as
the pack animals are Hghtened of their
loads the animals are to be killed and the
cavalry. to pack what food they canon their
horses. When the food is gone they are
then to kill their horses and eat horse meat
and still keep up their pursuit Of the In
dians, who, when oyertaken, are to get
such chastisement as will teach them
that for once in many years they are to re-
eeiye dose Of the medicine that was for
merly administered to them by sully and
Harney. That an Indian war is imminent
is now beyond question, and that Gen.
Crook is fully prepared for it win be deness
onstrated in a few weeks, 4
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

t Feeling noses for drinks is the popula
method in Southern Indiana. The one thai
has the worst chil1 treats.
They say that Mrs. Bloomer's husband il
about to die. It is perfectly marvellous
that the idea didn't occur to him years ago
Inter Ocean.
Persons who have devoted much atten
tion to the habits of domestic animals are
generally agreed that cat manifests it's sa
gacity by never getting its back up at a red.
headed woman Brooklyn argus. .z.a
Now" said Secretary Chandler, going
into the Interior Department, q here is an
item charging the Fort Dick Agency with
two barrels of gin and four loaves of bread.
What's the,use of four loaves of breada''
A New York merchant has been detected
measuring thirty four inches to the yard.
Two inches is nothing on towel, but it
tells heavily on Woolen shirt when the
thermometer drops down.-FTee Press
The man who wrote the following conun-
drum ought to be put ON the dry dock -
Q. If President Grant wanted to know
what business it would be good to embark
in, what advice ought an honest friend to
give? A. Ship Chandler-Ne,o York
Herald
Mr.. Huxley, the learned scientist, writes ::
81 hope Mr.. - will not mix in philogene-
tic stammbaume with objective taxonomy."
We should greatly deprecate such thing
ourselves, but we are inclined to think that
the fellow is just about fool enough to do
it.-Courser-.Jo araaaI.
Out of thirty-fve Vassar College girls
who had studied Latin, French, Greek,
music, drawing, botany and mineralogy for
live or six years, twenty-seven married poor
men and have to do their own housework.
One Of them said the other day that she'd
rather have receipt for sweet pickles than
all the Latin ever taught.-Detroit F,ee
Press. LII
A Colorado poet sends the Denver Tri-
6uge an code to Ortum." We have room,
unfortunately, but for the two concluding
stanzas:
would not die in ortum,
With peaches fit for eatin',
When the wavy korn is gettin' wrpe,
g. the candidates are treatn;
When sassidge meat is phryin',
And hickory nuts is thick -
Ow, who would think of dyn'
Or even gettin' sick?
A lady in Eureka who sports an artificial
tooth, left it on the table of restaurant
where she had taken breakfast, the other
morning, and on returning for it about an
hour afterwards, found it attached as a
charm to the fob chain of the waiter The
sentinel man says the lady received the
but it is doubtful whether the
walters HAIR will ever come ON again.
Journal.