The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-04-30
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20 ANS SNAto A"NN ~"I eO"Ahoh q iujDN
day.
AN attempt is being made in st. Louis
TO suppress the State Lottery of Mis-
souri,.
A PRIVATE society has been organized
in London for the purpose of ~furthering
cremation.
YoK, Il little Chinese girl, has been
admitted to u public school in Sacra-
mento, Cal.
A FLORIDA paper recommends the
passage of Il law forbidding the killing of
alligators for mere sport.
NEwsGIRLs are more than a match for
the newsboys i'll New York, and bid fair
to crowd the boys off the track.
GIVE shall miss that bunch of cells
engraved i'll the corner of cur green
backs" says an exchange.
The carriage bills of New York amount
to the enormous sum of 50, 900, 900 per
annum, and S1S, 600 of it goes for moving
pianos.
Six HUNDRED people We're killed and
the late cyclone in Georgia and South
Carolina.
Our total cotton production for the
last three years reaches the enormous
aggregate of II, $50, 900 bales, worth
about S725, 600, 900.
The combs of Spanish and Leghorn
fowls are sold in some parts of Europe
as choice delicacies for the palates of
those who sigh for fresh appetisers.
SEVEN female compositors in the office
OF q Boston weekly paper weigh 1,029
pounds. This is more "fat" than is
usually to be found in an Office devoted
to a weekly publication.
The fine picture of Elaine" which
was stolen at San Francisco, Cal, was
recovered, uninjured, by detectives from
the men engaged i'll the theft, which was
perpetrated i'll the hopes of a rewarG.
THERE are fears expressed that the
great Salt Lake of Utah will soon grow
too large for its confines. Since 1861
there has been a steady rise, and it is
eating under the land ON both sides at a
tremendous rate.
UNDER q construction of a late act of
Congress it has been decided that Gen
eral Sickles retains his place on the re-
tired list, and is entitled to pay as a
Major-General from the date of his resig-
nation of the Spanish mission.
A BRAZIL paper is responsible for a
story that one Manuel Jose Alfonso has
just died i'll San Jose LeOnissa, at the
age of 80, and that he leaves a widow
and o Il from a marriage consummated
when he was almost 105 years old.
A FARMER near Fairbault, Mimi, has
cut from six acres about 27,500 hoop
poles. The price has ranged from so
cents to S1.4O per hundred. At the low
est price they pay better than wheat.
But you cant cut 'em with a reaper.
New ENGLAND grows a little irreverent
Nearly all the clergymen In Hartford
were summoned, on April l, to a hotel,
there to bind in matrimonial chains a fair
youth and a gentle maiden. About
tw%enty-four of the good men appeared
simultaneously, to discover among the
sad, sweet smiles of a surrounding crowd
that they We're the subjects of a hoax.
CHARLES MATTHEWS, the comedian,
has sent from London, to a friend in New
York, a unique present, consisting of
a silk umbrella of peculiar make and
5 finish, in the handle of which is inserted
a valuable gold chronometer watch of
Swiss manufacture. This is said to be
the first umbrella of the kind which has
found its way to this country.
SPECULATIVE MITRIMONT.
When some rich women marry some
poor men, they little imagine the misery
, they are creating fer themselves. Aman
who woOes a woman With mercenary mo
l tives is rather apt to hate her for being
worthy of a better fate, as she umdoubt-
! cdly is, else her generous heart would
. not so run away with her judgment. The
man who marries q woman for money
had better kill her outright, and take It.
> Indeed, that IS what a creature who