The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-15
HERE AND THERE.

had been living by logging.
As Il novelty, the application of the
camera obScura has been introduced in
English railway carriages, exhibiting to
the traveller a moving picture of the
country through which he is passing.
\ snoAL of red fish lately appeared
to KING Kalakaua of the Sandwich Is
lands while taking a bath. This sign
has preceded the deaths of his three pre-
deceSSorS, and he has accepted the omen
as 4 warning of the inevitable, and has
taken to his bed, quite i'll.
TIE immigration to California has
been the greatest this year of all years
since the discovery of gold nthat State.
The immigration from all quarters for
the last eight months exceeds that to
New York during the same period by
more than twelve thousand.
"TwO Fergus Falls (NIinn.) men,
driving behind Il team of mules, diScov-
cred Il glitter on the hoof of one of them,
examined it and found a gold ring,
which the mule had stepped on and Sc
cured with the cork of his shoe."-RO-
mancc set aRoat 6y q designing Coroner.
THE Mayor of Wilmington, North
Carolina, has hit upon a novel method
of Kidding the city Of thieves. He has
notified the police that if robbericS, that
are of frequent occurrence there, are
not abated by the first of October, he
will discharge every man on the force.
NOTWITHSTANDING the lapse of a
whole century and the eXertions of all
the e~pidemics, we are yet far from done
paying the expenses of our first war.
Nine widows of revolutionary soldiers
are still drawing pensions at Hartford,
Connecticut. One of them, = widow of
Gen. Henry Eurdick. draws SG00a year.
TIE rhap>odi>t Of the Cheyenne
LcaIer speaking of proposed improve
mentS in that burg, says: 1.-The houle-
wards will be laid in elIiptical form,
and the walks lined with outrageous
trees. Birds of song will nestle i'm the
foliage, and the fragrance of sweet flow
crS will load the air. The playing foun-
tains will reflect the SunbeamS in minia-
ture rainbowS, and every thing will be
lovely about the railroad grounds.
IT is Il popular belief that lightning
will not strike beech tree. In arcccnt
thunder shower at Goshen, NaSsachu-
sets. Il beech and maple standing near
together, with branches interviewing
each other, received the electric bolt,
which shattered the maple and passed
into the earth through a Frustrated
hcmlock tree lying near, which was
stripped of its bark nearly the whole
length. No trace of the lightning WAS
left upon the beech.
THE New Orleans Picayune reports
| that ut the office of Il timber merchant
in that city there is exhibited a cypress
board from Alabama thirteen feet long,
fifty-three and Il half inches wide and
two inches thick. without knot or split.
This is the largest piece of timber ever
seen in any market outside of CalifOr-
MIA. The companion of this enormous
plank is reserved for exhibition at the
Centennial. The tree from which the
timber was taken must have measured
ut least seven feet in diameter.
TIE monument to the Duke of Vel
lington, which has been in progress
nearly twenty-three years, is now near
ly completed. 1t is thirteen feet long,
eight feet wide and twcnty-Seven feet
high. The base rises on two marble
steps, and consists of a marble plinth
and capping with Il bronze die, which
is ornamentcd with forty-cight tablets
suspended by bronze cords, each tablet
bearing the name of some great battle
in which the Duke was engaged.
ANOTHER of the pet illusions of the
country has vanished. 1t has been
fondly believed for years that General
TavfOr on Il certain memorable occasion
made use of the sOul-stirrin0 Obscrva-
ton, "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg SO firm was the popular faith
on this point that the General was elected
to the Presidency; and now comes 4
veteran of the Mexican war with the
diShcartening assertion that the people
have been deceived during all these
years. What the General really said
was, Captain Bragg, it is better to
lose Il battery than a battle"-a remark
that any body could have made.
Mrs. EUNICE JENKINS, of Nantucket,
urI, III IL. ,,.r+h nnolo n Will u-i+b