The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-12-03
MISSOURI.
HERE AND THERE.

taker come down on the price of the
coffin, but he had to yield to public
opinion at last.
THERE is a bull-frog farm in South
eastern Wisconsin, 80 acres of swamp
fenced in, and they do say that, for Il
man with music in his soul, that farms
the plac" - pass a summer evening III.
The troupe contains some of the finest
bass voices ever known.
4 pRUNKAHD who was to have a fin
wcr amputated in the presence of AL
bany Medical College students, by DIR.
Armbv. died under the influence Of
chlorof"rm; and the surgeon says that
in nearly every recorded instance of
death from an ansrsthetic the patient
was addicted I intoXication.
\ French expedition is fitting out to
make a tour of the world in ten months,
under the auspices Of the Geographical
Society. The eXcurSioniSts will visit
India, Japan, the interior sea of Japan,
Chinese ports, Australia, the United
States. etr. \ special library and cabi-
net OF Instruments will be taken.
An error of one cent in the monthly
report of the general agent of 4 life in
~urancc company in Detroit was the
means Of bringing him a letter from the
company requesting him to make cor
rection. Il cannot be said of that COM
pany that reckless management prevails
at the nome office.
TIE grape harvest in France is said
10 have teen unprecedented the present
season. The owners of large vineyards
have been obliged to fill their watts
twice, and have now double the usual
quantity on hand. None Of the vine
growers have any recollection of so
abundant d vintage. The quality of the
wine has also turned out much better
than Wa expected.
NOTWITHSTANDING the law passed by
Congress >olac years ago, the wanton
it>IitAt>-'fs u etlilt vi tlit hNSi'lh
plains continues. Gov. Thayer of Ne
bruSka >a:o that not long ago Il party
Of elk m.I,iercrS killed one hundred elk
and simply took away the hides. This,
he truly adds, is indeed cruelty To ami
mails a. w~ll Il, a gricvouS wrong to the
people.
The ,!..rty-three millions Of the pop
ulatioH If England will require nearly
fourteen million quarters of wheat to
supplement the produce of last harvest
between that and the corresponding
season next year. During the first half
of the last twenty years the English
imports If brcadstutfs represented the
consumption of 30 per cen Of the pop
u~lation. during the second half it was
equal to nearly as per cent. and during
the last three years to more than fifty
per cent. u the total consumption.
FASHIONABLE folk, and those who
fancy themselves too i'll for a Northern
cline, have begun to rush in crowds to
Florida, and the outlook now is especi-
ally promising for a lively season in the
South. 1t has been proposed to send
excursion steamers, such as the Ply
mouth Rock, TO u on st. Johns River
during the winter. The Mobile Register
halls the prospect with JOY, and says:
"Up to very recently, Europe was the
z-n,I -h.4 rn,n,.fol IN thn oarc of oil
Northern persons of this country in bad
health, bat now the South is rapidly
taking liz place. Our section of the
country IS fairly beginning to attract
that attention which it justly merits as a
health resort, and 50 the battle is more
than half won"
LITTLE CHARLES VAN ANDEN, who is
not quite ) years old, resides in San
Francisco, and is occasionally brought
to PachecO on 4 visit. He betrayS an
extraordinary fondness for horses, and
when at home can hardly be kept away
from the horses, where he plays with a
pet horse without fear, and, as it seems,
without danger. He delights in crawl
inc beneath the horse and between his
feet, while the animal moves only his
head and extends his ears as he watches
the child's gambols. Charley vas in
town the other day and trotted off sur
reptitiousiy. When his absence was
discovered he was sought for in alarm,
and vas finally found in a stable stall
with an unbroken and unruly colt. The
child had fastened a short rope around
4 hind lee of the colt, and when found