The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-12-31
HERE AND THERE.

Boston, has confessed that for years he
was a devoted student of dime literature.
The publication of this fact in connec-
ton with the statement that James T..
Fields has visited Pomeroy in his cell is
designed, it is presumed, to work up
sympathy for the boy.
y REMARKABLE instance of calcula-
ton was recorded at Aylmer, Canada,
where Il barber named johnson, for Il
bet of 80 cents, ran under the ears of a
railway train that was passing at a rap
id rate of speed. He won the wager,
though he lost the heel Of one boot by Il
wheel that came u~npleaSantly close as
he emerged. The man who lostthe bet
said he had expected to win and get L
couple of dollars for attending the in
quest.
THE policy of keeping the family
wealth together, so strongly developed
in the elder John Jacob Astor, has been
adhered to by his son. As the late
VIM. Il. AstOr was the trustee, not the
owner of his fathers estate, he has SIM
ilarly willed his OWL property in trust
to two of his sons for the benefit of their
issue, they, like he, being wealthy in
their W right at the time of their
fathers decease, since thereby they
have O become possessors of their
grandfather's property. With the pro-
verbal longevity of the family, it is
therefore probable that many years will
elapse before the Aston wealth is much
divided.
An Englishman, writing to the Specta-
tor from Southern California, a V Il
house there does not cost any thing to
many people in the summer, for the
reasOn that they do not have one;
and in the rainy season one can be built
that will do very well for t.. 81 sawa
man the other day sitting on a chair at
a table eating his dinner under a tree,
with Il stove on one side and Il bedStead
on the other, and all the furniture of Il
house around him, and not Il house (.
five miles, and he looked very
Jolly. | have heard Of houses without
but was rather surprised
the other day when | came upon Il neat
fireplace, with a good chimney and
every thing, and no house. This life
agrees very well with my health, and,
spite of hard work, etc, | rapidly in
crease in weight"
HIGHLY interesting results bearing
upon the termination of seeds have re-
Gently been developed by certain expert
nentS conducted by VI. UlOth. Grooves
we're cut in Il cake of ice, into which
seeds OF various species were placed and
hen covered over by plates of ice. The
whole was then removed to q cool cellar
md allowed to remain from January
until the May following. At this time it
vas found Oh examination that many of
he seeds had Sprouted and penetrated
he ice with their roots. 1t is the Opin-
on of NJ. UlOth that the heat needed for
he process of growth was generated by
he seeds themselves in the progress of
heir development, and that this heat
vas sufficient to melt the ice about the
DOTS, and permit them to extend their
.Xcs. The subject has given rise to
much controversy and opposing thco-
les.
AN English journal, Land and Water,
upplementing the prediction of the
weather. prophets that the present win
er is to be one of unusual severity,
maintains the fact that the winter of
40, exactly one century ago, was quite
uncommon one in the matter of frost.
he latter part of the year 1915 was not
Mike the present year-wet. Pepys
us that the winters of 1860,
6G1 and 1862 were exceptionally mild.
here was no cold at all; the roads
-erc dusty, the rose-bushes were full of
'aves, the flies flew up and down, and
uch Il time was never known before.
IN Jan. -, 1862, 4 general fast was or
cred by Parliament to pray for more
easOnable weather, warmth and every
Their thing being like the middle of
une.
AT Hanover, n. H., for over 40 years
As lived Daniel Blaisdell, Treasurer of
dartmouth College during all that pc
.od, and President of the savings and
.ational banks for the last dozen years
universally respected for answering
and rigid honesty; last August,
e died; now he is proved to have de-
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