The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-13
HERE AND THERE.

thermometer on the grass fell to the treez-
ing point.
ALoDGE OF the Sons of Malta has been
started by an American in Japan, n it
is found 10 be great fun to initiate the ma
tives.
The large increase of applications from
disabled soldiers for admission to the
Homes, the present year, makesi it necessa-
~ to increase the buildings at all the
branches.
DRUID BAUMAN recently arrived in San
Francisco afoot, and asserted that he had
walked all the way from New York at an
average speed of forty miles a day.
One negro shot another just after
church. in Huntington, Tenn. The MUIR
derer escaped. but the whole congregation
started after him with the intention of
lynchlng him.
A GENTLEMAN in Kingston, n. Y, has
cured his hen of a mania for Matching.
Stones. clubs. basins of water were in
vain hut when tire-crackers exploded
under her. she concluded o come off.
THE imports at St. John, New Bruins
wick, tell off from 81, 079, 997 in 1873 to
S642.725 in lS74-thuS showing that the
Dominion, as well as the United States, is
feeling the effects of the hard times.
NOBODY would suppose that ribbons
enough could be got into a watch-case to
make it pay to sIsuggle them in that way a;
but. by the aid of a pressing machine,
forty yards, worth about $50, can be put
in an ordinary case.
MERIMEE'S Letters to an Unknown
Lady" continue making a sensation in
Paris. because the lady is said to be the
Countess LiSe Przdrzrska. 1t would be
scarcely worth while giving her any more
letters. unless they were vOwels.
QUESTIONS put t his sweetheart, at in
tervals of a quarter of an hour, by a BASH
flu lad during their first tete-G-tste:
Flows your father?' SLOWS your
mother ?" How are your parents -
GLOW are your father and mother?'
How are they both"
A A or TWO ago when a young color
ed man living in this city took a pepper
mint lozenge between his teeth. leaned
over the gate and mOtioned for his girl 70
bite Oft the other halt, she gave her head
a proud toss and replied: No, sab, If
you wants to mary me, jist swaller dat
candy and spoke up like a white man -
UckSjurq Herald.
THOSE persons who began TO eat large
quantities OF fish afew years ago, anG have
kept up the practice ever since without
having experienced the desired increase OF
intellectual. capacity, may thank the New
Orleans Republican, for this explanation
"UnicsS Il man has brains. it is useless for
him 10 ear brain food. 1t has never been
claimed tor fish that it creates it only
Strengthens the BRAIN
\ DROP Of perSpiratiOn has caused a ter.
ribIe explosion in the PyrOtechnic School
at Toulon, 4 naval lieutenant was filling
bottles with dynamite, gun cotton, and
phosphate OF calcium, and the story is
that a drop Of perspiration from his fore,
head falling, ander certain conditions, Oh
matter not explosive without contact with
water, produced the catastrophe. Atany
rate. three persons were killed on the spot,
ONE Of the Siamese Ambassadors, on
returning home from Europe, gave the
following description Of a piano forte, or,
as he called it, "a great trunk set upon
legs" He said, a sits in front
of this and, tickling a sort of tail it has
with her toe, produces a variety of sounds
by beating rapidly with her fingers on q
number of little bits of ivory in front Of
it." Those SiameSe are unbiased, and
therefore reliable critics.
NJ. I. BowDEN, a school teacher at St
James. La, 1illeda pocket with advertising
limitations of grecnbacks, and when some
body at the village store offered to bet o!
something he drew out a handful, saying
MAKE il $500 and I'll take you" The
most of the bystanders saw the character
of the supposed money, and laughed al
the Joke. Not so Karl Ahlberg, an igno
uine and the amount as a fortune. ALL
berg enticed BOwden into a stable, muir
dered him with a shovel, secured tht
worthless roll of paper, buried the body
and tied.
THERE is a bee hive on the eastern slope
of the San Fernando range in Los Angeles
County, Cal, which men have tried sever
al times to capture, and have as often fail
ed. 1t in a rift which penetrates the
rock to a depth of 100 feet. The opening
is 80 feet long and II feet wide, with two
passages. The bees come and go in solo
columns about one foot in diameter. Eff
forts have been made to descend To thu