The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
HERE AND THERE.

> The Mayor of Green Bay is near-sighted
and he lifts his hat to the shadow of a
dray-hOrSe and reaches out to shake hands
with l~amp-posts.
On the 81 inst. Plus IX. gave the Queen
OF Sweden Il breakfast in the Vitican-all
to herself. He never sits down to table to
eat with any one, as it is against theruIes.
BISMARCK has a pistol with $1,000 worth
OF diamonds in the handle, and vet he
can't hit a cat ten feet away. 1t takes one
o. these old shOt-guns 10 tear things.
a WELL on the premises o fArnOld Small
of North Falmouth, Mass, was found with
ice in it the middle of June so thick that
1t had to be cut through with an axe be-
fore water could be obtained.
The union of the Black and Caspian
Seas IS III contemplation, and a project for
the construction OF a canal colleagues long
for that purpose, is meeting with great
favor at st. Petersburg and Moscow.
WEST POINT has just turned out FORTY
three new officers; but if recruiting goes
on as briskly in the future as in the past
they VIII soon have a private apiece TO hu-
initiate.
In removing o bodies from the Ben
ningtOn (Vt.) cemetery, the other day.
that OF Mrs. Bartlett. which had been burr.
ed some twelve years, was found to be
petritied, weighing 800 pounds.
The Manhattan ks Nationalist pro-
pounds this cOnundrum: A couple of
weeks ago Mr.. WinkIer, of Fancy Creek,
sold about 81 1000 worth of wool to a Leav-
enwOrth house. 1t was brought to this
place in a couple of twO-horse wagons.
Now the question in agricultural arithme-
tic Is, How many wagon loads of 20
cent corn would it take to come to that
amount of money!
LET Us suggest 10 the Plliadelphia
Ledger that it vary the beauty # its col
umns by adding matrimonial poetry there
to. Something like this. for instance.
would lend Il charm to a wedding notice
and encourage the pairing OIL of Philadel-
phians quite as much As the obituary
poetry induces Philadelphians TO die:
DtdTesl MARY, tnOu mast lett u.s.
IT'S a fact which gives us joy;
Hurry up and help the census
Let us hope twill be q boy.
Neither gone nor fogotten."
W had a brother Willie once,
He was the ladies' pride;
He's gone the way all fool men go,
And taken in a bride.
Gone to meet Brigham Young"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
WE nave a man iii Cuthbert. 81 wears
old, says a Pennsylvania newspaper, who
has not taken Il drop of ardent spirits in
over a quarter of a century, never drank a
cup of coffee in his life, or ate a pound of
meat of any kind. A few days since, in
reading a paper, ne saw an advertise
ment where it was proposed TO furnish a
recipe for S. which would teach Il man how
to live on 35 cents per week. At this propo-
sitiOn he became indignant. and said it
was sheer extravaganza for a man to spend
that amount, asserting that his provisions
were not worth Sl0a year. He subSists
entirely on corn bread and water. decIar-
ing that he would not exchange his diet
lci IIiI " ii hluS II HUE HIS CIbIiI-
ing costs him about s. per annum. He
is a man of family; and We pity his
family.
THE Palace Hotel, now nearing COM
pletion. in San Francisco. is the largest
hotel structure III the world. 1t covers
9 1920 square feet Of ground. ara is seven
5 cries high; 81 66I coo bricks were used
in its walls. 5000 tons of cast and wrought
iron, anu 4.5G1 .524 feet OF lumber ana TIM
Der. 1t contains 1000 windows, 377 of
which are bay windows 92G rooms. none
OF less size than 16x16 feet. and 3SS bath
rooms. 1t contains over three miles of
halls; there are 1910 doors, 5000 gas
burners, and thirty-twO miles Of gas and
water pipe. 1t requires $4,000 yards, or
twenty-eight miles of carpet. 1t can ac-
cOmmodate 1000 guests. beS deS 800 Serv-
ants and employees. And, best of all.
there is not a dark or windOwlcSS room in
the house. it has been decided to run Il
length of heavy plate glass, sixteen inches
high, along the top of the baluSters and
balustrades, as a precautiOn against acct
dents by children sliding down the balus-
ters or climbing the haluStradeS. This
plate glass will reflect the gas lets, and at
night the interior courts will present Il
dazzling scene.
How they Buried the Ratchet.