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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

Tie women of Egypt are now allow
ed to appear in public without wells,
and the men of Egypt are wondering
where such hOmely women came from.
SARATOGA is cOnvulsed e the hope
less attachment of a colored waiter for u
rich and beautiful belle. While waiting
at table he mutterS in her ear: Hope
dat you'll nebber forget me, missuS,n
and "De debbil himself couldn't stop
me fetchin' You DAT Watermelon"
a WIFE very often yearns for sympa-
thy and affection, Il need which her hus-
band, absorbed in business matters,
does not appreciate. Many a poor
woman has been made miserable in cOn-
sequence Of the GOODNESS and neglect of
her thoughtle<s and administrative
partner. Husband, see to it that your
wife is kissed and petted, and caressed
even if you have to do it yourself.-
BrunSUickcr.
THE Lcavenworth belle is frequently
forced to take whisky in self-defensc.
At Il ball given there recently, as q
Young man was gathering her in for u
round dance, her nose went up like the
leaf of q sensitive plant, and jerking
herself loose from him she exclaimed:
''John, amt you got no more of them
cardemOn seeds: Because if YOU amt,
III have to have another drink or change
my partner. '-BrO0klyn ArgMS.
\ C~ALIFoENIA story tells Of a man
who resolved to give up drinking, and
went to Il notary to draw up an affidavit
to chat effect. The document was
drawn, read, and approved. The party
held up his hand and murmured tn"
usual promise. The paper was proper
l. sealed and delivered. ''What is
there to pay?" asked the pledge-taker-
ITO pay-to pay?' exclaimed the nota-
". ''Nothing, OF course. This is u
labor of love" Nothing to payt" re-
turned the grateful bat forgetful pledge
takcr. ''You are 4 brick. Let's take
drink
THE other Sunday Il Detroit minister
preached q sermon on the sin OF white
lies and cyasionS, and he flattercd HIM
self that his congregation took every
word to heart. Next day he made u
call on one of his parishioners, and rs
he mounted the front steps he heard one
of the boys call out: s'Ma. ma! the
preachers coming here!n "Great
lands!' he heard her shout, ''and my
hairs down and I've got this old dress
on, Run to the door, Bill, and tell him
| went to Crosse Isle on achurch excur-
stem" ''Oh, no, | hate to-" replied
the boy. ''Go-go quick-hurry up,
or I'll tan you till You can't raise afoOt!'
she urged, and the lad went to the door
and discouraged the preacherfrOm max
inc the can.-Frec Press.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20

der the superintendent Of Professor
Blake, will not be among the least of
these valuable collections. In addition
to all these and many others, there will
be Il geological collection, the material
for which is now being collected from
all sections of the country.
Ground has been broken for laying
the foundation Of the English buildings.
There viii be two separate structures,
each two stories high. Thclargcr one,
y0XGO feet, will be used for offices of the
Canadian and other colonial exhibitors.
The other, G0X20 feet, will be used rs
residences for attendants required in
connection with the British display.
The buildings are to be constructed of
brick and timber. The architecture
will be in the old English style, and the
roof will be tiled.
The japanese commissioners are also
preparing to erect buildings after their
own STYLE of architecture, and struc-
lures will shortly be commenced for
Sweden and Morocco.
The question as regards duty on con
tributcd goods from foreign countries,
and also relative to the same being liza
bic to seizure for possible debts of the
Centennial commission, have been def
nitely settled. The Secretary of the
Treasury has, decided that New York,
Boston, Portland, Burlington, SuSpen-
sion Bridge, Detroit, Port Huron, Chi
cago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Nor
folk, New Orleans and San Francisco
constitute ports of entry at which goods
intended for the exposition will be adj
mitted free of duty. All articles pro-
perly marked will be forwarded without
examination from the port of arrival
to Philadelphia, there to be delivered
to the collector Of that port. Articles
entered at the exhibition may at any
time be withdrawn for sale on payment
of the duties. The Acknowledgement
of the United States and the Attorney
General Of Pennsylvania have both Civ
en- the opinion that goods deposited and
placed on exhibition are free from seiz-
urc, and are not liable for the debts of
the person or corporation thus receiving
them.
From the advance state OF the build
ii from no other Indication, the
reader may conclude that the time for
preparing goods is growing very brief.
Several foreign nations have already re-
fused to receive further applications,
while the present intention is To close
the door 10 further applications i'll the
American department on September l
next, since there are already on lille re-
quests for considerably more floor room
than the area set apart. There is Il
process t" take place, however,
by which probably 4 large number of
useless and di>creditablc entries will be
thrown out, 50 that opportunity may
then be given for 4 few eleventh hour
applicants to get their goods in. Those
proposing to exhibit should lose no time
in fling their applications At once
Scientific -iHlericaH, -1ug. II.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20
The Southern Girl.

Constance Fcnimorr Woul,on writes
IN the Cleveland Wer0Id: You can tell
Il Southern Girl ut once. She is round
or than her Nortcrn sisters; indeed she
is never thin or lank; She walks with a
Ianguid step, and all her movements
are slow and indolrnt: she is never
alert. She has fine soft eyes with Il
serene expression, very different from
the quick, keen eyes Of the North; she
has not the beautiful red and white
complexion of New York and New Eng
land: rather is she Sall0w, with Il few
rose tint<: YOU might call her cream
color. She never looks anxious, no
matter what happens; she does not
think she can help matters by her advice
or Interference, but sits back calmly
and leaves every thing to ''brother" or
''pa," pronouncing the latter word in
a way | defy a Northern girl to initiate.
The word might be used Us a >hibb0-
leth: it is not exactly ''pay,' but half
way DetWrcn tilat anu the SOUND OF "a
in ''cat." Our Southern %irl dresses
picturesquely rather than trinity, and
has brighter colorS and more floating
ends and curlS about her than 4 North
ern belle allows. She has pretty,
plump hands. but Sh" is not particular
about the gloves that owe thcm-I
mean particular compared with Fifth
Avenue bellies. In short. she is Il more
yoluminous sort of girl in every way
and cares less about 1.-THE fashion,
She has one decided advantage over the
Northern Girl, however, and that is her
voice; it is swecter and lower, 4 little
hainantc, perhaps, but essentially gen
tie and womanly.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20

Miss LILLIAN ID. LOCKWOOD runs q
paper in Jewell County. Several girls
hereaway, are in the newspaper bust
ness, and, with a little more prompt
ness, would succeed well; but their pa
pers are always behind.-Topeka BLADE.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20

TIE Chicago Htcr-OceGn of the 18th
published crop reports from a large num-
Der of counties in the Northwestern
States. Wheat has been considerably
damaged recently by the Wet weather,
and early in the easOn by frost, but the
crop on the whole it is estimated will be
equal to that of last year. Oats have
suffered similarly, but to 4 greater eX-
tent than wheat, and a short crop is
predicted. Corn is late, but unless
nipped by early frosts will turn out a
more than average crop. Barley, rye
and flax are expected to be an average
crop. The hay crop is exceptionally
good. There is an immense crop Of
potatoes, although in SOME localities
they have begun to rot.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20

TIE pretended Mana Sahib has been
sentenced to four years imprisonment
by Scindia, the native Indian prince i'll
whose dominions he was found.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-20

Two men recently burned to death
in Boston were sleeping with Il others
IN a room 50 feet by p.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
A FRENCH WOMAN.

Wolves still infest certain portions of
France, and one especially ferocious
and dangerous lately harbored near
Aube. The ravages of this wolf have
been for long time remarkable the
focks and herds have suffered, while
even men feared to pass near the haunts
of the beast after nightfall. Various
attempts were made to exterminate the
brute, but his cunning always enabled
him to escape the hunters. Not long
ago certain Madame Guinot was pass
ing near the wood, when she saw the
wolf. She had q pitchfork with her
and stones were plenty. She threw
stones at the animal and it retired into
a thieket where it's escape was not
happily practicable. Madame Guinot
charged with her pitchfork and pinned
the wolf to the ground. The contest
which ensued was lively, but it termi-
mated with dead wolf and woman
with somewhat disarranged garments.
The little lambs about Aube now skip
about as freely as the scriptural hills,
and the price of mutton has ceased to
rise. The hunters about Aube are, it
is to be presumed, convinced that some
people can do things as well as other
people, especially when some people
are women with pitchforks,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
PoEs LAST MoMENTs.

In new volume of Poe's poems, r.
81. Stoddard, the late John r. Thomp-
sons literary executor (who, by the way,
was Poe's best friend), thus gives the
last scene in the life of Poe: "He
started from Richmond October 2, 1S49,
and arrived at Baltimore between trains,
and unfortunately took drink with q
friend, the consequence of which was
that he was brought back from Havre
de Grace in state of delirium. Itw
on the eve of municipal election, and
as he wandered up and down the streets
of Baltimore he was secured by the
lawless agents of political club and
locked up in a cellar all night. The
next morning he was taken out in q
state of frenzy, druoged, and made to
vote in eleven different wards. The
following day he was found in back
room at the political headquarters and
removed to hospital. He was insen-
sible when found, and remained SO on
October z. The doctor and nurse were
with him when he first showed con-
sciousness. Where am I p he asked,
They answered, You are cared for by
your best friends After a pause, in
which he seemed to recall what had oc-
CURED, and to realize his situation, Poe
replied, MY best friend would be the
man who would blow out my brains.
Within ten minutes he was dead. ,,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
a M0THER OF CRIMINALs.

The discovery of remarkable fact
in crime statistics was recently made by
DIR. Harris, of New York. His atten-
tion was called to a county on the upper
Hudson where was shown an extraor-
dinary proportion of crime and poverty
to the whole population-480 of it's 4O,-
600 population being in the poor house.
In an investigation of the records the
doctor found a continual recurrence of
certain names. This led him to look
into the genealogies of the families,
and, after patient and honest search, he
found that from girl named Margaret,
who was waif upon the county seven
ty years ago, and was permitted to
grow up, nobody knew how-from her
two hundred recruits to the subsequent
ly established alms-house had descend
ed. In one generation of her miserable
issue there were twenty children, sew
enteen of whom survived to maturity.
OF these nine served in the penitentiary
years, while the others were habitual
inmates of jails and poor-houses.
Through six generations the whole
number of the descendants of this girl
Margaret has been nine hundred. Two
hundred are criminals, as shown of rec
ord, while a large number have been
idiots, imbeciles, lunatics, prostitutes
and paupers. All of which shows how
crime may be generated.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
WASHING POSTAGE STAMPS.

The Western Postal Record says !:
The washing of postage stamps is
probably the most profitable species of
laundry work in this or any other coun-
try. Third Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Barber estimates that the govern
ment is annually defraudeR out of
81 900, 900, or about five per cent. of the
amount of stamps sold, by the use Of
stamps that have been used once and
then washed, and fitted for use asecond
time. This seems an enormous sum,
but Mr.. Barber has given the matter
long and careful examination. Who it
was, or what organized band of men, is
not yet known, but it is evident that
the washing of stamps has become
systematized business. As yet the gov
eminent has only one method OF re-
venge. In many cases washed stamp
may be easily detected. When this
happens, and Postmasters are requested
to scrutinize closely. the letter on which
the washed stamp is found is forwarded
to the dead letter Office.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
20 BR. RElGElGRERED.

If you have crack in the wall in the
corner OF the room, or anywhere else.
do not send for the pfasterer, but get
five or ten cents worth of dry plaster
of Paris wet with cold water; then
take your finger and rub it into the
creyice till il is smooth. Bad nail holes
"a, the wall can be done in the same
way. Should the top of your lamp be-
comesloosa, take it of and wash it with
soap wash the glass also. then put the
plaster around the glass put the brass
top ON again, let il stand until harden
ed, and il Is ready for use again. a
lamp never should be filed quite full,
asthe kesosens sOftens the plaster.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
4 HANDSOME 0EFER.

Mr.. James Wick, the famous florist of
Rochester, n. z. has authorized the
officers of every State and Territorial
agricultural society to offer in his
behalf the following premiums: For the
best collection of cut flowers, $29 !;
second best, 80; third best, IS; fourth
best, floral chrome. The offer is made
to amateurs only, and the flowers to be
exhibited at the regular annual fairs,
the awards to be made by the regular
judges, or by any committee appointed
for the purpose. He also authorizes
the officers of every county society in
America to offer one of his floral
chromos for the best exhibition of cut
flowers. Full terms and conditions
will be made known to the officers of
any society on application to Mr.. Wick.
-PeoriG Transcript.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

greater portion of the opium used for
medicinal purposes both in Europe and
America the production of Asia
Minor. The price of this opium in
the market has advanced much of late !;
fifteen years ago the average price was
about fifteen shillings / er pound, and
now it realizes about 81 per pound,
though the fair sharacter even of this
product has been tarnished by a system
OF sdulteration which has prevailed
during the past two years. About 800
cases ct this adulterated opium have
-heeRs sseaGl IN the period mentioned, so
that purchasers are now very careful
from whom they obtain the drug.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

q WEnI, 1t wasn't, after all, such an
unnatural mistake for the dear young
woman to make It was in the Utica
Advanced School. The happy man
who guides the educational destinies OF
these Utica damsels had given out for
a blackboard exercise: '' Write the
names of five bays, and describe one of
them" She thought he meant boys.
and SO inscribed the appeIIations of
five lucky young fellows. with the de-
scription of one of them" 4sH He is
short of stature she recorded him
{; ';Hith1red curly hair, large head,
plump hands. and goodly- sized feet, -
The Bay of Fundy and Botany Bay,
and other celebrated sheets of water
missed it; but we hope that the boy
who was described appreciated his good
fortune.g She had evidently been look
ing at him. .,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

The Virginia City (Nevada1 Cnr0ai-
Gle tells how some of the people en-
gagged in silver mining wake up in the
morning TO find themselves million,
aires. Seen. Thomas 81. Williams, -
it says, sholds in his own name $500
ahares of California, and 5000 shares
of Consolidated Virginia. 8 The first
cost him little or nothing, it having
been awarded hlm at the time of the
California consoIida for his Sd dree 4,
of Central No. 2. He can sell his
shares in California to-day for
81. $50, 600, and his shares IN
Consolidated Virginia for $3.50, 600.
total of s., zoe, 900. His clear
profit. if he. sells in time, win be
over 80, 600. 900. In the last swensy4
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
a PERsETRRINq WoMAN.

A few years ago, says the Cincinnati
Commercial, an American lady while
studying medicine abroad. having been
refused admittance to course of med
ical lectures in enc of the most noted
universities in Germany, determined to
put on male costume, and pass herself
OF for . Young man. One day an Amer
lean Consul was summoned to hotel
to see q lady from the United States.
AS there was no reception room in the
hotel, he was shown to the room indi-
Gated in the note he had received by the
servant. He looked in vain for the
lady, but saw what he supposed was a
young man sitting on a trunk. He
was soon undeceived, The boy :"
said he was simply in disguise, and set
forth at length the reasons for such ex-
traordinaryS conduct, She said she was
resolved TO attend that course of lect-
ures, and had called in the Consul to
give her real name and place of resi-
dence in the United States, SO that in
case of trouble she could appeal to him
for protection. The position of the
| Consul was novel one, but he finally
consented to take the 1ady's statement,
| and promised to keep the secret invio-
late, unless she was discovered. This
did not happen. The disguise an
swered the purpose the lady remained
at the institution a year, passed
through the course with honor, and is,
doubtless, now applying the knowledge
gained in her practice somewhere in the
United States. We suppress all names
of persons and places for obvious rea-
sons, and give the fact in illustration of
the indomitable perseverance of women
ambitious of a professional career in
pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
q FAMILY REUNITED.

One of the most extraordinary stories
of leng.Iosts and finally restored chill
dren is this, which is told by the Port
land (Oregon) Bulletin we just
learned of a strange incident which has
recently transpired in this city. and
fully proves that truth is ofttlmes
stranger than fiction. Miss Gemma
Frankie, well known to many IN this
city, will be passenger on thevcut go.
ing steamer to San Francisco, en- route
to visit her parents, in Florence, italy.
whom she has no recollection OF ever
having seen. When she was three and
half years old she was given to q fam
lily named Stokes, who promised to
educate and provide for her until she
was eighteen years of age. She was.
then taken to England, India, Ger
many. China, Australia, California, and
last to Portland, Oregon, travelling with
a circus: When she reached this city,
about four years ago, she attained her
eighteenth year, and left the company
and took up her home here. She at
once entered a printing-ofice and learn
ed to set type, and has been succeeding
admirably, winning hosts of friends by
her admirable disposition and modest
retirement. She had been in Portland
but short time when she caused letters
to obe sent to the United States Consul
in Florence, with her photograph, re-
que sting that steps be taken to ascer-
tain the whereabouts of her parents, if
living. In short time they were
found, and the happiness given the
family at home, who had advertised in
almost every country on the globe for
their lost daughter, can better be i'm.
agined than described. They forward
ed sufficient means to carry her from
the land of the setting sun across the
blue waters to the vine-clad hills of her
italian home. She goes, and with her
the kind wishes of hundred friends"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

VALUE OF FARA6 SrocK.-Mr. Statis-
tician Dodge estimates the average
value of horses In the United States
In 1874 at 81. .45 per head mules,
$500; oxen and other cattle, $19 10 j;
milch COWS, $27.99; sheep, 81. !;
hogs, 81 SO. In 1870 the average value
of each was Horses, $81. .38: mules,
$109.O1 oxen and other cattle, go. 81 j;
milch cows, 1922; sheep, 1928 j;
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

A WRITER in the New York CONNER
ciGl gives pleasant picture OF at least
one establishment where women are
well treated and receive q fair roturn
for their services. At the Fstore of R.
H. Macy & Co., there are 400 girls who
receive an average salary of $15 week.
The little cash girls get 81. some work
-ers as high as $25. The store is closed
at s p. m.s except upon special ,occa-
sions. In summer. the clerks are re-
leased at on Saturdays. Every girl
has . weeks vacation in summer, and
half an hour is allowed for lunch. Dur.
ing the holiday season an hour is al
lowed for supper. Such men are not
only literal, but benefcent, both to
employer and employed. =
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

THE sBHfT1sH EMPIRE. Tho British
Empire now posseses 7,76o. 449 square
miles of Territory. The United King
dom. 121, SOB square miles - the Colo
nies, 6,6s5, ,021 India and Ceyions
.961 800. There are 80 persons to q
square mile in the empire t260 in the
lUnitsd Rihgd6m, col IN India, and IA .
IN tlae colonies. I'm some parts OF India
the density of population more tnan
equals that of England. The Queen
rules over 234, 762. 593 souls: her people
dwell in 44,142, ,651 houses and the
ares OF lands they inhabit is not less
than q, 669, 40 square miles.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
WmInT. D. Jones was in Columbu

While T. d. Jones was in Columbus.
modelling his bust of Chase, young
man of the Sparkle order of architect
ure approached him one night at q
social gathering with the following in
quiry: Er-er-say er-er-so you re
the man-er-that makes mud-heads,
amt you ?'' g Yes" said old Tom,
blandly, 6 do you want new one ?"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

UTLLIzA TON OF LEA TIER WASTE.
While mum erous processes for util-
izing the offal in the manufacture of
leather are in successful operation,
there has been comparatively open
field respecting leather waste. At the
Vienna Exposition, leather was shown
suitable for heels, toe-caps and inner
soles, prepared from leather clippings,
according to French method, by sim
ply mixing them with some adhesive
substance, forming the mass into rec
tangular plates on top of each other,
subiecting them to hydraulic pressure,
and then drying and rolling them. This
article was restricted. in use because it
could not Withstand moisture. A Co
penhagen firm, however, exhibited for
entirely different plan. The leather
scraps were first converted, in a suitable
machine, into sort of leather-wood,
which was then mixed with caoutchouc
and different chemical agents, kneaded
by machinery into thick, pasty mass,
and then formed in metal molds, and
dried and subjected to a gradually-in-
creasing pressure until it was finished
under 5000 to 10000 pounds to the
square inch. The appearance of
leather is impaired to it by a light
coating. Articles manufactured by
this material are said to be SO per cent.
cheaper than those made from leather,
and can be made in the some manner,
while they are at the same time per-
fectly proof. Chemical investi-
cation shows it to consist of about 40
per cent. of caoutchouc and go per
cent leather