The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
HERE AND THERE,

20,000,0 900 horses ready to do battle. and
the next war will be fought on horseback.
Mrs. MARY SWEENEY has triumphed
over Il male candidate. and been appointed
POundmiotreSS of the city of Jackson,
Mich.
The Connecticut Soldiers Orphans
Home at Mansfield has been closed, be-
cause of the very small number of chill
dren it contained.
The people of New Bedford, Mass, are
fitting out a large whaling expedition,
numbering III vessels, for a regular old
fashioned whaling cruise.
ENGLAND is about to make a further trial
of the clerical capacities of women, by es-
tablishing Il number of female clerkships
in the POst-office savings-banks.
For the race-horse Kangaroo the Mar
quis of Hastings once paid 1900 guineas
say $4,000. This horse now goes in
front of a London cab at sixpence a mile.
LARGE quantities of grasses are import
ed into this country from France every
year, but more this season than ever, 70
the purpose of adding to wreaths of arti-
fetal flowers for bonnet trimmings.
A FIELD of lava 5000 miles square has
been discovered in Southern Utah. by the
biologists of the Wheeler expedition and
one of 10000 square miles in Arizona and
New Mexico.
IT is still uncertain whether Garibaldi
will accept the $4,000 francs annuity for
life and 80, 900 francs additional, with re-
mainder to his heirs in pe%rpetuity. to
to which the Italian Senate has just given
its consent.
AMOUNTAIN lion slid down the chimney
of DR.. Adams cabin. in Summit district,
the other day, says the Denver Neaos, and,
after helping itself to some bacon, crawled
out again. and bounded off just as the pro-
prietOr was returning from a hunt.
a STRANGE bridal party was lately seen
on board the StoningtOn steamer Rhode
Island, the bridegroom being "a years old
and the bride -. The bridegroom has eight
married children and several grandchil-
dren. to whom he has introduced this little
girl as mother and grandmother.
GREAT excitement was caused in a rich
family in New York by the ~unaccOuntable
disappearance OF a gold Snuff-bOx. richly
set with brilliantS, and equal satisfaction
when a young gentleman of six acknOWl-
edged that he had utilized it as a coffin.
and buried it with his pet canary in the
garden.
The Troy On. " Times tells the story
of Maud Oswald, one of the chariot drivers
of BarnuIa's show. She was a clerk in a
fancy goods store in that city. One day
she said she was tired of standing twelve
hours a day behind \ counter, and that
night she started for New York, where
she applied at the H%ippodrome for en-
plOyment. Her good looks favored her
application, and although she had never
driven a horse she 500 learned to be ex-
pert. Now she rides a barebacked horse
with skill and fearlessness. gets $75 a
week, and dutifully supports her mother.
ONLY female spiders spin webs. They
own all the real estate, and the males have
to live a vagabond life, under stones and
in other obscure places, and if they are
troublesome about the house, they are
mercilessly killed and eaten. The XII OF
the spider is tough and unyielding, and is
shed like the shells of Holsters aid crabs.
to accommodate the animals growth. Ii
YOU poke over the rubbish in a female
spiders back yard, among her cast-Off
corsets you will find the jackets of the
males who have paid tor their SOciallty
with their liv~es-trOphics of her barbarism.
as truly as scalps show the savage nature
of the red man.
WE have evidence of the use OF beer for
more than 1000 years. The Grecian poet
and s%atirist, ArchilOchus who lived about
700 B. c.. and the Grecian tragedians,
Eschylus and SophOcleS, who lived about
400 B. c.. called it 40ine Of barley. bio
dorus. of Sicily, who lived about the time
of Julius Caesar. mentions beer in his his
tory. Pliny, also, about the middle OF the
first century after Christ, speaks OF this
beverage in several places in his natural
history. He says that in Spain it is called
celia and ceria in Gaul and other prov
inces of the Roman Empire ceTeuiciG. The
Egyptians are said to have Invented beer.
Afterwards beer was unknown in Egypt
until the French army introduced it anew.
How far the beer of the a~ncients RESENT
bled the modern article we do not know.
The word beer was derived from blbere, to
drink.
In the year 1925 the people OF a county
parish in Virginia wrote to DR.. Rice, who
was then at the head of a theological
seminary, for a minister. They wanted