The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-01
HERE AND THERE.

PITTSBURGH is again talking of send
ing refined oil to the Delaware through
a pipe 200 miles long that will cost
100000
TURQUOISE is tn only precious stone
that has cver been found in aerolitcs,
and hence the only II that we are sure
exists beyond our planet.
TIE English language is more spoken
than any other of the civilized tongues.
Even in Paris there are few shops where
English is not spoken.
a WOMAN living in Chester County
Pa, has 4 guinea-hen's egg SO years
old. 1t was colored on Easter Sunday,
1916, and has the date and the name of
its then owner scratched on it.
"lN the order of the Daughters of
Rcbccca," says Hon. Schuyler ColfaX,
/" are 10000 American women, and vet
no one outside knows ny thing about
the society. Who says Il Oma can't
keep Il secrct:?"
4 NORTHAMPTON, Mass, lawyer sent
three deputy sheriflS, the other day, to
attach n hotel dinner just ) minutes be-
fore it was eaten. The hungry guests
were obliged to content themselves with
a digest of the proceedings.
\ MONSTER frog is said to be residing
near Montreal. He is generally de-
Scribcd as being "large as a cows
head" while his crOak is Gas loud rs
the bark of 4 dog" When pursued,
the giant betakes himself to deep water
for Il few days and nights.
A FEW days ago a party Of young men
of Charleston, Wasatch County, Utah,
tracked to a willow patch a she grizzly
and her two cubs, which had been kill
inc the sheep in that neighborhood.
The cubs were soon killed, but the old
bear showed war. After unsuccessfully
employing Stratcgem to induce her to
come out and "make Il fair fight" the
young men started to meet her on her
own ground, when she resolved to give
them a game. Tearing ut them with
savage fury, she was within 10 feet of
the foremost two young men, when they
poured into her Il vOllev of II bullets
from Il rifle and dragon pistol. She
weighed 600 pounds and her two cubs
200 pounds each.
TIE French laws regulating hunting
have some eculiarities. The huntSman
must have have Il license. and licenses
are not issued to men who have been
imprisoned for f~elonies or have been
convicted of damaging trees or crops
while hunting, nor to any who are I'M
der 16 years Of age, unless parents or
guardians request it. The price of 4
license is % francs. A land owner,
however, may hunt unrestrictedly on
his own ground. Fashion preScribes
that a huntSman should wear a hat
shaped somewhat like a double-peaked
jockey cap and adorned with Il silver
horseshoe. a dark red or blue coat with
many pockets; trousers b%uttoning at
the knees to long yellow CATERS; and 4
game-bag slung over his shoulder.
A GRAND JURY in North Georgia,
having discovered that half the county
tax of Barlow County went to defray
the expenses of two sessions of the SUI
perior Court, called the attention of the
Judge to the fact, and requested him
$50 to amend the rules and practice of
his court rs to facilitate the dispatch of
business, and not to allow attorneys to
consume So much time in wrangling and
in useless and irrelevant discussions"
The Judge intimated that they were
meddling with matters which they did
not understand. and ordered their recon-
mendation to be stricken out of the pre-
sentiment before its publication in the
official paper of the county. In doing
this he is accused of having exceeded
his Legitimate power. His action has
provoked much Indignation, and the
Legislature is called upon to investigate
it.
A YANKEE traveller out West has writ
ten to his mother, telling her his eXpe-
rience, as follows: Western people
are death on etiquette. You can't tell
Il man he lies without fighting. A few
days ago a man was telling one of his
neighbors, in my hearing, a pretty large
story. Says l, Stranger, that's a whop-
pert Says he, Lay there, stranger
and in the twinkling of an eye | found
myself in the ditch, a perfect quadru-
ped. Upon another occasion says | toa
man never SaW before. as q woman