The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-05-25
HERE N THERE.

old, came into Troy the other day, and
skipped playfully around through the
milliner shops, examining the new
styles In spring bonnets.
ARE you aware, ladies, that those
lovely birds you admire on your hats
were flayed alive to preserve their
feathers more securely to the skinP
Such is the stubborn fact.
AN extraordinary shoal of whales WIS.,
tied Kirkwall Bay, in Scotland, the 9TH
err day, and Immediately n great many
boats were manned with a view to cap
turing them. Altogether GO whales were
driven ashore.
GEN. Won CoREL, the last surviving
officer of the once famous Prussian
deaths Head IIussars," who made
themselves feared in the campaign Of
1907, died n few days ago in Scwedt,
Germany.
THERE is a lady living in Richmond,
Ind, who vas married when II years
of aye. When IL years old she was
the mother of two children, and when
80 her children numbered 10. Eight Of
her children are now living.
IT is proposed in Charleston, $. c.,
to organize m expedition to discover
the grave of Gen. Moultrie, the hero Of
Fort Sullivan, who died in 1905. AL
though buried in the family graveyard
the remains can not be found. 2
Two men, while scuiling on the cliff
at Passair Falls ut Paterson, n. j., the.
other day, accidentally fell over the
prccipicc and tumblcd u distance of 65l
feet the bottom. Fortunately, they fell
into deep water, and escaped with their
lives.
A CiSCiNNATI scientist, who allowed
himself to be stung once II day for three
weeks by bees to ascertain the effect of
the bites, says that after about the tenth
time the pain and swelling were slight,
the body seeming to become inoculated
with the poison.
ACCORDING to Il French statistician,
more than n thousand people have per-
ished by fires in thcaters from the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century up
to the present date, while the pecuniary
loss by the same class of conllagrations
amounts to about sixty million dollars.
THERE are two hot springs in Prcsi-
do county, Texas, near the Rio Grande,
each about ten feet in diameter, en-
closed in Il natural circular rim three
feet high. The water is clear and of an
unknown depth, attempts to sound it
with 100 feet Of line having failed. In
one spring there is II temperature Of
10 degrees.
The latest nuisance in the shape of II
juvenile toy consists of n lcaden bail, of
the size of an English walnut, with II
nipple on its surface, on which n per-
c~ussiUu cap may be placed. The ball is
held by a string so attached that when
the ball is dropped upon the pavement
the cap cxplodes. 1t is an admirable
continuance for frightening women and
children, and is becoming quite popu-
lar.
TIE pistol with which Aaron Burr
killed Alexander Hamilton is now in
the possession of Louis Marshall, of the
Commercial National Bank, of Yer
s%ailles, Ky. 1t traces its pcdigree
through the gentleman who acted az
Burr's second, to whom it was present.
ed Ivy Furr; Col. James Bowie; Dr.
Carr, of the arsenal near Baltimore ;
Thomas r. Marshall, and T.. G.. Mar
shall, to the present owner, son of the
laNt.na ucd gentleman.
AFTER several years of patient wait
ing, the plated table fork which had
been swallowed by ayoung man in Paris
has been successfully extracted from
his stomach by Surgeon Liable. 1t was
removed by making IN incision in the
stomach. AT recent meeting of the
Partisan Academy of Science, both the
fork and the patient, perfectly cured,
N'lt pitSNnN' iHN SN'SN'h Viva 'AN'
the lesson to be drawn from his success
is the possibility of acting directly on
cancercd stomachs by missions.
ALL the Pope's robes are made either
of white cloth or of red cloth Plus IN.
uses five white cassocks in the course OF
the year, as owing to his being an in
yeterate snufr-taker he soon discolors
his outer garment. Each cassock costs
$50. The red mantle which he renew,
once. u year costs $3.50. The silk stock
ings are furnished by a Belgian house
, for SIG a pair, but his slippers, which
|, are changed every month, are furnished
by a Roman firm. An ordinary pail
embroidered with the cross is worth S25,
but some of the papal slippers cost As
much as $500, the cross being inlaid
with diamonds. The old, cast-off cloth
ing of the Pope is highly priced by the
faithful, who eagerly buy it at a great
, price.