The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-10
HERE AND THERE.

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hammedan, but Sir Samuel Baker says
it is safer to travel throughout the en-
ormous district of Soudan than to cross
Hyde Park, in the heart of Christian
London, after dark.
Two old ladies of Saugus, Massachu-
sets, will send to the Centennial a SAM
pie of the tea pitched into Boston Har-
Dor. Their grandfather received it from
n of the patriots who took part in the
demonstration.
A SURE cure for pain in q hollow tooth
is a mixture of powdered alum and
common salt, applied with a lock of
cotton wool. A sensation of GOODNESS
follows the application, after which the
pain gradually subsidies.
SIR GEORGE ELLIOTT, who purchased
the Egyptian railways for English capt.
~talists, commenced life as a pit boy in
the mines. He is now the largest coal
proprietor in the world, and q member
Of Parliament.
a THREE-YEAR-oLD child sprang from
the arms of its mother standing at an
open window of n house in Providence,
X. l., the other day, and fell &c feet, but
struck on q baby carriage standing be-
low the window, and was not seriously
hurt.
FIVE young men went to g spiritual
seance in Terre naute the other night,
with lamp black on the palms OF their
hands. Then they shook hands with the
materialized spirit that appeared, and,
after the lights were turned up, the me-
dunn who had been sin a trance" in the
cabinet also had lamp black on her
hands.
IT is curious to consider what a cheap
article ink is, and how far it may be
made TO go. as a grain Of musk will
scent a drawer for many years, and still
lose nothing appreciable of its original
weight, so a half-penny worth of ink
would blot a man to the roots of his hair
and calves of his legs without appearing
to diminish in the inkstand.
THE wife Of Mr.. Joseph Whiscnhunt,
Of Burke County, N. c., gave birth to
twins the last night OF the old year.
one was born ten minutes before IL
o'clock and the other ten inmates after
IL. So one was born on Friday and the
other or Saturday, one in 1865 and the
other in 1876. Their birthday is not the
same, yet they are twins. We doubt il
such a thing ever occurred before in the
history OF the world. Another noticea-
bic circumstance is that one was a boy
and the other girl; the boy was born
in the old year and the girl in this
leap-year.
CHINESE physicians treat hydropho-
bia in a highly original manner. Two
sandstone bottles half filled with wine
or spirits are placed upon a fire until
the liquid boils. The contents are then
emptied, and the red hot mouth of the
bottle is applied to the bite and held
there until it is filled with blood, when
the same course. is pursued with the
other bottle. A decoction OF rice, in
which cantharides have been boiled for
an hour and then removed, is also given
the patient, who is required to keep
perfectly quiet for eight or ten days.
LLOYD CLARK, an engineer on the
Long Branch division OF the New Jer-
sey Central Railway, is probably the
richest man holding such O position in
the country. For several years he ran
an engineer on the Central Pacific Road,
during which time, becoming seized
with the speculative fever, he launched
out, buying and selling gold and stocks,
always with success, unIii at the end OF
five years he came East, the owner of
between $4,000 and 100000. He es-
tahlished himself in New York with a
view of living in a manner consistent
with his means, but such a life was too
irksome, and after several attempts he
gave up the experiment, and securinga
position on the Central went to work at
his favorite business. Mr.. Clark is one
of seven brothers, all of whom are
engineers in different parts of the world.
The editor of the Avalanche, at Sill
yer City, Idaho, has had an unpleasant
bit of adversely. The Empire Mine in
that neighborhood ceased operations,
leaving the employees wages unpaid to
the amount of 5000 The agent went
to San Francisco to get some money
from the company if possible, and when
he started to return somebody tele-
graphed to the editor that the funds
were with him. The editor bulletined