The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-27
HERE AND

Two tribes of the west coast of Africa
are fighting now, and have been fight
ing for three years past, for the posses
sion of an African Helen. The woman
wears the unromantic name of Mrs.
Mebbo.
JonN HALL, of North Troy, Vermont,
has seven children, four of whom, UNI
der ii years of age, weigh 200 pounds
each. The youngest are twin girls, 10
years of age, healthy and intelligent.
These children have each ten we'll
formed fingers, two thumbs and twelve
toes. Mr.. Hall has done his duty for
the Centennial year.
UNDER a new law allowing women to
vote for school officers in Minnesota,
about $50 of that sex went TO the polls
ut a school election in Minneapolis last
Tuesday. They were very courteously
treated by the men in attendance, and
the ballot-boxes were decorated with
flowers to celebrate their first exercise
of their new political privileges.
THE other day a Lee (Mass.) man,
while arranging his combination safe
lock, missed one or two small pieces
that he had taken out and laid on the
floor, and for Il while he sought vainly
for them everywhere. lie finally con-
cluded to administer a dose Of ipecac to
his dog, who was standing innocently
by, and sure enough, the missing prop
erty came to light.
THE ages of some of the most cele-
DRAFTED physicians who have died in
England during the past year, AS given
by the Lancet, have been quite remark
able. James Dawson was 90; Peter
Labtram, SC; Stanley Ireland, SO; Au-
thur lielsham, 80; Sir Charles Locock
Il; William Beathe, 80; George Web
ster, 80; William Mcdonald, 81; Henry
Franklin, 80; James Snow %.
ACCORDING to the Toss Gazette, Ber-
lin gets all her articles, not only of lux
ury and fashion, but also of common
necessity, from the French. Books,
shirts and butter arc imported in large
quantities from France, the productions
of their Gallo neighbor being better
and cheaper than those Of Germany.
"1f things go on like this" says the
philosophic writer in the Gazete,
"France will soon get back the milliards
she paid to her conqueror, and which,
in fact, have never procured the least
advantage to German citizens"
TIE eggs brought to the Paris mar
kct are verified by agents appointed by
the Administration, who are called
''mironrS-compteurs," and the eggs are
submitted to three opcrations-first,
counting to verify the number of eggs
in the painters; passing them through
rings to test their size and value; and
final inspection to separate the clean
and fresh eggs from those stale or ad-
died. Small eggs in the markets of
Paris are those which will pass through
4 ring sf four centimctres. Hence,
French egg-merchants have rings Of diff
ferent size to try the eggs.
The keeper of the Egg Rock light
station, on the coast of Maine, has n
pleasant habitation. A recent terrific
gale swept away the b~oat-house, the
tower of the latter being hurled thirty
feet from its foundation. The machin-
cry of the bell was carried clean over
the rock and completely demolished
Nearly every movable thing was wash
ed away. At one time the water was
two feet deep on the floor of the dwell
i~ng-house, and rocks weighing more
than two tons were lifted up by the sea
and deposited ut the very door of the
house.
ONLY one day was consumed in tax
ing the census OF Philadelphia. The
work was done something after the
English fashion. Three hundred thou-
sand blanks were printed, and Il was
left with every family in the city. The
work was done by the police. The
blanks were distributed on the Sd, and
on the 10th Mayor Stokely issued q
proclamation showing the result of the
census. The total number of inhabi-
tants is Sl7, 74S, of whom 226,07O are
males over twenty-one years, 246,634
are females over tw~enty-one, 17l,998
are males under twenty-one and 172,146
are females under twenty-one.
EVEN in the back woods of Pcnnsyl-
vania does the fraudulent schemcr
flourish. The unusual amount of
money demanded last year in Blair
County and other counties in the noun
famous portions of the State, in pay
ment of bounties for the scalps of wild
animals, melted some of the county au-
thorities to investigation, which reveal
ed IA well-devised and carefully executed
scheme of d~efrauding the county treas
uries. In one instance in Blair County
the skin of a colt had been cut up and
made into ears, which were palmed of
rs those of a fox. A large number of
warrants have been issued against the
persons suspected of the frauds.