The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-21
HERE AND HER

A NEW industry has been introduced
France-the breeding of ants for
heir eggs. These eggs are sold to the
breeder Of p%heasants. As yet the busi-
ness is in the hands of its originator, a
woman, and she already appears to be
on the high road to fortune.
SINCE the cyclone at Galveston in
last the whole Island is be-
ing covered with the finest quality Of
Bermuda grass. As the sand hills on
the beach form they will become mat
ted with grass, and thereby become
sea walls.
A CRAZY man was tied fast in n wag-
for transportation to Blountville,
Ky. lie yelled so loudly that the fright
ened horses ran away, throwing out tho
two keepers and breaking an arm OF
each. Then the lunatic seized the reins,
controlled the horses, drove to the asy-
lum, and delivered himself up.
A FRIGHrFUL tragedy has taken place
at Finistere, in France. A man, seized
with q sudden fit of madness, set fire to
his house, after having barred the doors
upon his wife and four children. Tho
whole family persisted, and when the
remains were discovered they were re-
duced to cinders.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper furnishes an
interesting account of Edwin Booths
first experience of acting. II was when
he was II years of age. lie then or
g~anizcd u small company of boys, and
established II miniature theater in a
Baltimore residence. The admission
fee was two cents. One of the men,
bers Of the troupe, who afterwards be-
came almost rs famous rs Booth, was
John Sleeper, who, when he adopted
the stage as u profession, added tho
name of Clarke, and he ,ame famous AZ
j. $. Clarke.
A CURIOUS discovery has been made
in the convent of Santa Maria la Nuova
at Rome, which formerly belonged to
the Franciscan monks. IL consists in
three underground cells, accessible only
through n hidden trap-door, and where
monks guilty of grave o~iienses were,
probably, put. In the first there is II
little light, through an opening in the
wall; the second is and dark
err; the third is without q ray Of light,
and is a dismal hole. Sinister and
mostly oblitcrated inscriptions cover
the walls, and numerous instruments
of torture, rs well as human bones,
were found.
From the weather reports kept in
London it has been ascertained that
thunder.storms are becoming less and
less frequent every year in the vicinity
of the city. The cause is thought to BIO
the publication Of the Thames and the
improved drainage of the city. 1t has
also been found that the course of the
most violent thunder-storms follows the
line of polluted rivers, stagnant pools,
swampy grounds, and badly drained
towns, which exhalc large volumes of
nitrous, sulphurous and other unwhole-
some yapors.
The African Church, one of tbcland-
marks of Richmond, is being leveled
with the ground. 1t was erected before
1900 for the First Baptist congregation,
but has been occupied since 1871 exclu-
siyely by colored people. 1t was fire.
quently used for public meetings, and
Edward Everett, Henry Wilson, Gerritt
Smith and Horace Greeley have spoken
from its platform. Daring the last days
of the Confedcracy, Jefferson Davis and
Judah p. Benjamin addressed n largo
mass-mee,ing within its walls,a and strove
to postpone the inevitable hour of SUR
render.
DAMARIsCoTTA, Me boasts of the
largest shell heaps on this continent.
Within an area of q hundred square rods
are piled up the shells Of 10000, 900 oys-
tiers which were thrown down by hui
man eaters! Prof. Cunning thinks the
multitude of eaters may not have been
very great, and that the heaps tell of
time rather than number, as no oyster
has lived in the rivers near within tho
memory of man. Instruments of stone,
bone and copper are the only human
relics found among the shells, and their
positions show that no great geological
event has occurred since the heaps were
formed.
ACONDUCToR on the Midland Railway
at Jersey City noticed that the ticket of
a certain "commutcr" lasted an unu-
sual time, and, though he punched two
holes in it daily, the number of trips
left did not perceptibly diminish. One
morning hc examined it carefully and
bent it, when several pieces fell from
former punch.holes. The gentleman
had been in the habit of picking up the
pieces as they dropped from the con,
ductor's punch and restoring thenf
carefully to their places, so that their
restoration was not noticeable except
upon close inspection. The company
does not propose to sell the offender
any more tickets, and has posted q NO
tice to that effect in its ticket-ofice.
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