The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07
HERE AND THERE.

Cal, is proud of a female physician,
who, during the recent storm, swan
across three rivers to attend a patient
with the measles.
A LAssEN County, Cal, farmer, re-
Gently had two thousand sheep starved
to death. His feed gave out, and the
deep snow prevented the sheep from
reaching grass.
A LADY in Knoxville, Tenn, has been
very properly adjudged insane because
she petitioned to have the valuation
placed on her property by the assessors
raised from $500 to 81, 900.
The Mikado of Japan has, by a re-
cent decree, granted to journalists the
right of sending whatever communica-
tons they may desire from one part of
the Empire to the other free of charge.
VIRGINIA has been compelled by the
increase of petty larcenies and the in
sufliciency of Jail accommodations to
revive this whipping-post, and Delaware
no longer enjoys her proud distinction.
A RECENT fire at Osaka, Japan, con-
sumed upwards of six hundred houses,
including all the thcaters of the city,
seven in number. The village of Kaz-
uchie, in the province of Rikuchu, con-
sisting of upwards of three hundred
houses, was also totally destroyed by
the fire.
FAR-oFF Iceland will send her quota
of goods, and G. Browning, a resident
of that island, will exhibit manuscript
relies, minerals, and a general collec-
ton OF all the products, in which will
be included some fine sealskins and
other furs.
THERE has Just been sold at auction
in Paris a kandjiar Ga sort of sword)
which belonged to the father of the
present Shah of Persia; it had AZ notch
es on its blade, showing that it had de-
stroyed the lives of AZ men; it brought
$40 cents; just 20 cents each victim.
THE committee appointed to invcsti-
gate the subject of ladies' luncheons
when travelling, report they invariably
consist of a very small sandwich, large
quantities of white and yellow cake,
and an immense pickle; if the latter is
absent the affair is considered a failure.
These data are trustworthy, and shed
light on a subject to which little atten-
ton has been paid hitherto.
SOUTHERN India strikes one as the
country par excellence of temples. On
every hilltop, from every tope of trees,
on the broad bosom of every madam,
from the matched roofs of squalid vii
lagos; and towering above the bunga-
lows of British environments, alike rise
the sculptured pyramids of temples
some tiny shrines, some vast and i'm
posing structures.
AT Manchester, Eng, the other day,
Mr.. Hardwick held an inquest concern
ing the death of William Stevens. On
Sunday, during a severe storm, Stevens
was seer sitting on the box of his omni-
bus with blood flowing from his neck.
His throat was cut from ear to ear. DIR.
Samson tracked blood to the entrance of
the yard, where he saw a large piece of
telegraph wire. The wire, after break
ing, had made a loop over the gate and
caught Stevens, as he was entering,
round the neck.
The Idaho World tells a story that
seems almost incredible. One evening
two years ago a party of ten of the
prominent citizens of Idaho gave a re-
ception at Boise City. Now not n is
living, all having met with violent
deaths. One was killed by an insane
man, another preferred laudanum to
political disgrace, another blew his
brains out with n pistol-ball, II was
murdered and his body concealed among
the rocks, one fell down II mine-shaft
600 feet and was dashed to pieces, an
other was assassinated while walking
along the street, one fell out of a wagon
and received fatal injuries about the
head, one was killed in Washington
Territory and the last of the ten was
scalped by Indians in Eastern Idaho.
The material out of which the fabric
known as Chinese or Indian grass cloth
is manufactured is likely, it is now stat
ed, to take the place either rs a substi-
tute for, or in combination with cotton,
flax, hemp, jute, wool, or silk, and to
be valuable also in the manufacture of
paper. But a more important fact in
this connection, as recently ascertain
ed, is that the dried stems afford equal