The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-12-14
HERE N THERE.

Said, after a brief meditation, Then
the black folks are made out Of coal
dust, amt theyp''-Brunspicb Neas.
Mr.. ROBERT MroKLE, Cashier Of the
Union Bank OF Baltimore, has probably
been a bank officer for a longer time
than any other man in the United States.
He entered the service of that bank in
1919, and since 1880 has been its Cash
Ter.
A YOUNG Cbinaman has been adj
mitted to the collegiate institute at
Napa, California, without opposition
from the students, who treat him as
we'll as though he was Of their race.
He has parted with his queue, and
dresses like an American.
A RECENT census of India shows that
CSC of the natives are authors and po-
cts, 1870 astronomers, $4,000 fortune
tcllers and pedigree. makers, 10000 re-
ligious mendicants, 5000 painters and
sculptors, $500 actors and jugglers,
and 1000 snake. charmers.
A MAN bet S1U to 81 that Tilden
would be elected, and then, DESTROYS to
hedge, bet $40 TO 81 with the same per-
son that Hayes would be elected. At a
glance this looks as though he would
come out even, but an examination
shows that he would in any case lose
80.
SAM SING, a Celestial nabob Of Elko,
Cal, is about planting q colony of Chi
nese in Chicago, starting with S5 and
having $50 others awaiting his order.
California papers indulge in fervent
hopes that the Chinese will become SO
enamored ofthe new climate as 10 relieve
the Pacific shores of their presence.
THE first patent taken out in Eng
land was an exclusive privilege for
drawing, engraving, and publishing
maps of London, Westminster, Bristol,
Norwich, Canterbury, Bath, Oxford
and Cambridge. The next was for the
privilege of publishing portraits of
ellis Sacred Majesty" James 1. The
third was for an unexplained group of
wonderful. Inventions, blowing land
without horses or oxen, making barren
land fertile, raising water, and con-
structing swift boats.
The medical journals last spring pub
lished repeatedly the formula for DIR.
Terriers new remedy fol cold in the
head. AS the season for that distress
ing malady is at hand, we print the
recipe, which is: Trisnitrate of bis
muth 6 drains, pulverized gum-arabic
9 drains, and hydrochlo-ate of NOR
phia 2 grains. This is used as II snuff,
creates no pain, and causes, says the
London Lancet, the entire disappear
auce of the symptoms in a few hours
HERMAN OFT, of Omaha, could no
get a living as a carpenter, and ons
quently became q grave-digger. Thi'
employment made him melancholy, ant
he says that he was unable to repel thu
idea that he ought to btiry himself. ST
he dug a grave, shot himself at thu
brink of it, and fell in. He had ar
ranged several bushels of dirt to fall oil
, him when his body knocked out a prop
but the contrivance did not work, no
did the bullet kill him. His physician
advises a change of employment.
A BEAUTIFUL youn2 lady who ha'
allowed the tendrils of her heart T.
9 Irvine fondly around a strapping grea
1 conductor on a horse-car, had her at
: i~ectionate nature crushed by the dis
covery that he was taking fare from
her, and dead heading another girl VIII
e lived in the same street. She did no
: eat pickles and pine away, but wrot
him an affecting epistle, which read
"You want to knock down enutf stamp
to buy me a paisler shawl " Il dole
b vardin before Sunday, or | will put a
5 awning over that girls Eye the neS
c time l meet her in Society. You hee
e me-"
y AN English correspondent writes {
:. the Presidential building: "In tn
;, White House there is not a single rooi
which can be associated by the create!
. stretch of Imagination with the idea
'home.' One might as we'll set up one
:, household goods in a huge barn. TT
rooms are like naked, gaping vault
=. with not one snug corner to be foun
v through the whole length and breadt
- of them. They are intended only to loo
big and to provide space for Il
r crowds of persons whom the Presidel
. is expected to entertain, for the cred
= of the country, at his own expense"
c. WITH reference to color-blindness,
is the lack of power to distinguish color
10 it is stated that very few of the persol
j. so affected are conscious of the defe
y in their vision. Many railroad acc
er dents are caused by the culor-blindne
st of railway employees, and the Swedi
rs Railway Direction has recently order'
N an examination to be made by oculis
to of all the men in its employ, so as
guard all danger. Professor Holingrc
who has just examined the employe
d. of the Upsala Gefie Railway, foundth'
hs out of 2G6 persons examined, eighte'
he were color-blind, and SO utterly unfit
he for the railway service.
-, A NEW Prison Chaplain was recent
=, appointed in n certain town. He W
-, a man who greatly magniiied his Oft
and, entering n of the cells on
%, first round of inspection, he with mu
~ pomposity thus addressed the prison
who occupied it: "Well, sir; do y
'"' know who | amp" "No; nor din
IL care" was the nonchalant rep
W. "Well, I'm your new Chaplain" :"
W We are? Weel, I haze heard o. ye
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