The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-11-09
HERE AND THERE:

THE Baltimore gossips have had a
sensation in the marriage of n swell
know, and highly respectable" jeweler
of 20 to a girl in her teens.
A MAN IS years old is undergoing
two months imprisonment in Luzerne
County, Penn, for killing a boy whom
he had caught stealing fruit.
Two deaf mutes discussed politics in
New York City, the other evening, be-
fore an audience composed almost ex-
clusively of persons who had never
heard a sound in their lives.
A WASHINGTON girl, Estella Hutton,
carried arsenic in her pocket for a
month, with the avowed intention OF
swallowing it when she got ready. a
few days ago she got ready, and the
dose quickly killed her.
THERE is said to be nm old gentleman
in England who has found the true elixir
of life to be the food of infancy. lie
always has five wet nurses on tap"
and grows STAT and well liking" as he
verges on centenarianism.
Two men went to see n circus in
Healdsburg, Cal, the other day, and,
when Ada Belmont appeared on the
trapeze, recognized a sister they hadn't
seen since she was eight years old in
1856, and took her home with them.
A MAN was playing dice in a saloon
in Knoxville, Cal, when the funeral
procession OF his wife came by. He
went to the door, waved his hat, hur-
rahed, and returned to his game. That
night, he was almost killed by mob.
A MAN hobbling along, with n very
stiff leg, was suddenly cured at the New
York P~ost-ofice the other day. A po-
liceman stepped up to him and drew
forth from his trousers leg a fine silk
umbrella he had picked up in the build
ing.
A PoRCUPINE was in n Slated box in
: q Sacramento railroad depot. An I'M
: suspecting man sat on the box. An
: other nan stirred up the porcupine.
Then the first man suddenly arose, and
i acted like q man who had been pune
. tured by a hundred no. pins.
. Mrs. GOLDSMITH, fresh from n for
, eign shore, landed in Ncw York, the
other day, and, as she gazed upon the
a New World, her bosom heaved with
. emotion, and with $4,000 worth of
jewelry, as was subsequently found by
' q female customs inspector.
The Sioux practice a mode of heal
ing almost exactly like the Turkish
q bath. AS early as 1850 Father Henno-
pin was cured of Il fever by the Miane-
sofa Indians by sweating in an alright
earth oven, covered with buffalo skins
and heated with red-hot stones.
l.. PROF. LOOMS concludes, after com.
pairing 500 cases, that storms move n,
the rate of 26 miles an hour on land in
this country, and Il little over 10 miles
q over the ocean An express train or u
iirst-class steamship could easily KEEP
ahead of q common storm.
Y NEwBURY, Mass, has q ]prccociou:
@ eight-ycar-old boy who stole 50, anC
then bought a revolver and threatened
= to blow out the brains of n companion
for refusing to play truant. Wher
j. caught his pocket was found to contain
several plugs of tobacco.
y Mrs. BURNHAM, Of Atlanta, visited
If the Centennial Exhibition, and Their,
l. met a man who said that he was Col
's belong of Boston, and very wealthy
l. On the second day of they acquaintance
they were married, and on the third day
= the bride was looking for her husband
and $1,000 which had disappeared will
him.
A.YouNG girl, now living in the Ruc
Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, wht
j. was born without arms, uses her mouti
d in the most extraordinary manner She
Ie can write with the greatest facility, car
i thread the finest needle, embroider
knit, do crochet work, mark linen, etc.
l. with marvellous regularity, and car
even with her mouth tie n sailors knot
is The extent to which facility in thu
use of means of expression may be in
l. furious to the user is Illustrated il
le schools for the deaf and dumb, wher,
d it will be found that the pupils have
B. more expressive countenances thar
y those who are provided with organs o
articulation-a as if the face were assist
r ing to convey the meaning which
ID could not be given in the ordinary man
ner.
In a communication to the French
IS Academy of Sciences, NJ. A. Moret state.
& that during a recent balloon ascent of
d Cherbourg with NJ. Durouf, they were
'r surprised, at the height of 100 meters
70 to see the bottom of the sea in its mi
l. nutest details, thought the channel at tina
ID point must be sixty or eighty meters
II deep. The rocks and u~nder-current'
l. were clearly visible.
i AN agent was sent to collect the rem
u of a tenement, in Boston, the occupant
10 of which was for some four months il
arrears. He was met with a pitiful tall
. of the scarcity of money by the matror
u of the household, and, to use her owl
% words, she did not know where to get
dollar, and indeed she did not know
n when she would pay either in whole OIL
in part. The conversation then turned
on other topics, and before the messen
ger had departed she invited him t.
see some lovely things she had JUS
IS brought from the Centennial.
Ha Sold the Dog.