The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-05-18
HERE AND THERE.

aged 81, is cutting six teeth on a gold
ring.
THE largest pork-packer in Cincin-
natl Is a jew. The wealthiest doctor In
San Francisco is a Chinaman.
THE resumption Of specie payment
revives a feminine industry-the knit
ting of purses for presents to sweet
hearts.
A BALTIMORE woman boldly adver-
tiscs medical attendance by DR.. Ben
iemin Rush." who died in that city sew
eral years ago. She is n professed
spiritual medium, acting as the earthly
spokesman for the dead physician and
she collects the pay, too.
COUNTERFEIT gold coin, made of
platinum plated heavily with genuine
gold, has of late been circulated in Cal
ifornia. 1t is exceedingly deceptive,
being of the right weight, color, and
feeling. The platinum is worth half AS
much as gold, making these counterfeits
costly of production.
The immense landing-stagcs at Liv-
erpool are completed. The docks of
the port now cover an area of i2O acres,
and form n continuous line of more than
six miles in length. Their value is
twenty millions sterling. Twenty thou
sand vessels enter the harbor of Liver
pool every year.
A SANTA CLARA County (Cal.) JUS
tAse decides that a man carrying an UNI
brella is bound to keep ont of the way
of people who haven't any, and awards
1929 damages to a man who had his
eye pretty nearly ruined by another
mans sticking the end of his umbrella
into it as they were trying to pass each
other, the umbrella-bearer having help
ed bring about the collision by farming
out to the left.
SOME contentious fellow asserts that
it is q physical impossibility to count Il
billion, %contending that to count such a
number does not mean simply to count
a series of thousands. 1t must be con-
fessed that when the would-be counter
gets where he has to advance n nu.
neral at a time with the formula, "one
hundred and twenty-one millions, five
hundred and s~ixty-nine thousand, four
hundred and tw~enty-one," the process
must be somewhat tireSsme.
DIAMONDS have fallen wonderfully in
Price during the last twenty years. In
l3i9 Prince Torlonia, the great Roman
banker, advanced 100000 francs to 4
Neapolitan on n diamond so large and
limpid and piercing in the polish of it,
many facets that none but the kecnest
connoisseurs could distinguish it from
the famous Regent" At the Hote.
Drouot, in Paris, that self-samc "pre,
cious stone" was sold early in April o.
this year for about 81.
In a suit brought by Sherman Thurs,
ton, a noted gambler, against the Unior
Pacific Railroad Company for ejectmen'
from the cars byfts employees on ac
count Of his known profession, the Jur,
rendered a verdict of S1.47, the amour
paid for n ticket, which had never beer
refunded to him. This decision by ;
United States Court virtually declare
that railroad companies, for the pro
lection of passengers, have a right t.
eject three-card monte men, but mus
refund their fare.
THE English papers tell a story of
gentleman who had a legacy left him o
100000 upon the singular condition
that half the sum should be placed i,
the testator's coffin and buried wit
him. Fortunately, however, a sympa
thizing friend to whom he told his sto
ry was equal to the occasion. Bein,
told that the money was in the bank h
advised TIE legatee to draw Il check 70
$4,000 to the order of deceased and pu
that in the coffin. The legatee did a
advised and regained his peace of mind
AT Mill River, Mass, the other day
there was II scene the like of whic
playwrights would do well to keep g
Of the stage, as it would not look probG
BILE. A man named Shcarn was in
boat teaching his eight-year-old boy I
row, when, happening to look behinc
he found that his little girl, who ha
oecn sitting in the stern, had disar
Deared. He sprang overheard, caugf
The child, and swan to the shore, wher
ne left her and swami after the boat, i
which his boy was drifting to the dan
lie was unable to reach it, being take
with cramps, but presently both he an
!. his boy were rescued by some men VIII
came to their aid. This singular con
, oination of mishaps is another ~illn'tr,
! lion of the old saying that truth
! stranger than fiction.
, "Two of my neighbours" writes
correspondent in South Carolina, "ar
Colonel r.. &. Howard and Ton,
; formerly his slave, who now goes by til
aame of A. ii. Howard. Both are men
oers of our Legislature, where both 5
With perfect equality, making law
The former, of course, is a Democra
and the latter a Radical. After adjourn
, ments the Colonel superintends Ii
!, farm, and Tony works for him us n ca
penter, taking his meals in the kitche
with the COOK
q Mr.. THOMAS FLETCHER, of Irwin
I Estill County, Ky, had a grim sense
l humor, which, carried once too fla
, brought him into serious trouble. 1
a was attending II social gathering
front of the corner grocery, and, Sc
!, ing a young man whom he disliked, !
V said in his grimly humorous wa,
e "Dance or die" Mt the same time coc
4 ing his revolver and taking aim. I,
n young man danced until he was abo
0 to drop with exhaustion. Then NJ
y Eio,,bnr en,ilaa and SoiI - Won ~