The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-06-08
HERE AND THERE.

chief. '
SOMEBODY who wishes to break up
the medical profession proposes to ap-
pend to every death notice the name OF
the doctor.
THERE are 10000 unmarried women
living in Philadelphia, which confirms
the report that the city is one of BROTH
crly dove.
LADY SMITH, widow Of Sir James f.
Smith, once President of the Linnman
Society in England, is 103 years old,
and in perfect health.
THEY are pulling down the Old South
Church and no Bostonian is considered
sympathetic who goes home without a
brick in his hat.
AT Hamilton, Ontario, last week, a
Miss Stewart recovered 800 damages
from Il lover who forsook her after an
engagement of 90 years.
ALTHOUGH the prosperity of Egypt
almost depends upon the cotton crop,
yet Egyptian cotton that used to sell at
a shilling a pound in Liverpool, now
Only fetches seven pence.
SIXTEEN hundred young women in
Cleveland are pledged not to associate
with men of tipping habits. Other
cities have large numbers of women
who have made the same vow.
THE latest device of the circulators
of advertising cards is to place them in
envelopes inscribed "To the lady of
the house-For your life do not open
this before eight minutes past 8 to-
night"
A QUEER thieving mania has recently
developed in Georgia. Within the past
month scarcely less than a dozen
churches have been burglarized and the
pulpit Bibles stolen.
The honor of the best Centennial
joke must be accorded to Dom Pedro.
On learning the number of revolutions
of the great Corliss engine per minute,
he said, "That beats II South Ameri-
can Republic!"
"SNowsHoE THOMPSON" the man
who, Tor the past 20 years, has carried
the mails over the Sierras every winter
at times when the roads were blockaded
with snow, died recently at his home in
Alpine County, Cal.
JENNIE BoUNETT, a female frog
catcher of San Francisco, persists in
wearing male apparel, though she is
, regularly arrested and fined. Do the
Ca~lifornians really expect a young lady
to catch frogs in q %pull-backP
| A YOUNG man named Wilson, while
suffering from typ old fever at Evans
vile, Ind, experienced q very severe
pain in the head all night and whel
morning came was permanently cross
eyed.
ALTHOUGH the camel has the mos
beautiful eyes of all quadrupeds, j
boasts of hgly teeth and a vile temper
Two unsuspecting keepers at the Lon
, don Crystal Palace lately found this GU
, when a dromedary suddenly attacked
them, and tore the ankle joint of on
out of its socket, so that the foot had I
: New York, carrying a square pasteboar
; o on top of Il pole, on two sides O
| winch is printed, "Shame on you.
l or the third, "Beware of the devil an,
MS wiie-ltum and Tobacco" and o,
the fourth, "Shame on you,m men. IN on
courage poor wonen to sweep our dirt,
streets with their dresses, while multi
tudes OF deserving poor arc starving,
A KEEPER at the ~lunatic ASYLUM OF
~Armantieres, in the north of France.
nearing a noise in the room of an unfor.
tunate gentleman who was confined in
Il strait jacket, went to see what was the
matter. As he did not return, Others
mt after him, only to find his dead
Oody In the middle of the room. and tho
maniac, freed from his strait Jacket.
trying % devour him. lie had already
bitten one of his ears off.
IHE following specimen of English
pure and undeliled is from the London
l."'eS: "A doctor was lately summon
ca 10 a cottage at Harwood, in Teas
dale, II found a boy in need of his
services Put out your tongue said
the doctor. The boy stared like an owl,
MY good boy requested the medical
man, let me see your tongue Talk
English, Doctor said the mother; and
.."n' turning to her son, she said
'iioypen thy gobbler, and put out thy
ioliker.' Tho boy rolled out his tongue
in a moment"
A LADY writing to the Cincinnati Ga.
'eHe from Washington says ibid any
Of you Cincinnati girls ever hear of bunt-
Ing dressesP If you have never worn
hem before, you should inaugurate the
year by draping your
figures in the material
II whlch your country's flag
= made. The girls here have the pref
lest and most %serviceable of boating
uits made of the blue bunting, and the
oftest, creamiest dresses imaginable I
re made from the white bunting. Fiji
zen Rrds of the blue can be purchased
or dny 8 G.50!"
MRS. WILLING, of Chicago, obtained
n interview with the Emperor of Bra r
IL and took with her three companions. 7
Inc OF the latter, falling into a fit of I
'quacity, said she had always been q
nxious to meet the Emperor, because Il
relation of hers resided in his domin- a
ms. With his usual politeness, the Il
mperor inquired where this relation a
we'd, and was told sin Valparaiso. c. ),
c then reminded her that Valparaiso u
in Chill. The effect of this blunder IN
as so terrible that the literary ladies 81
ere unable to recover their spirits, "