The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-08-03
HERE AND THERE.

A PHILADELPHIA fashion-writer re-
marks that not one woman in n hum
dred has a neck and shoulders fine
enough to show.
The best summer-botel business this
year is done at Long Branch. The
fashionables who gath, at Newport live
in cottages.
GREAT quantities of soap are made
from the soap weed that grows In New
Mexico, but the native greasers know
nothing about Its use.
THE public will be glad to learn from
n high authority that 'the passion for
clinging drapery among women is di-
m%inishing, because it Is not becoming
most figures"
A NEW YORK druggist has sent to
the Herald 100 tickets to be distributed
among the poor. Each of these will be
received at his store in payment of n
prescription.
A YOUNG Canadian has recently
walked on the water of Ontario River.
lie lad a large pair of shoes, after the
style of snow-shoes, which enabled him
to keep ailoat and not lose his balance.
AMONG the latest arrivals al the Ex-
hibition is an Egyptian priestess or
princess of the age of The P~haraohs.
She never leaves her box, but her COM
pleXion is wonderful for her time of
life.
TIE completion of the Inter. Colonial
Railroad, in the Dominion of Canada,
to Riviere du Loup, marks another i'm
portant point in Canadian progress.
The road is GS1 miles in length, and the
interest of the Government in it rep
resents an investment of nearly $780,
600, COO.
Eight hundred Icelandors arrived at
Quebec onsthe 23d and proceeded to the
colony set apart in Manitoba for an lee
landic settlement. Four hundred more
l~celandcrs are also on their way, which
will make the population Of the lee
landic settlements in the Northwest
about 1900 souls.
JEREMIAH WHALEY, aged 90 years,
who lives ut Narragansett Pier, X. l.,
had never seen Il train of railroad cars
until a few days ago, when he saw the
locomotive used in laying the track on
the new NarraganSett Pier Railroad.
What makes this case more remarkable
is that he lives within Il few miles of the
S%tonington Railroad.
TIE exhibition of newspapers and
manuscripts soon to be opened at
Prague, will contain much of interest.
Seven thousand articles have already
been contributed, many Of them rare
and curious. Among them is Il Lords
Prayer in 324 languages from the I'M
ptrial Academy Of st. Petersburg.
There is also Il very valuable collection
of autographs.
When n Delaware Indian woman's
house near Cana River, Indian Terri
tory, was surrounded by the late food,
she tied two children to her body and
from her housetop mounted II tree.
When out of reach of the water she tied
her babes to the limbs and saved them,
while her nelghbors who swan failed
to reach the shore, and were of course
drowned.
A "a boys father at Mile End, Lon
don, was fined for his sons truancy
from school, and imprisoned for three
days because he was o poor to pay
the fine. The boy repeated the o~tlense,
whereupon the unfortunate parent,
hearing he was to he summoned once
more, declared he would rather make a
hole in the water than be imprisoned
again for his graceless child, and
drowned himself in the Regents Ca
nal.
IT appears that some agents of Servia
went to seek G~aribaldi, without whom
no instruction seems to be complete.
They found the Cincinnatus of Capre-
ra making his hay. The hero express
ed his regret that his rheumatism would
not permit him to fight against Turk
ish despotism by the side of Prince
Milano, but he promised to send to
them in Bosnia all of his former follow
ers that he could find unoccupied.
A FRENCH soldier named Henri Du-
hamel has just died at the hospital of
Bicetre, who was wounded in the head
at B~uzenval in the war Of 1870. His
wound had soon healed, but he was left
quite insane, and fancied himself dead.
When people asked after his health he
would nswe "How is Duhamelp
Poor fellow, he was killed at Buzenval.
What you see is only a machine made
to resemble him. But it is badly made,
and they ought to make another" He
never spoke of himself rs "l"o ''me,"
but always rs 'that thing" He was
sometimes insensible for days together,
and would show NJ feeling whatever,
though pinched and blistercd severely.