The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-06-29
HERE AND THERE.

The Auditor of Kentucky reports the
population Of the State at 1,666, 1925.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has dedicated a new
Mormon temple at st. George, Southern
Utah.
New ENGLAND manufacturers are d.
viding their employees into parties and
sending them TO the Centennial for a
week.
A TEAM Of camels will be employed
to draw the car of State, the three fire.
engines, and the State official car, in tho
demonstration at Carson, Nevada, on
the Fourth.
THEY are experimenting in London
with a gun which weighs 81 tons, throws
a ball weighing 1850 pounds, and con-
sumcs 800 pounds of powder at each
discharge.
AN eccentric citizen of Cape May car
ried arope in his pocket for forty years,
his explanation being that he was liable
at any time to wish to kill himself, and
meant to always have the means handy.
A few days ago he hanged himself with
the old rope.
TnEREtis u man residing near Berlin,
Wis, who weighs 40 pounds. lie is
unable to work, and in warm weather
is in the habit Of spending several hours
each day in the river, his fat proper
tons allowing him to float like q life
preseryer.
AN English writer .ays that in the
case of fire in bull ings containing
horses, If the harness be merely put on,
however loosely, the horses will quit
the place without diff a knQwl-
edge of this may be the means of saw
ing many a valuable animal.
Now they are bringing out their Cen
t%ennial pork barrels. Durham, n. H.,
takes the lead with one that was first
filed in 1865, and has been filled each
year since. 1t holds more han 800
pounds, so that it has been the recepta-
Gle of about $4,000 pounds of pork.
A PAINTER in Meridcn, Conn.,, fell
from II roof the other day, struck on u
freight car and smashed the roof, rolled
off, struck ON his head on,a rail, and
then got up and went home. He said
he didn't feel very well, but would 90
to work in Il day or two, and he did.
A BELL sent from the United States
to the Reformed (Dutch) Church in
Yokohama, Japan, arrived in time to
be rung on the first japanese national
Sunday. This was the first Sunday in
April last. BY n recent decree tho
Japanese Government has adopted the
Christian Sabbath as the day for clos
ing all public offices.
EX-MAYoR EASTMAN, of Poughkeep-
sic, n. T., has giyin 800 of the street
boys of that city II straw hat each, with
this advice pasted inside the rOwn
"Don't drink, don't swear, don't chew,
don't smoke. BE industrious, work
hard, study hard, play hard, and you
will never be : hatless.' With the best
wishes for your future welfare"
AS IN antidotc for various kinds of
poison sweet oil is exceedingly valua-
BILE, and a bottle of it should be kept in
every PERSONS house. Some of tho
worst cases Of rattlesnakc bites have
been cured by this simple remedy. The
patient should take 4 ~teaspoonful in
ternally and battle the wound with tho
oil. 1t is an antidote for arsenic and
,l:,, t. I'LL ,u.n thn etipro nf
bees, wasps, hornets and the bites of
other insects, and is Il remedy for the
poison of po~ison-ivy, poison-oak, etc.
\ CASE which should prove n warn
ing to mothers employing suspicious
girls to take care OF their children has
occurred in New York. A girl named
Augusta Kassen, aged 10, having taken
poison, and believing herself to be dy-
ing, confessed to having poisoned with
oXalic acid Il little child of Mr.. and
Mrs. lleyne, of 80 Third Avenue. The
child had died apparently from natur-
al causes and been buried. The mo-
tive was simply revenge for a threaten
ed discharge from employment.
On Chestnut Street, just above Eighth,
says the Philadelphia Times, there pa
rades every day n gorgeously attired
Turk, whose yellow trousers, red jack
ct, and brilliant turban command uni
versal admiration. But although n Turk
he possesses the most marked charac-
t~eristics of the Milesian type of beauty,