Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-22

the trial a general battle took place be-
tween the witnesses on both sides, which
was only stopped by the efforts of the
Court and Constable.
Foreign Gossip.
4 The population of Berlin, according TO
the last census, is 632. $40 ID
"A Biblical opera on the history of
Saul is announced in Germany.
"A single chunk of anthracite coal from
Pennsylvania, weighing tx tons, has gone
to the Paris Exposition.
1t is said that thousand French sol
diers deserted on the march from the CAPT
tai To Pueblo. a distance of thirty leagues.
1t is Do longer a secret that the true
name of the author of the Schonberg-
Gotta Fimily is Mrs. Carter, an English
woman
"A Turin journal states that there is a
family in that city, consisting of five per
sons, who, for the last year. have lived
upon cats flesh.
Some men III Bavaria are great smok-
ers They lay lighted cigar beside their
plates ut the breakfast table, and take puff
between mouthfuls.
William Cullen Bryant, now in Spain,
says the population of that country is, as
a whole, the raggedest that hc ever saw IN
any part of the world. .a1a
1t costs 81 to bring ton of meTchan-
disc from Liverpool to this country, and
e3, 5S4 to bring ton of letters The latter
are not correspondingly cheap.
john LA Mountain, the eronaut, has
recently been divorced from his wife
nip nv hall
ascension she made with him Verify,
"go up like a rocket, come down like a
stick"
The tunnel between the island of Sci
ly and Ortygia-built during the oceupa-
ton of the former by the Greeks-was re-
opened a few years ago, and found to be
twelve feet high by six wide, and about a
mile in length. 1t is quite equal in all re-
spects TO that under the Thames, at Lon
don
An American company has engaged to
keep ship, during the Exhibition, at a
distance of three nautical miles from the
French shore; the said ship to be fitted up
as restaurant and boarding house, and
devoted to the exercise of all the games of
hazard which the French Government, in
its paternal solicitude for the we'll being of
its subjects has made Illegal on the soil of
France.
"A japanese Prince, now at ST. Peters
burg, asking certain favors of the Russian
Government, urges as the strongest reason
in favor IF granting them, that if his mis-
sion is not successful, he would be CON-
PEELED to disembowel himself on his return
home. The argument is said TO have great
weight with Prince Gortschakoff, but he
said, must not cut open the bowels Of
my mother, Russia"
Paris is going mad over a sort Of hum
ming top, Just invented by a patientless
doctor. 1t is made to revolve by vulgar
whipcord and handle, and when it reaches
Its maximum of rotation, six small tops
come out Of it and begin to whirl round it
At the will Of the spinner they return to
the bosom of their mother. The inventor
calls this the prolific top; happier name
would be the opossum top.
"A late Paris letter says: By state
ment made last week, it appears that the
deficit in the Papal treasury for the year
1866 is seven and half million dollars
Last year it was about six millions: the
year before about five. The deficits of
those years were met by loans from the
Rothschilds, but the Pope's Financial Min
lister now expects to meet the deficiency in
part by the amount due from Italy; and
Italy, to raise the money, proposes to
sequestrate the Estates of the Church,
M Name, Frenchman, takes q hens
egg, makes a small hole at the top, pierces
the yok with a needle previously made
red hot, and then lets about third of the
contents run out This done, he fills up
the egg with distilled boiling water, plugs
the hole with wax, and leaves the egg ex-
posed IN a temperature varying between
II and "a deg Centigrade Five days
after, he examines the egg with the micro
scope, and finds the inner substance of the
former swarming with vibrios remarkable
for their agility. .uq s.t
"A feature of the Paris Exposition is to
be an International chess tourney. Russia,
Germany, France, England and America
VIII be contestants Russias knight is said
to be magnificent player. Germany
boasts man who has yanquished twenty
opponents at one time. Mr.. Devinck,
Counsellor General of the Department of
the Seine, is the defender of France. The
English champion has not yet been an
nounced; bu it will probably lie the vet
eran Stanton. Paul Morphy, whom the
French journals speak as the handsome
young man who plays blindfold, is to rep
resent America
The coStliest watch that was ever
made is said to have been one which was
constructed in 1874 for the Sultan Abdael
Medjid, who. must have found it rather
announcement, since it was five inches in
diameter, and struck the hours and quar-
tiers on wires, with a sound resembling
that of powerful cathedral clock. 1t cost
200 guineas Another famous watch was
noted for its smallness. 1t was inserted in
the top of pencil case, and though it was
but three sixteenths of an inch in diameter,
its dial not only indicated the hours, min
| utes, and seconds, but also the days of the
month. Ii was made in Geneva.
An Irish paper says poor man named
Jacob, who frequents Callan and its vicinity
has slept every night for the last foul
years in the open air, without bed clothes
| or covering of any kind, save handful o
straw, which serves for pillow. He hai
often been offered lodging-nay, forced Il
| take shelter inside doors, but on the frs
| opportunity would make his escape to TIT
ditch side. On being demonstrated with
| he always remarks that st. Columbkil
punished his body more severely. He i
about fifty years of age, and notwithstand
ing his "airy life, enjoys good health, ant
| has never been heard to complain of cough
rheumatism, or any disease of the kind.
| i'm almost every newspaper you tax.
| up in Paris you may find advertisements o
offers ofseryices from matrimonial agencies
The fraternity send out circulars announc
| ing that they have such or such parties OF
hand, exactly in the same style as grocer
makes known that he has laid in a new
stock of Brazilian coffee. One of thes'
documents, which has just been exten
sively spread in the North of France
states, it appears, that the agency of NJ
is at this moment charged to find wives fo
a French prince of irreproachable man