Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-15

Prince Napoleon is reported as having
said good thing of the Emperor lie
has twice deceived France says the
Prince first in 1913, in making her be-
lieye he was a fool next in 1866, in max
ing her believe he Mas genius"
"A remarkable and perhaps unparal-
leled coincidence Is recorded i'm the civil
registry of Bar-sur-Aube, in France. In
1866 there were inscribed there one hun
dred and six births, one hundred and six
deaths, one hundred and six marriages.
An American writes from Munich, Ba-
varia, that not less than %, 900 americans
are now residing on the Continent They
are not travellers, but persons Of moderate
wealth, who find that they can live there
at one-third the cost of living in this
country.
The Peruvian Government has pre-
scented Captain Cole, of the American ship
City Of Mobile, $500 for his successful eff
forts to save his ship, loaded with guano,
after she had sprung leak. He stopped
the leak by running a sail under the ships
bottom.
Suits for breach of promise OF mar
riage are not common in France, as the
judges always rule that, up to the last mo-
ment, the parties should be free TO change
their minds" and so do not decree dam
ages except where deception has been
used.
AT the opening Of the British Parlla-
ment, Queen Victoria never stirred or
looked to the night or left Her dress was
plain black silk, with the ribbon and star
of the Garter On her head was q Mary
Stuart cap, surmounted 10y demi-crown of
brillants.
The trade in leeches, in Australia, is
becoming an important business. Steam
ers 90 out from Melbourne 10 The region OF
swamps and lagoOns, one or two hundred
miles away, aud sometimes collect 10000
to 100000 leeches on a single trip. At
Melbourne they are put up for transmits
sion abroad.
"A letter from London states that sci
critic experiments made there have re-
suited in extracting turpentino from petro-
leum. The process is said to be a safe one,
and it is added that turpentine obtained by
it can be produced at one-third the price
that has been heretofore paid for the same
article fsom the CarOlinas.
"A London surgeon has invented an
article called "rhigOline," from petroleum,
which will have all the beneficial results of
chloroform, without its attendant dangers.
1t is applied externally, and renders the
part insensible TO pain. About ten barrels
of crude oil are necessary to the manuiac-
ture of one gallon of rhigoline.
AT the recent election AT Prague, a
speaker, in proposing the candidate of the
Bohemian Central Committee. concluded
as follows: Nov, every one of you take
a blank ballot and a shilling. Those who
are in favor OF b. will put their ballots in
the box; those who are opposed, will pat
in the shilling" ResIlt-unanimous cleo
ton of B.
A bdzerna Of the Modena Theatre
named La BarbiZan, more than usually ex-
cited by the acclamations of the public, ex.
eeuted pas with a wrong calculation OF
distance, which carried her over the foot.
hight into the orchestra. In the passage
her dress caught fire from the lamps, and
she was immediately in blaze, which
however, was promptly extinguished by
the musicians, who enveloped her in their
paletots. She was carried out senseless
but was shortly after found to have sus.
| tained no serious injury.