Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-05
Foreign Gossip.


The following advertisement in a Par
islam paper may be consolatory to travel
ing Americans
FUNERALS conducted in Paris or conveyed
abroad. Georges Smith, % faubOurg St-HOnorc
Agent to the American Consulate.
-Prussian railway bridges are required
TO be built with chambers in the piers, ar
ranged according TO military directions, so
that they can be effectually blown to pieces
below the water level, in case of military
necessity.
"A law exists in Germany to prevent
drinking on the Sabbath during divine SER
vice 1t runs thus: "iny person drink
ing in the ale house during the service on
Sunday, or other holiday, may legally de-
part without paying"
The Great Eastern Steamship Compa-
ny took part of its pay for the services of
their boat in laying the cable, iii stock of
the Atlantic Telegraph. Ii is now to be
divided among the stockholders of the
Steamship Company.
The London LaR5et is in doubt what
to call several young ladies who recently
passed an examination for admission To the
Society of ApO,hccaries. Ii suggests
"apothe caresses" as an appropriate title.
The successful passage of their examina-
ton might be styled apothe-o'sis
A microscope has been manufactured
in London which magnifics three thou
sand diameters with its lowest eye piece,
and fifteen thousand diameters with its
highest, so that an object is made to APP
pear one billion five hundred and seventy
five million times larger than il really Is. F."
The San Paulo Railway bridge over
the river Cubata0, Brazil, rests, in four
spans of seventy-five feet, upon three piers,
consisting each of three iron tubes or piles
standing in a triangle, screwed into the
bottom of the river by screw blades at
tached to their circumference, and united
at convenient intervals in iron frames.
The Russian Prince Mitrofan Mescht-
schcrski was recently tried at Moscow. y
year ago he was imprisoned for insulting
u policeman, and was placed in the same
cell with drunken woman. When she
became sober and was released, she missed
three silver images. The Prince confessed
that he had taken them, and pawned them
to Hebrew in order to get something TO
eat, he having been so poorly fed in
prison, where he had been detained 40
weeks
Perfect combustion of fuel is claimed
or Chimney is used, although vent is pro-
vided for a small residuum of gas, if de-
sired, through half-inch pipe. The eff
fective principle consists in making all the
gaseous products of combustion pass into
a chamber filled with the patent nodded
peat charcoal, which is said to have the
property of absorbing carbonic acid and
other gases, and burning with very small
supply of air, until entirely consumed.
An enthusiastic Russian, the General
Count Araktschejew, who died in 1888,
deposited in the Imperial Bank $4,000
roubies, To remain at interest until 1926
100 years, at which time the accumulation
will be given TO the author of the com
pletest work and best history of the En-
peror Alexander the First The Russian
Academy will decide. A portion of the
money, which will amount to 100000
roubles, is to be expended in the transla-
ton of the work into all languages
and its publication in all the European
Journals.
Two young Barons" are being lion
lied in New York at present. They eX
press themselves much surprised at the at
tention they receive in American society
which is SO much more than youths of theil
age ever receive at home; but American
girls, we regret to say, always grow enthu
siastic over any titled foreigner. At din
ner party, the other evening, young lady
thinking to be polite, rather annoyed on,
of the juveniles by asking his title
Baron -" was the reply. Il know
thai" replied the LADY," but have you ne
other title at home ~" "Oh, yes" respond
ed the Baron, INA calls me Bobby"
Count Bismark recently presented {
faithful but poor Secretary with portfolio
bound like a book, in which was deposited
five thousand thalers. On meeting the
Secretary next day, the Count asked him i
he had perused the volume. Eyes, your
highness,' said the Secretary, land | All
50 captivated by its contents that / an
waiting the appearance of the second vol
ume with feelings of the greatest interest.
The Count smiled, but said nothing.
few days afterwards the Secretary received
a second portfolio, bound and filled lik,
the other with the sentence: his worl
is complete in two volumes"
"A correspondent of the New Orlean!
| PtcdyuRe gives an account of the adven
lures of party who attempted, without
success. to reach the top of the volcano
| Orizaba, in January last. They reached
height of sixteen thousand feet, when on,
| of the party had his shoulder broken BY
the fall of detached stone from above
and they were compelled to turn back
| The difficulties in the way of reaching tn,
| top are perhaps insurmountable. During
| the war with Mexico a South Carolin;
| officers undertook the ascent. He fell par
| alyzed at a height of 1900 feet A flag
staff, which is still standing, was erected OF
the spot.
| M. MaISonneuve, in a paper read IL
| December before the French Academy O
Sciences, maintained by reasons and Stats
tics the startling position that at least s
per cent. of persons who die in conse
quence of surgical operations, die of poi
son. The poisoning is communicated b,
the lymph and other living liquids whicl
become exposed in the wound, and, afte
putreiying, penetrate the cellular tissu
and the orifces of the Emphatic vessel;
producing the inflammation which is 5
prominent cause of death in surgery, O
else enter the circulation, vitiate the bloo(
and remain in the capillary vessels, givin
rise to secondary symptoms of dangerou
character, such as erysipelas, anthrax, et
These consequences are prevented by tn
various improved means of arresting tn
putrefying process.
Religious and Educational.
The death is announced of the Arcl
bishop OF Spoleto, after long and paint
illness. His age was sixty-one.
"A gentleman in Boston has give
100000 to found theological scho'
, EpiscopaD at Cambridge
| "A church in - has the motto upo
the outer walls: ITO the poor the gosp
J is preached" One morning these wor(
were found painted under it: mot her
though"
Nathan L. Dearborn, of Wakefield
N, H., has copy Of the Bible, the printir
of which was commenced in the year 16O
| and comnlefnd in 1RQR and ounnd