Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-26

| An extraordinary procession passed
through the streets of London on the 4th,
consisting of about a thousand persons out
| of employment, and living ON charity.
| They conducted themselves in an orderly
| manner.
In Singapore, the man-eating" tigers
are so numerous that natives are said to be
carried off at the rate of a man IA day, and
so used have they become to such accidents
that when a Chinese cooley sees tiger
trotting after him with an evident view to
dining, he quietly sits down and resigns
himself to his fate.
1t is well known that the eyes of GER
tain persons cannot take -cOgnisance of
certain of the primary colors, as red, etc,
and il has long been sought to understand
the reason. Herr Rose, of Berlin, has ex
perimentally determined that in all such
cases it is either light of the least or great
est refrangibility which is imperceptible,
i. e., the luminous part of one OF the other
of the extremes of the spectrum.
Cheap newspapers seem to be making
great Roadway in London. Besides the
Telegraph, which has probably Il larger cir
culation than any other daily journal in
the world, reaching 10000 copies, and the
Star, which is party paper and less widely
read, new penny paper, called The Day,
has just been started 1t is a quarto, each
page as large as the Times, printed in clear
type upon good paper, and filled with very
good and readable matter. Notwithstand-
ing the progress of the English penny
press, the Times maintains its supremacy,
and will doubtless do SD permanently Its
money, and what is of still more impor-
lance, the great experience and sagacity of
Its managers, command for its columns the
ablest and most brilliant writers of the
day; and there Is, and always will be.
large class OF people in England who prefer
quality To cheapness, and who will have
the best, at whatever cost. In spite of
rivalry, the Times continues to be by all
odds, in all its departments, The ablest
newspaper ever published. Yet without
the least disturbing the position or influ-
ence OF that great journal, the penny press
has become one of the institutions" of
England
The excursion NJ Paul FevaI re-
Gently made into Switzerland, as an advo-
cate of the Paris Literary Mems Society,
has revived the memory of his maiden
cause at the Vannes bar-for me was bred
TO The law. A Breton rogue was arraigned
for stealing chickens M. Feval had with
great eloquence defended his client and
proved an abb The Judges, in conformity
with the French usage before ordering the
jury to retire, asked the prisoner if he had
anything to add to the remarks of his
learned counsel Judges, 1 amt guilty.
did Kill five chickens. / would have
killed hundred, for | had got to be blood.
thirty. | was a perfect alibi-but swear,
when l went INTO the chicken house did
not intend to kill more than one chicken
but, Judges, | was perfectly alibi" The !
shouts of laughter with which the prison
er's speech was received disguised NJ. Fe- |
val with the law.
A French newspaper recently pub |
llshed a curious confession, which the late |
Eugene sue made to one of his friends |
AT the battle of Navarino, the French Off
GERS ran forward on plank thrown from
one ship to another, so as to form a sort of
gangway. Mahmoud was the name of the
Turkish vessel. As Aide Major, followed
the officers with an axe in my hand. Pow
der and the roar of the cannon had made
mailman of me. | belabored right and
lett the poor wretches who raised their
hands TO signify quarter. Out upon it. I Il
gave them my axe on their heads. on their
faces, ON their breasts; on men standing
and fighting, and on men fallen on the |
deck gave them my axe without rhyme
or reason, without giving a thought to the |
subject, hitting right and left buried my |
my axe in the dead, in the wounded, in the |
prisoners, in doors, hanmocks, MEETINGS, |
shrouds, masts, cabin windows, u negro |
boy, Macedonian dog, barrel of Sar- |
dimes. welded my axe with fury. de-
stroyed with rapture There is not a day,
there is not a night, do not think with /
poignant remorse of my crimes of these
two hours. | have hated war ever since
the evening of that sanguinary day. The
fiat, tame shore OF NavarinO had that eve
hing become pandemonium from. the
number of corpscs and limbs that bestowed |
it."