Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-24

The Paris Punch has some clever carl
catures of the Yankees in Paris. The best
represents one in a private box at the
Chamber of Deputies, who says to the jan
itOr, mean to see everything during the
Exhibition. Here are fifty dollars; just
hire Mr.. Theirs to make a speech now,
while | sit here"
-Twenty-six new periodicals have been
started in British India during the past
year. Their titles are peculiar in many
cases, including such names as The Flame
of Mount Sinai, The Confluence of the two
Seas, The Water of Life of India, The Star
of News, The Sun of the World, The Light
of the Moon, The Ambrosia of India, and
the Ocean of Wisdom the latter is a medi-
cal journal
The Great Eastern has been withdrawn
| from the route between New York and
Brest, and is now laid up in ordinary at
| Liverpool. Her one sole trip was most
disastrous one, the French charterers fall
ing to comply with their contract, the
American public declining to take passage
In her, aud her expenses having to be paid
out of the funds of the company. The loss
on the recent trip is said to amount to sew.
eral thousand pounds.
"A correspondent New England, prob
ably thus illustrates the Paris Exhibition
"Take round gingerbread with hole in
the middle. The hole represents a garden.
Around the whole describe, with a knife,
eight or ten circles; each of these is an
aisle running quite round the exhibition.
Across these concentric circles draw, from
the hole to the circumference of your gin
gerbread, thirty or forty straight lines or
radii. These separate the nations"
In the course of recent excavations at
Pompeii, the workmen discovered bronze
vase, Theoretically closed, and enveloped In
thick crystalline crust The interior
ofthe vessel was found TO contain consider
able quantity of water Some persons pre-
sent ventured to drink some of the liquid
and all agreed in prOnouncing it clear, fresh,
and of remarkable sOitness. The water in
question must have been preserved for
nearly one thousand eight hundred years
A recent work on diamonds and other
precious SAYS that but a small portion OF
the gems sold and worn are genuine. The
diamond mines of Golconda are giving out
and those of India are rapidly failing. The
scarcity of real gems has been met by the
ingenuity of counterfeiters. who manufac-
ture spurious gems that frequently deceive
expert connOisSeurs. Large quantities OF
false gems are made in Birmingham and
Paris, and shipped east, where Orientals
sell them to credulous European travellers
as the real article.
British India has an area of 955. OOC
square miles, or about seventeen times that
of the State of Michigan. The population
is 144,670,O00. The population of Calcut
Ia is $4,000, of Bombay, $1,000, and OF
Madras $4,000. The commerce of the
country has increased fourfold in the las,
twenty-five years. Ii has 2,141 miles O
railway in operation, ,420 post offices, H.
III schools and colleges. 11,736 miles Of
telegraph, and $20,0O0,000 a year is being
expended in public works-altogether .
very prosperous showing.
Eleanor Hughes, pauper OfColeford
| England, got a coffin from the parish
authorities to bury her daughter Eliza in
The colin was several inches too short, sc
the son of Scripture reader named Price
| with the consent of the mother and the as
sistance of miner named Page, cut off the
legs of the corpse with Ratchet, and ham
mered the feet out straight, go that the
mutilateG limbs could be squeezed in by
the side Of the body. Even then the nose
had to be broken before the lid would &c
on. Price was committed to jail.
"A most alarming decision has Just beer
given in one of the London Courts. 1t is
To the effect that q mother (and of course
a father, though it was widows case that
was decidedly is bound to support her sens
wife and children in case he absconds from
them, or otherwise renders them depend
ent. There has been quite a panic in aris
! tocratic circles since the decision, among
parents who have scapegrace sons viii
wives and children. Why should mo-
mothers-in-law also be compelled to sup
port their daughters husbands? 1t is 6
poor rule that won't work both ways.
The Paris Cndrfrari says that foul
Englishmen recently went into cafe or
one of the Boulevards, and played the fol
lowing curious game of chess: They drew
chalk lines on a billiard table and divided
it into siXty-four squares and then took
bottles of wine to represent the chessmer
champagne for kings, Burgundy fol
queens, Bordeaux for rocks and Argen
teuil for pawns. The game began two
against two. Whenevera piece was taker
the winners had to empty the bottle. The
result was simple. Since the pawns were
sacrificed first. the sons of Albion were
under the table before they had reached
the finer wines.