Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Illinois State Penitentiary al
Joliet has ], 119 convicts.
"A Pittsburgh widower is under arrest
for poisoning his sixth wife.
"A hungry Cincinnatian recently stole
saw-dust ham that was left on; as a sign.
Counterfeit fives on the First National
bank of Indianapolis are in circulation.
-Twenty-four newspaper signs may be
seen from the Central Park railing in New
York.
Gold is said to have been lately dis.
covered in large quantities near Fort Gar
land, Colorado.
The first cheese factory ever started in
Kansas has just been put in operation at
Olathe
Vermont has a copper mine at Yer
shire which raises annually 5000 tons OF
ore
"A farmer in Southampton, Va, re-
Gently sold his strawberry crop of ten
acres for $4,000.
Three thousand acres of land in An
geline county, Texas, lately sold at sherif7s
sale for $50.
There is lady in New York who
speculates through a Wall street firm to
the amount of $4,000 per day,
"A Portland lady who has kept count,
claims to have used thirty miles of spool
cotton within twelve years.
The Resolution, Elizabeth Cady Stan
tons woman's rights paper, has a female
shorthand reporter in its employ.
One of the laws of the late Ohio Leg
islature provides that it shall hereafter be
unlawful to mark the ticket of any elector
with the intention of ascertaining how he
voted.
The Newburyport Herald says that
Mr.. Matthew Currier, of that town, now
in his ninety first year, has worked at his
tr~ lie as shoemaker for seventy-five years.
The newspapers have been asking
why prayer books have looking glasses on
the inside of the cover. The Toronto
Leader says they are aids 20 reflection.
Plug tobacco packed in peanuts and
apples is the latest device to defraud the
revenue. This fraud has been discovered
at Norfolk, Va.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will furnish reports of coming storms
to all cities and towns which will agree to
fire signal guns.
-Halrs Journal of Health says that the
to secure attention is to have a pretty
woman in the party.
"A Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals has been incorporated in
San Francisco, in accordance with the
provisions of an act passed by the last
Legislature.
The Fanny Kemble cuff and collar
is the latest novelty in the way of ladies'
wearing apparel The collar has long,
pointed ends, and is quite pretty and
unique.
If we search out our own faults and
correct them effectively, we shall have suffi-
cient to occupy our attention without sittin 2
in selfelected judgment upon the errors OF
those around us.
The New Jersey Legislature talks of
imposing an annual tax of one dollar on
each bachelor in that State who cannot
prove that during the year he made two
bona tide offers of marriage, and was re-
fused
The congregation of the Reformed
Church of Pierpont street, Brooklyn, ha :
paid the rent of four hundred and eighty
poor families during the past winter and
spring. No inquiry has been made as to
religious belief
"A female financier in Portsmouth, N.
H., recently had her trunk robbed in Bos-
ton of one hundred and twenty shares of
bank stock of nearly $1,000 value, and
knew nothing about it until the stock had
been sold il New York.
William Chapman, of Chapman
borough, Northampton county, Penn, is
building Masonic temple, which he in
tends to present, handsomely furnished,
to the brethren in that vicinity. 1t is esti-
mated to cost 100000.
Parrots live century or a century and
a half, and they are the only creatures, ex-
cept men, who talk without thinking
And so it might, perhaps, be assumed that
absence of mental irritation, and a careful
cultivation of stupidity, would be good
for long life.
France, Smith & Co., lottery men of
Kentucky, having disobeyed an injunction
recently served upon them, the Courts
have ordered their business broken up, and
wheels, etc, seized. They have ceased
drawing in Kentucky, and all concerned
have been placed under arrest.
"A member of the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature is prepared to prove by calcula-
ton which he has made, that if the town
authorities would set out sugar maple trees
on the highways, in less than ten years
the yield would more than pay the interest
on the debts of the town and their proper
ton of the annual tax of the State
Our readers have heard of the clergy
man who quoted Sterne's sentence, "God
tempers the wind to the shOrn lamb" as
a passage from the Bible. The mistake is
not equal to that of Friend, who, i'm meet
ing, remarked: IA horse, horse, a king
dom for horse The inspired apostle,
friends, doubtless intended spiritual
horse"
The manner in which some of the
auctions of secondhand furniture in New
York are conducted is worthy of note.
The same goods which are knocked down
to the highest bidder" one day are found
to be on sale the next and thus it con-
tinues until some poor rustic from the
country has been induced to bid quite as
much, if not more, than they are worth.
The proposition to place the telegraph
lines of the United States in the hands of
E,anner of the postal system, has attracted
.vme attention, but as yet has assumed no
definite shape. A bill, with similar oh
ject in view, has been introduced into the
British Parliament, and is likely to be-
come law.
"A dispatch from Lake City, Florida,
states that few days ago nearly two
acres on a farm in Hamilton county sud-
denly sunk to the depth Of fifty feet from
the surface of the surrounding land, and
Immediately filled with water The ground
is still sinking, and the water now covers
four acres. The streams and creeks lose
themselves in the surrounding country,
and force outlets in this way These sinks
occur occasionally, but this is the largest
ever known.
The number Of homeopathic pills used
by Pittsfield physician in his practice of
twenty-five years has been approximately