Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-07

"A movement for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Thomas
Francis Meagher has been initiated by a
few citizens of Waterford, Ireland, his ma
tive town.
Gambling is fast and furious in the
Paris fashionable clubs. A gay tempter of
fortune lost $500 900 in one night recently.
Another won $4,000, but, wishing to
make it a round 100000, played on an
lost all but $4,000.
The process of branding deserters in
the British army consists of painting the
chest with India ink through STENCIL and
then puncturing the skin. The disgrace
is greater than the pain.
"A celebrated English physician who
lately visited the Emperor Napoleon re-
ports that His Majesty has frequent faint;
ing fits, caused BY disease of the heart,
which may take him off at any day.
The late Theodorus was AZ years old
and his original name was Ii Kassa. He
had been Emperor since about 1850, and
had had a very eventful career. ai
Three children, named Babeock, liy-
ing near Toronto, Canada, died recently
from having eaten some poisonous sub
stance during the day.
"A private of the 2sth regiment, Brit
ish service, undergoing instruction at the
school of musketry, Hythe, was picking
his teeth with needle, when it broke and
portion of it going down his throat,
he-dicd, soon after, from internal hcmor-
rhage.
Great Britain imported more wheat in
1867 than in any other year, except 1862.
The total imports were 24,645, 567 hundred
weight. The imports from the United
States were 4, 1SS,0l3 cwt, or more than
six times as much as in 1866 .E,l5f.1 va.
The current scandal i'm London about
Disraeli is that he drinks to excess 1t is
said that there was the muddle as well as
the sparkle of champagne in hisspeech on
the Irish CHURCH. In his reply to that
speech, Gladstone alluded to the Premier
cheated imagination"
The Chinese have a wheelbarrow in
common use which is an Improvement on
our barrow The wheel is in the middle.
1t is not uncommon to see sail set on
this wagon, and, if the wind is fair, they
can make six miles an hour easily. This is
hint that the Yankee ought to he able to
profit by.
Opium, in the great factory at Patna.
is done up in cakes resembling a cannon
ball, and this has given rise to the saying
that in time of war they give the Chinese
cannon balls of iron, in peace cannon
balls of opium, giving the chance whether
they will be shot or poisoned, but making
them pay well for either intention.
Autographs of Lord Bacon, Calvin,
Luther, Kepler, Melancthon, Pope, John
Hampden, Cranmer, Wolsey, Voltaire,
Jeremy Taylor, Sir Isaac Newton, Ra-
phael, and others, were recently sold by
auction in London and brought prices
varying only between three guineas and
fourteen pounds. u.f.---
A Prussian woman has revealed the
fact, upon her death bed, that she substitu-
ted her own child for the infant of count
ess, in whose employ she was some thirty
years ago. Both are alive, end married in
accordance with their widely different sta
tons, and the muddle is as bad as can be.
I'm Venezuela, according to recent
statement, when a young man asks for the
hand of young girl, the father gives the
supplicant very hard stone to pierce. 1t
usually takes about three years to pierce
the stone, and then the father grants the
young mans request, and hands over his
daughter.
They take good care of the sick in
London In one year fourteen charity
hospitals have given aid and treatment to
$4,000 in-patieflts and 500, 900 t-patients.
London has a population of 10000 and
it will be seen that nearly one-fifth of the
people receive aid from public charities
All the relief thus afforded is quite indie
pendent of that given by medical officers
of the poor law service.
in Paris last year there were 3S42 ac-
cidents, of which 100 resulted in death.
The accidents by carriages numbered 1 ,4SS,
and cost the lives of los persons-79 men,
ID women and IA children. The accidents
from other causes were 2,3o5 of which 6S2
resulted i'm death-502 men, ~ women and
103 children. The number of wounded
was 1,612, of which 1850 were men, III
women, and 152 children
Whenever the French Emperor goes
out he is attended by two secret police
men, who are never the same. They keep
on each side of him. They carry no other
weapon but loaded stick. His carriage
is5lined with thick, wrought-iron plates,
and there is a contrivance by which the
horses can instantly be completely un-
hitched if they become -unruly His driver
was, for years, Louis Phillippe's driver,
and he places implicit confidence in him.
"A new style OF earrings has appeared
in Paris, that gay theatre of all, fashiona-
bic inventions The new mode consists of
little globules filled with water, and hav-
ing miniature fish swimming about in
them. Others have small gold bird-cages
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baskets filed with violets and other flow
ers. . Something in the shape of bugs and
serpents, especially the latter, would, no
doubt, take" with the fair sex. What
will be the style" next, we wonder?
During an afternoon nap two days
before he was assassinated, Darcy MCGEE
had dream, which he afterwards told, as
follows: II dreamt | was standing al
the Falls of Niagara, and saw boat con-
tanning two men sailing down the rapids,
approaching the brink of the cataract
Seeing their. danger and apparent ignor-
ance of it, rushed forward to warn them
The boat turned round and proceeded up
the rapids, and went over into the gull
beneath ~ ~ tikt@ .ts soi q.
The carrying of weapons is forbidden
in France to persons in civil life, but an
invention has been made which, while
conforming with the law, is a partial aid
as means of defense against night rob
bers II consists of a small horn inserted
in the end of cane, which contains an
electric battery and a small lamp with two
powerful refiectors The intensity of this
light, it is said, temporarily blinds any
person at whom it is pointed. The lamp
is kindled at will, by pressing a small
knob at the other end of the stick, which
communicates with an electric wire.
The famine in the French. colony Of
Algeria is accompanied by the most hor'
rible cases of the sacrifice of human beings
to the rayenous hunger of the survivors