Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-16

OF p;ncers at him, killing him instantl,
de was sentenced to three months impri
onment for getting mad, and nothing at a
for the murder
III DR.. Livingstone ever gets back {
England he will have the pleasure of reaC
Ing as many obituaries of himself as eve
Tell 10 the lot of any man to read on hi
own life and character. sF riH
"A Chinese sword swallower, at MAJ
settles, who fires off a rifle with the nil
while it projects from his mouth, had tn
weapon forced down his stomach by tn
recoil of the firearm, and found it incon
venient to digest.
An English paper advertises vacanc,
on farm for an agricultural pupil, an,
says great pains will be takeh to give tn
young man an insight into farming. Terms
*l,OOO a year, and the use of a horse, witt
hunting.
An English critic makes mention of
class or Americans in this wise: "The,
all belong to that keen, nervous, sallow
faced breed of mankind who are qualified
at moments notice, to keep school O.
edita newspaper"
I'm Liverpool, at present, there ar,
said to be 10000 poor persons who are re
ceiving relief while 5000 others are in the
parish warehouses. These figures show
that one in every eleven of the population
OF Liverpool is a pauper.
Excavations have brought to light, in
Syria, a Hebrew house, dating from about
the second century before Christ. Some
OF the rooms are in good preservation, and
among the books found is a collection o.
Hebrew poems, said to be unknown te
present Ofientals. r3..
The Bishop of Calcutta has recently
visited the District of Orissa, the scene O
the terrible famine, and reports that "al
traces Of it (the famine) seem to have
completely passed away, except when one
comes occasionally on heaps of human
bones-a sad memento of the dire "a
lamity" 'sorIl
"A bride was carried off by railroad
train from Dion, France, while her hus
tically threw herself out of the coupe a,
the risk of her life. When the train was
stopped and the young woman picked up
the head official gave her bit of prophet
ic advice: Madame, few years hence
the leap may, perhaps. be made when you
are both In The coupe"
The attention of the Paris Academy
has been occupied recently by trembling
plant called Colocasia, which exhibits q vi
bratory motion without any apDa ent
cause. About 100 vibrations have been
observed in a minute. The vibrations are
strong enough to cause motion in large
fiower-pots.
"A COrsican farmer and his concubine
we're recently put on trial for one OF the
most atrocious crimes on record. They
had thrown his wife into a red hot furnace,
where she persisted amid horrible suffer.
ings. The coDcubiDe was found guilty, but
the husbond was, owing to some legal
bubble, acquitted. No sooner had he been
set at liberty, than the brother of his de.
ceased wife shot Linn dead.
"A Paris quidnunc has discovered that
Jules Favre speaks at the rate of from 30
to "a lines minute. Theirs can make %
lines. Rouher's corpulence makes il hard
work for him to equal Favre's rate, while
Liegeard rattles Oft % lines a minute at
his slowest pace. This is about three
words per second. If our American Con.
gressmen could make such time as this,
what bulky journal the Daily Globe would
be
"A few nights since, at st. Eustache,
Canada, u man named Lebau, and his wife,
who were in the habit of numbering tray-
elers who stopped at their house, attacked
a traveler-the man with an axe and his
wife with razor The traveller knocked
down his assailants, and the wife, mis-
TAKING her hnshanH IN him, &c
She has been arrested and confessed all OF
their past horrible transactions. Three
skeletons were found in the house
1t appears from an official report tina,
the Protestant religion is Represented in
Prussia by GA Ga per cent, whilst 30 IL per
cent of The population is OF the Roman
Catholic religion 2 60 per cent. are OF
other religions. Jews. in proportion of
to 20 OF the popuiation, are scattered all
over the provinces 10000 live in Posen
1900 in Pomerania, 5000 in Saxony
Berlin contains 25,O00 In 1864, there
were .O29 synagogues in Prussia.
M. Louis Ulbach, in L'Indtpendanct
Bdge, narrates the following charming
story of Theodorus, King Of Abyssinia
One day, seeing a girl of remarkable beau
ty In troop OF gypsies, and wishing to
ameliorate Ter condition, he offered to
marry her to q respectable peasant. The
gypsey of course refused, for she was be.
urothed To one of her own tribe. "All
right" replied the King "Beg, if you
like. But then to have right To beg in
my kingdom one must be crippled" And
he ordered hand and a foot to be cut from
the girl. rui.H.
The Crawshay family, the weslthiest
IN Wales, is said to have made its colossal
fortune from very small beginnings. In
the last century the original Crawshay,
then farmers son, rode TO London on his
pony this sole property to seek his for
tune. He began by sweeping out the
warehouse of an ironmonger The iron
monger had been successfully specializing
In sending out iron pots TO america, and
his apprentice observed that if the Ameri-
cans used so many pots they must want
hooks to hang them on. Wnereupon the
master not only took the hint, but kindly
determined that Crawshay should send
them out, and that he would lsnd him the
money for the purpose. Upon this ven.
ture was realized $500, and from that time
the farmers son moved rapidly upward,
being first taken into partnership by his
master, and ultimately becoming an iron
king in South Wales, whose descendant
lately deceased, has left, it is computed
above $4,000 600 in personal property
alone, besides enormous real estates.
pnIsceIlssaeeus Htexns.
There is q little boy ten years old in