Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-16
CLIPPINGS AND DRlpPINss.
? Personal and Literary.

Personal and Liter ary-
Weston has concluded to adopt Bufa.
10 as his home.
-Of all his works, Charles Dickens says
he likes david Copperfield " best.
Mr.. G. III. Wetmore has been elected
President of the Detroit Young Mems
Society.
MIR. Arminius Vambery has turned his
experiences into a volume for boys, emit
tied Adventures in Asia"
Mrs. Horace Mann devotes most oil
her time to the pen. She has recently be-
come contributor to the Herald Of Health.
Gen. Gideon ]. Pillow and ex.Gov.
Isham G. Harris have formed a law part
nership and taken up their residence in
Memphis.
William Hewitt, who is over seventy
three years of age, says he had four doc
tors-Temperance, Exercise, Good Air and
Good Hours. - 90
-Talleyrand ssid of Madame de Stael,
j" She is really insupportable !" which he
qualified, after short pause, by "but
that's her only fault
Senator Morton's health is said to be
somewhat better, certainly no worse than
canes, and gets about pretty well.
Joe Jefferson, the comedian, has been
getting Photographic views of the Nam
moth Cave, it is said, for the purpose of
working them into spectacular play.
-Galignans's Messenger prints a notice
OF the birth of a son to j. Smith, in Paris,
with the request that New York AM Chi.
csgo papers copy. Thousands will rejoice
at the news.
Rogers has just exhibited for the first
time an ideal group from Irving, entitled,
"Courtship in Sleepy Hollow" illustrated
by the uncouth figure Of Ichabod Crane,
and the lovely Katrina Van Tassel
Rev. Chsuncey Goodrich, who has had
the main duties of preparing all the edi-
tions of Noah Webster's Dictionaries
since the death Of the photographer him
self, died at New Haven On the 4th, aged
81. go " ~ .asHs'fz stiai
The american Publisher and Booked
Ter says that there were published in this
country last year 1,773 books. From this
number are excluded 335 pamphlets, IL
new periodicals, 5 MAPS, and large num-
Der of reprints of English and foreign
works. OF the whole number, 3S5 were
for young people. CftfNte
John Magee, who died recently at his
residence il Schuyler county, N. Y, the
owner of property estimated to be worth
$40,OO0O00, commenced life without a
cent. His ownership of Pennsylvania
coal mines and lines of transportation lead
ing directly to them, gave him the bulk of
this great wealth.
Mrs. Cady Stanton, who has been can
wasting among congressman at Washing
ton for be. new paper, declares that two
thirds of The set speeches read from manu-.
script a.e not the production of those who
deliver them, bat are prepared by news
paper reporters, and the literary gentle
men at Washington.
Willard Small, who writes over the
signature of Oliver Optic is a notable
linguist, reading thirty one languages and
speaking eight fiuently. He makes it
rule to learn one new language every year.
He is thirty six years old, stands six feet
two inches in his stockings, and weighs
two hundred and thirty pounds. In the
field he leads the hands can lift five hun.
dred pounds; sleeps only five hours day;
Is strictly temperate, and never uses LIQUOR
or tobacco. Is married, and has a daugh.
ter nine years old, who speaks French,
German, Italian, and Spanish. rvr1