Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-26
AkExTRAoRDlNARY APPARATlON.
L Fire Bird on the JackstaG OF n
steam boat.

STEAMBOAT
From the Cairo Bulletin, Aug. IL.
We have been placed Ia possession of the
details of a story which we should treat as
the workings of disordered Imagination,
were ii not that clear headed and collected
gentlemen assure US OF their truth. They
are as follows.-nnfts9d nsa- fi-.rl i4ii9
! ssDuriDg the storm that, proceeded, the
eclipse, fire bird, about the size of q full
grown eagle, perched itself ON the top Of
the jackstssff on the steamer Gen iAnder-
SON. Its shape WAS well and sharply de-
fined, and from its outlines there emanated
constant luminous or phosphcrescent rays
or Jets When this strange apparation
perched upon the jackstaff, and how it dis
appeared, are not known to a single in
diyiiual on the boat We wereat first dis
posed to believe ii an optical Illusion,
but this; nidea was dissipated by the
assurance that it maintained its position
during an interval of fifteen or twenty min
utes "a sufficient length Of time to allow of
a deliberate view aud study OF all the de-
tails. The entire crew on watch saw it,
the more superstitous portion declaring it
an ill-omen. This portion firmly believing
that the fiery visitor came to warn them of
the burning of the boat, tame ashore at
Cairo in q state of almost piiiable trepida-
ton, feeling that they had made a narrow
escape indeed. 'hs'iii'i' li'A' e.
What this ienigenous object was we shall
not attempt to say. It is something new
in the history of inland navigation. Nearly
every astonishing marine yarn" We ever
read vas embcllished with description OF
luminous balls of light that settled on the
tips Of the main-mast; but well-defned and
undoubted fire-birds on the jackstaffs OF
Mississippi steamers have been preserved
tor this age of earthquakes, eclipses, me-
teors. and unnatural. wonders generally.
1r3 sfai Foreign Items.
1t is said that the Car Alexander's ia
vorite drink is absinthe. of which he takes
more than is good for him.
The number Of pins manufactured
weekly at Birmingham, England, exceeds
zoe, 600, 900. pH'7 o. .ieT
The robe worn by Princess Louisa OF
Sweden on the occasion OF her marriage to
the Prince Royal of Denmark, was made
in Berlin and cost s24, 900. ''@'hi
Napoleon tainted away the other day,
after breakfast at AIouchy lie Chatel. He
was unable to walk TO the railway station
tiiu Luz " NC e.
There is in Paris q rumor that Adelina
Patti Caux Is encisnte. and that Christina
Nilsson has. after all, accepted the hand
of the Duke de AIassa- f-
Prince Clovis de Hoslohe, the Bavariar
Prime Minister, is pers;nage of singular
IN noble and intellectual appearance, and
said to be a statesman farsuperior to Count
Beust. He is in his fifty-irst year, and be.
longs to one of the greatest princelj houses
in Germany.
"A shopkeeper Of Pesth shot himself
with q pistol, having previously written the
following to a friend: 'I.ife is insupporta-
BILE; 1 adore my wife, but she has grown
SO stout she that was of so rayishing o
figure when / married her.
The Ipelanders have q curious custom,
and most effectual one, of preventing
horses from straying. Two gentlemen, foi
instance, are riding together without at
tendants. Wishing to alight for the pur-
pose of visiting some objects at distance
from the road. they tie the tail of one
horse to the head of the other, and the
head OF this one to the tail OF the former.
In this state it is utterly impossible for
them to move either backward or forward,
one horse pulling one way and the other
the reverse; and. therefore, ii disposed to
move at all, it will only be in circle, and
even then, there must be an agreement to
have their heads in the same direction.