Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
Miscellaneous Items.
Chicago hopes to govern herself On
leven millions next wear.

nlthlh nlne months a family IN Indi-
ana has celebrated four weddings, three
births, andtwo deaths.
AT the recent Imperial ball at st. Clou 4
the Duchess de Mouchy displayed $500. 001
: worth OF family diamonds on her head.
"A bereaved father in San francisco snes
for Sl0O COO for the loss of his daughter
killed by fire engine.
-Forty-nine is the number of Ueber q
hlmbalrs children, and two of them ae
called Sarah III. All the rest have different
names.
"A young woman of Memphis has fol-
lowed the advice of the Revolution. ..pro-
posed" to man she liked, and married him
him the next day.
"A young man sent some money 10
New York firm to get something good ''fot
J those contemplating matrimOny" lie re-
celVed several bottles of soothing syrup.
do you ever take anything?" asked
Sharp of Snozzles. s.Never. sir. except
I'm unwell, and then my weakness is coz
mac just now I'm troubled with hollow
ness, and don't care Ill do"
There is said TO be young lady in JET
iersonvllle who can easily swim across the
Ohio River and back again without stop
ping to rest. The dear little :. duck p
"A Davenport paper is responsible icr
the following: Calhoun county has a Ilur
gatory swamp and a Hell Slough 4.
must be devil of country"
A drunken man, after irving in vain 10
keep ON the sidewalk, was heard 20 exclain,
as he headed for the middle of tie road.
There now: 90, in the street, if you want
"A lady teacher was endeavoring 10 i'm
press upon her pupils the terrible effect Of
the punishment of Nebuehadnezzar. SAY
ing: 'SeVen years he ate grass like a COW.
when boy asked, '.Dii he give MILK"
Il New Bedford lady got pair Of white
PINK gloves a store, 10 be kept if thev
suited, and after they had graced the hands
OF a corpse dIessed for the grave, econolni-
cally removed them and returned them t.
the shopkeeper.
"A Missouri deputy sheriff is after an
Arkansas girl of the period. She is tiir-
teen years old. without shoes, stockings or
bonnet, and was last seen trying 10 make
horse which she had stolen '.git up.-
"A young man under age applied nj a
Minnesota land Office for a farm under the
Homestead law, but was denied on account
OF not being married. He returned in Just
an hour with a remedy FOR the difficulty
1t is told of young lady in Newark.
that when her jealous admirers sent back
her letters with request that she wonld
return his, she answered that She regretted
tnat she could not comply Immediately, as
she had lent them TO a young gentlemen to
read.
"A California paper reports that there
were JO, OOO tons of wheat living i'm sacks
along the banks of the Sacramento rive,
In Tehama, Butte, Sutter. Coluia and Yolo
counties, on the lst of August. and tha.
6o.OoO more We're to follow, maxine. 1Ioo o0o
tons as the yield of five counties.
"A young man named Dressier in pits
burg, carelessly left his loaded revolver IL
ing IN his room on Monday morning. anal
his sister Mena, eleven years old. strave,l
INTO the room, got hold of it. and acci-
dentally shot herself through the heart.
A rich man who died lately in Iple
pendence, Mo-, left ten dollars each 70 bis
Two sons, who are working on iaIm st
twenty dollars month, and the rest of his
property, worth more than half a million
OF dollars, to married niece.
"A Litchfeld Conn clock dealer lately
sold small clock to an Irish woman. who
walked oil with it under her arm, On hti
way she turned it bottom upward. aud a
wire dropped from It's position. causin, fbe
clock to strike without inter1nission There
upon she returned in trouble, complainius
to the merchant "Sure. an it's erwin
afther We already"
The King of Prussia has twenty splen-
did thoroughbred horses. each Of which Is
worth So 800 The Emperor of the French
has about four times as many, some Of the
animals being very valuable. The stables
OF the Sultan are said to contain no less
than three hundred splendid horses, the
hnest collection of these animals in tho
whole world.
"A Cretin recently murdered three
small children at MuZsteg, Germany. The
children had teased him for some days
past One morning, when he found them
alone, he cut their throats. When the un-
fortunate mother of the little ones returned
home and found them weltering in their
blood, she went mad.
"A question for solution: Two ladies
were walking along Chicago street the
other day, each having her child with her.
Soon they met two gentlemen. There"
said one, 'tare our husbands" s.Yes. said
the other, ''and our fathers" ..And our
grandfathers," said the children. All were
correct in their statements. Who can solve
this relationship sphynx?
in New York, on the 81, large black
snake fell from the roof of Isl Fourteenth
street, the residence of A. G. Dusenberrv.
and struck boy on the knee The boy
''got up and busted" a Mr. Butler saw
the reptile fall, and threw a stone, but fail
ed to hit it. The snake rose about two
feet perpendicularly, aud, with jaws dis
tended, was preparing TO attack Mr. Butler,
when a cartman seized heavy ling and
struck If, causing its death.
"A constable in Williamantic. CT. male
a wager the other day that he could break
out of the village jail in fifteen minutes;
and when 1t was accepted consented TO be
a prisoner. No sooner had The ,:oor been
locked than he seized the leg OF a bedstead.
struck the bars upon the door, knocking il
completely of, and in three minutes from
the click of the clock he emerged, thirteen
minutes ahead of time, winning the bet.a
"A boat race for 500 side, was rowed
IN the harbor of Yokahama, Japan, on the
10th of July, between the cutters of the
U. 5. steamer Iroquis and her Britannia
maJestys frigate Ocean. The latter beat
the former in FIVE mile race, four minutes
and twenty seconds. This result again
gives the boast to the Britishers In these
waters, which was won from them about
year ago in contest between the Ocean
and the Oneida. t
"A Nirginian patent medicine dealerhas
gone far beyond the wooden nutmeg trick
He went to st. Joseph, Mo-, with a linz
ment which he claimed would cure all
earthly ills. He hired an old gentleman 10
crawl upon crutches, declaring that lac had
been cripple for ten years. The quacS
pretended to bathe the limb of the hired
cripple, who then threw away his crutehes
and ran across the street. The doctor
soon had not bottle of his stuff left
"A man named Hilliard, while engaged
in digging well on the turnpike, three
miles above Portsmouth, o., last week, be-
came affected by clamps" in the we'll, and
dropped down insensible. No one was
present but Welsh woman, and she satu-
rated handkerchief with camphor, went
down the well and spread it over his face.
She then tied rope around him and as
cended, and then drew him out He was
lnsensibie for three hours, but finally re-
covered. 1t was an act of heroism in the