Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-03

Miscellaneous Items.

KANSAS has discovered m eligible match
for the Cardiff Giant, in the person of
petrifed woman.
A GENTLEMAN who had passed the age of
so was married to fascinating Washing
ton widow on Wednesday.
A PROMINENT female lecturer has chosen
for her subject tnis winter, ''Women who
Ework VS.. Women who talk"
NIoARAGUA has a whole lake of mineral
water, which not only cures cutaneous dis
eases, but takes away all appetite for Ii
quor.
| IT is proposed TO establish at Long
Branch. next year, hotel on an exclusive
| ly Jewish basis.
An Indiana girl won a wager of $50 the
other day by walking Is miles inside of FIVE
hours.
The State debt of New Hampshire will
he reduced some s400. 900 before the close
of the present year.
THERE are s, 416 cotton. woolen, and 9TH
manufactures In the United Kingdom If
Great Britain,
TIE fourth ANIMAL State convention of
the young mems Christian Association is in
session at st. Johnsbury, Vermont.
IT is evident that the ghost which Ham,
let saw was ttst of his father, for was not
the spirit apparent TO him?
A WORD of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain. It is q seed which, even when drop
ped by chance. springs up in a flower.
E. SIcKLEs, of Omaha, has been appoint
ed Superintendent of the Union Pacific
iirnoI in, ,olaoo of GoI uovnno1v1
SIGNoR SELLA, the Italian minister of fin
snce, has remitted to the Pope $4,000
crowns, the amount of his allowance for
the current month.
THE latest slang for expressing the fact
that man dresses up 70 the fashion is
borrowed from the Technology of billiards
-''putting on English" is the proper
phrase.
CHIEF ENGINEER KING. of the Bureau of
Steam Engineering, has returned to Wash
ington from an inspection of the navy
Yards. He reports the work on the impro-
vement of vessels as proceeding satisfactor-
ily.
FAME is like shaved pig with a creased
tail, and il is only after it has slipped
through the hands of some thousands, that
some fellow, by good luck, holds on to it.
FIRE-GLT bronze is very favorite ma
terial for fancy articles nowadays. We
saw library set of this studded with tur-
quoiseS, which was remarkably pretty.
II is stated down Eass," as one of the
curious incidents of the drought. that
many farmers drove their cattle across
river beds to find springs that had not
dried up.
IN England, in one newspaper, 40
Church preferments are offered for sale.
The dis-establishment of the Irish Church
is said to have had @ bad effect on the
market for them.
FIFTY convicts. from the Virginia peni-
tentiary, are to be employed in repairing
the damage done By the recent freshet to
the james river and Ksnawha canal.
NILE. CEI1SE MoNrE,AND, of Fisk's
opera house, is announced by the Worlds
foreign correspondent as ono Of ], 400 fall
en- women recently expelled from Paris by
the perfect of police
The Boston dip" has asserted itself
the lance of the season. Waltz and galop
are obsolete, and oil the spoons" of New
York society are being transformed into
clippers"
RECENTLY, st a confagration In an Iowa
town. company of ladies hauled hook
nd ladder truck to the fire, and were fore
most in every effort to extinguish the
danes
A neighboring city is to have SVEN
story botel. The highest price will be
charged for the highest rooms, as they
viii Be more quiet and airy than those be-
low. and accessible per elevator.
LADIES Who wear seal-skin coats and
caps should remember that portemonnsies
Of corresponding material are en- regle.
Se al-skiD match boxes and cigar csses are
also becoming fashionable.
The Gloucester (Massachuset.s) Adver-
tiser says that sthere Is q decided increase
in ''sniritual manifestations" on our
streets: bGt they are far from being the
''spirits of just men made perfect
REMEDIES for red nose are now in or
der. Among others n contemporary says
that the true remedy for red nose is tenn
perance and the free use of a handker-
chief TIE organ can't te red when it's
blew.
4 NEW use has been found fer wood
which has served rs the bowsprits of ves-
sells that have voyaged long and far, and
become thoroughly seasoned. 1t Is used
for TIE carved statues of Saints and Apos-
ties on the columns supporting the domes
of churches.
A MEMPHIS youth who found the key
hole of his house door mislaid or stolen, the
other morning. undertook to climb to his
room on the spont. Half way mp the spout
vent down, and be hung by his hands to
shutter till his shouts brought assistance.
WE have seen cigar cases, pocket books,
and the like, made with watches set in the
sides. We are assured that these time
pieces will go, but considering that the
price of the whole affair is never more
than twenty dollars, We rather doubt the
assertion.
FANNY FERN makes answer 10 a paragraph
which has been going the rounds, to the
effect that she would conclude her literary
labors this year, TINS: "The shove an
unouncement is wholly gratuitous. Being
= woman, have no intention of stopping
till get through"
Hartford. Conn, has had terrible Wis.,
itatien OF the marriage mania. No less
than twelve large weddings took place
there last week, three of them occurring on
single block We shall have to spell the
name of this city Heart-ford hereafter.
The champion hopper of the period has
turned up at Albany. He has only one leg,
but shows so much expertness in the use of
it that heschallenges the world to produce
a man who can out-hop him. Last week
ne hoped a mile in front of the Capitol, to
the admiration of large crowd.
A PARTY of English sportsmen have just
concluded highly interesting labor. They
bought and examined 1873 Holsters, and
discovered (probably to settle the question
forever, that in the male the blunt tooth
claw is always on the left side, and the
sharply serrated claw on the right, viii in
the female this is reversed.
The Providence Press SAYS that one of
the census enumerators in that city put
down in his list, twins. opposite the names
of two children, aud against the first he
designated Providence as the birthplace
The thick-headed men in Washington sent
the list back to have the deficiency account
ed for. What they wanted to know was
where that other twin was born.