Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-10

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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.
IT is estimated that there have been
700, 600 visitors at five watering places this
summer.
"GrvE me some headache and family
fight" is the Ohio call for glass of whisky
and bitters.
ALL that Philadelphia wants to make her
happy during the csming winter is first
class circus.
A CINCINNATI inebriate is said to have
been homoopa.hically cured of drinking
by seeing spirits.
An Indianian wants divorce beause his
wife won't give him money enough to live
on.
THE dunkards are about to establish a
college at Bourbon, Marshall county, Indi-
ana.
ONE foundlings' home in New York city
has received 1900 babies during the last
year.
A MAN has been sentenced to imprison.
ment for life IN Ohio. for placing obstruc-
tions on q railway track.
The manufacturers of Newark propose
to institute a course of lectures for their
employees this winter.
New ORLEANS is beginning to receive
her new crop of molasses ten days earlier
than last season.
TIE first colored boy who entered the
high school of Portland is now state sen.
ator in Texas.
DURING 1869 there were sold by twelve
manufacturing companies in this country
800, ,669 sewing machines.
THE residence clause of the Illinois con-
stitution is said to disfranchise large
number of Methodist preachers.
SIXTY members of an educational insti-
tute in Maine, recently spelled caterpillar
IL different ways.
THE Rochester Democrat thinks it is be-
coming @ serious question whether the
roughs own that city or not.
ANOTHER happy Denverian has found
gusto. my days of happiness are ore.
A Missouri paper sagaciously remarks
that s.St. Louis will now take rank as one
OF the fourth cities OF the Union.
A PRuss1EN hussar officer has sent home
an account of the battle of Sedan written
in ancient Sanscrit.
BAvARIA has sent to the army a battery
of new mitrailleuses of Bayarian invention,
1t fires $50 bullets per mirute.
THE Erie railroad extension, from Buffalo
to Suspension Bridge, will be finished by
the middle of November.
ENGLAND, It's said, is ready to supply
any deficiencies in the American glove
market caused by the European war.
Or the 5000 employees in the treasury
building at Washington about l,1OO are
women, several of whom hold hrst-class
olerkships.
In San Francisco, Cal, recently, an apo
thecary was mobbed by crowd of indign-
ant Cinnamon for selling them molasses
for opium.
PASSENGERS and baggage from New Or
leans to Houston, Texas, are quarantined
for twenty-five days, by whatever route
they arrive.
THr words ssrn Let" IRE now seen on
many buildings in New York. The supply
is greater than the demand.
The number of Americans in Paris il
less at the present time than it has been
for many years.
THERE are said to be more Irish born
citizens in New York, according to the GEN.
sus, than in Dublin
THE organizers of the barricades in Par
is, s.among other means of defence, have
prepared petroleum pumps.
IKE Prison Reform Congress, at Cincin-
natl. have agreed to form a national asso-
cation and call an international conven-
ton.
A SOCIETY has been organized at Balti-
more for the protection of wild fowl on the
rivers of Maryland from wholesale slaugh-
ter.
THE squares and pleasure grounds of
Paris, have been planted with cabbages
and caulidowers, for the use ofthe inhabit-
ants.
A CONTEMPORARY, evidently overcome by
the aurora, says that on Friday night last
s.the lambent pastimes of boreal corrus-
cations" were realized In full.
In searching for gold, much depends
upon whether the right measures are Ia
ken to find it. Quartz can be relied on as
serviceable, but pints will always fail.
THE plum trees in some parts of the
Middle States are reported to be In full
bloom, having mistaken the recent rains
and pleasant weather for early spring.
elbow MANY feet long was the snake? y
asked a person of q traveller who had just
related story of the encounter OF q boa
constructor killed by him. "One hundred
and ninety-two inches," was the reply
'ssnakes have no feet"
A PENNSYLVANIA editor having stated In
a paragraph that there was man In the
place who had been drunk for 35 years,
was called upon by 20 different persons,
who demanded retraction. each visitor
insisting that the item was personal at
tack.
THE passes of the Andes have been sur
veyed with reference to the construction
of a railroad between the Argentine Re
public and Chill. A practicable route has
been found, over whicn it is estimated that
road may be built at q cost OF s52, ,O0o'-
OOO
AN Irishman strongly prejudiced in favor
of the French almost broke his neck, the
other day, at Albany, N. Y, by jumping
from the scaffolding of Catholic church,
where he was employed as laborer, as
soon as he heard thas it was owned by the
Germans.
A v1powER of New Haven, who happen
ed to MARI, a second time without consult
ing the wishes of q daughter, on attempt
ing to introduce his bride into the family
mansion few nights since. was set upon
with sticks and stones and compelled to
fly for his life.
sJoHN." said poverty-stricken man to
his son, sI've made my will to-day. =
"Ahl replied John, ''you were liberal to
me. no doubt" ssYes, John; came down
handsome, I've willed you the whose
State of virginia-to make living in, with
the privilege of going elsewhere If you can
| do better"
A c1ERaYMAN last summer visited the
celebrated Hoosac tunnel, and encounter
q spriehtly Irishman, who, in reply to the
question. ssDo you think this work viii
pay?" promptly replied; "Faith no; but
then it viii be great ornament to SOC.