Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-02-10
Miscellaneous Items.
Vermont has 525 physiciaians.

In sacramento the boot blacks are Uni
formed
The largest vineyard in California COW
ers 450 acres.
The first settlement at Buffalo vas
made il 1888.
Bogus five cent "nickels" are in circu-
lation in Chicago.
The Mobile Registers printed on pa
per made from the okra plant.
California has abolished the law pro-
hibiting Sunday theatres.
The Fifteenth Amendment will give
Missouri 10000 colored votes.
At noon, Jan. II, the thermometer
stood at 80 degrees at Little Rock.
The Philadelphia Mercantile Library
now contains over so, 600 volumes
The ploprietress of drinking saloon
In Philadelphia weighs GOO pounds.
The fimine in Rajpootna, India, has
caused the death of half a million persons.
"A murderer's skull was sold by auction
the other day near Ebensburg, Pennsyl-
vania.
Physicians assert that the skin of tea
drinkers will eventually become tanned
like leather.
"A new State. to be called Chesar cake.
is talked of in Delaware, Marylan J.. and
East Virginia.
An attempt will be made in Rhode ISL
and to abolish the state law of imprison-
ment for debt.
"A call is out for Massachusetts, Wo-
man's Suffrage Association, to meet at Bos-
ton on the 2Sth inst.
= The Elgin Watch Company will send a
watch to the Emperor of China -one man.
ufactured on purpose.
In Pennsylvania there are eleven mil
lions of collars in church property exempt
from taxation.
In England, in olden times, people who
could not spend S500a year were forbidden
by law to wear furs.
The present debt Of the city of Paris
is !. O47, 900 900 of francs, which is to be
paid off in sixty years.
A Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court has decided tha a charitable bequest
to al iufidel society is void in law.
MIR. Chas O'Connor's new Fifth avenue
mansion is to be second in magnilicence
only to A. L. Stewards
There is literary club of ladies and
gentlemen In Kalamazoo, Mich, called the
Ginger Schnapp Club"
The entire weight of iron used in the
construction of the dome of the Capitol at
Washington is s, ,009, 200 pounds.
"A member of our diplomatic corps
franked his trunk, weighing $50 pounds,
from Washington 20 San Francisco.
1t is a cutions fact that among north
ern races the sword is everywhere recog
nized as male; in the south, as female.
The Missionary Record is the name Of
paper published at Charleston, s. Gard
edited by a freedman named Cain.
Seventeen of the principal silver miues
in Comstock Ledge, Nevada yielded for
the past year, it is stated, 81, 265 600.
Although the population of New Jer-
sey is not over 1 600. 900, she pays more
income tax than any other state, excepting
four.
In Java, after the bride and groom are
at the altar, the law requires her to ash
his feet before the eceremory,a4! ai5,wed
TO 60 On
The lake tunnel at c.. sd is exca-
waited 120 feet under tue la from the shore
shaft. Tue proposed length of the tunuel
is ego feet.
The residence OF H. C. Cape, of New
York, was robbed Of 81, 600 in diamonds
on Monday of last week, while the family
were at dinner.
In 1860 the census placed the total
number of negroes in Kentucky at 236 167;
in 1869 the State Auditor reports only 140,
AS in the state.
1T is reported that a line OF Russian
steamers, to run from the Black Sea to
Bombay by way of the Suez Canal, is
soon to be established.
New England chickens" are placard-
ed in San Francisco markets, and fresh
oysters from the East are opened at twelve
and a half cents apiece.
The Russian infantry is now armed
with needle rifles, and factory has been
established in ST. Petersburg to manufac-
ture 500 600 stand.
"A horse shoeing match came off at
Omaha few DAYS ago, in which one man
made 100 aud the other 10I horseshoes
in 2 hours and 10 minutes.
The money obtained for the oil and
skins of three bears killed at Huntington
VT, last week, with therState bounty, net
ted the hunters $1,000.
One hundred and fifty babies have been
found i'm the little basket crib at the door
of the New York Founding Asylum since
the 20th of last November.
"A little girl lost in London streets, on
being questioned as to her parentage, and
place of birth replied that she was the
! s'child of Sin" and was ''born in Wrath"
The shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston for the year 1869 amounted to ], :
343 023 cases; an excess of more than 800,
600 cases over the business Of 1868.
Some lumbermen in Missaukee conn
ty, Michigan, recently killed two bears with
their axes, after sharp fight. One of them
weighed $50 and the other l0J pounds
An enterprising journalist got into the
secret session of the Gcumenical as an
Eastern Bishop in full rig His Latin be-
trayed him. aud the Papal police escorted
him to prison.
Maine has got moose-warden TO pro-
tect the deer against the hunter from Jan.
uary 18th to the next fall. Both the slayer
and the purchaser of deer SO killed are
heavily fined. .
ALI Holland has less than twelve thou
sand square miles, but it is densely popu.
lated, and Ia it is compressed population
of not quite four millions of people, with q
| language and literature of their own
Five hundred and sixty-nine vessels
are licensed by the state of Maryland to
engage in the oyster catching business.
They take 4, 600. 600 bushels year and EN-.
ploy 5000 men.
The total number of children between
six and twenty one years OF age IN Indiana,
is sos, ,661; colored children, 4,094. The
total amount of the school fund OF the state
is So, $50, 1868 So.
"A monster lobster has been caught of
the coat of Scotland. measuring two feet
eight inches from the tips of the claws tc
the tip of the tail. One claw measured
eleven inches and three quarters in cir
cumference.
An odd suit Is on trial in Ulster county
New York. A young lady. who wished to
marry q youth with SO, 600, promised q
lady friend So, 600 for her assistance if the
game proved successful. The young man
fell victim of course, but the successful
bride refused to pay the $1,000 when de
manded, and hence the suit.
1t is estimated that there are employ
| ed in the primary production of iron In this