Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-24

Facts and Figures.

EdCtS anu F1SuTeSs
RADwAY, of Ready Relief" fame, i
a dead.
:, NORTH CAROLINA wants a protective tarit
peanuts.
AMERICA sends oysters to England b,
/ every steamer.
{ FERNS constitute one-sixth of the for
D of South America
A LARGE colony of Danish emigrants ha
D recently sailed from Copenhagen for Gal
2 weston, Texas.
LAST month was the most windy Febru
: airy that has been experienced in the Gul
of Mexico for many years.
The University of Vienna has decided t.
! open its medical lectures and confer med
ical diplomas on women.
) A CINCISNATI paper says: There should
, be an inspector of back hair in this city
, Its hard to tell which is switch"
, IT is reported that about 200 families
J from Michigan are going to remove in tn.
spring to Newton county, Missouri.
The Conneaut. Ohio, school board pro
hibits teachers and scholars from attend
ing social parties, private or public.
A WESTERN critic said of. an eastern lee
turer that his words were 'as far apart as
The stations on the Pacific railway"
In some places the sea is five and quar-.
ter miles in depth, as indicated by sound.
ings. In other places no bottom can be
reached.
The Massachusetts LEGISLATURE has re.
fused to contract for a portrait of Abraham
Lincoln for the use of the Commonwealth.
The New York Evening Post says that
since the blondes were driven from Chicago
they claim that theirs is chased exhibit
| ton.
The wheat crop of Michigan is said to
lock rather bad-much of it being killed
by the exposure consequent upon a snow
less winter.
1T IS estimated that the cost of the pub.
lie schools to the city of Boston the coming
year will be one million four hundred thou.
sand dollars.
A FAT womans ball came off in the Bow
cry, New York on Sur day night last Two
women present weie he'd respectively 311
and 331 pounds.
A YOUNG colored woman was fatally stab
bed in Brooklyn church recently by an
other Miss Of her color. Jealousy was the
supposed cause.
SHIRLEY DARE" says Salisbury is the
handsomest man in Congress, but his in
tolerable voice takes all the poetry out of
his countenance.
Miss Kate Elder, aged Is years and three
months, was recently married, in Adams
county, Ind, to Mr.. James Biddle, aged
81 years and five months.
An aspirant after the vacant position of
executions in London rests his claims upon
the circumstance that he shas had much
experience in killing pigs"
A ST.. LOUIS paper says wheat is suffer-
ing throughout Missouri for want of rain.
1t is believed that if March continues dry.
there will be ageneral failure.
A GAME of chess was recently PLAYED by
the telegraph operators of Aspinwall and
Panama After an animated contest, the
Aspinwall champions were victorious.
The Duchy of Cornwall accounts. nub.
nshed lately, show that the Prince of Wales
received Tor his personal use, from this
source, $685. As. during the past year.
A GROCERY MAN in Charleston made he
lieye suicide III his store, and when the !
people rushed in. he mounted the counter
and began telling how cheap he sold green
tea
The town of Knights Ferry, California.
has hen which has adopted a litter of |
puppies. She treats them, so far they will |
allow her to, exactly like brood of chick |
ens
PROVIDENCE, R. /. wants to know what
1T is coming to, when hardly a day passes |
but woman is picked up in the streets SO |
crunk that she cannot walk to the station |
house.
ONE of the distinguished features of the
fashionable season in London are Mono
gram buttons for gentlemens suits. made |
OF black vulcanite, with monogram in gold. |
They are made for both coat and vest and |
cost So the set.
THE Lexington Ky Gazette says:-l
he corn crop was more or less injured |
by the early frosts, which caused a prema.
ture ripeness and, adding the great amount
of wet weather which has followed, has SO
injured the germ that great difficulty will |
be met with In procuring seed for the next
planting.
JUDGE at Sank Rapids, Mimi, is
keeper OF q provision and grain store, and
holds his court there, amid quarters of
beef, bins of grain, and sacks of -four
strewn about the floor. Frequently he is
obliged to leave the bench to wait on Gus
toners the lawyers meanwhile eating pea
nuts and cracking Jokes.
VERMONT paper asserts that little
daughter of John keenan,, of Bennington.
was recently carried down under the ice for
about five rods, went over seven foot dam.
and passed through an underground race
way for distance of Is rods to another
dam, and was then rescued alive. but in a
very exhausted condition.
The sale of medical diplomas is the rag
ing scandal in Philadelphia. The Evening
Star OF Wednesday says: "The sale of
medical diplomas, like th t of West Point
cadetships, is likely to bring the parties
implicated In these most discreditable
transactions into trouble, and i. is to be
hoped that such will be the case"
SINCE the story has been told of how
Judge Breckinridge married q girl whom
he saw jump over a rail-fence with a pail
On her head, all the girls in Orange county,
New York, are said to spend their time in
the road, and whenever they see
carriage approaching with a man in it,
hey seize their pals and 60 for fence.
A MINER in Michigan met an untimely
death not long ago, and one of his friends
himself in obtaining subscrip- ]
ions for tho bereaved widow. He collected
some $500. and then, thinking it might be
! good thing for him to marry the three
lays widow, proposed, was accepted,
md they were made one that same even.
ng. 9
MAT. M was aqueer genius. A neigh {
Dor found him at work one day ct an enor. G
nous wood-pile, saving away for dear life
With an intolerably dull saw. "why don't '
7ou sharpen your saw Mat ?" asked the
,eighbor. Looking up with an inimitably 9
iroll expression, Il should think 1 had '
work enough to do to saw up this wood
'iie, without stopping to sharpen saws" b
DAN" said little four-year old, .give !
ne a sixpence to buy a monkey"
We've got one monkey in the house =
low, replied his brother.
"who is it, DAMP" asked the little fel- c
ow. v
''You, was the reply.
"Then give me sixpence to buy the
monkey some nuts. a
The brother could not resist