Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-05-05
cURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Facts and Figures.

Facts and Figures.
An Indiana couple aggregate 1877 pound
weight.
THERE are So homeopathic physician
in Boston.
, Beavers are reported in large quantitie
in Mississippi.
THERE is good sleighing yet in some part
of New England.
WEsT POINT cadets call the modern dres
coats ''steel pens"
4 THREE thousand vagrant goats roam tn,
streets of Savannah.
Tartar emetic pie detected lunch THE
IN Vermont school.
The fire department of Columbus, Ga
embraces 135 negroes.
IT Is stated there is not a postofice il
Sunfiower county, Miss.
The Kansas City mo- News saws peacf
buds are '.kilt intiro.y."
NEARLY 700 Philadelphia girls were mar
ried to foreigners last year.
The base ball fever bids fair to he more
OF an epidemic than in 1867.
New OnIEANs has had over 400 deaths
from small pox the past winter.
A TALENTED her in Maine has Matched
out three chickens from one egg.
CHICAGO has 1920 drinking saloons open
on Sundays, with 10000 visitors. A moral
city truly!
A WABASH catfish weighing over 1OO
pounds was on exhibition at Terre Haute
on Monday.
CORNISH miners, according to DR.. Bar
ham, die of consumption between the ages
of IS and so.
| The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad paid over $500, 900 In March for
wood and ties.
THERE are over 1000 applications for
censulships on file in the state department
at Washington.
KANGAROO skins are the latest things in
French gloves, and kangaroo outlets in
French restaurants.
The native churches in the Sandwich Is
lands gave, last year, nearly $50, 600 in gold
for Chrietian objects.
SIX strong minded ladies in Philadelphia
have created sensation by walking down
Chestnut street a Ia Bloomer.
THERE are 10000 volumes, of rich, rare
| and racy sensational literature slowed in
the vaults of the patent Office.
CANES with whistles are at the present
! time very fashionable in Paris. The whist
les are used for calling hackmen.
CINCINNATI and Cleveland newspapers are
agitating tho reduction of the fare on the
street railroads from six to FIVE cents.
Her Britannia Majesty's colonial troops
are permitted to wear their boards, while
nj for 4
clean shaven.
TEXAS man, who lately committed sui
eide by taking poison, left a note request
ing that a knife be buried with him, $50
that. if he cans to. he could cut his way
out"
A SAN FsAScIsco reporter says: There
were three murders the other day, but
there was nothing novel or original about
the modes of death. So we don't give parti-
culars."
The Paris police say that at the present
time there are in that city more penniless
Americans and American dead-beats than
there were even during the great Exposi-
ton of 1867.
THE scene of the new play written by
Alexandra Dumas for Lydia Thompson is
laid partly in South America, and partly in
Paris, and the period is during the regency
in France in the 18th century
THE hottest day in Calcutta, India, dur
ing 1869, was the 9Th of April, when the
thermometer reached 101 degrees in the
shade; the coldest was the 3Oth of Decem-
Der, when it fell to 81 degrees.
WESTERN Texas is said to be fast becom-
ing timber country. Within the last ten
years the whole face of the country has
changed, and young forests are now grow
ing in what was formerly a naked prairie.
A AMIDDLErowN, Conn, q man was so an-
noyed at seeing several men at work with |
their teams near the church on Sunday that |
but, alas! he found him tapping |
his boots.
The indianapolis Journal says: yInquir- |
ing yesterday of an old darkey, who was |
fishing in White river, "What luck?" he re- |
piled: ''De fish is like de Dimocrats arter |
us niggers' votes. Deg wants all de bait, |
but won't hang on to de hook" t0 4
WAsHNGToN correspondents say that the |
Russian legation, pursuant to instructions |
from st. Petersburg, are making great prep
arations for the reception of the young |
Archduke Alexis, wh0is expected to make |
q visit to the eUnited States early in the |
summer.
AsfIssIoNARY in India lately preached on |
the subject of faith, illustrated by the story |
of Abraham and Isaac, with such magnetic |
eloquence that one of his native hearers i'm |
mediately went home and slaughtered his |
son and offered him to ''the big God" as q |
sacrifice.
THEsK is much sickness among the con- |
victs of the Michigan State prison, at Jack
son. The disease is a remittent fever of |
low type, and there are seventy now under |
treatment. -Four convicts died of the dis |
ease last week, three of whom were life |
prisoners,
ONE Of the oldest defenses on record has |
just been made at Hamburg by man who
had murdered his wife from motives ofjeal-
susy. According to his own account he had |
not murdered her, bat ''had killed her IN |
fair and honorable duel, as he had placed |
. pistol in her hand and told her to shoot
At him.
NJ. vrvrEN DE SArsT-MART1S, in his geo.
graphical almanac for 1869, estimates the |
number of yellow people in the world at
584. 600. 600; whites, $50, ,0U0, 600; blacks,
30. 000, 600; and aboriginal Americans at |
4 ASsStOsooos AAio AutSck hHuLC 10 WCA Col- \
culated to appal General Sheridan, not to
speak of Gen Grants quaker plenipoten-
tieries. fl .stI.- -
SILK growins was prosecuted in South
Carolina before the revolution, and for q
time fourishsd. The mother Of the cele-
b,ated Pinckneys carried some silk, pro-
ducsd on her plantation, to England, where
it was vcsen into tissues. Gowns were
made of it, and presented to the motaer of
young George III and to the elegant Earl
Of Chesterfield. But the advent OF cotton
raising destroyed the business completely.
PRoFEssoR CARPENTER, in his recent leo
lures before the Royal Institution, states
the general results Of the recent sxplora-
tons Of the deep sea by dredging to be: l,
That there is certainly no limit to the depth
at which even highly organized animal life
may exist; 2, That u distribution Of liv-
ing creatures under t.le sea is affected far
more by temperature than by pressura. but
even where the climate is steadily little
below the freezing. point at the bottom,
there is rich abundance Of varied life; 3, /
That q vast number of animal forms, hith-
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