Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-07-28

1ANH SAUt NheAS wac 4O O4O DClOuu
reach of infinite mercy-that, to use bis
h own expires ion-''God never made any
d thing too bad to be saved" If he had eve
V introduced the devil as out of his charact
ers in novel he would have him mads
: penitent and happy in the last chapter
Springfield Republican.
8 Wit and Hum0r.
: MAINE has thirty-two hundred square
miles OF Lake surface.
A GIRL near Dayton recently won q bon
net by throwing her father twice out OF
three times In wrestling match.
GEORGIA editors pistol having been
stolen, he offers to ''give the thief the
contents, and no questions asked, if he will
return il
Az old bachelor says that giving the bal
{ lot to-women would not amount TO ANYTHING
practically, because they would keep deny
ing they We're old enough to vote until
they got too old to take any interest in
{ politics.
WOMAN applied TO magistrate for
summons against neighbor. '.She called
me thief, your worship. Can't make her
prove it?' mo doubt you could" said the
magistrate, ''but you had better not
'MANMA," said an intelligent little girl.
''what is the meaning of book being pub.
lished in limo 2" 'Why, my dear" re-
Piled the mother, sit means the books will
be pablished in twelve months"
MICHIGAN, as is nowiwell known, is only
a corruption of the name of Father Mike
Egan, an Irish Catholic priest, who lived
and tolled, and Was finally sacrificed by the
Indians, on the site of the present city of
Detroit t--PunchineliO.
MAMMA" said child one Sunday even
ing, after having sat still in the house all
day, ike good child, shave honored You
to-dayT 81 don't know" replied the |
mother; 'why do You ask2" because"
says the little one, shaking her head sadly, |
''the Bible says, Honor thy father and |
neither that thy days may be long, and |
this has been, oh, the longest day ever |
saw"
soME of the boarders at an Indianapolis |
hotel went out the other evening leaving |
their doors and windows open, that the
''spirit of the evening wind" might wander
in and freshen things When they return
ed they found their rooms tightly closed
and roaring coal fires burning. Fellow
boarders had been there.
MARK TwAES, while abroad. visited the
house OF the Wandering Jew. He saws:
When the guide pointed out where the
Wandering Jew had left his mark ON the
wall was filed with astonishment. 1t
read:
as. T.-1S60-X."
A FUNNY man in Alexandria, Va, the
other evening, bade his wife and children
goodbye, telling them that he was going
70 kin himself He then jumped into the /
vel. OF an old ice house in that locality,
but crawled through dry drain that opens
on the side of a hill near by, and watched
with delight .he efforts of large crowd
which soon collected TO fish him out of the
bottom OF the we'll
In the graveyard Mt Childwald, England,
are the following queer epitaphs:
"Here lies the body of John Smith,
Buried in the cioisters: II
II he don't jump at the last trump,
Call, 0ystersl'
"Here lies me and my three daughters, ,
Broueht here by using Seidlitz waters
II we had stuck to Epson salts,
We wouldn't have been in these here vaults"
PUNCH gives remarkable illustration of
"proof- positive" Wife (who has been sit
ting up,) "Well, this is pretty time to
come home. Four o'clock! Husband ,
(uho has taken but one glass of a curious
''whiskaGwarra, "Wha' you mean, mad
am, it sho' appens, curiouslenuff. parshd
Big Ben, madam, and heard it strike one
(hic) several times, madam [Retires to
bed in triumph in his boots
An irreverent Athens correspondent.
speaking of the new railroad from that city
to Pir@us, says: ''Think of Socrates So
over a steam engine; Diogenes.
with his tub, dead heading it to the Piarus,
or haggling about seven-cent ticket; of
Euripides working mp railroad catastro-
pine into one of bis polished tragedies; of
the courtly Xedophon taking Topographic
cal notes for his 'Anabasis' from the win-
dow OF sleeping car; of Alcibiades
l0lling In the smoking car and playing q !
game of high-low.jack for the cigarsl'
AN Iowa man tried to kiss a neiehbors =,
wife, but before he got through the lady
bit him on the head with rolling pin, and .,
put him ont of doors. The husband took - :,
A revolver and went to the man for salts =
faction. but concluded to settle il by taking :,
the Williams note for SO, which he traded e
of for off corn plough. The man who =
holds the note can't collect, the giver of it T.
claiming that he did not get value received =,
The Madrid people are innocent An 3
elderly gentleman last week had his eye al
covered in the streets by some b.
one behind, who playfuily said, "Who is n
t? Guess?" He went on guessing through p
he round of his friends, when the playful &,
being behind 6arted of, and left the old et
gentleman of Spain still bewildered and G
thinking who it could be. He found out Il
when he got home, and missed q pocket
book with fifteen hundred francs in it, al
20 gold repeater and handsome chain and .; "a
seals. ~
The LATEST man that can think oy now D
vas Israel Dunbar, of Billingsville. He a.
iried up new milch COW in milking her =,
lines, and planted an aker of beans last N,
ipriRg awl in one hill. He is 40 years cid, di
md haint had the meazles yet; he has al hi
guz bin too lazy to ketch them. His boy "
lied wen he was Is years old; in crossing te
. korn field the punkin vines tuck after ',
him and smothered him to death. - -
SPANISH gentlemen speak with great en-. "
.husiasm of the handsome behavior in a 7.
recent duel of two naval officers of high =,
,ank, intimate friends, who had quarrelled
,ver their cups. They fought twenty pa III
,es apart, to advance to a central line and W
ire at will. One walked forward, and when q
near the line the other fired and hit him. "a
The wounded man staggered to the line a
md said, II am dead. Come thou mp and q
% killed." The other came up till he
ouched the muzzle of his adyersary's =,
pistol, and in moment both were dead y y
ike gentlemen. %
The LYNN Reporter tells the following: b
Some years since gentleman, somewhat Ia
IF q literary character, residing in this E
,ity, whom we viii call by no particular G,
name, married young lady by no means Il
amous for her intellectually. In the 81
course of time the happy pair we're rejcic- b
ID by the advent of an heir, which grew b
md thrived for season, hut after awhile in
began to droop and grow sickly. The faith 7
II noticing the unmethodical manner in W
which the mother managed the baby, told Il
aer one day that its illness was owing to Il
A physician, upon being lct
salled, gave the same opinion. A day or Ice
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