Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-10-27

Miscellaneous Items.

CURLs may be false, even though they
are ''in the papers"
TIE coast cities of Texas are in the en-
joyment of good health.
In Maryland, after October 20, you may
catch partridges in traps-if you can.
HOLLY SPRINGS. Miss, has two jug fac
tories and one temperance society.
AN EEL, eleven inches long, was recent
ly found enclosed in an oyster, at Potts
vile, Pa.
''The question is. What are the Prus-
SLAMS about ?'-M Y. Times
Paris, of course.
CLANS are proverbially happy at high
water, and fresh-et oysters are always
agreeable.
IT Is not to be supposed that printer
must necessarily be initiated, because he
calls for copy.
A GHOST has been seen near Frederisks-
burg, Va, in the day time, dressed in fed
eral uniform.
TIE citizens of Reading, Pa. have made
arrangements for series OF lectures dur
ing the coming winter.
WITH the general stagnation of business
Paris Is now receiving lesson which less
ems the receipts.
OF course the besieged Parisians are like
common tea and coffee pots, when they are
block'd in.
POSTAGE on newspapers in Great Brit
ain is to be reduced from two cents to one
cent.
Our of the total area scf Great Britain,
80, 396. 600 acres. or SO per cent, are under
cultivation.
The balloon that went from Paris to
Tours showed no signs of fatigue, though
it was good deal blown.
CORY, Pa, overfows with Joy, for her
new gas works are completed, and all her
streets were lighted up last week.
A BIG black bear was caught in the Dis
NAL Swamp in Virginia, few days since,
and taken to Norfolk for sale.
THE Baptists of Virginia have seven
hundred and eighty-seven church organiZa-
tons, and the Campbelites seveuty-tnree.
| A GRAND tournament and ball will take
place at the Danville (Va. fair. The sue
cessful knighs will get a $500 horse.
CATARRHAL fever is prevalent in Wilcox
county, Alabama. Though of dangerous
type, it has no. yet proved fatal
YALE and Harvard boating crews are re-
minded that the trial between the hare
and the tortoise is the first she'll race on
record.
Mrs. GENERAL Houston is dead. The
surviving members of the family of the
father of Texas reside in Georgetown, in
that state.
QUITE superfaous is the advice of moth
ers to children: Don't eat too fast" No.
body eats too fast; quite the contrary,
Madame.
MURDERS have become 80 numerous in
Chicago that Cook county has agreed to
pay $3.50 reward for every arrest and con-
yiction.
81 SEE the villain in your face" said
Western Judge to an Irish prisoner. ''May
it please your worship" replied the pris-
oner, "that must be personal reflection"
A SINGLE oat in Scotland produced ten
stalks, which contained nine hundred
grains, or an average of ninety grains to the
stalk.
NATURAI1sTs are discussing the question
what bird is the most skillful architec..
We say, swallows. There are expensive
saloons in this city built entirely by swal-
lows.
The Ccurier-Journal proposes the estab-
lishment of "a Beggar Bureau" at WASH
ipgton. 1t is smart paper, but it always
has an axe of its own to grind, in just this
way.
Boston must be elegant, or nothing.
Her very horse-thieves share her love of
literary lore, and the latest EQUESTRIAN alb
suuatulator sustains the aesthetic appella-
ton of Clarence Percy Mortimer.
The mechanics and workjpg-men of
Murphysboro, ILL.,, intend starting CO.
operative store. The miners of the same
town have obtained an advance of thirty
} cents per ton since the 1st of September.
WHAT has Mexican Buchanan got against
the people of Michigan, that he persists in
fcisting himself upon q long suffering pub
lie. Now he is announced to appear in
Central Michigan, and emigration has al
ready commenced Many of the inhabit-
ants have taken to the woods Cleveland
Leader.
IT may be important to remind authors,
publishers, and others interested, of the
exceedingly favorable provision of the re-.
! vised copyright law which secures the
/ work or article copyrighted for the term
of twenty-eight years, with the privilege
of q rene val for the further term of four.
teen years, making forty-two years in all
Two RAsCALs immured in the Ludlow
street Jail in New York could not afford to
remain idle, and therefore employed their
: time in manufacturing counterfeit money,
and were detected while in the act OF SELL
ing it to outsiders
An underground route through Balti-
more is now the subject of discussion
, among the roads centering in that city.
. The entire sum required to be raised is es-
! timated at "a 5S3 600 represented by bonds.
anti s600, GOO by stock.
{ THERE is not a single Confederate pris-
oner in the custody of the United States
, anywhere. at this time" SO says Adjutant
5 General Townsend, In response to an in
quiry as to whether there are any Con-
. federate prisoners in the Dry Tortugas.
SHOW do you like the character of St
Paul 2" asked person of his landlady dur
ing conversation about thu Apostles.
, ssAh, he was good old soul, for he once
said. you know, that we must cot what is
set before us. and ask no questions for
conscience sake. / always thought ]
. should like him for q boarder."
g On THE BREADTH OF SPECTRAL Bands
t Lippich has gwen, in Poggendorfrs An
naien, an explanation OF the broadening
: and other variations of the spectral lines
|, of luminous gases, which he ascribes to
( changes in temperature. The law he
h claims to have discovered Is that the ratio
Q of the difference of the wave-lengths which
!, correspond to the borders of any spectral
. band to the mean wave-lengths of such
band is constant in the same gas, bnt in
:, different gasses the ratio is directly as the
v square roots of absolute temperature, and
: inversely as the square roots of their den.
r sites.
III A FASHIONABLE young lady. of rather at
tenuated figure, while in the hands of hel
dressmaker, became alarmed at tae spa
J ciousness apportioned to her bodice. and
. declared that she could never wea' it, and
), the silk had been wrongly cut Pardon
me, Mademoiselle," replied the modiste
: s'the design is quite correct; the fitting i
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