Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Miscellaneous Items,


ALBANY is now anxious for free baths.
GEORGIA is to be geologically surveyed.
NORFOLK is anxious for public library.
BUSINESS is very dull along the Missis-
sippi.
An Omaha firm rivals Babbit in soap
boiling.
LOUIS NAPoLEoN's illness is seia. to be
only faintl
a ''GREEN-GRocER" ia described as zone
who trusts"
LEOPOLD is called the flower of chiyalry
the primrose
New ORLEANS has small. .pox, but no
yellow fever
New YoRK's greatest pets just now are
its free-baths.
PARIS doctor sdvertises to amt utate
hump backs.
BALTIMORE wants good bank. Others
would not object
SOME of the omnibus routes in London
are IA miles long.
KEPENTED penitence wearies the soul.
Madame de Stael
HE "Sus" has been known TO shine
with borrowed rays.
A NEW railroad is projected from Ithaca
to Cayauga, New York.
The 994 trades-unions in this country
have 126, 775 members
THERE has been German daily paper
started in Toledo, Ohio.
MAzEPPA is being converted into an
opera by p is composer.
A CYNICAL old bachelor says that matri-
\ mOny the ranf of oil av,T
IHE buckwheat crop in Southern New
York is unusually promising.
They are forming "old maids societies"
IN several counties out in Ohio.
The Prussians are said to be troubled
with the (''MiZzeries' ')-Mezieres.
SAN Ohio murderer declined to be inter
viewed" unless he was paid.
The Prussiaps are taxing q Me.z-otinto
view OF Napolon and his army.
Punch thinks that just now the "pipe Of
peace" Is ''contraband of war;"
A PROPOSITION is on foot to change the
name of Cincinnati to Hamburg.
The Cafe Napoleon in Berlin changed its
name as soon as the wal broke out.
French agility in leaping bitches is as
cribed to the national diet on frogs.
Who doesn't envy the people in Wall
street who have so much gold that they
can't carry it!
"PARTING is sweet pain," as tie curly.
headed fop said when he tried to part his
hair in the middle.
WANTED, by every soldier in the Prus-
sian army, 1.-The Life of Louis Napoleon
with or without cuts.
GEN. SPINNER is called 1.-The man that
writes name on the greenbachs that looks
Ike string of eels."
JERSEY editor, commenting on the title
of a new book, ''Only Girl" asks, "Well,
what did they want, twins?"
If postage on papers is reduced to one
cent there will be two sent where there is
one sent now.
THE returns from the Boston public baths
show that there were nearly million
bathers in July.
MAJ. POWELL is about to enter upon an
other expedition TO explore the great canon
OF the Colorado.
Two hundred bales of silk recently pass
ed through Omaha, shipped direct from
China to London.
The Petersburg (va.) Index reports that
irg quite important.
DowN East for weeks past many OF the
mills have been running by steam, owing
10 the scarcity of water
The friends of the Pound Gap Railroad,
IN Southwest Virginia, are making earnest
efforts to build the road.
A NAN being dissatisfied with the bill of
an expressman, was allowed to express his
feelings without charge.
1T is currently reported that several of
the Robertson comfy (Ky.) distilleries will
resume operations shostly
GALVESTON, Texas. is ambitious for q
public library, and would like dictionary
and spelling book to begin with.
The city of Cohoes, n. Y, which was
granted city charter about year ago,
now has population of 1900.
The people of Denver, Colorado, ak of
forming vigilance committee to rid them
selves of the thieves and a. sassins.
The Hartford Post says there is a porter
IN one of the hotels in that city who can
read '' Homes Iliad in the Greek"
A CORRESPONDENT says the people who
spend the most money at the watering
places are the old men with young wives.
IT is said that four presidents of the Uni
ted States never visited New England
Madison, Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan.
NAILS, whose points have been dipped in
grease, can be driven easily into hard wood
which would otherwise bend or break them.
ST.. CATHARINE, Canada, has girl eight
years of sge who weighs l2S pounds, and
takes four-mile promenade before break
fast.
|
The latest thieving trick in New York is
, to approach street car and snatch through
the windows hats from the passengers
/ heads.
An incendiary attempt was made last
week in the New York Journal of Com
, merco Office, but the fire was soon extin-
guished.
S The first steamer ever seen on the Stan
ton river, in Virginia, was launched at Ro
anoke station on Friday. 1t is called th'
4 Charlotte.
] The census taker of Monroe county Miss
D issippi. has found sixty pairs of twins les
!, than twelve months old, and one township
u yet to hear from.
; IT is maintained, as an evidence OF Nor
4 mon progress, that the Deseret News ha
i been printed from types cast in Salt Lake
;, and upon paper made in the same city.
|, THE examinations for admission to col
n leges this season have revealed the fac
that large number of lads of sixteen o
" seventeen years are deficient in spelling.
sr COOPER and She rIuan Two horse thieve
II have been found guilty and sentenced TO th
re penitentiary from Halifax county, Virgins
ST one for eighteen and the other for te
e yeara.
* The Vireinians are making q good bus
'n ness of gathering and drying sumaca ft
vi drug houses. Petersburg received. in or
!, day last week, 100. 900 pounds ready to
I'd sent off.
A New YoRK tailor was started, the of
=, er Gay, by the return of bill which he hs
- ;t sent to magazine editor, with noti
- that the manuscript was respectfully d
" clined."
AT one of the watering places the seen
witnessed at the feeding hour" are sa
lte to be as good as play-and one ccrrespo
sx- dent goes 30 far as to call the dinner