Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-04-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.



> Mo. -lasses.
? PEACH trees are Louisville are beginnin,
: Iowa has 41O,1s children to enjoy tn,
l school fund.
A FRENcHMAN wants to lease Pompeii fo
hotel and theatre.
HE most popular church in London hai
: ten minute sermons
A PROTESTANT weekly paper appeared in
Cordova. Spain, Jan. 1.
TIE procuring of divorce is called
court-ing after marriage.
The nextgreat astronomical congress will
take place in 1871 at Stuttgart
The number of deaths in Chicago dur.
ing the month Of March was 535.
The milk inspector OF Boston saws the
milk sold there is thin, but healthy.
FARMERS in Wyoming plow with tame
buffaloes.
A LITTLE girl in Sheboygan Co. cut of
her fingers in straw cutter.
The bell was recen.;y stolen from the
steeple of Kentucky church.
Two companies of Federal soldiers are to
be stationed at Jacksonville, Ala.
Non single death has occurred at Bow
doin College for over twenty-five years.
FoUR colored girls are emploved in the
Government Printing Office. =
The Astor House, New York. will he
turned into stores when the present lease
expires. .---....r
AN Arizona miner lately fell down a
shaft 125 feet deep, nnd was only slightly
bruised. rs ta7t d
THERE is to be great prize show of the
giadiolis flower in London, on the 18th of
August next. si - 81
IHE saloon keepers in Cape Giradeau.
No., have all been indicted for keeping
open on Sunday. 10 ls.
A BEARDED woman died the other dav at
Toulouse, France, aged 104 years. She had
beard two feet long.
IHE South Rend (Ind.) Register says
that eggs are scarcer In that city than hon
est men are in Chicago.
A PRACTICAL paradox Spring freshets
carrying away the dams without diminish
ing the hard swearing.
The late blondes of New York theatre
now appear with hair dyed black and faces
bronzed to an olive tinge.
A JERsEYMAN. in reply to the charge that
women can do no fighting in time of war.
says his wife does nothing else.
The lake tunnel at Cleveland has reached
point 4lO feet from shore, and work is
progressing at the rate of ten feet per day.
Some OF the cheapest brands of tea are
sald to be partly made up OF cast-steel i'll
ings. W. 49,
AN excursion of ministers from Boston
70 San Francisco Is proposed for August
next.
A NEW daily paper. with ]. Russell
Young as editor, is to be started in New
York in May.
A scHocIsfIsTREss in Hamlin county.
Iowa, was ous.ed the other Jay tor kissI5e
the,big ;r,ys.
T4E Office Of Dr. Douglas, at Appleton.
wasentered on the Sd, and robbed of in.
struments with $500.
THE house of Mr.. Tibbetts. at Lima
Sheboygan Co., was burned down on Fri,
day last. Loss $1,000.
The Grand Rapids Reporter says that
in full bloom up there.
In the five largest savings banks in Bos-
ton there are nearly S2S, 600, 900, belonging |
TO 122, 346 depositors.
The oldest theatre in this country is SUD-
posed to be the Walnut of Philadelphia.
which was built in 1900.
The highest steeple in Dayton, Ohio. is |
that OF the First Presbyterian Church. |
which is 239 feet high from the street
Boston takes 20,94S gallons Of milk a |
day, and 7,646. .020 annually. There are
foO COWS within the city limits.
A TRAVELLER writes home from Paris:
''The word 1 have stood most in need of |
since my arrival here is the French for
damn"
The tax levied upon tobacco raised in
Virginia last year, and consumed by the /
people Of the United States, amounted to
$50, 1900. OOOi
A FEW days ago little girl in Ithaca, |
Just before she died, exclaimed: "Papa.
take hold of my hand and help me across.
Her father died two months ago.
NINE soldiers of the war of 1912 are
mentioned as still living in Rails county,
Missouri, all OF them over seventv-fye
years of age. na
: The guests at a first-class hotel were re-
Gently startled at seeing "mice pie "
among the items Of dessert on the bill of
fare. ..---...-sa.
UPWARD of $4,000 natives perished in
the Island of Zanzibar and on the main
weeks.
maple sugar, you know" says the
Schenectady Star, sis made hy grinding
up maple trees and squeezing out the Juice
in q acheese press" 81 ~ 3.
The whereabouts of John Smith ara now
definitely ascertained. He has been sent
to the Illinois penitentiary for five years
for sneak thie wing. = ifl-f III
How naturally 'our victories" assume
large proportions in type, and those of the
other fellows hide away in sly coroners of
the newspaper Ex. A ~ |,
IT is stated that every farm of 160 acres
In Eastern Kansas is underlaid with 1, ,555..
OOO tons of coal, or nine times more fuel
than If the surface were covered with heavy
timber.
The Globe Inn, Dumfries, Scotland, once
nequented by Robert Burns, and which
contalns the chair he used, was recentiy1
offered for sale for s70O, but there were no
bidders.
ACCORDING to the Register Generals re-
turn for 1869, the city Of London occupies
1887 acres, or 122 square miles, and has
a population of 3,170,554. The number
Of houses is 406, 507. ' FsN
The town of Lyndon, Washtenaw coun-
ty, Michigan, has been settled for morei
than thirty two years. and yet it has neith-
er church, hotel, store, postoffice, grocery.
nor mail of any kind.
''ELEPHANT beetles" aflict Utah in the
vicinity of Salt Lake, covering the earth.
andmarvelous stories are told Of their seiz-
ing upon dead oxen and devouring them in
20 minutes.
AConu1fBus. KY.. man named Vail, shock
ed the citizens of that place, last week, by.
selling at auction the wearing apparel and
other property of his lately deceased wife,
himself acting as the auctioneer.
EATON HAPTDs Is one Of the favorite water
ing places of Michigan. 1t has three mag.
netic mineral springs. the winter of which ia
so highly charged that . common jacknife
drawn tew times across the iron heading
to the tube viii pick mp an eight-penny nail.
Pitchers and pals, after standing some
time with this water in them, become cor.
roded on the inside as with iron rust.
IT rs q wellknown fact that the Emperor
of Russia has repeatedly had terrible at
tacks OF delinum tremens. During these
attacks he is always tortured by the belief
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