Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-22
Miscellaneous Items.

Two cents day affords comfortable
subsistence in Japan.
NEARLY every considerable city in
Europe has a charitable "Home for
Consumtives.
A MANS own good breeding is the
best security against other peoples Ill
manners.
BurcHER's meat is so dear in Omaha
that the inhabitants get bear subsis-
tence.
The ruin of most men dates from
some idle hour. Occupation is an ar
NOR to the soul
THE best penance we can do for envy
ing another's merits is to endeavor to
surpass it.
MoDEsTY In a woman is like color on
her cheek-decidedly becoming if not
put on.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kansas, claims to have
erected 1850, 900 worth of buildings this
year.
A COUPLE in Newport, r. l., recently
celebrated their pearl wedding, having
been married 20 years.
THE English government has refused
to adopt any form of the mitrailleuse
for use in the British army.
BE deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to
the scorner, and dumb to those who
are mischievously inquisitive.
THE largest farm in England contains
three thousand acres. The live stock
kept on this farm is valued at S64, 500.
A COMMITTEE of the ST. Louis Board
of Trade has made favorable report
on the feasibility { manufacturing
plate glass proftably at that point.
You cannot help soiling the finger by
handling a dirty substance; and mean
action is as sure to leave its mark upon
the perpetrator as upon the victim oft.
If you have performed an act of
great and disinterested virtue, conceal
it if you publish it, you viii never be
belived here nor rewarded hereafter.
WYOMING TERRITORY, by the correct
ed census returns has 9, lis population,
exclusive of Indians and Dakota, a.
OIL.
THE Columbia (Kansas) Independent
says that large number of Mormons
are settling in the vicinity of Neutral
City.
A YOUNG man in Ashland county,
Ohio, recently walked nine miles over a
rough country road In forty-fve min
utes, passing several teams on the
way.
OF the regiment of Grandier Guards
which fought at Inkermann, sixteen
wears ago, then four hundred strong,
only thirty officers and men now sur
vive.
THERE is an elegant brick house in
Portsmouth, N. H., which cost one
hundred thousand dollars il is sur
rounded by an iron fence, but the own
er, who died some time since, never
would make up his mind as to the de-
sign of his gate. For several years the
stone posts have been hung with pieces
of rope holding an old ladder, and the
widow, who desires to follow out her
late husbands wishes, renews the lad
ders as they get broken, and keeps up
the plan of the departed.
THE systematic routine of official
business in the Departments at Wash
ington-which so often excites the ad-
miration and amazement of outsiders
was finely illustrated the other day,
in the disposition of the case of Engi-
neer Kellogg, of the navy. That off,
Ger, it Will be recollected, was killed in
an affray at Key West on the 9Th of No
vember His funeral occurred next day,
and, week later, on the 23d, the De
partment, with delicate consideration
for the circumstances in which the de
!, ceased was thus placed, published q
general order "relieving Chief Engi
neer Kellogg from further duty or
board the gunboat Terror" But fol
! the issue of this tiineiy order it would
probably have been necessary to court
? martial the dead man for absence with
! out leave.