Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-29
Miscellaneous.

DErRoIr has ladies' base ball clubs
i HARRIeBURG has an empty treasury.
PHALANxEs of female lecturers are now
forming.
JERSEY baby has died of painted candy.
Two Texan woraen are raising twenty
two acres of cotton.
| LENT discourses are not always borrow
ed sermons; sometimes they are stolen.
A woMAN's regiments said to be forming
for the city militia. in an eastern city.
The Penobscot river il lower than a, any
| period for forty years.
Soup is likely TO run out of the saucepan
when there Is leek in it,
| Forty thousand women are employed as
outdoor laborers in England.
The male population of Jewa is forty
| thousand IN excess of the female.
| A STATIsTICIAN estimates the number OF
dogs in this country at 5000, 900,
TWENTY ONE million dollars are annually
invested IN beer In the United States.
INpI, has nearly 100, OOO, 600 females, and
l.
The postmaster of Boston is MAKING a
trial OF young ladies a. delivery clerks in
his Office.
IT takes $1,000 per day and $50 en-
| ployes to ''run" the Sherman House. in
Chicago.
DoN'T be respondent in autumn because
the leaves turn; they will return next
spring.
| PARADOX as il may seem, people Who are
inclined To be fat are generally least in
clined 10 be so.
THE Georgia negroes are becoming ex-
pert garroters, bit practice as yet only on
ladies'.
A CINCINNATI firm has built Il safe weigh
ing half n million of pounds for New Or
leans.
THE population of Terre Hautc, Ind, is
about Is, 300-a gain OF 100 per cent in
the last ten years.
An lrate blacksmith drove an AKA into
another mans heart for not returning n
borrowed shirt.
| The beer drunk in The United States in
one year costs the drinkers twenty one
millions
SINCE the recent fires in Chicago iron
roof will be put upon many OF Tho costly
| buildings now erecting.
RoNDoUT IN. " young ladies' axe organ
| izing society for the encouragement OF
young men who desire 10 marry.
| Two gardeners IN Terre Hante, Indiana,
baye sold three hundred and eighty -ene
| thousand cucumbers from five-acre patch.
A CUCUMBER over four feet long and Il
beet fiiiy-one inches In circumference are
| among the products of Vermont this sea-
son.
DOMESTIC peace is assured in Dahomy
by the dread every wife feels lest her bus-
band may give her TO the king as u soldier.
LADY at Saratoga appeared at one of
the hops wearing necklace of sapphires
and diamonds which was valued ut Sl0,-
600.
AN Ohio girl has laid 10y the sum of six
hundred dollars, all gained 10y making corn
| husk door mats ut ten cents each.
Moths may be kept out of furs and
woolen clothes by wrapping the fabric in
calico. Moths cannot eat through calico.
A QUINCY Qllinois) man passed SO
Confederate note on banker of that city,
and was arrested and lodged in Jail for il.
CAN An importer be said to inlfil bis obi
cations TO his country when more gold is
made to cover all his duties 10 the gov
ernment?
The buckwheat crop in many parts OF
| the state of Michigan will be an entire
failure, having been blasted, tho cause be-
| Ing the dry weather.
The planters nre beginning to cut their
tobacco in some parts of the lower coun-
ties of Kentucky. The crop is reported as
being generally very fine.
MAN in Lawrence, Kansas, budded
| cherry tree in his garden last August
1862, which has grown i'll year IS ieet
| and inches.