Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-07-28

Miscellaneous Items.

A SMALL Indiana town has one scho
house and eight base ball clubs.
PETRoLIA, Canada, produces A, 500 Dbl
OF petroleum each week.
CALIFORNIA Is preparing to ship apple
pears, and other fruits to China.
| WHERE does Shakespeare give an il
stance of the cure of consumption Wbe
the Duke of Gloster stops King Henry
coffin.
The largest proprietor of ''three-car
monte" games at the New York races get
himself up as clergyman, and achieves
wonderful success as a ''capper."
ONE of VIM. Penn's silver spoons, wit
his name engraved upon il, has been foun
near Reedville, Mifiin county, Pa, b
workmen who were digging cellar.
A NEW YORK lady received among he
wedding presents three sewing machines
SIX large family Bibles, and ten ice pitch
ers. A Boston lady had twenty-one pair
OF silver salt-cellars among her bridal pres
ents.
AN eagle was lately shot near Auburn. N
T., which measured twelve feet FROM tiD Il
tip OF his outspread wings. When dis
covered he was perched on fence intent
ly watching small boy picking straw
berries.
A MARBLE quarry has just been opened
near Williamsport, Pa, which affords 2
fine grained stone as black as ebony. and
capable OF taking very high polish. L
is said that this quarry is the only ono OF
the kind known to exist
A BOY IN Allegheny. Pa, lost his speech
on the Fourth of July by the explosion o.
a fire-cracker, which had been accidentally
thrown into his mouth.
A NEBRASKA CITY bride demonstrated her
woman's rights by locking the door of the
epithalamial chamber and refusing to ad.
NIT the bridegroom until he had handed
her $500 cash.
FLOUR, and more particularly dried "corn
hour, is almost as injuriousas as metallic dust,
affecting the constitution much in the same
way. Bakers and millers are short lived
class of men, seldom attaining more than
forty years.
On THE VIM. Connolly farm, eight miles
south of Bowling Green, Ind, is an aprle
tree, which is ten feet in circumference,
being about three feet four inches in diam
eter. 1t is twenty-nine years old, and
stands in large walnut stump, mostly
sound yet.
TWENTY applications for divorce a week
Is the average in Vigo county, Ind, which
has 2O,OOO inhabitants. Ii they were all
successful it would require less than ten
years to furnish divorce to every man,
woman and child in the county.
A BosToN paper gives the lament of an
attic poet" for the want of air and rain
n 'long days." which closes thus pa
sand if don't obtain them soon
A funeral there will be;
The hacks will with nv friends be filed.
But the corpse it will be me-"
AN old lady, by the name Of Snyder, liv-
nfi at Ices Y Roads, Ohio, one of the old
,ioneers OF the West, is hale and hearty,
walks one mile without firing, and has
cached the extreme age of los years. She
lses no spectacles for reading.
JAMES GoIDoN BENEFITS health does not
improve. He is still confined to his rooms
1 the Fifth Avenue Hotel, aud it is feared
hat he will never be able for ectiye worl.
gain. Visitors are sending their cards to
i'm constantly, but he admits only a few. |
AN erring Indiana hen was recently
ound in the back part of hardware store, /
Ehere the misguided fowl had struggled |
or three weeks, trying to hatch out half q |
ozen white porcelain door-knobs. She !
vas very much reduced.
THERE is a woman in Indiana who don't |
10 things by halves, but by fourths. On /
he 18th" she was married to her fourth |
at four O'Clock in the Fourth st.
'hurch, had four bridesmaids, left four
ours later, and will do a four-weeks bridal |
rip.
A VEIDANT waiter on Pullman excur-
ion car, the other day, attempted to fiji
he water tank through the ventilator at
ne top Of the car. The occupants of the
ar were unexpectedly treated to n shower
ath, to the great de.riment of linen and
roadcloth.
THE Grand Duke OF Mecklenburg-
chwerin is trying to make Vanderbilt OF
inself, having purchased all the railroads
] his domains But they must be rather
railroads, as the whole Grand
'uchy isn't much larger than Milwaukee
ounty, and the cars haven't killed man
" twent-four years.
The last year that Davy Crockett was in
ongress political Jolliiication was held,
rofessedly in honor of the birthday of
efferson. Davy met several of the COM
any going home from the festival, aud
nus graphically described their condition:
They were 80 drunk that I'll be id if
ther Of them could hit the ground with
is hat tree times throwing"
ANOTHER English workhouse MANAGE
ent is in trouble. A lad named John
airing, in ''reformatory" establishment :
Pleasington, was guilty of an ofense
yainst the rnles in soiling his clothes. -
he governor of this institution directed
4 elder lad to punish John PAIRING by
ducking." The boy was ducked so ef-
ctually that he was drowned; and the
irene verdict of the Coroner's jury was
death by misadventure.
A YOUNG man who carried collection
ate. in service, before starting tsok from
IS pocket O five-cent piece, as he suppos-
!, put it on the plate, and then passed it
'und among the congregation, which in
uded many young girls. The girls, as
icy looked at the plate, all seemed aston
he'd and amused, and the young man,
king glance at the plate, found that in
cad of q nickel ive-cent piece he had a
lozenge, with the words twill
,u marry me?" in red letters, staring
right in the face.
A STORY is told of DIR. Storrs and Henry
ard Beecher. On some public occasion
r. Storrs was to preach in Plymouth
hurch. After the celebrities had go. ints I
10 pulpit Mr. Beecher said: Brother
sorrs, directly under where You will stand .
preach is baptistry of the most approx
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st, and is just the Orthodox length and 8
,pth. The platform is controlled by
ring near my foot. There is at this time
,out three feet of water in the tank. When ,
brother breaches for me. and is very long
ID very dry, / touch the spring aud let
IN in."
Personal Notes. L
A Mrs. BARNES, while driving into Rock ,
,rt, Ind, for a divorce, was thrown from :
- or,6 "a 81,