Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-02-24

"A man named Kline in Cincinnati went
home drunk. and poured pot of hot ceffee
own his child lying ia its cradle. soalding
it to death.
There is only one woman in the town
OF Lost Trail, California, and her husband
can't sleep nights because so many men
stand in front of the house and CRATE their
teeth.
placing the domestic article in the Boston
market. Vessels constantly arrive there
from Antwerp laden with window lass
alone.
Harvard college has given IL, 5s3 de-
grees, not including those of this year. Its
Alumni at present are 8, ,l18-51 more than
Yale.
Ada Clifford, a notorious courtesan. of
St Louis, has sued several fast young men
of that city for various wine bills and bor-
rowed money.
The Utah Gentiles assert that no sin.
cere female advocate of polygamy can be
found in Utah who is not old enough to be
grandmother
| The Northern Indiana college build
ing, with eight acres of ground, has been
sold at sheriff's sale for So, ,625. The cost
OF the building and grounds was over 500
600.
The manufacture of alcohol from REIN
deer moss, which was set on foot in lS47.
by Prof Sternberg, of Stockholm, is now
carried on to considerable extent in Swe-
den and Norway.
The inundation of the Nile has this
year taken the proportions of food. 1t
was never known to be so high, and has
caused damage to the extent of nearly S4O,-
600, 600.
"A Chicago paper says: 'The gas bills
just rendered by the gas companies are
from 30 to 100 per cent. higher than usual
and consumers are Indignantly complain
ing all over the city.
An Exchange says: 1T is singular
what mistakes people labor under. MANY
girl thinks she sings swcetly who only
screeches, and half the ugly dandies think
they are killingly."
"A Pennsylvania mill has rolled out a
finely polished sheet of iron, three feet
long and twelve inches wide, and weighing
but three and half ounces. It is thinner
than ordinary writing paper.
--Over 250.000 freight and cattle cars
passed over Albany bridge, going both
ways, during the year 1869, which would
make, If placed together, train more than
1,5OO miles long.
Deer are 20 plentiful in the neiehbor-
hood of Brookhaven, Mississippi, that
sportsmen do not take the trouble to kill
them. One ran through the streets of the
town recently.
There are now living In Baltimore
county, Md, five brothers. the youngest of
whom is 13 and the oldest 81, who served
In the same company in the war of 1922
and have never received pension.
"A railroad watchman in Ohio fell
asleep on the track the other night, with
his lantern in his hand. The lightning
express came along, tossed him upon the
cowcatcher, and carried him to the next
station with only a broken leg.
"A jeweler in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
received few days since a heavy gold ring
from the Catholic priest in that city, with
the injunction: This belongs TO you: take
it and ask no questions" Some girl has
got lighter conscience.
--Charlestown, Mass, furnishes full
soup to II families bin of fare offers beef
soup on Mondays. Thursdays and Satur-
days; mutton soup on Sundays and We'd
nesdays; and fish chowder on Tuesdays
and Fridays always accompanied with
bread.
A successful school is in operation in
London for teaching deaf and dumb chill
dren to speak. Although the inability to
control the voice by the ear produces a
barsh and disagreeable toLe, the pupils
learn to articulate distinctly, and to under
stand what is said to them by watching the
movements OF the speakers lips.
i would not give much for your re-
ligionunless it can be seen. Lamps do noe
talk, but do shine lighthouse sounds
no drum, it beats no gong and yet, far
over the waters its friendly spark is seen
by the mariner SO let your actions shine
out your religion. Let the main sermon
of your life be illustrated by your condact,
and it shall not fail to be illustrious.
The Norwich Conn Advertiser gives
an account of queer donation party" to
a clergyman in North Stonington, the Rev.
David Avery. They gave him about $50
in money &c, and then, (says the Adver-
tiser,) ga number remained to an unsea-
sonably late hour" indulging in levity, and
theft, by which ''the house of prayer was
made den of thieves" Rather a novel
way of helping the pastor.
In "A Book About Words" by G. f.
Graham, the author gives an explanation
of the phrase, ''Nine tailors make a man"
In the olden time the strokes of the pass
ing bell were called ''tellers," and as nine
strokes indicated the death of a man, while
three announced that of child, and six
that of a woman, the words mine teiiers''
were easily perverted into nine tailors.
An Illinois undertaken sent the follow
ing entertaining note to sick man:
DEAR SR;-Having positive proof that
you are rapidly approaching deaths gate,
a have therefore thought il not imprudent
10 call your attention to the enclosed ad-
vertisement of my abundant stoos cfready
made coffins, and desire to make the sug-
gestion that you signify to your friends a
wish for the purchase of your burial out
fit at my establishment.