Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-03-23

Miscellaneous Items

d. A HOLLOW log, RATED to jersey saw
mill, was found to contain hundred
suntish in a torpid state
A ROASTED onion bound upon the
pulse on the wrist viii stop the most
inyeterate toothache in few minutes
THERE are now only $1,000 volumes
in the Louisiana state library There
were once about $4,000.
The coal mines of Great Britain pro-
duced 1O7, 900, 900 tons, worth 927, Co.,
600 and the furnaces made 5, 000, 600
tons of pig iron. -r
A FARHR at West Union, the other
day, let his team stand under "A tree
while he chopped it down The team
and tree are both there, still.
The Mutual Life of Chicago does a
safe and reliable business, receives its
premiums in cash and promptly pays
its losses In cash.
A ZEPHYR that passed over East Sagi-
saw, Michigan, says q local sheet, took
down a good share of the signs and
chimneys, and tore up the slate roof of
the Methodist Church.
THE animal income of the Peabody
Educational Funds is about S120, 600
$4,000 are deducted for contingent ex-
penses, and the remainder appropriat-
ed to educational purposes.
ONE Andrew Kennison, of Norrdge-
wock, lately coughed up a head of
lungs more than thirty-six years. The
/ h1o L<.1 L. j.. L.
still retained its shape.
SIX thousand schoolbooks and one
hundred dozen copybooks have been
forwarded to Florida by the trustees of
the Peabody fund, to be distributed
among the public schools.
BARON GERArr's daughter is soon to
be married to distinguished Greek, in
Washington, and the quiet atmosphere
of Philadelphia will ere long be agitat-
ed by the Jaeger-Baker wedding.
I OK the 27th of December last
farmer of West Lebanon, n. H., put
load of hay in his barn, and in so doing
covered up a hen. On the 18th of
February biddy was dug out, lean, but
tolerably well and lively.
A CERTAIN kind of green kid gloves
are dyed with a solution in which arse
mic is used, and their use has been
known to cause an eruption to appear
on the hands. Very dark greens are
exempt from this poisonous quality.
A NEW SOCIETY has been started in
Elkader, to break up creating" The
members may drink anything they pay
for. but pledge themselves not to invite
any one else to drink, nor to accept an
invitation from any one else.
DURING the past fortnight incendia-
ries have been busy on Long Island,
burning barns, outhouses and factO-
ries, and destroying several hundred
thousand dollars worth of property.
SIX young men hung a man named
Schofield, near Cuba, Tennessee, last
July. Three of the party are, conse-
quently, on trial for murder, and a
fourth one, named Hines, has turned
states evidence Thomas McFadden
and George Geary are the names of the
two missing ones of the party, who are
now wanted by the officers of justice.
A MOOSE, which is supposed to have
strayed from the Canada woods, and
which has been seen several times this
winter in different places In the eastern
part of Connecticut, was killed on Sun
day in Lebanon. 1t weighed three
hundred and seventy-five pounds.
THE steamers of the Guion line are
named after the States and Territories,
viz: Wisconsin, Minnesots, Nevada,
Colorado, Dacota, Idaho, Wyoming,
Montana, Manhattan.
THE shoe trade of Lynn, Mass, has
made no perceptible advance in the
past few years, owing to the establish
ment of large factories in the west.
By means of clay molds, dried,
baked and made air-empty, the most
delicate and intricate designs, in high
or low relief, round or fiat, can be cast
/ from iron or brass, thus obviating
chasing.
/ The Iron Age says that the nail man
ufacturers of Eastern Pennsylvania and
New Jersey have formed an association
for mutual protection, and will hereaf-
ter fix their prices at the beginning of
each month.