Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-06-29


Senator Pomeroy offers to give $4,000,
two-thirds of the amount needed, to-
wards the endowment of a feminine pro-
fessorship of medicine in the Harvard
University.
They have an odd way of announcing
Opponents in Colorado. One of the pa
pers says: "Tim Browns sage hen peg
ged out with Bill Weeks, last Monday,
leaving Tim three children to care for"
Mrs. Samuel Colt, of Hartford, widow
Of the famous inventor of revolving arms,
is about to erect a costly monument, ii is
said, over the neglected grave of ExGov-
ernor Seymour, of Connecticut.
An excellent quality of photographic
stone has been discovered in Canada,
about so miles from Kincardine, and near
Lake Huron.
A paper in Davenport remarks that
thunder is 1.-THE exultation of the ele-
ments over the attempts of lightning
bolt to annihilate a tree"
The Allegheny City zouaves want to
drill with any company in the United
States or Canada, for the champion flag.
They will visit Chicago.
A Charleston IL. C.) young man tried to
commit suicide because Ibis sweetheart
danced with somebody else at the picnic. y
4 dose of stomach-pump saved him.
Picnics in the neighborhood of Nor
folk, Va, wind up by the girls standing
in long row, while the young men go
along the line and kiss them all good
NIGHT"
1t is stated that no less a sum than
5000, 900 was subscribed for the defense
of the women personators, Boulton and
Park, in London, and that young mil
lionaire marquis gave $3.50
An Ohio inventor claims to have de
vised process for converting iron into
steel of so liquid quality that it can be
cast into threads, ready sharpened edged
tools, etc, all at one process.
Alexander Dumas, Jr., has uttered a
bon mot on the woes of Paris. He de-
scribes the great influx of strangers to
that city at present as "a visit to the uni
versal exposition of human folly"
1t is at last proposed in Savannah, Ga,
to place an inscription on the monument
erected to Gen. Nathaniel Greene, which
has stood for 40 years without even the
name of the hero TO mark it.
/ A Virginian owns dog whose smart
ness consists in carrying letters twice a
week between two points 16 miles apart
His owner just ties the letters to his col
lar aud tells him to go and he goes.
Darien, Ca, tried to hang a negro the
other day, but had not sufficient expert.
ence in this useful art. The rope broke,
but second trial finished the delicate
operation. The officers were all negroes
1t is said that only one copy exists Of
the English register of consols, and, as
its destruction would bring financial dis
order, it is proposed to have the original
photographed leaf by leaf, and copic:
kept in cities at some distance from each
other.
Waxahachie, Tex, has the champion
rat. A very ugly hole in the back of the
head of little child of Mr. T. b. Wat
kins, of Waxahachie, was gnawed by 6
large-sIzed rat a short time since. Medi
cal attention was necessary to save the
child's life.
Mr.. ]. B. Johnson, of Leeds, recently
jumped from the parapet of London bridge
into the Thames, distance of 30 feet. te
save passenger who had fallen over
board from Woolwich steamer. The
rescued man offered to compensate his de-
liverer literally, but he declined to receive
any reward
The famed mosquitoes of New jersey
are being eclipsed by the appearance there
of new blood-letter, called the winged
porcupine," which has concealed under
it's wings . pumber of fine quilts, and
shoots them at anyone attempting to cap
ture it. These work into the skin. caus-
ing painful irritation.
There are II japanese students con-
nected with Rutgers college at New
Brunswick. One of them, in a recent
conversation with correspondent of the
Newark Adcertiser, stated that there were
about 300 of his eountrymeni in the United
States and Europe, and that all of them
had been sent out by the government and
were supported by it. On their return
they were to be teachers, either in the
new university or elsewere He bore tes-
timony to the uniyeral desire of his peo-
pie to learn the truth, whether religious.
| political or scientific, and alluded to the
new parliament of princes as the first
step toward representative government.
Berrien county, Michigan, is said I'd
have derived its name from the fact that
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