Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-14
Writings.
Starch and flour are made from horse
chestnuts in France.

SCarcn anu HOur are ulitCc tToHl HofSo
chestnuts in France.
Professor Huxley has discovered that
artists are the highest type of humanity.
Ex-Secretary Seward is said to have his
life insured for one hundred thousand dol
lars
In Richmond, Indiana, Judge fined
woman, and she found his nose and pull
it.
The late war and the Communists re
volt have caused great scarcity Of skilled
artisans in Paris
New York and the New England States
together have almost one-third of the cit
les in the United States
The number of clergymenin the United
States is placed at ninetyone thousand:
their average salary at seven hundred
dollars.
A Wisconsin brute applied for a divorce
on the ground that HIS wife had become
weak, and couldn't work on the farm as
she used to"
Absinthe is, by some people, regarded
as chief one among the many causes Of
the decadence of France aIen holding
this opinion might, if they would make
point of it, observe that inasmuch as Ire
land has been very nearly ruined by her
absentees so France has been endangered
also siy her absinthees
The following is told of young socie-
ty gentleman, who graduated from Har
ward: On the examination in physics, he
was asked, "Mr. -, what planets were
known to the ancients?'' "WeIl, sir, he
responded, "there were Venus and Jupi
ter, and"-aftel pause-'I think the
earth, but Tn not quite certain"
Mother" said little girl who wis or
gagged in making her doll an apron, Il
believe will be duchess when grow
mp" How do you ever expect to become
duchess, my daughters" her mother ask
ed 'fWhy, by marrying dutchman, to
bt SUI, ltpllCu nv Siit-
A visitor at the White Hills says New
Hampshire would be as large as Illinois
were it only fiat; but it is drawn up into
all manner of folds and creases, and plaits,
and made a perfect tumble of, and then is
tucked away in ono corner of the map
where nobody would think Of looking for
it.
At an hotel in Ohio, large mirror is
; placed at the entrance to the dining hall,
which is so constructed that YOU see your
self thin, cad dlverous, hungry person !;
: but when you come out from the table
and look again in the glass your body is
distended to the extremity of corpulency.
: IERoIsM AND CRUFLTY-A most
, touching instance of heroism, and one Of
{ the most atrocious acts Of cruelty, the
! truth of which is vouched for by the most
e respectable authority, occurred during the
e Columbian struggle for independence.
The Spanish General, Morillo, the most
: blood-thirsty and treacherous tool of the
: Spanish King, was created Count Of Car
o thagena and Marquis de la Peoria, for ser
: vices which rather entitled him to the
i butcher or hangman While seated in hi'
e tent one day, he saw a young boy before
e him in tears The chief demanded o
II him for what purpose he was there.
The child replied that he had come tc
! beg the life of his father, then prisone
!; in Morillo's camp.
: What can you do to save your fathcrs
!; asked the General
% Il can do but little, but what 1 can shal
= be done"
!. Morillo seized the little fellows ca
.. and said:
10 "Would you suffer your ear to lie take
~ off to procure your fathers ife:'
81 q certainly would was the undaunte
at reply.
: A soldier was accordingly called, an
- ordered to cut off the ear with a sing
!, stroke of the knife
rs The boy wept but did not resist viii
J., the barbarolis order was executed.
,st wv ould you lose your other ear rath'
ia than fail in your purpose was the ne'
bo question.
ne ne 4 have suffered much, but for my fail
10 er can suffer still,' was the answer /.
no the boy.
- The other ear was taken off by piec
If meal, without flinching on the part of Il
,ct noble boy.
NJ "And now go!" exclaimed Morillo, u
= touched by his sublime courage: "tl
-, father of such son must die"
IL In the presence Of his agonized al
in vainly suffering son the patriot father w
of executed.
- AMERICAN TRUNKS AND BAGGAC
Oh SNAsUEPs writer in Nh JTj71n1's f