Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-05-25

1T is so easy to be born a lord,
says one OF the ladies in the piece
now PLAYING at Wallack's Theatre
:. Yes replies Wallack, "but, or
the other hand, it's quite as easy moi
to he born lori Thousands o.
people are doing it all over The
world this very day
There was seen the other day O
little boy in the streets of Collosse,
y. Y, crying. a gentleman step
ping up to the fellow said: Ny lit
tie nan. what is the matter?" to
which he responded: '.I've got the
stomach-ache. and I'll have it again
if I've & mind 10 :"
The great strawberry fields OF
New jersey and Delaware promise
an unusually abundant yield this sea-
son. The profits on this crop have
been great-S2 900 having oeen re
allied sometimes from single acre
that n largely increased area is
put cnder cultivation each succeed
ing year. Strawberries aud peaches
ripeR in Delaware about ten days
earlier than in New Jersey.
4 correspondent of the Brookline
Transcript says tle late Deacon Eb
enezer DAVIS of that town raised the
first watermelons that were offered
for sale in the Boston market. 1t
gave him such a notoriety. that his
portrait was painted with a water
melon under his arm. The picture
was subsequently carried to Eng.
land, where it is still preserved in a
collection.
The famous girdie round the
world. referred TO by :. Puck" will
actually he completed next month.
The line from London 20 Singapore
has just been completed, and will be
extended to, Hong Kong within the
next four weeks As London is al
ready in teleg-aphic communication
with San Francisco, by way of New
York. IL follows that, after commu-
rieaiion shall be opened between
London and Hong Kong, resident
IN the latter place will be able to
telegraph to San Franrisco- with
about rs much rapidity rs though
there were line under the Pacific
Ocean.
Men who have half dozen irons
in the fire are not the ones to go
crazy. 1t is the one OF voluntary
or compelled leisure. who mopes
and pines, and thinks himself in the
madhouse or the grave. Motion is
all natures law. Action is mans
salvation, physical and mental; and
vet nine ort OF ten are wistfully
looking forward to the coveted hour
when they shall have leisure to do
notlling-the very siren that has
Iured to death many s. successful
man. lie, is only truly wise who
laws himself out to work ill LIES
latest hour, and that is the man who
will live the longest, and viii live to
most purpose. 4 5ifs'a
The gentlemen who were wont to
come Nortl, OF the Ohio with John
Morgan for the purpose of purchss-
ing horses and hens when the own.
ers we're not present, talk of raising
q monument over his untimely grave
A Young lady at Akron. Ohio,
recently performed 300 jumps over
her skipping rope, one day. and the
next 10 more. The consequence
was that she became i'll from the
over exertion, and three days after
wards died.
More than two years ago vain OF Goa
at Ya,essille. Luzerne County, Pa, tool
fire, and Il had been burning ever since
/ Recently the fire has seemed to be in
creasing in extent and intensity, and thu
volume OF smoke rising from it has beel
Livery large and heavy.
Il - ElZ1 <zoss ff1
! Pittsburg philosophers actually 'calcu
late that there is enough anthracite Goa
in the bowels of the continent to yield {
supply OF 10000. 900 tons for 600 years
Bus whats the use Of II II the miners vii
persist iu striking and refusing to dig an,
Of II out