Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-05
Current Items.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
In Beaufort county, North Carolina,
last week, a single hunt made game of
"a bears.
HEREAFTER the worst you can wish
your enemy, will be that somebody may
put Mansard roof on him.
THE new Capitol building at Lansing,
Mich, will consume 4 600 carloads Of
stone from Amherst, O.
SEVERAL persons still live in Terre
Haute, Ind, who resided there when
the Indians owned the whole country
surrounding.
PRoF. Law, of Cornell University, has
discovered that the horse influenza raw
aged Greece in the year 412 B. c.
IT is estimated that 2S5 distinct rem
edies have appeared in the daily papers
as warranted to cure the horse dis
ease.
BoRAx, hitherto mainly procured from
foreign sources, has been found to ex-
ist in inexhaustible quantities in Ne
vada.
DAIRYwoMAN declares that one cause
of white specks in butter is allowing
current of air to blow across the milk
while cream is rising.
THE epizootic has closed up Barnums
great rural circus and menagerie in
New York. What are to become of the
morals and sciences now?
The word sheartn is named 800 times
in the Bible; the word 'soul' 400 times;
and the word "head" SO times.
The Iowa Homestead advocates the
burning of corn for fuel in the western
counties of the State, where coal cannot
be had for less than II to 20 cents per
bushel.
A MUsKET BALL, after seven years of
vain exploration for permanent resi-
dence lot in the brain of Capt. Lauren,
of New Holstein, Wis, recently walked
out of his ear.
THE scientific men who are to pass
the winter at the summit of Mt. Wash
ington are.training Newfoundland dogs
to bring their mail from the foot of the
mountain and to do other errands.
BALTIMORE claims to import more cof-
fee than any other American city, and
it would seem with good grounds, as
eleven millions in duties on that article
have been collected within the past
year.
New ORLEANS is bidding high for the
grain trade of the West by providing
increased facilities, and is now receiv-
ing and shipping considerable corn.
She has just erected her fourth eleva-
: tor.
JOHN w. YOU'VE, son of Brigham,
says that a party of Mormons are max
ing tour Of Europe and Asia, and will
thoroughly inspect the school systems
of the world, that education in Utah
may be improved.
A CURIOUS freak of nature is reported
, near Cayuga Lake, n. Y. 1t is an oak
, and pine tree growing together, so
closely connected as to present the ap-
pearance of one tree, and, in fact, they
might be so called, for they are so nearly
grown together at the root that no divi
, sion can be seen, and the bark has
nearly the appearance of that of the
pine.
: A CONNECTICUT farmer having more
apples than he could find room for in
his cellar, and not considering them
worth picking at present prices, SOLD
them unpicked for four dollars each
row of trees. On one row of trees there
appeared to be seventy-fve barrels o.
apples, which cost the purchaser, be
: sides the picking, less than six cents {
barrel.
THE Capitol Library, at Washington
is said to be full and overlooking with
books. They are crowded into the
, already packed cases. and heaped up or
: the floor, and such confusion reigns
there that it is almost impossible for the
> librarian and his assistants to serve theil
= reading friends. 1t is probable that {
building will be put up soon expressly
, for library purposes, as the books are
' being injured by the rough handling
, they necessarily now receive.
THIS is the way they do up an Enocl
| Arden romance in Oshkosh, Wis: The
Western Arden did not come back anc
gaze through the window at the felicity
: of the reconstructed household anc
then go into the green and yellow mel
l ] ancholy business; not any. He kicked
! the new husband out, sorted over the
l children and sent his brats after him
and then, after thrashing his wife, set
tied down into peaceful and happ!
head of family.