Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
Personal.

JOAQUIN MILLER is going to Europe
again.
STRAUSS is Al years old, and is worth
million dollars.
Mr.. L. F. JOHNSON died in New Haven
last week, and upon examination his
stomach was found to be petrifed.
IT is said that Hon. Mrs. Yelverton
is now in India, and is about to start out
in search of Dr. Livingstone
Mr.. COBB, of Georgia, recently mar
ried Miss Webb. He knew that they
were to be joined as soon as he spied
her. ~
JAMES MCDOWELL, of Macon county,
n. c., aged 76, is the father of q chill
dren.
Mr.. levi TURNIPsEED, an old and
esteemed citizen of Georgia, recently
died, but, as he was buried, his resur-
rection is sure.
WHAT is the difference between the
entrance to a barn and a loafer in
printing office? One is barn door and
the other is a darn bore.
JANAUscHEK wears $4,000 worth of
jewels in one of her characters.
GEORGIA girls use none but religious
papers for Sunday bustles.
THE oldest printer in the United
Nashville, Tenn. He began to learn his
trade in 1897.
M. D. CONWAY tells a frightful tale of
an Englishman who has just arrived
from New Zealand with new poem of
1900 verses. Who is this fend?
The oldest singer in the Boston
Jubilee chorus was DR.. Ebenezer Alden,
of Randolph, Mass. His age is eighty
four.
The class that graduated from Prince
ton College, June 26, weighed just six
tons. The average birthday of the
graduates was July Is, 1850. The ag-
gregate age of the class was 2,049 years,
months, Is days.
Miss VIRGINIA GoLDscHMIpT. Jenny
Llnd's eldest daughter, young lady of
eighteen, is said to possess as glorious a
voice as her mothers ever was.
WILLIAM DoTY died in Marysville, CAL,
on the 29th ult., having lived q days
with his windpipe severed. His throat
49, Wv W Two IOUU0FS.
THE DUKE DE NoA1LLEs, the newly
commissioned Minister of France to the
United States, is a learned and most &C
compllshed gentleman, very rich, of
most distinguished lineage, and an ex-
cellent soldier as well as an experienced
diplomat. He is of the aristo-demo-
cratic school of European politics, and
will, with the members of his family,
make brilliant addition to society in
Washington.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER saws his early
life in the West was rough-a large
room. two slabs for seats, and these not
full-tallow candles, each man bringing
one; but he was quite as happy then as
now. He processes great love for the
Hoosier Christians, and if God should
send him back to that humble kind of
labor, he would not cry.
A New YORK correspondent says that
DR.. Holland will temporarily sure nder
the editorship of Scribner'S Monthly, the
coming autumn, and go abroad again
his journey being prompted by the de
sire to consult the leading oculists in
Europe in respect to his wife, who, from
serious opthalic trouble, has become
nearly blind.
THE most sensible thing Eli Perkins
ever uttered is, that for girl to whiten
her face, pink her lips, redden her
cheeks and blacken her eyebrows is to
proclaim that she is one of the denai-
monde.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial says the re-
Gently published Life of Abraham
Lincoln was not written by Ward H.
Lamon, whose name appears as the
author, but by Chauncey Black, son of
Jeremiah Black, Mr.. Buchanan's At
torney General. Lamon gathered much
of the material, and, as close friend of
Mr.. Lincoln, permitted his name to be
used as the author. The two have been
falling out, Lamon being of the opinion
that some things in the book should
have been omitted.