Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-04
Current Items.


The practice of wearing wells over the
eyes is said to be very injurious to the
sight.
The English capitalists are freely sub
scribing their money toward tunnel
under the channel between Dover and
Calais.
GREENSBORO, Ind, has Newfoundland
dog which promenades the streets with
spectacles on his eyes and pipe in his
mouth.
By some mistake a bombshell was
put in the cupola of Quincy foundry.
The mistake was discovered after the
explosion.
Noah CAMERON, of Douglas county,
Mo-, has seventy-fve swarms of Indian
bees. which gave him 5000 pounds of
honey last year.
THE japanese girls at Washington
now dress in moderate American STYLE,
and report themselves very happy in
their new home.
TEE oldest city in this country is st.
Augustine, Fla, but its population in
1870 was only l,717-three centuries of
life having failed to give it vitality.
THE fellow who wants "to marry
girl with plenty of snap in herr is adj
vised by the Lacrosse Leader to go for
the Wisconsin girl who swallowed forty
percussion caps the other week.
Two men were found in freight car
at Fort Howard, Wis, with both feet
frozen and turned black, and almost
dead from cold and starvation, having
stolen ride all the way from Chicago.
JOHN Dawes, from the Santa Clara
vineyards, eloped to San Francisco with
Mary E. Parr, chartered tugboat, and
was married on the stormy Pacific amid
an immense upheaval of signs and sand
witches.
A LITTLE girl in Bushnell, ILL.,, was
burned to death last week; she went to
smoke-house to make fire, and being
gone some time, was sought for and
found with her clothes on fire and near
iy consumed.
The St. Paul Pioneer establishment
has passed into the hands of joint
stock company, at valuation of $85, 1000.
L. E. Fisher will be managing editor,
and Colonel Paulding business manager.
THE quarry and mills near Castleton,
VT, where most of our slate pencils
come from, are owned by a stock COM
pany, and are valued at 100000. From
$4,000 to 100000 pencils are turned out
daily, and upwards of 100 hands are
employed.
Mr.. BENJAMIN SHEA being agent for
Boston tea-house, got SO used to "draw-
ings" that he attempted to draw an al
tered check on bank in Greenfield,
Mass, last Friday, but his imitation was
not done to tea," and he is conse-
quently in Pekoe trouble.
A New YORK chemist has shown that
so per cent. of the vinegar sold in large
| cities is made from chemicals SO poison
GUS as to gradually undermine the con-
sumer's health. Sulphuric acid and
sugar of lead are largely found in this
article of universal domestic use.
A YOUNG woman in Pennsylvania is
reported to have been quite cured of
consumption by the internal use of
kerosene during many months. If any
young man should make match with
her thus filed, would she be more apt
than the ordinary run of wives to blow
| him up?
CLEVELAND has invented a patent bug
buster, worked with an air-pump. All
| the apertures in room are stopped but
one, at which the deadly bug-buster is
placed. By exhausting the receiver a
current of air is produced strong enough
to draw all the vermin out of the room,
through the air-pump, into the hopper,
where they are put under the influence
of chloroform and stabbed in the back
| with pitchfork.