Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-17
Current Items.

MASSACHUSETTS has 439 lunatics.
GREELEY writes with quill pen.
THERE are $1,000 habitual drunkards
in Chicago.
The United States has $4,000 miles of
completed railroads.
NEwBURYPoRT puts in for about S..
OoO:O0O OF the Geneva award.
The next innovation in the KINGDOM
OF snobs will be ostriches in lien az
horses.
IT is said that next winter a LONG
dress on the street will be thing un7
known.
The total value of all known dia-
monds is $l,000,000,O0O, exclusive of
Arizona and Alaska.
The sensible authorities of Perry Civ.
"a, abate the city taxes on owners of
real estate one dollar for every shade
tree planted.
!nE surplus wheat of California for
Ghls year Is estimated at 100000 600
ousheis, or more than tw ce as much as
lor any year since 1865.
TIE Sunday-school annual renort of
the Methodist Church for the last vaar
is out, and shows that the dcnomination
is training an army of I250'493
scholars.
AND now the lecturing mania has ex-
tended to the mercantile class. Mr.
l.. Emerson, one of the most successful
merchants OF California, has opened
out on the rostrum at Boston.
A PHILANTHRoPIC Yankee at Nara
gansett Pier, R. L., has invented a life
boat which, if thrown into the water
wrong side up, will Immediately right
itself, and, if filled with water, will bail
itself out.
The people of Houston, Tex. are trv-
ing to secure the location of the Stale
capital, and offer the State therefor all
the land that is wanted and $500 600
an amount more than double the value
OF the present State buildings.
A New JERSEY genius is all ready to
bridge the Atlantic. He has perfected
ms plans and figured it out, and it viii
for century. He is willing to stake
other peoples last dollar on the success
of the scheme.
So EXTENSIVELY is the adulteration of
tea now carried on in China that Mr..
Medhurst, the British Consul to Shang-
haze, wrote that $4,000 pounds Of willow
leaves were in course of manipulation
at one port alone, to be mixed with tea
for shipment, at the ratio of from 10 10
20 per cent.
The first music book published in
this country was in l7J4, "Church
Psalm Book" by Rev. John Tufts, of
Newbury, Mass, and contained the
total number OF twenty tunes.
Previous to this publication not more
than four or five tunes were known in
any congregation.
THERE is great literary activity in Chi
cago. A correspondent of the Trade
Circular says it is rumored that the
Philadelphia publishing house of J. B.
Lippincott & Co. propose to transfer
their business to that city. Printing
facilities have greatly increased since
the fire, and new firms have multiplied
so rapidly, owing to the various causes,
that competition is cutting prices down
TO ruinous figures.
The introduction of machinery in the
manufacture of watches gave reason to
suppose that American manufacturing
would be able to sell their product in
other countries. The watch factory in
Springfield, Mass, by way of expert
ment, recently sent lot of their goods
to England to be sold, but found that
nothing could be done with them, as
well-cased watches were now sold there
at lower prices than they could afford
for their uncased movements.