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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
J. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, O..
The Markets.

PRoPRIEToRs.
~ Sold by all Medicine Dealers.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
ALIENS LUNG BALsAN

Is your hope 1t has been tried by thousands such as
you who have been cured; many in heir gratitude
nave lent heir names to that suffering humanity
can read Tn ir evidence and believe. Don't expert
men VIII IN new snd untried mixtures-you cannot af
1ord lt-bn try at once this invaluable cle 1t is
warranted to break up the most troublesome cou gh
In lew hours if not of too long standing is war
to give entire satisfaction in all of lung
and throat difficulties.
UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE OF ITS MERITS.
Rad THE FOLLOWING:
WHAT WE'LL KNOWN DRUGGISTS SAY
ABOUT ALIENS LUNG BALSAM
SPRINGFIELD. Tenn. Sept IL. 1872
GENrLENPN: Ship us six dozen Aliens Lung Bal
sam at once. We have bottle left in our Store
Ii has more reputation than any cough medicine we
have ever sold. and we have been IN the drug bust
hess twenty-seven years we mean just what we say
about the Ba!sam 80
Very truly yours.
HURT & TANNER
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
Niagara Falls Dry for a naz.

The winter of lS4S had been intensely
cold, and the ice formed on Lake Erie
was very thick. This was loosened
around the shores by the warm days of
early spring. During the day a stiff
easterly wind moved the whole field up
the lake. About shutdown the wind
chopped suddenly around and blew a
gale from the west. This brought the
vast tract of ice down again with such
tremendous force that it filed the neck
OF the lake, and the outlet, SO that the
outflow OF the wat I was very greatly
lmpeded. Of course it only needed a
very short space of time for the falls to
drain off the water below Black Rock.
The consequence was that, when we
arose in the morning at Niagara, we
found that our river was nearly half
gone. The American channel had
dwindled to respectable creek. The
British channel looked as though it had
been smitten with quick consumption
and was fast passing away. Far up from
the head of Goat Island, and out into
the Canadian rapids, the water was
gone, as it was also from the lower end
of Goat Island, out beyond the tower.
The rocks were bare, black, and forbid
ding. The roar of Niagara had subsidized
almost to moan. The scene was desc
late. and but for its novelty and the GER
tainty that it would change before many
hours. would have been gloomy and sad
dening. Every person who has visited
Niagara will remember beautiful Jet of
water which shoots up out of the water
about forty rods south of the outer SIS
ter in the great rapids, called, with a
singular contradiction of terms, the
Leaping Rock" The writer drove a
buggy from near the head of Goat
Island out to point above and near to
that jet. With log cart and four
horses he had drawn from the outside of
the outer island stick of pine timber,
hewed twelve inches square and forty
feet long. From the top of the middle
island was drawn larger stick, hewed
on one side, and sixty feet long. There
are few places on the globe where per-
son would be less likely to go lumber.
ing than in the rapids of Niagara, Just
above the brink of the Horseshoe fall.
All the eople of the neighborhood
were abroad exploring recesses and
cavities that had never before been ex-
posed to mortal eyes. The writer went
some distance up the shore of the river.
Large fields at The muddy bottom lay
bare. The singular syncope of the
waters lasted all the day, and night
closed over the strange scene. But in
the morning our river was restored in
all its strength. beauty, and majesty,
and we were glad to welcome its swell.
ing tide once more.=HoXeu'S Nidnnrn.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
SEND Lock OF HAIR 10 DR.. A. DODGE. Red Oak, la.

ANY ESTATE IN ENGLAND.
Scotland. Ireland, or Wales promptly collected by
J. +. Flu IA UFF Attorney at Law
Columbia Lancaster CO Pa
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
Kidney and Bladder Complaints

Kidney and Bladder Complaints,
Urinary and Womb diseases, Gravel, Diabete,
ppropsy. Stoppage Of Water, Incontinence of Urine
Brghrs Disease Albuminuria and ia all cases where
tnei are brick dust deposits the water is thick
cloudy, mixed with substances like the white NJ n
egg or threads like white silk or there Is morbid
oarK. Dihous appearance. and white bone-dust de-
pests, ana when there is prcking, burning sensa-
Ton when passing water. and pain in the Small of the
Back and along the Loins. - ~
Tumor of IL Years. Growth Cured nv
RAILWAYS RESOLVENT.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
FEVER AND AcuE.

FEVER AND AGUE cured for fifty cents There
Is not remedial agent n this world that III cure
FEVER and Agae. and all other Malarious Bilious
scarlet typhoid. Yellow and other Fevers (aidei nv
RRAAD w , PILLS. so quick RAILWAYS
Fifty Cents per Battle.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26
HIl ~ liSI.Iadl2IIa3l

engaged and most successful physician the
Sge OGnsuitatloL or pamphlet free. Call or " rite
from Nervousness. Debility &C. treatise of Sc pages
ior zstamps; abook $50 illustrated for 50 cent?
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17

CRITICAL PERIODS OF HUMAN LIFE
From the age of 40 to that of 60 man who
properly regulates himself may be considered
in the prime of life. His matured strength
of constitution renders him almost imperious
to the attacks of disease, and all his func-
tons are in the highest order. Having gone
year or two past GO, however, he arrives
at critical period of existence, the river of
death flows before him, and he remains at a
standstill. But athwart this river is via
duct, called the "Tum of Life" which if
crossed in safety, leads to the valley of cold
Age" around which the river winds, and it
then flows beyond without boat Or cause
way to effect its passage. The bridge is,
however, constructed Of fragile materials,
and it depends upon how it is trodden whelh-
er it bend or break. Gout, appoplexy, and
other bad characters, are also in the vicinity
to waylay the traveller, and thrust him from
the pass; but let him grid up his loins, and
provide himself with perfect composure. TO
quote a metaphor, the turn Of life " has a
turn either into prolonged walk Or into the
grave. The system and power, having
reached their utmost expansion, now begin
to close like flowers at sunset, Or break down
at once. One njudicious stmulant, a single
fatal excitement, may force it beyond its
strength; whilst careful supply OF props,
and the withdrawal Of all that tends to force
plant, will sustain it in beauty and vigor
until night has nearly set in.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17

RAILROAD Acc1DENTs.-An Eastern sta
tistician has taken the pains to compile for
the newspapers a record Of the railroad acci-
dents occurring in the United States for the
year ending October 3lst. 1871. From
this it appears that there were one hundred
and seven railroad accidents, causing the
death of one hundred and seventy persons
and the serious injury of two hundred and
fifty four. These casualties occurred through
collisions, the explosions Of locomotives, the
giving way of bridges and the running Of
trains off the track. BY collisions alone
there were forty accidents, causing the death
Of one hundred and eight persons, and the
serious injury of two hundred and eleven.
BY five Of the principal railroad accidents
eighty-onc persons were killed and one hun
dred and forty-eight were wounded.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17
BRIDES LAMENT.

Words by M. s. Crawford; music by Pro-
fessor Evans. Published by NJ Gray, San Fran
CISCO
My mistress is dead, and ! cannot sing,
She has left me, we've parted forever;
She's gone to abide with her heavenly king,
Shall ne'er again see her? No, never!
Her last words to me were both sad and lone;
1 was perched on the bed by her side;
She said to me, Birdie, I'm going home'
When her gentle voice stayed, and she died.
Chorts-"Oh, birdie hush, you worry me. u
How kindly the words were spoken
Were she with me I'd happy be-
But now my heart is broken.
I'll sing never more my mistress is gone;
/ will lead a lone life in my sorrow;
I'll ne'er again see her as time passes on,
Though my grief like to-day is tomorrow.
Did | only know where her cold grave lies,
| would there pay my tribute of love,
I'd there drop my tears, loves tenderest ties,
And I'd watch, tho her spirit above.
Chors-Etc.
I'll never forget the words she last said,
AS she lay in her deathbed. while weeping;
She said that she wished, when she should be
dead,
That over her grave would be sleeping
But never shall find the sacred place,
Where my dear little mistress lies sleeping,
And never again shall see her face,
And never shall cease my weeping.
Chorus-Etc.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17

PREMATURE BURIALs.--A great many peo-
pie indulge in serious apprehensions of being
buried alive; and, indeed, no idea can be
more horrible. About ten Or fifteen years
ago the French Academy of Medicine took
up the subject of premature burals, and
finding, to their astonishment, that no inta-
lible and speedy test Of death was known,
offered premium of fifty thousand francs to
any person wo should discover one. After
several years of investigation two were
found, and a duplicate reward given:
/. Hold the finger Of the supposed de-
ceased to the flame of candle, and blister
will rise. After few moments, puncture
it, and if water exudes, life still remains in
the body; if only air fills the blister, death is
certain,
2. IF the hand of the patient, when held
between the observer and a strong light.
shows ruddy between the fingers, life re-
mains; if coIorless, or if whitsh blue, death
has supervened.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17
ABOUT THE PLUM PUDDING. During the

ABOUT THE PLUM PUDDING During the
holidays little son of gentleman in this
city wrote the following as starter for his
school "compostion. The subject is sup
posed to have been too much for him-made
him so hungry that he was obliged to aban-
don it: * plum puddin' billed ip bag is
the nobblest work Of god, except two plum
puddins, though two is seldom biggern one
if it is large one made right, though how
it could be spoiled if it is big enuf we are
open to conviction. 81 Virginia City Enter
prise.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17

Words by M. s. Crawford; music by Pro-
fessor Evans Published by NJ. Gray, San Fran
cisco.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17
RAIN DROPS.
BF ". H. OK.

DF ". H. POLL LOCK.
When thunder-clouds hang black in May,
Cool drops refresh the weary day;
To man, in childhood's short-lved grief,
Fast flowing tears bring sweet relief.
The clouds that come in Winters train
Drop snow instead of tender rain,
And duller grief can find no tears
To melt the ice of older years.
The Placer herald., 1872-02-17
PLACER HERALD
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When is young lady very like whale?'
When she's pouting.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
Notes About Rats.

A GENTLEMAN, who has passed many
years of hislife at St. Helena, told me lately
several stories about rats so curious that
l thought them worthy of record. He
said that at one time the common brown
rat was extremely common all over the
island, in fact, a perfect pest and to avoid
its attacks his father had constructed a
large store, rat proof, namely, a rat once
IN could not get out again. A number,
however, came in with produce and goods
from the ships, and bred there. Around
this store were venetian blinds to the
windows, and one day one of his men,
when it was raining, watched rat sitting
on the venetian and putting out his tail
to collect on it the drippings of water at
the edge he then withdrew it and licked
it. The servant told his master, who i'm
mediately understood that the rats could
get no water inside the store, and there.
fore directed that butter firkin should
be cut down to four or five inches, and in
the top a large circular wire rat cage trap
should be fixed Several small planks
were placed for the rats to gel
up to the entrance to the cage,
which exactly fitted the firkin. Nc
food would have induced the rats
to enter the trap, but water did, and many
were thus captured There is one pecu.
liarity with these rats, namely, their very
often building or making their nests in
the trees. I have in India several
times found rats nests in trees
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20

100; Ohio, 24OS4; Oregon, 1 1,437; Penn
sylvania, 81 ,3OS; Rhode Island, 3,215;
South Carolina, 6,200; Tennessee, S,601; /;
Texas, II. 502; Vermont, 5000; Virginia,
$3.50; West Virginia, 1,S45; Wisconsin,
S,944; Washington. Territory, 359 There
are, perhaps, 100, 900 unaffiliated Masons
in the United States.
A CERTAIN old Friend, of Philadelphia,
a singular woman, died twenty-odd years
ago, leaving large fortune to two neph-
ews, then both babies, and motherless.
The will was confided to another ancient
Quaker, to be kept a profound secret by
him until the boys should be of age. No
hint was to be given to them or any of
their friends of the coming good fortune
her motive being to give them the advan-
tage of the discipline of poverty and con-
firmed habits of industry and self-help.
The boys disappeared with their father in
the West, the old Quaker died, and the
will was buried in some trunks full of
waste paper. A few weeks ago these pa.
pers fortunately fell into the hands of a
certain eminent lawyer, gifted with the
integrity and patience which belong to
the old race of Philadelphia Quakers He
discovered the will, and then set about
discovering the young men, who were un-
earthed finally in Louisville, KY, hard at
work. The news of the fabulous good
fortune was recently sent to them.
As we cannot all have a fairy godmother
in the shape of a whimsical dead Quaker
aunt, we can at least hope that the clever
young fellows deserved theirs.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
Phish Bawls.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

WHISKY friends are the most uuprofita-
BILE ones l kno ov, they are alwus reddy
tew drink with yu, but when yu are reddy
tew drink with them, then they amt dry.
Yu kant hire a man tew be honest he
will want hiz wages raiZed every morn
ing.
The most suckcessful men hav ever
known, are those who are -konstantly
making blunders, but never seem tew kno
it.
1 kno plenty ov folks who are so kon-
dem kontrary that if they should fall into
river they would insist upon floating up
stream. - t-
One ov the most reliable phrophets i
kno ov is an old hen, they don't phrophesy
emmy egg until after the egg haz happen
ed.
Mi opinyun IL, and will kontinue tew
mutch hurt in this world az the malishus
hav. .-
Temper should be kurbed, knot broken.
1 don't kno ov emmy thing, in this
world, that iz worth more than money
that IL honestly got and virteuously spent.
The truly great are alwus the eazyest
tew approach. Fun, devilitry and death
lurk in the wine-cup. ---........ II
l wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a
mans sektarian views emmy quicker than
| would tell him which road tew take at a
4 corners, when didn't know miself
which waz the right one.
l haven't mutch doubt that man sprung
from the monkey, but what bothers me
IL, WHARF the cussid monkey sprung from.
After man haz got good opinyun ov
himself, the next best thing liz tew hav the
| good opinyun ov others.
Most emmy boldly thinks they kan be a
good phool, and they kan, but tew play
| the phool good liz not so handy.
1t may be little vexashus, but don't
consider it emmy disgrace tew be bit bi a
dog. % b. .a--5 u. 4a ,ss.-.s.
Abuse generally IL helthy, but sum.
times it Gums from so low source that
it don't do man emmy good.
1t takes more time and talents tew be a
suckcessful hypokrit than it duz tew be a
Christian.
There are but phew things that we
suffer more misery from than we do from
cowardice
Mankind in general seem tew take
about az mulch pride in Dragging ov
their faults az ov their vertews.
About the best that emmy ov us kan do
il tew konceal our phailings.
Persons ov the koldest nature when
| Iney 90 love, love the nercest-So green
wood when it gifts tew burning makes the
hottest fire.
Suckcess iz az hard tew define az fall.
ing oph from log a man can't alwuss
tell exackly how he did it.
There IL one pashun land it IL the mean.
est one) that no man who has ever lived
haz been free from, and that il envy.
Incidence IL one ov the strongest pash.
uns, becauze it is one ov the most natral
ones.
Integrity in youth IL almost certain
tew bekum wisdom and honor in old
age.-Nelo York Weekly.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
A Woman Tired of Editorial Life.

The wife of the Utica On. W Daily Bee
is filling the editorial chair of that estab-
lishment like a brave woman, while her
husband is in prison for contempt of
court, we believe. She 10 tired of the edi-
torial life, however, as may be seen from
the following paragraph:
"We wish the editor would come back.
We don't want to occupy his chair any
longer 1t isn't pleasant We don't like
it. We don't want to have tall, beetle
browed Bob Harts come sliding into our
presence, armed with heavy cudgel, and
demand to know who wrote some OF the
meekest paragraphs ever put in a paper
We don't like to dunn or be dunned. We
don't like to have the proprietors of old
established printing offices get our printers
away from us. We don't like so much
care and responsibility. We are glad we
are not a man. We would not have his
care and anxiety of business for all the
ballots in the United States. Women who
choose may occupy exceptional positions,
but we had rather be excused. We never
craved this job, and are not bit thankful
that it has been thrust upon us. 1t is
dingy and dark here, and we had rather
be out in the sunshine Shopping has in
expressible charms for us, and it is a wo-
mans privilege. Besides, there are some
fine points of scenery about here which
need sketching. So let's have the editor
back again by all means"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
How Bess Managed Tom.


Toms sister Nell was pretty, and be-
ing q year older than Tom, wanted to
show her authority over him. Tom was
rough and awkward, and Just at the age
when boy resents all meddling with his
rights" He would put his hands in
his pockets, his chair on NelPs dress, and
his feet on the window-sill. OF course
they often -Quarreled- s---
"For PHYS sake, Tom, do take your
hands out of your pockets !" Nell would
say, in her most vexing manner.
"What are pockets for, I'd like to
know, if not TO put ones hands in ?" and
Tom would whistle aud march off.
"Tom 1 don't believe you've combed
your hair for week r.
"Well, what's the use ? 1t would be
all roughed up again in less than an
hour"
"I do wish, Tom, you would take your
great boots off the window-sill ~
"Oh, don't bother me, Pm reading" ("
Tom would say and the boots refused TO
stir an inch, which, of course, was very
naughty. And so it would go from morn
ing till night
But little sister Bess had a different way
with somewhat stubborn Tom. Bess
seemed TO understand that coaxing was
better than driving; and sometimes,
when he sat with both hands plunged in
his pockets, Bess, with book or picture
would nestle down beside him, and almost
before he knew it one hand would be pat
ting her cHrls, while the other turned the
leaves or held the pictures. If she
CHANGED to see his feet on the window
| sill, she would say:
"Just try my ottoman, Tom, dear, and
see how comfortable it is to your feet;''
and though Tom occasionally growled in
| a good d-natured way, about its being too
low, the boots always came down to its
level. Whenever his hair looked very
rough, she would steal behind him and
smooth it out in a way Tom liked so well
that ii was a temptation to let it go rough
just for the pleasure of having her comb
it. Yet, for the next three days, at least,
he would take special pains to keep every
hair in its place, simply to please little
Bess.
As they grew older, Bess, in the same
quiet, loving way, helped him to grow
wise and manly. If she had an inter
esting book, she always wanted Tom to
enjoy it with her; if she was going to
call on any of her young friends, Tom
was always invited to go with her.
/ can't understand" said lady Nell,
"why you should always want that boy
forever at your elbowI He's rough and
awkward as a bear"
"Some bears are as gentle as Kittens u
said Bess, slipping her arm through his
with a loving hug, while "the bear felt
a great warm glow at his heart as he
walked away with Bess, and determined
to try harder to be gentle as a kitten
for her Sales.--future Magazine.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20

but they have always been stolen
nests, such as deserted abodes of the
squirrel or sparrow; but here my friend,
who is no naturalist, tells me that they
construct them principally of fir spines,
on the ends of the boughs some twelve or
fifteen feet from the ground, in the COM
mon fir trees. The spots selected are just
where the overlapping bough nearly
meets the lower one. He SAID that all
know the rats nests, and that he had seen
them fired at, when many rats were killed
and fell out to the ground. He could
tell me no more, and l think that, if
original nests, as he held them to be, some
grass must be woven in their construc-
ton, as fir spines have but little power of
cohesion. The situation of these nests
was worthy of notice, although there is
scarcely situation where a rats nest has
not been found.-Science Gossip.