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

| dramatIzed.
"ORPHEUs C. KERR" does the Social
Studies of the New York Sundav World.
TKURLow WEED, who is Is years of
! age, has given up smoking after half a
century's Indulgence.
MARK TwA1N's middle name has been
a mystery. His full patronymic is Sam.
uel Longhorne Clemens.
IT is just as impossible to get along
without advertising as it is for cross
eyed man to borrow gun.
THE wife of Jack Grant, Representa-
tive from Polk county in the Oregon
Legislature, last year shot and trapped
35S squirrels.
DR.. PAUL ScHGPPE, recently acquitted
OF murder, after two or three years inn
prisonment under the charge, is lectur-
ing on Science in Law"
Mr.. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, ex-Con-
federate Vice President, is now sole edi-
tor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, Mr.. ].
Healy Smith, the managing editor, hav-
ing retired.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, whose pic
turesque management of verse is known
and appreciated by ali lovers of poetry,
is wintering among the students of the
Latin Quarter, in Paris.
A CoLoRED woman in New Jersey is
under arrest for trying to kill neigh
bors baby by feeding it bent pins. An
emetic was administered to the inno-
cent, and all the pins came to the sur
face.
SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLIBoNE, author of
an enormous critical dictionary of au-
thors, making 3,140 pages, 40 indexes,
and including 46 on lives. is secreta ry
and editor of the american Sunday School
Union.
Col. RICE, recluse, who, since the
war, has been living in an old barge at
Fortress Monroe, lately shot himself
fatally. He was at one time a promi-
nent citizen of Richmond, Va, and
Colonel of the Black Horse Cavalry.
THE proof sheets of the remaining
pages of Mr.. Stewards book are now
being received at Auburn. The bind
ing of the edition will be rapidly pushed,
and the book will be distributed for sale
throughout the country during the holi-
day season.
A PITTSBURGH paper heads an oyster
dealers advertisement with Reader,
did you ever swallow baby?" and goes
on to say that if you never have done
so you can realize the sensation of swal-
lowing two infants by eating one of its
advertisers oysters.
MANsARD-he of the roof-was super
intendent of public buildings in the
reign of Louis XIV, of France. He
was wretched carpenter, but possessed
the subtle gift of fattery, and frequent
ly fooled the astute monarch of France
with impracticable architectural plans.
PEOPLE generally are not aware that
Gen. Meade died a poor man. For
tunately, the fact of his poverty became
known to few wealthy gentlemen of
Philadelphia a few days previous to his
death, and $4,000 was Immediately
subscribed for his family, and it has been
agreed to make the sum 100000.
7. BUCHANAN READ, who wasn't much
of q poet himself, said of Tennyson.:
He looks no more like a poet than
does looster if compared with a gold
| fish. Angular, awkward, with great
hands and feet, and coarse hair stream
ing away, he is not the man that
romantic lady would die for"
THE Stephen Pearl Andrews, who has
been arrested with Mrs. Woodruff and
Miss Claflin, in New York, was once a
resident of Houston, Texas. He came
Ha1i l,,k L,
been resident long until one day he
was conducted to the wharf by a mum.
Der of citizens, put aboard of boat,
| and requested to make himself scarce
in Texas at once, which he did.-Hous.
ton Union.
JOHN P. JONES, the San Francisco
operator in mines and politics, who has
secured for himself the Nevada Sena.
torship, vent out from Cleveland, Ohio,
in l849, in the bark Eureka, which YES
sci made the voyage from that city, via
the st. Lawrence and around Cape
Horn, to San Francisco. He is now
considered one of the wealthiest, if not
the wealthiest, of men on the Pacific
coast-his possessions having been est.
mated as high as $10,000,000 On the
OrOOA LA SA1AASO VI 01A IlduClSCO he
occupies precisely the same position
that Commodore Vanderbilt does on
Wall street.
JOHN R. CoNKL1N died at Mt. Morris,
n. " few days ago, aged IS years.
His case was a singular one: Twenty
three years ago the past summer, de-
ceased was repairing fences on the edge
of Owasco Lake, and accidentally struck
his thumb with the hamn er, and it is
supposed he hit the nerve; he imme-
diately went TO the lake and washed it.
and thought nothing more of it for sew
eral days, when he felt tingling in his
hand and arm, which finally became
paralyzed, and during the next eight
years, it gradually spread over his whole
body, rendering HIM perfectly helpless,
and for the past fifteen years he was
unable to move only as he was helped.