Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-27
Foreign Gossip.

THE ramie plant is largely cultivated
in Egypt
THE champion athlete of Switzerland
is student from Macon. Ga.
THE subscriptions in Ecuador towards
paying the war debt o. France to Ger
many was $40, 706.50.
In Paris, 81 95S babies are " farmed
out every year. Maternal insensibility
and fashion are the causes.
THE Italian coral fishery has been very
successful the past season, the total
value of the yield being 100000 francs.
A BOY has been found in VOLTS den,
in India, cared for by the occupant, and
eating the raw meat that was brought
him.
THERE is talk of shipping "Cleo-
patra's Needle" from Alexandria to
England, in order to erect it on the
Thames embankment.
ALFRED TENNYsoN is member of the
committee which is collecting books and
works of art to help the Mayor and
townspeople of Strasbourg to replace
their magnificent library which was
burned during the Franco Prussiau war.
The English are doing all they can to
aid in the rehabilitation of this old and
celebrated collection.
A SCHOOL HOUSE in Copenhagen, Den
mark, is furnished for 1000 children !;
one session is held in the morning, 1000
attending, and second in the afternoon,
| 1000 attending, both schools being un-
der the same general management. The
system secures happy union of bodily
and mental exercise, the scholars work
ing half the day.
| LITTLE SWITZERLAND is said to be the
only country in Europe where more
money is spent on education than on
the army. The educational budget is
two millions of francs, while the mill
tary expenses remain below that sum ;
yet, when needed, the little republic
can raise an army of 100000 men.
THERE has been an immense business
done in native rice between Shanghai
and the southern ports in China, during
the past season, steamers receiving $l05
freight per picul for four days voyage.
The business of exporting native rice
from China at present is neither pleas
ant nor profitable, as under the laws Of
the Chinese Empire the penalty for en-
gazing in it is death.
IT seems that, unlike news of the
most terrible disasters, the intelligence
of the earthquake at Antioch was by NJ
means exaggerated. The telegraph die
not tell the whole truth. English mer
chants have received advices thai
scarcely family in Antioch remains in
tact. Two thousand persons are buried
under the ruins, and most of the surKi
vors are encamped in tents lent by the
military authorities.
THERE has been recently established
in London, England, an Office for Mar
riages,n which undertakes to provid,
duly qualified matrimonial partner
suitable for all applicants. To supper
!, their statements, they publish in thei
advertisements testimonials from va
rious persons who have been satisfac
torily supplied with wives or husband
, by the office, in the same manner as the
! testimonials appended to advertise
ments of patent medicines.
THE Revie,o of Criminal Statistics, a pc
riodicaI in the French language, pub
lished in Brussels, states that fifty-nin
criminals were pardened out of the Ger
man Penitentiaries during the year 1871
on condition that they should exil
| themselves to the United States. Tn
t list includes twenty murderers, eigh
incendiaries, eight forgers, three bun
glars, three op-lifters, five swindlers
two infanticides, and two medical prac
titioners convicted as abortionists. Thil
teen were sent from Bavaria, eight fror
Baden, thirteen from the two Meckler
burgs. and the rest from other States.
t WHEN is butter like Irish children
When it is made into little pats.