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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25

than the use of cold bath every NORM
ing. No one who is not in the habit of
taking one can imagine how greatly it
conduces to the health and to the fresh
ness of the complexion.
A large spongeful of water should be
squeezed all over the body for about two
minutes, when rough towels turkish
are the best) should be used until the
friction causes a warm glow to be felt
The softest water should be used for the
face (rain-water filtered is much the
best), and soap SHOULD always be applied
once day.
If the skin is at all dry or cracked by
the weather, little fresh cold cream,
applied at night, will soften i, and re-
store the elasticity.
Plenty of fresh air and exercise must
be taken; an hour, at the very least,
every day, and more, if possible, should
be devoted to walking or riding. Early
rising, daily cold bath, simple diet,
and plenty of fresh air and exercise,
will do more to insure clear and
blooming complexion than all the cos
metics ever invented.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
TilIy's Lesson in Geology.
BY sABRA C. SMELL.

lilly sat on the old door-stone with
her two precious pebbles in her hands.
They were smooth, and white, and
glistening, and came from the shore of
that wonderful ocean that lilly always
dreamed about, but never had seen.
The Stone Professor himself brought the
pebbles to lilly, and when he leaned
out at the window, and saw the little
maiden holding them against her round
red cheeks, he smiled little all to him.
self, and came and sat down by her,
while lilly looked shy and glad, but
didn't speak word.
"You like them, do your" said the
Stone Professor well, I'll tell you a
story about them"
Many, many years ago, lilly, long
before either you or were born, each
one of these little pebbles was a rough
piece of stone that had crumbled off
IRON some great rock, and it fell into
the water somewhere, perhaps it was
q great ocean, or may be only river, but
it lay in some place, where the waves
washed over it, and rolled it about, and
very slowly these waves wore off the
corners and sharp edges, and very slow
| ly the rough stone grew smooth. If you
had looked at it one May-day, and not
seen it again till the next May-day
came, | suppose you would hardly have
noticed any change, but it was just a
little different; every springit came out
smoother than it was the year before
till, after a great while, all the rough
part was gone, and what was left was
this beautiful round pebble.
lilly handled over the two she waa
holding, while the Stone Professor
talked, and tried to make believe the,
looked as he said they used to, but i
was hard work to think that any thing
so soft as water could have worn off suci
hard stone.
| "And this is another treasure, sur
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
An Unfortunate Embrace.

A California paper says: 1.-TWO VAL
lejo fashionable girls met on the street,
exchanged gossip, and during the con-
versation carriage drove up and halted
in front of where the ladies were stand-
ing, to take one of them home. The
lady for whom the carriage halted, as
usual, put her arms around her friends
neck, and kissed her goodbye. In do
ing so her arms got entangled in her
curls, and, as she was tearing herself
away, off came large chignon, falling
in rich masses of shining curls and
crimps at her feet, and revealing head
of short, stubby, black hair, rolled up
in a little knot behind, and arranged to
accommodate the deceptive wig. It
was amusing to see how both ladies
spread their dresses, putting us in mind
of a turkey gobbler when his spunk is
up, or when he wants to show off by
spreading or ruffiing his tail" sgfg
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
The Early Life of George Sand.

Happy are the women who have no
histories p some one says. But Aurora
had a history. She had spent a singu-
lar childhood among the country
scenes and country children of Nohant,
getting up miniature battles which left
the nursery strewn with fragments of
dismembered dolls, organizing societies
of little peasants to snare the birds in
winter, erecting fower-strewn affairs in
some messy cave to a strange and en-
by the hour together before she could
even put pen to paper. Always the
busy brain, the sensitive heart, the in
flexible will. AS she grew older the
continual chickering's between mother
and grandmother grew to be intolera-
BILE, their incessant jealousy made her
life miserable, and she was thankful to
take refuge from this prosecuting affec-
ton in the Convent des Anglaises at
Paris. Here she went through all the
phases common to the convent of the
period, from diable to devote. By the
time she was seventeen, domestic dis
sensions, severe study. physical and
mental WEAKNESS had so worn upon her
precociously excited brain that she tried
to drown herself, but was happily I'M
successful. The mania for suicide that
possessed her at this time was partly
inherited, and though her attempt at
at the ford had cured her of a desire
for watery grave, she found herself at
tracted by an almost irresistible longing
to pistols and to poisons. At last, with
rest and better health, the mania grad
ually passed away. At eighteen she
was married to a man for whom she al
ways professed tranquil esteem and
friendship, but whose temperament
was entirely uncongenial, and in few
years she was living in Paris again
with her two children, supporting her.
self by painting portraits, by ornament
ing snuff boxes with miniature groups
Of flowers, and by her pen, going about
in the costume of young student to
save the numerous little expenses of a
woman's dress, and living in garrett
upon scanty means enough. Whatever
we may think of her theories of life
and marriage, we cannot but admire
her sincerity and her heroism; and
when we read the sad words she has set
down in her Lettres dun Voyageor we
can better appreciate the hard and
dreary nature of that life which too
many of us have been apt to consider
one of reckless Lippincott' s
| N1oazi1e .-st
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
Wintering Grapes.

Mr.. j. E. Chamberlain, editor of the
st. Joseph Mich Herald has shown US
some fine samples of Diana grapes,
grown by Orrin Brown, at his fruit farm
south of St. Joseph, on the lake shore.
The peculiar point of interest attaching
to the matter is the fact that Mr.. Brown
has "wintered' seventeen baskets of
Dianas by simply placing them in cool
dry cellar, and covering them with
paper on the top, care being taken that
the baskets should not be jostled or dis
turbed. The grapes are in state of
perfect preservation, with their flavor
wholly unimpaired. Much difficulty has
heretofore been experienced in preserv-
ing grapes through the winter in this
climate, and the fact that it has been
accomplished by process SO simple and
inexpensive will be recognized as of the
utmost importance to e-growers
generally. Chicago Tribune, April 5.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
The Mysterious Abdication.

The literary sensation of the hour in
Germany is revelation regarding the
mysterious abdication" of Ferdinand
v, in Austria, during the revolutionary
troubles of 1848. Baron Helfert, who
seems to have been in the secret, now
gives it to the world in his history of
recent Austria, and it seems to have
been mystery from the very begin
ming The Emperor had fed from vi
emma to Olmutz to avoid the dangers of
the rebellion. Early one morning
mysterious excitement peryaded the
old town. Ladies and gentlemen were
fastening, on foot and in carriages, to
the Archbishops palace; mounted Or
derlies were flying hither and thither,
and troops were fastening to common
rendezvous. 1t was soon discovered
that nearly all the members of the i'm
perial household had arrived in the
night, and that the ministers and all
the high officers of state were present.
No one could divine the cause of this
unusual activity-neither the actors nor
the spectators. The most influential
men of the realm simply knew that
they were ordered to assemble in gala
dress in the palace at Olmutz, little
after daylight of a December morning.
The company represented nearly every
department of the government, in all
varieties of dress, even to the priestly
robes of the high officials of the church.
Anxiety and CONSERVATION were on
every countenance. Even the Archr
duke Ferdinand approached the maste-
of ceremonies, begging to know why
they were thus mysteriously called to
gether at so unreasonable an hour. His
only answer was, that his lips were
sealed until events should tell their own
story. And thus the fair est princesses
of the imperial court were kept in the
agony of suspense.
The incubus on the company was
shown by the ominous silence or pain
full whispers, and the waiting minutes
seemed to be hours. At last, at S
o'clock, the folding doors were thrown
open, and their majesties the Emperor
and Empress, accompanied by the
Archdukes Francis Charles and the
present Emperor Francis Joseph, sol
EMMY entered and took the seats as
signed to them. A breathless suspense
controlled the assemblage as the En-
peror arose, and taking a document
from his breast read as follows: "Weigh
ty reasons have brought me to the ir
revocable determination to lay down
the imperial crown, which do in favor
of my beloved nephew; his father. my
dear brother, renouncing all his right:
to the throne in favor of his cherished
son."
The Emperor then babe the Minister
of State lay before him the necessar,
documents for signature and rstifica
ton by witnesses, after which tn,
youthful successor approached his un
Gle and knelt before him, in such
state of mental agitation that he coulC
not command his words of gratitude
The abdicating monarch bent over hin
with his benediction, and then embrae
ing him, uttered the only free word
heard during the entire scenel $50
bless thee; be honest and God will pre-
tect thee. / have acted freely and wi
hngly." Women burst into violen
sobs, and the eyes of strong men bt
, came fountains of tears.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25

pose," said the professor, picking up a
piece OF pudding-stone that peeped
from the little ruffied pocket of Tilly's
apron; "maybe you think this stone
was made so; but it was not. Once upon
time, little pile of gravel stones lay
IN hollow all by themselves. There
came greatrain, and washed some soft,
sticky mud down, and covered them all
up; 1t squeezed itself in among the
iittie stones, and filed every crevice;
then, when the rain was over, the sun
shone on 1t, and baked it hard, and af.
terward 1t got covered up under sand,
and earth, and stones, and there it Law,
growing harder all the time, till the
mud was dark-brown stonei itself, when
some one was digging there one day,
found this brown stone, all full of little
stones, that look like the raisns in your
granuma's Thanksgiving pudding; and
that's why they call it pudding stone"
lilly laid down her pebbles and ex-
amined her queer little bit of pudding
stone, and then laid all three in a
straight row on the door-stone. They
were very precious in her eyes, and she
was just making up her mind to put
them in her cabinet and label them
gems" as she had seen some precious
things in the professors cabinet la
beled. But just then the professor
went on
Here's this rough, old door-stone,
lilly; all the scrubbing and securing in
the world could never make it smooth
and white like that one over the way.
But do you see these queer marks in it
just such marks as the geese m AXE in
the mud along the edge of the gutter,
only ever and ever SO much larger? See,
here is one, and here is another; regular
bird tracks"
why, SO they are" said lilly. get
ting down on her knees and laying her
chubby fingers in the marks.
And, once upon a time-you see its
just like fairy story-once upon time,
this old door-stone wasn't stone at all,
but just mud, stiff, gray mud, and a
great bird came stalking along, and left
its footprints in it. And the sun dried
the mud, and there the tracks were !;
and the sand blew over them and COW
cred them up, and at last the gray mud
itself turned into stone. 1t was a great
many years about it; and, in the mean
time, the big bird and all its relations
had utterly disappeared, so that when
at last men dug up the stone, and saw
the curious tracks, they could only guess
how the bird looked that made them.
Just think, lilly, the bird that walked
over this stone may have died long be-
fore Adam was made
That was long speech for the Stone
Professor, but lilly seemed to like it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
A Baltimore Ghost.

Great excitement was caused in a
street in Baltimore, on Sunday evening
last, by a mysterious rapping at the
window in an upper room of business
block, which was unoccupied and Sc
curely locked. A large crowd collected
beneath the window, and various ex-
plantations of the mystery were ven
tured. 1t was suggested that some per
son had been accidentally fastened in,
but no response was received to inquir-
ing shouts. A number of persons in
the crowd insisted that they saw a
sheeted, gibbering ghost at the window.
Finally, a large squad of police was Sc
cured, the building surrounded, an en-
trance forced, and the haunted room
entered, the policemen quaking in theil
boots. They found small, frightened
innocent, and altogether insignifcan
red-headed woodpecker. Ereaent specta
tors.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
Like Master, Like Man.

Merchants and others who teach their
employees dishonest tricks must not ex-
pect that they will be practiced exclu-
sively upon their customers. 1t is the
inevitable result of such instructions
that they ''return to plague the in
ventor." A clerk in dry goods store
at Brighton. England, was recently ar
rested for robbing his employer, and it
was shown that he had stolen articles
at various times of the total value of
$1,000. The evidence was conclusive
of his guilt. and his only justification
was that the merchant had told him to
cheat the customers, and that he
thought it quite as proper that he should
swindle the merchant. Probably sub
stantial justice would be done if the
term of imprisonment were divided be-
tween master and man.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
A Unanimous Legislature.

The late Legislature of New Jersey
was not a harmonious body; but the
unanimity with which the members
stole the inkstands attached to their
several desks is described as a touching
evidence of fellowship. The State, with
reprehensible meanness, had caused
these articles to be fastened to the desk,
but the legislators knew their rights
and We're not to be banked in securing
them by any such device. According
ly, ON the last day of the session, each
dlgnitied Senator and Representative
might have been seen diligently at work
with screwdriver or other implement
removing the fastenings, and carrying
away the inkstand, no doubt casting
back lingering look of regret at the
| desk ITSELF
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
A Clear Complexion.

From Frank Lesl1e's Lady's Journal,
No one who goes much in society can
fail to notice how very common the use
of paints, powders, and cosmetics has
become of late years. This fashion we
owe with many others, to the constantly
increasing intercourse with the Paris
ians. Few French women have good
complexions-at least, what we consider
such-a clear skin, with bright, healthy
bloom on it; and from the time the
Empress of the French reigned as the
queen of fashion in Paris to within a
short time of the breaking out of the
war, golden hair and fair complexion
were the great desiderata among the
usually raven-haired and dark or sallow-
skinned Parisians.
1t is perfectly right that every woman
should try to make the best of herself,
and the wish to improve her appearance
to certain extent is even laudlble; but
is there, of course, a golden mean in
this, as in other things. 1t is not at all
difficult to obtain a good complexion,
if the right means are taken to insure
it. The first requisite is perfect health,
without which all endeavors will be
comparatively unsuccessful.
The complexion is the barometer of
health, and when the skin is sallow or
dry, the eyes heavy, and without bright
dress, and the countenance has a worn
look, we may feel sure there is some
thing wrong in the health, and that
mus be first set right. The next
essential to obtaining clear and
blooming complexion is early rising,
which is absolutely necessary. Our Eng
hsh great-grandmothers used to rise
very early, and 60 down the meadows
and dip their faces in May dew, which
they thought the best thing for the
skin; and no doubt they found the Gus
tom beneficial, for it obliged them tc
rise early, and to breathe the fresh
morning air. Seven or halfpast, is the
latest hour at which any one in ordinary
health should rise who wishes to have
clear and blooming complexion.
Avoid crowded assemblies, late hour
and exhausting excitement. Nothin,
helps more to insure good complexion
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS.
Baby i'm DreamIand.

Baby in Dreamiand.
Baby's dreams are very bright,
Though they come at dead of night,
When the house is still.
For a moonbeam comes to take her
Where the sweetest sounds shall wake her,
Where she'll play at will.
In the dreamland. far away,
There do sleeping babies play.
There they laugh and walk.
All the day their speech is gone
Not foot to stand upon
There they leap and talk.
There the pretty candle blaze.
When they clutch it, brightly stays;
There the stars so grand
Come to meet the outstretched arm,
Leap all sparkling to the palm
Of the little hand.
But in all that wondrous place
Still is smiling. moth er's face;
Mothers touch is there.
And like music sweet and low,
Though the baby does not know,
Breathes the mothers prayer.
So the baby laughs and plays
Through the happy dreamland ways
(Close to heaven, may be),
Till the merry sunbeams wake her.
Now, come see to Babyi
NJ. E. D.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
Iron.

A conference of the members of the
Iron and Steel Institute was held on the
22d ult., in Willis's Rooms, London, Mr..
H. Bessemer presiding A long and
scientific discussion arose on the reports
of the American Commissioners on their
experiments with the banks Rotary
Pudding Furnace, the principle of
which is to puddle iron without hand
labor. After the discussion had lasted
some hours, Mr.. banks, the inventor,
came forward and was received enthusi.
astically. He first replied to some of
the remarks of English ironmasters,
who had started the idea that iron
could be made direct from the ore by a
further development of the new
machine, and informed the meeting
that twenty-seven years ago he had
made some of as good iron as could be,
direct from the ore, but not in the re-
volving furnace. He had tried, how
ever, to manufacture iron direct in this
furnace, and he had succeeded; but
| owing to so much time being required
FIR the introduction Of the reducing
always be Improbable. After some
further discussion, it was announced
that the banks furnace at Middles
borough would be open to the inspec
ton of the members of the Institute or
proper notice being given. Mr.. Spen
Ger, a weH-known inventor, read {
paper on the working of the machine
showing the great saving in iron anc
fuel the revolving process will affect
in addition to producing metal of
superior quality. The opinion was ais,
freely expressed that the doom of tn
blast-furnaces was approaching.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
A Modest Re0uest.

Yerba Buena, or Goat Island, which
lies in the harbor of San Francisco, mid
way between that city and Oakland,
and which the Central Pacific Railroad
Company asks Congress to donate to 1T
for its terminus, has an area OF some
thing under square mile, its greatest
altitude over the level of the sea being
about $50 feet. 1t is worth $2O,OOO,OOO,
and would be handsome present to a
company already made enormously
wealthy by government subsidies.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
Amateur 1'elegraphy.

Several lads in Milwaukee, Wis, have
in operation a line of four miles of tele-
graph, the copper wire costing about
$3.50 per mile. The apparatus of the
company consists of 25 cups-15 fo1
the main battery and 10 for local bate
ries-and 10 Morse instruments. The
line was put up for practice and pleas
use, and it proves very convenient in
stormy nights, enabling the boys to con
verse with each other, or play checkers
and chess, without leaving their homes
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25

The Pensacola Fla Express, in speak-
ing of the Navy Yard at that place,
says the basin gate, built at an expense
of $25, 900, has been destroyed for lack
of necessary attention.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-04-27
Mail Robbery.

We are indebted to Capt. $. b. More
house, special agent of the Post Office
Department, for the following particu-
lars of the recent rODberies committed
on the mail between Vienna and l'ren-
ton. He states that upon close eNalni-
nation of the records and receipts of the
different offices along the route, it be-
came a settled fact that the Registered
packages We're first missed ut the vi
emma Office coming West and at the
Trenton Office going East; therefore,
the natural inference was that Forks
vile must be the place, but upon on
animation he fully exoncrated the
post master from all blame, and turned
his attention to the stage drivers. It
was soon discovered that the days upon
which these packages passed one or the
other of the two points and never
reached their destination, Il man by
the name Of DOnnelly drove out, and
on enquiring further, suspicion was
more strongly fixed upon this man. 1t
was ascertained that when he was first
employed upon the line, about four
months ago, he was dead-brOlle, and
that recently he had been spending
money with Il lavish hand, and it was
we'll known that it could not possibly
come out of the pitiful sum paid drivers
for wages, and it was further revealed
that he was supporting in style one of
the tfef,i monde of the city of Monroe.
Capt. MorehOuse then went about dis
covering something of the antecedcnts
of said Donnelly, and the result reveals
the fact that this is not his first offence,
but that he and an associate were ar
rested for the same offence on the Over
land Route in the Indian Territory
This fellow succeeded in making his
escape and has not been heard from
until now, when he is discovered at his
old trick OF pilfcring the L. $. mail
bags. 1t there is any crime that dc
serves the most rigorous enforcement
of the law, this is one, because this
method of sending money is more COM
monty resortcd to by the poorer classes
who are not able to lose the amounts.
however small, and they arc often sent
to relieve suffering and want. DOnncl-
Iy is now under arrest at Monroe wait
ing trial. Capt. Morchousc deserves
the thanks of the public for bringing
this villain to. justice. .Hinrtcn Democrat.
The investigation before Judge tald-
we'll, United States Commissioners, re-
suited in holding DonnellN to bail. i'll
the sum of $4,000, to appear before the
United States District Court for trial.