Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
SQUASH seeds are frequently fatal to
fowls.
The Canadian Pacific railway will be
only 2, 700 miles long.
VIcE-PPEsIDENr WrLsos,s annroacb-
inf marriage is rumored in Washing
ton.
DORSEY. of Arkansas, is the Youngest
Senator. Sprague and Ingalls, come
next
THE United States will be representad
by the works of TOO manufacturers at
Vienna. # ~
DANIEL DREW never gave note in
his life, and can't remember that be
borrowed SO much as chew of to.
bacco.
| In Arkansas, after you tell an old set
tier your name, he confidentially asks
what it was Galore yer moved to these
parts. :"
TWICE &c, 1853 loving hearts were made
to beat as one in the State of Ohio last
year, and 1925 matrimonial knots were
severed.
THE song of "Old Mother Hubbard
is sung to the wakeful infants of Amer
lea, England, Ireland, France, Spain,
and Russia. -
A COLORADO woman's triumphs are
thus set forth: Half an acre of tobac-
to, three. corn fields, twenty-eight. tur
keys, and church congregation in
which she leads the choir.
THERE is an old bachelor in Brown
field, Me-, 1O2 years cid on the 31st day
OF January. He remembers the dark
day OF 1850. He makes his own bed,
and does many other things. q
HUMBOLDT, in his Cosmos" states
that the Chinese had magnetic carriages
with which to guide themselves across
the great plains of Tartary, LOCO years
before our era, on the principle of the
compass.
A COMPOUND of alum, glue, and saw
dust offers convenient material for or
namenting furniture, or other wood
work. 1t is easily nodded, and, by dry
ing, becomes so hard that it readily
takes high polish.
! Mr.. STEPHEN FERGUSON, of Rush
vile, n. Y, desiring to celebrate his
10th birthday IN company with COM
rades of a kindred age, got together,
from his immediate neighborhood, for
ty-one persons who had passed the age
of 70.
! A CINCINNATI seamstress uses a gray
squirrel as motive power for running
her machine, and well he does his
work-not only sewing straight seams.
but hemming and gathering ruffie as
neatly as could be done by human
| hands.
ALEX FL. STEPHENS is now 68 years
old. He first entered the House of Rep
resentatives in 1913 as Wing, and was
continued in his seat until 1859. After
he voted for the Kansas-N Nebraska act
OF 1854 he was classified as a Democrat.
which he now claims to be, of the
straightest sort.
DR.. GREER, q rich man who died at
Ransford Island, Mass, left the short
est will on record viz. BE it under
stood, l leave $500 to Thomas Res
tieaux Edward B. W. Restieaux, $500 :;
residue to my nephews and nieces, chill
dren of John" The document was duly
attested and probated
! A HEART, not Sin the right place, was
| found, belonging TO a man who recently
died IN the hospital at Cincinnati. 1t
had been beating away for years. com
fortably enough for several, ON the
right side, when by all rights it should
should have been on the left but from
the slight arrangement it suffered little.
if any, inconvenience.
| THE days of superstition are not vet
over. In the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives the other day, board
OF thirteen was objected to because it
was an unlucky number" 1t was
| changed to eleven. The cold original
thirteen States :" were a pretty good
start for the Republic, Notwithstanding
| the oddly of the number.
A GENTLEMAN in Jefferson CITY. Mo-.
who was troubled with bed-bugs. soaked
the bed with kerosene and turned in.
leaving the light burning. Just as he
was dreaming that a regiment of bugs
was drawing up a set of resolutions
condemning him for using kerosene, he
was awakened by fireman pointing
nozzle of hose through window.
THREE Albany young ladies attempt
ed to find from female friend the Sc
cret of valentine by doctoring her with
ether, under the impression that under
its influence she would respond to any
interrogatories that might be put. The
more ether they administered, the more
uncommunicative she became, and it
was hard struggle for the doctors,
when called in. to save the girls life.
The Modoc Indians, who are making
such q sturdy fight in Northern Califor-
mia, are described as miserable looking
specimens of the lower orders of humans
ity. 70 look at them you seem to see
men whom you think you could throw
over your shoulders without effort and
who appear, from the vacant stare in
their eyes, to be about half idiotic, and
yet with sufficient of the cunning in the
expression of their faces to put you on
your guard.