Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-27
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
BRET HARTE has two little Hartes.
ILLINOIS is practically free from debt.
Iowa burns $4,000 bushels of corn a
day.
SADDLES came into use in the fourth
century.
MICHIGAN is reviving the old-fashioned
spelling schools.
PETER CARTWRIGHT only cleared Sc, 900
by 40 years itinerating.
RAI1wAYs of three feet gauge are
rapidly growing in favor.
A PROJECT is on foot to annex a slice
OF South Carolina to Georgia.
CAKES As1Es is said to consider himself
the honestest man in Congress.
THE penalty for using a postage stamp
a second time is fifty dollars fine.
A SING SING convict ate whole box
of matches, and yet didn't suicide.
SAMUEL SINCLAIR, late publisher of the
Trbiuae, has gone into bankruptcy.
CAPT. HALLS skeleton has been sent
from the Arctic regions to England.
MARYLAND received it's name from the
Queen of Charles L, Henrietta Maria.
FLOUR is $50 barrel in Texas. but
the staff of life is only ten cents drink.
GREAT is bankruptcy, says CARLYLE;
sit brings an end to all shams under the
sum-"
SAMUEL GIBBS, the colored cadet, failed
to pass the January examination at West
Point.
The agitation for the adjustment of
the franking privilege began twenty-five
years age.
THEY do not call Senator Pomeroy
" Old Subsidy any more, but sold
Subside."
OVER three-fourths of the weather
predictions from Washington for 1872
proved correct.
SENATOR BRowNLow has written to
Tennessee editor that he has no idea of
resigning his seat.
Col. G. G. TEw, of North Carolina,
Confederate prisoner, is still detained on
the Dry Tortugas.
CONSIDER ABLE interest is felt in
Minnesota as to the authorship of
Beautiful Snow"
SAMUEL L. TWAIN (alias "Mark
Clemens') raised 81, 800 for charity in
Hartford last week.
CoNNNCTICUT's name was Mohegan,
spelled originally Quon-eh-to-cut, signi-
flying 6 long river.
THE marine losses within the last
twelve months, both of life and property,
exceed any similar period.
THE California Chinaman will make a
clock and case out of an oyster can, bits
of wire, two nails and piece of lead.
AFTER July few newspapers will pub
llsh that little item commencing " We
are indebted to the Hon. - for valu-
able pub. does"
WHAT is supposed to be the oldest
coin of its kind in this country is an En-
glish piece, dated 1861, held by Mrs.
Turner, of Phoenicia, n. Y.
A SUBSCRIBER of paper in Columbus,
O1lO, HIS WltuuTdWn LIS patronage
because the editor treated their recent
little earthquake with levity.
THE refuse which passes into the
sewers of the forty-three cities of this
country is estimated to have an annual
cash value of over 81, 100000.
THE Thames tunnel, thought such
novelty, was anticipated Dy that under
the Euphrates at Babylon and the an
Gent Egyptians had a Suez canal.
FEBRUARY is sometimes called the
German month, because of the many
German festivities by which it is marked.
There are commentators, however. who
suppose it is dedicated to the Germans
on account of there being bruary in it.
The aggregate Indebtedness of the
counties, cities and towns in Kansas,
arising from subscriptions voted in aid
of railroads, now amounts to So, 900, 900.
In many places townships have voted
bonds equal nearly to the full value of
the land