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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Catching Rats

writer in the Rural Ne,v Yorker
treating of trapping yermin generally.
says the following of catching rats in
particular
"Let Us now take the case of a house
badly infested with rats. How shall
we get rid of them? OF course, if they
come from some public sewer or other
colony, the supply is probably unlimited.
and the first thing must be to cut off ali
outsiders. But if we are troubled with
none but natives it will not require much
skill to capture every one of them-old.
cunning fellows and all. In the first
place, then, we must resolve to take
time to it and capture the whole lot. and
to do this no attempt must be made to
capture single animals, since this will
tend to make them suspicious and will
put the old ones on their guard. Then
provide a large box or barrel place in
it quantity of old carpet, brush, ETC..
and also some food, such as meal,
cheese, herring, etc. Bore two-inch
hole in the side of the box, and leave it
for some days. The rats will soon find
it out and frequent it. First a young
one will go In, and have good feed and
come out ali right I; the old ones seeing
that he is not hurt, they, too, will 90
in, and In a short time every rat about
he premises will frequent it. When
this occurs, see that it is we'll supplied
with food, and arrange over the hole
block having corresponding aperture
cut in it, but having also a series of
wires stuck around the hole and point
ing inward, just as they are arranged
in the common wire traps. Every ra.
will go In as before, and not one can get
out. Various methods may be adopted
for killing them. If you are a sports
man you can let them out one at a time
and shoot them or kill them with ter
riers. A few slips of sulphnred paper
thrust through the hole and burned, is,
however, very simple plan, and will
give them a most effectual quietus. We
have known a case in which sixty-seven
rats were caught at one time in box
as described. In this instance
the premises were effectually cleared of
the yermin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
VOracity of Birds.

AS an illustration of the immense vo-
racity of small birds, and of the quanti-
ties of insects destroyed by them, a cor
respondent of the London Times writes:
''The fuetitmouse has been watched. and
found to feed its young, from 81 a. m.
to 81 p. m, ATS times, bringing one large
or two or three small insects each time.
The thrush, from II a. m. to 8, p. m.
206 times. The blackbird, from 81 a.
m. to $40 p. m. lib times. The mis-
tletoe thrush, from 4:2O to D. m. &c
times, each time bringing several large
worms or insects. The sparrow, from
two or three to six or eight insects at
once, and as this goes on for all the day,
and they frequently have two or three
broods inthe year, they must destroy an
immense number. / watched the other
day a wagtail catching insects to feed
its young, and it took eight or nine into
its bill in minute or two, and had not
left off when turned away. The start
lings frequently observe getting cat
erpillars for their young, flying from
tree to tree with two or three together
is their bills to collect more"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Horace Greeley's Habits of Dress.

Mr.. Greeley never became heartily
addicted to "full dress" The last time
the writer OF these words saw him was
in 1870, on the Capitol steps in Wash
ngton city. He stopped and talked for.
perhaps, half an hour, though the day
was broiling hot. / recollect that he was
dressed in faultless style, and of after
ward remarking to Mr. Hawkins Taylor.
with whom we walked up the avenue.
that Horace Greeley was the hest
dressed man L had seen in Washington. -
bis cravat was not adjusted precisely in
the mode, his hat was evidently worn as
hat, not as an ornament, and his boots
were not thin-soled; but his whole toilet
was of that careless elegance, BETTING
a distinguished gentleman, who spent
no great amount of time in front of his
looking glass. The many thousands
who have seen him on lecturing tours
and on other occasions when he was off
editorial duty-when not being driven
before the tempestuous winds of his
busy life-can scarcely credit the numer-
GUS accounts we have had of his care
lessness as to dress. Yet they are cor
rect In the main. His marching suit
was not the same as that he wore on
dress-parade and the grand review. And
it is certain that he never bestowed
much time In getting himself into his
best clothes. Several years before his
death he lectured on one occasion at the
city of Hamilton, Ohio. A barber was
sent for to shave him, and act as tenn
porary catet de chanbre, by whose
labors Mr.. Greeley appeared in the
faultless fashion of an exquisite. He
surveyed himself in the glass moment
Relying his cravat and
jerking his standing collar about with an
energy of manner and of idiom, while |
the valet vanished out of the storm. the |
lecturer appeared in due time with his
wearing gear a little awry about the |
neck, but otherwise without violation of |
the mode. He has been seen on the |
streets of New York wearing a coat lit |
orally out at the elbows. For MANY |
years of his life he was absolutely in |
different as to his dress, and at no time |
did he have the desire or the patience
to give special attention to his personal
appearance. That he came to be a |
passably well dressed gentleman on oc-
casions when not hard at work. is a fact |
which We may in justice rather credit
to the genius of his tailor than his own.
Ii there has been one man who gave
less attention to his toilet, as a toilet,
than any other, that man was, most
likely, Horace Greeley.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
The Danger of Cholera.

The slight touch of cholera We had
here this summer is by no means a
guarantee that it may not pay us q
longer and more fatal visit next year.
Our latest advices from Europe indicate
that the epidemic is not only not over
yet, but that it continues to spread and
increase in virulence. The Vienna Ex-
position seems to have diffused the con-
tagion all over Europe, and it is now
raging in nearly every large city of the
continent. The French journals are
alarmed at the progress which the pest
is making. The New York Evening Post
sounds timely warning on the subject.
1t says: at is time all feasible meas
ures of quarantine and internal sanitary
administration were adopted the peril
is imminent and decisive, and the less
speculation-the more action-the bet
ter In New York in the future. We
have winter, perhaps, to prepare for
the coming of the pestilence, though it
Is by no means impossible that it may
reach us at any moment. 1t was only
three or four days ago Havre ship
came sailing up the bay on board of
which passenger had died of cholera.
and who knows how many others may
have gone ashore with the seeds of the
disease In their system?"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Humorous.

In what tone does ghost speak? In
tombstone.
Why is lady's hair like a beehive
Because it holds the combs.
Why is love at first sight like a seal
Because it makes an impression.
A POUGHKEEHsIE clerk loves the very
ground Highland widow walks upon.
1t is worth 500 an acre.
JOSH BILLINGS says, very truly,
You'd better not know so much, than
to know so many things that amt so. -
THE american Family Bible Publish
ing Co.. Chicago and Cincinnati, sell first class
books. employ frst-class agents, and give
frst-class terms. Book agents, make a note
of this.
A GENTLEMAN, on taking a volume to
be bound, was asked if he would have it
bound in Russia. sob, no." he replied,
" Russia is too far off; I'll have it bound
here"
A WORTHY old farmer, who was being
worried In his cross-examination by a
lawyer in Maine, exclaimed: "Look
here, Squire, don't you ask good many
foolish questions ?"
THE man who answered an advertise
ment to the following effect says his
curiosity is satisfied eff you would
learn how to make home happy, send a
postage stamp and twenty-five cents to
P. 0. Box No. :, Cincinnati. He did
send the necessary cash, and soon re-
ceived the answer: elf you are as big
fool as We think you must be for Civ
ing us your money, you can make home
happy by leaving it and going West by
yourself. "-Hedrth and Home.
"Now, Johnny" said venerable
lady to her six-year-old nephew, who
was persistently denying an offense of
which she was accused, a know you are
not telling the truth see it in your
eye." Pulling down the lower lid of the
organ that had so nearly betrayed his
want of veracity, Johnny exultingly re-
piled: "You can't tell anything about
it, aunt that eye was always little
streaked I"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Petroleum.

There have been various theories adj
vanced concerning the origin of this
earth oil. Some thought it came from
the decomposition of marine or earth
plants !; some, that it was the relic of
the oil-yielding animals that swarmed
the seas in the Devonian period while
a third, and the now generally accepted,
theory is, that it comes from the con-
densation of the carbon-bearing gases
formed within the bowels of the earth,
and coming up in this oily form to give
light and heat to the nations. But
whatever its origin, singular and kind
Providence developed it just as the
whales of the ocean were giving out, so
that now, to great extent, it takes the
place of the oil they once furnished for
mankind
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Church Etiquette.

On approaching the church take a
fresh chew of tobacco-if you use that
weed You will have quiet hour to en-
Joy it. And then you can spit under
the pew in front of you, where it will
be most difficult to wash off when
church cleaning time comes.
On entering the house, should an
usher offer to show you place, disre-
gard his kindness, and slip into the first
empty pew You find. 1t will show your
independence and utter contempt for
the order of the place.
Then, be sure to seat yourself in the
end next to the aisle, and when others
wish to go In, let everyone in the pew
get up and file out in the aisle, and give
the newcomers the inner part. Or,
should such display be too great for
your modesty, sit still and let them step
over your feet. Either course will cause
them sufficient annoyance and disturb
ance.
By all means start from home so as to
get In after service begins. By going
late large number will notice that you
attend church. 1t is better to 90 late
than not at all, you know, and then the
preacher, who may be in prayer, or
reading the scriptures, and that portion
of the congregation who go early to get
the benefit of the whole service, have no
business to be disturbed by such trifies.
In other words, they have no rights
you are bound to respect"
But, seriously, do go to church, and
go early, and observe such rules as will
cause the least confusion in the house
of God
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Persian Ladies, Dress.

OF all the female costumes of the East
the Persian is undeniably the most un-
becoming, 1t is perfectly impossible to
tell whether the figure wrapped in pill
low-case and latticed veil belongs to a
girl of fourteen or an old lady of sixty.
Indoors Persian lady is scarcely less
inelegant. The long trousers are usually
of thick silk, reaching down to the ankle,
and from twenty to five-and-twenty yards
wide, and so stiff that they stand out
like the old hooped petticoats of our
body is covered by a bodice, more or
less richly embroidered, under which a
white silk chemise is to be seen. The
Persian manner of sitting is not cross
legged, a la Turque, but is complete
kneeling position, with the hips almost
resting upon the ankles, and the back
upon q cushion.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
All Hands Below.

A good story is told of O parrot who
had always lived on board ship, but
who escaped at one of the Southern
ports and took refuge in church.
Soon after the congregation assembled,
and the minister began preaching to
them in his earnest fashion, saying that
there was no virtue in them, that every
one of them would go to hell unless
they speedily repented, Just as he
spoke the sentence, up spoke the parrot
from his hiding place
CAL hands below"
To say that "all hands" were startled
would be a mild way of putting it. The
peculiar voice and unknown source had
more effect on them than the parsons
voice ever had. He waited moment,
and then, shade or two paler, he re-
peated the warming.
"All hands below !" again rung out
from somewhere.
The preacher started from his pulpit
and looked anxiously around, inquiring
if anybody had spoken.
'All hands below F." was the reply,
at which the entire panic-stricken con-
gregation got up, and a moment after
they all bolted for the doors, the
preacher trying his best to be first, and
during the time the mischievous bird
kept up his yelling, CAL hands belowl"
There was one old woman there who
was lame, and could not go out so fast
as the rest, and in short time she was
left entirely alone. Just as she was
about to hobble out the parrot flew
down, and alighting on her shoulder
again yelled in her ear, Cali hands
below!"
No, no, Mister Devil! !" shrieked
the old woman, ''you can't mean me. I
don't belong here. I go to the other
church across the way"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
The Public Press an Educator of the
People.

And by this time, the influence of the
public press, as the educator of the
masses of the body polite has become
palpably manifest. Undoubtedly the
means of popular education supplied to
most of the children of the republic at
the ightest possible cost, to the poor,
especially. had done incalculable service
in behalf of general intelligence. But
1T is certainly true that the fact of the
adult population, in few years after
the remarkable development of the
press consequent upon the invention of
of the electric telegraph, and the won
derful journalistic enterprise which fol-
lowed, rapidly reaching high plane of
intelligence and manly independence of
Thought is undoubtedly true, that
this magnificent fact is largely due to the
influence of the public press. As the
independent in opinion, the power of
party, of course, correspondingly dimin-
ished, When the press took position
above party it became at once more in
fiuential with the people, and more
truly representative of them. And, as
among intelligent people there is al
ways more of wisdom and craftsmanship
that among all the politicians, and as
they now had representative journals, it
did not take them long to perceive that
old parties had become obsolete; boy
clothes In. which it would have been
impossible IT the now puissant nation
to place itself without making of itself a
ridiculous spectacle.
Nor will tbara no onx- u, lo,.~-
claim of magnificent power on the part
of the press, when they once seriously
reflect upon the nature of its operations;
Its simple yet majestic means of inau-
ence. All will readily agree that if
skillful orator were to address large
audiences of willing hearers every day,
he would acquire vast influence. A
great journal speaks to more persons
every day of the week, every day of the
year, than could be reached by any orator
though he had the voice of Jupiter
Tonans. And this upon not a single
topic, but upon a variety of topics,
many of which must of necessity be of
great value and interest to all the peo-
pie. Libri cibus amino. Newspapers
have become the daily intellectual food
of all the citizens of enlightened Christ
endom. The orator, except by the aid
of the press, can only influence those
who stand round about him. The
journalist has greater immediate audi
ence, but his words reach afar off, as
weighty in the uttermost parts of the
land or of the earth, as In the deep
basement where they issue from that
marvel of modern machinery, the Hoe
press. This orator, with this vast audi
ence, is of a generous nature, and
comes to you instead of requiring you
to come to him. Thus with the rising
and the setting of the sun he visits the
hearthstone of every intelligent family
a welcome visitor. When we consider,
therefore, the great varied contents of
most of orr public journals, and the
means of their diffusion
among the people, we connot help
agreeing that the newspaper press is,
and must of necessity be, among the /!
greatest of educators. -IngersoUs Life
and Times Of Horace Greeley.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
THE FORTY-ACRE FARM.
BY JOHN B. YATES

I'm tnln5in wife, of neighbor Jones, that man witt,
He lives in peace and plenty on forty-acre farm
hnie men are all around us, with hands and hearts
Who own two hundred acres, and still are wanting
more. ~ "o--As
He loving wife within as oe a', ~ mouse
MS cnisuren play around the door-ther fathers
life to charm
Looking as neat and tidy as the tidv 1;.tle co..
No weeds are in the fields, no thistles in the
oats
The horses show good keeping by their fine and
The cows within the meadow. resting meath the
beechen shade,
Learn all the gentle manners of the gentle r,;,i,
maid.
Within the feld-on Saturdays-he leaves no Graded
To be gathered on the morrow for fear Of oo;r,e
rain;
Ele keeps the Sabbath holy-his children learn his
And plenty fills barns and bins after the harvest
days.
de never has a lawsuit to take him to the town.
z or the very reason there line fences down:
Inc Dar-room IN the village does not have for him a
charm;
I can always find my neighbor on his forty-a,re
farm.
dis acres are so very few he plows them very
deep; 49,
us his swn hands that turn the sod-tis his own
hands that reap;
de has place for everything, and things are in
their place;
me sunshine smiles upon his fields contentment in
his face.
Nay we not learn lesson, wife, from prudent
neighbor Jones.
And not-for what We haven't got-giye up to signs
and means?
The rich amt ALWAYS happv nor free from I;fa,z
alarms,
But blest are they that live content, though small
may be their farms
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
A Puzzle.

A couple of scientific Frenchmen (of
course y have been posing themselves
and each other with the question as to
where man who, travelling west from
any place at the rate of a thousand
miles an hour, would find Monday pass
into Tuesday. If he started at noon on
Monday the sun would always be in the
meridian, because he would journey
with equal rapidity with the earth's mo-
ton, and the sun would, therefore, be
at rest, 40 far as he would be con-
cerned. 1t would, therefore, be always
Monday noon to him, but when he COM
pleted his journey it would be Tuesday
noon. These unhappy individuals can
not find out where Monday night oc-
ours to the traveller.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23

FESTIVAL OF THE PLow.-In most
Buddhist countries the Festival of the
Pillow is held annually, with great honor,
all classes, from the monarch down,
paying reverence to this symbol of the
dignity of labor. In Siam, on these
occasions, King of the Husbandmen
is chosen, who represents ths highest
authority, and is made the center of
various singular rites. During his brief
sovereignty he receives as his perquisite
all fines paid for violating the law
against doing work on that festal day.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
The Northern Pacific.

The st. Paul Press, of Oct. 9, says ::
"Gen. Cass, of the Northern Pacific
road, is now in the city. There is nothing
new in regard to the line beyond the
fact that building operations west OF
the Missouri are suspended, but the
work will be commenced as soon as
possible next spring. Gen. Cass has
been over the line to see what is neces-
sary for putting the road in the best
possible condition for its winter bust
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23

a noted adventurer and gambler, who,
however, by cool effrontery and winning
address, backed by his good looks, had
been enabled to move among the first
circles of Partisan society
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23

IN the State, and then chaw up the bones
OF its ancestors for four generations
without turning hair You understand
me-" Then the services proceeded
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Sale of Postage Stamps.

The most popular postage stamps may
be gathered from the statement of the
stock of stamps at the mandatory dur
ing the month of July, which shows
about the proportion of the different de-
used by the public in cor
The number was as fol-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Cdnt0 TertiuS.

But Pete seized his shabby trunk with snorts of
wrath and scorn,
And in two seconds both the handles from the ends
had torn.
And needless of the pleadngs of the passenger for
lOrr.
He banged the trunk down on the platform and
then threw it over the top of the and let an
omnibus run over it, and then whacked it a
bumper, and threw il of the end of the bridge
and shot into it with his revolver and finally
Rugged it in his arms, took a flying leap into
the baggage-car with it, and lit on it in a cor
ner with his heels, head and stomach and
mashed it into more pieces than there are
hairs on dogs back. and the next second
that baggage-car was just alive with one inter-
esting baggage-man and more crawling,
squirming, wriggling, rafting. coiling rattle
snakes than you would believe had ever been
born.
Chorus previously, out with more feel
ing.)
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23

A PRAYING costume is one of the latest
from Paris.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Canto Sseundus.

But Thursday afternoon there came modest travel
ing man,
Who smiled and watched how ruthlessly the baggage
Pete did slam:
Then, as he pointed his trunk for him to mash
and jam,
He said: Dear friend, my worldly possessions are
few and humble: silver and gold have none
but such as have are in that trunk Handle
II tenderly, for it is frau and L am poor. and
If there's man travelling who watches and
weeps, and prays over his baggage then that's
the kind of a man am"
Chorus the same as beforeD
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
Canto Qttartus.

In vain the muse essays to tell how Pete, the
smasher, swore,
And yelled and shrieked and howled and roared and
raved and stamped and tore.
And scratched and slashed and sweat and struck
and scrambled for the door.
And turned blue as indigo, and sweled up to nine
times the size Of a double-decker Saratoga
trunk, and died in two minutes after he got
out of the car, while the modest Traveller
viewing his exaggerated remains. smiled sadly
and said, she never knew q baggage-man so
fond of snakes before"
CHORUS ad lib.)
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23
A TRAGEDY OF TRAVEL.
By RoBEErUs BURDErToN1Us.

Canto PTi7llEs-
Pete was tip-top baggageman, he ran on Number
Four.
where tie tears and groans OF travelling folks un-
hsnchlngiy he bore.
he cared not how the women wept, strong men
SwOre,
While he lnutilated sample cases. desolated Sarato-
gas al1ll1n1iated ordinary luggage led
carpet-bags, exterminated band-boxes, and
exiinguish6i travellers outfits by the score.
This hle old railway baggage-unan one of
the modern time
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-10
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