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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
A New Paradise.

Just think what we have gained in
the final acquisition of San Juan. For
instance: When Cook sighted the
American coast, near forty-four degrees,
on March 7, ITS, he named the first
visible promontory Cape Flattery, in al
fusion to the beautiful weather he then
began to experience. The observations
of all travellers and explorers since this
time abundantly attest the delicious
climate of this entire section of the
North Pacific coast, and prove that
Capt. Vancouver's descriptions, made
more than seventy-fve years ago, were
not couieur de ross. The summers are
warm and the winters moister and mild.
er than III England or Ireland. The
shores are bathed by warm waters from
the China coast and the Kura Siwo, or
Japan Gulf Stream, and also swept by
the warm winds, which together spread
a mantle of warmth, moisture, and fer
tility not only over the coast, but over
all Oregon, Washington Territory, Idaho
and Western Montana. The geologic
surveys of the islands and shores of the
waters around San Juan reveal abund
ance of mineral formation, especially
coal, copper, and magnetic iron. The
fisheries are unsurpassed in the quantity
of their yield, and the water fowl and
game-birds are as plenty as on the Ches
apeake and Delaware bays, while the
timber is of that colossal type SO marked
on the Pacific coast, and so unrivaled
in ship. building.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Fire.PrOof Wood.

In the general discussion now going
on as to rendering buildings proof
against fire, we are surprised to see that
no reference is made to any process for
rendering wood less combustible. When
the wood pavement, in Main and Market
streets were put down our readers will
remember that we were told the wood
was burnettized," and that it would
neithea rot nor burn. Being skeptical
on this subject, we picked up some
pieces and put them in the furnace un.
der our boiler, where, to our astonish.
ment and qualification, we found they
would only smolder and gradually waste
under the intense heat, not at any time
breaking out into blaze. A building
with timber burnettized would be more
fre-proof than if it had iron beams, for
they would not throw down the walls by
their expanding and contracting. The
process of burnettizing is a we'll known
one, and comparatively inexensive. II
should be more generally used in pre-
pairing timbers for building, as well as
for other puposes.-Plo ughkeepsie Eagle.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Climbing Mountains.

In all ages men have uniformly man.
Tested strange ambition for ascending
to the top of lofty mountains. Moses
and his official associates sought such
attitudes, and ever after the children of
Israel evinced fondness for the hills
and elevated locations for their hab ia
tons. So strongly urgent is this inner
emit desire to get to the top, fearful en-
terprises have repeatedly been attended
with fatal consequences. For hundreds
OF years attempts were made to explore
the peak of Mount Ararat, in Armenia,
before successful ascent was accom-
plished. To the disgust of two bold
German philosophers, not single rib of
Noah's Ark remained there.
Ascending Mont Blanc is passion in
our day. A loss of half dozen lives
a year by losing a foothold and slid
ing with the rapidity of lightning
into the horrible yawning abyss below,
deters no one from trying his luck for
securing the glory that attaches to the
name of a successful climber.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Corn for Fuel.

We are glad to see that many of our
citizens are taking advantage of the low
price of corn to lay in heavy supplies of
it for fuel. We have experimentedw with
it last week, and find that it is an adj
mirable substitute for both wood and
coal, and that at present prices there is
both economy and comfort in its use.
a ton of corn, 80 bushels, at IL cents
per bushel, isl $500. We consider this
equal to cord of hard wood, as sup
piled and measured in our market, at
81; the cutting of this cord, $50
total, So so. Thus making saving of
nearly So cord.
For kitchen fuel it is superior to wood,
except hickory, and cheaper than that.
1t makes very hot fire with great
deal of blaze. We judge that three
tons of corn are equal to the heat of
one ton of hard coal, while in economy
of its use it is equal to one and half
tons of coal. In small families and
small houses there is always great waste
of hard coal, while there is none in the
use of corn. Besides this, there is the
public benefit of retaining in the coun'
try all the money we send to Pennsyl
vania for coal, and feed our farmers by
consuming their products-COuncI Bluff
Io,0a) Nonpareil.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
A Champion Old Lady.

The champion old lady of them all
closed her career in Greenup county.
KY, few days ago. Her name was
Mrs. Mary Gray, and at the time of her
death she was l. 3 years months and Is
days old. She came of a long-lived
race, her mother having reached the age
OF 100, but her husband, who was born
only four years before her, in 1855,
dropped off something over half a CEN
fury ago, at the untimely age of "a. She
was the mother of Is children, all but
four Of whom she followed to the grave,
the survivors-two sons and two daugh-
ters-being So, 80, 70 and 70 years of
age. Mrs. Gray lived to see the fifth
generation Of her descendants number
ed by the score-the full list of her
lineal descendants being as follows
Children, IS grandchildren, IS; great.
grandchildren, 617; great-great- grand
children, 337; great great great grand.
children, 44-total, 1916 With such a
record to fall back upon, Greenup coun-
ty, KY, may safely challenge the world
on the subject of old ladies.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
A MOnOmaniac.

Here is queer story, the truth of
which is absolutely guaranteed by one
of the most respectable of Paris news
papers, LIE Temps. A certain M. de s.
has long been insane. He imagined
himself Chinese, wore the costume of
the Celestial Empire, and spoke a
strange jargon invented by himself,
and which he seriously believed to be
pure Chinese. This was very inoffens-
i've monomania. His family had there
fore taken no precautionary measures
further than that of preventing him
from going out.
M. de B. awoke the other day with
cold sweat, declaring that the Emperor,
Tchong-Tcheon, had condemned him to
implement. He asked to be left alone.
When, at the end of two hours, his
friends reentered his room, he was
found on chair, sitting bolt upright
with his hair standing on end. "Heav
ems how l suffer p he gasped. "Its
going through and through mel" A
doctor was sent for, ard M. de B. was
placed by force in reclining position
" 1t is too late,' he cried; " the stake ii
broken in my bodyl'' and he expired
under the full conviction that he wa
actually impaled.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
The Ideal of Christ,s Person.

The Christ of painters is blue-eyed
and golden-haired, and such one never
existed save in their imaginations. A
blonde in the race of Syrian Jews is IN
known. He was br,n (since we have
no word in our language which describes
man with dark hair and eyes, and
olive complexion of that race. There
are pious people who have recourse to a
miracle to make him blonde, with
whom it is useless to argue. Generally,
the stoutest defenders of his divinity
believe that in taking on himself mans
nature he subjected himself to the laws
which govern it, and that he thus in
herited the characteristics of the race
from which he sprung. Leonardo, Guido,
Raphael, and other masters, created their
Christ regardless of historical require
ments, and invested him with an ideal
character which he never possessed, &C
cording to their idea of the beautiful in
art. This model, once imposed, has
since been perpetrated by all painters,
because they think blue eyes more spir-
itual than dark, and golden hair more
godlike than black.
They had an idea, too, that the Jew.
ish type of face was ignoble, which may
have had some foundation from the
degradation to which the race was
forced for SO many centuries by perse,
cutting Christians, and they thus had
their prejudices against investing the
Savior with the traits of a people whom
they desplsed. But the Jew of Syria in
the day of Jesus was, before his perse
cution and consequent debasement, per
haps the equal of the man OF any other
race in point of natural advantages
There are Syrian Jews now, in isolated
habitations in Palestine, who are re
markable for their handsome traits
Albert Rhodes, an Apple'ons' Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Fossil Elephants in Alaska.

1t has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant
of Siberia had no representatives in the
same latitude on this continent. Re-
cent examinations on the Yukon river,
in Alaska, however, have estab-
tablished the fact that the remains are
even more plentiful on the west than
on the east side of the North Pacific.
Enormous quantities of bones are found,
and supply of ivory sufficient to last
the world for centuries. The valleys of
all the streams and all the low grounds
are filled with bones and tusks, so that
every vessel now arriving from those
remote possessions has part of the cargo
made up in part of these new found re-
mains. The elephant, whose range was
formerly almost universal, is now con-
fined to a small portion of Africa and
Asia, and it would seem as if the species
was in process of slow extinction.
Neither Europe nor America, which
once swarmed with them, has now either
climate or vegetation fitted to their
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Chambers.

Chronic CHAMBERS are said not to be
contagious. A veterinarian in the Kan
sas Farmer recommends the following
treatment:
To remove or neutralize the poison,
give one-half TO ounce doses of the sui
plate of soda at night, in cut feed, for
several weeks, and five grains of the
powdered Spanish fly along with it,
which will act not only as a powerful
tonic, but as an agent whereby the pro-
duct of the disease will be removed
from the body of the animal by the kid
neys. This treatment will not interfere
with the other medicine, which IS
powdered gentian root, three drains
powdered sulphate of copper, two drains;
mix, and give the whole for dose, and
give one dose morning and midday.
The horse must be well and highly fed,
and removed from other horses while
the treatment is going on. Change the
feed often. Remember that CHAMBERS,
associated with tubercles of the lungs,
cannot be cured.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
The Ear of Man.

1t is superior to that organ in all races
OF animals below him, as man alone ap-
preciates harmony and cultivates music.
Anatomists Who really understand its
mechanism are lost in admiration.
Nature has bestowed so much care in
the extremely minute structure of the
lnnermost parts of the apparatus that it
may well be considered the masterpiece
IN the dominion of divine mechanics, to
the apprehension of our limited &C.
qualntance with what lies within the
compass of ordinary vision.
Long before birth the internal ear,
those apartments in which are dis
tributed millions of terminal filaments
OF acoustic nerve, are completely finished
and securely protected in very hard,
bony box. There are three irregular
chambers, varying in size, scarcely larger
than the head of pin. There are three
noises, sudden conclusions, etc., in
which there is no particular law of
vibration in force. In the next we
analyze sounds both of voice and must
cal tones. Within the third there are
erect, flexible rods, like elastic bristles,
fixed at one end-the other being I'm.
attached and movable to and fro-bend
ing as the heads of wheat stalks in the
field yield to the gentle force of air
Those rods are innumerable- thousands
upon thousands-there being one fol
every varying impulse of musical in
strument or change in voice. But &
sense of hearing is in the brain, the eal
being nothing more than continuance
for conducting aerial vibrations to the
acoustic nerve, which transmits the i'm.
preston to the soul.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
"When l was Born L Died.O

DIR. Hammond, who attended Greeley
in his last illness, makes this statement:
l suppose Mr.. Greeley said hundred
times, while l was with him, Now
mind! When 1 was born l died, and
when I died l was born This idea
seemed be perpetually in his mind,
and when he repeated the words he
would look his listeners very attentively
in the face. In order to test his con-
seriousness l asked him if he knew Mr..
Dickens. knew that he did, for l was
present at the dinner to Mr.. Dickens,
at which Horace Greeley presided. He
exclaimed: never heard the name in
my life Now, mind When was born
l died, and when died was BORN 1
then told him that Thurlow Weed had
been to my house and was inquiring for
him. He answered as before: Il never
heard the name before. Now, mind
When was born 1 died, and when I
died was born 1t was evident to me
that no CLEAN of consciousness remain
ed. He very rarely answered the ques-
tons l asked him, and whenever he did
the answers were wrong"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Renaissance of a Louisiana States.
man.

The name of the glittering Pinchback,
of Louisiana, was not always Pinchback,
though it never was pure gold or gold
eighteen carats fine. His name, when
he ran on the river and put in an occa-
sional appearance in this city, was
Pinkey Stuart. He was gay and fes-
tive youth, and priced, with all the 10
tensity of his ardent African nature, the
smiles that beauty bestowed. He wore
great deal of glittering jewelry. The
dusky maidens at whose feet he sighed
had heard that all that glittered was
not gold, and concluded that the mas
sive chains he sported were pinchbeck,
and called him after the adornments
which he had heaped upon his comedy
person. The name stuck to him, until
he adopted it; and now he has made it
bright in the long list of great American
statesmen. As we have heretofore re-
marked, he is not foolish. His eye
shines, and his diamond breaht. pin
shines, and his teeth shine, and his hair
is brilliant. If Death loves a shining
mark, he will take a shot at Pinchback
some of these times Cincinnati Com
nerciQZ.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Drinking too Much.

Five-sixths of an animal body is made
up of water. A man weighing two hum
dred may be dried into mummy not
weighing over about sixteen pounds,
including bones of the skeleton. Water,
therefore, is largely employed in giving
form, hexibility and beautiful lines.
Enough is taken in with food to meet
all demands of the system.
The precise quantity, and indeed
quality, is regulated by sense of thirst.
But that vital sentinel may he corrupt
ed by excessive indulgence. When
simple water Is taken, a morbid thirst
never follows. If, however, stimulating
fluids are swallowed, morbid craving
may be generated, which, if not re-
strained, may become an unsatisfed
passion, to the positive injury of organs
on the regular functions of which sound
health depends.
There is danger from indulging in
artificial drinks. Nature distills over in
the stomach by her own chemical pro-
cesses- separating the water from them,
which is used for legitimate purposes.
but rejects all the rest, throwing it out
of the body through the kidneys and
skin. By working the renal apparatus
beyond normal gauge, to carry off of
Tending elements, they fall into disease
beyond the resources of medicine.
This explains prodigious advance of
Bright's disease-that is, a degeneration
and loss of ability in those organs to do
what they must accomplish for stability
in health. None of the lower animals
have kidney disease, because they never
drink to excess or burden the stomach
with compound beverages.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Wintering Cattle.

There is no subject of greater import
ance to the farmer, and especially the
dairyman, than the wintering of his cat
tie. They should not be allowed to
stand out of doors through long, stormy
days. l do not agree with those who
water them by artificial means in their
stables, but they should not be COM
PEELED to go to distant brook or spring
to drink. A good watering trough
should be in every barn-yard. Then, as
1t Is rare thing for it to storm continu-
ously all day, an opportunity should be
watched during cessation of the storm
for the cattle to Be turned out to drink
and exercise. The latter is as requisite
and necessary az the former. AS a gen
eral rule cattle ought in winter to be
kept in the barn, and only allowed to
run out sunny and pleasant days for
such length of time as is necessary for
exercise. AS matter of economy, all
feeding ought to be done in the stalls,
except such coarse and refuse stuff as is
purposely intended for ittering the
barn-yard. Once every day the refuse
should be taken from in front OF the
cattle, and put in some convenient
place, and at least once each week these
should be well brined and refed to them.
In this way all the hay and feed will be
consumed and none wasted. | OBJECT
to feeding cattle in the barn-yaro, be-
cause they run over their food with
their muddy ieet, and tread it into the
manure, thereby wasting large per
cent. A warm stable is also indispensa-
able, not only as a matter of comfort,
but because heat thus produced saves
food. A good barn-yard is equally as
requisite. The fence should be not less
than four and a half or FIVE feet high,
and made tight with boards from top to
bottom, and should be shielded at least
on the windward sides. Above all, cat
tie should be given all the food that
they will consume without waste. "Pinch
your cattle and they will pinch you," is
an old and true saying. 1t is my custom
to feed my cattle the last time at 9
O'Clock in the evening, so that in the
long and bitter cold nights of winter
they may have full stomachs to resist
the cold, and not lie down so long mol
get so badly chilled during the night
Most of the losses and drawbacks upon
cattle are either directly or indirectly
the result of want of proper care and
sufficient feeding. Cows poorly win
tered will yield but poor return dur
ing the ensuing summer. On the other
hand those we'll fed, carefully tended
and skillfully managed will yield {
handsome profit. The same facts hole
good in raising young cattle. Those
raised by some men are as large at two
years old as those raised by others ar
at three. Much, or nearly all, rests will
the farmer. If small results, and larg,
per cent of losses overtake him in tn,
management of his cattle, it is his Owl
fault. But if good returns, and gener
ally satisfactory results, are his lot, it il
because he used proper and judiciou
management in the wintering of hi
cattle w
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Rural Items.

CALIFORNIA farmers fatten Their cattle
on sugar.
TIE hog crop in the State of Indiana
is estimated at 100000.
FREEPoRr, H., has beet-sugar factory
which employs $50 hands.
AN oyster-shen put into tea-kettle
will prevent its being covered with scale.
The corn burners think two bushels
of corn on the cob equal in heat to one
bushel of coal.
IF you catch any man building a
prairie fire, shoot him on the spot" is
the watchword of Kansas farmers.
WoMEN should keep their feet dry and
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Thad. Stevens as a Leader.

A few days before Thad. Stevens died
some admirer intimated that in the
event of his death there was no one
then in the House to take his place as
Its leader. The cynical old man repeat
ed the word /" Leader |" saying: :" Does
anybody think that am such fool as
to think that | have ever been leader ?
Members that have wanted mean and
dangerous work done, and were too de.
cent or cowardly to do it themselves,
have approached me, trying to make
me believe that was leader. l have
been fool enough to take the bait many
times, and, on vote, the towards have
always to man abandoned the leader.
Oh, I've been great LEADER 50
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Mourning.

"Black is the sign of mourning"
says Rabelais, "because it is the color
of darkness, which is melancholy, and
the opposite to white, which is the color
of light, of joy, and of happiness" The
early poets asserted that souls, after
death, went into dark and gloomy
empire. Probably it is in consonance
with the idea that they imagined black
was the most congenial color for mourn
ing. The Chinese and Siamese choose
white, conceiving that the dead become
bene6cent genii. In Turkey, mourning
is composed of blue or violet, in ETH
opa of gray and at the time of the in
vasion of Peru by theiSpaniards, the in
habitants of that country wore it Of
mouse color. Amongst the japanese,
white is the sign of mourning, and black
of rejoicing. In CASTLE, mourning vest.
ments were formerly OF white serge.
The Persians clothed themselves in
brown, and their whole family and all
their animals were shaved.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Sure Test of Death.

Probably tn, surest method to test if
one be living or dead is that of DR.. Mag
nus, of Breslau, Germany, whose exper-
iments, extending over many years,
have been carefully and studiously made.
The experiment is SO simply made as to
be equally sure and practical, tried by
the laity as by those belonging to the
medical profession. He ties a string
snugly and securely around finger or
toe. If the subject be a living one, the
member thus tied about becomes red and
grows constantly deeper and darker
colored, till it is tinged blue red from
the end to the point where it is litigated.
Just where the string rests upon the
flesh there will be q small white ring.
If the subject have calloused, hard and
skinned fingers or toes, it would be well
to Ggate the lower pendant of the ear,
since the test cannot be SO satisfactorily
made upon larger member of the
body; the numerous large and deep
lying veins could not be SO readily com
pressed as in muscles with close prox
unity to the bone.
His experiments have, in every in
stance, proven satisfactory the appear
ance described upon the living body
never having produced on the cadavar
The explanation Of the phenomenon
is simple. The bandaging of any mem
Der of the body causes a mechanical oh
struction to the return of the venou
blood itstagnates in the capillaries ant
veins, and hence the dark blue color.
The white ring under the string is tn
result of a partial arterial anamie, whicl
exists in the entire member, but is no
seen elsewhere because of the venou
hyperamie.-BoSbn Transcript.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
Professionalism in India.

The Protestant Christian faith has ad.
vanced in India during the past twenty
years surely, and with a constantly in
creasing rapidity. The number of
Evangelical Christians during the first
ten years of that period, from 1851 to
1861, rose from little less than "a 900
to more than l3S, 900, the rate of increase
being little less than 4S per cent.
From 1861 to 1871 these numbers have
risen to more than 2l1000, at rate Of
increase of more than 81 per cent.