Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-08
Personal and General.

has gone to Europe again.
WARMoTH has gone to practicing law.
LUCIA will stay in America for two
years.
The peanut is a source of Southern
wealth.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is still harping on
Froude.
A TRRRE HAUTE man has q fine collec-
ton of walking canes, which have been
thrown at an nl-natured dog in his front
yard.
The Memphis Avalanche saws this
years cotton planting in the Southern
States will be the most extensive since
the war.
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, has passed AN
ordinance forbidding organ-grinders to
play longer han ten minutes on any one
block.
FIVE hundred and thirty women in
the United States are doctors, twenty
four are dentists, five lawyers, and sixty
eight ale preachers.
STATISTICS, pitiless as ever, inform us
that 5,825,00 bouquets is the average
sale of the Bonapartist violet In Paris,
amounting altogether to about 1924, 900.
A YOUNG New Yorker has obtained
twenty-seven different card photographs
of culture wives" who are in store for
him, obtained from as many different
sorceresses.
THE remains of a man who was buried
in a California cemetery ten years ago
were recently found to have become
petrifed, weighing between four and five
hundred pounds.
SOMEBODY is advertising a preparation
warranted to keep a lady's hand free
from chaps. Punch knows another way
to effect this. Let her have it known
that she has no money.
Mrs. G. II. NASH, Of Columbia, Me-,
having been admitted to the bar, has
gone into partnership with her husband
in the law firm of Nash & Nash, attor-
neys and counselors.
A ROCHESTER woman, married to her
second husband, recently said to him
"Oh, how happy poor Charles would
be, if he were still alive, to see himself
replaced by a man as agreeable as you
are !"
The saddest case on record is that of
the wan Of a Bible at the inauguration
of a Missouri Governor. The ceremony
was detained until a messenger was sent
over to the penitentiary to procure a
copy.
A CONVICT in San Diego received from
his friends a number of letters saturated
! with morphine. When he had collected
- c. .1-+ IL olor-oI 4lo,o o,I ~ 4ly,o
poisoning himself, avoided death on the
gallows.
BONNER has expended over q half mill
) ion in advertising. He has paid $1,000
for a single advertisement, and $4,000
t for a weeks advertising. He is now
worth more than 81, 900, 900. A clear
} case of cause and effect.
THAYER, the biographer OF Beethoven,
says that the great composer looked like
a little ugly mulatto, was very short
had a yellow skin, broad, spread-ou
nose, and projecting teeth, over which
his heavy lips shut with a slight In
dian look about the cheek bone.
! A CALCULATING Yankee, who has been
} keeping track of the immense fortunes
in England awaiting American claim
ants, finds that the fortunes he has
recorded for the four years ending March
r 1, 1873, aggregate $139, 900, 900 more
than the appraised value of Great
5 Britain.
IRELAND is almost as hard a country
? for editors as France. Mr.. McAleese,
proprietor of the Belfast Northern
I Wing, was lately sentenced to pay a fine
F., of 81, 200, with four months imprison-
ment, for contempt of court, in CRITICS.
! ing the punishment inflicted upon GER
tain of those concerned IL the Belfast
riots last fall.
/ A NICKEL mine is panning out finely
on Prospect Mountain, near Litchfeld,
+. CT. The mine was formerly worked for
r copper, and exhausted. A German dis
e covered that it contained nickel, and
bought the whole thing for 500. The
: present owners now obtain enough sui
: phur to pay the whole expense of min
Y ing, and realize enormously on the
, nickel.
. THE new telescope being made at
: Cambridgeport, Mass, for the Wash
: ington Observatory will, it is said, be
i the largest in the world. The object
glass Will have a diameter of 26g inches.
and the tube a focal distance of 80 feet.
: The total cost of the telescope and its
y requisite machinery viii be $50, DOC,
: of which the object glass alone will
: cost $27, 900. It wa cast in England,
!. and finished in Massachusetts.
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