Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-09
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.
CINCINNATI Jews talk of taking of
their hats in church hereafter.


CINCINNATI Jews talk of taking off
their hats in church hereafter.
THERE is in Switzerland, on an aver
age, one journal for 6,479 inhabitants.
PARIS has $4,000 paupers, a much
larger number in proportion to its
population than London.
DRY PAINT is removed by dipping a
swab with handle in a strong solution
of oxalic acid. 1t softens it at once.
IT is stated that the use of tar as a
preventive against potato disease is at
tended with the most satisfactory results.
UPWARD of 10000 600 copies of the
penny edition of "Pilgrim's Progress"
are said to have been sold by the En-
glish Book Society.
JOAQUIN MILLER rides in HYDE Park,
London, in his Mexican vauquero cos
tune, with white sombrero, covered
with cords and tassels.
THE London Times keeps "ibel
suit LAWYER" and he has carried the paper
through thirteen suits without judg-
ment being rendered against it.
A STRANGE and fatal disease has be-
come very prevalent in Utah, producing
great CONSERVATION. Patients die in a
few hours. The disease resembles
fever.
The suit of Elizabeth Parker against
the Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany for personal damages has resulted
in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
SIS, 500.
THE most accurate estimates state
that China possesses coal fields to the
extent of over 400, 900 square miles, one
province (Shausi) having no less than
81, 900 square miles with veins from II
to 80 feet in thickness.
THE value of the property as
sessed for taxation in England, in 1872.
was nearly f5OO, 100000. Industrial
incomes had increased from f1S9, O24,-
567 in 1871, to f2O2, 905, 1867 in 1872, and
other incomes in similar ratio.
GRoCERs in cities are using postal
cards for new purpose. They send
out to their patrons postal cards upon
which orders for goods may be written,
and they will be delivered to order with
out extra cost to the purchasers.
BALTIMORE is probably the greatest
fruit packing country in the world.
There are millions of dollars invested in
the BUSINESS, and many thousand
bushels of peaches are canned every
year. One firm is said to pack $4,000
cans per day.
Mr.. EDWARD Robinson, who was the
first man to officiate as railway con-
ductor, is now living in Utah. He is
now 66 years old, and at the age of %
he was the first of the six men selected
to run trains on the Liverpool and Man.
chester railway, the first railway ever
built.
THE prospects of large beet-root
yield may prevent any very extraordi-
nary rise in the price of sugar in Europe
in the course of the present year, but
the article is SO cheap that, even in the
midst of a general financial crisis on the
continent, it could hardly be seriously
affected.
IT is reported that an immense iron
manuIacturlnS urm III England purposes
removing its entire machinery to this
country, and locating its works on the
Delaware, at Philadelphia, the removal
being prompted by the scarcity and con-
sequent rise in the price of coal in
England.
RECENT geological surveys of the new
Territories of the Far West have re-
vealed the very important fact that the
known coal deposits of the Rocky Noun
tain region extend over an area of up
ward of 100000 square miles, in strata
varying from five to thirty-fve feet in
thickness.
STAMoNlUM, known also as jamestown
Corrupted into jimson) weed, is an
effective remedy for snake bites, and will
cure them even some days after they are
inflicted. The weed should be applied
in the form of d poultice. In the alb
sence of any other remedy, cauterizing
the part with live coal is good, espe-
pecially TOR horses and cattle.-Scien-
tifc american.