Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-20
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.


MOBILE claims to be the healthiest city
in the Union.
A HARTFORD boy 6 years old sets half
a column of type per day.
Pooh, demented Japan is going to
establish national banks.
PENNSYLVANIA makes more bricks than
any other State in the Union.
KENTUCKY is celebrating the compile
pletion of her fourth Insane Asylum.
The original of Brooklyn is Brock
klein, Little Brock, a suburb of Amster-
dam.
AN economical negro in Whining ton,
Delaware, says he picks up on an aver
age 1900 pins in year.
A LADY wishes to know why, since the
invention of the needle-gun, women
can't fight as we'll as men.
A WISCONSIN man has had to have his
lip amputated on account of a cancer
produced by excessive smoking.
THERE were cast 90, SIS votes at the
late election in Colorado, which indicates
population of from 1000 to 100, 900.
ONE county of Oregon this year will
produce 100000 bushels of wheat,
800, 900 bushels of flax seed, and 500,
600 bushels of oats.
II has been calculated that since the
death of the Prince Consort not fewer
than 500, 900 persons have died in En-
gland from typhoid fever.
THE Philadelphia Press furnishes a
list of possible Presidential candidates
for 1876, containing the names of Nor
ton, Blaine, Sumner, Boutwell,, and Gen.
Sherman.
A MAN in Sharon, Pa, dropped his
pocketbook, containing 5000, in the
manger while feeding his horse, the
other night. In the morning he found
few scraps of pap.r.
THE Irish Agricultural Laborers' Un-
ion, in event of the Government failing
to settle the question of waste lands in
Ireland, have decided to emigrate to the
United States en- n1dsse.
For a long time in the South, and
now particularly, railroad tickets have
been and are used as currency. Two
hundred thousand dollars worth of these
are in circulation in Georgia.
THE exportltion of gold from Aus
traGa this year, up to the 3lst of August,
amounted in value to S3l, 078, 245, an in
crease of more than one third over the
value of the exports in 1872.
As AN instance of the increasing value
of walnut lumber, we note that the
standing walnut trees on a half section
Of land on Eel river, Miami county, Ind,
was recently sold to lumber dealer for
$4,000.
THE French being convinced that their
failure in the late war was in a great
measure due to the inferiority of their
muzzle-loading field guns, are now dis
posed to discard all cannon of that
class and adopt breech-load ers exclu-
sively.
REPORTS from Alabama state that great
restitution exists in some counties of the
State in consequence OF the destruction
lof crops by heavy rains and the cotton
worm. Many persons will die from starv-
alton during the winter, unless relief is
extended.
THE wars between the houses of York
and Lancaster lasted 80 years and cost
the lives of kings, prince, 10 dukes,
3 marquises, 81 earls, ~ lords, 2 WIS.,
counts, 1 lord prior, judge, 139 knights,
AL esquires, and above 100000 private
men, In II battles.
A pooMsDAY book of the grasshoppers
has Recently been compiled by one of the
United States officers engaged in the
geographical survey of the Territories,
and issued from the public printing
Office at Washington. 1t chronicles every
known kind of grasshopper, including
40 genera and 227 species, of which 80
genera and 1877 species are natives of
America.
AN inquiry into the kind and quantity
of destruction caused by lightning has
recently been made in the interest of the
insurance companies of Saxony. As
might have been anticipated, the result
of the investigations establishes the fact
that houses rooted with slate or iron are
very much less liable to be fired by light
ming than houses covered with single
or matched roofs.
AN editor of an Indiana paper indig-
nantly denies the report that he has
committed suicide. A paper published
in neighboring town says the report
may not be true, but if it isn't it ought
to be and as the denial is only pub
lished in single country paper. while
the contrary is asserted 10y at least a
dozen dailies, the weight of evidence is
against him.
THE following advertisement was
printed not long ago in an English
newspaper Wanted, for a family
who have bad health, sober, steady
person in the capacity of doctor, sur
geon, apothecary, and man midwife.
He must occasionally act as butler, and
dress hair and wigs. He will sometimes
be required to read prayers, and to
preach sermon every Sunday. A good
salary will be given"
| Peat.
A company is organizing in London
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