Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-04
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

Miscellaneous Paragraphs.
THE annual catch of Goldfish is valued
at S15, 100000.
THE Modoc glory cost the Govern
ment 50, 100000
BEN WooD won $50, 600 on the result
of the Ohio election.
GIN. BURNSIDE bankers after
Sprague's Senatorial mantle.
THE time for building fires with kero-
sene has about come around.
THERE are sixteen American sculp-
tors in Rome and eleven in Florence.
THE Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, the
new Canadian Premier, began life as a
stone mason.
RHODE ISLAND is the richest territory,
in proportion to its square miles, on the
face of the whole earth.
THE Swiss are said to be beating both
the French and English manufacturers
in the silk ribbon trade.
A PROJECT is under consideration by
the French Geographical Society for
turning the water of the Mediterranean
into the Desert of Sahara, and making
it great inland sea.
A VERMONT woman, who recently fol-
lowed the remains of her irregular hus-
band to the grave, remarked that she
had one consolation, she knew now
where he slept nights.
Mrs. ELLEN UPPER, who is called
the Bee Queen of Iowa, is considered
| the best living authority on everything
relating to breeding and hiving bees,
their habits and diseases.
THE numbering business of Minnesota
is much affected by the depression.
Only 913 men go into the woods this
winter, against ,675 men sent last win
ter by the same number of men.
THE workingmen of Detroit have
matured plan for forming ward or
CARNATIONS, with central committee
for the purpose of securing employ
ment and relief for each other during
the coming winter.
IT is stated that during the year end
ing August 81, there were thirteen hun
dred railroad accidents in this country,
resulting in the death of three hundred
andforty-one persons and injuring four
teen hundred and ten.
INK is one of the things in which
modern science seems to have made very
little improvement. An analysis of the
ink found on manuscript of the year
90 showed that its composition was
similar to that of the inks now in gen.
eral use.
An electrical apparatus has lately
been invented to signal the entry of
water by leakage into the holds of YES
sells. When the water enters it estab-
fishes a current, and a communication
Is thus set in operation which gives no.
tice to the officers on deck.
WHEN different colors are mixed to-
gether the result is not the destruction
of any of the coloring elements
or their chemical combination. The
microscope shows that the particles of
each of the colors entering into the mix
ture remain entirely separate and un-
changed.
AN English veterinarian adduces
facts to show that rabies or canine mad
ness is very rare In extreme southern
temperatures, while it is of frequent
occurrence in the temperate zone. The
disease Is less frequent In Spain and
southern Italy than in other European
countries.
VARIOUS practical experiments in the
domestic science will be tried soon, now
that the cold weather is coming on.
The refraction of the early suns rays
can be studied by those who are obliged
to get up early and interesting facts
concerning the effect of friction on
matches, and heat on coal and wood,
may be cleaned by those whose duty it
is to light the fire.
RENT-universal rents the cancer
that eats out the vitals of Ireland. Be-
fore the famine year, the rents paid by
1000, 900 of farmers aggregated S40,-
600, 900 to $4,000, 900. Six hundred
thousand farmers now pay an aggre-
gate of nearly $50, 100000; and the
townspeople pay $4,000, 900 more
making one hundred millions year of
rent drained out of this island and spent
in Great Britain.
| A FRENCH savant has been expert
mepting upon himself-not however in
the interests of .science-to decide
whether tobacco is injurious to the
mental faculties. While he was user
of tobacco he observed rapid decay in
the faculty of memory; and after six
years of resolute abstinence from the
use of the weed in any form he enthusi-
astically declares that he has expert
enced a veritable resurrection of health,
mind, and memory.
In Nutshell.