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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Miscellaneous.

SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed "I WaU Help Any Man."
PLAsTER-oF-PARIs, mixed with a thick
solution of gum arabic, makes a perma-
nent cement for china.
The great religious and benevolent So
cieties make encouraging exhibits at
their anniversary meetings this year.
QUARTZ flower is deemed one of the
best articles for polishing knives. It is
used largely in the manufacture of stone
china.
The Atlanta Herald asserts that three
fourths of the twenty criminals now IN
der sentence of death in Georgia are
colored.
THE foxes have holes, but William B.
Astor doesn't know where to lay hisbead,
for he has 5000 houses in New York city
to choose from.
A MACHINE is employed in cleaning the
old bricks in the burnt district of Bos-
ton which removes the mortar, ETC., from
them at the rate of t~hirty-fve or forty a
minute, or about as fast as they can be
placed in position.
Mr.. CHASE was three times married.
His first wife was Catherine Carniss, his
second, Sarah Smith, and his third, Belle
Ludlow. He occasionally contributed
to the North american EeUieaO, and was
the author of some good verses.
"A LAWRENCE man allows his wife SIS a
week for pin money, with the under
standing that she shall forfeit ten cents
for each absent button, and the same
amount for each cup of poor coffee.
This arrangement has been going on for
two years, and the day has not yet come
when he could claim ten cents.
APRoPos to the discussion of the free
seat system, the Murchman gives the
following figures concerning Episcopal
churches in New York city Number of
congregations, "A number of pewed
churches, 80; number of pewed churches
self-supporting, %; number of free
churches, Sc; number of free churches
self-supporting, 6.
THERE is in the library of the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington a vol
ume on the history of paper, which was
published in Bavaria in 1765. The pc
culiar feature of this work is that the
pages are interleaved with specimens of
paper made from the following SUBJ
stances j: Hornet s-nests, sawdust, moss,
beech, willow, aspen, mulberry, climatis,
pine, hop-vine, grapevine Feelings,
hemp, leaves of aloes and lilies of the
valley, mothworth, barley-straw, cab
bsge-stumps, thistle-stalks, burdock,
whe@6-straw, broom-corn, and Bavarian
peat.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
A World of Suicides.

Prof. Faraday has given it as his opin-
ion that all who die before they are a
hundred years old may be Justly charged
with self-murder; that Providence hay
ing originally intended man to live a
century, would allow him to do so if he
did not kill himself by eating unwhole-
some food, allowing himself to be an
noyed by trifes, giving license to passion
and exposing himself to accident. The
French savant Flourin advanced the
theory that the duration of life is meas
ured by the time of growth. When the
bones epiphysis are united the body
grows no more, and it is at twenty years
that this union is effected in man. The
natural termination of life is five re-
moves from the several points. Man,
being twenty years in growing, lives, or
should, five times twenty years; the
camel is eight years in growing, and
lives five times eight years the horse is
five years in growing, and lives twenty
five years and sc on with other ami
mails.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Foreign.

MEIssoNNIER has sold a picture on
which he is still engaged, entitled
"Charge DIES Cuirassiers," for 800, 900
francs.
A TRAVELLER. says that in Spain UNI
brellas differ in size from an ordinary
dinner-plate to a small tent, and their
colors are as various as the tints of the
rainbow.
BISMARCK is a great consumer of lager
beer, introducing j. into his dwelling
house in small kegs, which are on tap
at all hours of the day and night, and
on all occasions.
The neatest and prettiest passenger
boats one sees abroad are those sailing
up and down the Clyde from Glasgow.
They are magnifcently fitted up, swift,
and in summer crowded to the waters
edge.
The grand prize of 70, 900 francs for
the most useful French industry has
been awarded to M. Pasteur for the i'm
provements he has introduced into the
manufactures of silk, wine, vinegar, and
beer.
Is NAPOLEON dead? A correspondent
of the Prris Figaro says no, and that
the person inferred at Chiselhurst is a
counterfeit Emperor, while the real
Bonaparte is travelling quietly through
France, testing the political feelings of
the people.
A LONDON reporter, finding the tele-
graph Office door closed and the porter
asleep, while the operator wa at work
beyond hearing the knocker, in an upper
story, procured entrance by telegraph
ing from another office to a clerk in
Glasgow, who in turn sent the message
back to London. The double process
occupied but a very few minutes.
CoNsTANT1NoPLE is to have, for the
first time under Moslem rule, a public
exhibition of paintings, in disregard of
the fanatical scruples which have so
long forbidden the Turks to tolerate the
representation of the human form by
brush or chisel. The Turkish painter,
Ahmed Effendi, initiated the movement,
with hearty support from the Govern
ment.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Flirting as a Fine Art.

The science of society amounts to lit
tie true art unless a certain genius goes
with the knowledge and who will deny
that there is O certain natural gift for
social influence, as there is for all beau
tiful arts? Some persons have a rare
social hatchery who have not any other
form of genius, and some women, of
very moderate abilities in other respects,
have an art of pleasing that amounts to
fascination. One woman in famous
bles in a grand house and give them a
great supper, and all shall be flat and
dull while some winsome little body,
without any fashy costume or parade,
and ever without rare beauty, will en-
terrain her circle of guests in a charm
ing way of her own, and make them all
at home with her and each other. She
plays upon their various tempers and
traits and associations as a master hand
plays upon the harp or piano. I have
sometimes thought hat womanly charm,
and perhaps even what in the best sense
is called flirting, could be made one of
the arts, and consecrated to charity, and
even to religion. That bright girl takes
that half dozen striplings in hand, and
touches each in turn with playful grace,
until they are willing captives to her
spell, and ready to buy her pin-cushions
or watch-chains at the fair, or go to
church and worship by her prayer-book.
There is a line, indeed, beyond which
this flirting ceases to be a fine art, and
becomes quite b~usiness-like and utiE-
tartan, a practical operation in making
a market and bagging a husband-a
useful but not always ideal result. Yet,
as the world goes, a great deal of true
missionary work is done by charming
women in managing men in an artistic
and legitimate way, and the Virgin
Mary has not all the work of such inter
cession in her hands or in her eyes, al
though Henry Heine naughtily called
her the counter girl of the Catholic
Church, who won over the Cloths and
Vandals.-Dr. Samuel Osgood, IN Har-
per's Magazine.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Great American EARTHQUAKES.

In 1872 an earthquake in Chill per-
m~anently elevated the country between
the Andes and the coast, the area raised
being estimated at fully 100, 900 square
miles, and the height of the elevation
as varying from two to seven feet. The
years 1011-12 were noted for such dis
~turbances, and in the latter year, on
March 26, the whole city of Caracas, in
Venezuela, was almost instantly crum-
bled into rubbish, beneath which II, 900
of its inhabitants were buried. On
June II, 1858, an earthquake occurred
throughout the valley of Mexico, demol-
ishing many houses, and was felt with
o or less dangerous results in Guada-
~lajara, Jalapa, San Luis Potosi, Toluca,
and other places. On March %, 1859,
the city of Quito, in Ecuador, was
almost utterly destroyed, and thousands
of lives were lost. The year 1868 was
remarkable for the number, the wide
spread distribution and the destructive
effects of the earthquakes which oc-
CURED (; nearly every part of the earth
was visited by these calamities. In
South America they began on August
13, the first shock being felt in Peru at
half-past 5 p. m, at which time, in
AFRICA, the inhabitants are accustomed
to be at home. At the first shock the
inhabitants rushed into the streets then
the houses crumbled and fell, the earth
opened in assures and sent forth a sitting
gas, and the people fled to the hills
through swaying walls and falling tim
bers, yet not less than 500 of them were
killed, and not a house left uniniured.
The sea raised to an immense height
and rushed upon the trembling shore,
driving the vessels in wrecks upon it. At
Arequipa, in Peru, over 600 people we're
killed by houses falling upon them
during the first shock. At Callao the
inrushing sea went over the tops of the
dwellings,. The cities of lea and Pisco
suffered in property and life at Iquique
the shock, which lasted four minutes,
was followed by a wave which destroyed
four. ifths of the place with about 800
lives. The port of Chala was over
whelmed with water, and all the towns
in the provinces of Huyanca were de-
molished, as were also many other vii
lagos and cities. In Peru, besides the
places mentioned, Tacna, Canate, Gaia
ria, Charpa, Cerro-Azul, Ouichacha,
Cabacera, PABLO, Chumpe, Cobija, Anti
quipa, Sarna, and Coracora were either
destroyed or greatly injured, and the
town of Tambo was utterly washed
away by the incoming tidal-wave, in
which 500 persons were drowned. On
August 16 earthquakes began in Ecua-
dor, and did much damage. In Quito
90, 900 lives were lost at Valparaiso the
tide rose and fell three or four times an
hour, but the city was uninjured. The
entire loss of life in South America
during August is estimated at 80, 900
parsons
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

The following figures show the ex-
IRENE summer heat in the various coun-
tries of the world Bengal and the
African desert, $50 degrees Fahrenheit;
Senegal and ~Gaudaleupe, 100 deg; Per-
STA, 125 deg; Calcutta and Central
America, 100 deg; Afghanistan and the
African deserts, Ito deg; Cape of Good
Hope and Utah, 105 deg; Greece, 104
deg; Montreal, 103 deg; New York,
102 deg; Spain, India, China and
Jamaica, 100 deg; Sierra Leone, 81
deg; France, Denmark, st. Petersburg,
Shanghai, the Burman Empire, Buenos
Ayres and the Sandwich Islands, 100
deg; Great Britain, Siam and Peru, IS
deg; Portugal, Pekin, and Natal, so
deg; Siberia, " deg; Australia and
Scotland, rs deg; Italy, Venezuela and
Madeira, IA deg; Prussia and New Zea-
land, 70 deg; Switzerland and Hun
gary, 66 deg; Bavaria, Sweden, Tasma-
MIA and Moscow, 65 deg; Patagonia and
the Falkland Isles, So deg; Ice
land, As deg, and Nova Zem-
lila, coolest of all, 81.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
A Novelty in Murder.

A singular murder was recently COM
mitted on the railroad between Cork and
Limerick. The conductor of a night
freight train noticed that the speed of
the train was suddenly slackened, and
went forward to the locomotive to see
what was the cause. He did not find the
engineer or the fireman there. The train
was at once stopped and signals were
placed to warn approaching trains. The
engineer was discovered lying near the
rails with a fearful wound in his head,
from which the blood was flowing. He
was unable to speak and died shortly
afterward. The fireman was soon found
running along the track. He said that a
quarrel had arisen between the engineer
and himself that the former had burned
his hand, and that he, in anger, had
struck the man who was now dead.
There were traces of blood on the loco
motive, and it looked as if a struggle
had taken place in it. The weapon which
the murderer used, together with some
clothes, had been burned in the locomo-
tive furnace. The murdered man was
married, and apeaceable and trustworthy
person. The fireman had hitherto borne
a good reputation, and had been on good
terms with the deceased. Not twenty
four hours before they had slept in the
same bed. A murder of this kind opens
IN unpleasant field of conjecture as to
the consequences which might ensue to
the passengers when the engineer and
fireman have knocked each other off the
train and the locomotive goes on its mad
career with no one to control it. It
would be more considerate for men hold
ing such places to have their quarrels
fought out at the end of the journey.
In that way the greatest possible loss
would be the lives of the two combat
ants, and unfortunate travellers would
be safe. In this instance the speed of
the engine was fortunately lessened in
stead of having been increased, and the
conductor vas vigilant. But should an
incident of this kind occur on an Ameri-
can express train with one of our average
conductors, the consequences might be
most appalling.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Treatment of Hams.

To preserve hams through the sum-
mer, make a number of cotton bags, a
little larger than your hams. After the
hams are well smoked, place them in the
bags, and get the best kind of sweet,
well-made hay /; cut it with a knife, and
with your hands press it well around the
hams in the bags; tie the bags with
strings, put on a card of the year, to
show their age, and hang them up in a
garnet or some dry room, and they will
last five years, and will be better for
boiling than on the day you hung them
up. This method costs but little, and
the bags will last forty years. No flies
or bugs will trouble the hams if the hay
is well pressed around them; the sweat
ing of the hams will be taken up by the
hay, and it will impart a fine flavor to
the hams. The hams should be treated
in this way before the hot weather sets in.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
. German Gets Mad and Hangs Him.
self.

Adam Mag, an eccentric German
baker of Matamoras, Pa, on Monday
afternoon, last week, went to catch his
horse. The horse gave him an annoy
ing chase. Mag became very angry
and did not bride his tongue. He OBJ
tanned little sympathy from his
family. Soon afterward he went
out and was not seen again. To-
ward evening two girls were passing q
hill on the Milford road, just below
town, when they discovered him on his
knees, with his arms around a small ce-
dar tree. Going up to him, the girls
saw that there was a rope around his
neck. This was fastened to a small
limb of the tree, and Mag was dead.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
We Shall Meet Again.

The fiat of nature is inexorable. There
is no appeal for relief from the great
law which dooms us to dust. We -four,
ish and fade as the leaves of the forest,
and the flowers that bloom and wither
in a day have no frazier hold upon life
than the mightiest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. Gen
erations of men will appear and dissap-
that throng the earth to-day will disap-
pear as the footsteps on the shore. Men
seldom think of the great event of death
until the shadow falls across their path
way, hiding from their eyes the faces of
loved ones, whose living smile was the
sunlight of existence. Death is the an
tagonist of life, and the cold thought of
the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts.
We do not want to go through the dark
valley, although its dark passage may
lead to paradise we don't want to lie
down in the grave, even with princes for
bed-fellows. In the beautiful drama of
Ion, the hope of Immortality, so elo-
quently uttered by the death-devoted
Greek, finds deep response in every
thoughtful soul. When about to yield
his young existence as a sacrifice to late
his Clemantha asks if they should meet
again, to which he replies
CT have asked that dreadful question
of the hills that look eternal, of the
clear stream that flows forever, of the
stars among whose fields of azure my
spirit has walked In glory. All were
dumb but as I gaze upon thy living
face, I feel confident that there is some
thing in the love that mantles through
its beauty that cannot wholly perish.
We shall meet again, Clemantha."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Illustrated Journalism.

Some months since, an illustrated
daily newspaper was started in New
York city, called the Graphic. Many
thought that its existence would be very
short, thought was an attractivenovelty
1t seems, however, that it's publication
is a financial success, and the probabili-
ties are that illustrated daily newspapers
will soon become as plenty as blackber-
ries. ROWeW's AWerican Newspaper
Reporter says The process of illus
tration used by the Gr0phicC Company is
a secret, iealously guarded by the pro-
prietors, and is yet upon its trial. The
rough theory, however, may be of inter-
est to III readers. Upon a sheet of
paper is spread a layer of oily transfer
ink used by the photographers, and over
that a thiE layer of a Photographic pre-
paration which the action of light readily
decomposes. The subject for ;uustra-
ton is then photographed and the mega
tive placed over the prepared sheet. The
action OF the light, passing through the
unobstructed parts of the negative. de-
composes the surface of the sheet, and
leaves the image in a sort of bas-relief.
The other portions are then removal,
and the sheet laid over one of the porous
stones used by the photographers. and
subjected to pressure. The o~leaginous
ink sinks into the stone, and makes, in
oil, as it were, the outlines of the de-
sired picture. The stone is now sponged
with water, and is ready for printing.
The ink-roller of the press passes over
it, leaving no trace whatever on the clean
portions of the surface, but coating every
place where the oleaginous transfer ink
has touched, and printing the picture
upon the sheet of paper that follows.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
FARM n GARDEN.
Good Words for the Grange.

" AAS
"Nothing is more true, says the New
York 1urf, Field and Farm, ethan that
Agriculture is the nursing mother of
than the equally trite saying, 'Agricul-
ture is the most independent of all the
industrial callings.' But this last is
only untrue because the farmers, OBJ
livious of their own best interests, have
suffered themselves to become, through
the omnipotent powers OF combination,
the slaves of political demagogues, and
the victims of capitalists, corporations,
middle-men and traders-mere vermln
upon the lions name of agriculture-an
and each of which, collectively and in
diyidually, are indebtedt to the c~ultivator
of the soil for the food which nourishes
and the raiment which clothes their
bodies. How common it is for farmers
to neglect their business to enlist body
and soul in ignoble party and local poll
tics ? How many plows are left to rust
in the furrow, while the team is
out in galloping through the country in
the interests of some petty local, nom
producing demagogue? How much
money and time is wasted on local and
scurrilous political sheets, to the neglect
of the agricultural press? Happily, if
we are not greatly mistaken, there is to
be an end of all this. A cloud has
arisen in the far Northwest, which a few
months sincewas mo larger than a mans
hand The politicians, the plundering
rings and corporations, were too intent
upon corrupting the legislation of the
country to note the ominous growth of
this little cloud: but it has been steadily
growing ever since, until now it casts a
shade over the whole Western horizon,
portentous of the fate of all political
demagogues and corruptionists of what
ever hue. That cloud is the Farmers
Grange, whose roof-tree reaches from
Wisconsin in the Northwest to Georgia
in the South. The farmers, after ages
of submission, intend in turn to WELD
in their own interests the powers of
combination and to become, what of
right they ought to be, the real rulers of
the land. The handwriting is on the
wall-the days of monopoly are num-
bered." -
Pork and Corn.
D. J. Packer, of Woodbury., n. j.,
reports the following balance sheet in
feeding four pigs, for which he pur-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Benefit of Thin Seeding.

T. G. Jones, of Delaware, Ohio, in an
agricultural essay on Delaware county,
says one of the most successful corn
growers instr1cts his dropper, when he
comes to the intersection of the furrow
or hill "There do you stop, and stand
there till the day of judgment, if neces-
sary, until you deposit three grains.
Mark you, not three to six, but three /;
no more, no less" One field of wheat,
one half sown short, one and a half
bushels per acre, yielded twenty bushels
per acre the other half, one and FIVE
eighths bushels of seed per acre, yield
ing 16 bushels per acre. One field of
corn, four to six grain. of seed per hill,
yielded 40 bushels (by measure) of
small ears and nubbins. Another field,
three to four grains per hill, yielded As
bushels Qarge ears) per acre.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

PHILADELPHIA has the largest light
ning-rod mandatory in the world.
Fifty thousand feet of rods are manu-
featured daily. 1t is impossible to COM
pute the misery which this single estab-
lishment will infict, through its travel
ing agents.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
Culture.

A strawberry-grower states that to two
barrels of rain water he put one-quarter
of a pound of ammonia and one-quarter
of a pound of common inter, and with
this solution he sprinkled his strawberry
beds every night when blossoming. The
result was double the amount of large
strawberry to that just adjoining not SO
treated.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

"DocToR," said a nervous patient,
"I had such ~disagreeable dreams last
night !! I dreamt that my grandfather
stood by my bed for hours shaking his
cane at me-" "What did you drink be-
fore you went to bed ?" "Oh, nothing
but half a bottle of Madeira !" We'll,
if you had drunk the other half, you
would doubtless have seen your grand
mother standing by your bed threaten
ing you with a broomstick."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
When to Prune Grape Vines,

We are often asked if the grape vine
cannot be pruned in spring without
injury. We say no. The time to do
this work is in the fall, and if not done
then it should be left until the next sum-
mer, after the vine has put forth its
leaves, when it will not bleed at all if
cut. VIZ do not advise excessive summer
pruning, but if the work has been
wholly neglected in the autumn some
thing may be done in the summer fol-
lowing. Grape vines, if cut or broken
now, will bleed profusely, and though
we do not fear such a result as much as
we did once, still we prefer not to allow
the opportunity.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05
"MR. SPEAKER exclaimed a membe

"MR. SPEAKER" exclaimed a member
of the Arkansas Legislature, "my col
league taunts mi with a desire for fame.
I scorn the imputation, sir. Tame, sir |!
What is fame? It is a shaved pig with
a creased tail, which slips through the
hands of thousands. and then is acct
dentally caught by some lucky fellow
that happens to hold on to it. I let the
greased-tailed ~quadruped go byme with
out an effort to clutch it, sir"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

last year he sold three hundred bushels
of frst-class fruit, spades the ground in
spring, and scatters a peck of coal ashes
around each tree, applying at the same
time a quart of salt, and another quart
when the ounces are half grown.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

To the question, when two swarms
cluster together, how would you separ-
ate them?" the bee-keepers reply ::
"Hive all together in a large box, and
they will settle in different corners.
-Four swarms together have been hived
in that way, and in the morning each
had taken possession of a corner"