Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 81 VIII Help Any Han"
BENJAMIN FRANKLM's electrical ma
chine is IN the laboratory of Dartmouth
College. n
! A MAN at New Bedford, Mass, has re-
ceived a postal card bearing 1,607 words
in shorthand. 2UtE
IT is proposed to write messages upon
postal cards with invisible ink, as is the
practice in France.
THE widow of Gen. Candy is in indi-
gent circumstances, and her pension en-
titles her to but $50 a month.
IT is stated on good authority that in
the last four years Spanish troops in
Cuba have butchered $4,000 prisoners
of war.
PU~TREFAcTIoN and decomposition of
animal matter can be prevented by the
use of a%niline, the c~oal-tar coloring
matter.
THE supply of nickel is srnall, both in
this country and in Germany, and likely
to run out unless some new discoveries
are made.
BISMARCK has just completed his fifty
eigth year, and shows the wear and
anxiety to which he has been subjected
since 1860.
A MISSISSIPPI quack is making a for
tune by selling to the negroes a nostrum
which he warrants to turn their wool
into long, straight hair.
= Up to the present time the stock sub
scriptions to the Centennial Board of
Finance amount to So, 600, 900, which in
stres the success of the enterprise.
THEIRS, as President of the French
Republic, had upon an average eighty
abusive letters a day, and twenty men
aces OF death every t~wenty-four hours.
WADE HAMPTON, who was one of the
richest men in the South before the
5 war, is now President of an insurance
$ company.in Baltimore, with a salary of
e $4,000 a year.
' The fourth milliard of the French in
$ demnity has been paid. The fifth and
$ last is due by Sept. 1, and, if paid,
8 French soil Will be relieved from Ger
man occupancy.
IdE I0N. MI. AuClS1ll, WHO Qlu ne
roic service saving lives on the occasion
of the Atlantic disaster, has been ap-
n pointed assistant curate Of Trinity
Church, New York.
q P. 7. BARNUM has purchased a colos.
e sal painting of London, as seen from the
top of st. Paul's Cathedral. The pic.
ture is 400 feet long by IS feet high, and
6 was painted by Paris, who took ten
! years to complete the work.
d WILLIAM SHARON, formerly a dry goods
h clerk in Carrollton, ILL.,, has, it is said
amassed in California a fortune Of no
W less than $50, 900, 900. He is the ruling
IS spirit of the Bank OF California, and il
one Of the men who played for a Nevadi
s. Senatorship and made money by it.
lie For the year 1872 the imports of for
eign goods exceeded the exports of do
t. mestic produce to the extent of 1874, 600,
ut 600, all the estimates being in specie
During the same year the excess Q
it, exports of bullion over imports wa
er 81, 900, 900, leaving us in debt on trad
IT. account about 500, 900, 900.
The postal cards cost the Governmen
H. $1.36 per thousand. The orders hav
> reached over 25, 900, 900, for which til
Government pays 1874, 600, and the pee
% pie $3.50, 600. The orders from posi-
3, masters average 1,500, 900 daily, Will
the capacity of the contractors MANI
factory is only 0 1900 per day.
do A FEW years ago there were scarceI
10 any shad in the Hudson, and the ifs
was a rare and costly luxury in the Ne
Ia York markets. Now, according to til
" Troy Times, shad lie like snow-banl
~ on the shores" and are retailed to tt
city ho~useholders at thirty cents a PAL
a This is the result of stocking the streal
,1d with young fish.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT's equanin
ity is frequently disturbed by compl
mentary illusions to "Thanatopsis"
the best poem he has ever written. 4
On he produced "Thanatopsis" before
was 10, the venerable bard regards sue
Sc. illusions as anything but pleasan
zen What is strictly true is seldom quiz
III agreeable for us to hear.
six Mrs. ALLEN Coy, living near Saratos
he Springs, N. Y, has carefully kept tt
nx- rope with which her brother hung hir
self in 1852. After she had got Il
breakfast dishes washed and the NOR
ed ing's work out of the way, one day la
tv- week, she thought she would go u
stairs and hang herself-and that ide
I'D teal rope served her purpose This
mo- the first time Mrs. Toodles was ever di
Of counted.
SEES Concrete Houses.