Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Miscellaneous.
A FULLY developed man has 249 bones
and Is quarts of blood.

ts Miscellaneous.
A FULLY developed man has 249 bones
and Is quarts of blood.
The British Quarterly puts George
Eliot, as novelist, above Sir Walter
Scott.
IT is stated that during the past four
years the Spanish forces in Cuba have
put to death 43, 500 Cuban prisoners of
war.
A DEAD London bricklayer, who could
neither read nor write, had the heaviest
brain on record. Weight, sixty-seven
ounces.
Four hundred and twenty-eight bodies
in all have been recovered from the wreck
of the Atlantic, leaving about 118 yet
unaccounted for.
AMONG the Arabs the inability of a
wife to make bread is good ground of
divorce. What business the courts
would do if that were law in this neigh
borhood.
In turkey-stealing case at Norwich,
the other day, woman testified that
she knew her turkeys "by their walk,
their countenance, and their manner of
roosting."
AN honest lover in Massachusetts has
given to his prospective father-in-law a
load OF wood to replace that consumed
during his evening sparkling" visits
last winter.
The ornaments of the Hindoo women
Tod 10, no I,
Children that wear nothing else wear
ornaments, and all the girls and women
wear nose-rings.
The Virginia Conservative State Con-
vention for the nomination of State Off
GERS meets at Richmond on Aug. 6, and
the Republican Convention meets at
Lynchburg on July 30.
THE Nebraska Indians are allowed to
ride free ON all trains they can Jump
into while the latter are in motion 1t
is calculated that the tribe will become
extinct in about six months.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's chief physician says
that "housework is admirably calcu-
| lated to preserve a robust woman, and
to strengthen one who is weak" A hand
full of the solid iron is better than a
mouthful of the extract.
PHILADELPHIA turns out more carpets
than all the other parts of the United
States and Great Britain; and on the
18th ult. she forwarded 800 to the con-
science fund at Washington for sins of
omission and commission.
An Illinois editor who was ENJOYING
IN OF Il
n. Clark stopped issuing passes over the
Union Pacific railroad, writes to his
wife he is walking home for his iver's
sake, and will arrive In the fall or early
spring.
JAMES B. CLAY, grandson of Henry
Clay, has forwarded to Regent Bowman,
for the museum at Ashland, KY, the
coat which the statesman wore at the
treaty of Client, in 1914. It is ele-
gantly wrought, and trimmed with silk
and braid.
The rage for international exhibitions
has reached even to Chill, and that pro-
gressive State has devoted 1925, 900 for
the building of an edifce in Valparaiso
for the first industrial fair, probably,
which has been proposed in South Amer
lea. The time is set for 1875.
THE last invention of note is a coal
brick composed, by chemical processes,
of the dust OF anthracite coal. The in
yentor of the process claims that they
will burn equally well with the best coal
now in the market, and that he can sup
ply them a great deal cheaper.
The Due de Brogie, Minister of the
Interior, who appears to have engineered
the movement by which NJ Theirs was
driven from the Presidency, has been
the leader of the Orleanist party for
some time. He is descended from a long
line of eminent statesmen, and is grand
son of Madame de Stael, whose only
daughter was his mother.
A GOOD trade is always comfortable
companion to travel with-a something
that man can fall back upon in time OF
need, and yet it does not preclude him
from entering upon some profession, il
his inclination or genius develop the
proper capacity. In fac4, our most sue
cessful business men in almost every