Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-21
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
The distance to the sun is 81, 430, 900
miles.
THE London Times cleared e2OO, 600
last year.
SPORTING men speak of the Shah as a
diamond flush.
A HoAR frost is said to have nipped
Buffers budding political proclivities.
THERE are now being educated in this
country sixty young Cinnamon.
SAN ANTONIO has a meat extract COM
pany which congresses twenty-eipht
pounds of beef into one pound of ex-
tract
HOOPS brigade of Texans numbered
APO men men in 1862, but now only
l40 persons live to meet and talk over
old times.
One of the new Congressman from
Wisconsin brings experience. He has
been superintendent OF lUnatic asylum
for five years.
In Philadelphia, the Jews have eight
synagogues, and lii New York twenty
SIX. The census of 1870 numbers 152
synagogues in this country.
LAURA ID. FAIR has struck balance
sheet, and found it cost S11 200 to settle
Cnttenden and the unpleasant complica-
lions growing out of the affair.
MAGGIE MrTcHELL's wooden wedding
took place at Long Branch last week.
Among the presents were cord of wood
and wooden saw-horse, from Edwin
Adams.
WHEN some one told DIR. Barton that
Mr.. Vowel was dead, he merely remark
ed "Let us be thankful it is neither
Z nor l." This is entirely consonant
with the character of the man.
The train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railway which carried the Washington
steam fire engine to Baltimore made the
distance, forty miles, between the two
stations in thirty-fve minutes.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC daily journal Will
appear In New York city early in the
fall. 1t will be backed by S1OO,OOO and
will advocate Catholic schools, and fight
education by the State in every form.
In the annual report of the Utica On.
Z Lunatic Asylum for 1872, is given
the particulars of a curious case, that
OF seamstress from whose body 800
needless, which had been swallowed at
various times, had been extracted.
A PARIS letter to the New York World
says " DIR. Helmbold's family affairs
are once more occupying the public.
His wife has again had him thrown into
mad house as lunatic. He escaped
day before yesterday, but has again been
carried back"
An Ohio County Clerk refused to issue
marriage license because the man was
only four feet high, while the woman
was six. He knew something about do
nestle life with the proportions reversed,
and couldn't assist fellow-man to buy
into a lottery when the odds were so
fearfully against him.
THE Holy Father has, so the story
goes, little cups and saucers lying on
his writing table before him, filled with
unset gems of great value, out of which
he occasionally takes little pinches 20
give as presents to his most favored at
tendants and visitors, making as free
with the glittering baubles as if he were
merely dispensing pinches of snuff
CONNECTICUT has lost a remarkable
clergyman in Rev. Daniel Williams, who
had preached for upward of half CEN
fury without a regular salary, but for
the sake of doing good and from love of
the cause, and who delivered between
two and three thousand funeral sermons.
Such wholesale administering of conso-
latiOn is as unusual as it is beautiful to
think Of
THE Times boosted that it had a
"Walter press" from London; the
Tribune says there is none in New York,
and that Mr.. Hoe is rendering the i'm
portation of one needless by the inven-
ton of new printing machine that
prints both sides of a paper at once,
from a continuous roll of paper, and at
such rate of speed as puts all previous
machines into the shade.