Marshall County Republican., 1873-01-16
Brief Mention.
MURDERS multiply.

MICHIGAN'S saw mills are insured for
$4,000, 900.
RABBITS are duh sale in Kansas at
nickel apiece.
THE Cubans annually smoke 1,400,-
100000 cigars.
SEVEN million hogs will grunt their
last this winter.
THERE are 500 women postmasters in
the United States.
SIXTY sailors were drowned in Lake
Erie the past season.
OVER 500 widows of Revolutionary
pensioners still live.
Ice on the lake at Duluth is two feet
thick and still growing.
A LAZY compositor in st. Louis is
called the ''beautiful SLOW
ONE hundred and fifty million elliott
pens are manufactured annually.
THE New Hampshire Supreme Court
DEGREES that dogs are nuisances.
A New Hampshire lady has just
died from the scratch of kitten.
KANSAS has shipped more cattle East
than any Western State this year.
An Indiana girl of IS is over feet
high, and is still going heavenward.
SAN Francisco is ahead as regards The
number of female type-setters employed.
The average monthly yield of the
Pennsylvania oil wells is 50, 900 barrels.
IT costs the Government $3,OOO,0O0
annually to support the franking privi-
lege.
THE Mormons have three powder
mills, cartridge factory, and large
arsenal
The heather Chinee is taking the
place of the colored laborer on the Texas
railroads
ADVERTISING is the ladder by which
men climb up to fortune if they keep
their hold
IT is a So fine for a Rhode Island man
to call another liar without being able
to prove it.
ERIE comfy, Pa, with population
of $4,000 IS $4,000 year to support
its paupel-.
Ten thousand Cinnamon are at work
on the Texas Pacific railroad in Upshur
county, Texas.
THE two States now suffering most Sc
verely from smallpox are Kentucky and
Massachusetts,.
In the State of Illinois alone there are
over two hundred papers printed on the
cooperative plan.
The negro population of the country
is 4, 835, LOG, having gained about 4OO,-
600 during the war period.
THE Lutheran Church in America
numbers 2,309 pastors, 4, 115 congrega-
tions, 4S5, 900 communicants.
CHICAGO capitalists have bought 5000
acres of land In Jackson county, Wis, to
be converted into cranberry marsh.
LAKE SUPERIoRITEs pronounce the late
cold spell as the most severe ever ex-
perienced in that hyperborean region.
The Patent Office is more than self
supporting, the fees during the past year
exceeding the expenditures by S77, 400.
ST.. PAUL's Church at Titusville, Pa,
has received from Kaiser Wilhelm the
gift of heavy piece of orenance cap
tured from the French, to be cast into a
bell
MULES at work in the coal shaft of the
Leavenworth mine, seven hundred feet
under ground, and never seeing the
light of day, have fallen victims to the
epizootic.
THE center of gravity of the popula-
ton of the United States, according to
Prof. Hilgard, is located at Wilmington,
Clinton county, o., 45 miles northeast
from Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI made over 13,OO0,O 900 gal
Ions OF beer for the year ending Aug. l,
using over l, 100000 bushels of barley;
5000, 900 bushels of coal; nearly 100, 900
pounds of hops and $250,0O0 worth of
ice.
THE receipts of Niblo's Garden, New
York, on Christmas, for the day and
evening performance of ''Leo and Lotos"
were in the immediate neighborhood of
$7,000-one of the largest houses on
record.
THE epizoo is an universal traveller.
Just now it is visiting Manitoba, in the
frozen North, and at the same time it is
announced to be present in Cuba. The
epizoo is no respecter of localities, or of
horses.
DISASTERS on the lakes and the st.
Lawrence have caused loss this year of
nearly So, ,250,OO0 one-third of which,
81, OBS, 600, occurred in the month of
November. The number of vessels de-
stroyed is 100.
In South Carolina there are 1851
negroes to $780, whites; in MISSISSIPPI
pi, 444, 201 blacks to 382, ,895 whites; in
Louisiana, 364210 blacks to 362, ,O65
whites, and in I lorida, 96,087 whites to
81, ,689 negroes.
BERGH ON THE WAR PATH.-On the
day of the great snow-storm in New York
Mr.. Bergh made his way through the
town like warrior. At dusk, when the
storm was at its height, he decided that
all horses should be relieved, and so with