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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Brawny Women.

Stories about brawny women working
their own farms, chopping thier own
wood, etc., are applauded by half of the
American press, and that is the half
which looks at bare, bold fact, without
regard to its surrounding circumstances.
cit should be remembered" says the
Prairie Farmer with rare good sense,
81 that such performances on the part of
the females are only groupings out of
barbarism that only a portion of the
world has yet emerged from. England
has plenty of it left in the agricultural
districts, and it is not unknown in the
manufacturing counties. A late writer
in the London Telegraph describes a
trip into Staffordshire, where the women
work at the blacksmith's forge as long
and as hard as the men. He says it is
not uncommon to find a mother and
three lusty daughters, fully of marriage
able age, stripped to their stays, and,
with kerchief over their shoulders,
welding the hammers and tugging at the
bellows, making twelve hundred nails
for twelve pence, and working from 8 in
themorning till - at night. At Lye Waste
whole streets are made up of these
smithies, in which these women and
their children toll, year in and year out,
besides their husbands and brothers.
They have about as much refinement and
intelligence as Digger Indian. Let
our women take to theplow and hoe, and
we should soon have districts in which
they would rival these muscular females
of the Stafordshire smithies. We are
disguised with all this talk about women
farmers. Let our girls take all the
prizes of our universities; drive all the
men from the rostrum; run our banking
and brokerage; keep our shops; become
Governors and Presidents; vote and be
happy according to their capabilities;
but deliver us from female blacksmiths
and farm laborers. If man is not fitted
for this work, we don't know what his
particular sphere can be-" Here is pic
tured the rule which, if the half the press
alluded to were influential, might follow
commentator of pretty but isolated
circumstances; and how does it look?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
The Russian War.

The present hostile movement of the
Russian Government against Khiva is
but repetition of the old-time deter
mination of Russia to get a foothold in
Central Asia In the early part of the
sixteenth century, Peter the Great con-
templated the idea of reviving the old
commercial route from India through
Central Asia as it was in the days of the
Roman Empire, and sent out two expe-
ditions, both of which were foiled by the
Khivans. A century later another at
tempt was made, which had to be re-
inquished. Three years later, another
expedition set out, which succeeded in
establishing the military post of Fort
AleXandrovsk on the eastern shore of the
Caspian Sea, and established CONNER
cial relations with the Toorkomans,
which were eventually discontinued by
the latter, as they threatened to involve
their independence. In 1889, the Rus
slams sent out another expedition
towards Khiva, which failed, and they
then set their faces in another direction.
The Kirghis Steppe, between Asiatic
Russia and Toorkistan, was invaded and
captured. In 1858, they captured fort
at Akmusjid, and, in 1864, the towns of
Toorkistan, Aulieata, Chumkund, and
Tashkund, the largest town in Central
Asia, and the whole conquered district
was incorporated in the Russian do
minions, under the name of Toorkistan.
The next Russian war was with Bokhara.
which resulted in the capture of Kokund,
which was also incorporated with Toor-
kistan. Samarkund and Bokhara were
the next districts to yield, and in their
capture Russia became the virtual ruler
of Central Asia. The immediate cause
of the attack on Khiva is alleged to be a
freebooting attack upon Fort Alexan-
drovsk, and the refusal of the Khan of
Khiva to surrender some Russian sub
jects held in slavery by them. Mean
while, new complication has arisen in
this attempt of Russia to extend its
Asiatic dominion, the British Ambassa-
dor at ST. Petersburg having notified
Prince Gortschakoff that if the Russian
troops penetrate the countries between
Khiva and Afghanistan, England will be
compelled to interfere in support of At
CHAN independence As it is impossible
Tor Russia to advance without doing
this, the movement begins to assume a
serious aspect, all the more serious
that the remonstrance of England is not
so much to maintain Afghan neutrality
as to protect her own Central Asiatic
trade. 1t touches John Bull in his most
sensitive SpOt-his pocket.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Single Beds.

The enormous beds in fashion in the
middle ages, in which not only the whole
family, but favorite domestic animals,
hunting-dogs, cats, ETC.. reposed together,
excite our iveliest astonishment. In
those days the aristocracy did not find it
undlgnified to share their touches with
friends or guests who sought their hospi-
tality. 1t was, on the contrary, consid-
cred mark of sincere friendship But
it is now commonly believed that where
two persons sleep together, one abstracts
from the other some amount of vital
force. This is especially the case where
old and young persons share the same
bed. Besides, in room where there is
no decided current of air, the emanations
from the lungs and skin of sleeper poi
sons the atmosphere for considerable
distance. In the public wards of great
hospitals, never less than two and half
feet is allowed between each bed for this
reason. In the sleeping apartments of
royalty and nobility single beds are every
where the rule, and nowhere the excep-
ton. The Emperor of Germany sleeps
upon narrow bed and hard mattress.
The single bed covering is wadded silk
quilt. The Emperor and Empress of
Austria take their royal slumbers ON SINH
Lar beds, with the same description of
coverlet. One of the principal advantages
are more easily aired. Even the poorest
housewives in Germany recognize the
fact that bedding requires daily airing;
and on a pleasant day in winter, and
nearly every day in summer, one may
see stretched out of the courtyard win
dows for an entire halliday the feather
beds and coverings SO dear to the heart of
German frau 1t is not necessary here
to enter protest against feathers, since
this essay is not written for Germans.
The physicians Of Germany make the
most energetic complaints against the
use OF these, with as yet, among the
lower classes, very little success
G0J0ry
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Some Queer Statistics.

Great wars or other national convul-
sions are followed by an increase in the
rate of sudden, violent and unnatural
deaths. Oliver Wendell Holmes, soon
after the outbreak of our own civil war,
predicted that deaths from heart disease
would, for many years, exceed their old
proportion in the total mortality, and
the result has verified his prophecy,
which indeed was based on a familiar
medical experience. We incline to think
that the careful statistics would show a
like increase in deaths from violence and
from self-destruction. The fact is well
attested, so far as concerns suicides.
which in France, during the past year,
have caused death record unprecedent-
ed and prodigious. A calculation made
for Paris alone shows the almost incredi-
bic result of Att suicides in 1871. A
detailed classification ascribes the larger
number, 1,377, as might be expected, to
arrangement of the brain. Next come
$50 suicides from physical sufferings'
the strongest temptation, one would
think, to defy the cannon against self
slaughter" but one more prevalent in
France than in our land, we Judge Dis
appointed love caused 701 suicides; fam
lily quarrels are credited with 512; ex-
IRENE restitution with 1888; fear of pun
ishment with %; while delirium tremens,
resulting from the excessive use of alb
sinthe, drove no less than 282 victims to
voluntary death. Looking at this last
fact, we may appreciate that mot of Ire
lat, who, contrasting the two stimulants,
brandy and absinthe, declared that if
one was reau de Uie, the other was Peao
dc mort. France, like the Rome TO
which she loves to compare herself, has
always been prolific of suicides, but the
extraordinary record of 1871 must be
ascribed in some part to the disastrous
and depressing effects of the war.-Lip-
pincoHs Magazine.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

country where the doctrine of personal
responsibility is not recognized ought to
be specially cautious in the language
they use toward gentlemen in this Cham
ber If their own principles or the SEN
timents of their constituents prevent
them from giving satisfaction for words
not properly chosen, they should take
care not to wound the feelings of Sena-
tors who were educated in a different
school"
Mr.. Gaillard, of South Carolina, was
presiding III the Senate in the absence e
the Vice-President, and he, knowing the
stuff of which Mr.. Lloyd was made,
smiled quite significantly as Gen.
Smith took his seat. On the part of
Senators generally there was an express
sion of lively interest as Mr.. Lloyd rose
to reply. He spoke in low voice, and
in tone as mild as if he were inviting
lady to take turn in waltz.
''Mr. President, / am not acquainted
with the sentiments of my State upon
what the Senator calls the doctrine of
personal responsibility. I recognize
this doctrine to its fullest extent, and am
prepared to be held responsible in any
way for every word utter ON this floor.
Furthermore, sir, in order to prevent
any misconception hereafter, I give the
Senator from Maryland to know that /
shall hold him responsible for every
word he speaks derogatory to my charac-
ter or injurious to my feelings"
Gen. Smith made no rejoinder, and
the furry passed, but it was observed
thereafter that there was studied
courtesy in the bearing of all the fire.
eaters toward Mr.. Lloyd.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Absinthe a Poison.

The Journal of Apptied Chemistry
remarks that French Commission has
has just made a report to the Pharma-
ceutical Society, in which, after review
ing all the methods employed in the
manufacture of absinthe, and the great
loss of life entailed by its use in France
this article be included under the lists
of poisons, and that its sale be inter
dicted, except by pharmacists, on pre-
scription of a physician. They think
its sale should be visited with heavy
penalties, and that every effort should
be made to break up the indulgence in
an article possessing such poisonous
properties. 1t is not the absinthe alone
that proves so dangerous, but the inor-
dinate consumption of alcohol that ac-
companies it. Some inebriates have
been known to take thirty glasses of
absinthe every day, the greater part of
which is absolute alcohol, and thus the
danger is largely increased. 1t is thus
practically shown that the pleasant flavor
of the absinthe induces persons to con-
sumo twenty times as much alcohol as
they would be likely to do if their drink
ing was confined to brandy or eau dc Uie
Absinthe was almost unknown, except
as a medicinal agent, before the Algerian
expedition, under the reign of Louis
Philippe In Oran and Constantine,
fever made sad havoc in the ranks of the
army, and the doctors recommended the
soldiers to mix absinthe, which is the
bitter extract of NORWOOD, with their
wine, as a preservative against miasma,
in lieu of quinine, which was too costly
to be generally distributed. During the
whole of the campaign the army drank
this mixture, and also mixed absinthe
with their brandy. The habit was re-
tanned by the troops after their return
to France, and the liquor now known as
absinthe first became a popular drink In
Marseilles. Thence it advanced slowly
throughout France, and has finally be-
come the favorite drink of the country,
though its effects upon the health, and
especially upon the brain, are of the
most deleterious character. In Cayenne,
New Caledonia, and other French colo
MES, its consumption is very great.
There the colonists drink it unadulteratdd
in excessive quantities, and the conse-
quence has been afrightful increase In the
rates of mortality. As means of sure
and speedy suicide, absinthe is scarcely
excelled by strychnine.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Curiosities Of Animal Life.

There can be no doubt that dogs feel
shame as distinct from fear, and some
thing very like modesty, while begging
too often for food. A great dog scorns
the snarling of a little dog, and this may
be called magnanimity. ALI animals
feel wonder, and many exhibit curiosity,
the latter quality affording opportunity
for hunters to decoy the game into their
power. The faculty of imitation, SO
strongly developed in man, especially in
a barbarous State, is present in monkeys.
A certain bull-terrier of our acquaint-
ance, when he wishes to go out of the
room, jumps at the handle. Parrots also
reproduce with wonderful fidelity the
tones of voice of different speakers, and
puppies reared by cats have been known
to lick their feet and wash their faces
after the same manner as their foster
mothers. Attention and memory also
is impossible to deny that the dreams of
dogs and horses show the presence of
imagination, or that certain reason is
also present. Animals also profit by ex-
perience, as any man realizes who sets
traps. The young are much more easily
caught than the old, and the adults gain
caution by seeing the fate OF those who
are caught Tools are also used by some
of the higher apes. The chimpanzee
uses stone to crack a nut resembling a
walnut, and the Abyssinian babooon
fight troops of other species, and roll
down stones in the attack before they
finally close in hand hand encounter.
The idea of property is common also to
every dog with bone, to all birds with
their nests, and notable in the cases of
rocks. Nor can a certain kind of Ian
guage be denied to the brutes. The dog
communicates his feelings by banks of
different tones, which undoubtedly raise
in his fellow-dogs ideas similar to those
passing in his own mind. Edinburgh
ReUieU.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Where Salt Comes From.

The sea depends on the disintegration
of rocks on land for its sadness. It does
not originate III oceans and seas. Rains
wash it and hold it in solution as par
ticles are liberated by violence, decom-
position, and gradual action Of many
natural forces. All streamlets and rivers,
therefore, are constantly transporting
salt to the sea- If there is more than
can be held in solution, then it accumu-
lates In masses at very deep points,
which, in the revolutions to which mat
ter is subjected, may again be stratum
of salt somewhere remote from where
the mass was formed Thus the salt
mine of Poland and the vast horizontal
bed of pure salt in Texas, as well as that
mountain of rock salt in st. Domingo,
were collected at the bottom of ancient
seas, which are now dry land remote
from water.
There are places in Africa where the
process of disintegration of salt from
rocks is regularly going on, but there is
not water-power enough to force it on
wardly to the sea. Hence the particles
are spread abroad and mixed up with
the soil. The negroes of Kalliul, In
Northern Africa, having discovered its
distribution where there is no water to
dissolve it in the ground, leach it. In
that way they separate the salt. By
evaporating the water holding it in solu-
ton, an excellent article for domestic
purposes is produced.
Salt pervades the earth. 1t exists in
the grasses and most vegetable products
on which animals feed. In that way
they derive enough in most countries to
meet the demands of their nature. They
require as much as civilized humanity.
With them salt is necessary, as with our.
selves, for keeping the organs of vision
in good condition. Stop the supply and
blindness would be universal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
The Mississippi Valley.

There is something really grand in the
march OF civilization over our Western
prairies, says New York paper. During
the fiscal year 1871 over ten million seven
hundred thousand acres passed from the
dominion of the Government into private
hands. This would make nearly seven
ty thousand farm houses of one hundred
and sixty acres each, equivalent to three
States year of the size of Massachu-
sets, and with agricultural capacities
that the Bay State never knew. In
Kansas and Nebraska alone, over fifteen
thousand entries were made within the
year under the homestead law. These
entries represent population of fifty
thousand added to these two States on
lands freely presented them by Govern
ment, besides a large number who ac-
quired their homes by purchase. Each
year witnesses an increasing number on
our extreme frontier direct from Europe.
Perhaps one-half of our Western grain
comes from foreign immigrants; and
now we hear that forty thousand Rus
slams are coming at one time and proba-
bly, to one place. Our national advance
on our Western frontier, on a line drawn
from the British dominions to Mexico,
is not far from sixteen miles a year.
Where railroads or river bottoms sum-
mon the advancing population, this line
juts forward and makes a salient angle;
while mountain and marsh are apt to de-
lay the movement of the squatter, and
thus tend to retard civilization But
slowly and steadily the advancing col
umn moves on, and the child is now hv-
ing who is to see the whole of the mag
nificent territory between the Missis-
sippi and the Pacific converted into hap
ply homes.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Two Wealthiest Men in England.

Line TWO WealUn1eSG EngnSnmen, SO
far at least as personal estate goes, who
have ever lived in England, have died
within the last decade. They were Mr.
Morrison and Mr.. Brassey. The per-
sonal property of the first was sworn
under $20,000,000 that of the second
under $50, 900, 900; but it is understood
that great deal of Mr. Brassey's estate
has not been sworn for duty, owing to
difficulties in appraising it, and in fact
it will prove to be nearly 500, 100000
when this is done. Both these men,
like those who have made the largest
fortunes, began life poor.
Mr.. Morrison entered the dry goods
warehouse, where he contrived to secure
the affections of his employers daugh-
ter. They were married and he was
taken into the business, to which he ulti-
mately succeeded. One great stroke he
made was buying up all the Grape in En-
gland, in anticipation of the death of
the Princess Charlotte of Wales. This
lucky hit is supposed to have put a very
large sum of money into his pocket.
He invested large portion of his enor-
nous wealth in real estate, and became
one of the greatest landlords in the
United Kingdom.
Mr.. Morrison was not in the least os-
tentatious, nor did he ever evince the
tendency SO common to 7lOuUedur riches,
of toadying people of rank, his princi-
pal associates being eminent artists.
Towards the close of his life, he became,
as so often happens III the case OF very
rich men, oppressed with the idea that
he was miserably poor, and should die a
pauper; and small sum was paid to
him weekly as a wage to humor his fan
cies.
Mr. Morrison left several sons. To
the eldest he bequeathed the interest In
his warehouse, estimated at $3.50, 600 a
year (Which that gentleman sold to a
joint stock company, and further very
extensive estates. To the second he
left some 5000, 600 year, and to the 9th
ers incomes varying from 100000 to
$50, 900. All his sons have turned out
steady, respectable men, and one is a
well-knOwn Liberal member of Parlia-
ment
Mr.. Brasseys great fortune was the re-
suit, in the first instance, of successful
railway contracts, and then of the ac-
cumulations consequent upon the great
sums thus made. Like Mr.. Morrison,
he was the least ostentatious of men,
and like him, too, was fortunate in a
wife who resembled him in this respect.
Indeed, Mr.. Brassey' expenditures, so
far as his establishment, etc., went,
probably did not exceed $50, 900 year,
when his income was 100000 year.
Like Mr. Morrison, he was fortunate in
his children. They bear the highest
character, and now have divided among
them the colossal fortune which their
father and mother only seemed to care
for in so far as it would contribute to
their children's happiness. 1t is re-
markable that these two men-England's
wealthiest sons-should all their life
have been Indifferent to what most sue
cessful men in their country aspire to--a
seat in Parliament. Mr. Morrison, we
believe, did occupy one for brief time,
but Mr.. Brassey never. Two of his
sons are now very useful members OF
Parliament Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Fashionable Wedding Suit.

The leading male participant in the
nuptial ceremony is now expected to ar
ray himself for the occasion in, first, a
royal blue superfne cloth English frock
coat OF medium length of waist and pro-
portlonate length of skirt, silk breast
tac1ngs to the button-holes and the edges
Hat braided, five button-holes worked in
the lappels, three to be worn buttoned,
and the upper one used for flower:
second, double-breasted white cloth
waistcoat, showing three-quarters of an
inch above the turnover of the coat:
and, third, ight-colored dressed doe.
skin trowsers- lavender or silver gray
being the most correct The gloves and
scarf should be of the same shade as the
trowsers.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

ENGLAND has formally notified
Prince Gortschakoff that any tresspass
of Russian troops upon the territory of
Afghanistan will force her to interfere in
behalf of Afghan Independence, for
which she grows SOLICITORS, when she
finds that it lies on the Russian road to
India.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Neuralgia.

People are continually complaining
of neuralgia pains. Whenever there is
ache or an anomalous kind of erratic
pain which seems to be peculiar, and too
stubborn to yield to common remedies
which every old woman suggests, wheth-
er appropriate or not-that is called
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
Gathering Up the Bones.

About seventy-fve carloads of bones,
gathered from the plains of Western
Kansas, the frames of defunct buffaloes
and Texas cattle, have been sent over the
Kansas Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroads during the past
season. A large part of them have gone
to Wilmington, Del, where the best are
selected for combs, knife-handles, etc. );
the next best are ground into dust, and
used in refining sugar; and the refuse is
ground into meal for fertilizing purposes.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

GEORGE ROBINSON, Md, Of New
York, has invented method of cutting
wood by a platinum wire heated by cleo
tricity. Anything up to pine tree may
be felled "by child"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

DR.. DIo LEWIS says six months of
hard work would cure the worst case of
chronic dyspepsia.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

MISS MARY s. PRICE, widow lady of
Portland, Me-, has sacrificed every male
relative she possessed but two, in the
various wars from the revolution down
to the present.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09

New ORLEANS is to have another line
OF steamers to Liverpool.