Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-13
Personal and General.

THERE are 165 national banks in Ohio.
KANSAS has rs, 900, 600 acres of Land
awaiting settlers.
u. H. SURRArr is teaching school in
Emmettsburg, Md.
DURING 1872 the products of the
Michigan copper districts reached S12,-
600, 600.
A KENTUCKY man offers to wager 300
that he can outsleep any other man in
the State.
SHORT skirts, with immense panier
puffs, will reappear on the promenade in
the spring.
The country packs this season $780,
600 swine-an increase over last season of
1923 per cent.
| ELEVEN English steamers have been
lost at sea, with all on board, during the
past three months.
VIRGINIA has repealed all laws on the
subject, SO that one can now marry his
grandmother if he wants to.
WHITTIER being asked for an auto
graph, at once complied by penning:
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Too often larger than the man behind
| THE Governor of PENNSYLVANIA has
SIC, 1000 year and furnished residence.
His salary heads the list of gubernato-
rial allowances.
HE new hotel now being built on the
site of the Lindell, at ST. Louis, will be
called the Ames House, in honor of the
late Henry and Edgar Ames
| THE Boston advertiser saws there are
2,766 places in Boston where intoxi-
eating liquors are sold In defiance of the
prohibitory laws of the State.
PENNSYLVANIA has an area of 46. 600
square miles a population of 3, 521, 791;
an assessed valuation Of 81, 319, 235, O42;
number of miles of railroad, 5,113.
THERE are seven daily newspapers
published in the State of Kentucky:
three at Louisville, one at Lexington.
one at Frankfort, and two at Paducah.
| The prisoners in the Missouri Peni-
Tertiary receive a pound of tabacco
apiece every month, ct an expense to the
State of between $1,000 and $4,000
year.
Miss FAITHFUL says the superficial
education of girls, like dipping them
into weak solution of accomplishments,
forms a coating that will not stand time
or wear"
THIS is the way they keep up the bal
ance of power in Kentucky To the
wife of James Bradley, of Fayette coun-
ty, a son-Jef Davis To the wife of
Robert Richie, of Fayette county, a son
u. S. Grant.
The circulation Of the leading maya
zines in New York is, respectively, thus
Harper's, GALAXY, Sc1'i6ner's, and At
ta'atic. Harper's is nearly twice as
large as the Galaxy and three times as
large the atlantic.
CHARLES AsToR BR1sTED, who now
lives at Washington, has won social
distinction there by kicking out of his
house fashion editor of one of the
daily papers, who attempted to do up
one of his receptions.
The San Francisco Alta, with sub
lime faith In the constructive ability of
the universal Yankee, proposes that we
supplant the engineers idea of ship
canal over the Isthmus of Panama by
building mammoth railway which shall
whlsk loaded ships across dry shod at
the rate of twenty knots an hour
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE has bought an
old historic homestead farm of some
sixty acres near Washington, from which
he often walks to the Capitol when the
morning is fair, distance of a mile or
more. He is spending some care and
cost in embellishments, and means to
end his days in this quiet retreat.
A GEORGIA liquor dealer has lost his
suit against non-paying customer be-
cause the latter proved that he once gave
him liquor when he was drunk. The
court decided that the whole bill for
year was lost, on account of the law
which provides that no barkeeper shall
sell liquor to a man who is intoxicated.
NOT long before his death, James
Gordon Bennett told a friend that for
some years he had read but three books
the Bible, Shakespeare and Robert
Burns-but that he was never tired of
reading these, and especially enjoyed
the Bible. In previous years he had
been constant reader of new books of
every kind.
A New YORK magazinist breaches the
theory that the names of mankind are
gradually lessening in number and va
riety, and the people becoming con-
soldated under a few appellations.
One-half of the population-namely,
women-are perpetually losing their
names by marriage, while new names
are never created.