Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-31
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
THERE are twenty-seven Roman Catho-
lie churches in Chicago.
A TOLEDO paper fixes the wealth of
the late Horace f. Clark at $25, 100000.
MORE visitors attend the Vienna Ex-
position on Sunday than any other day.
EnGRANTs are still arriving in New
York at. the rate of 5000 to 1000
daily.
THE japanese mint has already COIN
ed Is, 500, 900 pieces of gold and silver,
valued at 500, 17S,000.
Mr.. Moses DUPONT, of Holyoke,
Mass, and his twenty-three brothers
have, between them, 322 children.
AMERICAN female newspaper reporters
are found IN all parts of the world. Six
teen went to the Vienna Exposition.
MORE persons were wounded by the
use of powder on the recent Fourth of
July than in any battle of the Revolu-
tionary War.
On City mourns because Barnum
could not find level spot of ground in
or near the city large enough to place
his tents upon.
THE walls around Constantinople,
which were built fifteen centuries ago,
are still perfect only seven of the forty
three original gates are remaining.
BUFFALO BILL and Texas Jack have
both retired from the stage in order to
extend the Inequalities of the boundless
prairie to the Earl of Dunraven and
party.
SYLVESTER BROWN, of Ashtabula,
Ohio, when adjudged not guilty of the
murder of his wife, rose up and said
Gentlemen, think I can stand the
soda water on this p
A ST. Louis physician committed an
assault upon fellow who tied his horse,
attached to a load of coffins, to post
before the doctors door. The M. D.
objected to such a mode of advertising.
FIVE girls, neither of them over twenty
years of age, have entered 800 acres of
land in Kansas, and intend to make a
dairy farm of it, All but two of the
girls are graduates of Eastern schools,
and two Of them are proficient in agri-
cultural chemistry.
THE total tonnage of the vessels
which passed through the Suez canal in
1870 was 409, 312 in 1871, 703, POP; in
1872, 1852, 091 tons. These figures in
dictate satisfactory increase in the traf-
fc, which, however, is not at all as
great as was expected.
, "THE drain of emigrants to America, !"
says the Limerick Reporter, 60 is abso-
lutely alarming. The people are leaving
the country in crowds; a respectable,
well dressed, intelligent and orderly
population are abandoning their country
in countless numbers.
The woman who is annually killed by
the bite of a spider expired this season
at Knoxville, Tenn. Hel gifted sister,
who works out the road-tax, when last
heard from, completed grading a section
of road in Maine The remaining sis
tiers pillow eighty acres and plant it in
corn this year in Kansas.
ACCORDING to the Melbourne Age a
bushranger, who was killed some years
+ ago in an attempt to escape arrest, is as
: serted by another bushranger, Power,
J. who is now in prison, to have been nc
:. less notorious person than Arthur
n Orion, although he went by the name
? Oh COS8rOV0. AnOUQ0r cOnlpucallOn UQ1s
i for the Tichborne claimants little
o. affair.
l. The difficulty of inserting screws il
|, plaster walls without attaching them tx
e any woodwork may be overcome by en-
IS larging the hole to about twice the
is diameter of the screw, filing it will
n plaster of Paris, such as is used fol
/, fastening the tops of lamps, etc., ant
lie bedding the screw in the soft plaster
IS When the plaster has set the screw vii
IS be held very strongly.
81 THE counterfeit fifty cent notes which
e, are in circulation can be detected b,
d holding the notes to the light, when on
p can see there is no silk fbers in the pa
K per, but it is simulated by irregula
S scratches on the plate, which gives tn
y surface impression. The red treasur,
IS seal is also printed in ink which will rul
Vi and blur over the paper if a persol
dampens his finger and passes it over it