Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-20
Foreign Items.
RoCHEFoRT has heart disease.
A SIBERIAN railway is talked of.

A SIBERIAN railway is talked of.
The Princess of Wales is quite re-
stored to health.
OVER 22,OOO,OOO tons of rain fell in
England last year.
The railroads of Switzerland are now
controlled by Government
The French Assembly has made in
toxication a penal offense.
The railwey service of Great Britain
comprises 100000 persons.
AN English unframed yearling colt
sold In London for $4,000.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAo starts the new
year with an affair of honor"
ITALY will be one of the best repre-
sented nations of the Vienna Exhibi-
ton.
SHOPS for the sale of horsefesh have
been opened in Geneva, Milan and
Verona
HINDosrAN contains 1856, O37, 900 peo-
pie who pay revenue to the British Gov
eminent.
BARON LIEBIG has received an Impe-
rial from Russia for his practical appli-
cations of chemistry.
HUNGARY offers prize of $1,000 for
any one who can make its history fill
1000 pages octave.
THERE have been 1000 distinct spe-
cies of insects catalogued in Europe
that prey upon wheat.
THE ladies of the royal family of Rus
STA are said to be among the most beauti-
full women of Europe.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAC insists that Ma
poleon LII. was poor at the time of his
death poorer than Henry V.
THERE were over IA, 900 persons SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for drunkenness
in England and Wales last year.
THE Swiss Government refuses to
tolerate the presence of Jesuit in any
part of the country, on any pretext what
ever.
Bass, the Enghshman who makes
beer, is to he made baronet. He has
long been a knight of the order of Malt
-ah
You can subscribe to all the newspa-
pers in Switzerland for $500 per annum.
Send on your orders so as to begin with
the year.
MADRID goes ahead of any other city
on evening newspapers. She has one
which is published at 8 o'clock in the
evening.
AssAFGTIDA is used as a "relish" in
the East, and to assist the appetite, as
Worcestershire and Halford sauce in this
country.
RICHARD SPENCER, hanged at Kirk
dale, England, for the murder of his
mistress, was born in jail, and his father
was hanged for murder.
ONE of the three ablest journals in all
India is written by Hindoos, and wields
a rapidly growing influence both among
Englishmen and natives.
The London Times of Jan. 10, the
day after the death of Napoleon, pub
and a half concerning his life and char
acter.
A LONDON missionary brought home {
Hottentot, at considerable personal ex
pense, and the fellow went and hiree
out to a circus the first week after his
arrival.
The journalists of Paris held meet
ing a few days ago and determined no
to fight duels among themselves an,
more. They will stand ready to graft,
all outsiders.
The Chinese have no dime novels, n,
: billiards or lager beer, and there is n,
place at which young man can paw
his sleeve-buttons to get money to tax
: his girl to the opera.
SIR IvoR GUEST has SIS, 900, 900 invest
ed In iron works at Dowlais, Wales, an
employs IL 900 men, who are mostly o.
strike, twelve of his sixteen furnace
being +" damped down."
S1GNoR NEaRI, a Sergeant in tn
e italian army, has heen notified by th
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he ha
been bequeathed $40, 900, 900 by an uncl
< lately deceased In Lima, Peru.
How TIE ENGLISH DANoE.-A write
in London journal girds at the solemn
funeral way in which Englishmen dance
: In his eyes the majority look as if
), dress coat were the tunic of Nessus, an
treasure up their words as if preciou
stones issued from their mouths whe
they speak. Moreover, they evh1ce
Il remarkable disposition to put themselve
4 in their own pockets, and they fidg,
= with their hands without ceasing. Som,
. thing of this might be saved by til
. taking up stairs tie fiat hat under I'll
arm in the French fashion; but th
!. they will not do. They enter quat
~ rifle with a whalebone stiffness, Iug1
= brious air with which they might go |
= the stake, and the cavalier seul they exc
: cute in way that would send even a
2 undertaken to an early grave with laugl
= ter. And when they do talk they rare
p get beyond the unhappy weather.